Chapter 331 Shimadzu's Plan(1/2)
When the Ming army was approaching the seaside of Kagoshima, a Shimazu family ship shook high on the flag and rushed towards Li Xiaojun's fleet.
"Mr. Li, the boat is coming to shoot such a flag, which means that the other party's envoy is coming. Do you want to meet him?" The Ryukyu guide who was accompanying Li Xiao saw the identity of the boat at a glance and immediately whispered to Li Xiao.
Li Xiao sneered: "What's the point of seeing such a villain? However, I have a gift to give to their vassal lord Shimatu Kokusa."
Soon, the Shenglong blew the flag and told the coming ship that there were Ming army officials who wanted to get on the ship to talk to them.
When Shimazu envoy saw the flag verb, he immediately replied to agree.
Soon, the two ships moved closer. Compared with the Tsun, the Tsun was like a skyscraper, while the Shimazu ship was just a small morning boat, which was almost the same as a bungalow.
A civil servant in the Ming army, holding a wooden box, and carrying a Ryukyu translator, went down from the soft ladder that he had laid down from the Shenglong to the Shimazu envoy ship.
After getting on the boat, the Ming army supervisor looked around the Japanese on the boat coldly and shouted: "Who is the manager of you? Come out and speak quickly."
After hearing the translator's call, a man with a fat face appeared in front of the civil servant.
"In Yuki Xiahei, it was my Satsuma vassal lord who was personally following it. I came to ask your country's army, but why did I come to my Satsuma vassal?"
The civil servant sneered and shouted to him: "Listen! I came to tell you and others on the order of my Ming Dynasty, Li Xiaoli, Lord Li. I was the one who was a lowly clan in the Kyushu clan. I was once a member of the Satsuma tribe, but I did not want to be loyal. I even had a wolf ambition and retaliated against the benefactor, which led to the death of the Lihu clan. The only bones and blood were only allowed to flow overseas, and I buried my name in a hidden name to seek temporary storage. Such a yelling act is really anger between heaven and man! Therefore, my Ming Dynasty specially sent righteous soldiers to cross the sea to fight against rebellion. If you know the current affairs and surrender, then my Ming Dynasty thought you would have the merit of stopping the war and the life of the Shimazu clan. If you are foolish and stubborn, you can block the chariot with your arms. When the heavenly soldiers arrive, you will surely slaughter all Satsuma and make them turn into powder!"
After hearing the translation, Yuki Ping's face turned pale, his lips half open, and sweat oozed out of his forehead.
It turned out that the Ming army came here to restore the vassal for the Ganfu family and to drive his master Shimazu family from the position of the Satsuma vassal lord!
"This, this, the descendants of the liver and family have been destroyed, and the clan has been destroyed. How is it considered to be the leader of my Shimazu clan? You must know..."
Before Heizhang Yuki finished speaking, the civil servant waved impatiently, interrupted his words, and handed him the big wooden box in his hand.
"This is something that Lord Li asked the lower officials to hand over to your vassal lords. You can take it back quickly. Lord Li said that it is a war or a surrender, so he can give him an hour to reply."
After the civil servant finished speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave.
"Baga!"
Seeing that the civil servant was so contemptuous and cold, he was as if he was scolding his subordinates, the followers next to Yuki Hiroshi were very angry and pulled out their swords and made a move to chop the civil servant.
"Oh, do you want to cut off this official? Open your dog's eyes and see clearly!"
The civil servant sneered, and he raised his finger and raised it upwards. The followers looked at his fingertips, but they didn't feel like they took a breath.
At the side of the Shenglong ship, there were at least hundreds of fire-burning muskets, and the black muzzle pointed straight at their heads.
"Bastard! Get rid of the knife quickly, don't be rude. Don't you know that the two countries will fight and come to the envoy if they don't kill them!"
Seeing so many black guns above his head, Yuki Hirazhang was still scared, and he shouted loudly to the followers.
