"Your Excellency, the officers and men of the Fourth Infantry Wing and myself have full confidence in seizing the earth, and I ask Your Excellency to allow my Fourth Wing to immediately launch a landing operation!"

At sea, Koji Yamamoto, the commander of the 4th Infantry Wing, was asking Shen Yourong, chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, to fight.

According to the pre-war command appointments and dismissals of the base camp, Shen Yourong, who held the post of commander of the vanguard unit, was responsible for the command of the navy and the army.

In other words, Shen Yourong is the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

Out of full trust in this chief of staff, Gonggong Wei even handwrote a note to the other party, "Officers and soldiers can be beheaded, no matter how big or small", in order to ensure that Shen Yourong has full command of the navy and army.

"How sure is Captain Yamamoto?"

A wing attacked Tuyuan City, which might be defended by thousands of people, and Shen Yourong was a little hesitant about this. Now that Li Dan's fleet has been destroyed, the imperial army has the advantage at sea, and the third wing, which is waiting for reinforcements according to the pre-battle plan, will greatly improve the certainty of attacking Tuyuan.

But that would also mean that the casualties would be greatly increased, because the Li Dan Department of Tsuchihara Castle would definitely repair the city before the imperial army landed to prepare for battle.

Therefore, if it is agreed that the 4th Infantry Wing will attack Tsuchihara now, the defenders of the city will be unprepared on the one hand, and panic on the other hand because of the destruction of the fleet, and there is a great guarantee that the city will be able to break through in one fell swoop.

However, if the city cannot be broken in one fell swoop, the impact on the morale of the imperial army will be great, and if it is not done well, it will affect the entire campaign deployment.

"All the officers and soldiers of my Fourth Wing will launch a strong attack on Tuyuan with the decisive battle of jade shattering, and I hope that Your Excellency will be fulfilled!"

Koji Yamamoto insisted on asking for battle, believing that the enemy must not be given time to react.

After Shen Yourong pondered it, he asked Koji Yamamoto to summon officers above the squadron level of the Fourth Infantry Wing to participate in the combat meeting.

Shen Yourong meant to let the officers of the Fourth Infantry Wing make their own decisions on whether to land and attack, after all, if they launched an attack now, the Fourth Infantry Wing would bear the pressure and casualties of the attack alone.

If the officers objected, Shen Yourong would deny Koji Yamamoto's request to fight, and wait for the arrival of the Third Wing, which might increase casualties, but at least ensure the capture of Tsuchihara Castle.

As a result, at this impromptu meeting of officers, 100 percent of the officers of the 4th Infantry Wing agreed to the Wing Commander's request to take the lead in the attack.

The officers showed even more fighting spirit than their wing commanders.

"That's... Please! ”

Shen Yourong was moved by the earnestness and high morale of the Fourth Infantry Wing, and he repeatedly agreed to Koji Yamamoto's request for battle.

Subsequently, the landing order was passed to the ships.

The Navy immediately organized clippers and shelled the shores where there was a possibility of hiding Japanese troops in order to cover the officers and men of the army.

"Victory!"

Koji Yamamoto and the officers of the 4th Wing wore white cloth strips with the words "Martial Luck Prosperity" written on them under the gaze of the navy to prove their confidence and ability in battle.

Li Dan left hundreds of people in the port before retreating to Tuyuan City, and these hundreds of people were all Fujian Hokkien people who begged for a living at sea with Li Dan. Li Dan's purpose in leaving them was to prevent the Ming army from coming ashore, and the leader was Li Dan's nephew Li Si.

Finding that the Ming army had begun to send ships to land, Li Si immediately sent people back to Tuyuan City to report the news, and at the same time organized his subordinates to use Japanese-made iron guns to block the attack.

The 4th Wing soon engaged Li Sibu.

Xu Xing, the captain of the brigade and the former general of the Duke of Wei in the Southern Capital, took the lead and finally led his troops to break through Li Sibu and beheaded hundreds of people.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Si immediately fled to Tsuchihara Castle with dozens of Japanese ronins under his command, and the rest either broke and fled or surrendered to the imperial army.

After handing over the captives to the navy, Koji Yamamoto led his troops to approach Tsuchihara Castle, a dozen miles away. The guides were several Hokkien Han Chinese.

Tsuchihara Castle was an important town in the Hyuga Province of the Satsuma Domain, and it was fought back and forth by many heroes during the Warring States period of Japan. Later, Li Dan rose, because it was of great help to Tokugawa Ieyasu, so Tokugawa Ieyasu gave Tsuchihara Castle to Li Dan. This also makes Tsuchihara Castle the place with the largest number of Chinese after Kagoshima.

Because the Chinese maritime merchants (pirates) were particularly wealthy, the Japanese in Kyushu married their daughters to these Chinese. Many Chinese have taken root here to marry wives and have children, and some have even taken seven or eight concubines. At the same time, a large number of Japanese women poured into these two cities, which also made the business of the two places particularly prosperous. In Tsuchihara Castle alone, there are thousands of Japanese women engaged in the business of serving the Chinese.

Therefore, Tsuchihara Castle is not so much Li Dan's lair as a stronghold of the Japanese Chinese. It's just that because of the special relationship of the shogunate, the Chinese here have become accomplices of the shogunate.

The reason why Li Dan refused to win over the mission was precisely because he and the shogunate had a mutually beneficial relationship. More importantly, Li Dan believed that he fell to the Ming Dynasty, and the benefits he could obtain from the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those given to him by the Tokugawa shogunate.

Moreover, because of the old things of Wang Zhi in the past, Li Dan and others, who were essentially pirates, did not believe in their Fuguo court in their bones.

In addition, Li Dan and others did not think that the imperial army could conquer Japan.

Therefore, if they had the audacity to surrender to the Imperial Army, the Tokugawa Shogunate would inevitably liquidate them if they won.

Unlike Yan Siqi and other Han Chinese who participated in the downfall, the pirate forces led by Li Dan belonged to vested interests with families and privileges of the shogunate, and it was impossible for them to join the Ming Dynasty as decisively as Yan Siqi to seek help from China.

.........

The 4th Wing marched lightly and quickly advanced into Tsuchihara Castle.

The 46-year-old has been at the front of the line, feeling closer and closer to his hometown with every step he takes.

Not only Koji Yamamoto, but all the officers and soldiers who came from the original Japanese invasion of Korea were full of eagerness to move forward.

They miss their hometown and trust their relatives back home even more.

And to return home, they can't afford to fail!

"Bayonet forward, never give up!"

Captain Yamamoto's voice was particularly deafening in the team [567 Chinese].

At this time, the city was still in chaos, not only the defenders were in chaos, but also the merchants and civilians in the city.

The news that the Ming army had declared war on "Kapitan" had already spread in the city, and the fire in the port more than ten miles away also confirmed the news.

The defenders and residents discussed one after another, and there were all kinds of speculations, and there was really no bottom in everyone's hearts about whether Jiapitan could defeat the Ming army.

The fire in the distant harbor was still red, and the people in the city were terrified, but they were still in order, because the people in the city did not think that the Ming army would attack the city as soon as it succeeded at sea.

Li Dan himself thought so, so he was waiting for reinforcements from Hou Hemaru City. When his nephew Li Si fled back and told him that the Ming army had come ashore and was heading for Tuyuan City, Li Dan was shocked.

The Ming army soon appeared under the castle of Tsuchihara.