Li Dingguo had a headache in the face of the turtle shell, and the strong attack must have led to excessive casualties, and the artillery bombardment could not dry up the city defense artillery due to the terrain.

And the defenders in Tsurumaru Castle were also terrified. They have been besieged for many days, and their morale is already low, and they have directly lost one-fifth of their troops in the Ishigaki attack and defense battle just now.

Today, the defenders were less than 2,000 men, and there was no hope of victory.

If it weren't for the fact that Shimazu Mitsuhisa's prestige was still there, and he could suppress the samurai and ashigaru in the castle, these defenders would definitely surrender without saying a word.

Occupying the stone wall and continuing to besiege the city, Li Dingguo did not panic for the time being.

However, it is said that Shimazu Tsunahisa, the eldest son of Shimazu Mitsuhisa, returned to Kagoshima from Edo on the orders of the shogunate. He came back to succeed the governor of the family, and by the way, he supervised his father to apologize, and as a result, he took a boat halfway to Hirado Castle, accompanied by Matsuura Nobusada of the Matsuura family.

"The shogunate asked me to apologize? Ha ha. Matsuura Shigenobu laughed.

Shimazu Tsunahisa said: "For the sake of today's plan, only the Matsuura family will send troops and defeat the Tang soldiers together with my Shimazu family." Otherwise, even if there is a change of governor, the heavy war reparations will not be affordable. ”

Emperor Tagawa Yu, a retainer, said, "Your Excellency, you may send Nanazaemon as an envoy to persuade the Tang soldiers to relax the conditions for withdrawing troops. “

"Let him be a messenger? I'm afraid it's gone! Matsuura Shigenobu sneered.

Qizaemon is Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Zheng Daozhou.

And Emperor Tian Chuan Yu is Zheng Chenggong's grandfather. Legend has it that this person's surname is Weng, originally from Quanzhou, but after entering Japan, he changed his surname and became a retainer of the Matsuura clan.

Zheng Chenggong's biological mother, Tian Chuansong, has been taken back to Fujian to settle down, but the Hirado clan is unwilling to let Zheng Daozhou go. This was to force the Zheng family to conduct official trade in Nagasaki while also sparing some spare energy to smuggle goods to Hirado.

Matsuura Shigenobu is estimated to be the most far-sighted of the Japanese feudal lords.

He was familiar with the Confucian classics since he was a child, and at the same time, he had studied Yiye Buddhism, and rapidly grew his strength through sea trade. The root cause of Tokugawa Iemitsu's seclusion was the Hirado Domain, which seriously threatened the rule of the shogunate.

After the closure of the country, the Dutch trading house in Hirado was forcibly relocated to Nagasaki by the shogunate.

Although this move greatly damaged the strength of the Hirado Domain, Matsuura Shigenobu was not an idle person. He encouraged the peasants to open up land and farm, supported the development of industry and commerce, and at the same time secretly engaged in smuggling and piracy, even if his house was burned, he could not bear to rebuild it in order to save money and food.

On the other hand, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, who owes a lot of debt, still wants to build a vacation villa in Kirishima.

Matsuura Shigenobu later raised a good son, and instead of indulging in pleasure, he also promoted Confucian benevolence and devoted himself to helping the poor and low-class.

Matsuura Shigennobu stood up, looked at the sky and said, "If the shogunate does not send troops, it will be my Matsuura family!" He suddenly sneered, "The shogunate's plan is nothing more than to weaken the strength of our Matsuura and Shimazu families with the help of the Tang soldiers, and his Tokugawa family's rule will be worry-free forever." “

Hirado, Zhengjia Merchant House.

Zheng Daozhou is only eighteen years old this year, but he has already become the head of the Zheng family's Hirado trade.

"Young master, the Matsuura family seems to be about to fight, and there has been a lot of excitement outside the city these days, and the samurai of the castle town are being ordered to enter the city." Zheng Zhong reminded.

