Hirado Island is located in the northwest corner of Kyushu Island, and Hirado Castle is located at the northern tip of Hirado Island, across the sea from Kyushu Island.

This is the main castle of the Matsuura clan, the lord of the Hizen Province and the lord of the Hirado Domain, and it was originally a relatively famous castle, but after the death of the regent Sekihaku Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the shogun, and the Matsuura clan, who was originally close to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, took the initiative to burn Hirado Castle in order to eliminate Tokugawa Ieyasu's suspicions, so as to keep the territory of the Matsuura clan.

After more than 20 years at this time, with the consent of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Matsuura clan began to rebuild Hirado Castle again, but the people of Toei did not build the city as fast as the Ming Dynasty, and after a few years of construction, it was only to repair the city wall.

On this morning, a wheel boat suddenly came to the port outside Hirado City, and it looked a little strange mixed in the middle of a bunch of sailboats and oarboats, but Hirado was originally a place where Ming smuggling ships gathered, and it was not very rare for Daming wheels to fall, so it did not attract much attention.

After the wheel boat approached the wharf, it was not the Ming merchants who came down from above, but the authentic Dongying people, and it could be seen from their service and actions that it was definitely not from the Ming Dynasty.

There was nothing special about this group of people, a group of more than 30 people carried more than a dozen boxes off the ship, walked directly to the city gate next to the port, found an open space, placed the boxes neatly there, and then gathered together and began to pull around, as if they were waiting for someone.

At this time, Toei had already passed the Warring States period, and it had been peaceful for more than 20 years, so the defense of the castles everywhere was relatively lax, and a remote city like Hirado, far away from Edo, would not even be guarded if it weren't for the fact that there were more traders coming and going, and even the city gate would not be guarded, and at this time there was only one samurai with more than a dozen ashigaru on duty at the city gate.

Everything seemed to be normal, and after about a quarter of an hour another wheel entered the harbor, and approached the dock, and more than thirty people came down from it, and they also carried a dozen or so boxes and gathered together with the first thirty or so people, chatting and talking, as if they were still waiting for someone.

After another quarter of an hour or so, another wheel entered the harbor and approached the wharf, on which came down more than thirty men, who also carried a dozen or so boxes and gathered with the sixty or so who had come first.

At this time, the samurai guarding the city gate felt that something was wrong, what was going on with these people, why did they come by boat separately, could they just be a boat, shouldn't they, he always felt that something was wrong.

However, when he saw that so many of them were gathered together, and they were all dressed as coolies, and then he saw that there were more than a dozen wilting ashigaru under his men, he gave up the idea of stepping forward to question.

After another quarter of an hour, another wheel came to the port, but this time it was three instead of one, and a hundred or so men came down from it, carrying about fifty boxes to the gate of the city, and now the samurai could not bear it anymore, these are two hundred coolies, what the hell are they doing.

He greeted him, and with more than a dozen of his subordinates, he stepped forward and asked, "What are you guys doing?" ”

The leader seemed to be enraged, and yelled directly: "What are we doing to your?" ”

The samurai was also a little angry, you coolies dared to be so rude to my samurai-sama, he held the hilt of the sword in his right hand, and shouted, "Who are you, say." ”

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a big disaster, and those coolies pulled out the long sticks that carried the boxes, and pounced on them to be a mess.

"Oops", his hand holding the hilt of the knife was swept by at least three long sticks, and his bones were almost broken!

He just clenched his hands and screamed, and his knee socket was hit several times, and he was immediately beaten and fell to the ground and howled.

The rest of Ashigaru was no better, and before he could understand what was going on, he was thrown to the ground with a stick, and there was a burst of shouting and howling at the gates of the city.

At this moment, the people in the port and the city were alarmed, and hundreds of people gathered around in the distance to talk.

"What's going on, how dare anyone beat the people of the Matsuura family?"

"Who knows, the pile of coolies is still sitting there and it's fine."

"I saw it, it seemed like the samurai who took the lead in the Matsuura family went to scold the coolies and was beaten."

"It's a good fight, the Matsuura family's ashigaru is too arrogant."

"Yes, the fight is good, the samurai of the Matsuura family are even more arrogant, they curse people at every turn, and they are finally beaten."

Some people were talking, and of course there were people who went to report the news, and Sarutobi Sasuke saw someone running towards the city in a puff of smoke, pouted, and then glanced at his subordinates.

