Kagoshima Bay, the northernmost point.

More than a dozen ships of the Satsuma Domain, as well as more than 20 small ships in the coastal waters, have been forced to retreat by the Datong Navy.

If you retreat any further, it's time to go ashore.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Dozens of Daido Navy battleships, fanning at the Japanese fleet. There was no tactic to speak of, the bay was too narrow for the two fleets to cruise.

It is the formation bombardment, to see whose ship is hard, to see whose artillery is accurate.

Mitsuhisa Shimazu stood on the walls of Tsurumaru Castle, holding a clairvoyant mirror to watch the battle. But the place of battle was thirty miles away from the city, and the clairvoyant mirror really couldn't observe thousands of miles.

In the fourteenth minute of the naval artillery battle, an unlucky Satsuma Domain battleship was blasted out of a large hole and began to enter the water. Immediately afterwards, in the twenty-eighth minute, the captain's room, the naval flagship of the Satsuma Domain, was smashed to pieces.

For the navy of the Satsuma Domain, this kind of naval battle was simply not possible. The Chinese warships are more numerous, the tonnage is larger, the artillery is stronger, and the sea area of engagement is still very narrow, so there is no way to hide, so it can only choose to bombard in place.

Those small offshore ships of the Satsuma clan were the first to choose to escape.

How to escape?

The ship was docked, and all the soldiers and sailors landed, intending to flee thirty miles back to Tsurumaru Castle.

Li Dingguo put down the clairvoyant mirror: "Order, don't let go of an enemy soldier!" “

More than 3,000 Daido Army officers and soldiers were waiting near the Kagoshima Prefectural Police School hundreds of years later, a way for the enemy navy to escape back to the city.

"Kill!"

"Bang bang bang!"

More than 400 Japanese troops were routed, and they finally escaped from the sea and ran into a platoon of guns of the Datong army.

Some fell on the spot, some fell to their knees and begged for mercy, and some turned and fled to the northern mountains.

Shiro Miyazaki drew his sword out of its sheath and said to the more than twenty wild samurai behind him, "The time has come for us to show our skills.

Long live His Majesty the Emperor of China! “

"Onboard, onboard!"

A group of wild samurai shouted slogans and chased down the routs as they tried to enter the mountains, holding their katanas.

These guys have not eaten a full meal for a few days since they were born, and after joining the Datong Army, they ate with a swollen belly that day. The grace of a full belly, reciprocating with death, is really a lifeless charge.

Shiro Miyazaki rushed the fastest, and General Li Dingguo's kindness to him sounded, and he even had tears in his eyes as he charged.

What grace?

But it was Li Dingguo who saw that this person was wearing broken shoes, which were really torn, so he threw the old boots he wore to him.

It was a pair of cowhide boots that Shiro Miyazaki had never dreamed of. Although the size was too large and didn't fit, it still made Shiro Miyazaki grateful, and even kept it properly and was reluctant to wear it, and only wore it on formal occasions to show his identity.

"Phew!"

Shiro Miyazaki roared and raised his sword to slash at the rout in front of him.

The rout was stabbed in the back, fell to the ground and crawled forward, then turned over and begged: "Spare your life, spare your life, I surrender!" ”

Shiro Miyazaki's face was hideous, and he held the knife in his backhand and inserted it. Not to mention stabbing a knife into the stomach of the rout, he also twisted half a circle and shouted: "General Li's enemies must all die!" ”

After finishing this man, Shiro Miyazaki chased after another rout.

The rout stumbled over a stone and fell to the ground, and when he saw Shiro Miyazaki chasing after him, he forgot to flee for his life in fright, and knelt on his stomach and kept kowtowing to each other.

Shiro Miyazaki raised his knife and slashed, the knife was extremely accurate, and a head flew up in an instant.

The defeated soldiers quickly reacted and rushed towards the Datong soldiers. Because as long as you kneel on the ground and ask for surrender, the Datong soldiers will not kill indiscriminately, and those wild warriors who surrender will definitely die.

