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Zhao Guoliang saw the Japanese army on the opposite side waving colorful flags and wearing strange skirts, he had been in the Japanese country for more than a month. I was still very familiar with the military situation of the Wa Kingdom, and now I saw five or six kinds of flags on the opposite side, probably the Kumamoto Domain and the Satsuma Domain organized all the small feudal clans around to deal with them.

Zhao Guoliang called Yang Shilong beside him and asked, "Look at which feudal lord is on their flag?" ”

Yang Shilong looked at it and said: "There are Kumamoto Domain and Satsuma Domain opposite the adults, and I am not familiar with the other small domains, but how did the Kumamoto Domain change their family crest?" ”

Zhao Guoliang asked, "Aren't you very familiar with the situation in the Wa Kingdom?" ”

"My lord, I haven't run the Japanese line for five or six years, and I don't know the details."

After Yang Shilong finished speaking. He called the dogleg beside him and asked, "Do you see where the family crest of the Kumamoto feudal lord on the other side is?" ”

That dogleg was none other than Goto Morinao, who was captured on Fukue Island, and he looked up and said, "That's the Hosokawa family crest, and the current lord of the Kumamoto clan has been replaced by the Hosokawa family." The original lord of the Kato domain was executed for offending the shogun. ”

It turned out that the Kumamoto domain was the domain of Konishi Yukicho, and after Konishi Yukinaga's failure to organize the Western Army against Tokugawa Ieyasu, the whole family was executed by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and his domain was also given to Kato Kiyomasa. Kato Kiyomasa was still a good feudal lord and built Kumamoto Castle during his tenure, but after his death, Kato Tadahiro, the second lord of the Kumamoto domain, was on the wrong side of the heir of the Tokugawa shogunate, and he had nothing to do but join the second shogun Hidetada. In the end, he was executed by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun who came to power, and his territory was given to the Hosokawa family, a vassal of the Kato family.

Zhao Guoliang listened to the dog-legged man talk about the Kumamoto Domain, and not only remembered his current situation. Zhao Guoliang, as Zhu Hongsan's descendant, didn't want to get involved in the struggle between Zhu Hongsan's princes, according to his status as Zhao Guoliang, no matter how he said that he could be a marquis. But now he has no choice but to do so, the emperor has stuffed Zhu Jiang into his hands, and he has become Zhu Hai's prefect. The crown prince already naturally thought that he was one of Zhu Jiang's backstage, and Zhao Guoliang was inevitably very troubled when he thought of this.

Yang Shilong saw that Zhao Guoliang didn't speak, and asked beside him: "My lord, the navy has already gone to sea, and it is probably already fighting!" Are we going to wait? ”

Zhao Guoliang was woken up by Yang Shilong, and found that the Japanese army on the opposite side had been organized, and the 10,000 ashigaru in the first row had rushed towards him, so he hurriedly ordered to go down and prepare to start fighting.

Whether it was in the Korean War 40 years ago or the War of Resistance Against Japan 300 years later, the Japanese had no tactics, they just fought hard with you, and if the enemy could not hold on, it would be the victory of their own side.

This kind of combat thinking is naturally very effective against opponents who are inferior to them, such as the North Korean army or the Kuomintang army, but when they encounter the Soviet and American armies, which are stronger than them in terms of training, numbers, and equipment, it will be completely condemned to death. This was the case in the later battles of Lushun, Nomenkan, and the Pacific islands.

Now these Japanese soldiers have encountered a Ming army with more firepower than them, and naturally they will not get any better. The first group of Ashigaru stepped forward and ran, and their order was to consume as much gunpowder as possible from the Ming army, and buy time for the elite soldiers such as the iron cannon and the mother clothes behind.

As the name suggests, the Iron Cannon is the Musketeers. They were the brightly colored soldiers of the Daimyo (the cloth was made of bamboo skeleton to prop up the cloth into a large ball, which was draped behind the back to decorate the battle and prevent stray arrows), and rode tall horses, they were the most elite soldiers of the Daimyo, and each of them had the title of samurai.

Zhao Guoliang waited until the first batch of ashigaru entered the one-mile range, and then ordered the artillery to fire first. According to their experience in fighting with the Ming army forty years ago, the range of the Ming army's large barrel (artillery) was only 200 meters, and the range of the musket was only more than 50 meters.

The Wakokuashi charged in a tight formation, and the first batch of shells opened more than 30 bloody alleys in the ranks. Because Zhao Guoliang had just come down from the ship, the artillery was not all unloaded, only thirty-six artillery pieces were unloaded, but it was enough for the Japanese army!

The first two salvos of the Ming artillery were still within the comprehension of the Japanese generals, although the range was very long, but they were still solid shells. However, after Ashigaru entered the 300 meters, the Ming army replaced the shells with shotguns, and the Japanese generals were a little uneasy.

The dense formation of shotguns against them is simply a slaughter, and rows and rows of ashigaru are knocked to the ground, and the tragedy of that kind of hot weapon war is not comparable to that of cold weapons. No matter how high your personal strength is, you will be beaten to rot when you see that your companions around you have not yet engaged the enemy, and you will not be able to stand it even by well-trained soldiers.

The ashigaru in the front row really couldn't stand this kind of psychological pressure, and he scattered and ran away with a wow, regardless of the scolding of the squad leader in the back.

