"Duang!!" The thick wooden door became shaky under the crazy banging of the Ainu more than a dozen times.
Finally, there was a "click" from the door, and the thick door latch could no longer withstand the violent impact. Sea Dog looked happy, and he called his men to continue knocking on the door. After the door was broken, he rushed in first, and seven or eight soldiers from the Shachuan tribe followed him into the door. A burst of violent gunshots and screams suddenly rang out in the East Maru.
Seeing that the castle gate was breached, Tuka laughed excitedly. The other Ainu people under the city also cheered, and they also wanted to enter the city from the east with all kinds of cold weapons.
Just as these people retreated across the wooden bridge outside the Otemon Gate and were running eastward, the Otemon Gate suddenly opened from the inside, and a group of horseback warriors wearing armor and holding two guns rushed out of the door.
As soon as these warriors rushed across the wooden bridge, Beihai Town soldiers who were already waiting behind the wooden bunker raised their guns and took aim. Following Pan Xiucheng's order, bullets rained down on the group of warriors. Amidst the shouts and neighs of horses, a dozen mounted warriors were shot and fell off their horses, and some rolled directly into the moat.
The Matsumae clan troops behind the Otemon gate saw that the firepower on the other side was too strong and hurriedly closed the gate. Dozens of Ainu warriors lying behind the bunker wanted to take advantage of the situation to fight over and seize the gate. Unexpectedly, the dead and injured samurai and horses blocked the bridge so tightly that they could not pass at all. At this time, human blood and horse blood were mixed together, flowing on the wooden bridge, dripping along the gaps in the bridge deck into the moat.
Several Ainu warriors slipped and fell in a pool of blood, and then quickly retreated.
At this time, there were cries of killing in Tonomaru. The No. 100 troops sent by Matsumae Domain to support suffered heavy casualties and were retreating towards Ninomaru.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Yukinobu Sato, wearing a suit of bamboo armor, shouted to his men.
The sea dog, already covered in blood, picked up a wooden spear on the ground, pointed it at Sato Yukinobu, who was directing the retreat, and threw it hard. Sato Yukinobu caught a glimpse of a black shadow coming from the corner of his eye. He subconsciously turned sideways and slashed with his sword. Unexpectedly, another Ainu had already raised his bow and aimed at him. "Bang", the bowstring rang, and a light arrow hit his left arm. Seeing that Sato was injured, the two ashigaru quickly helped each other back towards Ninomaru.
The sea dog's eyes were now fierce. He picked up a samurai sword that fell on the ground, waved the sword, and rushed into the second oar with more than a dozen people.
By evening, Ninomaru was also captured. The Matsumae clan and the shogunate investigation team finally had twenty samurai, a dozen ashigaru and civilian husbands left, and they all retreated to Sannomaru to defend.
When Deng Fei heard the casualty figures reported by Pan Xiucheng, he thought that the Ainu deserved to be ravaged by the Matsumae clan with their fighting skills. When fighting, there is no plan, just rush in like a swarm and pick up good things when you see them along the way. If he hadn't brought more than 200 soldiers to hold down the position, there's no telling what trouble would have occurred.
Seeing that the Matsumae Domain had become a turtle in the urn, the chiefs of each tribe went to Tuka to discuss and said that they would do this for today. Everyone was tired after fighting for a long time. Attack Sannomaru again tomorrow.
When Deng Fei heard this, he hurriedly stopped him. He explained to Tuka: "The nights are long and the dreams are many. We must capture Sannomaru before it gets dark. We have caught the Matsumae clan by surprise. If we wait for them to react, all the civilians in the castle town will be killed tomorrow." will be our enemy! So we must not give up tonight!"
Tuka, who was originally very proud, suddenly broke into a cold sweat after hearing Deng Fei's words. He remembered what Zhao Xin had told him, that he must take down Songqian City in one go and not give the opponent a chance to breathe. Okay, then keep fighting!
For the Matsumae clan warriors and the shogunate investigation team in Sannomaru, this battle was really acrimonious. If it weren't for those strange repeating muskets, thousands of Ainu wouldn't be able to attack at all. Now that it's like this, what's the next step? Fight to the death or make peace? Then the eyes of all the samurai were focused on Matsumoto Jurobei.
