"It's gone!"
"Fight the fire!"
The sea breeze blew up the flames, and the fire spread quickly through the city.
Wooden houses burn quickly when exposed to fire.
Japanese people carried buckets of water from ponds to put out the fire. The thick smoke made it difficult for them to open their eyes, and the heat wave made them sweat.
The crackle of burning wood, the rumble of houses collapsing, and people's frightened cries...were all heard together.
The samurai, led by officers, also began to participate in fighting the fire.
"Still want to put out the fire? Sinai!"
"Bang bang bang~"
The musketeers scattered everywhere were waiting for this moment. They raised their muskets and fired randomly to kill the enemy.
As the musketeers held back, the fire grew larger and wider.
It was not until the entire Kumamoto residential area was burned that the musketeers began to retreat.
At this time, the fire had already jumped to a height of more than ten meters. Everyone knew that the fire could not be saved.
Countless civilians and warriors began to retreat.
Far away in the inner city of Kumamoto, Saifu Mori was pulled up from the two warm bodies by his retainers.
The same goes for other famous names.
Everyone had just walked out of the door and climbed onto the city wall.
I saw the horizon in the distance, with flames and thick smoke covering the sky, like waves coming.
From a distance of 6 kilometers, you can even feel the heat wave of the flames.
In just one morning, the fire was already very close to the inner city.
Thick smoke drifted into the inner city, and the warriors' eyes were red from the smoke, and they coughed hard.
Mao Liqifang watched all this blankly.
"How could this happen? It's actually a fire attack!"
Didn’t Ming Dynasty want a big city like Kumamoto?
"Master, what should we do?"
"Father, what should we do, father?"
Surrounded by a circle of kneeling retainers and blood relatives, everyone was waiting for Mao Li Qifang's decision.
Seeing that Mao Li was absent-minded, several retainers looked at each other and directly took him to retreat.
The line of fire is already very close to the inner city of Kumamoto.
Even though the inner city was originally built for safety reasons, the surrounding vegetation had long been cleared.
However, thick smoke would still drift into the inner city, and the soldiers could not open their eyes, coughed violently, and their combat capabilities were severely reduced.
When the time turns into night and when the land breeze blows to the ocean, it is time for the Ming army to attack.
Their guess was good.
After nightfall, the fire was still raging into the sky and had a tendency to spread to all directions.
The fire stopped at the isolation zone outside the inner city of Kumamoto, and the Kyushu Allied Forces, which had been burning for a day, had not yet completely evacuated.
Nara Ichibei began the attack.
As the order was issued, the artillery brigade that had been prepared roared.
Due to insufficient elevation angle, the artillery can only bombard defensive positions at the foot and mountainside.
A large number of artillery shells hit the position, and several low walls and parapets 20 to 30 centimeters thick were blown down.
The rear ranks of musketeers poured into the position through these gaps.
At this time, the coalition defenders on the position had almost fled, and only some warriors who had been given death orders were holding on.
Their eyes were swollen and they were coughing. They were unable to deal with the musketeers of the Kyushu Division.
The two circles of positions at the foot of the mountain and the mountainside were successfully captured, and there was basically no resistance on the positions.
Only the mountain city on the top of the mountain was an obstacle to the Ming Army's Jiuzhou Division. The terrain here was high and there was only an "S" shaped winding mountain trail winding upward.
The remaining coalition warriors covered their mouths tightly with wet cloths, held up muskets, and blocked the attack with red and swollen eyes.
"Bang bang bang~"
It was difficult for artillery to go up the mountain, so the musketeers of the Ming Army's Jiuzhou Division could only engage in musketry exchanges with the city.
Nara Ichibei organized a group of death squads and charged towards the city gate with powder barrels on their backs.
The fire reflected the night sky, and the brazier made the city wall as bright as day.
Coalition warriors fired at the death squads.
Lead bullets mixed with arrows were overwhelming, and the death squads fell one after another.
Finally, when the city's muskets retreated from the battle sequence due to overheating, it was difficult to form a shooting barrage.
The suicide squad finally carried the arrows and delivered the powder keg to the city gate.
"boom!"
With a huge explosion, bricks and stones flew.
The city gate was blown down, and the inner city of Kumamoto was declared destroyed.
The next step is to clean up the remaining troops in the inner city.
The Spring Battle of Kumamoto Castle lasted less than 20 days, and the Ming army won the battle.
After clearing the inner city, the Kyushu Division continued to march eastward.
On the small plain in the Aso area, the 2nd Brigade of the Kyushu Division of the Ming Army directly defeated the 10,000 defenders led by the Ryuzoji family daimyo in just half an hour.
From the west coastline of Kumamoto to the Aso area, the Ming Army's Kyushu Division formed a defensive belt.
Firmly blocking the Kyushu Allied Forces from the defensive circle.
Kagoshima became the real home front.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Otomo immediately led his troops to evacuate along the east coast, and the siege crisis in the Miyazaki area was lifted.
Kumamoto Castle was renamed Kyushu Castle, and Gao Kyousuke set off immediately with a group of officials, accompanied by a group of officials sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty.
At this point, the Kyushu Division of the Ming Dynasty turned from defensive to offensive, and the initiative on Kyushu Island returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
"The famous general of the Ming Empire".
"The Nara Tiger".
"Sixth Heaven Demon King II".
A series of titles were imposed on Nara Ichibei by the daimyo.
As the war spread, the whole of Japan was in shock.
Even the Tokugawa shogunate fell into panic, and Tokugawa Ieki remained silent in the Taishou Pavilion.
Emperor Koge laughed secretly in the castle tower, and from time to time he took out the secret letters from the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Zaiming's letters to reflect on them.
And Mouri Qifang took 6,000 samurai of his clan all the way back to Honshu Island in the north.
Now even if Mao Li is given another chance to get married, he would not dare to go to Kyushu Island to wade into the muddy waters.
The water on Kyushu Island was too deep and he couldn't control it.
Mori Qifang could return to the Choshu Domain on Honshu Island, but some other daimyo did not have this opportunity.
Their fiefdom is on Kyushu Island, and they don't want to imitate Shimazu Sainobu and become a wandering daimyo.
They all took out their family trees and read ancient books.
I hope to be able to trace my ancestors upwards from between the lines.
After some searching, traces of many famous names were found.
Most of their ancestors were named Liu, followed by Zhao.
…
Indian Ocean.
A fleet of sailboats sailed downwind, with the British flag hoisted on the mast and many family crests and stripes.
The passengers of this fleet were mainly European nobles.
They are British, Scottish, French, Spanish...
But without exception, they are all nobles.
In addition to sailing ships transporting people, there are also a large number of merchant ships.
In order to ensure safe navigation, these nobles paid a large sum of money to the East India Company to escort the East India Company's armed merchant ships all the way to the Indian Ocean.
On a large sailboat, Anna lay on the side of the ship, looking at the sea in the distance with her beautiful eyes.
Beside her was a little maid, squatting aside and poking at the kitten on the deck.
Below the deck, Davy Jones held the barrel and vomited wildly.
He gets seasick and has never liked traveling on boats since he was a child.
But for the future of my daughter, for the sake of giving birth to the heir of the ancient Eastern emperor.
He fought hard.
