Throughout Osaka Castle, a large number of houses collapsed.
Asai Chacha couldn't help but hug Toyotomi Hideyori and shivered in the house, and watched helplessly as the palace next to her was smashed into a pile of rubble by the sudden flying shells.
After three hours, the intensive bombardment stopped.
The Ming army also sent an envoy at this time, asking Asai Chacha to accept negotiations.
"Accept the negotiation!"
"The Tang people are indeed not a big country that we can compare to. Their iron cannons are much more powerful than the Tokugawa clan's iron cannons."
Asai Chacha glanced at her son Toyotomi Hideyori, who was still hiding in his arms and trembling, and could only grit his teeth and give this instruction.
Because she was really worried that her son would be killed by the Ming army's eyeless cannonballs.
Therefore, she still chose to accept the negotiation.
"We request that you surrender immediately. Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother move to Tsushima Island and accept the supervision of the imperial court. All warriors are handed over to my master, the Ming King."
Censor Zhou Weihan, the negotiator sent by Magui, put forward Ming's request after meeting Osamu Nagano, the representative sent by Asai Chacha.
Osaka Nagano rejected Zhou Weihan's request and made Asai Chacha's request, asking the Ming Dynasty to neither dispose of the samurai loyal to the Toyotomi clan nor allow them to move out of Osaka Castle, but to accept the Ming Dynasty as the leader.
Not moving out of Osaka Castle is indeed Asai Chacha’s bottom line.
Because Osaka Castle is known as the largest city in Japan, it is the headquarters of her Toyotomi family, and it is also her home!
But the Ming army did not want the Toyotomi family to stay in Osaka Castle.
After all, as long as the Toyotomi family stayed in Oban City, they would still have appeal to the samurai in Kyoto, especially the down-and-out samurai who lurked among the people and had lost their territory and became ronin, which would make it more difficult for the Ming Dynasty to transform this place into a king.
However.
After Ma Gui learned about Asai Chacha's request from Zhou Weihan, he did not directly express his anger, but pondered for a while.
Later, Ma Gui said: "Tell them, we can agree, but they must withdraw all the soldiers from the Bunmaru to the Main Maru. This court only recognizes that their Main Maru is Osaka Castle!"
"yes!"
Honmaru is equivalent to the main city of a large city in the Ming Dynasty.
The Bunmaru are some fortresses on the periphery, which are also equivalent to satellite cities.
Magui asked the soldiers of the Toyotomi family to withdraw only from the main pill. Naturally, he wanted to occupy these peripheral pills without fighting, forming a situation of trapping Osaka Castle without spending a single soldier, so as to provide more resources for the subsequent capture of Osaka Castle. Convenient conditions.
"No!"
"If we agree to the Tang people's request, we will take the initiative to remove our swords. Once the Ming army launches another attack, we will have no choice but to defend the main pill, and it is obviously impossible to defend only the main pill!"
Sanada Yukimura soon became aware of Maki's trick and expressed his opinion to Asai Chacha.
Asai Chacha said: "I know, but we must agree, because now we can only hope that the Tang people will not break their promise."
"I disagree!"
"How can we put our life and death in the hands of others!"
Sanada Yukimura immediately stood up and objected.
Asai Chacha looked at him and said helplessly: "Our life and death have long been in the hands of the Tang people."
"That's right!"
"Now we can only hope that the commander-in-chief of his Ming Dynasty will not break his promise."
Osamu Ono then said helplessly.
boom!
Sanada Yukimura didn't argue anymore and just punched the table.
Therefore, the Toyotomi family finally agreed to Magui's request and withdrew all troops to Honmaru.
Magui successfully moved the Chinese army headquarters to Sanada Maru, not far from Osaka Castle, and therefore could see the city defense situation of Osaka Castle Honmaru through telescopes.
After seeing the defense situation of Osaka Castle, Magui became more sure that his strategy was right, and ordered:
"Pass the order, organize the Japanese to fill the trenches, and let our engineers build siege towers and ladders."
Li Rubai couldn't help but ask Ma Gui: "Master Marquis, are you still going to attack Osaka Castle?"
Ma Gui nodded: "That's right!"
“Then don’t we want to be in a position of broken promises?”
Li Rubai couldn't help but ask.
Ma Guidao: "Soldiers, this is a deceitful way! We, the Ming army, do not send troops in person, but let the Japanese in the Xie garrison camp and the brave teams organized among the Japanese common people attack the city."
"The Toyotomi family has abused the people so much that the Japanese people hate them to the core. They privately build cars and collect firearms. If we want to take revenge at this time, what can we do?"
Ma Gui then laughed, and then said: "After they attack the city, we will ask to enter in the name of maintaining order. It is inevitable that the Toyotomi clan will not agree. After all, if the Toyotomi clan falls into the hands of my master Wang, I can still save one life, but if it falls into the hands of ordinary Japanese, I'm afraid it will really kill me."
"It turns out that war can still be fought like this!"
Li Rubai couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and then looked forward.
At this time, outside Sanada Maru Castle in front, many Japanese had been organized, put on cotton armor, picked up broadswords, and were equipped with tiger crouching cannons and wind-chasing blunderbuss. They were also given a silver reward in advance. And began to be lectured by their respective officers.
And these Japanese people were all excited and looked at Osaka Castle with burning eyes.
