The Lord of Satsuma Domain, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, and his Kagoshima Domain House sank into the ground together.
In the near future, a completely reborn Lord of the Shimazu clan may emerge.
But what is certain is that this disaster actually announced the final fate of the Satsuma Domain.
On September 28, the fourth year of Guangtoku, the Southern Corps of the Qi Army joined forces with the Ryukyu Army and captured Kagoshima in one fell swoop, and then quickly captured Tsurumaru Castle.
The attack on Tsurumaru Castle went more smoothly than expected. Faced with the Qi army's complete siege tactics, the Shimazu army, which was far behind in equipment and morale, only resisted for half an hour before the entire line collapsed.
It's not that the Kagoshima samurai are not brave enough, but the Qi army's offensive is too sharp and difficult to withstand.
Take the comparison of artillery between the two sides as an example. While the artillery of the Qi army was generally equipped with explosive shells, the Shimazu army on Tsurumaru Castle was still using solid artillery shells. Even so, the number of artillery on the defending side was far less than that of the siege troops.
The artillery of the Qi Army formed an overwhelming advantage over Tsurumaru Castle. After losing artillery support, the peripheral fortifications of the Shimadzu Army were quickly defeated one by one.
Each regiment set up carts and drove straight to the bottom of the city wall. When they arrived at the city wall, there were not many Japanese pirates alive at the top of the city - Shimazu's army could not gain a foothold at the top of the city.
The sword-and-shield soldiers' climb to the city went surprisingly smoothly. When the Japanese pirates, who were huddled in the urn city to avoid the shells, reacted and sent a large number of warrior reinforcements to force the Qi army down the city wall, they found that they were powerless.
The musketeers who followed behind climbed up the city wall along the ladder. The Japanese wall was not high to begin with, so it was not difficult to climb up. Besides, there were few living enemy soldiers at the top of the city.
More and more musketeers climbed up the city wall, pointed their guns in the direction of Wengcheng, and fired freely. The artillerymen who followed also lowered the infantry field cannons onto the city wall. Without enough time to take aim, they bombarded the Japanese pirates in Wengcheng from a high position.
At this time, there were more than 3,000 ashigaru and samurai surviving in Tsurumaru Castle Urn Castle. Most of them were holding fire blunderbuss, and a small number of samurai were carrying Japanese bows.
Under the command of several banner warriors, everyone mustered up their courage and began to launch a counterattack, attacking along the steps of the urn city towards the city wall, trying to drive the Qi army off the city wall while their foothold was not stable.
Thinking of the fall of Kagoshima, the lives of himself and his family were at stake. Even the poorly equipped Ashigaru jumped up the steps desperately and slashed at the city with a long sword, as if they were on the receiving end of blood.
At this time, there were three to four hundred musketeers and sword and shield soldiers assembled on the city wall. They hurriedly formed two fronts and concentrated their firepower to shoot down the city.
The sword and shield soldiers cut off the ladders leaning on the crenellations with their swords. A Japanese pirate followed the ladder and just climbed up the city wall with his hands. His fingers were chopped off by a sharp waist knife and he fell to the ground screaming.
At this time, the large-scale bombardment had ended, and the sound of musket blasts resounded throughout the city. The Shimazu army knew that if they lost the city wall, they would be unable to retreat, so everyone rushed towards the steps like a tide. The warriors tied their heads with white cloths, and painted in the middle Marking the Shimazu family emblem of the Maru cross, shouting "Plate", he jumped up the steps piled with corpses without hesitation.
However, what greeted them were just lead bullets.
After the Qi army's musketeers fired two rounds, the steps were so densely covered with hundreds of Japanese pirate corpses that there was no place for those who rushed up from behind to stay. ….
As more and more Japanese pirates attacked, the Musketeers also began to suffer losses.
Finally, the Qi army's artillery arrived for reinforcements.
If they encounter the Qi Army's musketeers, they can barely resist. In front of the rapid-fire field artillery, all the resistance seems so pale and feeble, and it even makes people feel like a mantis is using its arms as a cart.
"The rise and fall of Satsuma, the battle is here, on board!"
"boom!"
A three-kilogram bomb fell into the crowd of Japanese pirates. The fierce explosion shook the city wall slightly. Centered on the explosion point, there was a mist of blood within a dozen steps, and countless broken limbs flew into the sky. They fell like raindrops one after another.
The Japanese pirate who was more than ten steps away fell to the ground when the shock wave shook him.
They all fled into the city, and the fleeing Japanese pirates once again became a living target of the Qi army.
Some brave warriors turned around, and their bows, arrows and firecrackers were completely suppressed by mini rifles. Both in terms of range and rate of fire, these
Equipment that is half a century behind is really lackluster.
