Japan's Kyushu Island, Satsuma Domain.

Kyushu Island is the southernmost island of Japan, and there are more than 40 feudal lords of all sizes, and the Satsuma Domain is one of the most powerful feudal domains.

On May 15, the Imperial Navy of the Ming Dynasty set sail from the Ryukyus, and four days later bypassed the Amami Islands and arrived at Tanegashima, the gateway to the Satsuma Domain.

The Ming army attacked and dispatched 65 large and small ships, including 28 sail battleships, with a total strength of more than 15,000 troops, and the number of combat troops landing reached 8,000.

Shen Shouchong got the latest will, this combat mission: destroy the Japanese naval base, land on the Satsuma Peninsula, attack Tsurumaru Castle, mainly plunder, and rob everything that can be snatched, including the population!

Zhu Cihong wants to completely wipe out the cradle of the Japanese Combined Fleet from the face of the earth! (The original naval rulers of the Japanese Combined Fleet were all from the Satsuma domain.) ）

Tanegashima was the southern gateway of the Satsuma Domain, and it was also considered the maritime gateway of Japan, but it was captured and landed by the Ming Royal Navy in just half a day.

The Satsuma clan was a confident defense, and in the face of the fierce fire of the Ming army, under the bombardment of hundreds of shells, it was vulnerable, and hundreds of incomplete corpses and stumps and broken arms were left on the beach. Tanegashima's keeper committed suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach.

Shen Shouchong did not give the Japanese navy the slightest respite, and the next day he led the fleet across the Osumi Strait and launched an attack on the Satsuma Peninsula.

The Yamakawa Port on the Satsuma Peninsula was the main foreign trade port of the Satsuma Domain and the main base of the Japanese Navy, and it was from here that the main army of the Satsuma Domain's expedition to the Ryukyus in 1609 was launched.

Such an important position was naturally held by Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the lord of the Satsuma domain.

From the eyes of the Japanese Navy, this large-scale build-up of the Ming fleet made it clear that it was coming for a decisive battle, just like Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Korea in that year.

The Japanese admirals were nervous, but fortunately, the navy of the Qing Dynasty also arrived immediately!

They released the shogunate once the pigeons, and now the Ming army took the initiative to attack the island of Kyushu, which was colonized by the Qing state, and the Qing country could no longer sit idly by.

But Fan Hong Chengchou has a bit of a brain, and he also knows what Emperor Tianwu wants to do.

Take Kyushu Island, the Ming army can use this as a springboard, directly attack the port of Pusan on the Korean Peninsula, and then the Ming Navy and the Eastern Protectorate will send troops at the same time, to attack the north and south, the overlord will be hard bowed, and the Qing Dynasty will be over!

At this time, the Satsuma Domain's Tsurumaru Castle was full of soldiers, and tens of thousands of Azig's Toei Eight Banners, as well as the Japanese feudal lords under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, formed a huge coalition to resist the Ming Dynasty's landing on Kyushu Island.

On the port of Yamakawa, the remnants of the Japanese navy and the Qing navy formed a combined fleet, and Kayama Kumori, who escaped in a tortoiseshell ship, was among them, leading a fleet alone.

Satsuma was a powerful feudal clan in southwestern Japan, the Satsuma Hayabusa were brave and aggressive, had a sense of discipline, they respected the strong, admired force, and despised cowardice and cowardice, and later the British called them "the Spartans of Japan".

No one knew that Kayama Kumori had fled, because this warrior had put all the pot on Shimazu Tadaro, who had been beaten into a sieve by the Ming army, and he was still the pride of the Japanese Navy like his father!

During the Warring States period of Japan, the Satsuma clan had been constantly fighting, attacking everywhere and taking the initiative to beat others, and the places such as Kagoshima and Miyaki, which were guarded by the Shimazu family, were rarely directly invaded by the enemy.

In the late Warring States period, after the first lord of the Satsuma clan of the Shimazu family unified the island of Minami-Kyushu, no one dared to provoke the Satsuma domain in Japan, and even Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to attack the Satsuma domain easily, so he could only weaken its strength by gentle means.

At the pledge meeting, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the lord of the Satsuma domain and the commander of the Japanese Navy, said loudly: "Except for more than 400 years ago, since the invasion of the Yuankou, there has never been a threat to Japan's enemies from the sea!" ”

He raised his voice and shouted, "Yuan Kou can't do it, and Ming Kou can't do it either!" ”

"No way!"

"No way!"

The sailors of the Satsuma Domain shouted loudly, and no one realized that disaster had befallen Japan more than 200 years earlier than in another time and space when the United States had used gunboats to force Japan to open its borders.

The Qing naval generals on the side all pouted their lips unabashedly.

Hong Shiming, the chief of the navy, and the vice admiral next to him said with a smile: "The entire Kyushu Island has become a colony of our Qing Dynasty, and these Japanese people are still talking nonsense with their eyes open!" ”

Someone immediately responded: "What the little prince said is right! ”

This little prince Hong Shiming is the eldest son of Hong Chengchou, the regent of the Tatar Qing Emperor's father, and his words are rising.

Several Qing naval generals around him were all the younger generation of the Han military banner, the sons of the banner owners, the oldest was less than 30 years old, that is, the four Han generals of Hexi who pacified the three feudatories for the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history.

Hong Chengchou established the Qing Navy, naturally he wanted to let his own people control it, and the old two Tartars of the Han Army Banner were not good at water warfare, and he couldn't believe it, so he could only choose some young two Tartars to take on this big task.

On the second day, the sea area of Shanchuan Port.

On the surface of the sea, as if boiling a pot, countless cannonballs smashed into the seawater, stirring up huge columns of water.

The Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty had already fought with the Nissin Combined Fleet, and the warships of the two sides were separated by one or two hundred meters, spewing flames from each other, and the sea was full of gunsmoke.

The Nissin Combined Fleet was far inferior to the Ming Royal Navy's fleet in terms of ship size and artillery configuration, but they were extremely numerous, with more than 300 large and small warships, as well as several Spanish-built fourth-class sail battleships.

The combined fleet is constantly approaching, just like the battle of Liaoluo Bay in the sixth year of Chongzhen, they used a large number of fireships to approach the Ming warships, and some even appeared more than 20 warships to besiege a Ming warship.

The guns on the Ming warships flashed one after another, firing more than a dozen pounds of shells onto the opponent's warship, and whenever a cannonball hit the enemy warship, a cheering whistle would erupt on the battleship, encouraging each other.

The entire battlefield was filled with fire and black smoke, and on the black waters, petite ships of the Nissin Combined Fleet were wrecked, paralyzed, or sinking.

In the midst of the shouts, the Ming army could see many Japanese sailors on fire plunging into the sea without hesitation......

The small boat used by the Nissin Combined Fleet to open the way to send life is too unbeatable, it is okay to use solid bullets, it takes a few shots to kill one, if you use flowering shells, you encounter a petite warship, and you will take it away with one shot.

However, the Ming Royal Navy did not fully popularize the explosion of flowering shells, and only some large battleships were equipped with them.

The side dishes are all up, followed by the hard dishes.

Tortoiseshell boats shaped like turtles shuttled quickly on the water, firing cannonballs at the Ming warships.

Several Spanish three-masted warships of the Qing Navy also sailed over and joined the battle, firing at the battleships of the Ming army.

These were fourth-class sail battleships with fifty guns, with a displacement of a thousand tons, and were second-hand goods that the Qing bought from the Spaniards at great expense.