"Okay, this king will let the artillery battalion assist you in the battle at that time." Glancing at Keiko Yamaguchi, who bowed to him, Li Yuntian quietly agreed.

In fact, Li Yuntian had already guessed from Keiko Yamaguchi's solemn expression and hesitation in the past two days that she wanted to seek her help in the battle with the Japanese Kou on Ryukyu Island, but she was just embarrassed to speak.

After all, Keiko Yamaguchi had already received too much help from Li Yuntian when she was reorganizing the attached Japanese pirates on Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, and artillery and muskets were the highest-level troops directly under Li Yuntian's Jiangwutang.

Moreover, it is also a troublesome thing to use the artillery of the Ming army's naval division, because the artillery is on the ship, so it is necessary to hang down the guns on the three-masted warship and the old-fashioned warship, and also shoot heavy troops to protect the artillery position, which can be said to be the entire Ming expeditionary naval division must be mobilized.

What is especially important is that once Keiko Yamaguchi asks Li Yuntian for help, then it will invisibly make her and her troops a little weaker in front of Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian knew that Keiko Yamaguchi was a very arrogant person in his heart, and if it wasn't for the fierce ideological struggle, he would never have opened this mouth to him.

Since the Japanese on the Great Ryukyu Island are the common enemies of Li Yuntian and Yamaguchi Keiko, and Li Yuntian also needs Yamaguchi Keiko to become famous through this battle and become a stepping stone for Yamaguchi Keiko to return to the Japanese kingdom, so it is natural to support Yamaguchi Keiko.

Keiko Yamaguchi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, someone once told her in private that she should beware of Li Yuntian, thinking that Li Yuntian had adopted the strategy of "using razing to defeat raze", but he just wanted to use her and the Japanese who belonged to her subordinates to deal with the big Japanese leaders like Aoki Mingxin and Yamakai Mitsutaka, and when Aoki Mingxin and Yamakai Mitsutaka were eliminated, they would turn around and destroy Yamaguchi Keiko's force.

Although Keiko Yamaguchi thinks that Li Yuntian is not the kind of person who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge, she still knows the saying that her heart must be different if she is not of my race, so she can't help but feel apprehensive, no matter how she says that she is a widow after all.

In fact, Keiko Yamaguchi's request for help from Li Yuntian was also a kind of temptation for Li Yuntian, wanting to see if Li Yuntian wanted her and her subordinates to fight with the Japanese on Ryukyu Island.

Now it seems that Keiko Yamaguchi feels as if she is overly worried, and Li Yuntian agreed almost without thinking about it, obviously not having the intention of sitting back and watching her subordinates fight desperately with the Japanese on the Great Ryukyu Island.

In fact, in this case, Li Yuntian and Yamaguchi Keiko actually formed a coordinated operation, and the situation in which Yamaguchi Keiko alone faced the Japanese on the Great Ryukyu Island turned into a joint battle between the two sides: in order to protect the safety of the artillery, the Ming Army's naval division must send the main force to escort it, and it is inevitable that it will engage the Japanese on the Great Ryukyu Island, which has seized the artillery position.

Li Yuntian wanted Yamaguchi Keiko to understand that he did not mean to let her subordinates become cannon fodder, on the contrary, he wanted to help Yamaguchi Keiko return to China for revenge, and use Guò Yamaguchi Keiko to complete the great cause of incorporating the Wa Kingdom into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so as to remove the threat from the Eastern Sea now and in the future.

As for Li Yuntian's strategy, he had already told Keiko Yamaguchi when he went south from the capital, and Keiko Yamaguchi should know in his heart that Li Yuntian's goal was the entire Wa Kingdom, so he didn't have to worry about being used as cannon fodder by Li Yuntian.

In fact, the Japanese under the command of Yamaguchi Keiko were divided into two parts, one was the Japanese from the Japanese country, and the other was the Ming people who were forced to become Japanese by the Ming coastal area for their livelihood.

