The news that Kojimabe had annihilated the Ming army in one day shocked Hisaka, and he had to re-examine the powerful combat effectiveness of the new forces from the Ming Kingdom.

However, this stubborn and stubborn general of the Satsuma Domain, who had participated in the battle of the dynasty and defeated the famous Korean general Yi Sunsin, still refused to surrender to the Ming Kingdom, and hung the head of the envoy sent by the third son of the Ryukyu Shoho King Sanghyun to persuade surrender in front of the battle, as a sign that he did not share the heavens with the Ming army.

"Don't ask where the soul of the epidemic returns, no one knows about it since ancient times."

The Kayama family is a branch of the Shimazu family, and this poem by Shimazu Tokihisa, the founder of the Shimazu family, is Hisashi Kayama's favorite. He wrote down these two lines of poetry and sent them to Murayama Akian to show his determination to stick to Yaeyama.

Seeing that His Excellency the General General was firmly determined, Deputy General Hirata Masumune had no choice but to instruct the regent of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Japanese monk Tennoji Elder Kikure to coerce King Shonei and King Shotoyo, who were in captivity, and asked them to write an edict to the Ryukyu officials in the Yaeyama Islands, asking them to organize the residents to rise up against the Ming army.

Obviously a monk, but also the de facto king of the Ryukyus, Elder Kikuin did not have any Buddhist kindness, and he personally led the samurai to break into the mansion where the Shang father and son were imprisoned.

"According to the "Fifteen Articles", Ryukyu is a permanent vassal of Satsuma, and the monarch and the minister have also sworn to be loyal to the Shimazu clan forever, and the Ming Kingdom has invaded in a big way, and the Shang clan should dedicate themselves to the Shimazu family!"

The so-called "15 Articles" was an unequal treaty signed between the Shang clan and Japan.

Nine years ago, after Kayama Hisadaka led an army to conquer the Ryukyus, he exiled more than 100 people from King Shōnin to Kagoshima, and then brought King Shōnin from the Satsuma domain to Edo, where he coerced Shōnin to sign the "Fifteen Articles."

After the treaty was signed, Shoning was released back to the Ryukyus, but lost power, and the affairs of his country were controlled by the monk Kikuin. Under Kikuin's control, Shoning was forced to cede the Amami Islands to the Satsuma Domain.

Although Shang Feng is nominally Shang Ning's adopted son, because Shang Ning has no children, Shang Feng is also the de facto heir to the Ryukyu throne. He was taken to Japan as a hostage for two years, and was released back to Ryukyu last year, leading the middle castle to cut a fief, so the Ryukyu side also called him Nakajo Prince Asama.

Shang Xian, who broke away from the control of the Japanese army and came into contact with the Ming army, was the son of Shang Feng, according to Chinese etiquette, Shang Feng was the son of the Ryukyus, and Shang Xian was the grandson of the emperor.

"If Shang-kun can't do this and treats the treaty as a lack of faith, then I will punish you on behalf of the Shimazu family!"

Kikuin ordered the killing of two Ryukyu officials at Shang Ning's side, because according to credible information, the two Ryukyu officials were secretly in contact with the traitor Shang Xian.

In order to save their lives, the father and son Shang Ning and Shang Feng, who could not help themselves, had to cooperate with the Japanese army and organized thousands of soldiers and civilians to assist the Japanese army in defending the island.

The Huashan tribe regarded the imperial army's persuasion to surrender as nothing, and the shameless killing of the envoy angered the Duke of Wei.

"Then, the mighty soldiers of the Imperial Army do not have to wait, go into battle, be sure to let the stupid Japanese army know the majesty of the Imperial Army, and let those stubborn guys really feel terrible."

With the order of Duke Wei, the combined fleet first broke into Ishigaki Port and burned the few ships of the Huashan Division.

This also announced that the Kayama tribe, which was guarding the Yaeyama Islands, could no longer withdraw from the sea to the mainland.