Soon they took the samurai and the weapons of the ashigaru on the ground, and the gang picked up the boxes and ran into the city.

The warrior on the ground was also knocked unconscious, and when he saw that the people had run away, he immediately got up and roared angrily: "Baga, you dare to snatch our weapons, you want to rebel, chase!" ”

So saying, he called out all his men and chased them into the city.

At this time, people in the distance began to talk again.

"Look, look, when everyone is gone, they still chase after them, arrogant, right?"

"It's really arrogant!"

As a result, when they chased them into the city gate, they were beaten again, and the coolies seemed to be angry, and they beat up the dozen or so people, and the city gates were blocked.

At this time, the head of the Ashigaru group, who was in charge of guarding the gate here, ran over with four or five samurai and dozens of ashigaru.

Yaga, who dared to hit my subordinates, pulled out his saber with a roar, and rushed up with people.

Naturally, they were greeted by a shadow of a stick, and a scuffle suddenly broke out in the city gate.

If you look closely, you will find that those coolies cooperate quite well, some people sweep on it with sticks, sweeping away other people's weapons, and some people stab them underneath, stabbing people to the ground and screaming, and after a while, several samurai and dozens of ashigaru who rushed up were all stabbed over!

At this time, someone had already run to report to the head of the Matsuura family, and at the same time, a large number of wheels appeared in the port.

Under the command of Qi Changshan, thousands of elites of the Qi family army quickly ran down from the wheels and rushed to the city gate one by one.

They didn't bring wolf stalks and palladium, after all, these two weapons are too conspicuous, and they will definitely be recognized when they run to the nest of the widows, they are not here to fight after all, so Zhang Bin asked them to change their weapons, and each group at this time is four sword and shield men, four pikemen and four musketeers, of course, they are not wearing Ming army uniforms.

As soon as the Qi family army came, Sarufei Sasuke and they finally stopped performing, and everyone rushed up, and soon tied up those few samurai and dozens of ashigaru in a strong knot, and then, they opened the box and took out the weapons inside, asking those samurai and ashigaru to see their equipment, where would they dare to rush over.

Among the more than 200 people, more than 100 Dongying warriors under Zheng Zhilong are unified with swords and crossbows, while the other more than 100 elites of the special operations battalion are all Qijia swords and flintlock pistols!

At this time, the people watching the excitement finally knew that something was wrong, and they immediately scattered, and there were more than 200 people left in the entire port and inside and outside the city gate, and there were more than 200 people and 1,000 elites of the Qi family's army.

Before they came, there was a clear division of labor, more than 100 elites of the special operations battalion quickly climbed the empty city wall, holding muskets to the roads in the city, and more than 100 Dongying warriors escorted those on the ground to the city gate to wait.

Immediately afterwards, thousands of soldiers of the Qi family army rushed into the city quickly, and lined up in a three-fold formation behind the city gate according to the terrain, with two rows of sword and shield men in front, two rows of pikemen in the middle, and two rows of musketeers in the back.

Of course, the army of the Matsuura family can't be so rubbish, these defenders of the city are lazy old soldiers, and the Matsuura family still has thousands of reserve soldiers stationed near the main house of the family, and they are also running in a neat line at this time.

A general of Ashigaru, a general of iron artillery, a general of guns, and a general of bows, each with 200 hands, a total of 800 men, soon arrived at the scene.

However, when they saw the Qi family's army's strict array, they were all shocked, which of the feudal lord's subordinates was this, and the big array was so neatly arranged!

The four generals were in a hurry for a while, and finally lined up the team and confronted the more than 1,000 Qi family troops near the city gate.

They pushed the iron cannon general forward and shouted, this iron cannon is not a cannon, but an arquebus, and the iron cannon is just the name of the Dongying people.

The iron cannon commander was bold enough to come to the two armies and shout, "Which feudal lord are you, and you are not afraid of the general's wrath when you invade Hirado Castle so openly?" ”

Naturally, there was a plan to deal with this situation, and Sarutobi Sasuke stepped forward directly and shouted: "What kind of invasion of Hirado Castle, our adults are just here to visit relatives." ”

Visiting relatives was such a big show, the iron cannon general was stunned when he heard this, and then said angrily: "Is there such a visit to relatives, who believes it?" ”

Sarutobi didn't say anything more, and turned around and went back to the camp.

The iron cannon general was dumbfounded, what does this mean?

In fact, it's not interesting, the inside and outside of the city gate have been controlled, even if their task is completed, they will wait for Zhang Bin to come over.

