Kaoru Honda and others chased the wealthy clan of Kitakyushu, from the south-central part of the Satsuma Peninsula to the vicinity of Fangjin Village, and saw that the other party had been 'forced' into a desperate way, but Tao Longfang and others fought against the water, and they had a survival instinct and strictly guarded against it, and Kaoru Honda couldn't eat them for a while!

When Shimazu Takahisa heard of the gains from the front, he also led a large army to chase after him, hoping to crush the morale of the northern army in one fell swoop. When Kaoru Honda, Yoshihisa Shimazu and others heard that the reinforcements were coming, more than 2,000 people cheered loudly together, and the morale of the whole army was high! The Hokyushu people, who had been besieged for a day and a night, heard this, but they became even more desperate.

"Baga East 'Gate' Celebration! It actually hurt us! ”

"When you go back, you must settle accounts with him!"

But can you go back?

Look at the Satsuma savages on the periphery, one is more ruthless than the other, one is more fierce than the other, although because there are few people can not surround them, but the problem is that they are now located at the southwest end of the Satsuma Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the side that lands is where the Shimazu family base camp is located, if there are no ships, there is no hope of escaping! Therefore, the northern army had to resist with all their might, and could not retreat and escape. They don't even dare to flee - in the current situation, they can only end up in the hands of the enemy!

"Hooray, hooray—"

The Satsuma savages on the periphery cheered again, the morale of the attacking and defending sides continued to rise, and the other continued to decline, and after hearing that Shimazu Takahisa's successor army would also arrive, many people even collapsed with the last fighting spirit!

"Otherwise, let's surrender."

One of the wealthy clans said timidly, but was yelled back by Tao Longfang, and said angrily: "It doesn't matter if you don't have any results, it doesn't matter if you return without success, but if you surrender and become a prisoner before you are defeated, it will be an insult to the dignity of the samurai!" Until this moment, Tao Longfang still refused to admit defeat!

At this moment, there was a rumbling cannon sound from the direction of the coast, but it was Wu Ping who fired an empty cannon on the shore, Kamada Masanian heard the cannon sound, and hurriedly led the crowd back to the village, Yamada Youde also divided his troops to the shore to inspect, the attack power of the encirclement weakened slightly, Tao Longfang took the opportunity to boost morale, and lied: "It must be Qinghuaxiang who has re-landed and is going to attack the southern army on both sides of our waterway!" "Thousands of Northern troops were shocked by the 'spirit' when they heard it, and they held on for another day.

"These cunning Tang Kes!" When Kamada returned to the village, he found that Wu Ping had no intention of attacking at all, but only sent ships to cruise around the edge of the range of the bow and arrow.

Kaoru Honda said kindly: "After all, our advance troops are small, although we have already won, but to completely annihilate this force in Kitakyushu, it seems that we have to wait for the arrival of the rear army to besiege together." ”

Seeing that Shimazu Takahisa's army was about to arrive in Bojin, he was about to join forces with Kaoru Honda, Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shinna Tadamoto came to greet him, and explained the battle situation to his father, Shimazu Takahisa said: "Since they can escape to the seaside, why don't they get on the boat, but wait for us to encircle and suppress?" ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa said: "When we chased them to the vicinity of Hozu, there were no boats on the sea!" It only suddenly appeared again this morning, but the ships also appeared and disappeared from time to time, scattered, and although the cannons were fired, they only sounded in the air, and there was no movement. ”

Shimazu Takahisa was even more puzzled, and said: "The situation is so strange, could it be that there is fraud in it?" "At this moment, a warning message came from the sentry post at the southeastern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula that a very large fleet of unknown origin had rushed into Kagoshima Bay!

Takahisa Shimazu was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse when he heard the news, and shouted: "Hit! ”

Xinna Zhongyuan shouted, "What? ”

Shimazu Yoshihisa shouted: "They are striking the west!" Higashi'mon Kei has been entangled in Fangjin for so long, but in fact, his ambition is not in Fangjin, but just to lure us out, so that they can sneak attack Kagoshima! ”

Everyone was shocked, and Shimazu Takahisa immediately issued an order, ordering the rear army to become the front army, and the former army to become the rear army, with Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shinna Tadamoto as the vanguard, and quickly returned to the cities of Ijiin! He also sent an envoy to inform Kaoru Honda and Masaneni Kamada

, let them stop caring about the defeated armies of Kitakyushu, and the immediate priority is to hold the castles of Kagoshima - that is the root of Satsuma!

Although Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shinna Tadagen had only fought for a day and a night, the two were young and strong, and they had abundant 'fine' strength, so they could do what they wanted, and each brought five hundred 'fine' sharps to kill back to Kagoshima.

The two young people only cared about returning for help, and they didn't think too much, but Shimazu Takahisa was already heartbroken, and suddenly remembered something and shouted: "Oops! "Hurry up and send someone to find the messenger who informed Kaoru Honda and Kamada Masen, but it's too late! Shimazu Takahisa and Honda Kaoru were already close, and the messenger sent to report the news this time went fast again, and in a short time he had rushed into the Honda formation, and the messenger sent by Shimazu Takahisa again saw it and had no choice but to return.

Why did Takahisa Shimazu recall the messenger? It turned out that Shimazu Takahisa and his father were born in the side branch of the Shimazu family in Satsuma, and it was by wit and force that they annexed the family and swept away other opposition forces in Satsuma, but because the unification of Satsuma was not long ago, the rule in the area was not yet stable. When Shimazu Takahisa was still able to control the war, the voices against him inside and outside the family were suppressed, but if the war situation was out of Shimazu Takahisa's control, not only the Liver Fu family and the Ito family might change their minds, but also the internal ones such as Ijiin and Honda Kaoru would also be shaken! Therefore, it may not be a good thing to tell Kaoru Honda the news that the Kagoshima base camp may have been seized as soon as possible!