Zheng Daozhou sighed: "I know that there are people in the merchant hall who are staring at me and are not allowed to leave a step, this is for fear that I will take the opportunity to escape." “

Zheng Zhong was worried: "Will the merchant house be in danger?" “

Zheng Daozhou shook his head: "As long as the Songpu family still wants to smuggle in the sea, they will not attack the Zheng family business hall." You send a guy to Nagasaki, don't go by sea, go to Nagasaki by land. Tell the Zheng family merchant hall there and ask them to take a boat to Kagoshima to report the news. Let's just say that the Matsuura clan is gathering troops, and it is likely that they will go south to fight the Datong army. “

"Yes!" Zheng Zhong bowed and retreated.

Zheng Daozhou has been passed to his grandfather's house, and he should actually be surnamed Tagawa, so he is also known as Tagawa Jiro in Japan.

Historically, his mother Tian Chuansong was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and committed suicide and martyrdom, and Zheng Daozhou has always asked to return to China to resist the Qing Dynasty. However, the Japanese side never let go, and Zheng Daozhou could only give up and continue to deliver anti-Qing materials to his brother Zheng Chenggong in Japan.

This time and space is even more outrageous, because Zheng Zhilong was made a duke, Zheng Chenggong married a princess as a concubine, and the Matsuura family attached great importance to Zheng Daozhou. Zheng Daozhou's wife at this time was the youngest sister of the Matsuura family governor, and his sons had grown to a year old.

However, it is said that after Li Dingguo occupied Ishigaki, he continued to besiege the city for more than 30 days, and the defenders in the city showed signs of collapse.

After another month, Tsurumaru Castle will be short of food.

At this moment, news came from the navy that a Zheng family merchant ship had arrived from Nagasaki, and that the Hirado clan was preparing to gather troops to the south.

Li Dingguo was overjoyed and said: "It's just in time, don't besiege Tsurumaru City too much, breaking the city in advance will scare away the enemy reinforcements." ”

Matsuura Shigenobu not only gathered troops to go on the expedition, but also landed at Akune.

Shimazu Tsunahisa, who accompanied him, as the eldest son of the family governor, ordered the lords of the Shimazu family in Akune and Izumi to send troops. If you don't send troops, let the army of the Matsuura family directly attack the city!

As they marched southward, the army grew stronger, and by the time they reached Ijiin, the combined forces of the Matsuura and Hirado domains numbered 8,000. Counting the people, there are more than 20,000, and they are known as 100,000 troops.

After departing from Ijiin, Shimazu Tsunahisa said, "I'm afraid that these people from the Satsuma Domain are reluctant to contribute in a frontal battle. They didn't save them before,

I have offended my father, and now I wish my father would die early, if my father was alive, he would definitely ask them for his guilt. “

Matsuura Shigenobu nodded and said, "This question is very troublesome, don't look at the 20,000 troops of our two families, but only the warriors of the Hirado Domain are really united." Do you have any good advice? “

Shimazu Tsunahisa said, "You can use the Shimazu family's secret tactics to fish for wild ambushes!" ”

The so-called fishing field ambush is to set up ambushes, feint and lure the enemy to pursue, and then ambush the troops to annihilate the incoming enemy.

This very common method of warfare in China was blown out by the Shimazu family, and they won brilliant victories many times. Even with this method of warfare, he defeated the vanguard of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and won the eldest son of the head of the Nagazong family.

What else is the woodpecker strategy, that is the ultimate mystery of Takeda Shingen.

In fact, it is to divide the cavalry to go around, kill at the critical moment of the battle, and specifically attack the enemy's most vulnerable troops, so as to cause a great rout of the enemy army by breaking the surface.

The most interesting thing is the car suspension array of Kenshin Uesugi. This thing is more like an immortal method, or a big move in the game, and it will definitely be full of loopholes when it is put out in actual combat, and it will be beaten by the enemy so that your mother doesn't know it. In order to be effective in actual combat, it is necessary to make sure that every soldier orders and prohibitions, and all middle-level officers must have the ability to adapt to the situation.

If the car suspension array is true, the middle-level officers under the command of Uesugi Kenshin are probably all first-class generals.