At the end of a battle, Shiro Miyazaki looked at the many prisoners and said with emotion: "General Li is really merciful!" “

The wild samurai next to him is called Ghost Head Forty-Eight, and the ancestor should be arrogant, because this surname belongs to the emperor. The attention of the ghost head forty-eight was not on those prisoners, but on the envious look at the Datong soldiers: "The heavenly soldiers of the Tang State have armor even on the ashigaru. If I had a set of this armor, I would be able to revive the family. ”

Shiro Miyazaki said: "Therefore, we must swear to serve General Li to the death, not only can we have enough to eat, but we may also be given a set of armor for our great achievements in the future." “

Ghost Head Forty-Eight remembered those old boots, and suddenly began to envy Shiro Miyazaki again. Those are the cowhide boots worn by General Li, how precious they are, if they were the first to take refuge, they would probably be given to themselves, where is Shiro Miyazaki's share?

Li Dingguo called these wild warriors and rebuked them with a cold face: "What did you say before the war? As long as the enemy lays down his arms and surrenders, he is not allowed to kill again. Thinking of the first offense, today's meal will be halved, and next time it will be severely punished! ”

Seeing that Li Dingguo was angry, the wild warriors knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

The Datong army advanced to the northeast, and the naval battle had already been decided. Two-thirds of the Satsuma Domain's Zhuyin ships directly chose to surrender with their ships, and only a few escaped ashore. There was still some fluttering in the sea, but the ship was wrecked and desperately swam to shore.

"Volley the Router!" Li Dingguo ordered.

Shiro Miyazaki immediately drew his sword and rushed out with the wild samurai, shouting and admonishing: "Listen to General Li, don't kill the prisoners!" ”

Ghost Head Forty-Eight is getting more and more unhappy, he is from a nobler background than Miyazaki Shiro, and he should be the leader himself.

After dealing with the Japanese navy in Kagoshima Bay, Li Dingguo waved his troops to bombard Tsurumaru Castle that afternoon.

To be honest, this thing is not easy to fight.

The castle was built a hundred meters above the hill and was surrounded by a stone wall and inside there were three walls.

At this moment, the Satsuma clan had gathered more than 2,000 troops, climbed up from the west side of the mountain, and all of them were guarding Tsurumaru Castle.

Of course, there were only so many defenders that it was impossible for the next reinforcements to enter the city. Because this mountain is not big, the sentinels of the Datong army have already been scattered, and the follow-up reinforcements of the Satsuma domain will die as soon as they come.

"Division commander, the enemy army has been found in the west, there are about two or three hundred people!"

The sentry came back and reported: "According to the wild samurai who surrendered, those enemies are from Ijiin. “

"Pursue carefully, don't fall into an ambush." Li Dingguo commanded.

After a while, the battalion commander in charge of the pursuit sent his troops back to report: "Division commander, the enemy is running too fast and is familiar with the terrain, so we really can't catch up."

Li Dingguo called Shiro Miyazaki and asked, "Why is the master's house besieged, and the reinforcements say they will flee?" “

Shiro Miyazaki explained, "General Keiyu, the lord of the castle of Ijiin, is the eleventh brother of Mitsuhisa, the governor of the Shimazu family. Now that the family has been separated, it can be a family or not. Also, in order to consolidate his rule, Shimazu Mitsuhisa once killed Shimazu Hisasho and Shimazu Hisakei. Both of them are his brothers-in-law, and the former is still the head of the Shimazu branch. “

"I see." Li Dingguo suddenly laughed.

Under the rule of the Japanese shogunate, there were large and small feudal lords.

And under the lord of the domain, there are large and small castle lords. In order to consolidate his rule, Shimazu Mitsuhisa directly killed two brothers-in-law, one of whom was still the head of the separated family. What did this make the other lords and leaders of the Satsuma Domain think?

Take Shimazu Hisakuni, the lord of the castle of Ijiin, for example, the territory is not far from the main sect, and he is the younger brother of the feudal lord.

Of course, you have to be on the lookout at all times.

Shimazu Hisakuni led two or three hundred troops to the rescue, and when he encountered the Datong army, he slipped away. If the Datong army can capture Tsurumaru Castle and kill the feudal lord, maybe he will be able to succeed him as the governor of the family. Even if the feudal lord didn't die, he could explain that he had sent troops to rescue him, but it was a pity that he couldn't defeat the Datong army.

