"What? What did you say?" Mi Nekiyo was stunned again and again, "Who called? Is it the shogunate?"
Because the Ryukyu Kingdom has become a gathering place for the so-called Toyotomi loyalists a few years ago, Ni Nekiyo has always been worried that the shogunate army will attack... So today I heard that someone was coming, and I subconsciously It occurred to me that soldiers from the Tokugawa Shogunate had arrived.
"It's not the shogunate, it's the Spanish. The Spanish fleet is here, with more than twenty large sailing ships, and they are shelling the Ryukyu forts!"
"What? The Spaniards... are they crazy?" After all, Kiyotoshi Kiyo is a Japanese devil who has closed his country and has not opened his eyes to see the world, otherwise he would not have asked such an imbecile question... ...The Kingdom of Spain is quite crazy!
That Philip IV thought he was the King of Earth favored by Heavenly Father! If such a person is not crazy, are there still people in the lunatic asylum?
"Xing Xing, I don't know if they are crazy or not. I only know that the coastal defense fort in Ryukyu Kingdom is useless and will fall soon. Ming Dynasty does not have many troops in Ryukyu Kingdom and only has a trade supervisor... When my subordinates came to Jinya just now, they saw the motorcade of the Trade Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty heading towards Tomi Castle in Shannan. It seems that they are preparing to escape, so why don't we escape too!"
The main island of the Ryukyu Kingdom is divided into three parts: Shanbei, Zhongshan, and Shannan. Shuri Imperial Castle and Naha Port are both located in Zhongshan. The Commercial Supervision Office of the Ming Dynasty and the Jinya of the Satsuma Domain of Japan are also located in Zhongshan. However, the Ming Dynasty still had a stronghold in Shannan, which was Fengjian Castle. It's not a bastion, just a small earthen city located on the seaside. There is a small fishing port nearby. There is a small bird boat parked there all year round. It should be used by Ming Dynasty business supervisors and merchants to retreat.
"Baga!" Ni Nekiyo was furious when he heard what his subordinates said, "We, the noble warriors, were ordered by the feudal lord to protect Ryukyu, how could we be afraid of death in the face of the enemy? And...the ships in the feudal clan I only come here once every two months, and now it’s still a month before my next visit to Hong Kong!”
I can't leave even if I want to...
"Xingxing, our numbers are too small and we have no artillery. How should we protect Ryukyu?"
"Of course it's Cage City!" Nie Kiyoo stood up suddenly, "Gather everyone and retreat to Shuri Royal City together!"
"Hai!" Intern Dongxiang responded loudly with a sad face.
He also knew that the Shuri Imperial City could not be defended, because his mission in the Ryukyu Kingdom was to closely monitor the Imperial City and not allow the Ryukyu royal family to set up defenses in the Imperial City... I never expected that it would not be Shang who would eventually cage the Imperial City in Shuri. The royal family, but himself and the Satsuma clan warriors who protect Ryukyu.
This is really a bit like digging your own grave!
If you don’t dig your own grave, you have to crawl into it even if you cry!
Dongxiang intern hurriedly bowed to Mi Nekiyo, then turned around and ran out to call someone. As soon as he left, Ni Nekiyo patted the tatami and muttered: "Baga, what are the Spanish crazy about? What does the Ryukyu Kingdom have? There is nothing, not even enough rice to eat, so why are they here?"
Of course you can't guess what the Spaniards are doing, and the behavior of a madman is certainly not easy to guess.
Moreover, Ni Nekiyo has been looking at Kagoshima and the Satsuma Domain in Edo all his life, and has never thought that Japan has unknowingly fallen into the circle of the Celestial Dynasty.
The self-contained Japan ceased to exist from the moment the Celestial Empire moved toward the ocean... Facing China, which was rushing toward the ocean step by step, Japan had no choice but to integrate into it!
Japan's national gate was not blasted open by some Chinese black ship with cannons - that was what the Westerners did to Japan. They were far away and could only use cannons to scare people. And China is close enough to Japan. Once it rushes into the ocean, it will inevitably submerge Japan!
