Bai Jiansen didn't care, loaded the short gun with ammunition, and then pointed at an angry Japanese with the short gun: "You, it's you, come out and say, what's wrong with us punishing the Satsuma Domain." ”

The Japanese man took a few steps forward, looked directly at him and said, "I don't know about the Satsuma Domain's attack on the Ming Domain, but I saw you attack the Satsuma Domain with my own eyes. ”

Bai Jiansen smiled: "You don't know, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, if it wasn't for the Satsuma Domain to attack Ryukyu first, how could we come to fight you." ”

The man was surprised and said, "Is Ryukyu a Ming domain?" The generals said that the Ryukyus were originally a place in our country, but they were occupied by the Ryukyuan people. ”

Bai Jiansen had already raised the short gun and was about to pull the trigger, but when he heard this, he put down the short gun and asked, "Have you participated in the Battle of the Ryukyus?" ”

The man's face had changed a little, and his anger had subsided a little, and he said, "Returning to the general, the little Yamada Ichiro, once participated in the Battle of the Ryukyus. ”

Bai Jiansen said: "At the beginning of the establishment of our dynasty, Ryukyu paid tribute and became a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, and it has been more than two hundred years now. ”

Yamada Ichiro is not a fool, now think about it carefully, many strange things at that time came to mind one by one, knowing that this Ming officer should not be lying, he still has a bit of a concept of right and wrong after all, since it was the Satsuma Domain that attacked the Ming Domain first, then the Ming Dynasty can not be said to be wrong to retaliate now.

Bai Jiansen smiled: "Have you figured it out? ”

Ichiro Yamada knelt on the ground and said, "The little one is willing to surrender." Then he turned to the Japanese behind him and said, "It was true that we attacked the Ryukyus first." ”

Seeing him cooperate so much, Bai Jiansen was overjoyed, stepped forward to help him up, and said, "Yamada Ichiro, I now appoint you as the flag chief of the Ming Guards Army, responsible for managing the Army." Now those who are willing to surrender stand behind Yamada. ”

It seems that Yamada Ichiro has some prestige among these Japanese, and one after another people are standing behind him, and Bai Jiansen's malicious gaze and constantly shaking short gun make those who are reluctant to stand behind Yamada for safety reasons.

People have a herd mentality, and as a result, the vast majority of people stand up. Bai Jiansen walked up to those who were unwilling to stand behind Yamada with a short gun, pointed the short gun at the eyebrows of the person in front of him and said, "You really don't want to surrender to my Daming, right?" ”

The man looked at the mouth of the black hole, thinking that the previously strong Kuroda fell to the ground without resistance in front of this short gun, knelt on the ground with weak legs and said, "The villain is willing to surrender." ”

Bai Jiansen swept over the rest of the people again, looking everywhere, and those people quickly ran behind Yamada, standing neater than anyone else.

Bai Jiansen nodded with satisfaction, let the people who were related to each other stand together, and then divided them into two teams, trying to divide those who were related or neighborly in different teams, and each designated a captain, led by Yamada.

Then he said: "Since you know that it was the Satsuma clan that invaded the Ming clan first, then you should help the righteous Ming side, now the first team will help us collect grain, if the grain can't be collected, those farmers will suffer, if you dare to run away, then your relatives or neighbors in the second team will be killed, go." ”

After listening to Bai Jiansen's return, Man Gui said, "Is this method effective? ”

Bai Jiansen said with confidence: "It should be effective, they have no place to go now, and no one wants to involve their relatives and neighbors being killed." As for them going to requisition grain, even if the peasants have hatred, it will mostly fall on them. ”

Man Gui thought for a while and said, "Actually, if you say that as long as one person escapes, kill the other team, the effect may be better." ”

Bai Jiansen thought, yes, of course people who have relatives in the other team will prevent the people in their team from escaping, he is still too tender, he smiled: "It's still General Man's smart, and the subordinate is ashamed." ”

Man Gui smiled: "It's just that we used to use the joint sitting method more effectively, so I think it's the same for them." I'm going to attack to the east, and you're in charge of maintaining it here, so I'll leave you a battalion. ”

Bai Jiansen said: "If the situation is better when the association comes back from the army, General Man will not have to keep so many people, and one bureau should be enough." ”

By the afternoon, the first team of the Concordant Army had returned, and none of them were bad, and a large amount of food had been transported. Only then did Man Gui rest assured, and left a bureau here, and the army headed for Satsuma's domain.

On the morning of the third day, I finally came to a distance of five miles outside the feudal domain. The Satsuma Domain is a stone castle with a wall of less than two feet high, and if you want to attack the castle with ants, it is actually not complicated, but the Guards have never practiced the siege of ants, and there are no ladders and other utensils necessary for the siege of ants.

Of course, Man Gui didn't need to worry about the lack of a cloud ladder at all, because the Shimazu family outside the city wall had already lined up the battle array and was ready to fight to the death with the Ming army.

Shimazu Tadatsune was the head of the Shimazu family at this time, and he was also the first lord of the Satsuma Domain. He opened the domain in the 45th year of Wanli because the Satsuma domain was located in a small plateau terrain unique to Japan.

One of the serious problems with this terrain is that the soil has very poor water retention, and water often gushes after rain, making it very difficult to grow crops. In this way, although the Satsuma clan nominally had an income of more than 600,000 koku, the actual income was generally only about 350,000 koku.

In order to alleviate this impoverished situation, Shimazu Tadashi sent troops to the Ryukyus, and through the conquest of the Ryukyus, the Shimazu family not only grabbed a large amount of money, but also seized the land of the Amami Islands, which produced 40,000 koku, and at the same time obtained the right to profit from the tributary trade of the Ryukyus.

It's a pity that only a few years later, Daming actually knew, and he wanted to avenge the Ryukyus. This made Shimazu very unhappy. I occupy the Ryukyus, you want to take it back, I have no problem with this, you want to come and fight me, this is too much.

Of course, this kind of divine logic made Shimazu determined to fight to the death with Daming, and although his relationship with the shogunate was not good in peacetime, the shogunate still chose to help him at a critical moment and deal with the invaders from Daming together.

When the Guards defeated the Japanese position, Shimazu had already received the news and immediately carried out an emergency mobilization. The Shimazu Domain was somewhat different from other Japanese feudal domains in that it practiced a feudal system called the outer castle system.

His samurai did not gather to live near the main castle, but lived in small strongholds near the fields, which were called outer castles, and the Shimazu family lived in the inner castle. Therefore, he had to mobilize in order to concentrate the surrounding samurai in the inner castle to meet the enemy, and the Guards would encounter enemy resistance in Akuya, Hichi, and other places.

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