As soon as Ma Tongji heard that Li Huanghe's troops were also going to land, he hurriedly ordered his troops to prepare for the march while expanding the occupied area to make room for these people to land.

Because of Zhao Shuai's new order, the Han fleet also continued to be busy, and the ships moved in all directions, and soon several transport ships rushed out of the fleet, escorted by the battleships to the shore, and then put down the small boats and floated to the land.

Although the landing was a bit chaotic, everything went smoothly because the forts on the shore had been occupied or destroyed, and the shogunate was unable to send a navy to attack them.

Li Huanghe is humble and gentle, Ma Tongji has always been on a par with him because of his similar age and meritorious qualifications, and he has always had some competitive thoughts about him, but now, after the two of them have been together for a long time, his thoughts in this regard have been diluted a lot, and he regards the other party as a confidant and friend.

But even so, he doesn't intend to be left behind.

As the transport ships intermittently brought troops ashore, Li Huanghe's troops were assembled in the afternoon, and the two regiments were gathering together to discuss the next battle strategy.

As a group leader, they naturally have a group of senators around them, but after meeting, they instead put aside the senators around them and chose to negotiate alone in a secluded place.

The scenery of this outskirts is beautiful, with golden headlands and beaches dotted with greenery, and the sea breeze constantly echoing between the blue sky and clear water, making people feel as if they were not fighting in a foreign country at all.

However, both regiments were very serious and did not put their minds on the scenery.

"In short, what Zhao Shuai means is that we want to search separately, your troops go north, and my troops go west, the purpose is to cut off the connection between Nagasaki City and the outside world, and if we encounter the main force of the shogunate army, we will attack directly, disperse them, and make Nagasaki become an isolated city as soon as possible."

"Zhao Shuai still means that he is still in a hurry to take down Nagasaki?" Ma Tongji asked in a low voice. He had always hoped to attack Nagasaki and take the city.

"Yes, Zhao Shuai feels that the streets of Nagasaki are criss-crossed and cramped, which is not suitable for our army to play its strengths, in order to avoid casualties, we should not fight first, just isolate the defenders." Li Huanghe nodded, "Anyway, we are not in a hurry to use this port now, so it doesn't hurt to let them occupy it first......

"Okay, I understand what Zhao Shuai means, I'll tell my subordinates right away, I'll go north later." Ma Tongji nodded dryly, and then plunged his saber into the sea sand.

"Wait." Li Huanghe stopped him, "Ma Tuanzheng, I still have something to tell you." ”

"Please?" Ma Tongji looked at him a little strangely.

"Judging from our current situation, there should be no way for the shogunate army on the side of Hakata Bay to attack our front." Li Huanghe frowned slightly and replied, "But...... I'm afraid that Bi Tuan is arrogant and contemptuous because the shogunate army is too weak, and he makes another proposition. If he marches on his own, it will disrupt Zhao Shuai's deployment......"

"My Han has never cowered against the enemy, even if Bi Tuanzheng is determined to forge ahead and wants to pursue the enemy, it is not his fault, besides, as a Tuanzheng, he already has the right to be arbitrary in Linji, even if he judges to attack and pursue, it is his duty." Ma Tongji was a little unimpressed by his words, "We already have two regiments on our side, how can the shogunate army be so cowering now, how can it cause us trouble?" Even if we can't bring reinforcements over there in a hurry, we have enough to suppress the shogunate army here, and they can't do anything to us before we go ashore, and now that we've all come up, what can they do to us? ”

"That being said, even if we have the advantage, we should not be too arrogant, and we should still treat the shogunate with a cautious attitude. If the Bi Tuan in Hakata Bay is launching an offensive, and you and I are both advancing to both sides at the same time, Zhao Shuai will not have many troops directly under him. If something unexpected happens, I'm afraid he will have some trouble scheduling......"

"And what do you think should be done?" Ma Tongji was a little puzzled, "Didn't Zhao Shuai let us go by himself?" ”

"The advance is to advance, but Zhao Shuai still has to leave people here......" Li Huanghe sighed, "Ma Tuanzheng, I think it's better to do this, you come and lead the troops to sweep on both sides, I will lead a little people to garrison here, waiting for Zhao Shuai's new order at any time, so that everyone will not be too hasty at that time, it will be too troublesome to rush back after receiving the order, and it may delay the fighter." ”

Ma Tongji was even more surprised when he heard it, in his opinion, the first battle after going ashore is very important to everyone's credit evaluation in the future, I didn't expect Li Huanghe to be so generous, I would rather let myself clean up in both directions, this is really ...... Generosity.

"That's ...... Not really, right? After all, Zhao Shuai has orders. He asked hesitantly, "Although we have our own reasons, but now if we do it ourselves, I'm afraid Zhao Shuai may not be happy......"

