Dragon Sea Empire

The Mori family of the Choshu domain is also good.The rest of the Murakami navy is also good.No one expected the sudden attack of the Chinese fleet.

That evening.Xiaguan coastal area.Smoke billowed.The flames shot up into the sky.The Maori family garrison fort at Cape Kushizaki has only one cannon.Resist a little.That is, be dumbed down.follow closely.The shells of the fleet flew towards Maeda.Hit the Maori garrison ammunition depot.Causes 1 big explosions in a row.After half an hour.The main coast guard stronghold of the Changzhou Fan was completely destroyed by the Chinese fleet.There was fire and smoke everywhere.The air is filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder.All the ships of the Murakami Navy in the port were destroyed.The Changzhou garrison scattered and fled.There was not a single active figure on the battlefield.

The sailors and musketeers of the Chinese Army rushed to the shore in small boats shouting.Occupy all positions.Destroy all the 3 cannons, countless muskets, knives and guns abandoned by the Changzhou garrison.Bring all the remaining gunpowder of the Changzhou Army back to the ship.

next morning.Dapeng, the Maori military supervisor in Shan County, summoned a group of Maori warriors to sneak back to Maeda.Attempts to recapture some weapons.But it caused a fierce counterattack from the combined fleet.The cannon shells of the three giant ships of the Hibiki hit all the way to the streets of Shimonoseki Town.The flying thunderbolt rockets burned the Xiaguan area into a white ground.The Chinese fleet attacked westward.Occupy Hiko Island.All ships, large or small, that would be anchored here were burned.The Sailor Musketeers landed under the cover of fleet artillery fire and rockets.Thoroughly destroy the guard points such as the Disciple Village Fortress on the island one by one.The military operation of the Chinese Army Fleet lasted for two days.At the slight cost of 1 death and 10 injuries.Destroyed the coastal strongholds such as Shimonoseki, which were painstakingly managed by the Mori family of the Choshu Domain.All remaining ships of the Murayamasui Army were wiped out.Complete victory.

A few days later, the news reached the coalition camps of the daimyos in Kitakyushu who were gathering in the Kumamoto domain.All Kyushu daimyo who planned to fight Satsuma in accordance with the order of the shogunate were a little at a loss.

The northward movement of the Chinese fleet is tantamount to putting a knife in the back of the lairs of the daimyos in Kitakyushu.This is a strategy that Japan has never implemented since the Sengoku period: "The land is threatened by the sea."

originally.Kitakyushu daimyo gathers troops to fight for the Satsuma Shimazu family.It was completely compelled by the Tokugawa Shogunate's "Order to Recover Satsuma State".Whether it is the Kato family in Kumamoto, the Kuroda family in Fukuoka, the Tanaka Tadamasa family in Kurume, the Hosokawa family in Ogawa Castle, and other daimyos with incomes of hundreds of thousands of koku.It is also a small daimyo under [-] shi, such as Saeki, Nobeoka, Hirado, and Kashima.He has no interest in fighting with the Chinese army.One is that they have not recovered from several wars in North Korea and Guanyuan.The second reason is that the lawsuit against Nagasaki of the Six Nations has been made public.The Battle of Kagoshima was entirely a disaster caused by the Satsuma Shimazu family themselves.Everyone does not have a good impression of such a powerful potential opponent as the Shimadzu family.I don't want to take chestnuts for Satsuma Shimadzu's house fire at all.

Now.The Chinese army is approaching the sea of ​​Kitakyushu.You can hit any daimyo whose territory is by the sea at will.This gave the daimyos a reason to stop and shrink their troops to stick to their hometown.

therefore.One month after the Tokugawa shogunate issued an order to fight against the Satsuma Chinese Army.The base of Hitoyoshi Castle where the Kumamoto Domain's northern Kyushu army gathered.Not only did the number of coalition forces not increase.Still gradually decreasing.

Shimadzu Tadashi, the messenger of Satsuma's Shimadzu family, still went to the camp outside Hitoyoshi every day to beg the daimyos of northern Kyushu to send troops quickly.But all the generals sent by the daimyo are doing foreign work.Find out various reasons to postpone the date of dispatching troops.

The more the Chinese army stayed in Shimadzu's home, the more boring it became.