Not long after, two giant warships were escorted by more than 20 wheels to the port outside Hirado City, the dock here naturally could not dock the Zhenyuan cruiser, can only be transported by wheels, wave after wave of landing, tossing for a long time, Zhang Bin finally rode a high-headed horse, appeared outside Hirado City.

This horse was brought by Zhang Bin to pretend, but he ignored the problem that the cruiser could not dock in the port here, and in order to transfer the horse to the shore, he tossed people for a while.

He didn't rush into the city, but took out his binoculars and carefully observed the walls of Hirado Castle, this city wall, how to say, maybe the little devils were built according to their height, it was only more than three meters high, this siege city does not need a ladder, directly push a few chariots against the city wall, people can climb on the top of the chariot and jump on the city wall!

He shook his head and entered the city with seven or eight hundred guards.

At this time, the elite of the Qi family and the Songpu family had been facing each other for almost half an hour, and the elders of the Songpu family came, shouting for a long time and no one paid attention to him, and he didn't know which one it was, so domineering.

The other party's camp is obviously much stronger than his own side, it is impossible to take the initiative to fight, and even the head of the family is ready to run away, such a powerful enemy, let them enter the city, basically there is no hope of winning, he is just ordered to negotiate, if the enemy does not agree to retreat, then he can only go back and follow the master of the family to "retreat", but the enemy does not care about him at all, he doesn't know what to do.

Zhang Bin seemed to have really come to visit his relatives, and when he entered the city, he didn't have a nervous expression at all when he saw the confrontation between the two sides, but took out his binoculars and leisurely observed the camp of the Matsuura family.

He really didn't have much pressure, because he knew that there were more than 1,000 defenders in this city, and he had brought more than 2,000 elites.

Moreover, from Zheng Zhiyu, he also learned that the Tokugawa shogunate controlled artillery very strictly, and it was not possible for the shogunate to be equipped with artillery, and it was strictly forbidden to cast artillery without permission, that is, it was impossible for the Matsuura family to have artillery.

Without artillery, even if all the troops of the Matsuura family come over, they can't kill the more than 2,000 elites under his command, he is afraid of a fart.

He carefully observed the weapons in the hands of these people, what kind of swords, spears, short bows, they looked like that, but these cold weapons were of little use in front of his own army, and the only threat might be the muskets in the hands of the musketeers.

Their muskets are imitations of the Ming Dynasty at first glance, and there are one-eyed guns, three-eyed guns, and bird guns, and these things are actually not much of a threat in front of their own army, because their rate of fire and range are not as good as flintlock muskets.

He swept carefully for a while, and there were no other weapons left, it seemed that this Dongying was not very difficult to take down, and it was even easier than taking Houjin.

Because they are surrounded by the sea here, they are very suitable for sailors to fight, and their sailors seem to be worse than ordinary sailors in the Ming Dynasty, and they are a dish in front of them.

Their weapons can also be compared with ordinary Ming troops, and they are far inferior to the equipment of their own armies.

Just one point, it's more troublesome, they have too many troops, Toyotomi Hideyoshi can mobilize 300,000 troops when he attacks Korea, and at this time, the Tokugawa shogunate has gone through more than 20 years of development, and the army that can be mobilized is probably more than 400,000!

400,000 troops plus such a large territory, I have to transfer at least 100,000 troops to be safe, the problem is that I only have a total of 100,000 horses now, and I have to garrison Fujian, Guangdong, and Dongfan, it would be good to be able to transfer half of the people, it seems that I can't clean up this Dongying for the time being.

Zhang Bin was pondering here, and the elder of the Songpu family over there finally couldn't help but come up and shout: "Why do you want to die instead of Lasa?" ”

What kind of nonsense is this, Zhang Bin didn't understand, and he didn't bother to bird this guy.

He directly turned around and asked Zheng Zhibao: "Zhibao, how to get to Tian Chuan's house." ”

Zheng Zhibao directly raised his hand and pointed to the right and said, "Go over there, turn a few streets and you'll be there." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, pointed to the street on the right, and said lightly: "Drive away the little devils on that road." ”

With that, he raised his binoculars and looked over there, he wanted to see how the military spirit and morale of these Dongying people were.

If the morale of the army is weak and demoralized, it is naturally simple to clean them up.

If it is like the later generations, it is extremely crazy, then it is a bit troublesome, if so, the 100,000 army may not be able to take the next Dongying.