There is Zhishan City, and in the end, the battle flag of the Xia army was raised high.

The recalcitrant samurai in the city, under the leadership of Miyamoto Iori, took the initiative to walk out of the mountain castle and frantically charged the Xia army on the mountain road, and the Xia army immediately raised their guns and fired back.

As if it was a collision of two eras of force, in the continuous gunfire, the brave samurai were shot one after another and fell, Miyamoto Iori, who is the heir of the swordsman, showed his strength above ordinary people, and in the face of the bullets fired, he was able to draw his sword and split the bullets.

If this is a world with extraordinary power, then Miyamoto Iori will definitely be able to make a big difference, and even make Xia Jun suffer heavy losses in this final decisive charge, but unfortunately this is a world full of science, although Miyamoto Iori can quickly cut off the projectiles flying towards him, but he can't split all the projectiles.

In the midst of the burst of gunfire, Miyamoto Iori swung his knife and split a projectile, but he was directly hit by the rest of the projectiles that followed him, and the projectile easily broke through the armor defense on his body, causing a cloud of blood mist to explode in front of him.

Then, Miyamoto Iori fell to the ground unwillingly, he forced the saber into the ground, trying to use the saber's support to allow himself to stand up again, but after the knife forcibly split a projectile, a slight crack had appeared on the body of the knife, and it was bearing most of Miyamoto Iori's weight, and finally broke off, and Miyamoto Iori also fell heavily to the ground.

In the last footage of his life, the Xia army finally stopped shooting after shooting the last samurai, and they shouted and raised their bayonets, straddled the samurai's bodies and continued to advance towards the mountain castle.

"Whoosh...... It turns out that we have not lost the courage of the enemy, but the development of weapons......

Before losing consciousness, Miyamoto Iori finally realized this truth.

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The castle was conquered by the Xia army, and the Japanese deserters who fled without permission after the shelling were also captured by the Xia army at the bottom of the mountain, and the Xia army then found a headless corpse with a cut open abdomen in a room on the upper floor of the castle tower.

And with the fall of Arichiyama Castle, Chikuzen Province ...... Oh no, the vast Japanese forces that were still fighting in the entire Kitakyushu were wiped out, and the only remaining armed forces in the region were a small number of garrisons left behind in the city.

These garrisons were obviously no match for the Xia army, and under the strong attack of the Xia army, in less than half a month, the Xia army captured the three kingdoms of Hizen, Chikuzen and Chikugo, and initially established the foundation for its rule in Kitakyushu.

Although the Xia army swept through Kitakyushu and gained a firm foothold, the local people did not identify with the Xia army.

Although they were gradually influenced by the system after being ruled by the Xia army, and began to slowly develop a heart of submission and loyalty to the Xia Dynasty, it also took time to truly form a sense of loyalty, and the system could only maintain their minimum loyalty, that is, not to participate in the rebellion against the Xia army.

Su Fu was not aware of this, and in order to consolidate the imperial court's rule in Kitakyushu, he also used it as a test field first, and if he succeeded, he could spread it to the new areas he would occupy in the future.

He realized that the core of Japan's feudal kingdoms was basically a castle built on a mountain, and that the existence of such a Japanese-style castle was to maintain the rule of the Japanese feudal lords, and that as long as the mountain castle still existed, the feudal lords and daimyo would continue to exist, and the common people here would only know the feudal lords and not the imperial court.

In order to establish a long-term rule in Japan and pass on the imperial decrees to the countryside, it was necessary to abolish the existing local system, establish prefectures and prefectures, and dispatch liuguan to govern them.

Su Fusuke's idea was to change Japan's existing Reigo Province into a prefecture, demolish the mountain castle, and choose a good site to build a new city, rather than abolishing Chikuzen Province and rebuilding Fukuoka Prefecture, and building Fukuoka Prefecture between Fukuoka Mountain Castle and Nanozu Port, so that the prefecture could taste the dividends of shipping.

