The Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain, claiming to be derived from the descendants of Qin Shi Huang, the descendants of the Dongying Ying clan, is impossible to test.

During the Warring States period, the Shimazu clan was not very famous, at least compared to the Toyotomi clan, the Tokugawa clan, or the Ouchi clan, or even the Otomo clan.

However, in the Edo Shogunate period, the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma clan became famous, especially in the later period of the shogunate, and became one of the main forces of the shogunate, and the Tokugawa shogunate was destroyed by the downfall forces of the Shimazu family.

Of course, these are all afterthoughts, so I won't skip them for the time being.

The reason why the Shimazu clan will become stronger and stronger in the future is actually very simple, because they are more open-minded and dare to touch new things.

For example, at this time, the Shimazu clan was one of the few princes in the East who controlled the art of iron cannon casting.

Therefore, Wang Zhi said that the Shimazu clan did not have iron cannons, it was all a lie, the Shimazu clan just did not buy iron cannons from the Ming merchants, and they still had iron cannons cast by themselves, and there were quite a few.

As for how their iron cannon casting technology came about, Wang Zhi is also to blame, because many of Wang Zhi's pirates are from the Satsuma Domain, and Wang Zhi did not take any secrecy measures when casting iron cannons, and some people who are interested learned the iron cannon casting technology from Wang Zhi, so they returned to the Satsuma Domain to show off, so as to obtain the reuse of the feudal lord Shimazu clan, which is the source of the Shimazu clan's cannon casting technology.

It's just that the iron cannon they cast is still in the most primitive stage at this time, and it is basically uncontrollable in terms of range and accuracy, and the iron cannon they cast has a disadvantage, that is, it is extremely heavy and cannot be carried on a long march.

Therefore, they did not sweep Dongying because they mastered the casting technology of iron cannons in advance, until later, their cannon casting technology gradually developed and mastered the technology of making muskets, which slowly became one of the strongest forces in Dongying.

At this time, their strength is not very strong, and they are roughly a little stronger than the Ryuzoji clan.

Otomo Sorin's unbequest didn't know that the Shimazu clan had mastered the art of casting iron cannons, because the Shimazu clan had not yet had time to use their own iron cannons in actual combat, they just set up casting places in various castles and cast iron cannons for city defense.

If the Otomo clan had not come to attack the Shimazu clan, it would have been a few years or even more than ten years before the Shimazu clan mastered the "secret" of the technology of casting iron cannons.

However, Otomo Sorin was instigated by Wang Zhi, and he led the army to rush over stupidly, and the Shimazu clan had to show the hidden iron cannon in front of the world.

Hyuga Country, outside Nobeoka Castle, in the formation of the Great Friendly Army.

Otomo Zonglin looked at the dilapidated small city in front of him contemptuously, hesitated slightly, and then ordered loudly: "Order the iron cannon to come forward and prepare to bombard the city wall." ”

It was still 200 iron cannons, and it was still about a mile away from the city wall, and after the battle of Nagasaki Castle, the Otomo army did not seem to have suffered any losses.

In fact, they still had losses, but the main losses were the gun mounts, and the iron guns did not lose anything.

Although he lied that Daming no longer had any iron cannon inventory, he would not be stingy to sell this gun carriage to Dayou Zonglin, so the gun carriage lost by the Great Friendly Army was quickly replenished, and Dayou Zonglin's confidence seemed to have been picked up.

Unexpectedly, reality played a big joke on him again, and the iron cannon on his side had just been erected and he had not yet begun to load the cannonballs, and a huge roar sounded on the city wall.

This voice is very familiar to Otomo Sorin, and the Shimazu clan also has an iron cannon!

He was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse, not that he was cowardly, but the roar of the iron cannon was unbearable.

Baga pressed the road, didn't Wang Zhi say that the Shimazu clan did not have an iron cannon?

The scene outside Nagasaki is still vivid, although there is no loss of the iron cannon in his hand, but the loss of the foot soldiers who control the iron cannon is quite heavy, you know, he finally cultivated thousands of skilled gunners, and in that battle, he lost hundreds.

This time, you won't lose hundreds again, right?

He couldn't help but look at his artillery array with horror on his face.

Amazingly, there was no movement in our artillery array, as if the defenders in the city had not fired at all.

What's going on here?

He couldn't help but look at the squad leader sent by Wang Zhi beside him with a puzzled face.

This person was specially left by him to train the gunners, and he usually took him with him when he was fighting, because this guy had much more experience in artillery combat than him.

Just now, he was frightened by the roar of artillery, and his eyes were almost blank, so he didn't see the specific situation at all.

The captain of the squad was different, because he could hear it at once, the number of iron cannons in the city was not much, at most more than a dozen, besides, he didn't have to fight in battle, he was afraid of a fart.

Just now, he looked more carefully, the defenders in the city did fire, but the shells that came out were scattered everywhere like a goddess scattering flowers, and they didn't hit the artillery of the big friendly army at all.

He pointed to an open space next to the artillery emplacement, and said, "Your Excellency, their iron cannon does not seem to be very good, and the cannonball did not fall into our artillery array, you see, there is a cannonball they sent out there." ”

Otomo Sorin's look in the direction of the squad leader's finger, and sure enough, there was a round cannonball lying on the ground.

This is too bad, isn't it?

He subconsciously looked at his own artillery array, and then looked at the landing point of the shells, this guy is at least half a mile away!

What's going on here?

He looked at the squad leader again in confusion.

The squad leader smiled and explained: "It seems that the Shimazu clan is a homemade earthen cannon, and the accuracy is not very good, and the number of iron cannons in the city is not very large, at most more than a dozen. ”

When Otomo Zonglin heard this, he couldn't help but suddenly realize that it was a self-made earthen cannon, which scared Lao Tzu.

He was a little annoyed and angry: "Open the cannon, give me a non-stop bombardment, and order Tachibana Daoxue and Takahashi Shaoyun to prepare to lead the army to charge." ”

With his order, the artillery array of the Great Friendly Army finally began to exert its might.

As a result, it goes without saying much, the Shimazu clan's earthen cannon is basically not accurate, while the Otomo clan's iron cannon is extremely accurate, although the two sides come and go, the bombardment is endless, but the Otomo clan has not suffered much loss, under the suppression of the barrage, the defenders on the city wall are also like the defenders of Kumamoto Castle and Saga Castle, and they can't raise their heads at all.

As soon as the two fierce generals, Tachibana Michiyuki and Takahashi Shaoyun, rushed up, the defenders on the city wall were soon unable to resist.

Otomo Sorin's once again easily took Nobeoka Castle, while the Shimazu clan was frightened and panicked.