Although Toei is small, there are many vassal states, such as a small island of Kyushu there are Satsuma, Osumi, Hinata, Higo, Hizen, Chikugo, Chikuzen, Bungo, Bunzen, Tsushima, Iki and other eleven small countries, and the entire Toei in the Warring States period is as many as 66 countries.

There are so many small countries, Dongying is in turmoil, during the Warring States Period, the princes crusade against each other, you come and I fight for more than 100 years, although the Tokugawa shogunate finally ended the turbulent Warring States Period, but at this time Dongying is not a monolith, fought for more than 100 years, how deep the feud between these princes can be imagined, not just ten years can be forgotten.

When the Tokugawa shogunate was strong and strong, the princes of all walks of life naturally did not dare to make mistakes, so they could only disobey the yang and the yin, and make a fool of themselves, but after the disappearance of the main army of the Tokugawa clan 'mysterious', the princes of all walks of life were a little ready to move.

Of course, this impatient move is not really moving, the princes from all walks of life are not stupid, this is not a good bird, although the army of the Tokugawa clan has disappeared, but the governor is still there, Tokugawa Iemitsu still has a little prestige, if he gathers all the retainers who are divided into various places, it is not impossible to gather an army of 100,000. So all the princes are watching and waiting, if the Tokugawa clan can survive this crisis and clean up the chaos in Jiuzhou in one fell swoop, then they will continue to forbear, if the Tokugawa clan is unable to clean up the mess, they can only watch the turmoil in Jiuzhou, then it is impossible to say that they will also follow the chaos.

Everyone can wait, but Emperor Tagawa Yu can't wait, because the source of turmoil, Amakusa Shiro, has been put under his command, and the 'mysterious' disappearance of the Tokugawa shogunate army is also inseparable from him, and the Tokugawa clan will definitely not let him go.

Anyway, he now has an army of 100,000 under his command, and there are still 20,000 or 30,000 horses left in the Tokugawa clan, what is he afraid of?

This battle can't just look at the troops, the Tokugawa clan is not so many people under him, but the people are shogunate generals, an order, not to mention the gathering of responders, at least a hundred thousand horses, Toyotomi Hideyoshi recruited more than ten princes to land in Kyushu, the invincible Satsuma lord Shimazu Yoshihiro directly became a monk This matter is still vivid, Emperor Tagawa Yu does not want to become a monk.

So, according to Zheng Zhilong's confession, he contacted the princes who had enemies with the Tokugawa clan everywhere, and persuaded them to deal with the Tokugawa clan together and divide the Tokuei. However, people don't pee on him at all, which onion is your Tagawa clan, how can he do it, can he do it over the Tokugawa clan, why should we form an alliance with you?

Don't blame them for being arrogant, these princes are all famous families, and the origin of the family can be traced back to hundreds or even hundreds of years ago, and the generals in the family don't know how many generals. And Tian Chuan's family, just a blacksmith, he is an ironworker, his father is also an ironworker, his grandfather is still an ironworker, to trace back to the origin of the family, Tian Chuanyu royal may have a history of thousands of years, his ancestral surname is Weng, his ancestral home is Fujian ......, well, these are better not to trace, let people know that it will be a big trouble.

Seeing that the Satsuma clan was beaten down, but there was no progress at all in Emperor Tagawa Yu, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but be anxious, if it dragged on any longer, it would be the New Year, if the Tokugawa clan was relieved, it would not be in vain in the past few months, no, I couldn't wait any longer.

Zheng Zhilong immediately summoned Zheng Zhihu, Wang Zhengnan, Hong Xu, Gan Hui, and Shi Daxuan to discuss countermeasures, everyone was born in the army, and there was really no good suggestion on how to lobby these people, and the way they finally negotiated was to use force, and the Dongying people under Hong Xu and Gan Hui infiltrated the state with the masters of Jinyiwei, pretending to be the men and horses of the princes from all walks of life to fight and make trouble, and provoke them hard, always let them fight and let Dongying return to the Warring States Period.

Now the island of Honshu is lively, today the military generals of the Oda family led people to rob the goods of the Maori family, tomorrow the retainers of the Hojo clan led people to rob the food and grass of the Date family, and one moment a certain elder of the Uesugi clan was assassinated, and a certain military commander of the Asakura clan was killed by someone for a while.......

If this kind of thing happens once or twice, everyone may be able to endure it, but if such a thing happens every day, it is unbearable for a person, and it is inevitable to quarrel and shout, but these things are not done by them in the first place, how can they quarrel clearly, and in the end, they can only fight.

If it was before, the Tokugawa shogunate would definitely send people to mediate or even send troops to suppress it, but now the Tokugawa clan is overwhelmed by the Kyushu side, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, where do they have the heart to take care of them.

The princes of all walks of life saw that the Tokugawa clan was not angry, and they all became more courageous, and they all started their old business, began to recruit troops, conquer cities, and crusade against each other, so the island of Honshu was full of smoke, and the princes from all walks of life were very happy, and Toei finally returned to the Warring States period.

There was a mess on the Honshu side, and the Tagawa clan also began to launch, and the Tokugawa shogunate would definitely not be able to control them at this time, when the Tokugawa clan was unifying Dongying, the Tokugawa clan had a mortal enmity with many princes, and Honshu was all over the place, and they dared to send troops to Jiuzhou again, and their enemies would definitely take the opportunity to end their old nest.

The Tokugawa clan didn't dare to send troops, and the Tagawa clan could naturally rest assured that they could boldly dominate Kyushu.

