Seeing this, the Japanese pirates ambassador knew that his mission was fruitless, so he could only bite the bullet and leave. He had only taken a few steps when he heard Xiao Ruxun shout, "Wait." [0↑ 9 △ Small ↑ Say △ Net]
The ambassador looked at Xiao Ruxun with a horrified expression as if he had seen an evil spirit. It seemed that Xiao Ruxun was going to kill him. Xiao Ruxun laughed and said, "Why are you looking at me like that? Am I an evil spirit? Someone, go to the cooks' army and get fifty dumplings. Bring them back to Ukito Hideki. Tell him that I'm treating him to dumplings. After eating the dumplings, think carefully about whether money or your life is more important. "
The Japanese pirates ambassador heaved a sigh of relief. He staggered and almost fell, causing the generals to burst into laughter.
Amidst the laughter, the five of them scurried out of the Ming Army's camp. As soon as they left, Xiao Ruxun's expression became serious. "They no longer want to continue fighting. They have begun to look for a way to retreat back to their country. However, I guess that Toyotomi Hideyoshi doesn't know the specific information, so I didn't allow them to retreat. They can't guarantee that our army won't cause trouble when they retreat, so they came to test us.
Send my order to Yi Sun-sin, from today onwards, we will closely monitor the route from Tsushima to Pusan Port. All the Japanese pirates' ships can be sunk. Don't use cannons for now. Don't let the Japanese pirates be on guard. Use the old method to deal with the Japanese pirates' ships. If you encounter Japanese pirates, the main force of the navy can retreat. Try your best to sink some ships to block the communication between the Japanese pirates' homeland and the Korean Japanese pirates, so that the information will be delayed. The navy of the imperial court will arrive in at most seven to eight days. At that time, we will work with the Korean navy to destroy the Japanese pirates.
"Yes, sir!"
All the generals accepted the order.
After the envoys returned, Ukita and Ishida Mitsunari shared the 50 dumplings given by Xiao Ruxun. As they ate, they found that there was meat in the dumplings. It was vegetable meat filling. Their mouths were full of taste, but their hearts were getting more and more upset.
Due to Yi Shunchen's activity, it was difficult to get supplies. Even during the New Year, there were no good things to reward the soldiers. Not to mention, the Ming Army was setting off fireworks and firecrackers on the opposite side. That kind of noise directly stimulated them and made them very depressed.
"Xiao Ruxun's meaning is very clear. If we don't hand over everything in North Korea, we won't even have a chance to negotiate. He's too overbearing …"
After that battle with Xiao Ruxun, Ukito Shuka's family was traumatized. They wanted to be tough, but they couldn't bring themselves to do so no matter what.
Naturally, Ishida Mitsunari wasn't much better. He ate the dumplings one by one and swallowed three in a row, but the gloom in his heart couldn't dissipate.
"I guess if there's no result, Taige might come back to his senses and ask us about this and that, and ask us to be honest. To be honest, I'm not very confident that I can survive if I go back now. Not to mention that after a period of time, Xiao Ruxun won't agree to the seven requests of Taige. I guess after this side sees it, the other side will start a decisive battle, and we won't be able to hold on. [0↑ 9 △ Small ↓ Say △ Net] "
"Then what should we do? Do we really return all those things to Xiao Ruxun? Then why did we lose a hundred thousand people on this trip? "
Ukito Shuka put down his spoon unwillingly.
"Then why don't you go and fight with Xiao Ruxun? If you die in battle, you don't have to say this. "
Ishida Mitsunari wasn't polite at all. Ukito Shuka was angry and opened his mouth to scold, but he couldn't say a word. He just ate the dumplings silently.
"Someone must know about our matter, but Taige doesn't know yet. There's no time, we must get out as soon as possible. The deadline Xiao Ruxun gave us is the 15th of January. After this deadline, we really can't go back even if we want to."
"Do we really have to give it to him?"
Ukito Shuka hesitated.
"Yes, we have to give it to him. Nothing is more valuable than life."
Ishida Mitsunari's attitude was very clear.
"Gather everyone and discuss it …"
Ukito Shuka still couldn't make up his mind. After all, he was too young. He was nervous and hesitant. He didn't dare to shoulder the responsibility of the entire army alone. He first came to Japan to gild himself, but now he couldn't gild himself and was covered in sh * t. How to wash himself was a problem, let alone shoulder the lives of tens of thousands of people in the army.
There was another person who felt the same way as Ukito Shuka, and that was the old general Chen Lin.
Chen Lin was already 60 years old. He was a true veteran general, the best of the best. There were ups and downs in the officialdom, and his life could be said to be a legend, a legend with extremely bad luck. If the world was in chaos, he thought he could reach the level of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, but he didn't expect to be born at this time and end up like this.
He was already in his 60s, and this might be the last time he would lead an army, but he still had to be a subordinate to a young man in his twenties and listen to his commands. The imperial court had simply treated his 40 years of experience as water, and it was not as effective as that young man quelling a rebellion.
Counting carefully, he had quelled more than three rebellions, hadn't he?
When he arrived in Beijing, the Minister of War, Shi Xing, explicitly warned him not to act recklessly in Korea and take advantage of his seniority. He had to cooperate sincerely with Admiral Xiao Ruxun to exterminate the Japanese pirates and not lose the merit of being conferred a title after the war.
It sounded like encouragement, but his words were full of distrust and threats. In all honesty, if he hadn't been cheated by his superiors ten years before he joined the army, he wouldn't have developed the bad habit of bribing everyone he saw. But in that kind of situation, if he didn't give them some money, he wouldn't be able to move an inch, and he wouldn't even be able to get supplies from the army.
What was even more tragic was that if he met someone with a bit of a sense of responsibility, he would take the money and do the work. If he met someone with no morals, he would take the money and not do the work. If he met someone with a bad conscience, he would take the money and accuse you of bribing a superior!
He forced me to pay up, or else he would cut off my supplies. After I gave up everything I had to pay up, he took the money, hid the big part, and handed over the small part. He even accused me of bribing a superior officer. Do you think there is such a shameless superior officer in the world?
Just like that, forty years had passed. He was lucky to have lived to this day and not be cheated to death by those fellows. As for those who cheated him back then, he heard that they were all dead, and each one died more miserably than the other. It could be considered as revenge for him, and it could be considered as the cycle of heaven's retribution.
But what about the forty years he had lost? Every time she reclaimed a class, she would have to delete her account and start from scratch. Even if it wasn't for naught, there wasn't much left. Just like that, she rose and fell. After so many years, Chen Lin had thought that she would have no future.
However, the Japanese pirates' invasion of North Korea gave him new hope. He was reinstated again, commanding the largest Daming navy since Zheng He's voyage to the West to deal with the Japanese pirates in North Korea. If he agreed, he would at least leave his name in history, and he was ambitious to show off his abilities.
However, when he arrived in Beijing, he was met with a head-on blow. Shi Xing didn't give him a good look, and the relevant officials of the Ministry of War also told him to be careful. Even if he didn't get the rank of admiral together with the general of the army, he didn't get the position of "commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy", which symbolized trust. He only got the title of commander-in-chief, and he was still under the command of Xiao Ruxun, without the right to fight independently.
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