Daming Hongxing ten years, the eighth day of the third month, the old mountain palace.

Early in the morning, Zhu Cihong was having breakfast with Empress Wu Sanmei in the restaurant of the Hot Spring Palace. Last night, he stayed in the Hot Spring Palace and "held hands" with Wu Sanmei...... He and Wu Sanmei have been together for thirteen years, but the relationship is still good, and he has no intention of snubbing this lady of the main palace at all. On the second day of the first month of March, the doctor of the Tai Hospital also mentioned that Wu Sanmei had diagnosed a happy pulse, which is really gratifying!

Wu Sanmei has raised a total of five children for Emperor Zhu in the past thirteen years, but one of them is a son, Zhu Hexing, who was born in the fifth year of Hongxing, is six years old this year and has just entered Laoshan Primary School.

However, this child's health has not been very good, although he has grown quite big, but he is a little weak, and he is sick all day long, which makes Wu Sanmei very worried, afraid that he will die. So she stopped Zhu Cihong and never gave Zhu Hexing the title of prince - this is because she is worried that Zhu Hexing will have a thin life and will not be able to bear the honorary status of the prince, and she is ready to wait for him to be older and his body is well, and then canonized.

Of course, the position of the eldest son of the little fat man Zhu and Xingyan is unshakable!

Even if Zheng Chagu gave birth to three sons for Emperor Zhu (she also has five children, three sons and two daughters), all of them are healthy and intelligent, among which the local tyrant (Zhu Hehao) is still a scholar in Laoshan Primary School, and he can't shake Zhu Hexing's status as the first heir.

But what if this first heir is gone...... Zhu Hehao is the eldest son, and his mother is the imperial concubine, but he is undoubtedly the first successor!

So Wu Sanmei always has a knot in her heart, and she wants to untie it, so she has to give Zhu Cihong another son.

With two sons in hand, Wu Sanmei can rest assured!

And Zhu Cihong also knew her thoughts, so he worked hard to hold hands with her, and finally had results recently......

"Your Majesty, I heard that the King of France gave you a stunning orchid, which is more beautiful than the emperor's concubine, is there such a thing?"

Wu Sanmei was tasting the oyster porridge sent by Zheng Chagu, and at the same time talking about Mary with Zhu Cihong. Manich, but there was no hint of vinegar between the words.

Zhu Cihong grinned: "It's really good-looking, Western color, unique style...... However, it is wild and untamable, and he is unwilling to enter the palace as a concubine. ”

"Don't want to enter the palace? So what is she here for? Wu Sanmei blinked, looked at Zhu Cihong a little strangely, and said in her heart: If she doesn't want to, won't you rob it?

"She wants to be a royal mistress." As Zhu Cihong spoke, he also scooped a little oyster porridge with a small spoon and put it in his mouth - it tasted good! Zheng Cha Girl, this girl is also quite capable of pretending, obviously she doesn't want Wu Sanmei to have another son, but she can disguise her sisterhood, I heard that the third sister has a little poor appetite, so she asked her own cook to concoct all kinds of delicacies and send them over. If only Mancini had her heart......

"Royal ...... Mistress? Wu Sanmei was stunned, "What does this mean?" ”

"That's it...... I don't want the name of the meaning. Zhu Cihong said, "She is a Catholic, and she can't be a little wife." ”

"Not a little wife, but can you be together without a name?" Wu Sanmei shook her head again and again, and she couldn't figure it out.

Zhu Cihong also shook his head, thinking: People don't want fame, but they won't want less money! Fortunately, I am the richest in the Ming Dynasty, and when I want to replace Chongzhen as the emperor, I really can't afford it!

Just thinking of this, Huang Xiaobao's voice full of joy came from outside, "Long live the lord, long live the lord...... Great victory, great victory! ”

Zhu Cihong looked up at the door of the restaurant, and saw Huang Xiaobao, the big eunuch who had become a ball, running over, shouting while running.

"Long live the great victory of Kashima! Kashima victory! ”

Kashima? Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment, but immediately thought of Kagoshima Bay!

He was not in the mood to drink porridge, so he immediately stood up, walked to Huang Xiaobao in three steps and two steps, and Huang Xiaobao immediately handed over a piece of music from the Generalissimo's Mansion with both hands.

Zhu Cihong took the notebook, opened it, first read it at a glance and ten lines, and then carefully reviewed it before revealing an ecstatic expression.

