Bai Jiansen didn't care.
He loaded the musket with ammunition, pointed it at an angry Japanese, and said, "You, it's you, come out and tell me what's wrong with us punishing the Satsuma Domain."
The Japanese took a few steps forward, looked directly at him and said: "I don't know about the Satsuma Domain's attack on the Ming Dynasty, but I saw you attacking the Satsuma Domain with my own eyes."
Bai Jiansen smiled: "Just because you don't know, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
If the Satsuma clan hadn't attacked Ryukyu first, how could we have come to attack you?"
The man said in surprise: "Is Ryukyu a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty?
The generals said that Ryukyu was originally a part of our country and was occupied by the Ryukyu people."
Bai Jiansen had already raised his blunderbuss and was about to pull the trigger.
When he heard this, he put down his blunderbuss and asked, "Have you participated in the Battle of Ryukyu?"
The man's face had changed a bit, and his anger had faded a bit.
"Reply to the general, young Yamada Ichiro.
He once participated in the Battle of Ryukyu."
Bai Jiansen said: "At the beginning of the founding of our dynasty, Ryukyu paid tribute and became a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty.
It has been more than two hundred years now.
How can I seize your place?
I'm afraid your general has deceived you."
Yamada Ichiro is not a fool.
Now that he thinks about it carefully, many strange things at that time come to mind one by one.
He knows that this Ming officer should not have lied.
After all, he still has some sense of right and wrong.
Since the Satsuma clan attacked the Ming clan first, then the Ming Dynasty It cannot be said that it is wrong to take revenge now.
Bai Jiansen smiled and said, "You have figured it out."
Yamada Ichiro knelt down in the tunnel and said: "I am willing to surrender."
Then he turned to the Japanese behind him and said: "It is true that we attacked Ryukyu first."
Seeing his cooperation, Bai Jiansen was overjoyed.
He stepped forward to help him up and said, "Yamada Ichiro, I now appoint you as the banner commander of the Ming Dynasty Guards Association, responsible for managing the association army.
Now those who are willing to surrender should stand behind Yamada."
It seems that Yamada Ichiro has some prestige among these Japanese, and people are standing behind him one after another, and Bai Jiansen's malicious eyes and the swaying short blunderbuss make those who are reluctant to do so out of safety concerns.
Standing behind Yamada.
People have a herd mentality, and as a result, most people stood up.
Bai Jiansen walked up to those who were unwilling to stand behind Yamada with his short blunderbuss, pointed the short blunderbuss at the forehead of the person in front and said, "You really don't want to surrender to my Ming Dynasty, do you?"
The man looked at the black muzzle of the gun, thinking that the previously strong Kuroda fell to the ground without any resistance in front of this short gun.
His legs went weak and he knelt on the ground and said, "Young man is willing to surrender."
Bai Jiansen glanced at the remaining people again, looking everywhere.
Those people quickly ran behind Yamada and stood more neatly than anyone else.
Bai Jiansen nodded with satisfaction and asked people who were related to each other to stand together, then divided them into two teams, trying to put those who were related or neighbors into different teams, and designated a captain for each. , led by Yamada.
Then he said: "Since you know that the Satsuma Domain invaded the Ming Dynasty first, you should help the just Ming Dynasty.
Now the first team is going to help us collect food.
If the food cannot be collected, those farmers will suffer.
If you dare to run away, your relatives or neighbors in the second team will be killed, so go ahead."
After listening to Bai Jiansen's report, Mangui said: "Is this method effective?"
Bai Jiansen said with full confidence: "It should be effective.
They have nowhere to go now, and no one wants to involve their relatives and neighbors to be killed.
As for them going to collect grain, even if the farmers have hatred, most of them will fall on them." body."
Man Gui thought for a while and said: "Actually, if you say that as long as one person escapes, you will kill the entire team of the other team, it may be more effective."
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Bai Jiansen thought, yes, people who have relatives in the other team will certainly prevent the people in their own team from escaping.
He is still too young.
He smiled and said: "General Man is still smart, and the subordinates are ashamed of themselves. " Man Gui smiled and said: "It's just that we used to use the continuous sitting method more effectively, so I want to do the same to them.
I am going to attack eastward.
You are responsible for maintaining it here.
I will leave a camp for you."
Bai Jiansen said: "If the situation is better when Huixie returns from the army, General Man will not need to keep so many people.
One round should be enough."
In the afternoon, the first team of the Confederate Army came back.
There was no shortage of people, and a large amount of food was transported.
Mangui was relieved and left a round here while the army headed towards the Satsuma feudal palace.
On the morning of the third day, we finally arrived five miles outside the feudal mansion.
Satsuma Domain Mansion is a stone city with a wall that is less than two feet high.
If you want to attack the city with ants, it is actually not complicated.
However, the Guards have never practiced ant siege, and they are not prepared for ant siege at all.
Ladders and other utensils necessary for the city.
Of course, Mangui didn't need to worry about the lack of ladders, because the Shimazu family had already lined up battle formations outside the city wall, preparing to fight the Ming army to the death.
Shimazu Tadahashi was the head of the Shimazu family at this time and the first lord of the Satsuma Domain.
He founded the vassal in the 45th year of Wanli because the Satsuma vassal was located on Japan's unique small plateau terrain.
A serious problem with this kind of terrain is that the soil has extremely poor water retention, and water often flows in after rain, making it very difficult to cultivate crops.
In this way, although the Satsuma Domain has a nominal income of more than 600,000 koku, its actual income is generally only about 350,000 koku.
In order to alleviate this poverty situation, Shimazu Tadahashi sent troops to Ryukyu.
By conquering Ryukyu, the Shimazu family not only grabbed a large amount of property, but also seized the land of the Amami Islands that produced 40,000 koku.
At the same time, they gained money from Ryukyu's tribute trade. rights to interests.
It's a pity that after only a few good years, Ming Dynasty found out and wanted to avenge Ryukyu.
This made Shimazu Tadahashi very unhappy.
I occupy Ryukyu and you want to take it back.
I have no objection to this.
But you actually want to attack me.
This is going too far.
Of course, this kind of divine logic made Shimazu determined to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty, and although his relationship with the shogunate was not good at ordinary times, the shogunate still chose to help him at the critical moment and deal with the invaders from the Ming Dynasty together.
When the Guards captured Hioki, Shimadzu had received the news and immediately carried out emergency mobilization.
The Shimazu clan is somewhat different from other Japanese feudal clans.
The feudal system it implements is called the outer castle system.
His warriors did not gather and live near the main city, but lived in small strongholds near the fields.
These strongholds were called the outer city, and the Shimazu family lived in the inner city.
Therefore, he had to mobilize to concentrate the surrounding samurai in the inner city to respond to the enemy, and the Guards would encounter enemy resistance in places such as Aku Castle and Hioki
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