Chapter 429: Shimazu defects

With a large number of enemies surrendering, the Ming army soon confirmed a startling news:

There were no forts in the port of the Japanese army, and there were no cannons of the same level as the Hongyi cannons, and only a few medium-sized cannons were erected at the commanding heights of the port, and there were 500 birds guarding the port.

It is a natural harbor with no traces of artificiality at all. Hundreds of Ataka ships are moored in the harbor, and there are officers on duty on board both day and night, ready to set sail for battle.

Shen Yourong, the chief soldier, promptly reported this important information to Xiong Tingbi and Wang Hongyu.

Xiong Tingbi had a prudent attitude, but after Wang Hongyu received the information, he felt that the northern line of the Ming Dynasty could cooperate by land and water, and Shen Yourong Water Division fully supported the land army on the shore to besiege the Japanese army that was still resisting stubbornly on the island.

In Shen Yourong's more than 40 years of military career, he spent decades guarding the coast of Fujian. It was during this period that he led his army into the Treasure Island and Penghu Islands three times, annihilated the Japanese invaders, drove out the Dutch invaders, and successfully defended the Treasure Island.

The first time was in the winter of the thirtieth year of Wanli (1602), the Japanese invaded Dongfan (Treasure Island) and brutalized our Fujian merchants and Gaoshan compatriots everywhere. Shen Yourong braved the risk of a typhoon, led 21 warships to cross the sea desperately, went to Dongfan, and completely annihilated this group of Japanese robbers, so that Fujian merchants and Gaoshan compatriots saw the light of day again.

The second time was in the 32nd year of Wanli (1604), the Dutch East India Company Wei Malang and others owned three huge ships, and took advantage of the Ming army's change of defense to occupy Magong Island (Penghu Island). In the name of mutual markets, they attempted to occupy the Penghu Islands forever like the Portuguese occupied Macao.

Shen Yourong was in a critical situation where the Fujian Bafu Army was in a state of retreat, after strict deployment, regardless of his own safety, he galloped to the Dutch ship in a single boat, pointing out Chen's interests and solemnly admonishing Wei Malang to force Wei Malang to withdraw without a single shot. When Wei Malang was leaving, he asked the painter to paint a portrait of him as a sign of respect.

The third time was in the 45th year of Wanli (1617), the Japanese shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered Nagasaki Acting Official Murayama and other An to occupy Treasure Island, Shen Yourong first subdued the Akashi Michiyu army with prestige, and then led the naval division to besiege Dongsha Island (White Dog Island), and adopted the method of using the Japanese to suppress the Japanese and force the recalcitrant Japanese to abandon their weapons and surrender on the island.

In his previous life, he should have been a hero, but in this life, he has reached the front line, and he will go to the treasure island for the fourth time to fight, adding a new chapter to his glorious life.

He was still resolute in his fight.

Xiong Tingbi thought about it, the Dutch people are very different from the Japanese state, and they are also merchants and pirates.

There is no sacrificial spirit to help each other.

You can play!

Wang Hongyu is right, Shen Yourong's fighting spirit cannot be ignored.

Choose a day with a north wind at night.

The Ming army attacked the remnants of the Japanese warships in the harbor like fish.

Before the ships left the port, more than 20 ships had already burst into flames.

In order to stay alive, the sailors, gunners, and birds on the ship jumped into the sea to flee for their lives.

The port was originally not large, but the exit was blocked by the burning Ataka ship in front, and it was afraid that the burning planks would fly after the explosion of the burning Ataka ship, so he hid far away. As a result, there are fewer Ataka ships that can leave the port.

Soon after, there was an explosion.

The gunpowder of arquebuses and cannons on some of the ships of the house was burned in a row.

Even the grain, bamboo armor, and grass huts on the shore were also on fire.

Since the Wa Kingdom lost all kinds of big ships on the treasure island, it is already wishful thinking to escape back to Wajima.

The Hunhe Army also launched a simultaneous attack, specifically attacking the area where the enemy's warehouses were located and destroying the enemy's food supply reserves.