This recital is Zheng Jiangong, David. Jones and the two men jointly reported on the Battle of Kagoshima Bay, which took place over the course of four days, 18, 19, 20, and 21 February.

The Battle of Kagoshima Bay broke out at dusk on the 18th, and the winner was decided that night—within an hour of the "Ibusuki Turn," the Spanish Eastern Armada suffered heavy losses, with ten armed Galen ships of 200 to 600 tons destroyed or sunk. Eight other Spanish armed Galen ships, including the 1,000-ton "behemoth" New Spain, were forced into the Sakurajima Strait, and the landing detachment commanded by Zheng Jiangong, who had entered the inner Kagoshima Bay a little earlier, and David. Under the flanking attack of the naval detachment commanded by Jones.

And at this time of the naval battle, the losses of the warships on the side of the fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance were still zero!

But the battle doesn't end there, and it can't end there. Because the remnants of the Spanish fleet that entered the Sakurajima Strait blocked the way out of Zheng Jiangong's forty-five bird boats, and the bloody battle between the Ming landing force and the Sakura samurai on Sakurajima continued!

In the following three days, on February 19, February 20, and February 21, protracted and fierce battles were fought between the Eight-Nation Coalition and the Satsuma and Spanish forces at Sakurajima and the Sakurajima Strait.

The Spanish fleet formed a column blocking the road in the Sakurajima Strait, aiming the side guns of eight battleships at both sides of the strait. Because the strait was too narrow to facilitate the maneuver of large formations, David who attacked from the south of the Sakurajima Strait. It was difficult for the Jones detachment to put on an identical formation to the side against the enemy.

As a result, several attacks launched from the south of the strait could not succeed, while Zheng Jiangong's detachment in the north was unable to launch an attack because of the change in wind direction that began on the morning of the 20th.

When the battle at sea was at a stalemate, Zheng Jiangong and Shi Lang commanded the "second Sakurajima landing". The landing site was northwest of Sakurajima, a flat area with a beachhead of 134 miles in length and a number of fishing ports available.

In addition, the Satsuma clan had no idea that the coalition fleet could rush into the Sakurajima Strait with their guns - Shimazu Mitsuhisa clearly overestimated the power of the 6-pounder and 12-pounder cannons provided by the Spaniards!

So there weren't a handful of Saskatchewan samurai waiting for thousands of heavily armed Ming infantry on the long beachhead northwest of Sakurajima - although they were not armed with flintlock pistols (there was only one flintlock regiment in an infantry division, and the flintlock regiment of the first division was left in the Goto Islands and Nagasaki), they all had plate armor, and each infantry regiment had a pike company (because the Japanese cavalry did not pose much of a threat, so the number of pikemen was reduced), and they were very capable of hand-to-hand combat!

They were not like the unarmored Marines who had landed southwest of Sakurajima, and although they had an overwhelming advantage in the shootout, they were held back by the Saskan samurai, who were far outnumbered by their own bayonet assault. Later, it was only by relying on the reinforcements of the second wave of landed army infantry that the Saskatchewan army was completely repelled and the beachhead was consolidated...... However, it only seized the beachhead, and did not have the ability to advance to the Sakurajima Battery. Because the terrain southwest of Sakurajima is relatively dangerous, there are dense forests and mountains outside the beachhead of the Ming army. At least 2,000 Saskatchewan warriors were entrenched there, using the terrain to block the Ming army's advance.

But it is precisely because the Saskan Army on Sakura Island placed its main forces in the southwest direction that the troops in the northwest direction are extremely empty. After Li Yuanyin led two infantry regiments and an artillery company to complete the landing, the Ming army advanced to the vicinity of the Sakurajima Fort like a bamboo, and the Sakurajima Fort of the Sazhou Army ignored the defense behind it. Therefore, the defenders had no choice but to engage in a field battle with the Ming army in the open area northwest of the fort with no hope of victory, and in the end almost all the troops were annihilated!

At the same time that the Ming army attacked the Sakurajima Fort, Zheng Jiangong also dispatched eight Wanshi Big Bird Ships to launch a fireship attack on the Spanish warships, completely destroying the eight Spanish warships blocking the channel!

With the loss of these eight ships, the strength of the Spanish Oriental Armada has been lost...... The Ming Navy has become the hegemon in the western Pacific!