Chapter 379: Slaughtering Kumamoto Castle

Wang Yingshen saw the fire in the barracks, and immediately led the army straight to Matsudaira Nobutsuna's barracks. Wang Yingxian's army was halfway there, but he encountered Matsudaira Nobutsuna, who had escaped from the barracks.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna knew that the oncoming army was also the army of the Satsuma Domain, and he thought it was the army that had come to the rescue, so he immediately sent someone forward and asked, "Which daimyo's army is ahead?" ”

When the visitor got closer, he realized that this was the army of the Satsuma Domain, and he immediately exclaimed, "My lord, this is the reinforcement of the Satsuma Domain." ”

"Kill ......" Wang Yingxian didn't know who was coming from the other side, but he knew that the other side must be the enemy, so he ordered without hesitation.

"Quick, retreat to the camp of the Ogura Domain." Matsudaira Nobutsuna shouted loudly. At this moment, only a few camps such as the Ogura clan were not attacked, and the army of the Ogura clan did not know what was happening, and they were waiting for it at the moment.

As soon as Wang Yingshen heard that he was going to retreat to the Ogura Domain, he immediately ordered: "Don't let them escape, the dragoons will surprise me." ”

The Satsuma Domain also learned from the Ming Army to form dragoons, but the Satsuma Domain only had a total of 5,000 dragoons, and Wang Yingshen only brought 1,000 dragoons at the moment, but these 1,000 dragoons were enough to slaughter Matsudaira Nobutsuna and others.

Zheng Zhilong and Amakusa Shiro, who were sitting in Shimabara Castle, also received the news that the army of the Satsuma Domain had moved at this moment. It's just that Amakusa Shiro didn't immediately order troops.

"Isn't Your Highness ready to send troops?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"I need to observe again, and I can't tell if it's true or false right now." Amakusa Shiro said with a smile. Although Amakusa Shiro was only sixteen years old, he also had a group of people who were extremely loyal to him. Amakusa Shiro and the others discussed and decided that no matter whether this matter was true or not, they would wait for these daimyo to fight first.

"It's okay, we'll wait." Zheng Zhilong also said with a smile. Zheng Zhilong also knew what Amakusa Shiro meant, but he really didn't take Amakusa Shiro's group of people seriously, although the Shimabara rebel army had nearly 20,000 people, but it had less than 5,000 people. If it weren't for the fear that Shimahara's rebels would disrupt their plans, they wouldn't have thought of joining forces with Shimahara's rebels at all.

Zheng Zhilong's attitude made Amakusa Shiro suspicious, and he couldn't help but look at the people around him, as if he wanted to get an answer from them.

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After Wang Yingshen's army of 30,000 joined, the entire coalition army completely collapsed, and the army of the Ogura clan also received the news of the Satsuma clan's rebellion at this moment. It's just that after hesitating for a while on whether to rescue or not, and if so, how to rescue, I received the news that tens of thousands of troops from the Satsuma Domain had joined the alliance, and the defeat of the coalition was now decided.

The Ogura Domain's army knew that they were the next target of the Satsuma Domain, and the Ogura Domain did not hesitate to retreat. It's just that on the way to retreat, the 10,000-strong army of the Satsuma clan is already waiting for them.

The army of the Ogura clan retreated, and the Satsuma clan did not immediately pursue it, but continued to clear the remaining coalition forces, and seeing that the army of the Satsuma clan was already victorious, the rebel army of Shimabara finally could not sit still, and they also launched an attack on the coalition forces outside the castle.

"The overall situation here has been decided, General Wang immediately led his troops to pursue the army of the Ogura Domain, the Ogura Domain still has 20,000 troops, and they must not be allowed to escape, otherwise, there will be endless troubles." Yang Tiansheng admonished.

"No." Wang Yingxian nodded.

The geographical location of the Ogura Domain is very important, Okura Castle is across the sea from Honshu Island across the Shimonoseki Strait, and the capture of the Ogura Domain is related to the strategy of the entire Yan Siqi and the entire Kyushu, at this time, Yan Siqi's sailors are also about to enter the Shimonoseki Strait, and he wants to blockade the entire Shimonoseki Strait.

In an instant, the army of the Ogura clan entered the encirclement of the 10,000-strong army led by Liu Xiang.

"Leader Liu, there is an army of tens of thousands of people on the opposite side." The spies reported back.

"Who can you see?" Liu Xiang asked.

"I can't tell who it is, but it's definitely not a friendly army, it should be an army that escaped from Shimabara." The spies reported back.

"The dog entered, it was frozen all night, and I can finally warm up my body, and I ordered the whole army to prepare for battle." Liu Xiang spat and said.

"No."

The army of the Ogura clan fled in a hurry, and there were pursuers behind them, so they didn't have time to send scouts, and they crashed into Liu Xiang's ambush circle recklessly.

"Fire." Liu Xiang gave an order, and suddenly the guns rang out, which caught the Ogura clan off guard.

At this time, the army of the Ogura clan was intercepted in front and pursued in the rear, and the army was in chaos in an instant. After a brief period of panic, the army of the Ogura clan immediately began to organize a large army to prepare for a breakthrough, and they knew that it was impossible to withdraw at this moment, and that only by breaking through the siege would there be a glimmer of survival.

And Liu Xiang's army originally thought that it was a defeated army that had fled from the battlefield, which made Liu Xiang a little contemptuous, and besides, he waited here for another night, and people also relaxed. In the face of wave after wave of desperate attacks from the Ogura Domain, Liu Xiang's army was about to be rushed out by the Ogura Domain.

At this time, a thousand dragoons led by Wang Yingxian were the first to arrive, and this thousand dragoons played a decisive role. The appearance of this thousand dragoons meant that the pursuers had arrived, and the morale of the army of the Ogura clan that had been accumulated quickly declined, and the army of the Ogura clan was all infantry, and it was completely unable to resist in the face of the onslaught of this thousand dragoons.

Liu Xiang saw that Wang Yingshen had arrived, and he also ordered the whole army to charge, and in the time of a stick of incense, the pursuing infantry also arrived, and the defeat of the army of the Ogura clan was decided, and it was soon the surrender of surrender and the escape of escape. Just after the hour, the 20,000 troops of the Ogura Domain were all wiped out by Wang Yingshen.

At the end of the battle, the elite of the Kyushu domains was almost wiped out by the Satsuma domain. Of the 90,000 allied troops, more than 30,000 were captured, more than 30,000 were killed in battle, and nearly 20,000 were missing.

On the third day of the second lunar month, Yan Siqi led an army of 40,000 troops to take Kumamoto Castle under the banner of suppressing the Shimabara Rebellion. At this time, the whole of Toei did not know the news that Shimabara's coalition forces had been defeated. Three days later, Yan Siqi's troops captured Kumamoto Castle without blood. Kumamoto Castle is a big city in Kyushu, and the Kumamoto Domain is also a strong feudal domain in Kyushu, so in order to ensure that there is no worry after attacking the Kokura Domain, Yan Siqi carried out a massacre in Kumamoto Castle.

Yan Siqi's army has done such a thing as slaughtering the city many times, it can be regarded as practice makes perfect, in three days, Kumamoto City was slaughtered by Yan Siqi's army, and the population was only two percent. After the slaughter of Kumamoto Castle, Yan Siqi's army obtained a large amount of grain, grass and money.

After the 60,000 troops led by Zheng Zhilong repaired in Shimabara for two days, they took a military ship directly to Ogura Castle.