Man Gui asked the artillerymen to push the small-caliber artillery forward fifty paces and hit the houses inside, and he always remembered what the emperor had said to them: "It is best if I can win the battle with money, and I would rather use ten thousand taels of silver than lose the life of a soldier." ”

A large number of shells lifted the roof or knocked down an entire house. And the Japanese army, which urgently assembled to prevent the Ming army from rushing in, also happened to meet at the same time, and let the shells abuse it again, but they did not dare to leave, for fear that the Ming army would take the opportunity to rush in.

But the Ming infantry still had no intention of coming in, the artillery carriage continued to push forward, and the cannons directly began to fire flat, destroying the people and buildings in sight one by one, and the fan-shaped area more than 300 steps away from the city wall was already a piece of rubble.

At this time, the Ming infantry finally moved, but they had just entered the city wall, and then began to defend on the spot, while the artillery carriage slowly pushed in, and it was another artillery battle, especially another artillery battle, and the Japanese were going crazy, so can't you have a little bushido spirit? Can't you just charge?

A lot of the infantry began to collect the shells that were fired, some of which were no longer usable, but most of them could be reused, wasn't it just a big iron ball anyway? Because of the ease of carrying, gunpowder was carried in large quantities, while artillery shells were too heavy, so they did not carry much.

This is the famous "Kagoshima Artillery Battle" in the history of later wars, which is considered to be the most obscene artillery battle, and it is a complete example of using money to smash people.

Advancing step by step like this, in fact, Shimazu Tadashi already knew the final ending, but he didn't want to admit that he still had to make the last struggle, and he put his last hope on tonight.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the Ming army finally stopped the shelling, because there were no targets to attack in front of them. The infantry can finally come in handy.

Man Gui gathered the two infantry battalions, he stood on a stone and said: "Brothers, the artillery brothers have almost done their work, you have eaten enough, and now it is time for us to make a contribution." ”

He picked up his big knife and said, "The first battalion will follow me straight to the domain lord's mansion, and the second battalion will go to find their warehouse."

The first battalion followed Man Gui to the feudal lord's mansion on the right, although Man Gui said Chong, in fact, he was very cautious, and chose a place with few roadside houses and a relatively wide field of vision to ensure that he would not be attacked by sneak attacks.

And Shimazu Tadashi saw that the Ming army did not wait for tomorrow to attack, and knew that the general situation was gone, so he sighed and asked his men to start packing up the gold and silver, and headed towards Kirishima from the waterway. He thought that with the help of the shogunate, he would be able to recover Kagoshima soon, so he did not order the food in the feudal prefecture to be burned.

So Man Gui entered the Satsuma Domain without encountering any resistance, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the warehouse full of grain. Whether it is to buy grain or to levy grain, the quantity is always limited, and the levy of grain will also intensify the people's antagonism.

Soon the news came from the second battalion, and they also found a large warehouse, in addition to grain, there were some other things, such as gold sand, cured meat and fish.

At this time, the samurai in the castle followed Shimazu Tadashi, and the rest were peasants, and the guards gathered them together, and then pirates who knew Japanese acted as interpreters.

Man Gui said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are ordered by the Ming Emperor to punish the Shimazu Domain, which has captured my Ming Domain, and we have nothing to do with you. I hereby promise that as long as you do not harm the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will never harm you. ”

"But, if there is a Ming soldier here who is injured not in battle but in your sneak attack, then a hundred of you will suffer the same damage. I don't care which of you do it, I'm just killing a hundredfold of you, please keep that in mind. ”

"What did you do before, what do you still do, how much you originally gave to the Shimazu family, now you only have to hand over half of it to us. And we need someone to help us repair the broken walls, and if we wish, we will feed you, and we will pay you ten copper coins a day. ”

These peasants, under the rule of the Shimazu family, were the most powerless people, and could be considered serfs, and they did not have the same antipathy to the Ming people as the samurai. As soon as they heard that they only had to pay half of the tax, and that they had food supplies and even wages, which was unimaginable at the beginning, everyone was in high spirits and shouted: "Willing to serve the master of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Satisfied with their attitude, Mangui asked the pirates to group them up and repair the walls that had been destroyed by artillery. Of course, some guards still have to be overseers. The rest of the Guards went to sort out the supplies in the warehouses, or pulled in the cannons from the outside and placed them on the walls.

These Japanese were very conscientious, perhaps because they felt that they should be worthy of food and wages, and they were willing to work hard, and two days later, the city wall had been repaired, and at this time, Zheng Zhilong's fleet also entered Kagoshima Bay.

He was born as a pirate, and this time the battle for the capture of Satsuma was supposed to be plundered, and there was no military discipline at all, so he grabbed it all the way along the shore, and when he saw the larger fortress was a few cannons, he went ashore and began to grab things after breaking up the enemy, and when he saw the ship, he grabbed it directly, and for a while the whole bay was screaming and screaming, and the Japanese were all evading.

By the time they arrived at Kagoshima Castle, they had already looted a dozen or so large fishing boats, as well as a large amount of fresh fish and grain. One side of Kagoshima Castle is the bay, so his boat can be parked directly at the pier of the castle.

He brought with him a large amount of gunpowder lead bullets, which could be used at least two hundred times per soldier's musket, including those carried by the artillerymen, which should have met the needs of the independent brigade in the Satsuma War.

Zheng Zhilong also provided them with a large amount of fresh fish, and handed over the stolen fishing boat to Man Gui, asking him to gather the fishermen to fish. Then he began to sweep along the coast with a flotilla.

In Kirishima, where a large fleet of Satsuma naval forces was being prepared, Shimazu Tadashi gathered all the ships he could find, a total of about sixty ships, ready to retake Kagoshima Castle by water.

And Zheng Zhilong didn't know that he had brought two lucky boats, as well as more than 30 smaller sea boats, the boats were well equipped, and the personnel were also well equipped, and he was going to grab the entire bay along the coast, and then stationed on Sakurajima, and Kagoshima Castle formed a horn to defend this bay.

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