Almost at the same time, the elite led by the Tokai Governor had reached the northern part of the island of Kyushu.

The sun hung high in the sky, and rays of brilliant sunlight pierced through the clouds and shone on the sparkling sea.

The vast fleet meandered like a dragon, the sails of the three-masted ships rattling in the morning breeze, and the soldiers on deck were ready, their armor glistening coldly in the midday sun.

The flotilla slowly approached the beach, and the waves crashed against the hull with a rhythmic sound.

"Login!"

The warships led by Huo Hai were the first to reach the coastline, and they ordered loudly.

For a moment, the deck was busy, and the soldiers checked their weapons again, gathered their equipment, and prepared for a possible battle.

With an order, the warship that took the lead docked.

After disembarking, some of them quickly formed a defensive formation, while others were engineering troops, and they quickly set up wooden planks in the shallow sea area and quickly formed a simple dock.

It's just that six Japanese ronins came out of nowhere, all of them carrying more or less trophies on their shoulders, and suddenly noticed the outpost squad that appeared on the hillside.

"Why did the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty appear here?"

"Seeing that their clothes are wet, they must have been shipwrecked!"

"Whatever? Look at their armor, I want it! ”

A few Japanese ronins looked up at a few Ming soldiers on the hillside, and they were sure that these Ming soldiers were just like this, and they must be some timid and afraid people.

The leading ronin Abe Shunjiu stepped forward and shouted loudly: "Listen to a few of you Ming soldiers, the six of us want to challenge a few of you, and if you have a kind, come down to fight, otherwise take off your armor immediately, and we can spare your lives!" ”

His voice was loud and loud, and it was heard not only by a few people on the hillside, but also by the large troops who were landing.

This......

Liu Han and other generals led by each other looked at each other, not to mention that there was a landing army behind them, and the six ronins in front of them dared to take the initiative to provoke them, which was really laughable.

Seeing that there was no reaction from above, Shunjiu Abe couldn't help but smile at each other.

They have always heard that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are greedy for life and afraid of death, and the other party may not be able to fight with them while wearing armor, but now they are silent, and they are obviously afraid of them.

"Let's go up and scare them, they will definitely hand over their armor obediently!" The eyes of the white-faced ronin next to him flashed with greed, and even even proposed.

Hey?

Liu Han and the others looked at the six ronins who came up here, and originally thought that they would scare them away, but they never expected that they would throw themselves into the net.

At the same time, when Huo Hai heard the movement, he had already sent a more elite team to go around.

Although Liu Han did not carry out danger warnings on his side, there was no trace of the big internal soldiers at any outpost, only there was something unusual here, so he naturally focused on taking care of this side.

"Since you don't drink the toast, then you will take it...... Life! Shunjiu Abe and other Japanese ronins were about to use force when they came to the hillside, but they suddenly gasped.

But I saw the archers of the Ming Dynasty appear on both sides, each of them was burly, with bright armor, holding a fine bow and arrow, and the steps were uniform.

They didn't expect the other party to have so many people, and they always thought that the Ming army was just a rabble, but they didn't expect it to be so well-trained and imposing.

"You...... You guys are ...... Look there? ”

The face of the white bearded ronin who was still clamoring to scare the Ming soldiers just now looked trembling and pointed to the beach and the sea, and there was no trace of blood on his face at this moment.

More and more warships docked at the pier, and groups of soldiers clutched their weapons and stepped onto the newly erected wooden bridge, their steps heavy and determined.

The leading ronin Shunjiu Abe saw that the form was wrong, and when he changed his attitude: "Misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding, I ...... We were just passing through! ”

"I'll go with you! If you're going to win me, I can let you go, or you're ...... Everybody has to die here! Liu Han was also on a whim, and immediately looked at Abe Junjiu.

Abe Junjiu's figure is not high, his face is a little fat, and when he saw that Liu Han didn't seem to have much of an advantage, his eyes flashed with joy: "Really? ”

"Today, I'll let you see the power of our Nanshan tribe!" Liu Han pulled out his waist knife, which also showed his masculinity.

Kill!

Abe Junjiu immediately made a preemptive move, pulled out his waist knife and rushed towards Liu Han.

Now surrounded by Ming archers, and the beach below is with thousands of Ming soldiers landing, which is his last hope for survival.

The two knives intersect, and the hard one wins.

Boom!

The Xuefeng knife in Liu Han's hand came from Xu Shiying's gift, and when it collided with Abe Shunjiu's Japanese knife, the Japanese knife that was already broken was immediately broken in two.

By inertia, the tip of the half-cut knife rotates in the air and finally falls into the grass next to it.

