Amakusa Shizhen can be said to have become famous in a battle, 90,000 horses attacked the city garrisoned by 50,000 people, and it was captured in less than ten days, this kind of record is unprecedented in Dongying, and the princes who despised the Tagawa clan at the beginning simply fell to the ground.

Emperor Tagawa Yu himself doesn't know how to fight, but his subordinates can, not counting the rising general star of Amakusa Shizhen, the performance of Tagawa Hongxu and Tagawa Ganhui is also remarkable, and the performance of the feint attack and the final decisive attack on the city wall are not what ordinary Dongying generals can do.

After the capture of Saga, Amakusa Tokitada did not continue to attack, but stationed at Saga Castle and began to collect prisoners and expand the army, and all the soldiers of the Ryuzoji clan were incorporated into his army, and the army of the Tagawa clan reached 120,000 at once.

After about ten days of rest, Amakusa Shizhen ordered the troops to divide into three routes and attack in an all-round way.

He personally led 40,000 men to attack Nagasaki in the south direction, and then took the sea route directly to Higo Province, while Hong Xu and Ganhui each led 40,000 horses to attack in the northwest and due west directions, and divided Chikuzen, Bunzen, Chikugo, and Bungo, and finally the three men and horses gathered near Hyuga Province to launch a final general attack on the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain.

Nabeshima Katsushige led an army of 50,000 all of them were defeated, and the remnants of the Ryuzoji clan and the retainers of the Otomo clan naturally could not resist the army of the Tagawa clan.

At this time, the subordinates of Amakusa Shizhen, Hong Xu and Gan Hui were almost expanded to more than 50,000 people, and they only needed to be gathered together to level the Shimazu clan in one fell swoop and dominate Jiuzhou.

However, things did not go so smoothly, and the Shimazu clan, worthy of being one of the heroes of the Warring States, did not wait for the Tagawa clan's army to fight, but united the various princes who had fled from the Ryuzoji clan and the Otomo clan, and launched a surprise attack on Amakusa Tokisada along the way, hoping to defeat the Tagawa clan's army before it was assembled.

The combined forces of the Shimazu clan, the Ryuzoji clan and the Otomo clan are almost 60,000 people, which is stronger than any of the Tagawa clan's armies in terms of numbers alone.

In fact, if it was in the Warring States Period, if Amakusa Toshisada's men were equipped with cold weapons, then the Shimazu clan concentrated superior forces and suddenly raided all the way, it was really possible to break the Tagawa clan's army. However, Amakusa Tokisada's men are equipped with arquebuses and bird guns, and they also have artillery, and the Shimazu clan coalition forces are a bit bird guns at best, and it is impossible to defeat Amakusa Tokitada all the way with a slight numerical advantage.

However, the result of the battle was a bit unexpected, Amakusa Shizhen resisted for a while and then began to retreat frantically, losing his armor and failing to form an army, and even more than 10,000 Otomo clans who had just surrendered were left behind and were absorbed by the coalition forces.

The main general of the coalition army, Shimazu Tadashi, saw that the plan succeeded, and naturally pursued it relentlessly, vowing to wipe out the Tagawa army of Amakusa Tokisadada, and the two armies chased and fled in this way, and fled from the border of Hyuga Province to Kumamoto, an important town in Higo Country, and Amakusa Tokitada stabilized his position with the advantage of the city.

Looking at the fortified Kumamoto Castle, Shimazu Tadashi felt that something was wrong, although the coalition army had now expanded to more than 70,000 people, but Amakusa Tokisada still had 40,000 men under him, and they still had muskets and artillery in their hands, with the advantage of the city, his 70,000 horses had almost no hope of taking it.

He vaguely felt that he had been fooled, and there was a cloud in the military book: poor Kou Mo chased, but he was driven crazy by a little victory, and chased so far in one go! He wanted to withdraw his troops immediately and return to the Satsuma Domain, but after chasing for a few days, the army was already exhausted, and now he was going back, afraid that he would not be able to walk halfway, so he decided to rest outside Kumamoto Castle for a day before retreating.

This is naturally Amakusa Shizhen's strategy, no matter how bad he is, he will not be chased by the 60,000 coalition troops to lose his armor, and he will collapse at the first touch, his trick is called luring the enemy deeper.

When he encountered a surprise attack by the coalition army, he was not thinking about how to defeat the coalition army, but how to annihilate the coalition army, he knew that this coalition army was the last resistance force on the entire Jiuzhou Island, as long as it was the great cause of annihilating Jiuzhou and unifying it, if it was only defeated, they would definitely flee to the city behind, the Satsuma Domain was already their last hope, and they would definitely defend the city at that time, so many people would not be able to fight if they were not strong, and they would suffer heavy losses if they didn't do it. However, the terrain was not good at that time, and his troops were not enough, so he had to feign defeat and retreat to lure the enemy deeper, and sent people to inform Hong Xu and Gan Hui that they had copied their back roads and encircled and annihilated this coalition army in Kumamoto.

Hong Xu and Gan Hui were already rushing in the direction of the country in the past, and when they received the news, they immediately made an arc and copied them directly from the back and right side, with the Ming Sea on the left and Kumamoto Castle guarded by Amakusa Shisada in front, and the coalition army was already a turtle in the urn, and there was no escape.

