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  Chapter 639 636 [Strategy の Profound Meaning]

   Li Dingguo had a headache in the face of the tortoise shell. The storm would definitely cause too many casualties, and the shelling could not do enough for the city defense artillery due to the terrain.

  The defenders in Tsurumaru Castle were equally terrified. They had been besieged for many days, and their morale was already low. In the attack and defense of the stone wall just now, they directly lost one-fifth of their troops.

   Today, there are less than 2,000 defenders, and there is no hope of winning.

  If Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's prestige was not still there and he could suppress the samurai and ashigaru in the city, these defenders would definitely surrender without saying a word.

  Occupy the stone wall and continue to besiege the city. Li Dingguo is not in a panic for the time being.

  But it is said that Shimadzu Mitsuhisa's eldest son, Shimadzu Tsunahisa, returned to Kagoshima from Edo by the order of the shogunate. He came back to succeed the family governor, supervised his father's caesarean section to apologize, and ended up going straight to Hirado Castle by boat halfway, accompanied by Matsuura Nobusada from the Matsuura family.

   "The shogunate asked me to cut open my stomach? Haha." Matsuura Shigenobu laughed.

  Shimadzu Tsunahisa said: "For the current plan, only the Matsuura family will send troops to defeat the Tang soldiers together with my Shimadzu family. Otherwise, even if the family governor is changed, the heavy war compensation cannot be afforded."

  Retainer Tianchuan Yuhuang said: "My lord, perhaps you can send Shichizaemon as an envoy to persuade Tang soldiers to relax the conditions for withdrawing troops."

   "Let him be an envoy? I'm afraid he will never return!" Matsuura Shigenobu sneered.

   Qizaemon is Zheng Daozhou, Zheng Chenggong's younger brother.

   And Tianchuan Yuhuang is Zheng Chenggong's pro-grandfather. According to legend, this man's surname was Weng, who was originally from Quanzhou. After entering Japan, he changed his surname and became a retainer of the Matsuura family.

   Zheng Chenggong's biological mother, Tian Chuan Song, has been taken back to Fujian to settle down, but the Hirado clan is desperately unwilling to let Zheng Daozhou go. This is to force the Zheng family to smuggle goods to Hirado while conducting official trade in Nagasaki.

  Matsuura Shigenobu is probably the one with the longest vision among the Japanese feudal lords.

  He has been familiar with Confucian classics since he was a child, and at the same time converted to Christianity, and quickly grew his strength through maritime trade. The root cause of Tokugawa Iemitsu's seclusion was the Hirado clan, which had seriously threatened the rule of the shogunate.

  After the country was closed to the outside world, the Dutch business house in Hirado was also forcibly relocated to Nagasaki by the shogunate.

   Although this move greatly damaged the strength of the Hirado Domain, Matsuura Shigenobu is not an idler. He encouraged farmers to reclaim wasteland, supported the development of industry and commerce, and at the same time secretly engaged in smuggling and pirates. Even when his own house was burned, he could not rebuild it in order to save money and food.

   On the other hand, Mitsuhisa Shimadzu, this guy owes a lot of debt, and he still wants to build a holiday villa in Kirishima.

  Matsuura Shigenobu later cultivated a good son. Not only did he not indulge in pleasure, but he also promoted Confucian benevolent governance and devoted himself to helping the poor and the bottom.

Standing tall, Matsuura Shigenobu looked at the sky and said, "If the shogunate does not send troops, I will come from the Matsuura family!" He suddenly sneered, "The shogunate's plan is nothing more than to use Tang soldiers to weaken the strength of our Matsuura and Shimadzu families. , his Tokugawa family’s rule will be worry-free forever.”

  …

  Hirado, Cheng’s House.

   Zheng Daozhou is only eighteen years old this year, but he has already become the head of the Zheng family's trading in Hirado.

   "Young master, the Matsuura family seems to be going to war. It's very lively outside the city these days, and the samurai from the castle town are being ordered to enter the city." Zheng Zhong reminded.

  Zheng Daozhou sighed: "I know, there are people watching in the business hall, and I am not allowed to take a step away. This is because I am afraid that I will take the opportunity to escape."

  Zheng Zhong worried: "Will the business hall be in danger?"

