A Zheng Zhilong annihilated the 120,000 troops of the Tokugawa shogunate in one fell swoop with a sneak attack with a strong ship and a sharp cannon, which can be said to be a coincidence of coincidences, and many coincidences came together to create this incredible record.

The great powers have almost always done such a thing as slaughtering backward natives by virtue of the superiority of thermal weapons, and there are countless examples of the great powers defeating or annihilating tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of natives with hundreds or thousands of people. But Dongying was not a backward native, they at least knew the power of muskets and artillery, and they could also make bird guns and earth cannons, so it stands to reason that such a one-sided slaughter should not occur.

This kind of thing can only be blamed on the carelessness of the commander-in-chief of the shogunate army, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who knew that there was a large fleet nearby, but was not prepared at all, which was a fatal mistake. You must know that even pirates have artillery, in order to avoid the artillery of the rebels in Shimahara Castle, he knows that the camp will be far away from the city, but he has not thought that camping close to the coast is easy to be attacked by naval guns, and as a result, he is completely annihilated, who can blame him?

To have such a record, even Zheng Zhilong felt a little unreal, of course, whether he thought it was true or not, this battle had passed, the shogunate army had been destroyed, and the next plan could be executed.

The next plan was to provoke the various princes to get rid of the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, return Toei to the Warring States, and then take advantage of the chaos to unify the island of Kyushu, and then march on Shikoku and Honshu.

The matter of provoking all the princes can only be done by Emperor Tian Chuan Yu, Zheng Zhilong cannot come forward, if he comes forward, he is an idiot can know that this is the doctrine of the Ming Dynasty fighting Dongying, and then all the princes will unite to resist the Ming Dynasty, and it will be troublesome.

As for how to provoke the princes from all walks of life, this point has been planned for a long time, he doesn't have to worry about it, but the follow-up unification of Jiuzhou is a bit troublesome, and he needs to work hard in secret.

It is said that now there are nearly 100,000 troops under Emperor Tagawa Yu, and once the Tokugawa shogunate army is destroyed, who else can Dongying compete with?

In fact, otherwise, the 100,000 army of the Tian Chuan clan is a ragtag army that has been put together temporarily, and the strongest combat effectiveness is the more than 20,000 pirates under Hong Xu and Gan Hui, that is to say, the combat effectiveness of this 100,000 army is generally not as good as the 100,000 pirates!

Therefore, although the Tagawa clan has a large number of troops, its combat effectiveness is not very strong, not to mention the entire Dongying, there is a force on Kyushu Island that can steadily defeat the 100,000 troops of the Tagawa clan, and this force is the Shimazu clan of the Osumi and Hyuga countries that protect the Daming Satsuma Domain.

During the Warring States period, there were three major forces in Kyushu, namely the Hizen Ryuzoji clan, the Chikugo Otomo clan, and the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma domain, and at that time the Hizen Matsuura clan was just a younger brother under the Ryuzoji clan.

The Tokugawa shogunate unified the Ryuzoji clan and the Chikugo Otomo clan after the Toei Shogunate unified the Hizen clan one after another, and the territory of the Otomo clan was divided, and there was nothing to fear, and the Ryuzoji clan was also replaced by the Nabeshima clan, and the strength was not as good as before, only the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain, not only did not decline in strength, but doubled or more!

The Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain is famous for its ability to fight, and once defeated the more than 40,000 troops of the Otomo clan with less than 30,000 troops, and even broke the 60,000 army of the Ryuzoji clan with 8,000 troops, and finally Toyotomi Hideyoshi united with more than ten princes such as Mori Terumoto, Kobayakawa Takakei, and Ukita Hideya, with a total of 250,000 troops, before defeating it, and its strength can be seen.

The current Satsuma Domain's military strength is close to 50,000, and it has defeated and controlled the Ryukyu Kingdom by itself, and its power is in full swing, and the 100,000 miscellaneous troops of the Tagawa clan can be said to be not even a fart in their eyes!

Why? You must know that the Ryukyu Kingdom at that time was not a small vassal state in Toei, but a country independent of Toei, and the Ryukyu Islands stretched for thousands of miles, which was larger than any of the vassal states in Toei. Directly defeating an independent kingdom with the power of a feudal clan was something that only the Satsuma clan could do.