These days, Mai De is in charge of supervising the construction of Kagoshima Castle and the fortifications at the northern foot of the castle mountain.And Yang Dacheng, Luo Quanxiu and others were busy attacking the various branches of the Oshimazu family.Carry out a final and thorough search of the territory of the Satsuma domain.The slogan is "Don't let go of a grain of rice, don't let go of a person, don't let go of a treasure."

It has been two months since the occupation of Satsuma Domain Kagoshima Castle.Tofukuji Castle, Fukuma Castle, Isa Castle, Isaku Castle, Inner Castle, Hirasa Castle, Kajiki Castle, Kokubun Castle, Izumizu Castle, Ne Champa Castle, Shimizu Castle, Uramo Castle and other Shimadzu branch castles and castles of important ministers.There are also Yijiyuan, Qidayuan, Rulaiyuan and other branches of the Shimadzu family.Everything was swept away by the Chinese army: after some cities were broken.The population and belongings were all looted; some surrendered and had to hand over all valuables in the city to redeem the city.

Yin Feng also personally led the artillery battalion and foreign mercenary sentries into Dakou City.Surrounded the Shinna family, the important ministers of the Shimadzu family who insisted on not surrendering.at last.After Dakou City was bombarded by the artillery of the Chinese Army, the city gate was opened.It was completely ransacked by foreign mercenary sentries.The Xinna family because of their persistence in resistance.More than [-] members of the whole family were completely wiped out.For two months.The backbone of the Shimadzu family's samurai class, the banner samurai, the mother-clothed samurai, and the first-class samurai class of the ashigaru group suffered heavy losses.

Kagoshima Port also held a goods auction meeting.The main reason is that Yin Feng's plan to recruit local labor has achieved unprecedented success.Strong Japanese laborers who wanted to go to Taiwan to do coolies lined up and waited to board the ship.so.Some of the stolen goods had to be auctioned to merchants from various countries on the spot at Kagoshima Port.The news spread to Nagasaki and Hirado through Chinese businessmen.Transactions at Japan's foreign trade ports have come to a half-stop.Merchants from various countries are reluctant to sell their goods.We have to wait for the shogunate to respond to their pleadings against Satsuma.Anyway, idle is idle.Merchants from various countries rushed to Kagoshima Port on their own merchant ships after hearing the news.certainly.Goods such as Japanese silver and Japanese swords copied from the warehouse of the Shimadzu family are much lower than the market prices in Nagasaki and Hirado.But Yin Feng still made a fortune again; these goods were copied from the house without money.

Although Taiwan has been open for 7 years.The development of plain areas has also achieved initial results.Although Yin Feng mobilized his men to recruit disaster victims and refugees from the mainland to work in Taiwan, he spared no effort.But the lack of labor force has always been a major heart disease of China United Corporation.

Yin Feng feels that the price of attracting labor immigrants from the mainland is too high.After occupying Tsurumaru Castle, he found piles of honest Japanese farmers dangling in front of his eyes.Immediately enlightened.An order was issued to conscript the local Japanese labor force.certainly.At the same time, an order to recruit Japanese women was issued, which caused Zeng Rui and others a headache.

At the beginning, those Chinese military personnel still obeyed Yin Feng's order; generally, Japanese civilians were not forced to board the ship.Sometimes some remuneration is paid first.There was a pitiful amount of rice or some foods such as corn and sweet potatoes that Japanese farmers did not know much about at the time.later.Due to the increasing resistance and riots of the samurai class.And the Kitakyushu coalition forces began to gather.The main force of the Chinese army will build defensive positions in Shiroyama and Inari River.There are fewer and fewer Chinese managing the conscripted workforce.Zeng Rui and the others were really impatient and slow to work efficiently.He called together the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.Give them swords and spears.Ask them to manage the work.then.These overseas Chinese plundered the population recklessly and forcibly.Just like the Japanese pirates treated them back then.

Yin Feng heard the news and hurried to stop them.But the Xu family, who took the lead in scrambling for new students, argued plausibly: "...these Japanese like to force them to work like this. They won't get used to it if we don't do it this way." These words made Yin Feng stunned for a while.I didn't answer the phone for a long time.Missionary Lu Ruohan stood up and said: "I don't think these Japanese people will have any objections. Their habit is to never say a word 'no' in front of superiors and powerful people."

