When the Ming army was approaching the coast of Kagoshima, a ship of the Shimazu family, waving its flag high, headed towards Li Xiao's fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Lord Li, coming to the ship to raise such a banner means that it is the envoy of the other party who is coming, and Lord Li wants to meet him?" The Ryukyu guide, who was accompanying Li Xiao, saw the identity of the ship at a glance, and immediately whispered to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao sneered: "What good is it to see such a small person, it's just that this official has a gift to give to their feudal lord Shimazu Mitsuhisa." ”

Soon, the Thang Long waved a flag and told the incoming ship that there were Ming army officials and wanted to come on board to talk to them.

When Shimazu saw the flag, he immediately replied in agreement.

In a short time, the two ships came closer, and compared to the Thang Long, the Thang Long was like a skyscraper, while the Shimazu ship was nothing more than a small morning boat, but it was about the size of a bungalow.

A Ming military supervisor and civil official, carrying a wooden box in his arms and a Ryukyu interpreter, descended from the soft ladder lowered from the Shoryu to the Shimazu envoy ship.

When he got on the boat, the Ming army superintendent and civil official looked around the Japanese on the boat coldly, and shouted: "Among you, who is in charge, come out and speak quickly." ”

After listening to the interpreter's shout, a man with a chubby face who looked like a messenger appeared in front of the civil official.

"In Shimohei Akira Yuki, I am the lord of the Satsuma domain who personally followed it, and I am specially ordered by the lord of the domain to come to ask the army of your country, what is the matter with my Satsuma domain?"

The civil official sneered, and shouted to him: "Wait and listen! I am specially ordered by my Ming Chifeng Uncle Li Xiao Li to come to Xiaoyuer and others. The Shimazu clan was originally a lowly clan in Kyushu, and was once a subordinate of the Satsuma Domain's lord Liver Fu clan, but he didn't want to be loyal, and he actually had wolf ambitions and rebelled against the benefactor, so that the Liver Fu clan was wiped out. Its only bone and blood had to be shed overseas, incognito in order to be temporarily stored, such a deer act, it is really the anger of heaven and man! Therefore, I sent volunteers to cross the sea to rebel. If you know the current affairs and surrender, then I will have the merit of stopping the war, and the lives of the entire Shimazu clan will be killed. If you are stubborn and resistant, and the mantis arm blocks the car, when the heavenly soldiers arrive, they will slaughter all of Satsuma, so that all the people of Shimazu will be turned into powder! ”

When Yuki Heizhang listened to the translation, his face turned pale, his lips were half open, and fine sweat oozed from his forehead.

It turned out that the Ming army came here to restore the Liver Fu clan and to drive their own master, the Shimazu clan, from the position of the lord of the Satsuma domain!

"This, this, this liver Fu family descendants have been wiped out, and the clan has died, how can it be counted on the head of my Shimazu clan, you must know 。。。。。。"

Before he could finish his incoherent words, the civil official waved his hand impatiently, interrupting his words, and handed him the large wooden box in his hand.

"This is what Lord Li asked the lower officials to hand over to your feudal lord, you can take it back quickly. Master Li said that it was a battle or a surrender, but he could be given an hour to reply. ”

After the civil servant finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.

"Horn Ga!"

Seeing that this civil official was so contemptuous and indifferent, as if reprimanding his subordinates, the entourage next to Heizhang Yuki was furious, and they drew their swords one after another, and they wanted to slash at this civil official.

"Yo, do you want to cut down the official? Open your dog's eyes and see it clearly! ”

The civil official sneered, he raised a finger and raised it to his head, and the entourage looked up with his fingertips, but he gasped.

On the side of the Thang Long, there were at least hundreds of fiery guns that were burning with a sound of arquebuses, and the mouth of the black hole was pointed directly at their heads.

"Bastard! Quickly put away the knife, don't be rude, don't you know that the two countries are fighting, don't you cut it! ”

Seeing so many black holes above his head, Yuki Heizhang also had palpitations, and he shouted loudly to the entourage.

In the midst of the reluctance of the entourage to retract their swords, the civil officials and translators calmly climbed up the soft ladder and left. And after the civil officials and others all picked up the dragon, the lost Heizhang Yuki did not stay any longer, and hurriedly turned around and returned north, and went to report to Shimazu Mitsuhisa.

Shortly after he was leaving, behind him came a deafening sound of cannons.

It turned out that Li Xiao had already ordered to immediately bombard and kill the Satsuma naval forces he saw along the way, and destroy all these naval ships while they were not fully prepared.

In fact, there were more than 200 ships of various types in the Satsuma navy, but because there was no war for decades, these navy troops were scattered throughout the coast of Kagoshima, patrolling around to combat pirates. So for a while, it was difficult to gather, so that the suddenly attacking Ming army took a big advantage.

The cannon roared, the iron bullets whistled, and the Satsuma naval army, which could not form an array, could only be beaten passively, and was scattered and fled by the fierce artillery fire of the Ming fleet.

"Quick, rush back to Shanchuan Port at full speed, I will report to the feudal lord immediately!"