Lord Izumori's thoughts became particularly clear at this moment. He looked at the people in front of him coldly and said calmly: "Do you know what the full name of Shangzhang is?"
Everyone present was stunned. Isn't Shang Zhang the general? Wait a minute
Matsumoto Jurobei didn't wait for anyone to answer. He suddenly shouted loudly: "It's the General Zhengyi! Can we, the ministers of the Lord, surrender to the Yiyi people?!"
Everyone present looked furious, stood up and shouted loudly: "Never!"
Jurobe Matsumoto, Izu Mamoru, who was born as an accountant, felt clear at this time. Surrendering would mean that his fiefdom would be confiscated, his family would be exiled, and he would be infamy for eternity. Even if you die early or later, you will not be able to escape this knife. Rather than doing this, it is better to die for your country.
Besides, caesarean section hurts so much. Of course, he could never say this.
He looked at everyone present and continued to encourage: "Everyone of the Matsumae family, think about your young master in Edo, and you must not let the Matsumae family be stigmatized!"
The samurai present, the ashigaru, the servants in Sannomaru, and the concubines of Michihiro Matsumae who were monks all nodded. As long as the young master of Edo is still there, the family business is still there. As long as the Matsumae family is not burdened with infamy, even if it is transferred to another land, the bloodline can be continued. If people like him surrender, the young master of Edo may not be able to save his life.
Besides, the shogunate will definitely send troops to avenge people like themselves!
A warrior from Matsumae Domain knelt down on one knee and said: "Lord Izumori, I would like to leave the city while it is dark, contact the common people and righteous men in the city, and attack from both inside and outside. We will definitely be able to repel the Ezo people!"
Jurobe Matsumoto nodded and was about to speak when suddenly a civilian guarding the gate ran over panting.
"Sir! The Ezo people have begun to attack!"
Jurobe Matsumoto drew his katana and shouted: "Everyone pick up your weapons and follow me!"
The final attack begins.
As night fell, thousands of torches were lit outside the main gate of Sannomaru, illuminating the inside and outside of the city as if it were daytime.
At this time, Deng Fei put all the remaining troops on hand into the offensive team. The soldiers in Beihai Town were mainly responsible for dealing with the archers and iron gunners who suddenly appeared on the walls and gate towers.
Hundreds of Ainu people were waiting on both sides of the gate, holding torches in one hand and weapons in the other. More than twenty Ainu people held thick wooden beams and banged against the gate while chanting.
Inside the city gate, a group of men and women, led by Matsumoto Jurobei, were holding bows, arrows and spears, waiting for the last moment to arrive.
In the temple on the top of the mountain on the other side of the river, the people who had fled here were lying on the wall, looking at the dots of torches in the vassal city, feeling sad. Fukuyama Castle (Matsumae Castle also known as Fukuyama Castle) is coming to an end! No one knows what fate awaits people like them.
Deng Fei stood in the night, looking at the restless Ainu people in front of him, and suddenly had a strange thought: "What on earth did he come here for?" Everything in front of me was really happening, and I was like a bystander, without any excitement or enthusiasm. He felt a little bored and had no interest in this war between alien races.
He glanced at Tuka, who was standing among a group of guards, and the other person gave him a friendly smile.
Late that night, Sannomaru in Matsumae Castle fell. The shogunate's envoy to the shogunate, Matsumoto Izu Morijuurobei, the leader of the shogunate group, Soujiro Doyama, and the Matsumae clan samurai, all died in the battle. The concubines and servants of the Matsumae family committed suicide, and only a few Ashigaru and civilian husbands knelt down and surrendered.
Since the Tsugaru Anton clan established their rule on the Toshima Peninsula in 1454, the 330-year rule of the Yamato people in Ezo finally came to an end.
Early the next morning, the refugees hiding in the temple discovered a tall flagpole erected inside the Matsumae Castle Otemon. On the blood-red flag at the top, a white bear showed its teeth and claws, seeming to swear an oath to this land. inherent sovereignty.
The two hundred years of peace in the island country have caused the citizens to lose their courage. In order to save their lives and the safety of their families, many people have chosen to obey.
