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The news of the rebellion of the Satsuma Domain and the total annihilation of the 90,000 allied troops spread throughout Kyushu more than ten days later, and then the news of the slaughter of the Kumamoto Domain also spread throughout Kyushu. The people of the whole Kyushu were panicked, and the daimyo everywhere were also panicked.

On the eighth day of the second month, the sailors of the Satsuma clan blocked the entire Shimonoseki Strait, and at the same time, hundreds of warships cruised near Kyushu Island, on the one hand, to block the news of Kyushu to prevent it from leaking, and on the other hand, to prevent reinforcements from Honshu Island.

Yan Siqi and the others were originally born as pirates, and their sea power in this sea area was second only to the Ming Dynasty, and the Dutch only had two warships and ten merchant ships, and the shogunate had made the already very weak Dongying sea power even weaker since the promulgation of the Shogunate's lockdown decree. Although the Hirado Domain in Kyushu was famous for its naval army, in fact there were no large gunboats at all, only some small warships, and when they saw Yan Siqi's sailors passing by, they didn't even dare to go to sea to intercept them, so they could only watch Yan Siqi's sailors go to Ogura Castle.

On the tenth day of the second month, Zheng Zhilong's army captured Ogura Castle with the help of the Naval Division, and Ogura Castle was slaughtered again. At Ogura Castle, Zheng Zhilong's army encountered strong resistance. This was the result of several massacres by the Satsuma Domain's army. Fortunately, with the help of the sailor, under the heavy artillery bombardment of the sailor, Zheng Zhilong was able to break through Kokura Castle. This battle also consumed nearly seventy percent of the ammunition of the naval division.

By the end of February, the Satsuma clan had captured nearly half of Kyushu's territory. All the castles of the former Hizen Domain surrendered to Amakusa Shiro, and Amakusa Shiro took advantage of the Satsuma Domain's siege and quickly expanded into a power second only to the Satsuma Domain in Kyushu. The few remaining places were still nominally in the hands of the shogunate, but had been cut off from the shogunate by the sailors of the Satsuma domain.

"The consumption of military supplies is too great, especially ammunition, our ammunition can only last for ten days, if the military supplies purchased by Xu Xinsu from Daming cannot be delivered in five days, all our military operations will have to stop." Yang Tiansheng said.

"Xu Xinsu, who entered the dog, it's been almost a month, and the things we want haven't been delivered yet, what does he want to do." Zhong Bin scolded angrily.

"Xu Xinsu's small assets are all in the Satsuma Domain, he will definitely have no dissent, there must be something delayed." Zheng Zhifeng said.

"Xu Xinsu's fleet has already gone to sea, and he has hired a transport ship from the Royal Shipping Company, which should arrive in a few days." Zheng Zhilong is the person in charge of contacting Xu Xinsu this time.

"Order all armies to rest on the spot for the time being, and then raise troops after having accurate news from Xu Xinsu." Yan Siqi thought for a while and said.

"Big brother, how to deal with the matter of Amakusa Shiro? Taking advantage of the chaos in Kyushu, Amakusa Shiro successively took over Nagasaki, Hirado Castle, Imari Castle and other cities, and it is said that Amakusa Shiro now has a large army of 50,000, which is a great threat to our army. Zheng Zhilong said.

"At that time, Shiro Amakusa should have been killed in Shimabara, but now it has become the biggest scourge for our army." Liu Xiang said.

"I think that someone should be sent to negotiate immediately, so that Amakusa Shiro can act according to the agreement between the two sides at that time, and Shimahara will belong to him, and the rest of the country should be returned to us." Zheng Zhifeng suggested.

"I'm afraid it's going to be difficult to get Amakusa Shiro to spit out these places now, Amakusa Shiro has a lot of ambitions, and he must be the biggest enemy of our army in Kyushu." Zheng Zhilong said.

"I suggest that peace talks be held first, and after our army has pacified the rest of Kyushu, if he doesn't hand over these places, he will simply wipe them out." Wang Yingshen suggested.

"I also agree with what General Wang said." Yang Tiansheng said.

"Well, just as General Wang said." Yan Siqi nodded.

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The news of the Satsuma Domain's rebellion had already spread throughout Toei in February, and the whole of Toei was shaken. The blockade of Kyushu by Yan Siqi's sailors was also very successful, and the shogunate wanted to send troops to exterminate the Satsuma domain, but it was blocked by the sea. The shogunate even turned to Westerners for help in suppressing the rebellion of the Satsuma Domain.

But in this sea area, Yan Siqi's sailor power is stronger than the Westerners, the Dutch sailor force is far away in Batavia, and the Spaniards have almost all withdrawn from the South Sea after losing the battle with the Ming Dynasty for control of the South Seas, not to mention the sea area of Dongying, now the sea area east of Batavia is completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the British power has only just entered the Eastern Pacific.

And the most crucial point of this is that Zhu Youxiao's attitude is unequivocally supportive of the Satsuma Domain, which makes Westerners dare not support the shogunate at all. The shogunate's military power could not be projected to Kyushu at all, and they could only watch the Satsuma clan wreak havoc in Kyushu.

All this led the shogunate to decide to start forming a water division. Although the shogunate was in financial difficulties, it gritted its teeth and bought several warships from the Dutch, a move by the Dutch that provided an excuse for Zhu Youxiao to use troops against the Dutch later.

On the fourth day of the first month of March, Xu Xinsu's supplies were delivered to the Satsuma Domain.

"Why did you arrive so late this time?" Yan Siqi asked.

"Big brother, the amount of arms you want is too large, and this matter can only be purchased with His Majesty's approval, and this trip can only use the ships of the Royal Shipping Company, and it must also be supervised and escorted by the Jinyi Guard, and it will take a lot of time to deal with these things. You see, this ship is full of brocade guards. Xu Xinsu said.

"Okay, have you brought all the craftsmen I want?" Yan Siqi asked.

"It's been brought. I dug it all up with a lot of money, and more than seventy percent of them had produced flintlock pistols for the Empire. Xu Xinsu said.

"Workers from the Manufacturing Bureau?" Yan Siqi said happily.

"The workers of the manufacturing bureau can't dig up, the empire has the "Law of Secrecy", even if they give more money, they don't dare to come, otherwise they will be wiped out. The Empire's flintlock pistols were made separately, and more than ninety percent of the parts were produced by the private sector, and the people I brought with me were the people who helped the Empire produce flintlock pistol parts in the private sector. Xu Xinsu explained.

"That's good, too." Yan Siqi nodded, "We can already produce ammunition, if we can produce flintlock pistols, if we don't carry out large-scale battles, we can basically meet our daily needs." ”

"Big brother, do you need artillery? The empire has a batch of artillery ready to be disposed of at a low price, two percent cheaper than the price you bought before, about the total value of about ten million taels of silver, Your Majesty said, if you don't need it, then Your Majesty is ready to recast. Xu Xinsu asked.

"Ten million taels of silver? I don't have so much money at all, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. Yan Siqi gasped and said.