Amid the sound of the followers' reluctance to close the knife, the civil servants and the translator calmly climbed up the Ascension Dragon from the soft ladder and left. After the civil servants and others returned to the Ascension Dragon, Yuki Hirajo, who was in a state of despair, did not stop and quickly turned around and returned north to report to Shimazu Kokusa.
Not long after he was traveling, there was a deafening sound of cannons behind him.
It turned out that Li Xiao had already ordered to immediately kill the Satsuma Navy that he saw along the way, and to destroy all of these naval ships when they were not fully prepared.
In fact, so far, the Satsuma Navy still has more than 200 ships of various types, but because there has been no war for decades, these naval forces are scattered throughout the sea off Kagoshima, patrolling everywhere to fight pirates. Therefore, it is difficult to gather for a while, and the sudden attacking Ming army took a big advantage.
The sound of cannons roared and the iron bullets roared. The Samoan navy, which could not fight in an array, could only be passively beaten and was bombarded by the fierce artillery fire of the Ming fleet and fled in all directions.
"Hurry, hurry back to Shanchuan Port at full speed. I will report to the vassal lord immediately!"
Pingzhang Yuki saw with his own eyes that an Anzhai boat was beaten into pieces by a huge black iron bullet that was broken in half. He looked like a mortal face and shouted to his subordinates in anger.
Yuki Heizaki was shocked. He did not expect that the Ming army was so fierce that he gave Shimazu a killer and scared the monkey by directly attacking the navy.
These Ming troops were simply a group of unreasonable robbers and devils!
"Father Lord!Father Lord! The Ming army is coming to attack Satsuma!"
Yuki Hirajo had just entered Tsurumaru Castle and was still running towards Tianshou Pavilion. He described as waving his hands wildly and shouting loudly at the top of his lungs.
As he was about to reach Tianshou Pavilion, Yuki Hirajo staggered and fell a dog to eat shit. The wooden box in his hand also fell far away.
Immediately, a warrior guarding the pavilion came over and helped him up.
However, at the moment of standing up, Yuki Heiha was stunned.
He saw in fear that a head made of lime-stained with salt was suddenly exposed in the wooden box that had fallen open!
But he was very familiar with this head because, the head that seemed to be asleep was not Shimazu Kokusa's brother-in-law Shimazu Akihiro, who else could it be!
To put it this way, the Satsuma garrison on Amami Oshima has been completely broken...
A very sad mood instantly filled Yuki Hiraki's body. His lips were opened and his throat was choked.
Without thinking too much, he hurriedly picked up the wooden box, covered the lid, and rushed towards the guard pavilion.
"What? What did you say?!"
Shimazu Kokusa jumped up, with blue veins on his forehead swelling, and shouted: "You mean the army is coming to restore the vassal for the Ganfu family?! Shimazu Akiha has died at the hands of the Ming army?"
Yuki Hiraki, who was kneeling on the ground, slowly raised the wooden box in his hand with a look of grief and anger towards Shimazu Kokuha who was furious in front of him.
Shimazu Kokuha took it and lifted the lid of the wooden box. The smell of lime and carrion made him frown in disgust.
However, he soon stopped looking dull because he saw that the head of the box that was made of lime-salted, which looked like a sleeping sleeping place was Shimazu Kokusa himself.
Shimazu Kokusa dropped the wooden box, but he couldn't stand firmly and fell on the tatami.
"The vassal lord, the huge Ming fleet, is chasing the Samo navy everywhere on the sea. Their chief general Li Xiao also said, if within an hour, I, Samo, do not surrender to him, he will...."
"What do you want?!"
"He is going to slaughter all the land of Satsuma and kill all the Shimazu clan!"
After Yuki Hirajo said that, he rushed straight to the ground, his forehead lying tightly on the tatami, and he didn't dare to look up again.
"Baga!"
Shimazu Kokuha was like a furious lion. After rising from the tatami, he kicked off the small wooden table in front of him. The wooden box on the table broke open, and Shimazu Akiha's head was rolling to the feet of a retainer, scaring him to avoid it.