I am afraid that many of the castle lords of the Satsuma Domain have the same idea, which caused Li Dingguo's siege plan to fail to send reinforcements.

Poor Shimazu Mitsuhisa, as the lord of the Satsuma Domain, had only more than 2,000 people to defend the city, and all the reinforcements were in a wait-and-see state.

In the face of this embarrassing situation, only when the shogun personally ordered the reinforcements from all walks of life would they really gather troops to save each other.

Edo, shogunate.

Tokugawa Iemitsu had already received the news, and his first reaction was to be angry, and he wanted to gather troops throughout Japan to fight against China.

Abe Shigeji advised: "General, China has given two excuses for this expedition to the Satsuma Domain. One is to secretly annex the Ryukyus, and the other is to plunder Chinese merchant ships. The Tang soldiers only attacked Tsurumaru Castle, proving that they were unwilling to go to war with the shogunate,

There was really no need for the shogunate to raise troops because of this. “

Matsudaira Noriju also said: "General, in recent years, the grain harvest has failed, and there have always been droughts and snowstorms in various places. It's okay to fight a small war, but we really don't have food to fight a big war. Forcibly summoning the armies of the various feudal domains and sending more peasants to fight with grain will inevitably lead to civil unrest. The Chinese army will leave after fighting Tsurumaru Castle, and the rioters will not die. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu also has brains, and after being persuaded by the two ministers, he gradually calmed down. But the tone in which he spoke was still very unhappy: "Could it be that when the Tang soldiers came to attack, the shogunate pretended not to know?" Even if China withdraws its troops, the shogunate will be swept away! ”

Abe Shigeji said, "General, it was the Satsuma clan that annoyed the Chinese emperor. Although the shogunate allowed him to send troops to the Ryukyus,

Even because of this, the Shimazu family's food was increased, but they were not allowed to plunder Chinese merchant ships. Those Chinese merchant ships came to Nagasaki to do business with the shogunate. The Shimazu family's plundering of Chinese merchant ships is the plundering of the shogunate's goods, and it should be severely punished! Also, I heard from the Chinese envoy that the Shimazu family had been occupying the Ryukyu Hachishima Islands. This situation was not known to the shogunate, and the tribute was not handed over to the shogunate, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa deserved to be requisitioned! ”

Matsudaira said, "There should be two steps. First, an order was issued to reprimand the Shimazu family and remove Shimazu Hisamitsu from his position as governor; Second, send envoys to mediate and see how the Tang soldiers are willing to withdraw their troops. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu nodded in agreement, and suddenly asked, "Can the shogunate's navy fight the Chinese navy?"

Abe replied repeatedly, "It should be equal." However, China has a vast land and abundant resources, and at this time, it is the founding hero who is in charge. Even if the Chinese Navy is defeated, it will be able to build big ships in two or three years. However, the warships of the shogunate are sinking one and one is missing, and we will not be able to consume the Chinese emperor after all. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent, reminiscent of the war decades ago.

Japan invaded Korea, and although it won many battles, it could not afford several defeats. The Ming army was unfavorable in the early days, so it continued to send reinforcements, and as a result, the Chinese army fought more and more, while the Japanese army fought less and less.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was not very happy, and after letting the ministers leave, he asked Yagyu Shibei: "Have you met the Emperor of China, what kind of person is he?" “

Yagyu Shibei replied: "Young, heroic, majestic likes to laugh, and when he laughs, he is very kind and tolerant. “

Tokugawa Iemitsu pondered for a long time, and then ordered: "The envoy sent to negotiate with China will come by galleon,

Let the Dons also look at our warships! ”

Japan had Spanish galleons, and there were two.

One is more than 200 tons and the other is more than 500 tons, and they were built with the help of the Spaniards before they fell out with Spain.

(The new book of the Son of Heaven "The Champion of Brocade Clothes", the matter of the Zhengde and Jiajing dynasties.) Great god works, highly recommended, back then

"Iron Bone" saw that Lao Wang forgot to sleep and eat. )

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