Among them, the proportion of the Ming people in the Japanese is as high as seventy percent, while the Japanese only account for thirty percent.

This raises a question, that is, those who were born in the common people of the Ming Dynasty did not accept the young Japanese girl Keiko Yamaguchi, after all, the leaders of the great Japanese who crisscrossed the sea were also mostly Ming people, occupying an absolute dominant position, such as the great Japanese Aoki Mingxin and Yamakai Mitsutaka.

Therefore, more than half of Keiko Yamaguchi's subordinates actually did not obey her orders, but became Keiko Yamaguchi's subordinates according to Li Yuntian's instructions, so it was impossible for Li Yuntian to let these people die in vain.

Perhaps the people around Keiko Yamaguchi were wary of the Ming Dynasty, so they didn't trust Li Yuntian, for fear that Li Yuntian would use the strategy of "driving away the wolf and devouring the tiger" to make them and the people of the Satsuma Domain lose both, how could they know about Li Yuntian's layout of the Wa Kingdom and Yamaguchi Keiko was obviously inconvenient to tell them about it.

The so-called "everyone has a lot of money, and the bones are destroyed", because of the persuasion of the leaders of the Japanese from the Japanese country around her, the young Yamaguchi Keiko's trust in Li Yuntian couldn't help but waver, and in order to ensure the power in her hands, she had to ask Li Yuntian for help, and it was also a kind of temptation for Li Yuntian.

Fortunately, Li Yuntian's reaction made Keiko Yamaguchi feel very relieved, and it was obvious that Li Yuntian did not mean to use her men as cannon fodder, otherwise he would never have called in the artillery on the fleet to support them.

Keiko Yamaguchi believed that with the help of artillery, she would be able to take the brave Satsuma army by surprise, and then achieve the first victory under her command, and it was also of great significance to defeat the most powerful Satsuma samurai in the Wa Kingdom.

A cabin on the Mingyang.

"Lord, does the prince agree to send artillery to help in the war?" When Keiko Yamaguchi entered the room, several people who had been waiting inside hurriedly stood up to greet him, and the leader Yamaguchi Hai asked with concern, this was a matter of life and death for them, and he had to worry.

After all, the target they were going to fight this time was the famous samurai of the Satsuma Domain in the Wa Kingdom, and even high-ranking guardian daimyo such as Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Chitoyo were afraid of them, let alone their army of pirates.

Yamaguchi Hai endured humiliation for more than ten years, it was in order to one day be able to assist Yamaguchi Keiko to create brilliance again, and now Yamaguchi Keiko relied on Li Yuntian's support to complete the reorganization of those who belonged to the Japanese Invaders, and had a Japanese army of nearly 10,000 people in his hands, and did not need to worry about logistics and food and grass, which made him feel extremely excited and excited in his heart.

In Yamaguchi's view, if Li Yuntian can always support Keiko Yamaguchi, then the time for Keiko Yamaguchi to regain the prestige of the family is not far off.

However, Yamaguchi Hai has experienced too many things, and he is used to seeing people's warmth and deceit, so he has doubts about Li Yuntian's strong support for Yamaguchi Keiko.

Originally, Yamaguchi Hai thought that Li Yuntian had a soft spot for Keiko Yamaguchi, and what he did was just to make the beauty smile, but when he learned from Keiko Yamaguchi that there was no selfish relationship between Li Yuntian and Keiko Yamaguchi, he was shocked, so he had doubts about Li Yuntian's motives.

Obviously, Yamaguchi Hai did not think that Li Yuntian would help Yamaguchi Keiko for no reason, he must have other plans, considering that Li Yuntian was in a big way to clean up the Japanese in the Ming Dynasty, he naturally subconsciously thought that Li Yuntian wanted to use them to deal with the Japanese in the Great Ryukyu Island and the Japanese mainland.