The other feudal capitals in Chikuzen were changed to prefectures, and the mountain castles were also demolished and another castle was built.

Of course, this idea must be sent to the imperial court first, and it can only be implemented after obtaining the permission of the imperial court, otherwise if Su Fu starts the reform without authorization, it will be troublesome to be impeached by the well-fed and well-supported officials in the court.

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Compared with the speed of the Xia army, the speed of the Japanese army can almost be described as turtle speed, and the Japanese army in Chugoku and Shikoku has just received orders from Edo, and the daimyo of the feudal lords in each region are preparing to assemble their armies, while the daimyo of the feudal lords in the Kyushu region have already assembled their armies, but they lack a unified representative to lead the armies of the feudal lords.

At this time, the Satsuma Domain, which had not had a good relationship with the shogunate, stepped forward, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, wanted to restore his ancestors' reputation in Kyushu, so he took the initiative to stand up and express his willingness to lead the armies of the feudal lords against the Xia army, and took the opportunity to expand the power of the Satsuma Domain.

However, the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma Domain's hegemony in Kyushu and the backstabbing of the shogunate army in the Battle of Shimabara made the local feudal lords wary of the Satsuma Domain, so they rejected Shimazu Mitsuhisa's offer and reorganized their own armies in their respective domains - since the shogunate army could not arrive in a short time, they would defend the feudal kingdom on their own.

After conquering the Three Kingdoms of Northern Kyushu, Su Fu once again ordered Hao Shaoqi and Yuan Zong's two armies to continue southward, and while the two armies went south to attack Higo and Fenghou, he also set his sights on the east, to the Fengqian country, which had lost its feudal lord and became a scattered sand.

At this time, the news of the shogunate's build-up of troops in China and Shikoku had been sent to Su Fu under the operation of Jinyiwei's spy network, and he knew that Bunzen, as an important channel between Kyushu and Honshu Island, was still under the control of the shogunate, and the shogunate army could cross the Kanmon Strait at any time and easily enter Kyushu Island.

Therefore, Su Fu ordered Tongcheng Hou Ma Tengyun and Xingping Hou Dang Shousu to each lead a brigade of soldiers and horses to attack Fengqian Kingdom by Zhuqian, and take Fengqian Kingdom before the Japanese army in China was assembled, so as to lay a good foundation for the Xia and Chao naval divisions to enter the Guanmen Strait.

In late April, the 4th Brigade of the 4th Town of the Xia Army, under the leadership of the Marquis of Xingping, set out from Qiuyue City and invaded the Fengqian area.

After entering the Bunzen area, the army soon marched to a hill called Mt. Eihiko by the locals, and according to the scout's report, there was a shrine on Mt. Eihiko.

The shrine of Mt. Eihiko is a smaller shrine hidden in the middle of a dense forest, where the somewhat painted torii stands quietly, and a few plainly dressed clergy are sweeping with brooms, they are only slightly startled when they see the arrival of the heavily armed Xia soldiers, but they quickly regain their composure.

The shrine has a high status in Japan, and no daimyo will attack the shrine no matter how chaotic it is, so the clergy here are not afraid of the arrival of the military.

The slightly older person at the head took the initiative to come up, saluted Dang Shousu, and muttered a bunch of words, Dang Shousu frowned and listened to it for a long time without understanding a word, so he directly pushed the man away and walked straight inside.

He was originally a peasant army general who followed King Chuang's uprising, and he would not reason with people of lower status than himself, so after he walked in, he ignored the clergyman's muttering, walked around this dilapidated small shrine, and walked out of the torii gate with some disappointment.

He also thought that the shrines in Japan, like those temples in China, stored a lot of treasures in them, but who would have thought that even the statues of the gods in this ruined place were only gilded, and they would not be sold for much money.

After leaving the shrine, the bored Dang Shousu returned to the army, he took out the map drawn by Jinyiwei and looked at it for a long time, and discussed it with the commander of the 4th Brigade for a while, before finally deciding on the direction of continuing the march and killing it towards the castle in the east.