Maeno Nagayasu's heart collapsed.
In all honesty, he really didn't intend to start a war with the Ming Army. After learning that Tokugawa Ieyasu's men were wiped out by the Ming Army, he planned to come over to express goodwill to the Ming Army and take the opportunity to beat the drowning dog and kill Tokugawa Ieyasu. In this way, his credit would be too great. After going back, at least hundreds of thousands of stones of land would be given. He really just wanted to take advantage, and he absolutely didn't want to start a war with the Ming Army.
But he didn't know if the Ming Army was deliberately starting a war or if they were overreacting, but the Ming Army had actually killed off more than a hundred people that he had sent to express their friendliness. What was sent back were headless corpses. The Ming Army was holding their heads and waiting to claim credit. How could he tolerate this situation? Who could bear it?
Anyway, Maeno Nagayasu couldn't bear it, so he took thousands of people to the Ming Army to ask for an explanation. As a result, he didn't ask for an explanation, but asked for hundreds of shells. The Ming Army's artillery team shot at him and his men fiercely. When Maeno Nagayasu saw that it was not good, he immediately retreated and refused to fight. The speed of retreat was so fast that the Ming Army didn't respond, so the Ming Army didn't pursue them.
After that, the Ming Army sent messengers, riding tall horses and telling them the meaning of the Ming Army.
"The Daming came to uphold justice, not to fight, but you guys don't know what's good for you. The Ming Dynasty Army obviously came to eradicate the strong and help the weak, but you guys not only don't know how to be grateful, but also attack the Ming Dynasty Army. It's so unreasonable. The matter that Tokugawa Ieyasu betrayed the Lord and rebelled made the Daming very dissatisfied, so the Daming came to help the Toyotomi clan for the sake of reason. As a result, the Toyotomi clan is good. Look at what you have done?
The Ming Dynasty Army came to help you deal with the Tokugawa Army with good intentions. As a result, you came to attack the Ming Dynasty Army. Aren't you looking for a fight? The Ming Dynasty Army is now very hurt and angry. You need to pay the price to appease the anger!
Maeno Nagayasu was moved by the Ming Army's cool gesture. It didn't matter that he was moved, but he directly fainted and woke up after a while.
"You can't bully people like this. The Daming is a country of etiquette. How can you be so shameless? It was clearly our emissary who was killed by you, and when we came to ask for an explanation, you bombarded hundreds of our people to death. Now you're blaming us? "Big brother, you can't do this!"
The Ming Army messengers came from the Liaodong Army and had always been arrogant. He said, "Since you said so, the Daming will give you an explanation. The Ming Dynasty Army had just cleaned up the Tokugawa Army and was cleaning up the battlefield. In the end, a group of people rushed over without a clear flag that the Ming Dynasty Army could understand. The Ming Dynasty Army, of course, thought that you were the remnants of the Tokugawa Clan and would definitely clean you up. In this case, who wouldn't clean you up?"
Maeno Nagayasu's melon head couldn't wrap around it.
But he certainly didn't dare to fight. The tens of thousands of corpses of the Tokugawa Army were piled up there and hadn't smelled yet. This was obviously a battle that had just ended. Even if Maeno Nagayasu was a retainer of Toyotomi Hidetsugu, he still had some understanding of the Tokugawa Army's field combat ability. When he followed Toyotomi Hidetsugu to fight against the Tokugawa Army, he was beaten badly, so he was very clear about the strength of the Tokugawa Army.
In addition to the previous battle with Kuroda Rusui, 10,000 people didn't get the upper hand against his 5,000 people. He knew that the so-called "Toyotomi elite" under his command was far from the original Toyotomi Army and the current Tokugawa Army.
The original Toyotomi Army and the current Tokugawa Army had been cleaned up by the Ming Army. What else could he fight? It just so happened that the peace emissary from the Ming Army had arrived. Although he wanted to get rid of these emissaries, it was better to swallow his anger for the time being. It wasn't worth losing his life for a moment of anger. However, whether or not the peace talks would be negotiated was not something that a retainer like him could decide. He said that he needed to ask for instructions from Kyoto and had already sent someone back to report.
When Xiao Ruxun learned that the Toyotomi commander was willing to temporarily accept Daming's mediation and had sent someone back to ask for instructions, he knew that the previous artillery had worked. As for whether the Tokugawa Army would accept Daming's mediation, he wasn't very clear. So far, he didn't know where Tokugawa Ieyasu was, whether he was alive, or whether he still had the confidence to continue to fight for hegemony in the world. Now, he was a little worried that he had weakened Tokugawa Ieyasu too much.
He had killed Kuroda Rusui, and nine out of ten Tokugawa Army elites were gone. At most, there were less than 2,000 survivors. With such a defeated army, would Tokugawa Ieyasu still have the confidence and courage to rise again? Would the other daimyo still be willing to follow Tokugawa Ieyasu to rise again? It was hard to say, right?
Xiao Ruxun thought about it. He was a little worried that there would be internal strife within the Tokugawa Ieyasu group. Someone would replace Tokugawa Ieyasu. This was the bad thing about this loose alliance. It was based on strength. Even if Tokugawa Ieyasu admitted defeat, if the person who intended to replace him didn't accept it, they would still have to fight. It would be better if they were beaten into submission.
Scouts were sent out one after another. Under the leadership of the traitor, the entire Ishikami Country was under the control of the Ming Army. The Ming Army had actually occupied Ishikami Country. The Maori family's forces around Ishikami Ginzan had been looted and slaughtered by Li Rusong, the madman. He had killed all the local kings and directly helped the Ming Army to eliminate the trouble of ruling these two places.
The social class solidification in Country R was very serious. When they first learned from the Tang Dynasty, they learned everything except the centralization of power and the imperial examination system. The Emperor did not have real power for a long time, so the imperial examination system could not take root and survive. The hereditary official system had lasted from ancient times to the present and could not be broken no matter what. As a result, people did not have surnames, only given names. It was not until the 19th century that the civilians in Country R began to have surnames.
In other words, at this moment, the long-standing tradition of Country R made it very difficult for them to even resist spontaneously. Once they lost the leader of the upper class, the lower class was scattered and could not form a force to resist the foreign oppressors. Li Rusong's fire-like action of wiping out the Maori shocked the civilians of the entire Ishikami Country. The upper class bureaucrats were basically killed. Now, the Ming Army divided some troops to be stationed in those big cities, controlling various traffic arteries and using the dogs who had surrendered to temporarily rule.
In the long run, Xiao Ruxun planned to arrange for these Ishikami people to carry out the two tasks of concentrating on farming and concentrating on mining. He would concentrate the young and strong labor force in the fields and mines, and arrange for the old, weak, women, and children to serve the Ming Army soldiers. Xiao Ruxun did not want to colonize Ishikami, nor did he want to colonize Ishikami. He only intended to use Ishikami as the overseas supply base of the Ming Army and let these people gather to serve the Ming Army.
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