"Transfer my order, the whole army gathers to fight to the death with the Ming army!"
Shimazu Konoha roared like thunder, and the retainers also shouted, wanting to fight the Ming army to the end and guard Satsuma to the death.
Only a discordant voice came: "The enemy's ships are strong and cannons are powerful, and their power is quite strong. Now that our navy has been defeated. If we only set the ground to defend ourselves, it may be difficult to last. Where can we go? Please think twice!"
After hearing this, the whole room suddenly became as quiet as a tomb, and the face of the vassal lord Shimazu Kokusa was so angry that it was almost twisted.
These are the words of the damn old man Shimazu Kukai. This guy who has always been inconsistent with himself actually said such backboneless and striking the morale of the army when the army was about to fight. It is really hateful!
A trace of ferocious look flashed across Shimazu Kokusa's face. He whispered and pulled out the sharp sword.
In real history, Shimazu Kukai, the loyal family, who served two generations of vassal lords of the Shimazu family, was eventually killed by the furious Shimazu Kokuha for his unpleasant advice. After his death, like Shimazu Akihiro, his name was erased from the Shimazu family's genealogy, and his family was killed or exiled.
Now, looking at Shimazu Kokuha, who was so angry that he was twisted, and before walking towards him step by step with his sword, Shimazu Kukkai turned pale and subconsciously retreated.
"The Lord of the Vatican..."
Before Shimazu Kukai finished speaking, the sword in Shimazu Kokuha's hand had already stabbed out sharply, and pierced through his chest with a puff!
"puff!"
Shimazu Kukai spurted out a mouthful of blood, dyeing half of Shimazu Kokuha's face opposite him into a ferocious blood red.
"A war is coming, and you are still here to shake the morale of the army. It's really a crime to die!"
Shimazu Kokusa gritted his teeth and scolded him angrily, then stirred the sword in his hand hard.
"Shimazu Kokusa, you are a ignorant guy, you can only live two more days more than me..."
Although dying Shimazu Kukai, although in extreme pain, he still gritted his teeth and uttered this sentence intermittently.
"Baga, go to die!"
Shimazu Kokusa became more and more angry. He shouted loudly, pulled out the Tai Knife and slashed it horizontally. Shimazu Kukai's head immediately jumped into the air, and blood gushed like a spring at the broken neck that was as smooth as a mirror.
"If anyone else dares to shake the morale of the army and slash morale before this decisive battle, he will end up with this person!"
Shimazu Kokuha, who held Shimazu Kukai's head with one hand, panted and looked around everyone, shouting loudly at them.
After a brief moment of silence, the retainers immediately reacted and shouted slogans to show their loyalty.
Shimazu Kokuha threw Shimazu Kukkai's head hard on the ground, then put the knife into the sheath, sat back on the chair, and began to issue military orders loudly with a cold look on his face.
"Huashan Dao obeys the order!"
"The last one will be there!"
"This vassal orders you to bring all the Red Cavalrymen to Shanchuan Port to investigate the enemy situation. If there is a Ming army attack, you may be defeated but not won. You need to lure them all the way to the valley of Yongtong Mountain!"
"Hayi!"
"Shimazu Kumatsu obeys the order!"
"I'm here!"
"When you and my vassal, you will command all Bu Qing, Banner, and Iron Gunner, set up an ambush at the Yongtong Mountain Valley in front of Heman City, and tie your pockets. After the Ming army enters the valley, you will encircle them everywhere, striving to annihilate the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop!"
"Hayi!"
It should be said that although Shimazu Kokusa was cruel and irritable, he was still very calm and sharp-minded. He knew clearly that under the current conditions that the enemy was obviously strong and we were weak, luring the enemy into deep and setting up an ambush to attack was the most effective way to win.
At this time, he turned his head and looked at Yuki Hiratsuhara who was still kneeling on the ground with complicated eyes.
"Pingzhang Yuki obeys the order!"
To be continued...