Heirazhang Yuki saw with his own eyes that a house ship not far away was broken in two by a huge black iron bullet, and his face was like earth, and he yelled loudly at his subordinates in anger.

Heizhang Yuki was horrified, he didn't expect the Ming army to be so fierce, and he actually gave the Shimazu clan a chicken and scare monkey by directly attacking the water army.

These Ming troops are simply a bunch of unreasonable robbers and devils!

"Domain Lord! Feudal lord! The Ming army is coming to attack Satsuma! ”

As soon as Yuki Heizhang entered Tsurumaru Castle and was still on his way to the castle tower, he waved his hands wildly and shouted hoarsely.

When he was about to arrive at the castle tower, Yuki Heizhang stumbled, fell and ate, and the wooden box he was holding in his hand also fell far away.

Immediately, the samurai who was guarding the pavilion hurried over and helped him up.

It's just that at the moment of standing up, Yuki Hirasho was stunned.

He was horrified to see that in the broken wooden box, a head made of lime was revealed!

And this head, he is very familiar with it, because that head that seems to be asleep is not Shimazu Mitsuhisa's brother-in-law Shimazu Akihisa, who else can it be!

In this way, the Satsuma garrison on Amami Oshima Island has all been shattered。。。。。。

An extremely sad mood instantly filled Yuki Heizhang's body, his lips were open, and his throat was choked.

He didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly picked up the wooden box, closed the lid, and hurried towards the castle tower.

"What? What did you say?! “

Shimazu Mitsuhisa jumped up violently, the green tendons on his forehead swelled, and shouted: "You say that the army is here to restore the liver Fu clan?!" Shimazu Akihisa has died at the hands of the Ming army?! “

Yuki Heizhang, who knelt on the ground, slowly raised the wooden box in his hand with a sad and angry face towards Mitsuhisa Shimazu, who was thundering in front of him.

Mitsuhisa Shimazu took it and lifted the lid of the wooden box, and the smell of lime mixed with rotten flesh made him frown in disgust.

However, he soon froze, because he saw that the head of the box, which was made of lime and looked like a sleep, was none other than Shimazu Mitsuhisa himself.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa dropped the wooden box, and he didn't stand firmly, and suddenly fell on the tatami mat.

"The lord of the domain, that huge Ming fleet, is chasing and killing our Satsuma naval army all over the sea. Their commander, Li Xiao, also said, "If I Satsuma do not surrender to him within an hour, he will ask for it, and he will 。。。。。 ”

"What do you want?!"

"He is going to slaughter all of Satsuma, and he wants to kill all the Shimazu clan!"

After Heizhang Yuki finished speaking, he fell straight to the ground, his forehead resting on the tatami mat, and he didn't dare to look up again.

"Horn Ga!"

Like an angry lion, Mitsuhisa Shimazu rose from the tatami mat and kicked the small wooden table in front of him. The wooden box on the table cracked, and Shimazu Akihisa's nitrate-polished head rolled to the feet of a retainer, frightening him to avoid it.

"Pass my order, assemble the whole army, and fight to the death with the Ming army!"

Shimazu Mitsuhisa roared like thunder, and all the retainers also shouted one after another, wanting to fight the Ming army to the end and defend Satsuma to the death.

Only a discordant voice came: "Domain lord, the enemy's ships are strong and strong, and their momentum is quite strong, and now our naval army has been frustrated, if you just row the land to defend yourself, it may be difficult to last, where to go, please think twice!" ”

Hearing this, the whole room suddenly became quiet like a tomb, and the face of the feudal lord Shimazu Mitsuhisa suddenly became angry and almost distorted.

These are the words of that damn old Shimazu Hisakei, this guy who has never dealt with himself, actually said such spineless and shocking words when the army was about to fight, it is really hateful!

A hint of hideousness flashed on Shimazu Mitsuhisa's face, and he brushed the ground and pulled out the snowy sword.

In real history, the loyal Shimazu Hisakei, who served the Shimazu family for two generations of feudal lords, was eventually killed by the furious Shimazu Mitsuhisa because of his disobedience, and after his death, like Shimazu Akihisa, his name was erased from the Shimazu family's genealogy, and his family members were killed or exiled.

And now, looking at Shimazu Mitsuhisa, who was so angry that he was distorted, that he was carrying a knife and walked towards himself step by step, Shimazu Hisakei's face turned pale and he subconsciously stepped back.

"Feudal Lord。。。。。。"

Before Shimazu Hisashi finished speaking, the knife in Shimazu Mitsuhisa's hand had already stabbed out sharply, and with a pop, it pierced his chest!

"Poof!"

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Shimazu Hisashi, dyeing half of Shimazu Mitsuhisa's face on the opposite side into a hideous blood red.

"When the war comes, you still come to shake the hearts of the army, you really deserve death!"

Shimazu Mitsuhisa gritted his teeth and cursed angrily, and then the knife in his hand stirred it vigorously.

"Shimazu Mitsuhisa, you guy who doesn't know the times, you can't just live two more days than me。。。。。。"

The dying Shimazu Hisakei, although in extreme pain, still gritted his teeth and spit out these words intermittently.

