Obviously, these Japanese soldiers are dressed differently from ronins, with combat boots, armor, and more importantly, the ruthlessness on their expressions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

How can there be Japanese soldiers here, could it be that someone leaked the news, Zhang Long frowned, and couldn't help touching his waist: "How many bullets do you still have!" ”

"More than 20 rounds" Ye Tan and several people reported the numbers one after another, and they were all equipped with one long and one short gun and two magazines when they came.

Zhang Long breathed a sigh of relief, and visually saw that there were only thirty-four of those Japanese soldiers, as long as the bullets were enough, there was nothing to fear, the only thing was to wonder how these Japanese soldiers could appear here.

Unbeknownst to him, these would-be soldiers had also heard the news that someone had challenged the ronin.

The port of Naha is located at the mouth of a large river on the west bank of the Ryukyus, such as Hangzhou Bay. Kume Island on the north shore and Toyomi Castle on the south bank, the two islands face each other across the river, and the naval barracks of the Satsuma clan are stationed at Toyoma Castle on the other side of the river.

But for Kumejima, a rich island, these sailors will also come to the island to fight the autumn breeze when they change shifts on weekdays, but unfortunately a group of soldiers who are off duty today landed on the island to seek fun, and soon heard the news, but it was relatively slow, and they arrived at this time.

Seeing so many people around the North Fort from afar, these Japanese soldiers became excited, and they must have seen a good show, hearing that it was the Ryukyu samurai who challenged the Japanese samurai......

However, after pushing away the crowd, I immediately felt that the atmosphere was wrong, not to mention that the expressions of the people next to him were full of fear, it was a kind of fear expression that had done something wrong, and when I looked at the direction of the fort, I saw that many people were actually cleaning up the corpses, the corpses of the Japanese ronin!

"Yaga!"

A Japanese soldier led by him was immediately furious, stretched out his hand and grabbed a citizen next to him and muttered something.

It's not good, Ye Tan saw this, pulled out the pistol on his waist and was about to do it!

"Don't" Zhang Long stretched out his hand to block him: "There are too many people around, and doing it now will cause unnecessary casualties!" ”

"But the dogs will kill him......"

Ye Tan looked worriedly at the people who were being carried by the Japanese generals by their necks.

"No, because they have betrayed us" Zhang Long shook his head regretfully,

Ye Tan was stunned when he heard this, but he saw that the people were pointing in the direction of several of them, and the Japanese soldiers around them were looking fiercely.

"Damn, the Ryukyuan people are also ungrateful," Cao Quan couldn't help but scold.

"After all, it's not our Ming people," Cong Fangde shook his head with a disappointed face.

"No matter where the people are afraid of death, there are a few things that can be done in front of death" Zhang Long sighed, raised the AK in his hand and aimed at the Japanese teenager who had just turned his head and pulled the trigger: "Work hard, regardless of casualties!" ”

Killed by one shot.

Zhang Long should be the first group of Lu Wang's personal followers to play with guns, and his marksmanship can't be compared with the old watch's sniping, but there is no pressure to shoot an unsuspecting Japanese soldier at a distance of less than 50 meters.

The people of Mijiu Village are all old oilers, and when the Japanese army first appeared, some people began to sneak away, and after hearing the gunshots, they fled in all directions, but those Japanese soldiers who had not yet figured out the situation rushed towards a few people who were stupid.

Perhaps, they thought it was only four or five people, or maybe they thought that the musket could only be fired once.

Anyway, maybe it cost them their lives.

At the time when more than 30 Japanese soldiers died, Zhang Long and others also ran out of ammunition and food, if there were Japanese soldiers at this moment, or even a few ronins appeared, the safety of several of them would be at risk, so at this time there was only one way to go, to run.

The safest place was where they landed on the west coast of Kume Island, because there was a warship waiting there, and five more warships came to support, and they were there in a blink of an eye.

After telling those people to strictly prohibit talk, otherwise it would bring about the disaster of destroying the village, Zhang Long and his people spent ten taels of silver to buy five horses and went straight to the west bank with the long knives of those Japanese soldiers.

Although the Ryukyu horses are short but stable, especially when walking on this kind of island and mountainous terrain, Zhang Long really can't bear to discard these Japanese swords, because I heard Rwann say that Japanese swords are one of the sharpest knives in this era, because they have the most advanced forging technology.

In less than 20 minutes, five people had already arrived at the shore where they had landed earlier, and at this moment more than 100 people had gathered on the beach, and six warships on the sea were lined up to be on guard.

"Report to the sir, the first detachment of one hundred and twenty-five people has been assembled"

Seeing Zhang Long appear on the beach, a subordinate hurriedly ran over.

Zhang Long brought a total of 10 warships to sea this time, divided into two detachments, each ship was equipped with 25 people as standard, plus more than 1,000 soldiers from other large ships.

As for the more than 100 people, although they are not as armed to the teeth as the guards, they are also equipped with helmets, stab-proof vests and explosion-proof shields, not to mention their standard equipment of one gun, one knife and one crossbow, such a team is also an invincible village in this era, the only shortcoming is that the number of people is a little small, and the bullets are a little insufficient.

Ye Tan's subordinates have already sent news that according to the information they obtained from the nearest reconnaissance and the use of drones, the sailor battalion of the Japanese soldiers is stationed in Aowu Mountain, with only 500 troops and no more than 10 warships.

However, with a strength of more than 500 people, Zhang Long showed a sneer on his face, and looked up at the sea in the distance, a round of red sun was slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.

"Sir, can you tell me your plan now" Ye Tan looked at Zhang Long, who had been sneering and asked, Zhang Long had always been a fool and looked confident.

