What Taira Kiyomori knew was that people around him kept dying in battle, and the screams of familiar people kept ringing out.
After a brief period of confusion, he became furious.
You are so unscrupulous in killing my subordinates in front of me?
At the last moment of his life, he raised the knife angrily and struggled to drag his aging body to attack like he did when he was young and show his bravery.
It was through such bravery that he gained the trust of the samurai and was able to establish the first quasi-samurai regime in Japanese history, marking the first time for samurai to surpass the powerful and enter the political arena.
From this point of view, he is a pioneer, although he does not represent the progressive forces.
However, times have changed.
The muskets spit out smoke and tongues of fire, ruthlessly taking away his ambitions and ideals.
Three lead bullets hit his body, breaking his body, bleeding profusely, and severe pain struck him. He fell weakly to the ground, twitched a few times, and died.
When he died, his eyes widened, full of unwillingness.
Almost all of the Heike breakout team was wiped out. In the end, only a dozen women and children were left kneeling down to beg for mercy. They were not killed by the Ming army and became prisoners.
At the same time, there were not many breakout incidents in Heianjing. After the armed forces in the city lost unified command, many became discouraged and laid down their weapons and surrendered in droves.
The powerful bureaucrats who lost their armed forces to protect them did not have the courage to fight to the death with the Ming army. Except for a few courageous people who died in battle, the vast majority surrendered.
Ironically, those with the strongest will to resist were the die-hards among the two groups, Goryeo refugees and Southern Song refugees.
Xu knew that if they did not fight, they would be captured and executed by the Ming Dynasty, with no hope of survival, so the old and young fought fiercely, and of course they were all killed by the Ming army.
However, there are exceptions, and that is some people who cooperated with the Skynet Army. They got the planned retreat plan early. When the city was in chaos, they hid in the cellar or slipped out of the city through the path. life.
Afterwards, they used the identity token handed over by the Skynet Army's spies to find the Ming Army, and handed over the token to prove their identity to save their lives.
Kong Zhende, who thought he would have to fight for two days and two nights in Ping An, was surprised to find that the resistance in the city ended in only about three hours, and their gains were huge. It seemed that a large number of ruling class figures had become his prisoners here. .
Kong Zhende has not relaxed his vigilance yet. He still sends people to keep an eye on the movements in all directions and plans to station troops here. However, the large amount of loot and important prisoners obtained after the victory need to be moved to safer places.
For example, back in Settsu Country, the Namba Kyo over there is a relatively complete city that can be used to defend, with its back to the sea, as a temporary security station, to store loot and prisoners of war, and to transfer them at any time under the orders of the general headquarters. .
And Ping'an Jing will become a nail here. No matter who comes, they will be bombarded by the iron fist of the Ming army.
Therefore, after his series of orders, the Ming army moved faster and even more roughly. There was no tenderness in treating the prisoners, only simple and thorough orders.
This makes the dignitaries miserable.
No matter how small the country is, no matter how weak the national power is, there is still a ruling class. The life of their upper-class ruling class is definitely not bad. They take it for granted that they have enough clothes to eat and a mouth to eat.
However, under the brutal scolding and pushing of the Ming soldiers, all dignity was lost and all dignity ceased to exist.
They once dreamed of becoming the Tang Dynasty by learning from the Tang Dynasty, but they were not the Tang Dynasty after all.
The person with the highest status captured this time was a former emperor who abdicated. Now he seems to be called the Emperor or the Emperor. There seems to be more than one such person, but only the Emperor Goshirakawa has more status and power.
According to the secret agent's explanation, it seems that because this person was supported by Taira Kiyomori, he has a transcendent status. Apart from Taira Kiyomori, he is the highest-status person in the city.
Kong Zhende also learned from the spies that the political struggle in Japan was also very interesting. The political struggle between the reigning emperor and the abdicated emperor ran throughout, but in the end it benefited the fishermen, and Taira Kiyomori became the final winner.
Of course, now the victor has become a corpse, and his corpse has been identified and has become a footnote to the merits of Kong Zhende and the soldiers of the 41st Division.
Kong Zhende didn't care about these things now, he just wanted to transport all the valuable loot as soon as possible. He had completed his mission, and now he had to consider preserving the results of the battle and the safety of the soldiers.
But it seems that the group of Japanese dignitaries are still not used to the Ming army's style of conduct.
Especially the Emperor Hou Shirakawa, because he was treated roughly, and a group of seemingly loyal people protected him in front of him, arguing with the Ming soldiers in Chinese.
Kong Zhende was very angry and directly asked his subordinates to let them know what a prisoner is, what a winner is, and what the rules are.
So the protestors were beaten up and deprived of food for a day. Hou Baihe was taken out alone, shackled, and placed at the front of the prisoner team, asking him to lead the prisoners all the way.
The prisoners were treated obediently, and all the wealth and rare objects in Ping'an Jing were also loaded into trucks and taken away by the Ming army.
The large number of people who fled from the Southern Song Dynasty and the Goryeo Dynasty were almost captured in Heianjing. With the collapse of the Ping Qingsheng regime, these guys who relied on the Ping Qingsheng regime to survive became unsurprisingly the spoils of the Ming army.
Except for a few people who had cooperated with the Ming Dynasty, most people eventually became prisoners and were about to meet their end.
Because of the large amount of loot, the Ming army did not have enough hands, so Kong Zhende used the salted vegetables as rations to bake flatbreads to seduce the residents of Ping'anjing. The people told them that if they served the Ming army, they would have flatbreads to eat. The Ming army also promised not to harm them. .
The residents, who were in rags and had no food to eat, chose the pie between the pie and fear.
It's all bullshit to talk about harm or not. The residents of Heianjing have never met samurai who treat them well, so they don't believe that the Ming army will not hurt them.
But there is no place to escape, and the pie is real.
Even if he will be killed by the Ming army in the end, he must be a well-fed ghost in the end, not a starving ghost, and he can have a full meal before death, which is more important than anything else.
After devouring the flatbread as a deposit, more than 20,000 residents pushed the carts and followed the Ming army to carry the loot in Heianjing and left Heianjing, following the Ming army all the way back to Settsu.
As Xin Qiji and Kong Zhende expected, from the beginning to the end of this assault battle, not a single soldier from the surrounding areas arrived at Ping'an Jing for rescue.
In fact, places relatively close to Heian-kyo already knew the news when the Ming army attacked Settsu State. Heian-kyo had promptly dispatched personnel and asked them to bring troops to support and defend Heian-kyo immediately.
But it was obvious that the military leaders and seemingly loyal retainers in these places began to make their own plans under the sudden attack of the powerful Ming army.
They should indeed be grateful to Taira Kiyomori for promoting them and giving them status. They also admire Taira Kiyomori, so when Taira Kiyomori is in danger, they should do whatever it takes to rescue Taira Kiyomori.
But isn't the Ming army a bit too strong?
Everyone's loyalty is obviously relatively flexible. When there is no danger, everyone's loyalty is full and they are always available.
But when there is danger, everyone's loyalty begins to waver. Although they say they are certain, their bodies are still relatively sluggish.
Especially after the news came that the Ming army had defeated the Ping clan's army and Ping'an Jing had fallen, it became even more impossible for them to come.
The sky fell and the strongest strongman was defeated.
Taira Kiyomori was defeated, can we still defeat the Ming army and win?
impossible.
So everyone was in danger, and everyone was worried that the Ming army would further attack them. They were so panicked that they were all busy protecting themselves. They just begged the Ming army not to attack them. How could they have time to care about anything else?
The overall situation has been decided.
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