As more warehouses were destroyed, the Japanese army was visibly undersupplied.

The Netherlands in the south was a Japanese reinforcement, and it was impossible for them to remain silent after all, so they still launched support.

More than half of the 2,000 Dutch mercenaries were dispatched to try to attack the Ming army on the island from the north and south, but the road was blocked by layers of trenches and Ming troops, and there was also the Potbelly Kingdom in the mountains and forests.

It is often during the day that the Dutch people bomb the mountains, and they do not see how many people are killed in the mountains and forests.

At night, the Ming army or the Potbelly Kingdom launched a night attack, although no decisive battle was taken and so on

way, but the constant harassment made the Dutch so tired that they couldn't even take turns sleeping.

The Dutch mercenaries fought for several days and advanced no more than 70 miles.

At this time, he received an order for urgent reinforcements from Resha Blockade, so he had to withdraw his troops. It turned out that the Ming army dug the tunnel under the city wall and blew down the city wall to the west of the fortress.

The Ming army continued to shell from the collapsed fortress, and half of the basement leaked out, and the Ming army threw gasoline bombs into the basement, igniting the gunpowder in the basement, and a series of explosions occurred.

The battle in the north was also fierce, and the warlords of the Tokugawa shogunate of the Wakoku Kingdom played a role, and those ronins who were passively fighting were frightened and began to defend and counterattack again, and for a time a see-saw situation was formed, and the Ming army was unwilling to consume strength in the battle.

The Ming army attacked in the north and defended in the south, and the battle was very fierce.

After a month of stalemate, the Japanese army finally ran out of supplies and could not hold on, and the field battle was powerless to resist, so they had to retreat to the temporary fortress to defend it.

There were originally tens of thousands of bird guns in the Japanese army, and more than 2,000 bird guns were lost in that defeat, but there were still nearly 8,000 bird guns, although the power was not great, and the threat of cold guns was great.

However, the Hunhe Army had 50 Hongyi cannons, which were also transported to the treasure island.

More than 20 years ago, the Japanese army's stubborn defense tactics in Korea did not work, and they were blown to pieces by Hongyi artillery.

There were only more than 20,000 Japanese troops left, some of them dug tunnels to defend them, thousands of Japanese soldiers fled into the mountains and forests, and thousands of people took the islanders hostage to block cannon fodder.

At the critical moment, the defeated army of the Japanese kingdom who participated in the Battle of Malacca returned from Batavia.

Led by the Shimazu family, escorted by ten Dutch battleships, and Putmans's battleships were also dispatched, and the enemy's warships were relatively more guns and stronger.

Wang Hongyu ordered Shen Yourong and Yu Zhigao not to fight, and the first task was to ensure the shipping lines from the coast to Penghu and from Penghu to Beigang.

The Dutch people did not fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, but transported thousands of remnants of the Shimazu family to the island, communicating whether to fight or flee.

There were still not many supplies for the Japanese army on the island, and the Shimazu family looked at it and thought about something else.

I feel that the Tokugawa Shogunate let all the strong men die, and the Ming army is by no means something that the Tokugawa Shogunate can provoke, how can the Shimazu family fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty for the sake of the enemy of the Tokugawa family?

The Shimazu family suddenly defected.

Take down the Japanese army on the island, kill those who do not surrender, and surrender all the bundles, and officially surrender to the Ming army.

The Shimazu family used Yan Siqi's secret letter as evidence, saying that the Shimazu family had already discussed with Yan Siqi and was ready to deal with the Tokugawa shogunate.

Wang Hongyu held this evidence, as well as the head of the Shimazu family and the last samurai, Ashigaru, enough to drive Shimazu to work for himself.

The enemy forces in the northern part of the island were completely annihilated.

Xiong Tingbi led 30,000 Ming army battalions and guards to the island, established towns, guards and more inspection divisions, and cleared out the remnants of the Japanese army who had fled into the mountains.

He also ordered the Hunhe army to move south, preparing to deal with the Resha fortress in the Netherlands.