Zhu Yi's military affairs in the Ryukyu Kingdom gradually became busy, and all the affairs of the Ningbo Maritime Department were now handed over to Pu Ning'er.
The rank of the admiral eunuchs of the Ningbo Maritime Safety Administration also exceeded the rank of the weaving eunuchs of Suhang.
Ningbo's merchant ships have been going to sea very frequently. Since the Japanese pirates have ended, the number of escort ships for merchant ships has also been reduced. In a year, more than twenty merchants make a lot of money, but there is also a merchant who has a lot of money. No return, because the ship that went to sea did not come back, and there was no news at all.
There is a lot of wealth on the sea, but it is also full of unknowns and dangers...
Zhu Yi is training soldiers in the Ryukyu Kingdom, preparing for war, and has been paying attention to the internal changes in Kyushu Island. The information he previously sent to him was once every two months, but now the information has become once every four months...
The reason why it took so long was because the situation inside Kyushu Island had changed too severely.
The stage for the Satsuma clan to become king is really about to fall.
On Tsushima Island in the northern part of Kyushu Island, Yang Zheng is taking command. He has been on Tsushima Island for two full years.
In the past two years, the food reserves on Tsushima Island have reached a level that can feed 50,000 people for five years. The armor, weapons, and muskets transported by the Military War Bureau to Tsushima Island can also directly arm more than 10,000 people. army.
At this time, Tsushima Island even had the strength to directly capture Kyushu Island.
Although the official office of the Shandong Waihai Navy is also in Dengzhou, it is just an empty structure in Dengzhou. Yang Zheng spent two years, after reporting to His Majesty the Emperor Ming Dynasty, to move the entire Shandong Waihai Navy administration and family assets to Dengzhou. Come to Tsushima.
On Tsushima Island at this time, there were 25 naval generals, 6,800 Han Chinese naval soldiers, and more than 4,500 Korean landing soldiers.
The warships of the Navy's Yamen in the outer waters of Shandong frequently attacked. Within a year, they sank and rammed 232 large Japanese ships and 232 small boats. More than 3,000 Japanese people who went out to sea to fish died in one year. People, villages that relied on fishing in the sea slowly disappeared, and the Ming army looted the northern part of Kyushu Island hundreds of times.
Now there are more than 2,300 women snatched from Japan on Tsushima Island, and there are countless gold, silver and other items.
The Ming army is getting bolder and bolder.
From the beginning, it was just a small brawl. They were afraid of being entangled by the Japanese army and did not dare to advance in depth. Later, when they got more experienced and the Korean soldiers on board joined the plunder and became the main force, these people began to advance rashly. Every time The harvest also became larger, and they also fought against Japanese samurai several times, and almost all won. This also made Yang Zheng on Tsushima Island make adjustments.
After the Ming army landed from the sea, their radius of activity suddenly expanded from the initial fifty miles to two hundred miles, taking several cities and plundering more than thirty towns.
The population of the northern part of Kyushu Island has decreased significantly. More than a dozen daimyo families have abandoned their land, and the people have rushed to the central part to take refuge.
The only powerful Doi family organized a large-scale battle. They formed a mutual protection alliance, with more than 30 daimyo participating, and assembled a samurai army of more than 3,000 people, hoping to defeat the Ming army on the frontal battlefield. , but there are too many Japanese devils inside them.
Originally, the Ming army consisted of hundreds of people operating together, but in this battle, they encountered the main force of the Ming army, more than 6,000 people, including 800 cavalry.
This resistance in the Northland failed.
Although the Ming army also suffered hundreds of casualties, their resistance force of more than 3,000 people was almost wiped out. Even if there were hundreds of people who survived, they were dragged to Tsushima Island to work as coolies.
The Doi family suffered heavy losses and fled south first, and other daimyo followed suit...
During the long-term harassment of the Ming army on Tsushima Island, the northern land of Kyushu Island has become the back garden of the Ming army...
Time passed slowly.
More and more daimyo rebelled against the Satsuma clan on Kyushu.
Because Satsuma Domain's strength was seriously damaged and he had no money or food, he could only find someone to "borrow" food. But during this period, no one lent it to them, so Shimazu used force to kill the two daimyo who led the resistance. , killing all his clan members, which also angered all the daimyo in the central region.
They began to unite and wanted to completely eliminate the Satsuma Domain.
And the war between the Satsuma clan and the central daimyo began.
In the 21st year of Chenghua, in Tsurumaru City.
The dilapidated streets were filled with half-clothed Japanese people. Their eyes were full of melancholy and there was no hope at all. The children were crying from hunger, but the adults beside them seemed not to hear them. Usually, many people have starved to death and their corpses stink, but no one cares about their corpses.
Groups of Satsuma warriors wearing light armor on the street were also panicking. They were cooperating with the mobilization, rather than escaping.
Two years ago, Tsurumaru Castle was the heart of the Satsuma Domain.
It is the seat of the overlord of Kyushu Island.
The Japanese here are synonymous with the power of Kyushu Island. The subjects of Satsuma Domain are always arrogant towards outsiders. But in just two years, this place has already suffered three sieges and three crises, and with Serious food scare.
The previous two times they faced the coalition forces formed by the daimyo who resisted the Satsuma clan within Kyushu Island, they were both repelled by Shimazu Riko, but this time, they faced the Ming army.
In the previous two times, Shimazu Tatsumi led the last elite of the Satsuma Domain and defeated the daimyo coalition forces from the central part of the country twice. The retainers of the Satsuma Domain felt that the Satsuma Domain was invincible. Under the leadership of the governor of the Satsuma Domain, they Will dominate Kyushu Island once again.
But this fantasy didn't last long.
The Ming army invaded in large numbers.
The ships of the Ming army shuttled back and forth in the Ou Strait, as if they were in an uninhabited land. Although the senior officials of the Satsuma Domain were a little panicked, they did not expect that the Ming army would land and massacre the city.
One month after the Ming army entered the Dao Strait, they landed, which was something that even the senior officials of the Satsuma Domain could not imagine.
How could the country of China, a country of etiquette, have the same experience as a small overseas country like ours, and how could it be willing to let their soldiers bury their bones in a foreign land? What's more, there is nothing to tempt them here, so they can't just kill people for fun. Yes.
The first to come ashore were more than 3,000 elite Ming troops. They were overwhelming. Within three days, they broke through two cities and destroyed eighteen villages and towns. Tens of thousands of Japanese died under the butcher knives of the Ming army.
Then, in two subsequent attacks, more than 6,000 people landed at the same location.
At this time, Shimazu and other senior officials of the Satsuma Domain realized that they were not joking this time and were serious about it. '
Shimazu immediately mobilized the army. This time he really pulled out all the young adults of Satsuma Domain. However, of this army of more than 10,000 people, only more than 1,000 people had battlefield experience, while the others had previously , they all have their own different identities, farmers, fishermen, monks, watchmakers, and even masons. This is the first time that a warrior has gone to the battlefield.
When the temporarily recruited warriors faced the Ming army who had been trained for more than a year, they were doomed to fail.
Shimazu Rigong suffered his first failure in his life more than thirty miles away from Tsurumaru Castle...
More than 10,000 people were killed in front of the battle, and more than 3,000 people were killed. Facing the Ming army's guns and artillery, and the impact of thousands of cavalry, even if these 10,000 people were experienced warriors, they had no chance of victory...
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