The mouth of Xiaoqing River is a very desolate bay, with a fishing village nearby and almost no human habitation.
This is very similar to Shidao Bay back then.
However, the bay here was too poor, and the water depth was insufficient, which gave Zhang Huan a headache.
He judged from the water depth measured by the boat that only patrol boats could barely get close to the coast, and other large Galen ships could not reach the shore.
This is a huge trouble for a large number of troops to disembark.
Zhang Huan was demoted and imprisoned after killing prisoners, but was reinstated a few months later.
This time he commanded a Song-class battleship, two Tang-class battleships, five patrol ships and six clippers to come here.
This place is to follow Lord Zhang Gusheng's order to explore the depth of the sea here and see how to prepare here if tens of thousands of troops land.
It seemed that the only option was to build a trestle, so Zhang Huan made up his mind.
Zhang Huan immediately ordered the armored men who accompanied the ship to disembark and start cutting down trees on the shore.
At the same time, he sent people to the fishing village to hire people to build a trestle.
Lord Zhang Gusheng's order was to prepare for the landing of the army.
He may not land from there, but if Zhao Your Excellency decided to land here, which must be able to carry tens of thousands of infantry, horse and artillery ashore within a few days.
As a naval engineer, Zhang Huan didn’t know why he wanted to land here, but he knew what kind of task Zhang Gusheng had given him.
Therefore, Zhang Huan did not dare to ignore it.
His personal life and death were small, and it delayed Mr.
Zhao’s mission.
The important things are irremediable.
All the men in the fishing village were summoned.
They were told that the Tianjin Navy was going to set up a patrol point here, and they were hired to build a trestle.
Looking at the clothes of these officers and soldiers, they are indeed the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but these days the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are fighting against the bandits, and these people are very scared.
Fortunately, Zhang Huan spent a lot of money in order to speed up the progress.
Each family was given five taels of silver in advance, which made these poor fishermen as excited as chicken blood.
As for what they should not tell outsiders, then for sure, if I told outsiders, is there still such a good job?
It must be kept secret.
So more than a hundred fishermen and more than 500 armored construction teams began to cut down trees and repair them in advance, and a clipper ship returned to Shidao, allowing the Navy Battalion to send more manpower.
The manpower here was still not enough.
After all, it was planned to build Come out to three or four trestles.
The current manpower can only build one trestle, and there is still a lot of manpower shortage.
Shidao was not idle at this time.
Zhao Lie sent off a large number of generals and received news that the Japanese shogunate had colluded with the Satsuma clan of Minami Kyushu, allowing the Satsuma clan to cooperate with the more than 2,000 shogunate of Nagasaki.
They were always ready to attack the Ishihara Castle of Kitakyushu's Catholic rebellion.
If the rebellion could be extinguished, the shogunate promised to transfer this tens of thousands of koku territory to the Satsuma Domain.
The shogunate had no choice but to block the entire strait, preventing the shogunate's rebel forces from landing in Kyushu.
At this time, the Satsuma clan, the most powerful in Kyushu, became the only hope.
For this reason, the shogunate did not hesitate to drink poison to quench their thirst.
They would rather give this fiefdom to the Satsuma clan, a secret enemy, to put an end to the rebellion as soon as possible.
The Satsuma clan agreed without hesitation and sent 6,000 standing soldiers to gather more than 3,000 standing soldiers from other small clans and more than 2,000 standing soldiers from the shogunate in Nagasaki to send troops to Ishihara.
This time, the army gathered together the more than 10,000 remnants from the previous time and a total of 25,000 troops besieged Ishihara.
They learned from the previous army's siege and were defeated, and began the siege.
They would never attack the fortified city and wait for the city to run out of food and win without a fight. .
After receiving the news, Zhao Lie immediately made a decision and dispatched the Shidao Navy and Jeju Navy warships as well as Jeju's Korean troops to take action.
He would not let the shogunate succeed in this plot.
The more chaotic Kyushu is, the better it is to restore calm.
It is not in the interests of the Polu Army.
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To deal with the invasion of the Jiannu army at any time, only the merchant fleet is enough.
Now even the artillery on the Galen merchant ship is enough to dominate this sea area.
Those warships are useless if they stay here, just like Kyushu and his party.
