Kai Fu Han

Chapter 572 Yakushima

"It's such a small town, and it still needs to attack from both sides?" a company commander asked doubtfully, with disdain in his words.

"A lion fights a rabbit with all its strength. Since we have the ability, we naturally have to make the most reliable battle plan." The regiment leader refuted the company commander's contempt, and then directly ordered: "Prepare to attack the city, don't wait any longer."

It seems that the leader does not regard Kagoshima City as a "big enemy" in his heart.

In the early stages of the development of the Xinghan League, only one battalion was needed to attack the county seat.

Kagoshima City is not even comparable to a county in Dengzhou. Now that we have a regiment, we are already doing our best.

The preparations for the siege of the field army were completed within half an hour.

What surprised the head of the regiment was that the defenders of Kagoshima Castle went out of the city to fight against the enemy.

Less than 1000 scattered people, led by a few warriors, came to form an array outside the west city gate.

"Are they crazy?" Some officers couldn't believe what they saw.

Time, location, people and harmony.

There is a city wall to rely on, but when the troops are at a disadvantage, they go out to fight in the city. How can the defending generals get the confidence?
After waiting for the opponent's formation to be completed, a strong man over five feet tall came out of the Kagoshima defenders, came between the two armies, and shouted loudly in Japanese.

"Commander, the enemy general wants to confront the general!" A military officer in the field army who spoke Japanese came forward to translate.

"Hahaha, this general is interesting. Does he think this is thousands of years ago?"

When the two armies faced each other, fierce generals were challenged to a duel. This was a tradition during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. By the Qin Dynasty, it had become rare. However, in the Xinghan Alliance, our generals were not allowed to duel with enemy generals at all.

"Who's going?"

"I'll go!" A squad leader stood up. He was not a general, just a sideline.He turned around and took a Mo Dao (a long-handled long blade, a weapon used by infantry against cavalry) from his subordinates, and walked directly towards the Japanese general.

Counting the long handle, the Mo knife is as tall as a person, and it feels very powerful and domineering when carried on the shoulder.

"Who is coming? (Who is coming?)".The general of the Kagoshima garrison asked, "This squad leader can come out to fight because he knows Japanese and can understand it."

""私の手を轻ってからにしよう (Take my trick!)" did not answer his question.

Feeling the threat, the Japanese general held the scabbard with one hand and rested the other hand on the handle of the samurai sword, standing in a stance of drawing the sword and slashing.

The squad leader of the field army took off the scabbard of Mo Dao and held the handle of the knife with both hands.

"what!!"

With a loud roar, Mo Dao struck out first, the knife was as fast as lightning, and the marks on the tip of the knife were no longer visible to the naked eye.

The samurai reacted quickly. The samurai sword was quickly pulled out of the scabbard. Then he held the sword with both hands and slashed towards Mo Dao, trying to block the sword.

Click!rub!

Continuous crisp sound!
The tip of Mo Dao touched the ground.

The katana was cut off by Mo Dao, and half of the blade flew past the squad leader's cheek, leaving a trace of blood.

Then, blood began to ooze from the warrior's neck, shoulders, and abdomen.

Collapsed, the body was divided into two sections.

The warrior was cut into two pieces by Mo Dao from his right shoulder, diagonally downwards.

The strength of a warrior is simply unmatched by ordinary people.

"Kill!!" A loud roar came from the field army, and then the military formation began to advance forward.

The Kagoshima defenders on the opposite side were in chaos. Our most valiant general was cut in half without even catching the enemy's move, and his morale was severely damaged.

The end result speaks for itself.

First, they broke up the defenders' formation, then routed their troops one after another, and rushed directly into Kagoshima Castle. In less than half an hour, all the battles were over.

By the time the combined fleet arrived at Kagoshima Port, even the defenders at the port had been annihilated by the first group. "The Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Kingdom are invincible." Matsuura Yoshinobu praised.

As the nominal main battle force, this attack on Kagoshima, the Matsuura family's army and navy all went through the motions.

"I didn't expect that the capital of a county could be so weak." Liu Xinyuan sighed.

Now it seems that only one company of the field army is needed to capture Kagoshima.

"How about striking while the iron is hot and directly capture Osumi Kingdom?" Ye Chuan suggested.

"Okay." Liu Xinyuan thought for a moment and agreed.

The vassal city of Osumi Province is located in Osumi County across the bay. There is a circular peninsula connecting Osumi County in the bay. The strait between the peninsula and Kagoshima Castle is less than ten miles.

Across the sea.

Soon, a battalion of infantry boarded the battleship, and the battleship set sail again and arrived at the port of Ohsumi Castle on the other side of the strait.

The port has already made preparations to deal with the enemy, and there are trebuchets on the shore of the port.

When it was two miles away from the port, the battleship stopped.

Three mountain-class battleships lined up, facing the port, followed by the roar of artillery.

One round!
Two rounds!

After three rounds of shooting, the catapults on the shore were gone, and even the defenders in position were dispersed by artillery.

"It's too easy!" Liu Xinyuan sighed, looking towards the north.

As soon as Matsuura Yoshinobu heard this and looked at Liu Xinyuan's expression, he knew that the weakness of Satsuma and Ohsumi had aroused the greater greed of the Xinghan League general.

My scalp felt numb.

"Don't think too much, complete the tasks assigned by the leader first and then talk about other things." Ye Chuan advised from the side.

Liu Xinyuan is the commander-in-chief of this expedition. If he really has evil intentions, others will have no choice but to follow orders.

"Okay, let's try to complete the task as soon as possible." Liu Xinyuan put his thoughts aside for the time being.

"The alliance leader has reminded us many times that our biggest enemy in this mission is not humans, but the natural environment. You cannot take it lightly." Ye Chuan reminded again.

"I see."

The battle ended soon, and the field army left a battalion to cooperate with the Matsuura family's army to clean up the follow-up. The combined fleet set sail again and headed south.

Out of the bay is the Osumi Strait.

"Master Matsuura, according to our previous agreement, from now on, all the islands south of Osumi Strait will belong to our Xinghan Alliance." Liu Xinyuan stood on the bow of the ship and confirmed to Matsuura Yoshinobu.

"Yes, we will deal with the imperial family. When I return to Hirado, we will arrange for people to hand over all the islands in the north of the Goto Islands and Hirado Strait to your country." Matsuura Yoshinobu quickly assured.

This attack on two feudal cities really scared Matsuura Yoshinobu.

I still remember that three years ago, when the Xinghan Alliance first arrived outside Hirado City, the entire fleet only had one cannon. I didn't expect that it would develop to this extent in three years.

It was previously agreed that the Kohan Alliance would help Matsuura Yoshinobu capture Satsuma and Osumi Kingdoms, and the Matsuura family would nominally "lease" all the islands north of the Hirado Strait, the Goto Islands, and the islands south of the Osumi Strait to the Kohan Alliance on a long-term basis.

It's said to be a long-term lease, but it's actually a sale.

When discussing the interview before, Matsuura Yoshinobu believed that both parties were equal. Looking back now, he was really stupid.Now, although the Matsuura family has obtained the land of two states, they are surrounded by the islands of the Xinghan League.

[After I go back, I need to reconsider the relationship between the two parties. 】Matsuura Kashin silently planned.

"Is Yakushima across the street?" Liu Xinyuan asked.

(End of this chapter)