This Satsuma Domain is so powerful, even if Emperor Tagawa Yu recruits another 100,000 horses, he may not be his opponent, what should he do?

Zheng Zhilong couldn't think of any way after thinking about it, so he had to write a letter and report the results of the early battle, and more importantly, ask the emperor how to deal with this Satsuma Domain.

About half a month later, there was no progress in sowing discord on Emperor Tian Chuanyu's side, but Zhu Cijiong's holy edict had already been passed on, and a copy of the "Ming Domain's State Decree System" was attached.

Zhu Cijiong's meaning is very simple, the Ming Dynasty cannot directly send troops to Dongying, but he can wave the army to Ryukyu, because Ryukyu was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the King of Ryukyu is willing to abide by the "Ming Vassal State Decree System" and be willing to be a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty can help them expel the Satsuma Domain.

Of course, this expulsion was only superficial, and what Zhu Cijiong wanted was not to expel the garrison of the Satsuma Domain in the Ryukyus, but to lure the main force of the Satsuma Domain to Ryukyu as much as possible and annihilate it in one fell swoop. Dongying can't fight directly, but in the Ryukyus, it has to be fought hard, the harder the fight, the better, to play the momentum, to play the national prestige, to deter the princes of Dongying, let them see the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and there will not be much resistance when they want to be accepted as vassals in the future.

Zheng Zhilong received the holy edict and immediately began to arrange, to annihilate the main force of the Satsuma Domain, I was afraid that it would take 100,000 horses, he decided to transfer all the entire Nanyang Naval Division to the Satsuma Domain. As for the more than 20,000 alien pirates under Shi Daxuan, let them go to Geoje Island to protect the Wing Tagawa Clan, this time it is in the name of the Ming Dynasty to fight with the Satsuma Domain, if you take the pirates to the reputation of the Ming Dynasty, it will be stinky.

A few days later, Shuri Castle, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, unexpectedly welcomed a delegation of envoys from the Ming Dynasty, who came in such a hurry that they did not even notify the king of the Ryukyus in advance.

King Shochei of the Ryukyu Kingdom was taken by surprise, and he didn't even have time to go out of the city to greet him, when the envoys had already entered the city, and he had to kneel at the gate of the palace to greet him. The envoys of the envoys seemed to be in a hurry, and they hurriedly walked through the motions and followed King Shangqing into the palace, retreated left and right, and discussed secretly.

In such a scene, the garrison of the Satsuma Domain naturally saw it, but they did not interfere, and the Satsuma Domain did not plan to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, so it has always taken a tacit attitude towards the "one country, two subordinates" of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the envoys of the Ming Dynasty will come as soon as they come, anyway, the current Ryukyu King is just a puppet.

This envoy group was naturally sent by Zheng Zhilong, and they had only one purpose, that is, to ask King Shangqing if he was willing to abide by the "Ming Vassal State Decree System" and be willing to be a subject of the Ming Dynasty.

What is the king of Shangqing who is unwilling, now that the entire trade in the Ryukyus has been controlled by the Satsuma Domain, the Shimazu clan is still setting up a "Zaiban Executive" in the Ryukyus, monitoring his every move, he is equivalent to a puppet pinched in his hands, and he does not even have the freedom of life, and it is better to be a subject of the Ming Dynasty than to be a prisoner!

As long as he agreed, the envoys of the Ming Dynasty immediately ran to the Shimazu clan's "Zaibanxing" pavilion and strictly ordered them to immediately withdraw all the garrisons, roll up the covers and get out, otherwise they would bear the consequences.

The commander of the garrison of the Satsuma Domain in the Ryukyus, the general of the Shimazu clan, Kayama Hidaka, heard about this, laughed three times, what are you kidding, you tell me to get out, when did the Ming Dynasty become so strong, he didn't believe that the Ming Dynasty would start a war with the powerful Satsuma Domain for a small vassal state, so he took it as a joke and ignored it at all.

Daming was not joking this time, a few days later, hundreds of Fuchuan battleships drove to Ryukyu Island, and the soldiers on the battleships were like dumplings, coming down in waves, and soon gathered nearly 30,000 horses.