After a while, these Japanese people raised the banner of "revenge" and "annihilation of the barbarians".
From the looks of it, there was indeed no Ming army involved.
at the same time.
Many Japanese were still filling in the trenches, filling the trenches outside Honmaru Castle with soil.
Yukimura Sanada, the military commander of the Toyotomi family, looked at this scene with a worried look on his face and said to his colleague Sogabe Moriuchika: "We have really been fooled!"
"You are right, the Ming army wants the Japanese to deal with us!"
Shengqin, the chief minister of our department, echoed.
Sanada Yukimura added: "Our only way now is to take the initiative, capture Sanada Maru, get rid of the Tang people's commander-in-chief, and maybe have a chance to reverse the situation."
"It's too risky."
"Once we fail to succeed, there will be no hope of holding on to this pill!"
Chang Zonggabu Shengqin said at this time.
"But if it succeeds, it will have a miraculous effect in turning things around!"
Sanada Yukimura sneered at this moment: "Besides, can we succeed if we don't do this?"
The chief minister, Sheng Qin, sighed and said: "Since you want to insist, then submit a memorial to the general."
Therefore, Sanada Yukimura submitted this suggestion to Toyotomi Hideyori.
Toyotomi Hideyori's mother Asai Chacha had to convene the civil and military forces again to discuss this method.
However, the civil and military opinions could not be reached for a while, which made Asai Chacha himself unable to make this decision.
During this period, the Japanese had already begun their attack on Osaka Castle.
Because there were so many Japanese attacking, the Toyotomi soldiers in Osaka Castle were unable to resist them.
However, before the Ming army had time to send envoys to contact the Toyotomi family and express their willingness to send troops into the city to maintain order, Toyotomi suddenly reached a consensus and agreed to the beheading adventure plan of Sanada Yukimura and other generals.
As a result, Sanada Yukimura and others began to assemble their troops and took the initiative to leave the city, preparing to storm the Ming army's central camp.
Sanada Yukimura also asked Asai Chacha and Toyotomi Hideyori to visit the front line in person to boost morale.
Asai Chacha did not agree.
But this did not affect the morale of the warriors on Toyotomi's side.
Mouri Katsunaga took the lead in launching the attack, drew his sword and pointed it at the Japanese who stood in front of him and raised the banner of "revenge" and "annihilation of the barbarians", and cursed:
"What is hatred and what is barbarism? Those who are traitors to the country must be killed!"
"kill!"
With that said, Maori Katsunaga led a group of samurai into the Japanese camp.
Soon, the Japanese soldiers were caught off guard and defeated.
Seeing that Mouri Katsunaga launched the attack first, Sanada Yukimura simply led his headquarters to spare the Japanese and rushed towards the Ming army's camp.
Because he found that the Ming army was very unprepared. The spearmen in the camp were not even prepared for battle, and were even listed at the back. The cavalry was placed on the wings, as if they were supervising the battle against the Japanese.
Sanada Yukimura also led his troops to rush in, but as soon as he rushed into the Chinese army, he was attacked by a large number of Chinese emperor's personal guards' flintlock firearms teams.
The intensive volleys of bullets caused a large number of his troops to fall down.
Not long after, when Sanada Yukimura led his troops to rush in front of Sanada Maru, he was the only one left.
Seeing this, Sanada Yukimura had no choice but to draw his sword and commit suicide.
Magui smiled slightly because of this, and then ordered: "The Toyotomi clan of Osaka Castle broke their promise and attacked the king without permission. He ordered the entire army to attack Osaka Castle. Anyone with a sword will be killed without mercy!"
Ma Gui emphasized again.
Anyone with a knife will be shot without mercy.
There is no doubt that they want to wipe out all the samurai and above in Osaka Castle, leaving only the common people.
Soon, the Ming army and ordinary Japanese invaded Osaka Castle, and really wiped out all the ronin in Osaka Castle, that is, the samurai without territory and the nobles above samurai.
Even Toyotomi Hideyori was beheaded.
Not to mention Asai Chacha, her head is in a different place.
Osaka Castle was successfully taken over by the Ming army.
Next, Magui ordered to continue to attack other cities near Osaka Castle until the Toyotomi clan's daimyo was completely eliminated.
After Tokugawa Ieyasu learned the news that Osaka Castle had been destroyed, he was surprised: "So soon?"
"Now it seems that the main reason is that we Japanese people are not united, and a large number of Japanese people have become the accomplices of the Tang people!"
"The reason why they are willing to be accomplices is because we samurai did not rule them well for the emperor. We should reform and give them profits so that they will no longer be easily bribed by the Tang people."
Date Masamune therefore put forward his own views on Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Tokugawa Ieyasu had to sigh and said: "You are right, the reform should be carried out as soon as possible."
"But it's too late for reform. We can't make all the warriors willing to serve us after losing their land!"
But Tokugawa Ieyasu continued.
Date Masamune nodded in agreement.
Tokugawa Ieyasu then looked outside and said: "Instead of reforming the law, it is better to persuade more people to agree to negotiate with the Tang people instead of actually choosing Yusui."
"Yes."
When Date Masamune was talking, Tokugawa Ieyasu suddenly said angrily: "Without the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, maybe Toyotomi Hideyoshi would have unified our Yamato and ended this troubled times! But now, who can think of it? , the one who really wants to unify Yamato will be his Ming Kingdom!"
(End of chapter)