When the smoke rose from the port, Vice Admiral Hirata was in pain for a long time, and he knew that he had to follow His Excellency the General General to die in battle.

Immediately afterwards, an assault team consisting of three infantry wings of the 1st Brigade of the Guards Division began to land.

Because the Japanese army did not have warships and there were no batteries on the tidal flats, Kayama Hisataka adopted the so-called strategy of "luring the enemy into depth" at the suggestion of Murayama Akiyasu, so that the 1st Brigade successfully landed with zero casualties.

Shen Shikui, the squadron leader of the 3rd Infantry Wing, was the first to set foot on the main island of Ishigaki and planted the flag of his wing on the beach.

"Hooray!"

Nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers wearing leggings, wearing brown red uniforms, and large caps embroidered with the words "Emperor's Army" on their heads, and carrying quilts burst out into cheers throughout the port.

"Attack!"

Cao Wenyao, commander of the Guards Division, gave the order to attack, and the three infantry wings of the 1st Brigade quickly attacked and advanced as planned.

Gonggong Wei, who was watching the battle from the flagship East Asia, highly recognized the brave spirit of the imperial officers and soldiers who were densely lined up in line of sight and spread deep like a tide.

The 2nd Wing was the first to engage the Japanese in an exchange of fire 11 miles from the tidal flats.

The Japanese army dispatched nearly 4,000 troops, including the most elite iron spear team in the Kayama Honjin, and more than 1,000 Ryukyu soldiers and civilians who were forcibly tied to chariots by them.

The commander of this Japanese army was Hirata Masumune, and the eldest son of Hisataka Kayama, Hisaya Kayama, personally commanded the Iron Spear Team to engage in the battle.

The Japanese intended to thwart the 2nd Imperial Army with elite forces, but they soon discovered that the strategy of luring the enemy deeper was foolish.

Moreover, the superiority of equipment and firepower of the Ming army was difficult for them to contend with.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the second wing successfully defeated the Japanese army, and more than ten Japanese generals such as Yoshimi, Kayama Ryuyoshi, and Jiro Tanma, were killed.

In this battle, the imperial army killed more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers (including the Ryukyu puppet army), and suffered more than 300 casualties.

After learning the news of his son Jiu'an's death in battle, Huashan Jiugao was very relieved and said: "Yiyi went to Huangquan with awe, and the samurai name stayed in Gao Songmoss." ”

The victory in the first battle greatly encouraged the officers and men of the Imperial Army, but then the various units found that the Japanese army did not passively avoid the battle because of the defeat, but became more and more tenacious.

Later, in some dangerous areas, even every rock, the imperial army had to go through many bloody battles to capture it.

The fierce battle lasted four days, and the advance of the imperial army was less than fifty miles.

The navy was greatly dissatisfied with the slow progress of the army, and some generals even openly criticized the command and tactics of Cao Wenyao, the commander of the Guards Division, which caused disputes between the army and navy.

"Senseless quarrels will not help the battlefield, nor will they help reduce the casualties of officers and soldiers, tell those admirals who blame the army that what our family needs is unity, help, not meaningless quarrels!"

Father-in-law Wei was very dissatisfied with the performance of the navy, because his old man had repeatedly reiterated that the navy and army must be tense and united as brothers.

At the same time, he sent a handwritten letter to Cao Wenyao, the commander of the Guards Division - "The army must be ashamed!" ”

The generals of the Guards Division were deeply stimulated after seeing the handwritten letter from their father-in-law, and the division commander Cao Wenyao urgently convened a pre-military meeting to make some adjustments to the pre-war battle plan, and changed it to two wings to capture Ishigaki Island, which was occupied by the main force of the Japanese army. The rest of the wings swept and attacked the rest of the islands.

"This attack will be carried out by my first wing, if the first wing cannot make the major progress that the division needs, I will personally apologize to the division and the lord!"

