Because the fleet of the expedition to the Great Ryukyu Island was in a hurry, the fleet was replenished with a batch of supplies when passing through the port of Ningbo, mainly ammunition for artillery and muskets, and if Li Yuntian was not mistaken, he would usher in the first real land battle of the Ming army on the Great Ryukyu Island.

After the Ming army's naval division seized the small Liuqiu Island with lightning speed, the Japanese on the Great Ryukyu Island would definitely give up the naval battle with the Ming army's naval division, and then choose to compete with the Ming army on land, so as to avoid the powerful artillery fire of the Ming army.

Although the number of Japanese soldiers is not as good as that of the Ming army, the individual strength is very strong, especially the regular army under the various daimyo of the Japanese State has been tempered by many wars, so Li Yuntian does not dare to underestimate them.

In addition to the weather and the fact that the Yuan army was surrounded by many Song soldiers and Korean soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers exceeded his previous expectations, so that after the first wave of reinforcements landed, the reinforcements of the Japanese were annihilated before they could gain a firm foothold.

Therefore, the Wa State is still quite confident in land warfare, otherwise there would not be dozens of Japanese ronins who rampaged in the south of the Ming Dynasty and forced Nanjing City

There is a saying called "poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people", although this is an exaggeration, but at the same time, it also reflects a phenomenon from the side, that is, the poorer the place, the better the courage to fight for resources.

Due to the lack of resources and the perennial war, the Japanese had to take up arms to participate in the war, so the individual combat ability was more than that of the comfortable Ming Guard.

Although the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is a hundred times stronger than that of the Japanese State, Li Yuntian does not dare to underestimate the people of the Japanese State at all, once those people are carried away by the frenzy of war, but they will fight the battlefield under the encouragement of "Bushido", and the most important thing on the battlefield is momentum, which will really cause great trouble to the Ming army's sailors.

With the construction of the base of the Sea Eagle Fleet, one of the three major fleets of the Ming Army's naval division, in Ningbo Port, the people near Ningbo Port often saw the ships of the Ming Army's naval division carrying out patrol missions anchored in the port.

Although the people near the port were accustomed to the ships of the sailors, it was very rare for a fleet to come at once, and there had never been such a situation in Ningbo Port except for escorting the fleet to trade in the South Seas.

In view of the fact that the news of Songjiang Prefecture being attacked by the Japanese invaders had spread in the south of the Yangtze River, and the fleet was transferred from Xiaoliuqiu Island, it was rumored that the Ming army and sailors were going to the Great Ryukyu Island to fight the Japanese invaders who invaded Songjiang Prefecture, which made the people of ten miles and eight towns rush to the port to watch the excitement.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has never sent troops overseas to attack the enemy, at most, it sent Zheng He to lead the fleet to the West to promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and easily destroyed the pirates or something.

Now the Ming army sailors took the initiative to attack and go to the coastal areas to conquer the troubled coastal pirates, which greatly encouraged the people, and also eliminated the panic caused by the attack on Songjiang Mansion in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Amid the cheers of the people on the wharf, the fleet of the expedition to the Great Ryukyu slowly sailed away from the port of Ningbo, and the sailors and soldiers on the ship stood in line on the deck with their hands behind their backs and solemn expressions, as if they were being inspected by the people, which made the atmosphere of the scene more enthusiastic.

"Look, there's a dragon flag on that ship!" Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd at the docks.

It turned out that a three-masted warship passed in front of the people of the dock, and unlike the other three-masted warships, this ship had a yellow dragon flag hanging on its mast.

"That's not the dragon flag, that's the python dragon flag, the dragon has five claws that can only be used today, and the python dragon has three claws for the royal family." Soon, another voice corrected the man's previous statement.

"Sure enough, four claws!"

"I haven't heard of any prince going to Da Liuqiu!"

"Stupid, isn't King Zhongwu also a prince?"

"But he is not a dragon son and a dragon grandson, can he use the Yellow Dragon Banner?"

"The first emperor is very kind to the Zhongwu King, and the next edict is not to be captured?"

"I see!"

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The people on the wharf were talking in private, and after confirming that the three-masted warship was Li Yuntian's ship, the crowd erupted in even more enthusiastic cheers, which made the atmosphere of the scene reach its peak.

On the Mingyang, which slowly sailed out of the port, Li Yuntian sat in the cabin and frowned at an official document in his hand, according to this latest information, there were indeed people from the Satsuma clan in the Japanese who attacked Songjiang Prefecture, and there were local people in Songjiang Prefecture who colluded with the Japanese to open the gate of the county seat, so that those Japanese could drive straight in.

"Xianggong, the people seem to know that this is the boat you are on." Standing in front of the window and listening to the tsunami-like cheers from outside, Lei Ting said to Li Yuntian with a smile, and it could be seen that Li Yuntian's prestige in the hearts of the people was very high.

"Xianggong actually doesn't want to hang the python dragon flag, but this time he is going to the Ryukyu Kingdom to clear out the Japanese who are entrenched there, and Xianggong has to do a thorough job of etiquette." Li Yuntian smiled and put down the official document in his hand, got up and walked to the window to look at the dense crowd of people who came to see him off on the dock.

The king of the Ryukyu Kingdom was a vassal king canonized by the Yongle Emperor, and the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty made it a huge empire, and the identity and status of the vassal king of the vassal state was that of a county king of the Ming Dynasty.

Since Li Yuntian is on an expedition this time, of course he has to work etiquette, and his Zhongwu King is also the county king of the Ming Dynasty, so he deliberately revealed his identity in order to see the royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Of course, although the county king and the county king are equal, but in fact, due to their different powers, there are also high and low nobles, like Li Yuntian, the county king who holds military and political power, can be said to be the top storage of the Ming county king, and its momentum has overwhelmed the inactive princes and county kings of the Ming Dynasty.