Yin Feng looked at the soldiers of the Chinese Army who were busy on the Inari River position in the distance.I know in my heart that there is no extra manpower to take care of this matter.In desperation, he had no choice but to acquiesce in the actions of the Chinese and overseas Chinese.

mid-September.The Chinese army relied on wandering Japanese peddlers and their own reconnaissance to catch novices.The news that the Japanese Kitakyushu Allied Forces began to move south was detected.

中华军舰队游弋在北九州和四国岛沿海。所以幕府并沒有派出大军來支援。联军的基本兵力全是九州各大名派出的。幕府只派出了监军上使板仓重昌和副使戸田氏铁带着800名德川家武士前來督战。其余被逼无奈出兵的九州诸大名包括鹿岛藩锅岛胜茂军15000人。筑后久留米的有马丰氏领兵1500。小仓城的细川忠利率领10000人。唐津藩的寺沢坚高领兵7000人。其余的是黒田忠之、小笠原忠真、松平重直等大名派來的四五千足轻。诸领兵将领中。最出名的是被称为“日本军第一勇将”的立花宗茂也出阵了。

Tachibana Muneshige is a famous general in Kyushu.It turned out to be Otomo Zonglin's general.Served as the nominal commander of "Chikuzen Military Commander" during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyushu Conquest.With the vanguard army going south ahead of Hideyoshimoto's team, they successively attacked Luohigo Nanguan, Yamaga, Kodai, Kumamoto, Sagara, Aso, Koshi Takero Castle, Akahoshi Kikuchi County, Yudong Uto Castle, and Rentama County and other places.Later, he once again captured Shimadzu Tadatoshi's Izumi Castle for the vanguard of Satsuma.Then he went south to Sichuan to repel Tadaga Shimadzu.And rescued the younger brother Takahashi Tongzeng and his wife who were arrested as hostages.At this time, Yoshihisa Shimadzu went to Taihei Temple in Sichuan to surrender due to his defeat in the Battle of Hyugane Shirasaka.On behalf of Hideyoshi, Zongmao went to Yijiyuan, Qidayuan, and Rulaiyuan to take hostages.Later, he took the lead in marching into Oguchi Castle to encircle Shinna Tadamoto, a senior minister of Shimadzu who still did not surrender.force it to surrender.Kyushu was finally pacified.After the war, Hideyoshi granted the Chikugo Yanagawa Clan a territory of 13 koku for his service.Separated from the Otomo family, he became the daimyo directly under Toyotomi Hideyoshi.In the 2000th year of Tensho (18), he participated in the Odawara Conquest responded by Hideyoshi.In the rock.The Edo area joined the battle.After the war, Hideyoshi praised in front of all the daimyos in a meeting, "In the east, Honda Tadakashi is the unparalleled general in the world. In the west, Tachibana Tonghu is the unparalleled general in the world. He is a famous general in the east and west."

Tachibana Muneshige was also very famous on the Korean battlefield.In the Battle of Bichiguan, he defeated the Chada Shou Department of the Liaodong Army of the Ming Dynasty.In the afternoon, after the assembly of the Japanese army such as Takakage Kobayakawa, the war started again.At this time, other generals such as the Mori Army and the Ukita Army are competing to be the vanguard.Zong Mao agreed and said to his retainers: "No matter which army wins, it is Japan's victory. There is no need to fight for such a false name." For comfort.Then moved the hidden soldiers to the mountain on the right wing of the Ming army.Seeing the opportunity to fight, he first fired the iron cannon quickly and then drew his sword to attack the Ming army and advance to Li Rusong's main formation.Together with Kobayakawa Hidebo, who assaulted the left flank of the Ming army, and Ukita General Togawa Tatsuya, who was in ambush, fought fiercely with the Ming army for a whole day.

After the war, Hideyoshi gave a testimonial.He praised Soshige as a "born warrior".Kato Kiyomasa also said, "The vanguard must be Tachibana Muneshige" when he heard about the battle in Anbefu.In this battle, the Tachibana Army was in the second assault.Waiting for the general at ten o'clock for a long time.Banner samurai, mother-clothed samurai, and low-level samurai of the first class in the Ashgaru group, such as Ono Chengyuki, Ikebe Yongsheng, Kokushi Chengju, and Anton Changjiu, lost nearly [-] troops including miscellaneous soldiers.

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