Quietly sent Shang Zhong away, and asked him to go back in advance to inform them that the king was preparing the contents of the agreement, and here in Jilong Harbor, Li Tianyang and them also had to prepare for mobilization in front of the station non-stop.

After all, it is not a real military organization, and after a long holiday, Hongtang's soldiers and cubs are a little out of shape, and they urgently need to retrain the non-commissioned officers at all levels.

And after the Spring Festival, it is about to enter the spring ploughing plan, which is not a suitable season to send troops to the truth, but Shangzhong is worried that Li Tianyang will regret it, so after finally finding a life-saving straw, he urged Li Tianyang to send troops to help the Ryukyu Kingdom drive away the Japanese people.

Fortunately, in the past few years, the recruitment of displaced people on both sides of Jilong Harbor and Bengang has not stopped, and among the pirates recruited and cleared before, a number of pirates with unqualified physical fitness have been cleared, so that even if the labor force in the two ports is less than the participation of thousands of Hongtang soldiers, it may not delay the progress of spring ploughing.

It is really the conditions offered by the Ryukyuan people that are generous enough, so that Li Tianyang has no way to refuse, a full 50,000 taels of gold, converted into silver in the Ming Dynasty, that is the income of 500,000 taels of silver, this is the largest amount of money that Li Tianyang's team has seen so far, if there is this fund, Li Tianyang and their team's armament change plan, where can they still tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and put it together, they can completely let go of their hands and feet to do a big job!

300,000 catties of pig iron, which is also the material that Li Tianyang's team urgently needs, the Ryukyu Kingdom adjacent to the Wa Kingdom, although its own resources are scarce, but it can not stand the dangerous position of the people, the past maritime merchants are endless, in the Ryukyu Kingdom brought prosperity to the commercial trade at the same time, but also helped the Ryukyu people to easily collect the materials they wanted. Therefore, when Li Tianyang and them worked hard to find a channel to purchase pig iron, the Ryukyu people only needed to talk to the past merchants, and they could quickly collect a large amount of pig iron resources.

At the same time, the Ryukyuan people also agreed to give Hongtang 800 pairs of iron armor made of fine iron, 500 arquebuses purchased from the Japanese and foreigners, and strategic materials such as sulfur and saltpeter that Hongtang needed.

Most importantly, Sho Tada, on behalf of King Shoning, agreed to assign the Yaeyama Islands to Hongdo as their base in the Ryukyu Islands after Hondo helped the Ryukyu Kingdom drive out the Satsuma Wa people. In addition, Shang Zhong also agreed on behalf of King Shang Ning that Hongtang would have the right to travel freely in the Ryukyu waters in the name of the Ryukyu Kingdom Sailor in the future, and the first Ryukyu Kingdom Sailor Admiral was Wu Daofu, the head of the Hongtang Whale Division.

Of course, the premise of all this is naturally that Hongtang can help the Ryukyuan people drive away Satsuma and Birch Mountain Hidaka, and Li Tianyang and them obtained the title of Ryukyu Kingdom Sailor, which also means that they will help the Ryukyu Kingdom resist the counterattack of the Satsuma Shimazu clan in the future, and the intention not to interfere with any sovereignty on Ryukyu Island, etc., these are naturally the proper meaning, otherwise why would this Ryukyuan people pay such a price to get rid of the Japanese people, turn around and be enslaved by Hongtang!

Li Tianyang thought clearly, this is not their chance for Hongtang to master the Ryukyu Islands, although the Ryukyuan people look extremely weak at this time, but the foundation of the Shang clan's hundreds of years of rule over the Ryukyus is not something that Li Tianyang and their outsiders can easily deprive them, otherwise this Satsuma will not be able to capture the Ryukyu capital Shuri and capture the Ryukyu Shangning King, and finally let them go.

In addition, now that he has just annexed the Fat Capital Sea west of the Ryukyu Sea, after defeating the Japanese people, he will be able to get the enclave of the Yaeyama Islands, which is enough for Hongtang to digest it for several years.

The battle plan was quickly transferred to Li Tianyang through Hong Zhengkai's hands, and finally from Li Tianyang's hands to the hands of the battalion commanders of several participating teams in Hongtang.

The last battle was done well, but this time Wu Daofu was still appointed as a commander by Li Tianyang, and continued to lead the last group of 4,000 people into the battle against the Japanese people on Ryukyu Island.

The battle plan is not surprising, there are not too many risky and risky steps, the plan is basically to press step by step, steady and steady, in order to gain something in the first battle, to weaken the combat power of the Japanese people, until the final battle with the Japanese people.

After the successful conquest of the Ryukyus more than a decade ago, the Shimazu clan of Satsuma has focused on restricting the military development of the Ryukyu Kingdom over the years, and at the same time they have tightly controlled the trade activities of the Ryukyuan people and exploited them, so the Ryukyuan people's military strength on the Ryukyu Island has become an ornament at this time.

In addition to the Imperial Army, which had no more than 500 people in the Ryukyu Imperial Palace, even the garrisons in various parts of the Ryukyu Kingdom were less than 1,000 people. Therefore, after conquering the Ryukyu Kingdom with more than 4,000 samurai, Satsuma has gradually reduced its garrison over the years, and by the beginning of the fourth year of today's enlightenment, Satsuma's garrison on Ryukyu Island and Amami Goshima Island has only more than 2,000 people.

With 4,000 against 2,000, double the strength of troops and the help of more than 40 warships, if Hong Tang couldn't win the battle, then Li Tianyang's efforts over the years could really be said to have become a big joke.

Of course, it is not that there are no surprises, this land battle is also a good time to test Li Tianyang's efforts to build a musket team.

Hongtang's recruits, six Western-style warships, had already proved their actual combat capability in the naval battle more than a month ago, but musketeers, a branch of troops strongly promoted by Li Tianyang, had not yet found a suitable opportunity for actual combat.

The sea was humid, and after the Hongtang naval army absorbed and learned the naval warfare methods of the Westerners, they had fewer and fewer opportunities to fight with others. Even if there is a chance to engage in a string battle, the distance between the decks of the two sea ships is only more than ten feet, which is not suitable for the operation of the long-range arm of musketeers.

Therefore, although Li Tianyang and his team used the original inventory of arquebuses on hand to train a group of musketeers with about 800 men in the past six months, except for playing prestige in the camp, the musketeers really did not have a chance to fight.

It just so happened that this Satsuma Japanese warrior was said to have made great achievements in using iron cannons, that is, the arquebuses that Li Tianyang said, so Li Tianyang also wanted to see if this batch of musket teams created by him with a lot of effort and resources could pull down this prestigious Japanese iron artillery team in the first battle.

(End of chapter)