As soon as Li Tinglong issued the order to prepare, there was an appearance on the dock.

There was a gunshot from the boat that was originally parked on the edge of the pier, and Zhao Guoliang saw in the telescope that the four sailors on the boat rowed hard, and the boat quickly left the dock like an arrow.

At the same time, several small boats rushed out of the dock, and there were people holding guns and shooting at the boats.

Zhao Guoliang saw the situation and hurriedly shouted: "Li Tinglong, quickly open artillery support!" ”

Li Tinglong looked at the situation and said, "My lord, no! Our ships are too close to them, and it is easy to hurt our own people! ”

Zhao Guoliang was not a navy, he didn't know the power of naval artillery, and he had no choice but to watch his own people being pursued by the enemy.

However, fortunately, the navy sailors were all strong and strong, and their physical fitness was not comparable to that of the Japanese who could not eat meat, and after a while, the boat was rowed to the side of the Fuzhou.

The sailors on the ship had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw that their own boat had entered a shooting corner, they immediately opened fire to bombard the boat pursued by the Japanese state.

The best way to deal with this kind of close-quarters ship is shotguns, the naval cannon is much more powerful than the army gun, and one cannon will beat the two small boats two hundred meters away into a sieve, and the remaining few ships saw the powerful artillery fire of the Ming Kingdom, and they all scattered and fled one by one.

Zhao Guoliang grabbed a sailor who had just come up and asked, "What's the matter?" Why do the Japanese attack you? ”

"Lord Hui, we don't know, at the beginning, Lord Yang was safe and sound after he went ashore, I don't know why those gangs attacked us!"

Zhao Guoliang nodded, it seemed that Yang Shilong had been subjected to an accident. Thinking that he had suffered such a big loss as soon as he arrived in the Wa Kingdom, the emperor didn't know how to reprimand himself when he returned to Nanjing. Zhao Guoliang was furious in his heart, and said to Li Tinglong: "Damn, these Japanese dwarfs toast and don't eat and drink, and give the order to go down and let the other four capital ships come over and bomb Fujiang Island to the ground for me!" ”

Li Tinglong received the order, and while ordering his subordinates to raise flags and mobilize warships ten miles away to help in the battle, he also ordered his subordinates to open the gun doors and start bombarding Fujiang Island.

As the largest tonnage warship of the Ming Navy, the Fuzhou is equipped with 108 guns of various types, and 54 guns on one side.

There were no more than 2,000 people on Fukue Island, and there were only a few hundred buildings, and the largest building was the main castle of the Fukue Domain, which naturally became the focus of the bombardment.

After a while, four other warships also joined the battle sequence, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Fukue Castle was bombed into ruins.

Zhao Guoliang looked at the basically unintact buildings on the island, ordered the navy to stop shooting, and sent two battalions of the army to land and fight.

The first time he came into contact with the Japanese people, Zhao Guoliang naturally had to discharge his own lineage, and the two battalions of the 1st Regiment of the 8th Division, under the leadership of the regiment commander, began to board the dinghy and prepare for landing.

Zhao Guoliang knew that the most dangerous thing about this kind of landing battle was the time of landing, so he asked Li Tinglong to shoot as close as possible to ensure that there was no resistance on the dock.

Li Tinglong felt sorry for his big ship, but the admiral's order could not be disobeyed, so he had no choice but to steer the ship as close to the dock as possible, until the bottom of the ship touched the reef in Haiti and did not stop, so that it was two hundred meters closer to the pier.

From this position, you don't need a telescope to see the situation on the pier, which was in ruins after being bombarded by heavy naval artillery, and several dead bodies lay on a trestle.

At this time, the landing boat was already close to the wharf, and the first batch of 30 soldiers boarded the wharf and immediately formed a formation to prevent the Japanese from counterattacking.

Although the army was cautious, there was a dead silence on the dock, and no one came out to fight to the death with the Ming army, so 1,200 people from two battalions of the army calmly went ashore.

The soldiers who had come ashore began to march towards the city in a platoon of attackers, under the formation of a regimental commander. Leaving the dock and starting to find the Japanese who were not killed by the artillery, the order of the superior was to shoot as long as there was a weapon in his hand, so the commander of the regiment did not show mercy to his subordinates, and all the roe deer rats did not look like good people and shoot them.

Zhao Guoliang was relieved when he saw the army coming ashore on the ship, he knew that the combat effectiveness of his army, as long as the formation was spread, the same number of Manchu iron cavalry was not an opponent, and there should be no problem now.

The sound of muskets was heard in the city, which lasted less than half an hour, and the soldiers who delivered the letter came back in small boats to report the situation, and Yang Shilong also returned.

Lao Yang's nose was bruised and his face was swollen after being beaten, and he cried when he came up: "My lord, these gangsters are not things, and they beat me before I speak!" ”

Zhao Guoliang reached out and took a rag for Lao Yang to wipe his tears: "How is it?" Why did they hit you? ”

"My lord, Xiaguan has not taken the Nagasaki line for many years, and I don't know that Goto Shengli, who is familiar with Xiaguan, died last year, and now it is Shengli's son Goto Shengji who is in charge. After this guy saw Xia Guan, he said that we delayed their fishing, let us accompany the silver, and Xia Guan argued with them, these guys said that Xia Guan did it! ”

Zhao Guoliang didn't believe it when he heard Yang Shilong say this, there were many big ships on his side, all of which were parked off the coast of Fujiang Island, and that feudal lord wouldn't attack him as long as his head didn't get into the water, let alone ask for silver!

