The Shimazu family's home town, Torajumaru, was built on a flat-topped hill not far from Kagoshima Bay, and the terrain was difficult to attack, but it also had a magnificent scenery.

The castle tower is a unique structure in Japan, the tallest of the Japanese castles, a symbol of full strength, and an important military role, serving as a lookout and command.

As the residence of the Shimazu clan, Torajumaru naturally has a castle tower. Of course, the Shimazu family's castle tower naturally cannot be compared with the luxurious and magnificent Osaka castle tower of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, nor can it be compared with the Tokugawa family's six-story castle tower in Edo.

Normally, Shimazu Mitsuhisa lives in the main hall of the Honmaru and rarely enters the castle tower, but since early in the morning, this second-generation Satsuma clan has been standing in the castle tower, looking out at Kagoshima Bay in the distance, as if expecting something to appear from the sea.

Judging from the news transmitted by Sakai Tadakatsu, the Ming fleet should have arrived at Osumi Bay, so the Satsuma Navy must have exchanged fire with the Ming fleet.

Although Shimazu Mitsuhisa felt that he would definitely be able to defeat the fleet of the Ming Kingdom, there was no definite news coming back, and he was still somewhat uneasy in his heart, so he personally stood on the castle tower and looked at the sea, hoping to see Shimazu Tadaro lead the fleet and return victorious.

"Guarding Your Excellency, the Satsuma Domain dispatched all the naval forces this time, as long as it is not defeated and the Ming army is helpless, the Satsuma Domain will win!" Tagawa Nanazaemon on the side looked at the sea and spoke.

The Ming army went on an expedition, if it couldn't defeat the Satsuma Domain, then there was no way to take Satsuma, once the supplies were exhausted, they could only return to the Ming Dynasty, and finally had to acquiesce to the current state and give up sanctions on the Satsuma Domain.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa nodded, a little relieved in his heart, "Win or be undefeated, I Satsuma can get through the difficulties this time." ”

As he spoke, he paused, and then muttered to himself, "Count the time, the fleet should have sent back news." ”

"Look, Lord!" While the two were talking, an Shimazu retainer who was looking out to the sea suddenly exclaimed.

The two of them followed the sound and looked in the direction he pointed, and a few black dots appeared on the sea in the distance, and they were swaying in the direction of Torajumaru.

And at this moment, behind the black dot, a rumbling cannon sound came, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa and the others immediately changed their faces.

"Go to the docks!" The Satsuma Navy didn't have any artillery, and the movement could only be sent by Ming Fune, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa felt a sense of foreboding in his heart, and hurriedly got off the castle tower with a wave of his hand.

Soon after everyone came to the dock, three small morning boats in the distance finally arrived at the edge of the pier.

This kind of ship was small in size and poor in defense, but it was flexible and maneuverable, and it was able to escape from the strangulation of the Ming gunboats.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the Satsuma samurai on the three small morning boats, Shimazu Mitsuhisa's wood-carved face has changed color, like a toothache and twitching, and his facial muscles are constantly twitching.

"What's going on?" Mitsuhisa Shimazu asked angrily.

As soon as they approached the dock, they listened to Shimazu Mitsuhisa's questioning, and several lightly helped a Satsuma general who had been stabbed in the leg by sawdust to his leg.

"Lord, the Satsuma Navy is all over, one hundred and fifty warships, only we have escaped back, and the Ming army fleet is behind." The retainer, who had been injured in the thigh, limped off the boat and walked up to the dock, where he knelt on one knee with several light-footed men.

"What?" Shimazu Mitsujiu was startled when he heard this, his face turned pale, and the whole person couldn't help but retreat, and several retainers hurriedly reached out to support him, so that he did not fall backwards.

What does it mean that the one hundred and fifty warships of the Shimazu family, the accumulation of several generations, are all finished?