Seeing the defeat of Ashigaru, the general of the Wa State who commanded at the rear, hurriedly sent a thousand mother-clothed people around him, ready to use the cavalry and horses to attack the formation of the Ming army.

Zhao Guoliang saw that the brightly colored cavalry on the opposite side began to move, coming towards his left flank, and ordered the two musket regiments to retreat separately from the left and right, so that the hand-to-hand combat regiment could face the enemy's ashigaru, and the musket regiment retreated to the left flank to form a hollow phalanx to deal with the cavalry.

The cavalry of the Wa Kingdom is very elite, and the individual strength of those mothers is also very high, but the loss is that the number is too small. If they have 10,000 people, they can't really say that they can win. However, this is a bit of a fool's dream, and the entire Mishima of Japan (Hokkaido was not a Japanese territory at this time, and the Ainu people of the Ezo tribe above were not recognized as a minority by the Japanese government until 1992) now have more than 10,000 people in Ishitaka's flagbook, and the Kumamoto and Satsuma clans can make up 1,000 people, and all the flag warriors on Kyushu Island are already gathered together.

The result was simple, 1,000 banners were killed under the encirclement and suppression of 6,000 musketeers, but they were also very brave, and they also caused more than 100 casualties to the Ming army.

The two hand-to-hand combat regiments of the 10th Division here faced the second wave of 10,000 ashigaru, ashigaru is the lowest level of soldiers in Japan, and the weapons and armor have to be prepared by themselves, and many ashigaru wear ancestral bamboo armor, such equipment is not enough for the Ming army who takes killing people as their profession.

The hand-to-hand combat regiment of the Ming army has been strengthened, coupled with the abundant food supply every day, these guys are not inferior to the white-armored elite soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in terms of physical fitness.

The iron artillery people originally followed the ashigaru charge, wanting to use the ashigaru's body to resist the bullets of the Ming army, but they overestimated the combat effectiveness of the ashigaru, and after making contact with the Ming army, the second group of ashigaru was quickly defeated, and at the same time, the rout of the iron artillery behind them was not in shape. Behind Ashigaru was the Ming army armed to the teeth with 6,000 people, and these people faced the iron artillery people who had no protection, which naturally made the iron artillery people deeply appreciate the sophistication of the Ming army's weapons.

The Japanese generals led by the Japanese State saw that the matter could not be fought anymore, so they quickly left their soldiers and fled with hundreds of people. In this way, the 50,000 army, which had been pinned on by the Kumamoto and Satsuma domains, fell apart in less than an hour, which was shorter than the time that the Wa navy held out.

After the Japanese army was defeated, Zhao Guoliang did not order the pursuit, one was unfamiliar with the terrain of the enemy country, and the other was that the gunpowder of the Ming army was about to bottom out. After more than a month of high-intensity fighting, the logistical supplies brought from Nanjing have basically been consumed, and now there is still half a month before the second batch of supplies arrives, so the gunpowder in hand now must be saved. This is probably the only shortcoming of the Ming army, which is that it relies too deeply on logistics.

Zhao Guoliang ignored the rout of the Japanese army, camped on the seaside, and waited for the return of the navy Desheng.

The navy also lived up to expectations, and finally returned to the Qiumo River before the sun was about to set, and Li Tinglong also brought back the good news of Desheng for Zhao Guoliang, more than 100 warships of the Japanese Navy were sunk more than 100, and all the large Anzhai ships were sunk, and the remaining Guan ships and small morning ships escaped more than 20 ships.

Since then, the battle known as the Battle of Kuma River in later Japanese history books ended with a complete victory for the Ming army, and Zhao Guoliang also became the Heavenly Demon King named after the Mongols in Japanese history books.

This battle basically crushed the organized resistance of the entire Kyushu Island in one fell swoop, and Zhao Guoliang led the team to rob around the island and never encountered a large-scale army again.

Zhao Guoliang's troops were stationed here in Qiumachuan for half a month, waiting for the second batch of supplies to arrive, and then continuing his plan to rob the island.

Beginning with Zhao Guoliang's landing on Kyushu Island on September 12, in two months, the Ming army broke through 36 cities and eliminated 18 feudal lords, of whom three feudal lords either fled or died. Zhao Guoliang robbed a total of 5.2 million taels of silver, 600,000 taels of gold, and countless jewels of all kinds.

And the most important point is to grab 3.8 million stone of rice, you must know that Kyushu Island is mountainous, except for some plains near the sea does not produce grain, these more than 3 million stone of grain is eighty percent of the entire island of Kyushu. It is now just October, and the millions of Japanese people on the entire Kyushu island have run out of food, and less than half of them can survive to the beginning of spring of the following year, and the rest have died in the man-made famine in the winter of the second year of Jimmu.

The transportation of 3.8 million stone of grain to Nanjing greatly alleviated the problem of food shortage in several refugee camps around Nanjing, and at the same time made the people of Huguang who handled it rich, and the locals who were kicked out of the grain market in Nanjing began to be dissatisfied with these Huguang people who came to steal business.

Zhao Guoliang didn't care how much trouble he had made in Nanjing, after breaking through the last town on Kyushu Island on the 10th day of October, Zhao Guoliang took people on the ship, and under the leadership of the leading party, he headed for the richer Honshu Island.