Japan, Nijo Castle.

The Mansion of the General of the Conquest of the Yi.

Toyokawa Matsuyuki not only has an official residence here, but also has his own Tianshou Pavilion in Osaka next to him.

But in order to protect the Emperor, he is often here.

Even Osaka is only a few dozen miles away from this place.

The winter in Osaka is relatively warm and rarely snows.

However, there was still a blazing fire in the fire pit in the middle of the room.

Compared to a year ago, there are significantly fewer people sitting in this room.

The most important things under Toyokawa Matsuyuki are the three gods and the five guard generals. As a result, this time, Ikeno Nobutsu, one of the three gods, was directly lost in the Dakang strategy, which is also what makes Toyokawa Matsuyuki the most heartbroken.

This makes Toyokawa Mayuki recognises his destiny as the commander of the 100,000 army, which shows the ability and trust of this Ikeno Nobusuke.

Nobusuke Ikeno was also unlucky.

If he was in the field, he would probably be able to escape.

But they occupied a city and wanted to hold up more troops from Dakang.

As a result, Liu Mingqi, who was not good at playing cards, was directly smoked with tinea oil. The rest had no combat power and ended up being wiped out.

This information was obtained by Japanese spies in autumn by bribing the soldiers involved in the siege.

Toyokawa Mayuki has nothing to say about such a combat method.

This is also in Dakang.

In Dakang, we can throw out millions of kilograms of tinea oil without any money, and then burn it to death to tens of thousands of people.

If the quantity is not enough, the tinder oil will not have such a large smoke effect.

Moreover, in order to facilitate defense, Ikeno Nobuzuru occupied a small town with a small area, so it is easier to be killed.

If it is a city like Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Jinling that is occupied, the amount of tincture oil must be increased tenfold if it wants to kill people.

Even Dakang is not so generous.

So God is destined to let Nobuo Ikeno die in this battle, and Toyokawa Matsuki has no choice.

As for the remaining five major guard generals who died in battle, Kobayashi Miyagi also encountered enemy attacks and crazy snipers with wooden grenades, there was no way to die in battle.

But the Shimura Yasukashi, who was said to have defected to Daiyao and became a shameful traitor, was not sorry for Toyakawa Mayuki, but he didn't confirm it after he came back, so he killed the whole family of Shimura Yasukashi's family.

The Japanese army dispatched more than 300,000 to the Japanese army, and the last one was only 150,000 or 60,000. Of which 30,000 were the first time they transported the robbed wealth and brought back together.

In addition to the casualties of the generals, Japan suffered a large amount of middle and lower-level generals, which was also a pity for Toyokawa.

The losses of such a group of backbone generals will take at least three to five years to recover.

If it weren't for the final evacuation, Toyokawa would have forced more than 30,000 famous soldiers to fight to the death, and the Japanese daimyos and more than 100,000 private soldiers died to only 20,000 to 30,000. Toyokawa would have to worry about his "unstable country".

Now, anyway, their big names have suffered greater losses than themselves. If our elder brother doesn’t mention the second brother, we will be in trouble together.

What made Toyogawa Matsuyuki feel a little relieved was that he took advantage of the fact that he took advantage of the entire Dakang Northern Navy's army to escort the Yulin Guard to the north to attack the Wei army. He not only transported more than 30,000 disabled soldiers back, but also brought most of the plundered property back to Japan.

Otherwise, with the panic they were on board at the Songjiang Prefecture Port in the end, how many treasures could they bring back?

There are not many other places in Japan, but the population is large, with a population of more than 20 million. As long as you have enough time and sufficient wealth, you can replenish the army and make a comeback.

The families of the injured and killed generals and soldiers also need a certain degree of pension, otherwise who will dare to fight with you in the future?

Fortunately, with this wealth, otherwise Toyokawa would have to lose all his money.

...

As my thoughts passed, Toyokawa turned to look at a young man sitting on the right side.

The young man's face was gloomy and his dress was completely different from that of Japan.

Of course, it was not just him. Many Japanese nobles like to imitate Dakang's clothes and feel that they are superior.

But this young man is not a Japanese at all, but a serious Dakang person.

"Mr. Lin."

Toyokawa Mayuki put his thoughts on his patience and asked in a harmonious voice: "I invite you here today, but it is actually because His Highness, the third prince of Murasu, has a major problem and I want to consult you."

The young man nodded: "Please say, General!"

"Have you heard of the wooden grenade in Dakang? "Matsuyuki Toyokawa asked word by word.

"No."

The young man shook his head neatly, "Liu Mingqi has invented a lot of things, but this is definitely not available before, otherwise my elder brother would definitely know."

Toyokawa Matsuyuki has no doubts about this.

After all, they found out after collecting information from many aspects that there was no sign that Liu Mingqi had invented such a terrifying thing before coming to Jiangnan.

But there are no clues.

"There is no wooden grenade, but I heard that he made some noise at the Gate of Hell, right?" Toyokawa Mayuki said, "You should understand this, Mr. Lin!"

"indeed."

Mr. Lin did not shirk it and said, "He used something called a picy bomb at the Gate of Hell. It is said that it is amazingly powerful and can break up those reefs that have been generated for thousands of years."