The allied armies of the two feudatories traveled all the way, plundering the people along the way. The speed of their troops is too fast, and the grain and grass are somewhat insufficient, so they must grab food from the mouths of the people of the Shimazu family's territory, and the closer they get to Tsurumaru Castle, the more people have done business with the Datong army. Compared with the two, in the sky and on the ground, the Datong army traded fairly, never killing people and robbing, but the soldiers of the Shimazu and Matsuura families were more like invaders.

As a result, the nearby people fled one after another, ran with their families to join the Datong army, and took the initiative to help transmit military information.

About six miles away from Tsurumaru Castle, the Datong army met the enemy coalition forces.

The Datong army had only 5,000 men, and the rest were still besieging Tsurumaru Castle. The enemy coalition was even smaller, with only 3,000 men, many of whom were dressed in tatters.

Ghost head forty-eight said: "General, beware of the Shimazu family's fishing nobush!"

After listening to the translation, Li Dingguo knew that it was the mystery of the Shimazu clan's tactics, and he couldn't help laughing: "It's been a long time since I fought a war, and it's perfunctory to lure the enemy, and I'm afraid that the real soldiers are less than 1,000." Dragoons go to war! ”

The Datong army brought war horses, not many, only 1,500. The sea was bumpy, some died of illness, and now there are more than 1,300 rides.

Yuan Shizhong has been promoted to the rank of colonel, but he still commands 2,500 dragoons.

At this moment, Yuan Shizhong took 1,200 horsemen into battle. After running dozens of steps, they were divided into two teams, left and right, trying to outflank and annihilate the attacking enemy.

"Run!

Seeing that it was the cavalry that was being fought, the enemy troops who had lured the enemy turned and fled when they were far away. As for the people, they collapsed in an instant, and even forgot to lure the Datong army to the valley.

After a period of pursuit, more than 1,000 people were captured and hundreds were killed, leaving only more than 800 enemy troops to flee into the valley.

To the northwest of Tsurumaru Castle, there are valleys everywhere, and you can set up an ambush anywhere.

"Collect the troops!"

Yuan Shizhong smiled and asked the herald to blow the trumpet, and he didn't chase it in at all. The Shimazu family's mystery is a joke in Yuan Shizhong's eyes, he went from being a rogue to joining the Datong Army, and fought on the battlefield for ten years, what kind of luring the enemy has not been seen?

Shimazu Tsunahisa was extremely shocked, looking at the defeated soldiers who had fled back, and said in horror: "The enemy army has a resourceful general, and my Shimazu family's fishing nobush has not played a role!" ”

Matsuura Shigenobu said: "It's okay, anyway, only a few hundred soldiers were sent to lure in, and most of them escaped back, and the rest were ordinary farmers." It didn't work, so you had to fight head-on. It's a pity that the two of us, the real power is the navy, and land combat is not our forte. ”

Shimazu Tsunahisa said: "The iron artillery team of the Matsuura family will definitely be able to fight with the Tang soldiers!" ”

The coalition army rested in the valley for one day, and the next day slowly marched into the army, leaving the valley to face the Datong army head-on.

The Datong army still has only 5,000, and there are more than 20 wild warriors, and the rest of the troops are all too lazy to bring over in the siege. The main fear is that if they are all in place, they will scare the enemy away.

The two coalition armies of Shimazu and Matsuura counted the peasants and pulled out all of them to arrange their troops. In terms of the number of people, it is indeed quite magnificent, about 20,000 people, which is four times the size of the Datong army.

And there was also a team of horses, more than two hundred dwarfs, riding mule-like ponies. Some of them also planted flags on their backs, and when they ran, the flags fluttered, which was indescribably funny in the eyes of the Datong soldiers.

These Japanese cavalry rushed to the flank, and Yuan Shizhong led the dragoons to kill, and after a distance of dozens of paces, he raised his gun and fired.

"Bang bang bang!"

A burst of gunfire rang out, and more than 200 Japanese cavalrymen suddenly fell to more than 30 horsemen.

Matsuura Shigenobu shouted in surprise: "Let the cavalry come back, the Tang soldiers have mounted iron cannons!"

Riding a horse iron cannon is the ultimate mystery of Date Masamune, and there were also people who played dragoon tactics during the Warring States period of Japan

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