It has been more than 20 years since the Ryukyu Kingdom fell into the hands of the Satsuma clan.
Internal and external affairs were basically controlled by the Satsuma clan, and the Ryukyu king was reduced to a stamping tool.
A few years ago, Tokugawa Iemitsu had approved the annexation of Ryukyu to the Satsuma Domain, which was a fiefdom of 120,000 koku, and the King of Ryukyu was no longer called the king, but was renamed the Ryukyu Kingdom Secretary.
Now that King Shoning is getting old, he feels that there is no hope of regaining the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The old empire in the west is indifferent to what is happening in Ryukyu.
It responds to the Ryukyu Kingdom's pleas by sending troops to rescue, and let the Ryukyu Kingdom understand.
One faction suffered a huge blow, and now the so-called government is controlled by the pro-Japanese faction.
King Shang Ning is now bedridden from time to time.
He knows that he does not have much time left.
Naha is the largest seaport on Ryukyu Island and the closest seaport to Shuri, the royal capital.
The two places are only ten miles apart.
This place is now permanently guarded by a thousand Satsuma clans, and Ming merchants and Korean merchants who come here for sea trade have to pay taxes to them.
Kameda Kojiro is the general who is stationed in Satsuma Domain of Ryukyu Kingdom.
In fact, there are two thousand people.
One thousand people are stationed in Naha, 500 people are stationed in Shuri, and the other 500 people are stationed in several major outlying islands.
Kameda Kojiro has been stationed here for three years, and his life is quite good.
There is a lot of oil and water here.
It is not that he dares to pay taxes to the feudal lord, but because of the filial piety of businessmen and ministers of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
It will make him gain a lot.
What concerned him most was the treatment he received from the emperor, who made him the general of the Satsuma Domain stationed here.
After having breakfast, practicing sword skills, taking a shower and changing clothes, he prepared to go to Naha Pier under the escort of his guards.
It was a pleasant trip, and he was rewarded every time, which he was looking forward to.
But today was destined not to be a good day.
The navy stationed at the dock came to report that a large number of Ming army's Nanman warships were found more than 20 miles away.
Kameda Kojiro hurriedly led his guards to the dock and gathered all the thousand soldiers to prepare for war.
Gao Shuicheng stood on the deck of the Black Tooth No. and looked at the situation on the pier with a telescope.
He clearly saw the Satsuma clan's standing troops arrayed in Kuka.
There were not many of them, estimated to be about a thousand.
Landlord Wei stood next to him and was watching the battle ahead attentively.
He was now the commander of the Jeju Army Preparation.
He had 1,500 Han troops and 3,500 Korean troops under his command.
These troops were trained for leisure. , one year and half a year of training, and training according to the intensity of the Polu Army.
These soldiers have a good combat effectiveness, but they have never seen blood, so they cannot be called strong soldiers.
This time Wei landlord led 3,500 troops to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom, leaving 1,500 troops behind.
In his opinion, this is Lord Zhao Lie's trust in Jeju Armed Forces, and he will definitely not disappoint his expectations.
Seeing dozens of huge Nanman warships approaching the boundary of several miles, Kameda Kojiro immediately ordered the standing troops to evacuate the dock and retreat eastward.
Kameda Kojiro was not an unskilled samurai from other vassal states.
He benefited from the knowledge of the powerful Satsuma clan at sea.
He was well aware of the power of the artillery of the Nanman warships, and arraying himself on the shore was courting death.
As for the dozen or so Satsuma clan warships on the shore, they were also abandoned.
Those small morning ships and customs ships were not enough to fill the gap between the Polu army's warships.
As the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain retreated to a distance of three to four miles, the navy warships of the Polu Army safely docked.
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The four Tang-class battleships, including the Kuroge Tsunoyuki and the Takasenshiba, faced the dock sideways, alerting the Satsuma clan of standing sneak attacks.
Twelve Song-class warships including the Wu Lin, Zhang Xian, and Wu Jie arrived at the port one after another, and the Jeju troops on board the ships landed one after another.
Since all the dozens of Galen merchant ships gathered in Jeju and Shidao, ready to carry the Polu army brigade to attack at any time, and did not dare to leave lightly, so Li Hu decided to transfer the artillery of the Tang-class battleships and turn them into troop transports to carry the army. soldiers.