Ryukyu Governor Shoken felt regretful because he did not personally arrest the feudal lord Shimazu Mitsuhisa.
As the last king of the Ryukyus and the first governor of the Ryukyus Prefecture in the Qi Dynasty, Shangxian hated the Satsuma Domain deeply.
In the thirty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourteenth year of Keicho in Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate sent the Satsuma clan to lead an army to invade Korea, starting a long period of ravaging Ryukyu.
After the Satsuma army captured Shuri Royal Castle, they burned, killed and looted the city for seven days.
According to historical records, all the movable property of the Ryukyu Kingdom was packed and transported away by the Satsuma pirates.
The Shimazu family also captured the Ryukyu King Shonei (the father of Shoken) and more than a hundred people to Kagoshima and placed them under house arrest.
On September 19, the 16th year of Keicho, King Shoning was forced to sign the "Fifteen Articles" with Satsuma Domain, recognizing Satsuma Domain's control of Ryukyu.
In the second year of Tianqi, Liu Zhaosun led an army to conquer Japan eastward. After the Ming army defeated Satsuma Domain in Kyushu, the Ryukyu King was rescued from the control of Satsuma Domain.
However, the good times did not last long. Just two years later, with the defeat of Yuan Chonghuan in Kyushu, the Ming army retreated across the board, Kyushu was reoccupied by the Tokugawa shogunate, and Ryukyu soon fell into the clutches of the Shimazu family.
From the first year of Budei to the fourth year of Guangtoku, a long period of fifteen years, the Satsuma clan was destroying Ryukyu. The wives and daughters of the Ryukyu king were all defiled by Shimazu Mitsuhisa. It is said that it was to avenge the shogun (Liu Zhaosun kidnapped Tokugawa Chihime). .
For Ryukyu King Shoken, that period was a painful memory that he couldn't bear to mention.
"It's a pity that Shimazu Mitsuhisa escaped, otherwise, I would have cut him into pieces."
Shang Xian gritted his teeth and said.
"If you want revenge, you still have a chance now." Qin Jianxun looked thoughtfully at the ruins of Tsurumaru Castle and the dark crowd of Japanese pirate prisoners in the city.
The Supreme Emperor said that Da Qi needs a clean Japanese country. The cleanliness here does not mean spotless. The Supreme Emperor has no mysophobia.
Liu Zhaosun ordered a planned liquidation of 10 million Japanese pirates.
Just like he was cleaning out those worms in his dream.
Clearing out a country with a population of tens of millions is currently not enough.
However, the Supreme Emperor is still capable of concentrating his efforts to restore Kyushu to "cleanliness".
Qin Jianxun had no experience with such large-scale massacres, nor did he want to. ….
"Keep some people and send them back to Fujian. Director Xie has opened several new iron mines there and needs manpower. You can handle the rest of the Japanese pirates on your own..."
Qin Jianxun did not clean up personally, or even issued an order to clean up. Whether out of conscience or for some other reason, he temporarily handed over the power of life and death to Shangxian, the last king of Ryukyu.
"Thank you, General Qin!" Shangxian sincerely thanked Qin Jianxun. After the Ryukyu man saluted Qin Jianxun, his face suddenly darkened.
"Fifteen years ago, Shimazu's army massacred people in Ryukyu for six days. It was disrespectful to come and go, but I thought it was okay to massacre Kagoshima for twelve days."
"It's cleaning up," Qin Jianxun corrected.
"Yes, clean up."
When the city was broken, more than 5,000 Shimazu troops who defended the city were wiped out, and more than 500 survivors committed seppuku on the spot.
The soldiers refused to kill these Shimazu troops who practiced bushido.
This is certainly not because Shangxian was moved by the "Bushido" - there was no Jingri group in Daqi more than three hundred years ago - after seppuku, a person needs to spend a long time in extreme pain before finally dying.
In order to torture the enemy more fully, Shangxian prohibited all soldiers from acting as intermediaries. Instead, he stood next to the Japanese pirates and watched the Japanese pirates die slowly one by one.
Except for women, children and some captives who were escorted back to Fujian and survived, the rest of the captives were executed.
The execution was carried out on the seaside of Kagoshima and lasted for 12 days from October 9th to October 21st.
Ryukyu people were mainly responsible for the execution, and each battalion sent officers and training officers to supervise.
The heads of tens of thousands of servants of the evil god were chopped off and floated back to their lair along the ocean currents.
Dust to dust, dust to dust, Japanese
Kou returns to the host.
The sea water was dyed red, and finally attracted large groups of octopuses.
Like pilgrims, these creatures from the deep sea surrounded the heads of Japanese pirates in groups, floating and sinking together with countless heads, and finally disappeared into the deep sea. .
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