"No, it doesn't count!"

When Abe Shunjiu saw the broken knife in his hand, he suddenly panicked in his heart.

"Die!"

The corners of Liu Han's mouth rose slightly, and then he slashed down at Abe Shunjiu's head.

Burst!

A stream of blood splashed high, leaving a deep and visible knife mark on Liu Han's frightened face, and the knife continued to face downward, and it actually reached the tail with precision.

No......

Shunjiu Abe never thought that it would be this kind of death, his eyes were full of unwillingness, and he tilted his head and fell.

"Spare your life! We can surrender to the Ming Dynasty! The remaining five Japanese ronins knew that they would not be able to fly, so they immediately knelt on the ground and pleaded.

Liu Han put away the bloody knife, but said coldly: "Bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, what's the use of leaving you!" ”

Burst! Burst! Burst!

The archers next to him were already ready to attack, and immediately shot arrows at the five Japanese ronins who were kneeling on the ground, and these five soon became hedgehogs.

"Let's march to the inner city of Zhoufang!" Xu Shiying came to the hillside and looked coldly at the six cold corpses on the ground, and immediately waved his hand.

The march of the army marched in the direction of the Great Inner City of Zhoufang.

Unlike the Otomo family's territory, the villages along the way are very chaotic.

The six ronins who had just been killed turned out to be the villains who had looted from the village in front of them last night, and as they continued to move forward, they encountered some Japanese ronins who were robbing.

After the Tokai Governor's Mansion subdued Mumeng on Senzhi Island, it also created a horseback riding team belonging to the Tokai Governor's Office.

Xiang Ming is a man of Mongol descent who has returned to the Han Dynasty, and when he learned that there were ronins looting the village in front of him, he also led a cavalry to rush over.

A ronin was stripping off a woman to do something dirty, but Tu Qing's arrow was already on the string, and with a light release, a sharp arrow came out of the string.

Burst!

The smirking ronin didn't know what was happening, his neck had been pierced by a sharp arrow, and then his whole body fell to the woman who had been stripped of her clothes.

"Kill!"

Xiang Ming's subordinates were already impatient, and when they saw the Japanese ronin who was about to escape, they chased after him.

Naturally, two legs can't outrun four legs, and soon several people brought back the head of the Japanese ronin, and then found a Japanese ronin hiding in the pyre.

Xiang Ming did not rush to use the knife, but interrogated.

It turned out that the other party actually came out of the inner city of Zhoufang, and now there is no food in the city, and they have also been reduced from retainers to ronins.

Burst!

Xiang Ming did not leave a way for these Japanese ronins who did bad things, and immediately solved this kind of scum with one sword.

"Why is there such a mess here?"

"They have been starved of food for months!"

"I thought the crops hadn't been harvested yet, but there weren't many people with this kind of crops!"

……

Xu Shiying's army passed through the villages along the way, and not only did they see the dilapidated houses in the villages, but also the few crops planted on the edge of the villages, which made them shake their heads.

Food is the foundation of human life, and if this place loses the ability to create food, then it is basically useless.

"Now, I finally understand why Your Majesty wants to stop the Jiangnan merchants from transporting grain to them, those people are indeed traitor!" Huo Hai looked at the chaos here, but he felt a sense of awe.

Tweet!

Thousands of miles away, a young man in a dragon robe suddenly let out a loud sneeze for no apparent reason, and then turned his head thoughtfully to look east.

It's just that I'm afraid no one thought that the current emperor is not in the Forbidden City, nor in the city of Beijing.

Zhou Fang Da Inner City, which is also located on the plain of an earthen city.

Living in this era, although the mountain castle had a better military value, its lack of water was also obvious. Both the Otomo and Ouchi families wanted to better control Kyushu's territory, so it was a better idea to build a castle on the plains.

The iron armor flashed with cold light, swords and guns were like a forest, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

The army of the Ming Dynasty marched with neat steps, with a serious expression and a firm gaze. The army was like a dragon, meandering, yet orderly.

When entering the plain terrain, you can already see the inner city of Zhoufang from a distance.

In the eyes of the Ming soldiers who are accustomed to seeing all kinds of large cities, the inner city of Zhoufang in front of them is simply a small dirt bag, but it is far inferior to the scale of Daming City.

Just as the army was about to take the city with heavy artillery as a siege weapon, just as Wang Zhi's Central and Southern Army was like, they saw a short armored Japanese general riding a short horse.

One side of the water and soil supports the other side, and horses are no exception.