"Horn Ga, go die!"

Shimazu Mitsuhisa became more and more annoyed, he shouted, pulled out the knife, and slashed it horizontally, Shimazu Hisakei's head immediately jumped into the air, and the broken neck that was smooth as a mirror, blood gushed like a spring.

"Who else dares to shake the morale of the army and demoralize before this decisive battle, they will end up with this person!"

Mitsuhisa Shimazu, who was holding a knife in one hand and Hisashi Shimazu's head in the other, looked around at everyone with a pant and yelled at them.

After a short period of silence, the retainers immediately reacted and shouted slogans to show their loyalty.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa threw Shimazu Hisakei's head to the ground, then put the knife into the sheath, sat back in the chair, and began to give military orders loudly with a cold face.

"Birch Mountain is listening to orders!"

"The last general!"

"This domain orders you, take all the red cavalry, go to Shanchuan Port, investigate the enemy's situation, if there is a Ming army attack, defeat is not allowed to win, you need to lure them all the way, to the Yongtong Mountain Valley!"

"Hello!"

"Shimazu Hisatsu obeys orders!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"Together with this domain, you will lead all the infanciers, banners, and iron gunners, set up an ambush in the valley of Yongtong Mountain in front of Tsurumaru City, tie up your pockets, and wait for the Ming army to enter the valley, and strive to annihilate the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop!"

"Hello!"

It should be said that although Shimazu Mitsuhisa was cruel and irritable, he was still very calm and sharp-minded, and he clearly knew that under the current conditions where it was obvious that the enemy was strong and we were weak, luring the enemy deep and setting up an ambush to attack was the most effective means of victory.

At this time, he turned his head and looked at Yuki Heisho, who was still kneeling on the ground.

"Pingzhang Yuki listens to the order!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"You will lead a hundred samurai to stay in the castle tower of Tsurumaru Castle." Shimazu Mitsuhisa's face suddenly swelled with an inexplicable sadness: "If my Satsuma army can't stop the Ming army with all my might, then you will kill all the Shimazu tribesmen left in the castle tower, including the children, wives and concubines of this domain, so that they will not fall into the hands of the Ming army and suffer humiliation。。。。。。 ”

"Please!"

Shimazu Mitsuhisa, who was the lord of the domain, actually bowed deeply to his personal entourage.

Yuki Heizhang burst into tears, knelt down at his words, touched the tatami mat with his forehead, and said loudly, "Don't worry, lord of the domain!" If it really comes to that time, Wechen knows what to do. ”

Shimazu Mitsuhisa's eyes flashed with tears, he stood up proudly, and shouted: "Everyone, and go to battle with this domain, let the Ming army who dare to invade and invade, taste the taste of my Satsuma iron fist!" ”

And an hour later, Li Xiao's Tiger Army had basically disabled the Satsuma Navy on the seashore, more than 100 Navy ships were sunk by Ming artillery, and a large number of sailors screamed and struggled on the sea, but the Ming Army did not rescue at all, but only drove the ships and brutally ran over their heads.

More than 30 Satsuma naval vessels surrendered on the spot, and Li Xiao quickly dispatched his own naval division to take over the ships.

There were only about 20 or so Satsuma ships, which fled north without hesitation, heading straight for Shanchuan Harbor, while the Ming fleet was in hot pursuit.

At this point, this sea encounter ended with a complete victory for the Ming army. Only three of the Tigers' sailors were lightly wounded, and the men of each of the Tigers felt as if they had entered a flock of sheep, and carried out an almost one-sided massacre of the Satsuma sailors, who were fighting in their own hands and with their narrow hulls and insufficient firepower.

Looking at the mountains and rivers in front of him, Li Xiao looked awe-inspiring.

"Lord Li, it's been so long, and the enemy army hasn't sent anyone over again, it seems that this Shimazu Mitsuhisa has made up his mind to fight our army to the end." Li Dingguo, who was dressed in armor, said to Li Xiao with a solemn expression.

A sneer crossed Li Xiao's face.

"Since they are going to kill themselves, don't blame Ben for being ruthless!"

Immediately, Li Xiao ordered loudly: "Pass on the order of Benbo, all the soldiers of the Pingnan Battalion will get off the boat, explore the road in front of the Flying Harrier Light Cavalry, all kinds of infantry and firecrackers will march forward in formation, Benbo and Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry will be held back to protect the artillery troops, and the whole army will directly take the Shimazu Clan's old nest Tsurumaru Castle!" ”

"Order!"

Soon, the ships sailed into Shanchuan Port, at this time, the remaining more than 20 Satsuma naval ships in the harbor were empty, and the sailors on board had already run away, so they were successfully received by the Tigers Naval Division.

After the gangway was lowered, a large number of Tiger soldiers rolled down from all kinds of warships like a flood that opened the ramp.

After all the soldiers of the Pingnan battalion disembarked, there were flying harriers who were exploring the way and hurriedly came to report.

"Report! Lord Li, at the intersection of the road leading to Tsurumaru City, there are hundreds of cavalry of the Satsuma Army, as if they are spying on the military situation of our army! ”