"Lord Yang, it's not right! Don't they see such a powerful fleet of ours? How dare you be the first to do it! ”

Yang Shilong rubbed his red and swollen face*, and then said: "My lord, I saw the shopkeeper of the Zheng family on the island sitting next to Wudao Shengli, it is estimated that this guy did it!" Zheng Chenggong's mother was originally from Hirado, not far from the Fujiang Domain, probably because the Zheng family made us bad! ”

Zhao Guoliang felt that this was reasonable when he heard Yang Shilong say this, the Zheng family was a hegemon in the coastal areas of Fujian, and the Zheng family in the Fujiang Domain was of course hard in the background.

At this moment, news came from the shore that the stone castle on the island had been breached, the lord of the Fukue domain had run away, and now the army had occupied Fukue Island, what should I do with the Admiral?

Zhao Guoliang and the others have been floating at sea for half a month, and they finally saw the land, and they are ready to rest here for a few days.

"Tell the order to go down and land on the island!"

When Zhao Guoliang landed on Fukue Island, the battle on the island had already ended. Although the Fukue Domain is called a feudal domain, it is just a larger town. There are only more than 2,000 people on the whole island, and a few hundred are merchants who have come to do business. Five or six hundred people were killed by a single burst of naval fire, and with the massacre of the army ashore, less than a thousand people are now left alive on Fukue Island.

The head of the regiment came to greet Zhao Guoliang with a few captives: "Lord Admiral, what kind of feudal lord ran away, and the last general only caught a few of his family members!" After speaking, he pointed to the people behind him with his hand.

Zhao Guoliang saw a young man led by him, and he seemed to have some identity.

"What's your name? Can you understand Chinese? ”

The young man hurriedly bowed and saluted: "General Mingguo, I am the younger brother of the Fujiang Domain, Goto Shengji, Goto Shengzhi!" ”

"It turned out to be the younger brother of the feudal lord, why did you attack my Ming envoy?"

The young man hurriedly knelt down and said, "General, it's all that guy from Shengci, listen to Zheng Fang's instigation!" That Zheng Fang said that their Zheng family was going to attack the mainland in the near future, so let Sheng Ci not be afraid of the Great Tomorrow Army! Sheng Ci that guy got the benefits of the Zheng family, so he did something wrong! The kid is completely opposed to the use of force with Da Ming, please spare the general's life! ”

Seeing that Wudao Sheng kowtowed and begged for mercy again and again, Zhao Guoliang knew that this was a ghost who was afraid of death, but it was okay, it was convenient to lead the way* party to do anything!

Zhao Guoliang turned his head and said to Yang Shilong: "Lord Yang, this kid is handed over to you, he is the younger brother of the feudal lord, he should know where the gold and silver treasures are hidden, you take a hundred people to dig it well!" ”

According to Zhao Guoliang's estimate, this Fujiang Domain is a small landlord, although the population is not large, but it is located in a transportation artery, and there must be some silver. Just like those rich people in Nanzhili, they wear turtles one by one, but there is no one hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver hidden in that house.

However, Yang Shilong came to report in the evening, which really disappointed Zhao Guoliang, he didn't expect this Fujiang clan to be so poor, and that domain lord was completely a poor ghost!

Yang Shilong led people to search the entire city lord's mansion, only to find 1,000 taels of gold, less than 10,000 taels of silver, and some gold and silver utensils, the total of which was about more than 20,000 taels of silver. The wealth in the city lord's mansion was not as great as that of the merchants in the city, and the army's search party found more than 20,000 silver in the rubble of the city.

Zhao Guoliang secretly complained in his heart when he heard such a little silver, and when the five big ships shelled in the afternoon, the money spent was like flowing water, each ship had a hundred cannons, and each cannon would cost one or five cents of silver to shoot once, plus the combat expenses of the army's landing, the 50,000 taels of silver captured today were just enough to break even.

Yang Shilong frowned when he saw Zhao Guoliang and asked, "My lord, what's the matter?" ”

"Lord Yang, money! Can such a feudal lord collect 50,000 taels of silver? It's not enough for us to spend a campaign! ”

It turned out to be worried about silver, this is easy to say!

"Lord Admiral, this Fukue Domain is located overseas, and he can only survive by collecting some tolls on a regular basis, and now that we are in civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, there are fewer merchants who come to Nagasaki to do business, so he doesn't have any oil and water here! However, Nagasaki on the other side has a lot of oil and water. Not to mention anything else, even the dozen or so merchants of the Zheng family in Nagasaki, I estimate that there are 100,000 taels of silver! ”

Zhao Guoliang was interested when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Now that feudal lord of the Wa Kingdom is rich?" Let's grab them one by one! ”

"There are more than 200 feudal lords in the whole country, and the details of the lower officials are not clear, but the lower officials of these feudal lords around Nagasaki still know some! Of course, the richest ones belong to the shogun, but in Edo, there are still five or six days to go from here, and the richest ones in front of me are the Fukuoka Domain, Saga Domain, Kumamoto Domain, and Satsuma Domain, all of which are at the level of the lord of the country, all of which are at the level of hundreds of thousands of stones! ”