"Didn't Ma Tuanzheng just say that? As a regimental leader, we should have made arbitrary decisions when necessary, and since we have already landed, many things should be decided by ourselves. Li Huanghe immediately replied, "Besides, I don't completely prevent my subordinates from sweeping up, I will send some people to follow Ma Tuanzheng's soldiers to sweep in both directions, and ask the regiment to take them to fight a few battles." ”

"Good...... Good ......" Since the other party said this, Ma Tongji didn't plan to shirk, he patted Li Huanghe's shoulder heavily, "Brother, you are righteous enough!" I really didn't expect you to focus so much on the big picture! Don't worry, your soldiers, I will let them take the lead, and I will never treat them badly! ”

"Somebody has to do something." Li Huanghe smiled slightly, "Without further ado, Tuanzheng should hurry up, otherwise Zhao Shuai will be ruthless to urge us again." ”

"Okay, let's go first, I'll leave it to you here!" Ma Tongji agreed, and then immediately joined his subordinates.

Because he had already ordered everyone to assemble before, when the two regiments were negotiating, Ma Tongji's troops were immediately ready, and Ma Tongji did not delay, and directly waved his sword and ordered his troops to march.

Li Huanghe's men also divided into three companies and marched with the armies in both directions, while he himself remained at the landing site, sitting in the rear, and waiting for any orders from Zhao Song later.

After Ma Tongji's order, in the afternoon, the two red-coated armies began to leave their positions on the original landing ground and march inland.

The shogunate army, who had been observing from the distant mountains, immediately reported the latest movements of the Han army to the old Naito Tadashige, and then he immediately woke up from his tired sleep.

Yesterday, because the Han began to attack, he has not slept all night since he came here, not only because of the bombardment of the Han navy, but also because of the worry and fear in his heart.

And after the morning, the Han army began to land, and his fear was even more, but although he always had the idea of taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Han army to attack once, but the artillery fire of the Han navy was too sharp, and he didn't dare to put his troops into such a hopeless attack in vain, so he could only sit back and watch.

At first, he had always been worried about the Han army attacking inland, but after waiting for a long time, the Han still didn't move, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and the huge fatigue finally made him unable to resist, after all, he was already a person close to fifty years old, and he was an old man in this era, and his physical functions had declined significantly, which was really difficult to support.

After instructing his subordinates to inform him if there was a change, Naito Tadashige fell into a deep sleep, but he didn't sleep long before he was woken up again by his subordinates. After waking up from the stunned state of confusion, Naito Tadashige immediately began to ask his subordinates about the current situation, and then immediately walked out of the place where he lived to observe the movements of the Han army.

Under his gaze, two long red dragons appeared at the place where the Han army landed, and they marched in two directions, north and east, respectively, because of the military uniform, their marching column was very conspicuous, as if they had no fear, and they were not afraid of leaking the news at all.

Naito Tadashige watched the marching procession of the Han army, and his hands couldn't help but clench tightly. As an old, middle-ranking and high-ranking member of the shogunate, Heisuri also had many opportunities to see the performance of the shogunate army, and in his opinion, the shogunate's army could not advance and retreat as well as them.

Even now, as an enemy, Naito still wants to praise the quality of these troops.

But it's one thing to admire, it's another to deal with it. Naito Tadashige put down his binoculars and pondered how to solve the current problem.

Their purpose of making such a big deal is obviously very simple, that is, to sweep on both sides and turn Nagasaki into an empty city.

It stands to reason that his best response now is to directly attack the place where the Han army landed, and take advantage of the fact that they have now sent two troops to directly beat the Han army there into the sea in one go, so that the Han army that goes out will also become rootless duckweed, which can be wiped out at any time.

However, Naito Tadashige was still too afraid of the artillery fire on the Han sea, and after thinking about it, he still felt that he could not take risks in the past, and it was still unknown how many people had landed in the Han army, and if he attacked in a hurry, he was likely to suffer a big loss.

Now it seems that the best way is to assemble and attack one of the troops deep inland with the army in Nagasaki Castle, as long as it can defeat or even annihilate a detachment of the Han army, it will definitely be able to deal a severe blow to their arrogance, make them fearful, and delay more time for their side and the shogunate.

So which detachment is better to intercept and fight them in a decisive battle?

This doesn't need to be considered, this detachment heading north seems to be going to cut off the connection between Nagasaki City and itself, but it is also convenient for himself and the Zeng I Guyou army in Nagasaki City to join forces to attack, as long as he and Zeng I Guyou attack with all their strength, even if the weapons of the Great Han are sharp, they should be able to rely on the advantage of numbers to defeat this Great Han army and keep the connection between the inside and outside of Nagasaki City.

At this time, Naito Tadashige did not know that the army led by the lord of the Fukuoka domain, Tadayuki Kuroda, had failed to stop the Han army in Hakata Bay, and even if he did, he would probably think that it was because the Fukuoka domain army was too weak.

Because Kyushu was located on the border, and the land was basically divided among the feudal lords everywhere, the shogunate did not deploy many troops in Nagasaki, only one or two thousand people in total. The shogunate mainly adopted a divide-and-rule strategy and the shogunate's enormous power in Honshu as a deterrent to maintain its rule.

