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Chapter 390 Siege
Ryuzo Temple was actually quite wronged. The Spaniards landed from the port of Saga, unloaded a few swivel guns from the ship and sold them to Ryushin, bewitching him to imprison Ming merchants. At that time, neither side actually thought of the consequences.

In Longxin's view, Xiyi is obviously easier to deal with than Portuguese. At least they only need spices but not souls.

As a result, as soon as they heard that the troops landed on the island, they swept all the way from Matsuura County. The West Ship, which had been circumnavigating Japan from Guam earlier as a sentry, rushed to the east before Chen Bazhi attacked Imari Castle. Temple clean up this mess.

This is more than a mess, it is a disaster.

There were [-] defenders of Imari Castle. After Chen Bazhi's fleet bombarded the city wall in the bay, there were no serious casualties, but the army lost all morale, because the triple scull at the highest point of the city wall collapsed.

At that time, the general Bai Wuxian who stayed behind in the city wall was watching the enemy's arrangement from a distance in the triple scull, and was happy because the two cavalry retreated and boarded the ship - he never thought that the fleet in the bay had guns, let alone bombarded them. kind of tactics.

It's not anyone's fault. In his cognition, as a rotary gun on a galleon, the Francophone is already a large Nanban gun, and it is the kind of Francophone hammered out by a Spanish blacksmith.

The shells are less than two catties, which is already a heavy artillery.

It's not that Bai Wuxian has never paid attention to ships at sea, the distance is three or four miles, not to mention the big blessing ships that transport more food and troops, he saw the gun barrels loaded on the shark ship, and he only thought it was a scull, and he didn't know Think about artillery.

Who can have so many guns?There are not so many southern barbarians on board.

What's on board Chen Bazhi?
Two catty cannons, Laozi cannons, and even heavier ten catty and eighteen catty cannons. A fleet of 140 single-string cannons and four guns bombarded the city with nearly [-] shells in a circle. The layer collapses directly.

What to stop?

Less than ten people actually died from the shelling during the two Qibo bombardments, and they were all unlucky ghosts serving tea and running errands in the triple scull serving as the command room. The triple scull and the middle and lower samurai warriors who were sages and masters of war suffered a lot of casualties.

A large number of ashigaru were unmanned, and Japanese pirates outside the city, Matsuura's ashigaru took the opportunity to rush into the city, and took down the city with only a small amount of resistance.

Three or four hundred defeated troops fled all the way to Lion City, and Matsuura Takanobu became more decisive after gathering the surrendered troops. Regardless of Imari Castle, he directly chased the defeated army and marched towards Lion City, and captured Lion City [-] miles away that night.

Japan's wars are so frequent that Li Dan's scalp is numb. Let alone the results of the battle, he is really exhausted physically and mentally.

He heard from his adoptive father that he was recruited by Wu Guifang with his adoptive father in the early years, from Qingyuan to Wengyuan, Heyuanping, Li Yayuan, and the round trip was more than [-] miles. Jiang Zhen fought several battles.

where?
From the time Hirado landed in Matsuurajin, I turned around and marched less than a hundred miles to the attack on Imari Castle, and encountered 23 battles. From Imari Castle to Shishi City, it was even more powerful. The territory of Ryuzoji Temple is all along the way. You have to let you pass every village. Fight or really see the army to either flee or surrender.

There is no distinction between soldiers and peasants, which brings strange habits to the farmers. When they heard that the enemy army entered the country, they brought up the bamboo guns used to dry clothes at home and ran up the mountain road. Shi Da Zai shouted and ran around, fleeing without a trace in the mountains.

In the battle report written by Li Dan to Chen Mu, this sentence can well reflect his feelings about this: "In Daming, they are not as active in catching thieves quickly." '

No way, it's not that the farmers want to be active, it's really the samurai group, especially the Japanese-born daimyos like Matsuura 48. Occupation is the purpose, but looting is the purpose.

If it's robbery, it's normal to burn villages, rob money, and rob women.

Don't say that they are poor people without enough people, even those who are rich and well-equipped can't escape when the war comes.

It is a pity that this kind of positivity cannot bring the slightest shake to the direction of the war.

Ten days after dispatching troops, Chen Bazhi led a fleet to destroy all the fortresses that could be seen along the coast of Feiqian Kingdom. Of course, Chen Bazhi recorded in the battle report that there were four fortifications, and he really didn't want to call them cities.

The cities and towns here are separated, a mountain city looks like a wealthy businessman's compound a few years ago when Qi Jiguang went to Xuanda to visit his adoptive father under Qi Jiguang's command. If you insist on the city, Guanghaiwei City, which was overturned by his father's coffin, fell to the ground. That's pretty much it.

Chen Bazhi unscrupulously pursued the Xiyi ships all the way to the northern waters of Dayou, but failed to catch up, and was worried that new enemies would be created to expand the war, so he retreated unwillingly—he did not retreat, and sent off with the Lord Chikuqian. He wrote a letter explaining that he directly released the two thousand households of Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei from the Zhuqian country, and then retreated both land and water, and only separated when Li Rumei was about to leave the Zhuqian country.

He didn't mean anything else, the two thousand households under his command seemed to be the most powerful troops, and he wanted to beat the Otomo clan to stabilize the situation in the east.

Obviously, Chen Bazhi achieved his idea. Whether it was Otomo's general Toji Daoxue in Tachibana Mountain Castle or Takahashi Zhenzhong, the young city governor of Iwaya City, they were all extremely cautious about this borrowing.

If it weren't for the continuous rebellion of the Chikuzen Kingdom at this time, which made the two towns exhausted, they would probably rob, kill and intercept when Li Rusong and Li Rumei led the army through Tachibana Castle but not Yanwu Castle. , and the strong bow from the north of the Ming Empire are all coveted.

But there is no way, Otomo's family has shed too much blood to regain the Chikuzen Kingdom, not to mention a fleet of dozens of huge warships staring at the sea. gesture of hospitality.

In fact, what is more eye-catching is the warships at sea and the grain and grass transported, all of which are hard currencies in the Warring States Period.

Once they fight against this disrespectful army, the land and sea attack is likely to cause the nobles of the Chikuzen Kingdom to rebel again. At that time, it will not be possible to make up for the loss with a little armor and a few hundred war horses.

When Chen Bazhi's fleet stopped at Songpujin, the [-] troops stayed on the ships and led [-] elite banner troops to march eastward.

During the time when he led the army on the road, Matsuura Takanobu had already repelled in the field battle the Ryuzoji strongman Cheng Matsunobu who had beheaded Otomo's relatives in the Battle of Imagawa, and Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei's cavalry also swept away Feiqian's future The newly gathered troops joined the encirclement from the east.

Soldiers from all walks of life gathered at the last Zoka Castle of Ryuzoji Temple. The navy of Ryuzoji Temple's family docked in the Ariake Sea wanted to come to the shore to help in the battle. Before they landed, the largest Antaka ship and the two Guan ships were sunk by the two-pound artillery arranged on the shore. Only a few small early boats were able to break through the artillery fire due to their small shape, and they were expected to land on land.

It's just hopeful, the Anzhai boat with [-] or [-] people sank, and the small early boat would have been scared away if it dared to get close.

Chen Bazhi ordered loudly, thirty cannons spewed out artillery fire one by one, and in the smoke that filled the sky, they launched a general attack on Zuojia City!

(End of this chapter)