The well-informed Spanish lunatic has a very clear view of the impact that the rise of the Chinese Empire will have on Japan!
Once the Chinese Empire submerges Japan, there will be no force that can stop them from rushing to the other side of the Pacific.
Because the Spanish World Empire, which owns the west coast of the New World, has only a population of over 5.6 million...and the population of the Celestial Empire is almost thirty times that of Spain!
Once they move east in a big way, sooner or later they will be able to take part of the New World away from Spain with their numerical advantage!
Therefore, in order to defend their new continent, the Spanish Empire had to make every effort to prevent the Chinese Empire from flooding Japan...
The person responsible for this task is Caballero, the ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to the Ming Dynasty. Although he is the ambassador to Ming Dynasty, he has been active in Edo in the past few months. In addition to meeting with figures from the Sendai Domain to discuss the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain, he also secretly met with samurai stationed in Edo from the Satsuma Domain, Nagasu Domain, and Kumamoto Domain, and tried to sell them "cheap and high-quality" Spanish artillery and the theory of the Chinese threat.
However, these so-called strong vassals were very cautious in strengthening their armed forces, for fear of offending the powerful and inviolable Tokugawa shogunate.
The remnants of the arbitrary political power of the previous generation were still there, and even the powerful southwestern feudal lords trembled in front of the general's power.
The rise of the Celestial Dynasty once touched the majesty of the Shogun family, but now it is reported that Matsudaira Takako of the Aizu Domain will be the adopted daughter of the previous Shogun Iemitsu, renamed Tokugawa Takako, and go to the Celestial Dynasty to marry.
Although it was the Tokugawa family who presented beauties to the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty, it actually meant surrender. But today's Ming Dynasty heroes have never asked foreign vassals to donate beautiful women. If the tall son of the Tokugawa family can successfully enter the Ming emperor's harem, he will come out first...
If the powerful Tokugawa family was supported by the emperor of China, how could the upper echelons of the southwestern vassals dare to resist?
Therefore, Caballero's activities in Edo were not successful. Until de Velasco hurried to Edo on a Galen ship of more than 200 tons, he did not sell a single Spanish artillery.
"What are you talking about? The Chinese have a reliable explosive bomb?" Caballero was shocked when he learned the result of the Battle of Dinghai, "How could this happen... What on earth is going on?" ?”
De Velasco, who saved his life in the battle of Dinghai Anchorage, smiled bitterly and said: "Ambassador, let's talk about it on the way... We have to go!"
"Go? Where?"
"Leave Edo and go to Kagoshima." De Velasco said, "Admiral Garcia has decided to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom! He must have succeeded now... So we have to leave immediately. If it is too late, we will be afraid of Germany. The Shogunate will detain us."
"Attack on Ryukyu? Why is this?"
De Velasco said: "Of course it is to show the power of the Spanish Armada in the East!"
"Powerful? The battle at Kedinghai Anchorage..."
De Velasco sighed: "Of course we won! Our fleet rushed into their anchorage, burned more than a dozen ships, and lost four of our own. Of course we won a great victory!"
Of course, twelve to four, of course Spain won!
"What does the general mean..." Caballero asked.
"The general hopes that we can support Japan's powerful lords against the generals who succumbed to the Ming Dynasty," de Velasco said. "Once Japan falls into civil strife, we can recruit mercenaries from Japan and use arms to support pro-Spanish forces. and the Catholic lords. The most important thing, of course, is to use the civil strife in Japan to stop the Ming Dynasty from advancing eastward."
"I understand!" Caballero nodded, "These are exactly what I want to do... However, no matter how much civil strife there is in Japan, it cannot involve too much energy of the Ming Dynasty unless the Tokugawa Shogunate Facing the fate of failure. But judging from the balance of power in Japan, such a thing is unlikely to happen. If we are determined to defend the New World, we must prepare for the worse!"
"Worse plan?"
Caballero was silent for a moment: "Maybe we should prepare to face the Eastern World Empire on the land of the New World! This will happen sooner or later. All our current efforts are just to delay the arrival of this day!"