The Satsuma Domain is known for its naval army, and there are about 10,000 people in the entire feudal country, the most elite of which is the 5,000 Satsuma Naval Army, and now after listening to the words of the retainers, one hundred and fifty warships, three small morning boats will come back, and there will only be thirty or forty people left in the 5,000 naval army, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa almost fainted.

"What about Tadharo Shimazu?" Mitsuhisa Shimazu pushed away the samurai who was holding him, and lifted the wounded retainer to the wounded retainer, his face twisted and angry.

"Domain lord, my subordinates only saw that Toranomaru was captured by Ming Boat, and nothing else knew about it!" Horror was written on the faces of the retainers.

"Yaga!" Shimazu Mitsuhisa roared angrily, and threw the retainer back to the ground at once.

Tagawa Nanazaemon who came over didn't expect things to be like this, in his opinion, the Satsuma Navy poured out of the nest, and chose the relatively narrow Osumi Strait to block it, even if it couldn't win, it should not be too badly defeated, but he didn't expect the Satsuma Navy to fight like this, to the point of almost annihilation.

Tagawa Nanazaemon finally lived in Japan, and did not understand the changes in the Ming ships, although the Zheng family had three three-masted cannon ships, but they never came to Japan, so Tagawa Nanazaemon only heard that the Ming warships were very powerful, but how powerful they were, he didn't know.

The 150 warships of Satsuma were almost completely wiped out, and the Shimazu family was finished, and it was impossible to compete with the Ming army anymore, Tagawa Nanazaemon listened to the bursts of artillery from the sea in the distance, and his face immediately showed a look of panic.

He must not fall into the hands of the Ming army, otherwise the Zheng family's involvement in this matter, and even the matter of the two kings of Tang and Lu hindering the court will be exposed, which is a big crime in foreign countries, which will make the Zheng family and the two kings of Tang Lu very passive.

Thinking of this, Tagawa Nanazaemon saw that Shimazu Mitsuhisa was in anger and didn't notice him behind him, so he couldn't help but take a few steps back, then turned around and fled the dock quickly.

The battle in Osumi Bay was over, and of the 150 Satsuma warships, only more than 50 were sunk, and most of them were simply beaten to the point of incapacitating action.

This is because, after all, the shells at this time are all solid shells, which cannot explode or ignite the ship, and in most cases can only destroy the part of the ship that leaks on the sea, and rarely have a chance to penetrate the underwater hull, so the sunken Satsuma warships account for thirty percent, mostly because the oars in the cabin are broken, because the oarsmen and the samurai on it are dead and wounded, and lose power.

When Man Dazhuang rushed onto the Toranomaru, he originally wanted to capture the main general of the Satsuma Navy and then use it to exchange with Satsuma, but he didn't expect that when he got on the ship, not only Shimazu Tadaro had already cut his stomach, but even most of the important retainers and samurai of the Shimazu family were dead, and the deck was simply covered with blood.

The Satsuma navy has been completely subdued by the Ming Dynasty navy, and the Japanese have a characteristic, that is, whoever is strong will obey whom, and when the Ming army captured the Satsuma samurai of each ship, there was almost no resistance.

After the whole battle, the Ming army's losses were minimal, only one of the auxiliary masts of the Guangjia was broken, and then more than 40 people died in the fire gun, and there was no other damage, but the result they exchanged was almost all the annihilation of the Satsuma naval army, 5,000 Satsuma samurai, only thirty or forty escaped, and the rest were killed more than 3,000 people and captured more than 1,000 people, which can be called a great victory.

At the entrance to Kagoshima Bay, 10 gunboats lined up at once, with more than 200 guns spinning on their sides, pouring fire on the batteries of the Satsuma Army, and countless shells smashed through them, so that the batteries were covered in smoke and dust.

Under the fort, when the Ming gunboats were bombarding, a lucky boat docked to the shore, and more than 200 soldiers waded ashore with self-made firearms.

As soon as the artillery of the Ming army stopped, two hundred Ming soldiers roared and rushed to the beaten sparse battery, and the Satsuma samurai inside were all captured by the Ming army before they could react.

(End of chapter)