Dragon Sea Empire

During the night attack by the soldiers of the Satsuma feudal army, Yoritaemon (son of Yorata Heihachi), a samurai from the Hirata Department of the Shimadzu Army, led 100 people from his headquarters as a vanguard, and came to the wall of the Shangguan Walled first to climb the castle.

Although Yin Feng's "invented" pressure-fired wheel fire mine has been withdrawn, Zhang Hai and Mai Yangtian, who are experienced in defending the city, still set up a security mechanism. They got it from the fishermen of the Ryukyu Kingdom in advance. Many fishing nets were set up on the top of the wall at night, hung on the wall of the village, and tied with bells.

As a result, the bodies of Lai Tian and the samurai who ascended the city first touched the net, and the bells rang.

A soldier of the Chinese Army who was on duty at night in the shop heard the sound and got up from the wall, and threw the torch down the wall of the village. The fire flashed, and the dense figures at the corner of the wall below flashed by. The soldier exclaimed: "Japanese pirates, enemy! strike,"

"Whoosh," a long arrow flew from nowhere and stuck in the soldier's throat. Unwillingly, he swayed and fell down the wall. He issued a warning at the cost of his life, alarmed The night soldier on the wall.

Then, after a burst of musket fire, everyone in the hall was alerted, and soldiers from the Chinese company guards rushed out to join the defense battle. However, the Shimadzu army had already seized the opportunity, and after a while, some samurai had already seized the opportunity On the top of the wall, wielding a Japanese sword, he chopped down several guards and seized an area on the east wall of the trading house. The Chinese soldiers who rushed to besiege one after another, in close combat, were almost invincible in front of these Shimadzu soldiers. The enemy, their flintlock guns made of fine iron with good bayonets are often cut into two by Japanese swords. Many soldiers were hit by arrows shot in the dark just as they rushed to the top of the wall. The dead Chinese soldiers desperately jumped off the high wall holding the soldiers of the Shimadzu Army who had just rushed up to the top of the wall, and died together. The Shimadzu Army still confused the Chinese company army in front of them with the Ming Dynasty army, thinking that as long as they opened a gap and fought hand-to-hand, they would be defeated. They can seize the opportunity, but the Chinese army is not the Ming Dynasty government army that does not like melee combat. They use firearms but are not afraid of melee combat. Moreover, many pirate-born fighters are brave and good at fighting. Unfortunately, after a series of vicious battles, the samurai of the Shimadzu army who ascended the city could not break the situation, and could only be trapped on a narrow section of the wall that was more than ten feet long.

Luo Aquan of the Special Battalion was on night duty at the south gate. After being alarmed, he immediately led people to throw grenades down. The situation at the south gate was a little better, because the gate tower was relatively tall, and the Shimadzu army here moved slowly. They were bombed by grenades After that, Chen Zhongji was unable to go up the city for a while, and Chen Zhongji happened to be patrolling near the south gate. He immediately boarded the south gate to take over Luo Aquan's command, and led everyone to throw grenades under the wall. The best way is to use your own special musket to kill the Shimadzu Army samurai on the wall one by one from 100 meters away. After all, personal bravery cannot resist musket bullets, and seized the Shimadzu Army samurai on the top of the wall-including Hirata who was the first to climb the city Zengzong's confidant Xintian was shot dead by Luo Aquan. The soldiers of the Chinese army rushed up and regained the top of the wall. They hacked and bayoneted several soldiers of the Shimadzu army who had climbed halfway to the wall. Then, the grenade came again At the beginning, it rained down like no money. Yan Siqi commanded the artillery to load the ammunition, and opened fire in the gun window under the city wall. Regardless of whether there was anyone outside in the dark, they just shot towards the front. Finally, the sky bomber also The fire was fired, and two explosive shells landed on the crowd of Shimadzu soldiers who were attacked by the second wave outside the east gate. With a bang, more than 50 Shimadzu soldiers were blown up. The commander of the night attack team sent by Ijuin Hisamoto Ganfu Kanejiu was also seriously injured.

The Shimadzu army gathered under the wall suffered heavy casualties again under the bombardment of grenades and all kinds of firepower. In addition, the commander was injured. The Shimadzu army could not hold on soon and had to withdraw.

After this night attack, the Shimadzu army again killed more than 120 people and injured more than 200 people.

The guards in the Zhonghua Commercial Hall also killed more than 40 people and injured more than 50 people. This is the largest casualty since the start of the commercial hall guarding battle.

The most troublesome thing is: more than 400 defensive grenades have been consumed again, and there are only a dozen grenades left in the warehouse.

Fortunately, on the second night, the Sea Soul miraculously took advantage of the high tide to drive the boat to the vicinity of the wall to the north of the trading house.

100 sailor musketeers and a large amount of ammunition were sent to the shore by boats and bamboo rafts, and entered the wall of the village, especially more than 500 grenades were just a timely rain for Chen Zhongji.

The sailor musketeers have now developed into Yin Feng's mobile force. Although their organization is the same as the infantry's battalion, sentry, team, and other systems, the number of people in the organization is much smaller. A sentry is 100 soldiers. There is one chief and deputy whistle chief, usually the boatswain on the ship; weapons are equipped with muskets, crossbows, short knives, short spears, hot and cold weapons, not full firearms like infantry, which is similar to sailors fighting at sea At times, it is often necessary to rely on boats to jump to help in hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, the melee skills of these sailors are quite good, which just makes up for the shortcomings of the guards of the trade hall in melee.

For the guards of the trading hall, the most encouraging news is: "Captain Yin has dispatched troops, ten thousand troops have arrived at Miyako Island ten days ago, and the reinforcements will arrive at Naha Port in five days."