Shimazu Tadashi had realized that he had been fooled, but he didn't expect the Tagawa army to come so quickly, the next morning the coalition army just pulled out together, the rear and the right side at the same time sounded the earth-shattering shouts of killing, Hong Xu and Gan Hui each led more than 50,000 horses, surrounded up, Amakusa Shizhen in Kumamoto Castle also opened the city gate and rushed out from the inside, nearly 150,000 Tagawa troops surrounded 70,000 coalition regiments, and the coalition army had nowhere to escape.

The princes of the Ryuzoji clan and the Otomo clan who fled have already been frightened, and have surrendered on their knees, and Shimazu Tadashi is possessed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu is also powerless to return to the sky, after a period of scuffle, 70,000 coalition troops surrendered, and died, and none of them escaped, and the great cause of the unification of Jiuzhou has been completed!

The battle did not end there, and when Amakusa Tokisadama collected the prisoners, consolidated the army, and sent people to occupy the Satsuma Domain, Emperor Tagawa Yu of the Daimyo ordered him to immediately lead his army to the coast near Bungo Province and prepare to send troops to raid Shikoku Island!

What's going on, when did Emperor Tagawa Yu become so decisive, Jiuzhou just took it and sent troops to the four countries, this is a decision that only one side of the hero has the courage to make, is Emperor Tagawa Yu a side of the hero? Of course not, this decision was made for him by Zheng Zhilong, the southern king of Daming Town.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, a hundred battles will not be defeated, Zheng Zhilong has been paying attention to the war in Jiuzhou, and at the same time sent secret agents all over the state and the vassal states of Shikoku, it can be said that the situation of the entire Dongying is under its control, and now the situation in Benzhou is not very clear, but the entire Shikoku Island has been beaten into a pot of porridge.

The reason why Shikoku Island is called Shikoku is because there are Tosa, Iyo, Awa, and Sanuki Shikoku on the island, and during the Warring States Period, Tosa's wealthy family Nagamune Ibu was also relatively famous, and Nagamune's head relatives once led the army to unify Shikoku Island, but Nagamune's department was unlucky, they were first suppressed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and demoted to Tosa Daimyo Daimyo, and after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, they stood on the wrong team and supported the Western Army, and as a result, even the territory of Tosa Province was confiscated, and finally even the last direct family governor Nagasune Ibu Mori was killed, Only the fourth brother of the side illegitimate son, Changzong, the first relative of my department, escaped the catastrophe.

If according to the original historical trajectory, the Chosamune Ibu has been in a slump since then, and there is no follow-up, but now that the Tokugawa shogunate is in decline, the former retainers of the Nagamune Ibu in Tosa and Iyo Province are active again, and they have united to support the island kinyi and the pro-shogunate Tosa guardian Yamauchi clan to fight, fighting for control of Shikoku Island, at this time the two sides are fighting happily in Kochi Castle, Shikoku Island is almost undefended, how can Zheng Zhilong let go of such a God-given opportunity when he receives the news, so he asked Emperor Tagawa Yu to order, Immediately march to the island of Shikoku.

Amakusa Shizhen has no opinion on entering Shikoku Island, because Shikoku is simply a poor country compared to Jiuzhou, if you use the Ming Dynasty as an analogy, Jiuzhou is a developed area on the southeast coast, and Shikoku is a poor area in the northwest, not to mention the backward weapons, the population is relatively scarce, all the princes can not add up to 100,000 troops, and he now has a full 200,000 army, and it is easy to take Shikoku Island.

Therefore, after receiving the order, Amakusa Shizhen did not hesitate to lead an army of 200,000 to Bungo Province, and Zheng Zhilong also arranged for Shi Daxuan to rush to the waters of Bungo Province with more than 1,000 pirate ships, preparing to transport the army of the Tagawa clan to Shikoku Island.

Three days later, the two sides met near the coast of Bungo Province, this Kyushu Island is close to Shikoku Island, and the closest place between the two islands is not even twenty miles, so it is actually a very simple matter to transport the army over, and Amakusa Tokisada directly ordered the army to board the pirate ship in batches and land on Shikoku Island.

Although Shi Daxuan's pirate ships are not super giant ships, he has a large number, more than 1,000 large and small ships, just to transport people, squeezing once can almost transport 50,000 people, 200,000 people can go back and forth four times, and it doesn't take half a day.

At this time, the coalition army of Changzong and my department was fighting with the army of the Yamauchi clan, and they didn't know that the army of the Tagawa clan on Jiushu Island had landed in Shikoku, and they might be thinking that a small Shikoku island would not be able to tell the winner after fighting for nearly a month, so it would take at least half a year for Kyushu Island to see the difference.

Amakusa Shisada didn't care what they thought, after landing, he took a short rest and led his army to Kochi Castle according to the instructions of Emperor Tagawa Yu, and in less than a day, he rushed to Kochi territory.

Shikoku is really no match for Kyushu, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 horses under the command of Nagamune and the Yamauchi clan, and there are no hot weapons on both sides, and when they encounter the army of the Tagawa clan, which is dominated by hot weapons, they will be directly tragic.

First of all, the coalition army of Changzong and my department was served from behind by the army of the Tagawa clan, and then Amakusa Shizhen ordered an army of 200,000 to directly surround Kochi Castle, and the Yamauchi clan in the city was bombed and threatened and intimidated for two days, and then he couldn't bear it, and he directly opened the city and surrendered!

At this point, Jiuzhou and Shiguo have all been down, and the army of the Tagawa clan has reached a terrifying 250,000, and the princes of Honshu are all terrified when they receive the news.