The place where horses are produced on Kyushu Island is Minami Kyushu, and the shoulder height is generally less than 1.3 meters, but the horses that are abundant in Miyazaki Prefecture are less than 1 meter high at the shoulder, and they are named Hinata horses because they are the territory of the Hyuga clan.

Originally, he should be wary of facing the enemy, but seeing the other party riding such a small pony, Xiang Ming couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous.

"Beware of fraud, beware of fraud!" Chen Shan is a battle-hardened veteran, but he is commanding.

The person who came was Tao Jiulang, a retainer, and when he saw the Ming army like a great enemy, he said in Chinese: "Dare to ask which one is Governor Xu?" ”

"This governor has been named the general of the expedition to the east by His Majesty, please call him the general!" Xu Shiying was wearing armor, and his eyes were also firmly identifying himself.

Tao Jiulang looked up and saw Xu Shiying sitting on a tall horse, and immediately felt that the Ming Dynasty was really a strong general, but he suddenly hurriedly turned over and dismounted.

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Shan saw Tao Jiulang who was suddenly kneeling on the ground, and immediately frowned.

Tao Jiulang took out the silk silk from his arms, but suddenly expressed his intention: "We surrender, only ask the general not to hurt us and the people in the city!" ”

This......

Chen Shan and Huo Hai immediately looked at each other, but they didn't expect that the war had not yet started, so they took the initiative to surrender to them.

"Why did you suddenly surrender?" Xu Shiying did not implement the beheading plan this time, and immediately said in confusion.

Tao Jiulang sighed, but said bitterly: "When the general enters the city, he will know the answer!" ”

Fraud?

Chen Shan suddenly became vigilant, and stretched out his hand to hold the waist knife.

"Okay, General Ben accepts your surrender!" Although Xu Shiying was still puzzled, he still decisively accepted this surrender.

At this time, the city gate had been opened, and the person in charge here, Ouchi Kyoyuki, personally led a group of people out of the city gate and surrendered one after another.

Chen Shan and Huo Hai personally led the army into the city and soon took over the security of the city.

Xu Shiying rode into the city, but after seeing the situation along the street, he noticed that some old people were like ghosts, lying in the corners.

In fact, it is not that they do not want to resist, but that the problem of food is far more serious than everyone thinks. If there is no pay, they can continue to be appeased, but without food, it is simply life-threatening.

At this time, in the inner city of Zhoufang, there were literati who recorded: On the day of the end of the grain, the families were closed and willing to die, and the pedestrians were cut off during the day. When there is a lonely alley, most of them are pulled and killed by the strong, and they are eaten by food. There were even those who entered houses at night, assassinated them, and stole their flesh. In the past, there were still finches and rats in the city that could be caught, but now there are no rats and sparrows, and they have not been seen in the past.

Originally, their army still had a lot of horses, but under the long-term inability to solve the problem of military rations, they had also been slaughtered by soldiers to satisfy their hunger, otherwise Tao Jiulang could still ride a slightly taller horse.

"Your Majesty is really eloquent!"

Xu Shiying took over the inner city of Zhou Defense without spending a single soldier, and he also realized the power of the emperor's food war through the blockade, which was really a strategic deployment like a genius.

"General, we've caught this guy!"

"Let go of me, my father is Hou Zhan, the left waiter of the Nanjing household department, don't you all want to live?" Hou Haotian was arrested by Liu Han and others, but this son-in-law still looked very arrogant.

Xu Shiying turned his head to look at this arrogant son, but said coldly: "Hou Gongzi, don't talk about your father Hou Zhan, and hundreds of people from your nine clans, all of them will be killed for your treason!" ”

"Governor Xu, you said that my son is treasonous, do you have real evidence? Even if you are the governor of the East China Sea, you don't want to pour dirty water on my son, my son is not no one in the court, and my father is a member of the court! Hou Haotian knew that this crime could not be carried out, so he raised his chin and said arrogantly.

Xu Shiying saw that the other party was dying and didn't know it, so he looked into the other party's eyes and said word by word: "What General Ben said is ironclad evidence, how could Hou Zan give birth to such a stupid son as you?" ”

Unlike other people's identities, he is the queen of Zhongshan, the prince of Dingguo, and the governor of the East China Sea who is also the general of the Eastern Expedition, which is enough evidence.

Even the scholars in Jiangnan did not dare to say that he slandered Hou Haotian, and today there was already enough reason to kill the nine clans of the Hou Mansion.

No......

Hou Haotian saw Xu Shiying's death gaze, and finally realized the emotions of the person who had been bullied by him, in the face of the evidence of such a powerful and monstrous person, how could he need any human and material evidence? (End of chapter)