Toyokawa Mayuki's eyes lit up: "Then this... picy... bomb, your elder brother has no information at all?"

"No."

Mr. Lin also had a look of regret on his face, "Actually, the prince once asked Liu Mingqi about the secret of the picy bomb."

"ah!?"

Toyokawa was so surprised and happy, but he didn't dare to be too happy, because Mr. Lin said in advance just now that there was no news.

"Later, the prince told my elder brother and the others that Liu Mingqi answered this way." Mr. Lin said slowly: "'Apart from the specific production of this bomb, only the Emperor of Dakang can know. After your highness ascends the throne, you will naturally know it."

Speaking of this, he paused and smiled bitterly, "The prince was still very happy at that time, because he was not in a hurry, just wanted to confirm Liu Mingqi's attitude...but he didn't expect..."

It's actually very clear now.

This young master Lin is Lin Hao, the second son of the former Governor of the Valley Transportation. His eldest brother is Lin Yao, the only prince's confidant who was beheaded by the emperor during the last turmoil.

It was precisely because of his familiarity with Jiangsu that Lin Hao led the Japanese pirates to land suddenly in Jiangsu, which disrupted Dakang's deployment and caused hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to be killed and injured.

After Emperor Jinghe was escorted to the capital through interrogation, he hated Lin Hao to the core and gave a huge reward of one million taels of silver to ask for Lin Hao's head.

Therefore, Lin Hao has to continue living in Japan now, hoping that Toyokawa can save his life.

Judging from the current situation, Dakang is still strong, and Toyokawa Masaki still needs to fight Dakang, so he, a traitor who is familiar with Dakang, is indispensable.

It’s also sad to think about it. Lin Hao can save his life now, thanks to Dakang!?

Toyokawa was so lucky that he sighed deeply.

"What a pity! What a pity!!"

If Liu Mingqi could tell the prince at the beginning, Lin Yao would have been able to find out and tell Lin Hao.

This way, you can also create a powerful bomb.

Wooden handle grenade...

Toyokawa was so lucky that he wanted to make his skilled craftsman helpless to seize dozens of wooden grenades seized, and he felt itchy.

He had already concentrated all the skilled craftsmen in Japan and dismantled three wooden grenades. Each part was carefully disassembled and placed in the sun, but he could not understand the most important ratio of gunpowder.

The Japanese craftsmen have perfectly copied all the parts and pieced together wooden grenades, but the problem is that gunpowder cannot be blown up at all.

Even the iron shell cannot be broken.

Even if they used thinner iron shells, they would at best just break open, and they could not create real wooden grenade shrapnel shot out, and the explosion range covered the power of one or two feet around. In order to allow the craftsmen to truly appreciate the power of wooden grenades, Toyogawa Matsuyuki used a wooden grenade with distress!

Because the black gunpowder in the real wooden grenade has been ground together, and no one can know the real ratio when mixed.

The three raw materials, saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur, are very rich in Japan. The problem is that there are millions of types of these three raw materials. If you cannot find the most suitable ratio, then black gunpowder can only be used as a pastime as before.

Toyokawa was so lucky that he had no choice but to get angry, so he could only tell the craftsmen in a good voice that they could do their best and not be burdened. Moreover, if they made good black gunpowder, they would definitely receive a lot of rewards.

That kind of pain that is clearly within reach but cannot be obtained in the end is really uncomfortable!

Of course he didn't know that the power of black gunpowder was actually not that great. Liu Mingqi added picric acid explosive, which doubled its power.

How to make the stable picric acid explosives also participate in the explosion reaction? Liu Mingqi made some improvements in the detonator.

If no one pointed out these little things, with the vague feeling of people's current physical reactions, they will definitely not be copied.

It is very scientific to engage in explosives, shells and cannons.

By feeling alone and by various vague operations, a stable and large-scale output cannot be achieved, which is why many scientific inventions in ancient my country did not continue.

Because they have not formed a stable inheritance system and have not interpreted these scientific inventions with dataization and scientificization, it is naturally impossible for someone to follow their path.

No matter how modern Chinese education is, it is a cram-type education or exam-oriented education, but this kind of education can be passed down and has rules to follow.

To put it simply, no matter how a Grand Principal, even a third-rate university graduate, can give different children the same scientific enlightenment just like a first-rate university graduate.

The knowledge they teach is exactly the same, especially the basic knowledge.

But in ancient times, even if you ask two brothers from the Mo family to teach the students, the students they teach are all different.

So you know why ancient science could not make progress.

Because after each apprentice is taught, he uses his own thinking to consider the problem. During the thinking process, it is easy to deviate from the knowledge taught by the master.

Once there is a deviation, it is equivalent to taking this path from scratch again and repeatedly discussing the achievements and problems made by his predecessors.

There will be no such problem in modern times, because these basic knowledge, formulas, axioms, and theorems are already truths. No need to doubt it, just continue to study on this basis and climb upwards.

This is the huge progress brought about by systematic and systematic scientific education.

Now the excellent craftsmen in Japan are stuck on this.
Chapter completed!