The Ainu who had completed their revenge did not continue to kill civilians. They searched for loot in the castle, and then ran to the tavern in the castle town to drink.
At Deng Fei's suggestion, the more than one hundred Ainu warriors who had been trained by Beihai Town, headed by Sea Dog, were divided into two groups. One part served as Tuka's personal bodyguards; the other part patrolled the city under the leadership of Beihai Town soldiers. Maintain order.
In order to prevent the citizens who were worried about having no food to eat from causing trouble due to the cutoff of sea trade, Deng Fei carried dozens of tons of rice when he set out from Beihai Town. When the grain was put on the market at a reasonable price, the citizens quickly became quiet. After all, in these famine years, it would be great to have cheap food to sell.
And the few Matsumae clan warriors who were lucky enough to hide outside the city and finally survived incognito were surprised to find that the weird giant ship was not from Red-haired Ezo at all, but belonged to a place that called itself "North Sea Town".
Those who wear colorful shorts and trousers, black leather boots, and carry strange-looking muskets on their backs, who patrol the port and the city every day, are the warriors of Beihai Town. These people have the same black color as themselves. They have yellow hair, yellow skin, and even many people speak the dialect of the Mutsu area fluently.
However, some middle-class people noticed that most of the time these people spoke a language with a strange accent, and the words they used every day were actually Chinese characters! This is too strange. Who are they?
When they saw that the barbaric Ainu were very polite to the samurai from "North Sea Town" and did not even dare to disobey their orders, they gradually understood in their hearts that these visitors from Beihai Town were the only ones on Todashima Peninsula. The true master.
Li Ji decided to change his name and give himself a surname. As the first person to defect to Zhao Xin's sect and consider himself to be the number one retainer of Zhao Xin, Li Ji felt that his surname should be Zhao, and he must be surnamed Zhao. However, whether the surname can be called Zhao must be approved by the owner.
But the name hasn't been changed yet, but someone is going to send the concubine to her door. The person who came to curry favor was the owner of a grain store in the city, named Shinshiro Tanitaya.
As a businessman who often travels between Omi and Tsugaru, the owner of Tanitaya keenly discovered Rikichi's unusual identity on the third day after the city was broken. There seem to be more than a hundred iron cannon samurai under his command. They can not only speak fluent Mutsu dialect, but also speak very impressive "Mandarin". It is said that he heard this word from the Beihai Town soldiers patrolling the streets.
The owner of Gu Tianwu took the initiative to purchase a lot of cheap rice from Beihai Town, so he got involved with Li Ji. The first time I invited Li Ji to drink at a high-end wine shop outside, and within two days I invited Li Ji to a banquet at home.
Who is Li Ji? Although he was born as a small farmer in the Mutsu Hirosaki Domain, he had been with Zhao Xin the longest and had seen the most new and strange things. Li Ji has been on Zhao Xin's big yacht, RV, and Thor, and more than once. So when the owner of Tanitaya brought out a few rare things, he didn't take it seriously at all.
No matter how good your stuff is, how can it be as good as my master's stuff? joke!
The owner of Gutianwu wanted to establish a relationship with Beihai Town. Seeing that the material temptation failed, he became heartbroken and called his eldest daughter out to toast Liji.
This girl is sixteen years old and very pretty. The way he looked when toasting was shy and endearing. It had been several months since Li Ji left Beihai Town. Jiu Kuang's body felt itchy when he saw the beautiful woman. After drinking a few cups of cat urine, he looked at the girl with strange emotions in his eyes.
(It is said that polygamy was allowed in the Edo period, as long as you could afford it. The "husband is the wife's guide" in Confucianism was completely inherited by the islanders until modern times. The most obvious example is the Shogun's Oku , purely for the purpose of continuing the family lineage, the more children, the better.)
In the past few years since Rikichi and Shino got married, Shino's stomach has been quiet. After Hong Tao and Liu Siqi arrived, they were also examined. However, due to insufficient laboratory equipment at the time, no results were found after X-rays and ultrasounds. The fact that he was over twenty and had no children had always been a knot in Li Ji's heart.
The owner of Gutianwu is such a thief. He saw that Li Ji was attracted to his daughter. So from then on, opportunities for the two people to meet were created every now and then. After going back and forth, Li Ji had the idea of taking a concubine.
