Target 128 - Matsuura Castle
In the past two and a half days, Cai Dao did not let these servants who joined the army train any queue exercises, but sent a young man with a very good memory under Takagi, called Takagi Shinbei, who repeatedly read out the military orders formulated by Cai Dao himself to everyone.
The number of wandering samurai who participated in the recruitment of officers this time was not small, and more than 100 people participated in the election.
However, there are only about 80 people who have passed the initial examination.
At that time, Takagi also made a suggestion to ask Cai Dao to carefully pick these wandering samurai. Because, no one knows, whether these people will be mixed with the spies of other forces.
However, Cai Dao did not listen to Takagi's opinion, in his opinion, the level of coming here to sign up for these so-called wandering samurai is too inferior. Regardless of the rest, even the kung fu that they should be good at is also commonplace.
One of the leaders is that Fujiwara Lanling, when he competes with any opponent in martial arts, he has never gone all out. Even Dian, who was secretly watching the battle from the sidelines, was a little itchy, and wanted to go down in person to weigh the deeds of this young warrior. It's a pity that he rejected Cai Dao just now, how could he be embarrassed to mix it in?
The other was the shortest young samurai who almost fainted from hunger, he was short in stature and had little strength, but he was very fast. The samurai who participated in the competition, even if he had high kung fu, would definitely not be able to hold three moves in front of him. If Fujiwara Lanling is the first to fight him, maybe he will also be in his way.
Fortunately, the two of them met in the final round, and Fujiwara Lanling observed it for so long, so he naturally found a way to restrain him, which was to break the trick with strength. Not slow speed, coupled with great strength, directly intercept the opponent's weapon with a bamboo knife. Of course, if you want to restrain this short man, you must be able to see his movements clearly.
Cai Dao was not watching other people's competitions except for paying attention to Fujiwara Lanling, and if he saw this dwarf, he would definitely be able to see that this was a female samurai. The first opponent she chose was the pork balls that had laughed at her, and women were creatures, regardless of their age, who were very vindictive.
On the evening of the third day, Cai Dao had a notice posting a suspension of the recruitment of servants.
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After two and a half days of suffering, Cai Dao officially announced that after breakfast, the army servants immediately got on board after packing up, intending to attack Songpu Castle directly from the sea.
Due to the resistance of Dean and money, Cai Daoxian rented a large warehouse in Nagasaki Port, put the goods on the merchant ship into it, and sent all the members of the 'Dolphin Commando' to lead the rest of the servant army to guard the place.
And Cai Dao himself took the flagship 'Meizhou Island' with his crew and dart masters, and those army servants took his own empty merchant ship.
The two large ships left Nagasaki in a somewhat lonely manner, and under the guidance of the leading party of Takagi Shinyuemon, they headed in the direction of Matsuura Castle.
At this moment, except for Cai Dao's men, whether it was Dean and his forbidden army, or Qian and his men, or the merchants of other countries or the Japanese people in Nagasaki, no one was optimistic about his reckless expedition.
In Nagasaki, many people have seen Matsuura Castle with their own eyes, and as the most powerful pirate leader of the Wa Kingdom, most of the wealth and women that the Matsuura family has plundered at sea over the years have been collected in Matsuura Castle. In order to ensure their own safety and prevent the sneak attack of other forces, the successive heads of the Matsuura family will spend a lot of money to build and strengthen Matsuura Castle.
Although Matsuura Castle is strong, the terrain is not the most dangerous, for example, Fujiwara Michinobu Castle, where the Saido faction Taketaro is located, this castle connects Hizen Province to Chikuzen Province and Chikugo Province, and is built on a mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only passage is very narrow. The walls may not be as thick as Matsuura Castle, but if you want to capture Kisha Castle, you can't outwit it, so you can only use human lives.
Kyushu Island is also a little bigger, and Hizen Province is equivalent to a lower county of the Great Song Dynasty, so it took less than two hours for these two large ships to sail to the open sea of Matsuura City.
After the ship was stopped, Cai Dao began to divide the troops, and only half of the sailors were left in the two ships, and the other half of the sailors and dart masters led the 800 servants to take small boats and carry supplies, and landed one after another.
The reason why they didn't bring any members of the 'Dolphin Commando' was because they had already made meritorious contributions, and they should leave the opportunity for meritorious service to other subordinates. On the other hand, Cai Dao knew that almost all of the Matsuura Party's maritime forces had been swept away, and it was only Kentaro Matsuura's halfship of pirates who had escaped.
After that night's bizarre defeat, Kentaro Matsuura was already frightened, and he didn't dare to send someone to try to sneak up on Cai Dao's ship. It was to give Kentaro Matsuura seventeen or eighteen guts, and the real faction wanted to repeat Cai Dao's old plan, sending water ghosts to dive into the sea and scuttle Cai Dao's ship, and his subordinates did not have the courage. As long as you go out of the city, you will either flee or simply surrender to Cai Dao.
Of course, in order to prevent the scattered Matsuura Party on other islands off the coast of Hizen from causing trouble for him, Cai Dao also sent people to spread the wanted warrant he had issued. All the Matsuura, Omura, and Arima families will not let go of any of them. As for other ordinary pirates, they can either go directly to Nagasaki to surrender, or they can take the people of these three families to receive the reward.
Whoever holds the heads of these three males, after being verified to be in the right body, will be richly rewarded; And the women of these three families, as long as they live, can also get a lot of money. Although Takagi followed, Jiahezi was still there. As the wife of the head of the previous generation of the Takagi family, she knew these enemies who wanted to abandon the Takagi family better than Takagi.
As soon as this wanted warrant was issued, after Cai Dao left, people came to Nagasaki one after another to surrender to his subordinates or exchange heads or women for goods. There are even many Nagasaki forces who directly sailed to those islands to search for the remnants of the three forces, no, it should be four, and the Uku family who fled directly. Cai Dao didn't know, but Jiahezi knew that the Yujiu family also secretly participated in the sneak attack that night.
However, the Ujiu family saw the opportunity quickly and fled quickly.
However, by the time these Nagasaki forces arrived at the Goto Islands controlled by the Uku family, the territory belonging to the direct forces of the Uku family had already been emptied. Although the head of the Uku family is suspicious, he is also a decisive person, and after he returned to his lair, he immediately arranged for his subordinates to pack up important supplies, and prepared to abandon this place and leave the surrounding areas of Kyushu Island.
Naturally, there was opposition within the family, but he didn't pay any attention to these people and drove away with all those who were willing to leave with him.
Later, the Ukuya family attacked Sado Island, a large island near Honshu Island. From the Nara period, it was the place of exile of the Wa Kingdom, and the Emperor established Sado Province here. At this time, Sado Island was still a barren land, and there were no major local forces. Therefore, the Yujiu family, who fled in a hurry, picked up a big bargain.
As for those who remained, the men became the ghosts of the sword, and the fate of the women was self-evident.
Cai Dao handed over all these complicated things to Takagi Shinyouemon, Tiezhu and the chief dart head Li Dahu, with only one task - to set up camp. And he himself stayed on the 'Meizhou Island'.