"To be honest, I've already had a plan, and there is not even more than one, but I don't know which one is best now" Zhang Long coughed lightly, sat down next to a stone next to him, and drew a simple map on the ground with a branch in his hand.

The sailor camp of Mt. Okubu is a good place, at the junction of two large rivers, from the port to the inland river from the east and west, and from the north and south to monitor both sides of Kume Island and Shuri Castle, but this area has a 500-strong sailor barracks, with our current strength, it is completely easy to defeat by surprise.

"Do it now?" Ye Tan looked at the sky and asked, it was already dark, and it was indeed impossible to take the opportunity to do it.

Zhang Long sighed when he heard this: "It's easy to fight, but there is one thing I'm a little entangled in, the purpose of this time is not only to drive out the Satsuma Domain, but also to end it in a nest, and to do this, you must do it for a long time in Huashan."

"I originally had two plans, the first was to fight quickly, take down the commander of the sailor battalion and drive straight in, capture and peel Birch Mountain alive for a long time, and the second plan is to capture the thief and capture the king first, and then take Birch Mountain for a long time while the other party is not prepared, and then things will be easy to do......"

However, Huashan has been guarding this person for a long time, and he is cunning and elusive, and attacking the sailor camp will startle the grass and snakes, and it will be a bit difficult to close the net, which contradicts his plan for a quick victory.

Ye Tan and the others understood, and they also fell into contemplation, and they wanted to fight quickly, some of them could not have both captured or killed Huashan Jiushou, at least they thought so.

"To fight or not to fight?"

Zhang Long looked at the sea and kept smoking and pondering.

"Of course!"

Snuff out the cigarette butt and rub it on the rock a few times: "First take out the sailor barracks and sit firmly on Kume Island, I don't believe that the birley mountain Kumori can always hide in the rat's nest, as long as he shows his face, his death will come."

At half past five, it was completely dark, and the whole island fell into calm, except for the sound of waves crashing on the shore.

A few houses were filled with smoke, a few candles were flickering, and six Ming warships were lined up on the sea ten miles outside the port of Naha.

In the southeast corner of Kume Island, next to a few reefs near the river, Zhang Long and Ye Tan were holding binoculars and observing the Japanese sailor camp on the opposite bank.

"Can you do it, sir?"

Ye Tan was a little excited to be so close to the front line for the first time in his intelligence work, and he would ask a question every few minutes.

"Wait a minute" Zhang Long smiled slightly: "I guess I just got full, let them consume the food" said and couldn't help sighing, "The discipline of these dogs is too poor, right, at this point, dozens of soldiers are gone, and no one will come to look for them?" ”

"Maybe it's taken for granted, after all, who dares to offend the Japanese soldiers in the Ryukyus, let alone dozens, of course, it can be seen that their discipline is lax......" Ye Tan said, suddenly frowned, listened to the faint sound of seabirds in the distance, and said to Zhang Long, sir, I will come when I go.

Ye Tan went fast, came quickly, and brought this one person, but it was Zhang Chaoming.

"Sir, there's news from the palace", Ye Tan sat down next to Zhang Long with a smile on his face: "Shang Sheng asks to see!" ”

Zhang Long smiled, the reason why he ventured to the island was not to investigate, but to wait for this message, it seems that Cai Yuanji passed the message, but what he wanted to see was King Shangxian, but he didn't expect that the Minister of State Shang Sheng would take the lead, could it be that he still didn't believe himself.

Yes, it is reasonable for them to be worried, "When will you come to see you, you can watch the fireworks together in time" Zhang Long looked at the other side and said with a smile.

"Back to my lordship, Shang Sheng said that all the ministers of the palace are being watched by the Satsuma Domain, and it is inconvenient to cross the sea to get here, and I want to invite my lord to cross the sea to Shuri Castle to meet" Zhang Chaoming is not a new soldier, and he feels embarrassed and resistant to the title of chief.

Oh, Zhang Long frowned, and his expression was silent.

"How is Shang Sheng's reputation?"

"Are you worried about fraud?" Zhang Chaoming hurriedly said.

"Don't be left unguarded"

Zhang Long nodded lightly, he had heard Lu Wang say that there were also some people in the Ryukyu Palace who were pro-Japanese, and they were also at the level of powerful ministers, but he didn't know who it was Lu Wang didn't say, but let him go across the sea to meet, he had to be cautious, after all, Shuri Castle was the absolute sphere of influence of the Satsuma Domain.

"This adult can rest assured, the minister of the country is loyal and honest, and he is an absolute pro-Ming faction, which is known to the entire Ryukyu Kingdom, and he and Xiang Xiangxian, the governor of the Yuchi Imperial Palace, are mortal enemies!" Zhang Chaoming said that he had indeed collected a lot of information about the royal palace in the Ryukyus for several years.

"Who is Xiang Xiangxian?" Zhang Long frowned.

"The leader of the pro-Satsuma clan faction! Support the same ancestor of Riyu! ”

Oh! Zhang Long was stunned at first, and then suddenly smiled slightly: "I have a way to lure out Huashan Jiushou."

Forehead...... Ye Tan and Zhang Chaoming were stunned for a moment, this adult's thinking jumped too fast: "What does the adult mean ......"

"Let's not talk about this for the time being, Zhang Chaoming, you reply immediately, I'll arrive at Shuri Castle on time at eight o'clock" Zhang Long said and looked at the other side: "Let's watch the fireworks first to adjust the interest, and then give King Shangxian a meeting gift."

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Note, although Xiang Xiangxian is a royal family, he is still surnamed Wu at the moment, and it was not until more than 20 years after his death that the Ryukyu Royal Palace unified the royal branch to the surname Shang, and for the convenience of the novel, he recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors decades in advance. (To be continued.) )