In the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty, the most honorable county king is naturally the county king of the royal family and the prince with a different surname, and the county king of the vassal state is secondary, after all, the Ming Dynasty is the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and its county king should be higher than the king of those vassal states.

"Xianggong, do you think it's the same person who planned to loot the Ningbo Bosi Freight Yard and Songjiang Mansion?" After the Mingyang sailed out of the port, Lei Ting groaned for a while and then asked Li Yuntian beside him.

"Nine times out of ten, it was done by one person." Li Yuntian frowned slightly when he heard this, looked at the sea in the distance and said, "Originally, Xianggong didn't have a clue about the Ningbo City Bo Division, but he was so anxious that he couldn't wait to make such a big move in Songjiang Mansion again. ”

On the surface, it seems that the robbery of the goods of Ningbo City and the attack on Songjiang Mansion are not very different, and the incident of Songjiang Mansion is not much different from ordinary robbing by Japanese robbers, both of which broke into the county seat and looted it.

However, if you look closely, you will find that there is an inextricable relationship between the two sides, and they both started to plunder all of a sudden, without the slightest warning in advance.

What is particularly important is that if you combine the looting incident in Songjiang Mansion with the current background of Aoki Mingxin and Yamakai Mitsutaka wanting to make the imperial court recruit, it is not difficult to find that this raid of Songjiang Mansion is not a simple matter, and it is likely that someone is deliberately planning it in secret, otherwise the Japanese will definitely not do such a thing to provoke the envy of the imperial court without Aoki Mingxin and Yamakai Mitsutaka nodding.

As for the purpose, there are nothing more than two points, one is to create panic in the coastal capital area in order to demonstrate to the Ming army's naval division, and the other is to have a grudge against Li Yuntian and want to use this to sabotage Li Yuntian's deployment and retaliate.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, no matter what the other party's intentions were, he miscalculated, but accidentally helped him, so that he could lead his troops to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Although the Great Ryukyu Island is an isolated island with scarce resources on the sea, its geographical location is very important, not only a natural barrier in the eastern waters of the Ming Dynasty to prevent the enemy from the sea, but also a sea gate to restrict the Japanese State, as long as it can control the Great Ryukyu Island, then it can balance the development of the Japanese State overseas and monitor the Japanese State.

Li Yuntian had long wanted to establish a naval base for the Ming army on the Great Ryukyu Island, although now it seemed that the Great Ryukyu Island was of no use to the Ming Dynasty, but Li Yuntian was very aware of its strategic value at sea, so he would definitely find a way to pocket it.

However, because the Ryukyu Kingdom was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty advocated courtesy and exchanges, and treated those overseas vassal states with a friendly attitude, coupled with Li Yuntian's unstable foundation, he never had the opportunity to realize his Ryukyu strategy.

Now that the Ming army's naval division has been formed and formed a combat effectiveness, and the funds of the lecture hall are also enough to support Li Yuntian to carry out an overseas war, so taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese invaded Songjiang Mansion, Li Yuntian prepared to take advantage of the situation to enter Ryukyu Island, not only to defend the eastern sea of the Ming Dynasty, but also to clamp down on the Japanese state.

"Lord Wang, Lord Li has come to ask for a meeting." Just as Li Yuntian and Lei Ting were standing by the window chatting, a guard walked in and bowed down.

Li Yuntian nodded when he heard this, and the guard invited Keiko Yamaguchi, who was dressed in military uniform, to come in, I have to say that Keiko Yamaguchi's figure is very good, enough to be comparable to Xiangxiang, Hongluan and Liu Zhenxiang, and the straight military uniform is tightly wrapped around her body, showing her bumpy figure perfectly.

Looking at the heroic Keiko Yamaguchi, the corners of Lei Ting's mouth showed a smile, from Keiko Yamaguchi's body, she thought of herself who first met Li Yuntian when she was young, and she was also high-spirited back then, not inferior to Keiko Yamaguchi, but now more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye.

"Lord, the samurai of the Satsuma Domain are extremely brave, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, I would like to implore the Lordship to lead the army to fight with the Satsuma Army, and the prince can use artillery to support." Keiko Yamaguchi arched her hand to Li Yuntian and said in a coquettish voice.

In fact, Keiko Yamaguchi was very conflicted about whether to seek support from Li Yuntian, on the one hand, she wanted to use her own strength to defeat the Japanese invaders on the Great Ryukyu Island, who were mainly Satsuma samurai, but at the same time, she did not want her soldiers to suffer heavy casualties.

After all, this was the first battle commanded by Keiko Yamaguchi, and it was of great significance, and the outcome would have a serious impact on the army under her command.

In other words, Keiko Yamaguchi figured out that Guò's battle with the strongest Satsuma samurai in the Wa Kingdom would establish her prestige among her troops, and she had to turn to Li Yuntian for help in order to achieve this.

To be honest, given the previous brilliant record of the Satsuma Domain, especially the defeat of the Shikoku Island coalition with fewer victories and more victories, Keiko Yamaguchi did not have the confidence to defeat the Satsuma samurai.

After all, those Satsuma samurai have been baptized by many years of war, and these people under her command are a group of pirates who have not been on the battlefield after all, and it is unknown whether they can withstand the impact of the Satsuma samurai, so she thought of the artillery unit under Li Yuntian.

If there were artillery to help, the Satsuma samurai would have been in the same disarray as the Mongol cavalry, and she would have been able to attack and crush the Satsua samurai in one fell swoop.