If it were Yamaguchi Kai, he would definitely be happy to see Keiko Yamaguchi's men fight against the Japanese on Ryukyu Island, so he must have doubted Li Yuntian as well.

Not only Yamaguchi Hai, but also the few Japanese leaders in the room also thought so, because they were Japanese people, they naturally wanted to follow Yamaguchi Keiko, and they were very wary of Li Yuntian.

"Hmm!" Keiko Yamaguchi quietly glanced around the people in the room, and bowed slightly to Yamaguchi, "The prince has already agreed, and he will send an artillery battalion to help in the war!" ”

Hearing this, the nervous expressions of Yamaguchi Hai and the others suddenly eased, which meant that Li Yuntian didn't seem to have the intention of fighting hard with them and the army of the Satsuma Domain.

In addition to Yamaguchi, several other Japanese leaders witnessed the power of the Ming army's naval artillery either on Xiaoliuqiu Island or on Qiongzhou Island, so if Li Yuntian sent an artillery battalion to assist them in the battle, it would definitely have a huge psychological deterrent to the Japanese on Daliuqiu Island.

"Lord, the prince won't be perfunctory to you, right?" Just when everyone felt relaxed, a stout man frowned, and then bowed down to ask Keiko Yamaguchi, who was one of the three leader of the Japanese who had made a bet with Keiko Yamaguchi on the sea outside the chicken coop port that day, named Masao Kawabe.

Although Masao Kawabe looks rough in appearance, he is actually delicate and good at using his brain, otherwise Aoki Akishin would not have left him on Xiaoliuqiu Island.

"My lord, I think the words of the river are reasonable, and the Ming people are as cunning, we can't trust them too much." At this time, a thin middle-aged man standing next to Masao Kawabe nodded and agreed with Masao Kawabe's concern.

This emaciated middle-aged man, like Masao Kawabe, is also a leader of the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island, named Matsumoto Mine, who belongs to the camp of Mitsutaka Yamakai and was enemies of Masao Kawabe before, but now the two have become colleagues from rivals.

Matsumoto Mine knew that Masao Kawabe's brain had always been good, and after Masao Kawabe's words, he felt that it made sense, so he opened his mouth to remind Keiko Yamaguchi.

The expressions on the faces of Yamaguchi Kai and the others suddenly became solemn again, thinking that Kawabe Masao and Matsumoto Mine's worries were not unreasonable, and in their eyes, the Ming people had always been cunning, and they might find a reason to shirk and not let the artillery battalion come to support, and then let them fight with the Japanese on the Great Ryukyu Island.

"King Zhongwu is true to his word, since he promised us, he will definitely not regret it." Keiko Yamaguchi groaned for a moment when she heard this, and then said to Yamaguchi Hai and the others with an affirmative face, she had been in the capital for so long, and she naturally knew that Li Yuntian had always been a man of his word, and he never broke his word.

"My lord, people's hearts are unpredictable, we have to guard against it." Kawabe Masao saw that Keiko Yamaguchi trusted Li Yuntian very much, so he bowed down and said.

"You don't know King Zhongwu, the most important thing about King Zhongwu is the word Xinyi, and the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Dynasty are all aware of this. Since the prince has promised to help me reinvigorate the prestige of the family, then he will definitely not let us die! ”

"If I'm not mistaken, the prince will definitely let Domoto and them take the lead and take the lead in attacking the samurai of the Satsuma Domain on Ryukyu Island." With that, Keiko Yamaguchi looked at Masao Kawabe and said categorically, "Therefore, let's prepare for the battle after arriving on Ryukyu Island, this battle is related to our reputation and must be won." ”

"Lord, is the prince willing to let Tangben and them take the lead?" Masao Kawabe suddenly had a shocked look on his face when he heard this, and he looked at Keiko Yamaguchi in disbelief.

The "Domoto" he refers to is the last of the three Wako leaders who made a bet with Keiko Yamaguchi outside the Chicken Coop Harbor that day, that is, the leader of the Scar-faced Wakos.