Chen Zhongji heaved a sigh of relief; he had been on Ryukyu Island for ten months, and the battle to guard the commercial hall had been going on for almost two months, and the hard days were finally coming to an end.

The Haihun rushed out of Naha Port at dawn, and was chased by dozens of so-called main ships and scout ships of the Shimadzu Army Navy. It was a single-masted Japanese-style ship of the Shimadzu Army. It is tall, and it is very troublesome to turn around. It is impossible to catch up with a fast sailing ship like the Haihun, and since the Shimadzu Army came to Naha Port, the Haihun has been back and forth to Naha many times, and the Japanese have lost sight of it. Temper, no matter what, he couldn't catch up with it, so he pretended to withdraw his troops and returned to Hong Kong.

Ijuin Hisamoto, Hirata Masamune and others sat in the big camp in Naha Jiangbei very distressed. Japanese soldiers in the Sengoku period liked field battles far more than siege battles. The Satsuma Army, known as the strongest infantry in Japan, unexpectedly continued They were very annoyed by the loss of soldiers and generals under the wall of the small Chinese business house.

At this time, the main general of the Ryukyu expedition, Kawayama Hisaka, had just sent a guard to send a secret letter. After reading it, Ijiin Hisumoto and Hirata Masōmune felt a little overwhelmed.

The Kawayama clan, where Kawayama Kudaka belongs, originated from Shimadzu (Kayama) Shihisa, the third son of the fourth generation of the Shimadzu family governor Zhongzong. As Shimadzu Yoshihiro's lieutenant, he participated in the Battle of Noryang, and it was the troops under his command that attacked the turtle ship led by Yi Sun-shin and killed Yi Sun-shin.

Although Yijiin Jiuyuan was also a branch of the Shimadzu family, the current head of the Shimadzu family, Shimadzu Tadahiro, killed the old Yiji Ruan Zhongdong and his son Yijiin Zhongzhen 10 years ago, and then suppressed Zhongdong who set up an anti-flag in China. The family quelled the so-called "Shonai Rebellion". Although the Yijuin family surrendered to the Shimadzu family, they have been excluded all the time.

The "Takasago Raiders" mentioned in Kawayama Kudaka's letter, that is, the plan to attack Taiwan, Ijuin Hisumoto and Hirata Masuzong didn't know it at all before the war. After that, I didn't know where Yamaguchi went, and even Yuki Kawayama's troops didn't know where they were. It wasn't until then that Ijiin and others knew that this group of people had gone to Taiwan and Hong Kong.

The Raiders of Takasago was launched under the instigation of the Spanish missionary and Iron Cannon teacher Das Marinas, and the participation of the shogun Naotomo Yamaguchi and the Sendai Fan. The main force is a large number of vagrants wandering around. This sneak attack plan also allows ronin from all over the world to participate. In essence, it drives all the desperadoes who caused trouble to Satsuma. From the perspective of the Tokugawa shogunate; No damage, if it succeeds, the Satsuma clan will not be able to eat the whole of Taiwan, and the shogunate will have to deal with it; He is focused on dealing with the Toyotomi family in Osaka, and has no intention of having conflicts with foreigners.

Moreover, the Chinese company is now well-known, and it is also a big business that ships the most Chinese goods to Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate is unwilling to openly fall out with the Chinese company and affect its own commercial interests. Therefore, this is why the shogunate a month ago Order: Give preferential treatment to merchants from the Ming Dynasty.

According to the original plan, after Dasmarinas landed in the port of Taiwan, he would send envoys to report back to Kawayama Kudaka after the war started. Now more than two months have passed since the day of launching the sneak attack. There is no news, and the defenders in the Chinese Commercial Hall are resolute in defending the city wall, which means that the "Strategy of Gaosha Kingdom" may have gone bankrupt.

The Chinese store was like a hard-to-eat walnut choked in the throat of Shimadzu Jun, unable to eat it or let go, which made Huashan Jiugao have nothing to do.

After his troops plundered all of Ryukyu, they all wanted to return with a full load, and none of the soldiers had the will to fight. Therefore, he had to send someone to the Shimadzu Tadahiro of the Satsuma Domain to report for instructions, and at the same time sent a letter to Ijuin and Hirata to inform them of the truth. , let them suspend the attack on the business hall, and wait for the order of Patriarch Shimadzu Tadahiro.

At this time, the Shimadzu army didn't know that the Chinese company's army had gone north and was marching into the Satsuma domain.

After the night attack, the area around Naha Port suddenly calmed down. The Shimadzu Army went to the area around Naha in batches to search for "supply" and continued to plunder the few remaining belongings of the Ryukyu people. The people took care of the Ryukyu royal family and prepared to go north to Nakijin Castle and bring them back to Satsuma.

The Ryukyu royal guards living in various parts of Ryukyu gradually heard the news about the Naha Hong Kong Chinese Merchant House, and people continued to join Ryukyu Prince Shangfeng. For these ex-soldiers, Chen Zhongji let them enter the city and let them stay at the inn Prince Shangfeng At the residence, Prince Shangfeng finally had a guard team of about 150 people. However, Yan Siqi led his troops to station next to the inn. He did not know the situation in Ryukyu like Chen Zhongji, so he was always on guard against the Ryukyu people. Later, Chen Zhongji took the opportunity to say to him: "The Ryukyu people are bullying the weak and fearing the hard. As long as we can keep the business hall, they will never dare to disagree."

Yan Siqi shook his head and said: "Even so, it's always right to be careful." He still left more than 50 people guarding the inn, and transferred 50 people from Prince Shangfeng's men to strengthen the defense in the north.