Zheng Daozhou shook his head: "As long as the Matsuura family still wants to smuggle by sea, they will not attack the Zheng family business house. You send a man to Nagasaki instead of going by sea, go to Nagasaki by land. Tell the Zheng family business house there, Tell them to take a boat to Kagoshima to report. It is said that the Matsuura family is gathering troops, and it is likely to go south to fight with the Datong army."

   "Yes!" Zheng Zhong bowed and stepped back.

  Jung Do-joo has been adopted into the grandfather's house, his surname should actually be Tagawa, so he is also called Tagawa Jiro in Japan.

  Historically, his mother, Tian Chuansong, was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and committed suicide. Zheng Daozhou always asked to return to China to fight against the Qing Dynasty. But the Japanese side never let people go, so Zheng Daozhou could only give up and continue to deliver anti-Qing supplies to his brother Zheng Chenggong in Japan.

  This time and space is even more outrageous. Since Zheng Zhilong was made a duke and Zheng Chenggong married a princess as his son-in-law, the Matsuura family attached great importance to Zheng Daozhou. Zheng Daozhou's wife at this time is the youngest sister of the Governor of Matsuura, and her son is already one year old.

   However, after Li Dingguo occupied the stone wall, he continued to besiege the city for more than 30 days, and the defenders in the city showed signs of collapse.

   Another month of siege, Tsurumaru Castle will be short of food.

   At this moment, news came from the navy that a Zheng family merchant ship had arrived from Nagasaki, reporting that the Hirado clan was preparing to gather troops to go south.

  Li Dingguo was overjoyed, and said: "It's just in time. Don't besiege Tsurumaru City too much. Breaking the city early will scare away the enemy's reinforcements."

  Matsuura Shigenobu not only gathered troops to go out, but also landed in Akune.

  The accompanying Shimadzu Tsunahisa, as the eldest son of the family governor, ordered Akune and Izumi to send troops to the Shimadzu family castellan. If you don't send troops, let the Matsuura family's army directly attack the city!

  All the way to the south, the army became stronger and stronger. When they arrived at Ijuin, the combined army of Matsuura and Hirado had 8,000 people. Counting the civilian husbands, there are more than 20,000, and they are known as an army of 100,000.

After setting off from Ijuin, Shimadzu Tsunahisa said: "These people in the Satsuma domain may not be willing to contribute to the frontal battle. They have offended my father before, and now I wish my father would die sooner. If my father is alive, I will definitely ask them condemn."

  Matsuura Shigenobu nodded and said: "This problem is very troublesome. Don't look at the 20,000 soldiers of our two families, but the only ones who are really united are the warriors of the Hirado Domain. Do you have any good suggestions?"

  Shimadzu Tsunahisa offered advice and said: "You can use the Shimadzu family's secret method of warfare 'Fishing Wild Fuku'!"

  The so-called fishing field ambush is to set up an ambush, pretending to be defeated to lure the enemy to pursue, and then ambush all the troops to annihilate the incoming enemy.

  This kind of tactics, which is very common in Chinese wars, was blown up by the Shimadzu family and won many brilliant victories. Even with this method of warfare, he defeated Toyotomi Hideyoshi's vanguard and won the eldest son of Chang Zonggabu Yuanqin.

   What other woodpecker tactics are there, that is the ultimate mystery of Takeda Shingen.

  In fact, it is to separate the cavalry to surround the rear, and to attack at the critical moment of the battle, specifically to attack the most vulnerable troops of the enemy, and cause the enemy to be defeated by breaking the surface.

  The most interesting one is Kenshin Uesugi's Car Hanging Array. This thing is more like a fairy method, or a big move in the game. In actual combat, it must be full of loopholes, and it will be beaten by the enemy until my own mother doesn't know it. In order to have practical significance, every soldier must be ordered to prohibit, and all middle-level officers must have the ability to adapt to changes.

  If the Chexuan formation is real, the mid-level officers under Uesugi Kenshin's command may all be first-class generals.

  The coalition forces of the two vassals came all the way, looting the people along the way. They sent troops too fast, and there was not enough food and grass, so they had to grab food from the people.