Ichiro Sanada, the commander of the 1st Wing, made a military order.

Chen Guangrui, the commander of the second wing, was not to be left behind, and also got up and said: "The officers and soldiers of the second wing are not raised by little girls, if the attack does not go well, I will go to see my father-in-law!" ”

After a day of fierce fighting, the Guards Division defeated the Japanese army occupying the former Ryukyu Prefecture on Ishigaki Island with two wings, killing more than 2,000 enemies. Successfully rescued Shang Ning and Shang Feng Wang's father and son. Kikukure, a Japanese monk, hanged himself when the Imperial Army attacked his ruling government.

It's just that Gonggong Wei was full of joy and thought that the capture of the Japanese command center meant that the battle was about to end, but his idea was very wrong, and the battle of the Japanese trapped beasts became even more crazy because of this!

The remainder of Kayama retreated to the southern tip of Ishigaki Island, a natural barrier of two peaks, and the Japanese army made the most of the terrain and cleverly concealed it.

Determined to rely on this, Hisataka Kayama fought to the last soldier, so the resistance of the Japanese army did not weaken in the slightest. In the face of more frantic resistance from the Japanese army, the Imperial Army attacked more fiercely.

By July 24, the Japanese army had only more than 1,000 people left, more than half of the iron guns had been lost, and there was little ammunition left, but they still fought to the death.

On the 25th, Gonggong Wei personally went to the battlefield, rode horses in front of the Japanese mountain peak to inspect the attack team, and beheaded hundreds of captured Japanese soldiers in front of the battle.

"This is the last battle, no one can take away the honor that belongs to the officers and soldiers of the empire, for the sake of the emperor, for the sake of Your Majesty, please kill all your enemies, and kill them mercilessly!"

"Itachi!"

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers raised their hands in unison, and the sound shook for nine days.

"Attack!"

With the waving of the command flag and the sound of the horn, the officers and men of the imperial army lined up in a line and charged towards the Japanese army with a fire gun with a bayonet cast at the front.

"Your Excellency, this is also our last battle." Murayama Qiuan looked lonely at the sea of red people under the mountain peak.

In the early morning of the 26th, after knowing that the Ming army was about to attack the mountain where he was, Kayama Hisataka took off the iron armor of the feather weave, put on the black pattern Fu feather weave and toasted to Murayama Akiyasu, Hirata Masumune and others around him one by one, drank the last farewell wine, and then committed suicide by caesarean section.

Akian Murayama followed Kataka to commit suicide by disembowelment, and some other samurai chose to follow after knowing that His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had already committed seppuku.

Hirata Masumune did not choose to commit suicide, but came forward to call on the remaining Japanese troops to lay down their arms and surrender to the Ming army. At this point, the organized resistance of the Japanese army subsided, and the sporadic Japanese resistance continued, and the work of clearing the remnants of the Japanese army continued until the 30th.

On August 1, Wei Liangchen, the chief eunuch of the Admiral Maritime Eunuch and the chief eunuch of the Ming Emperor's pro-army supervision army, sent a good news to Beijing, saying that all the Japanese troops invading the Ryukyus had been annihilated. The Ryukyu King Shangning has now officially proposed to the Ming Dynasty to attach it, and it will not be an overseas vassal from now on, but a permanent government of the Ming Dynasty.

“...... Ryukyu Wanguo Jinliang, an important node of maritime trade, whether it is the specialty of the West or the gold and silver of the East, all need to transit from this Jinliang, so this important maritime land must not be lost to our country, the minister hereby asks His Majesty to set up a post of Ryukyu town guard, garrison with the imperial army, appoint officials, and make Ryukyu completely king..."

In addition, the good news revealed that the Japanese army had been operating the Ryukyus for nearly ten years, and had accumulated a lot of treasures, and it was difficult to transport them all. How to deal with it, please ask His Majesty the Emperor to show it.