Because he had long been sending orders to the surrounding feudal clans to send troops to assemble them, especially with the strong support of the Arima family of the Kurume domain, Naito Tadashige's army had been greatly expanded, and he already had a strength of five or six thousand people. And as time goes by, the feudal domains will continue to send troops to support, and there will definitely be more and more of them.

There is a gap between the combat ability of the feudal soldiers and the feudal soldiers, and the Fukuoka Domain has always been very withered, and the feudal lord is unpopular, so the military strength is very weak, and it is normal to not be able to defeat the Han army, but there are some feudal domains, Naito Tadashige has high hopes, such as the Tachibana family of the Yanagawa Domain.

The current head of the Tachibana family, Tachibana Muneshige, was a very famous military general in the Warring States Period, and took refuge in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's men and made great achievements, and was praised by others as the first fierce general in the Western Kingdom. In addition, what is even more pleasing is that Tachibana Soshige once participated in the battle of Goryeo led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and repeatedly made military exploits in Goryeo, not only defeated the Goryeo, but also brought heavy losses to the Ming army many times, such as the Battle of Bihokan, he participated, and the Ming generals suffered huge losses in this battle.

Of course, since the Ming State was replaced by the Great Han, then the Ming Army will definitely not be able to compare with the Great Han Army, but after all, it is the Central Plains Army, and Tachibana Soshige's rich experience in the Central Plains Army against the enemy and his years of training in the domain soldiers will definitely allow his subordinates to exert strong combat effectiveness.

Similarly, there is the Satsuma Domain, the current lord of the Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was also a brave commander in the Warring States period, and had previously participated in the battle against Goryeo, and made many meritorious achievements.

Although these people have a knot and even a grudge against the shogunate, but now that Japan is facing foreign aggression and the Han wantonly invades the Japanese territory and burns the flames of war to their doorstep, these people can understand the righteousness and abandon the past and come with him to resist the Han army.

With this thought, his originally heavy mood finally eased a lot.

After pondering for a few more moments, pondering the details of his plan, he finally made up his mind.

"Then send people to the Yanagawa Domain and the Satsuma Domain, and urge them to quickly assemble their troops to come and support us in the battle...... Now that the army of tigers and wolves of the Great Han has come over, please stop caring about preserving their strength, as long as they can defeat the Great Han, the shogunate will definitely have a heavy reward at that time! He gave the order to one of his retinue, then turned his head back to one of his close samurai.

"Let this team prepare immediately and go to meet the Han army!"

Soon, most of Naito's soldiers were also assembled, because they belonged to different systems, so the officers who led the team did not know each other, but they were assembled in a group of people.

In the twilight of the evening, Naito Tadashige looked at the army assembled in front of him, and looked at this army, which was basically without armor, with tattered weapons, and not even uniform clothes, and suddenly his heart became heavy.

Can you really win a battle with these people? He thought to himself.

This army was in stark contrast to the Han armies he had just seen, and even if he was not a general who had been leading troops, he could see that there was a very obvious gap between the two sides.

But...... Now, I can only fight.

"Gao Ye, wait a minute, I'm going to take 4,000 people to intercept the detachment of the Great Han marching north, you can stay here." He suddenly said to a samurai in armor next to him, "Remember to read my orders here, and if I want your reinforcements, don't hesitate!" Without my command, you can't go anywhere. ”

This Takano refers to Takaki Takano, who was assigned to him by the shogunate when Naito Tadashige left Edo. He was born in the shogunate, so he received a lot of military training from a young age, and when he began to guard against the attacks of the Han, Naito Tadashige began to collect troops everywhere, and Takaki Takano became an important officer around him.

"Yes, sir!" Takano Takaki also has the style of a samurai, so he agreed directly without asking, "I hope that the adults will succeed!" ”

"I really hope it can be done right away!" Naito Tadashige suddenly smiled bitterly, then pulled out his saber from his waist and turned to face his officers and soldiers, "Soldiers listen to orders!" I came to Kyushu on the orders of the Shogun, and now I have the right to dispose of all affairs in Kyushu! These traitors treacherously attacked our country, and we must teach them a hard lesson! Now let's go fight those thieves, and if anyone dares to cower, shoot and kill! ”

After a vicious remark, Naito Tadashige mounted his horse and set out with his group of troops on a journey to seek engagement with the detachment of the Han attacking north.

At the same time as his own soldiers sent troops, he also sent an envoy to Nagasaki Castle, asking him to inform Zeng I Guyou in Nagasaki Castle to quickly transfer troops out and flank this Han detachment with him.

His idea was to increase his strength to encircle and annihilate this detachment as much as he could, and with the help of the night, it would be difficult for the Han to use his extremely sharp firearms - although fighting at night was also very disadvantageous to him, Naito Tadashige felt that against the Han army, the chaotic battle had the best chance.

The messenger was soon on his way, and Naito's troops began to march in the twilight.