  The closer the people in the area under the jurisdiction of the Shimadzu family were to Tsurumaru Castle, the more people they had done business with the Datong Army. Comparing the two, the Datong Army trades fairly in the sky and on the earth, and never kills or robs. On the contrary, the soldiers of Shimadzu and Matsuura are more like invaders.

   As a result, the nearby people fled one after another, took their families with them to join the Datong Army, and offered to help deliver military information.

   About six miles away from Tsurumaru Castle, the Datong Army met the enemy coalition forces.

  The Datong Army only has 5,000 people, and the rest are still besieging Tsurumaru City. The enemy coalition forces are even smaller, only 3,000 people, many of whom are poorly dressed civilians.

   Guitou Forty-eight said: "General, be careful of the Shimadzu family's Diao Ye Fu!"

After listening to the translation, Li Dingguo realized that it was the secret of the Shimadzu's method of warfare, and he couldn't help laughing: "It's been a long time since we have fought, and the lure of the enemy has been perfunctory. With so many civilians acting like this, there may be less than a thousand real soldiers. Dragoons go to battle!"

  The Datong Army brought war horses here, not many, only 1,500 horses. The sea was bumpy, some got sick and died, and now there are more than 1,300 riders.

  Yuan Shizhong's military rank has been promoted to colonel, but he still commands 2,500 dragoons.

  At this moment, Yuan Shizhong led 1,200 cavalry into battle. After running for dozens of steps, they were divided into left and right teams, trying to outflank and annihilate future invading enemies.

   "Run!"

   Seeing that it was cavalry who were facing the battle, the enemy troops who had lured the enemy turned around and fled away after a long distance. As for the civilian husband, he collapsed instantly, and even forgot to lure the Datong army to the valley.

   After a while of pursuit, more than a thousand people were captured, hundreds were beheaded, and only more than 800 enemy troops fled into the valley.

  In the northwest of Tsurumaru Castle, there are valleys everywhere, and you can set up an ambush anywhere you choose.

   "Retreat!"

  Yuan Shizhong smiled and asked the herald to blow the trumpet, but did not chase after him at all. In Yuan Shizhong's eyes, the Shimadzu family's profound method of fishing wild ambushes is just a joke. From being a bandit to joining the Datong Army, he has fought on the battlefield for ten years. What kind of tactics to lure the enemy has he never seen?

  Shimadzu Tsunahisa was particularly shocked. Looking at the defeated soldiers who had fled back, he said in horror: "The enemy has a resourceful general, and my Shimadzu family's Yuyefu didn't work!"

Matsuura Shigenobu said: "It's okay, anyway, only a few hundred soldiers were sent to lure, and most of them escaped, and the rest were ordinary farmers. Fishing wild ambush doesn't work, so we can only fight head-on. It's a pity that the two of us, the really good ones are Naval, land combat is not our forte."

  Shimadzu Tsunahisa said: "The iron artillery team of the Matsuura family will definitely be able to fight Tang Bing!"

  The allied forces rested in the valley for a day, and then slowly advanced the next day, leaving the valley for a decisive battle with the Datong army.

  The Datong army still only had 5,000 soldiers, and there were more than 20 wild warriors. The main fear is that if all of them are present, the enemy troops will be scared away.

  The coalition forces of Shimadzu and Matsuura included the peasants, and all of them were pulled out to form troops. As far as the number of people is concerned, it is indeed quite magnificent. There are about 20,000 people, which is four times that of the Datong Army.

   And there is also a cavalry team, more than two hundred dwarfs, riding on mule-like ponies. Some of them had flags on their backs, and the flags fluttered when they ran, which was indescribably funny in the eyes of Datong soldiers.

  The Japanese cavalry rushed to the flanks, Yuan Shizhong led the dragoons out, raised their guns after dozens of steps away.

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

   There was a burst of gunfire, and more than two hundred Japanese cavalrymen fell down immediately, and more than thirty cavalrymen fell down.

  Matsuura Shigenobu shouted in surprise: "Get the cavalry back quickly, the Tang soldiers have iron cannons on horseback!"

   Iron cannon on horseback is Date Masamune's ultimate mystery. In the Sengoku period of Japan, some people also played dragoon tactics.

  (end of this chapter)