On the second day of the Battle of Kumamoto, the northern fleet of the Tsushima clan had already been subdued, and from Tsushima Island, the troops were divided into two routes, one under the leadership of Zheng Zhilong to Hirado, and the other under the leadership of the Dutchman Putmans to attack Nagasaki. Please search (product book network) to see the most complete! The fastest update!

There was no standing force in these two places, and the Satsuma Domain's army had exhausted the surrounding forces, so Nagasaki Takekime quickly fled to the Saga Domain. However, shortly after Takecaime arrived in the Saga Domain, the Kumamoto Plains coalition was defeated, and the news of the alliance between the Kumamoto Domain and the Satsuma Domain reached the Saga Domain.

In fact, there are only two richest places on the island of Kyushu: Nagasaki and Heido, which controlled foreign trade, and Kumamoto Domain, which has a large plain and water system. The daimyo in other regions are actually not wealthy, and this time in order to resist the Satsuma army, they have basically taken out the old capital.

With the collapse of the combined forces of the Kumamoto Plains, the feudal domains were no longer able to resist the combined forces of Kumamoto-Satsuma. And the Saga Domain was even worse, not only was the elite of the domain empty, but even the head of the family was captured. Therefore, when Takecaime tried to get the Saga clan to send troops to help him recover Nagasaki and Hirado, the subordinates of the clan did not pay attention to him, and everyone was busy with how to keep the family alive and inquire about whether the head of the clan was still alive.

Takecai had only stayed in the Saga Domain for two days and had to continue on her run, and when she came here, the people were terrified and had no heart to help him recover Nagasaki and Hirado; The second is that many members of the clan have an increasingly cold attitude towards him, which makes him worry that the Saga domain will fall to the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition.

So Takecainu fled again, this time to Fukuoka Domain, which had not sent troops before and was the most powerful in northern Kyushu.

Because of the infighting between the head of the family and the chief retainer, the Kuroda family, who was lucky enough to escape, is also in a state of luck and confusion at the moment.

Although the Fukuoka Domain and the two feudal clans combined had a territory of more than 500,000 koku, they did not feel that they could withstand the attack of the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition when the Kitakyushu coalition had been destroyed by the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition.

However, although the Fukuoka Domain was able to ease its internal conflicts as a result of this sudden change, there were two factions of opinion over whether the Fukuoka Domain should continue to resist the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition or bow to the coalition.

Retainers such as Kuriyama Toshisho, who trusted the shogunate's strength, believed that they should continue to resist the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition until the shogunate sent a large army to conquer Kyushu.

On the other hand, some of the retainers believed that the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition was powerful, and that the Choshu domain north of Kyushu was hostile to the shogunate, and that it was impossible for the shogunate to send a large army to conquer Kyushu in a short period of time.

Kuroda Tadayuki, who had been fighting with Kuriyama Toshisho, did not dare to openly support the ideas of the retainers, but secretly he strongly supported the opinions of the shogunate and the coalition.

The Fukuoka Domain then fell into a tangled dilemma, choosing to resist the coalition forces, and now the Fukuoka Domain is about to perish; If you choose to surrender to the coalition forces, you will be liquidated by the shogunate afterwards.

However, the news of the fall of Nagasaki and Hirado brought by the bamboo girl finally made the head of the family, Kuroda Tada, make up his mind. The intervention of the Ming Kingdom and the Southern Barbarians made Kyushu Island an isolated island.

Fukuoka Castle is located in the Fukusaki Hills between the Hakata and Naka Rivers, and the castle town is located to the north of the castle, close to the sea. Although the castle was called Stone Castle, the castle tower was eventually demolished by the former feudal lord in order to dispel the shogunate's wariness.

In other words, Fukuoka Castle was actually a port city like Nagasaki, and since the Ming and Nanban people joined forces with the Kumamoto-Satsuma army, Fukuoka Castle was in danger of being attacked by land and sea.

Kuroda Tadayuki did not believe that the Kumamoto-Satsuma coalition, with the help of the Akira and the Nanban fleet, would lose to the shogunate. So he began to show his attitude to his retainers and demanded that Takecainu leave Fukuoka Castle.

Kuroda Tadayuki's defection made Takecai resentful, but the retreat of the shogunate's power in Kyushu prevented him from making any counterattack against Kuroda Tadayuki's actions, and he had to leave Fukuoka Castle and go to the Ogura Domain, the northernmost part of Kyushu.

Kuriyama Toshiaki could not accept Kuroda's decision, so he left with Takecainu. However, shortly after they arrived at Ogura Castle, Hosokawa Tadashi ordered the two to be captured, and then gave them to the coalition as gifts as proof that the Ogura clan had completely surrendered to the coalition forces.

When Hosokawa Tadashi escorted the two to surrender to the coalition forces, Kato Tadahiro crossed the Chikugo River with 9,000 troops, and it was still more than 100 miles away from the Ogura Domain.

Immediately after the capture of Nagasaki and Heido on November 12, the Northern Route Fleet established order in the region. In addition to the 900 heavily armed soldiers, the local Chinese and Chezhi Dan believers were also able to bring the situation under control so quickly.

Although Putmans wanted to occupy the port of Nagasaki on his own, Zheng Zhilong and the Portuguese had to accept the principle of Nagasaki and Hirado's autonomy. Although expelled by the shogunate, the Dutch had some roots in Nagasaki, holding about 40% of the seats in the Governing Council.

The Chinese and Portuguese-backed Cheechtdans also held 40% of the seats in the council, and the last 20% went to local merchants willing to cooperate with the fleet.