As for escorting Tang-class warships, there are no warships threatening Tang-class warships in the entire Far East.
The Spaniards and the Netherlands are too busy taking care of themselves, and all Japanese warships have been lost.
Jeju's troops landed in an orderly manner.
Also ashore with them were ten marching cannons and hundreds of war horses, which were equipped for Ye Bushou.
After all the troops landed, they immediately put on their armor.
After putting on their armor, they lined up and did not attack immediately.
After all, they had been bumpy at sea for ten days and they needed to repair themselves.
And Kameda Kojiro did not approach the dock.
He was waiting for the arrival of the five hundred regular troops from Shuri.
He had no intention of defending the city in Shuri.
There were still one thousand Kingdom Guards in Shuri City.
This was Ryukyu's last armed force.
Of course, It's divided, but most people definitely want the Ming army to win.
As long as these people open a city gate and introduce the Ming army, Shuli will fall.
In this case, he might as well fight the Ming army outside the city.
Seeing that Akito was basically an infantry force, he felt much more at ease.
Although the Poro army suffered a heavy loss to the general, it was said that there were tens of thousands of cavalry troops.
The Satsuma clan was really not afraid of an infantry confrontation.
More than an hour later, the repaired Jeju army began to march eastward, and the two armies approached more than four miles east of the pier.
The bombardment of the ten marching guns of the Poro Army caused heavy losses to the Satsuma clan's standing troops who maintained a dense formation and prepared for battle, forcing Kameda Kojiro to order the standing troops to rush forward faster.
After suffering more than a hundred casualties, Satsuma Domain's permanent commander finally approached the Poro army's formation.
A hundred steps away, the firecrackers of the Jeju army were fired, causing more than a hundred Satsuma clan soldiers to fall to the ground wailing.
However, the soldiers of the Satsuma Domain still rushed forward fiercely to seventy steps, and the two sides began to shoot at each other.
Satsuma Domain's fire gunners accounted for the highest proportion among all the Japanese domains, reaching 30%.
Therefore, the exchange of fire between the front row gunmen of both sides caused heavy casualties to the other side.
Most of the hundreds of fire gunmen in the front row fell to the ground and struggled.
The scene was extremely bloody.
The injuries caused by such firearms gave people great sensory stimulation.
This was a huge blow to the soldiers on both sides.
Both sides were in panic.
One was Ping Ping Rijiu, and the other was a new recruit who had never seen blood.
Panic was inevitable.
Generals at all levels on both sides pressed forward to force the soldiers to continue fighting.
The next two rounds of bombardment reflected Jeju's superiority in the number of fire gunners, and Satsuma Domain's standing fire gunmen were all wiped out.
At this time, the iron cannon, the most lethal weapon kept by the Satsuma Domain, lost its effect.
This is where the Satsuma Domain has stronger combat power than other feudal clans in Japan.
In the duel between the spearmen of the two sides, Satsuma Domain's standing army was already at a disadvantage.
The less than a thousand spearmen faced the nearly two thousand well-organized spearmen of the Polu Army.
Soon, the Satsuma Domain standing army began to be besieged on three sides. , and even dozens of Jeju Night Guards attacked from behind, the Satsuma Domain finally couldn't withstand it, and the remaining five or six hundred feudal soldiers began to collapse.
Kameda Kojiro led his guards to counterattack and was killed on the spot.
The remaining hundreds of feudal soldiers were chased by dozens of Yakushou on horseback and killed more than a hundred of them.
The remaining feudal soldiers were forced to surrender.
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They could not run away.
Jeju prepared troops behind.
Pursuing, the cavalry on one side attacked and killed, and the general was killed.
The last 400 or so vassal soldiers knelt down and asked to surrender.
At this time, the Satsuma Domain on the main island of Ryukyu was completely empty.
King Shoning heard that he dragged his sick body and took some of his ministers out of Shuri Castle to greet him.
It seemed to him that it was dawn in Ryukyu.
Unfortunately, he died of illness two years later.
He did not see Zhao Liebu continue to occupy Ryukyu, just like the Choshu clan did.
A hundred years later, Ryukyu was naturally merged into the Central Plains.
After five days of repairs in Ryukyu, the fleet drove directly to Satsuma Domain with two thousand Jeju troops
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