Paper could not contain the fire, and soon, the incident reached Deng Fei's ears. Okay! The foothold here in Matsumae Castle has not yet been established, and he actually wants to beg for a wife!
So Deng Fei called Li Ji over and scolded him.
"There are so many people in Beihai Town who don't even have wives yet, yet you are actually eating what's in the bowl and missing what's in the pot! Besides, who is Shinshiro Taniya? Do you know?"
Among the modern people in Beihai Town, Liji and the others are most afraid of Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang. Deng Fei usually gives people a very kind impression and is meticulous in his work. Except for the mistakes made by the sailors on the ship, Deng Fei rarely got angry.
Li Ji said coyly: "I, I haven't agreed yet."
"It doesn't matter if you agree! Zhao Xin must agree to this! There is no need to talk!"
"yes"
Under the old city of Jurgen, in three outdoor cooking carts lined up in a row, Shino was busy making lunch. This kind of cooking truck modified using the SINOTRUK 6*6 off-road chassis was recently brought by Zhao Xin. Each vehicle can provide outdoor catering services for 300 to 500 people, and can accommodate two chefs cooking together at the same time. In order to facilitate the cooking carts to transport ingredients from Fuldan City and cook them on the way, he specially asked the peasants to build a dirt road from Fuldan City to Jurgen City.
After Zhao Xin inspected the digging of the trenches, he went to the cooking cart again. When he saw Shino busy in the carriage, he asked in surprise: "Zhino, why are you here?"
Shino wiped the water on his hands with his apron, bowed to Zhao Xin and said, "I heard that there are not enough people to cook here, so I came with him."
"You arrived last night, right?" Zhao Xin felt like family to Li Ji and Shino. After all, she and Liji were the first people she took in when she first came to this time and space.
"Yes. This journey is really difficult. Fortunately, we women came here by boat with the supplies."
"Is it customary to use this cooking cart?"
"Oh, is this called a cooking cart? This is the first time I've seen such a good kitchen. I don't know how to use a lot of things." Shino said with a smile, leaned towards Zhao Xin and whispered: "What's this? Did you bring it here from the fairy world, my lord?"
"Ah?" Zhao Xin was stunned, then laughed, acquiescing.
"Sir, when will my wife come back?" Shino asked shyly.
"Rikichi and the others are in Ezochi. They should be back in a month. What, do you miss him?"
"To tell you the truth, I haven't seen you for a few months and I feel a little panicked."
"Don't worry, your man is very clever. Although he will occasionally fail, it will be nothing serious. I promise."
"With your words, I feel relieved!"
Zhao Xin smiled and waved his hand, turned around and went to the command post in the old city. Liu Sheng was standing at the observation port, leaning against an artillery mirror and directing the soldiers on the plain to the west to mark their positions.
Hearing footsteps, Liu Sheng stood up and saw that it was Zhao Xin, so he asked: "Hey, let me tell you, when are you going to lay out the phone line?"
"In the afternoon, Zhang Bo will lead people to set up signal towers in the afternoon. I will lead people to lay telephone lines."
In order to ensure smooth information communication on the battlefield, in addition to walkie-talkies, Zhao Xin planned to set up telephone lines at the artillery positions and the defensive positions of each company to connect them to the headquarters in the old city of Jurgen. To this end, he specially purchased a dozen explosion-proof magnet telephones and a large number of telephone lines.
Liu Sheng nodded and asked: "How many days have it been since the two teams of Serdan and his son set off?"
"It's been twelve days, what?"
"Walking thirty or forty miles a day, it will take more than twenty days just to go back and forth. Plus the reconnaissance of the enemy situation, I'm afraid it will be delayed until the end of June."
The outer Northeast is really big! From Fuldan City to Ninggu Pagoda, it is 700 miles by land and 500 miles by water; from Fuldan City to Hunchun, it is more than 500 miles by land.
Zhao Xin thought for a while and asked, "What are you worried about?"
"I'm worried that when the two groups come back, the Qing army will follow, and our encirclement and annihilation plan will not be carried out."
"It's useless for us to be anxious about this, just wait patiently.
(End of chapter)