Zheng Zhilong was also satisfied with this operation, nearly one-tenth of the wealth seized from Nagasaki and Hirado fell into his pocket, and he also took back his wife Tagawa clan, two sons and a daughter.

On 15 November, Putmans continued north with his main fleet, and on 16 November reached the sea north of Fukuoka Castle, forming a situation of land and sea encirclement with Tadahiro Kato. Kuroda Tadayuki hurriedly gave up his position and expressed his willingness to join the coalition forces.

On November 17, the fleet arrived at Ogura Castle and accepted Hosokawa Tadashi's surrender, and the shogunate on Kyushu Island was largely eliminated. The Choshu Domain, which is separated from Kyushu Island by a strait, was a great joy, but it was bad news for the Tosa Domain on the island of Shikoku.

What worried the Tosa clan even more was that on November 15, a water battle broke out at the Kii Waterway, in which the naval forces of the Tokushima and Kii domains were defeated by the Aketo fleet, and finally lost control of the Kii Waterway, and the Seto Inland Sea Channel fell under the threat of the Aketo fleet.

The island of Shikoku, which was surrounded by the sea, lost control of the sea lanes, which meant that it had to face the attack of the Kyushu coalition on its own, which caused the Tosa clan to fall into an atmosphere of nervous preparation and panic.

However, in the Tokushima Domain and Kii Domain, which lost the water battle, the mood was much more stable than that of the Tosa Domain. At the beginning of the water war, the Awaji naval army, which abandoned its allies and fled back to its base area, suffered little losses.

The agreement reached between the Wasuka family and the Tokai Patrol Prefecture made the Tokushima Domain not only not attacked by the Aketo fleet, but instead made Tokushima Castle a supply port for the Aketo fleet.

As for the Kii Domain, the annihilation of the naval army, which originally had little strength, could not damage the strength of the Kii Domain, and the lack of good ports in the domain also prevented the invasion of the Aketo fleet from the sea.

The lord of the domain, Tokugawa Yorinobu, and his retainers realized from this water battle the unreliability of the Tokushima domain and the strength of the Aketo fleet. After much discussion with his retainers, Yorino decided to ignore the shogunate's request for them to attack Osaka, and not to agree to the armistice agreement on the Osaka side, and to ensure the safety of their own family first.

On November 17, Tokugawa Yoshinobu disguised himself as Naoji Ando's bodyguard and held a meeting with Li Chenfang and Xu Xinsu in Sakai City. At the talks, Li Chenfang and Xu Xinsu promised Lai Xuan that no matter how the situation changed in the future, the Ming Kingdom would ensure its right to rule the Kishu Peninsula and hand over the area south of Ojigawa-Lake Tsuruta-Sayama to the Kii Domain.

Lai Xuan promised that as long as the shogunate army did not capture Osaka Castle, the Kii domain would remain standing, and would never send troops to cross the Ojigawa-Tsuruta Lake-Sayama line. In addition, Lai Xuan also took out 50,000 taels to redeem the captured soldiers of the Kii Domain and buy a batch of weapons.

Abe Masaji had just captured Hyogozu with the returning Choshu Raider, and was shelled by five warships anchored outside the harbor. The defeated Kataoka detachment took the opportunity to retreat to Mt. Rokko, while Hyogo and the port were completely destroyed.

With the Aketo fleet in control of the sea lanes, Abe Shoji had to stop west of the Minato River. Because he was afraid that when he led his army to attack Osaka, this fleet would cut off his rear route, leaving his army in the front and rear.

Although Abe Masasji stopped, he didn't stay in a daze. While he sent people to negotiate with the fleet and ask why they were attacking his army for no reason, he sent a small force to encircle and suppress the remnants of Kataoka's army that were roaming around Mt. Rokko.

In addition, he sent a messenger to Kyoto, asking the Kyoto office to lead the assembled Gyeonggi coalition army to the south and attack Osaka with him.

At this time, Ye Yuxuan was moving the headquarters of the coalition forces from Tanegashima to Nagasaki, and invited the western daimyo of the Kyushu and Choshu domains to meet in Nagasaki to discuss the matter of the coalition army. At this time, 60 or 70 transport ships led by Lin Qingye, the three water envoys of North Korea, were heading towards Changmen.

This famous fishing port in the Choshu Domain has become the largest whaling base west of Japan. The Ming fishing company not only controlled a large number of men here, but also stored a large amount of food, enough to support the consumption of a fleet.

Lin Qingye brought the Jeju First Regiment here, and he also wanted to use the materials here to support the battle plan of the north. While the southwestern feudal clans and the allied forces were nervously preparing for the Rakura War, the Kyoto Shoji Daidai Itakura Shigemune was in trouble.

Although Abe Masaji's plan to send troops was good, Itakura Shigemune felt powerless. Because Kyoto was suffering from a shortage of supplies, he even had to stop the order to call up troops from the Gyeonggi domains.

It stands to reason that Kyoto, which sits on the Kyoto Basin and is close to the Osaka Plain, should not be short of supplies. However, after decades of peace, the population of Kyoto has exceeded the population limit that the Kyoto basin can carry, and it is basically necessary to import various daily necessities from Osaka.

However, now that Osaka has fallen, and some of the grain from the previous autumn harvest has been transferred to Abe Shoji, Kyoto has suddenly lost a source of imports. Although Itakura Shigemune intended to ask for help from the Hikone and Owari domains, the former also sent 500 koku of grain, while the latter simply did not pull out a dime.

After Osaka dispatched troops to attack Kyoto, many people fled into Kyoto from the vicinity of Gyeonggi, which accelerated the consumption of Kyoto's supplies. In such a situation, Itakura Shigemune was able to pacify Kyoto without chaos, and where could he lead his troops to Osaka.

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