This can scare Huashan Jiugao, he has a total of 20,000 people, and there are nearly 30,000 people who have landed in this Damingguang, and I am afraid that there are still 10,000 or 20,000 on the ship, can you do it? That's a problem.

Just as he was beating the drum in his heart, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty came again, and directly left a sentence: "You are limited to withdraw the army within ten days, otherwise you are welcome." ”

Hearing this, Huashan Jiugao was relieved, this Ming should be here to scare people, if you really want to fight directly, just hit it, and put some cruel words.

He was really not sure that he would win with 40,000 or 50,000 Ming troops, so he immediately sent someone to inform the family governor Shimazu Tadashi and ask for support.

Shimazu Tadashi received the news and weighed it again and again, he really didn't want to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't want to give up the interests of the Ryukyus, what should he do? Looking at Da Ming's posture, it seems that he doesn't want to fight, he just wants to overwhelm them from the momentum.

To say that this momentum, sometimes it has a lot to do with the number of people, Shimazu Tadashi does not think that the army under his command is worse than the Ming army, he even the 20,000 horses of Kayama Hisakaka can completely overthrow the 40,000 or 50,000 Ming army, and the army of the Satsuma Domain is famous for being weak and strong. It's just that 20,000 people are always worse in front of 40,000 or 50,000 people, so send another 20,000 horses to confront it, who is afraid of whom, after all, the Ming Dynasty is much farther away from the Ryukyus than the Satsuma Domain, and after a long time, the Ming army will definitely not be able to hold it first.

As soon as the 20,000 horses arrived, Huashan Jiugao became crazy, and he was aggrieved for a few days, and today he can finally vent a little, he directly sent someone to the Ming army camp to leave a sentence: "You are limited to withdraw within three days, otherwise you are welcome." ”

Hey, hey, hey, you're welcome, it's three days, Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming, who led the team, sneered at the same time, it doesn't take three days to let you know what you're welcome.

Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu had already led fifty super battleships to wait near Ryukyu Island, and when they heard that reinforcements from the Satsuma Domain had arrived, Zheng Zhilong immediately ordered to start fighting!

As a result, Zheng Zhihu commanded fifty super battleships to approach Ryukyu Island and bombarded the Satsuma army on the island. However, the effect of this run and bomb is not as good as last time, the Satsuma army is not stationed on the seaside, they are stationed in a small city called Naha on the island, and the artillery on the Ming warships can also be used to Naha City, but they are protected by city walls, and basically there are no casualties.

Zheng Zhilong was not in a hurry to attack, he asked Zheng Zhihu to command the battleships to bombard in turns, and the bombardment lasted for five or six days, and even the women's wall was smashed on the seaside of Naha City, and the cannonballs piled up under the city wall were almost piled up to the position of the women's wall, so he ordered Zheng Xing and Zheng Ming to lead 50,000 troops to rush directly under the cover of artillery.

There is nothing to say about this battle, the army of the Satsuma clan is more than a little stronger than the ragtag army of the Tagawa clan, and even they are stronger than the army of the Tokugawa shogunate, but they are still not enough in front of the powerful Ming army.

The army of the 40,000 Satsuma Domain did not even have a complete number of birds, but the Ming army had a revolver rifle in their hands, and there was artillery support and grenades, which was not an ordinary disparity in strength.

The Satsuma army did not last long, the Ming army threw a grenade over, and then the revolver rifle was suddenly sudden, and most of the Satsuma army was beaten and rolled on the ground, and more than 10,000 people were also brave, and directly pulled out the katana and started a melee with the Ming army, but the rifle plus the bayonet was longer than the spear, and the Ming army's stabbing technique was practiced perfectly, and the short katana was basically difficult to reach the Ming army, so more than 10,000 people did not bring too many casualties to the Ming army.

In less than two hours, the siege battle ended, and the 40,000 Satsuma troops were almost killed and wounded, of course, most of them were wounded, and the bullets and grenades at this time were not enough to kill, and the nearly 10,000 Satsuma troops who died were almost all stabbed to death by bayonets, while the Ming army only killed a few hundred people, and less than 10,000 were wounded.

At this point, the powerful Satsuma clan that shocked the East is almost useless, and Shimazu Tadahiro's men and horses are less than 10,000, even if they are strong, they are not enough to resist the 100,000 Tagawa army.