The current situation in Jiuzhou is still very favorable to the Tagawa clan, the three old forces have very serious problems, the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma clan was killed 40,000 horses because of the invasion of the Ming Dynasty's vassal state of Ryukyu, and the strength is not as good as before, and the Otomo clan after Chikugo is even more extinct, the territory is falling apart, and no one pees on anyone among the retainers, and there is no threat at all, to say that the strongest now is the Ryuzoji clan of Hizen country, of course, they are also the last The current Ryuzoji family is in power is the Nabeshima clan, but their strength is basically still there.

It can be said that as long as the Ryuzoji family in the same Hizen country is defeated, this great cause of unifying the nine continents will be considered to be more than half completed, and Emperor Tagawa Yu directly sent Amakusa Tokitada, Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui to lead 90,000 horses to attack the territory of the Ryuzoji family.

The Ryuzoji family is now in power is Nabeshima Katsushige, he is also a person who participated in the battle of Sekigahara, and he is not ignorant of the art of war, he calculated, this total of less than 50,000 horses, if the resistance is dispersed, it will definitely be broken by each, it is better to directly gather all the horses in Saga City, relying on the castle and the Tagawa clan to have a decisive battle, maybe there is still a chance of victory.

So, the Battle of Saga, one of the largest battles in the history of Toei, began, uh, why is it said to be one of the largest battles in history? This Dongying is not the Ming Dynasty, the place is so small, there are so many princes, and the princes from all walks of life generally have only a few thousand men and horses, and it is a big battle if there are tens of thousands of people participating in the war, and there are really not many battles with more than 100,000 people on both sides participating in the war like this, so the Battle of Saga can definitely be regarded as one of the largest battles in the history of Dongying.

The battle was a siege battle with a combination of hot and cold weapons, and the attacking side was the Tagawa clan who replaced the Matsuura clan in Hizen Hirado, with 90,000 participants, the main general Amakusa Tokisadada, and the deputy generals Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui. The defender was the Nabeshima clan who replaced the Ryuzoji clan with Hizen Saga, with less than 50,000 participants, and the main commander Nabeshima Katsushige.

There is a certain truth in saying that the princes of this state look down on Emperor Tagawa Yu, you know how to fight an iron fight, even if you have 100,000 horses under your command, do you know how to arrange troops?

Emperor Tagawa Yu really doesn't know how to fight, if he is asked to command 90,000 horses, it will definitely be chaotic, and he won't need the enemy to fight, and he will collapse. But he won't Amakusa Shizhen, Amakusa Shizhen can be said to be a genius general, but in history, he was directly besieged by the 120,000 shogunate army in the tattered original city, lacking weapons, cutting off food and grass, and no foreign aid, so Tiankusa Shizhen insisted on holding on for three months, you must know that there are more than 30,000 farmers under his command, and there are only more than 10,000 people who really have combat effectiveness!

Now it is different, he has 90,000 horses under his command, excellent weapons, sufficient food and grass, plus he has received professional training from the aid personnel of the Ming army, knows all kinds of tactics in detail, and at the same time used muskets and artillery for a year, and the use of hot weapons is perfect, which is more than enough to deal with the 50,000 horses of the Longzao Temple family.

First of all, he used psychological tactics, encircling three sides of Saga Castle, only encircling the northwest, south, and south sides of Saga Castle, leaving the east side unsurrounded, so that the enemy had the hope of escaping, and would not resist desperately;

Then he used the tactics of attacking the east and attacking the west, so that Hong Xu and Gan Hui each led 20,000 horses to feint in the north and south, while he himself led 50,000 main forces to live in the west of the city, as the main force of the attack, if he did not move, he would have to strike;

In the end, he used the barrage tactics of the Ming army, suppressed with artillery, and the enemy troops on the city wall, 50,000 infantry, rushed to the city wall in one go.

There are really not many generals in Dongying at that time who have practiced the art of war, even if they have learned, it is also a military book from the Ming Dynasty, which introduces pure cold weapons and tactics, and there may still be people who understand the front of the three and one and the sound of attacking the west, but in the end, this barrage tactic is the pure hot weapon tactics newly summarized by the Ming army, and no one in Dongying has heard of it, no matter who touches it, it will be overwhelming.

Amakusa Shizhen first let Hong Xu and Gan Hui feint on the north and south sides for a few days, and after the enemy troops in the west were attracted to the north and south, he immediately launched a general attack, 300 artillery pieces were densely lined up by him in three rows, and bombarded a section of the city wall in the west, and then the main force of 50,000 people poured up directly like a tide.

The defenders in the city were dumbfounded, the cannonballs on the part of the city wall that the Tagawa army attacked were like rain, who dared to go over, it turned out that the people who were guarding there were either killed by the cannonballs or hiding behind the female wall and shivering, so what courage did they have to stand up and defend the city, Amakusa Shizhen attacked the city wall with such a bang.

Since the city wall has been attacked, this battle is basically over, you must know that there are less than 50,000 people in the city, and the average is more than 10,000 people on each side, plus more than half of the enemy troops on the west wall are lured to the north and south, and there are less than 5,000 people guarding the west at this time, 5,000 against 50,000, how can it be stopped!

Nabeshima Katsushige was in a hurry and made a fatal mistake, he actually transferred most of the defenders on the north and south sides to the west to support, leaving only a little people to guard the north and south sides, you must know that Hong Xu and Gan Hui are still under the city wall, as soon as he transferred people away, Hong Xu and Gan Hui changed from a feint attack to a real attack, and rushed directly onto the city wall.

If the battle is broken on three sides, there is nothing to fight, Nabeshima Katsushige had to command his men to escape from the east, but he was chased and beaten by the army commanded by Amakusa Shizhen, and less than 10,000 people really ran away, and the Ryuzoji family was finished.