Shimazu Takahisa secretly complained bitterly, and said in his heart: "There is no way! I had to defend the cities of Ijiin first! Only by standing firm can we ensure that they do not rebel! "At the moment, I also urged the soldiers and horses to hurry. Not long after I walked out, I received a distress document from the direction of Kagoshima!

They are an army from afar, although they have been going all the way to the south, they are not in a hurry, and at this moment they are returning to the north to help, but they can't wait to 'plug in' their wings! This time he has committed a taboo! In the rush at full speed, although it is only half a day, two out of ten stoppers are left behind! The vanguard troops who were walking in the front saw that they could see Ijiin Ichi-Uji Castle after two more hills, but when they heard the rumbling of cannons, Shimazu Yoshihisa said to Shinna Tadamoto: "The cannons are loud! Presumably the siege is still ongoing! We must rush over and join forces with the defenders of the city, and we will definitely defeat the enemy!" Xinna Zhongyuan thought so. At this time, there were less than 800 people under their command, but all of them were the 'elite' of the Shimazu family, and Shimazu Yoshihisa raised his sword and shouted: "The enemy has invaded my hometown!" Please lend my power to drive out the invading enemy! ”

All the samurai responded in unison, although after a long journey, they were 'spirited' and refreshed, and with Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shinna Tadamoto, they rushed to the siege of the Savior City. The group of Japanese people is majestic and high-spirited, so they might as well shoot suddenly, but this time it is not sounding on the side of Ijiin Ichi-Uji Castle, but it rings around and bursts in the ears! The lead whistled, and the bow and arrow came in the wind! Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shinna Tadagen were both at a loss in shock, and the group exclaimed, "There is an ambush!" There is an ambush! ”

Although there were only a few hundred people in the city, but under the strict defense of Tadharo Ijiin, the east gate Kei could not succeed for a while, because he heard from a captive that Shimazu Takahisa had indeed led a large army out of the city to the south, so he changed the onslaught to besiege, and transferred Li Rongjiu's department, Kavala department, Brapa department and Ryuzoji department to block the ambush on the way to Shimazu Takahisa's reinforcements, but they did not lie in ambush for a long time, and they saw Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shinna Tadamoto rushing over like flies.

The East Gate Kei ordered Andrew to continue to fire cannons outside the Ijiin One Uji Castle, creating the illusion that the army was still attacking outside the city, and sure enough, the reinforcements heard the cannon sound and ran more quickly, and all of them fell into the trap of the East Gate Kei!

At a certain distance, the lethality of a musket against a foot soldier is already great, let alone an ambush! But listening to the bang bang When the musket team changed the lead and put on the gunpowder, Li Chengtai's 160 archers fired arrows in succession to fill this gap, and after several rounds of arrow rain, another round of gunfire rang out!

Seeing that the enemy army was 'chaotic', the East 'Gate' Qing gave an order, Li Rongjiu and Longzao Temple Takanobu rushed out alone, and Xinna Zhongyuan shouted loudly, but it was impossible to organize soldiers to resist effectively! Xu Hai led ten ruthless pirates and ten Japanese samurai who were 'proficient' in martial arts to go straight to the enemy's flag, and Shimazu Yoshihisa, who fell to the ground, was not only shot in the shoulder, but also was kicked by the horse when he fell off the horse, and he was unable to move when he fell on the ground, but the bright armor on his body betrayed his identity, and he was tied by Xu Hai with a rope and tied to the east 'gate' Qing.

Seeing that the defeat had been achieved, Xinna Zhongyuan rushed out of the encirclement with a few henchmen desperately, and the Qinghua Xiangjun knew how to shout in unison, and ordered the rest to surrender. Seeing that one of the two main generals was captured, one fled, and the enemy was strong and I was weak, and there was no hope of fighting again, they lost their will to fight, and they abandoned their weapons one after another, only a dozen people were still resisting stubbornly, but they were surrounded by Xu Hai and Longzao Temple Longxin, the knife was in front and the gun was in the back, this is no longer a battle, but ***!

Fifty muskets rang out in unison, and the more than ten people all fell, some died on the spot, some were still struggling, Xu Hai killed red eyes, jumped over and made up for a knife, this is clean! Although most of the surrendered Satsuma soldiers were not on the battlefield for the first time, they couldn't help but shudder when they saw Xu Hai's murderous appearance.

In this battle, a total of 227 enemies were killed, 469 were captured, and the rest either escaped or disappeared, these 6,700 people were the most branched and 'elite' troops of the Shimazu family, and the non-temporary recruitment of peasant soldiers was comparable.

After the East 'Gate' Kei seized the prisoner's weapons, the troops returned to the outside of the Ijiin One Uji Castle, the front rushed the prisoners, the back pushed the corpses, circled the city, and tied Shimazu Yoshihisa to a large flagpole and pushed it to the entrance of the city' Gate***, the Ijiin Tadashi in the city saw that his heart was broken, and he took out the East 'Gate' Qing for the third time to 'shoot' into the city's surrender book, looking at the cannons of the 'gate' and 'gate' outside the city, rows of steel knives, and kept trembling: "What should I do?" Surrender? Or continue to defend the city? Can it still be held? How long can you keep it? ”

Originally, he still had reinforcements to look forward to, but after seeing Shimazu Yoshihisa, he even had doubts about the role of reinforcements!

"Even if Lord Guijiu kills the city, can he win this gang of Tang Ke?"

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Fresh 'flowers'!