Harumaki Makino led a musket team to michira Castle.

Although the artillery bombardment of the fleet just now caused casualties, these casualties were insignificant to him. As long as he occupied the main island of Ryukyu, it would be a non-sinking warship. Compared with this, the loss of some warships was nothing.

Many years ago, he suggested that Yamada Nobunaga occupy Ryukyu Island, use Ryukyu Island as a base to control the coastal routes of the Dayu Kingdom, and at the same time plunder the coastal cities of the Dayu Kingdom, but his suggestion was rejected.

Because the Dutch was still a distinguished guest in Yamada Nobunaga's eyes, but now everything has changed, and the Dutch betrayal at this time also proved that he was right at that time.

However, for him, it was not too late, and occupying Ryukyu Island was still a wonderful plan.

Walking along the woods on the coast, when he saw the Michira Castle located on the mountain from afar, he ordered his men to release a carrier pigeon.

The carrier pigeon was released and flew towards Michira Castle immediately. The carrier pigeon was trained to convey the news to Michira Castle.

At this time, Sakai in Michira Castle was waiting for news from Haraki Makino. When he saw a white carrier pigeon falling down, he was immediately ecstatic.

"Makino Haruki is here. Now is the time for us to show the Dutch and the Great Yu Kingdom colors." Sakai shouted excitedly.

When the soldiers heard this, they shouted excitedly, "Come on! Fight!"

In the midst of the craze, the soldiers in the castle quickly gathered and headed out of the city gate. More than 10,000 musketeers lined up outside the city gate to prepare for a big battle.

Outside the castle, Xiao Ming and Claire discovered the abnormality of the Japanese pirates. All the Japanese pirates in the castle rushed outside the city and lined up in neatly horizontal lines outside the city.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming asked: "Don't tell me that you Dutch have trained Japanese pirates if they use a comb-rope."

"I'm sorry, it's true. We did train the Japanese to use firearms." Claire said apologetically.

Xiao Ming really had the urge to kill Claire with one knife. In contemporary times, Japan was also supported by the West.

But now is not the time to care about these things, Xiao Ming said; "The Japanese pirates have reinforcements ashore, and now there are Japanese pirates coming out of the bastion. They are preparing to work together inside and outside to double-team us."

"Sakura is a very cunning enemy. He has been waiting for reinforcements." Claire said. "We can deal with reinforcements on the ashore. I wonder if your highness's army can deal with the Japanese pirates in the bastion? I doubt whether you can defeat these fierce pirates."

"Earl Claire, are you despising my army?" Xiao Ming's heart was furious, and he also knew whether Claire was deliberately or warned.

"Sorry, it's not that I despise Your Highness's army, but according to Sakai, Japanese pirates can often defeat the army of the Great Yu Kingdom, so I'm very worried. After all, if the battle fails, we will all lose Ryukyu." Claire's face was solemn. He began to regret his desperate bet at the beginning, because Japan's strength is also strong.

"You'd better worry about yourself." Xiao Ming curled his lips. He could lose to anyone, but he couldn't lose to the Japanese pirates. Then he said, "We'll leave our backs to you."

After saying that, Xiao Ming immediately asked Lu Fei to assemble the army.

The Japanese pirates gathered outside the basin, and Xiao Ming's army was very scattered because the encirclement was very scattered, so they also needed to gather. At this time, both sides were racing against time to complete the preparations.

The war was about to begin, and Luo Xin immediately took the artillery and found a high-level place to arrange artillery positions. Half an hour later, the troops of both sides completed the assembly in front of the bastion, and the war was about to break out.

If the war with the barbarians is a war between hot weapons and cold weapons, Xiao Ming faces a war between hot weapons and hot weapons this time. Although the Japanese pirates use the mesh rope gun, they still cannot be underestimated.

After all, the clamp and flintlock are just fired differently.

At this time, under the command of Lu Fei, the Qingzhou army also arranged in a horizontal lineup, with 200 soldiers as one command unit to prepare for attack.

"Your Highness, the Japanese pirates are moving here." After the army was assembled, the Japanese pirates' array began to advance towards Xiao Ming, and at the same time, the sound of cannons came from the direction of the Japanese pirates.

Xiao Ming looked in the direction where the cannon sound came, and he found that the Japanese pirates removed the cannons from the castle and used them in the current attack.

At this time, the two sides were about 700 meters away, and the artillery shells weakened a lot after flying. These shells almost rolled over from the ground and could not cause much casualties.

As Claire said, these shells were very old, with not very high range and power.

"Your Highness, do you want to fight back and destroy their artillery?" Luo Xin asked.

"The range of field guns is not far, so there is probably no advantage in this distance. If you pull it closer together, then fire it. Their guns are very clumsy and are not our opponents." Xiao Ming and Luo Xin stood on the artillery position together, and from here you can clearly see everything on the battlefield.

"Dongdong..."

The drum sounded, and under Lu Fei's command, the soldiers of Qingzhou also wanted the Japanese pirates to walk away, and the soldiers arranged in a tight formation and advanced slowly.

As the distance between the two sides became closer, the artillery of both sides began to fire at each other.

"Six-pound cannons shoot Japanese soldiers, and twelve-pound cannons shoot Japanese artillery." When the distance between the troops of both sides was only 300 meters, he issued an order.

In an instant, twelve six-pound field artillery began to shoot at the Japanese pirates, and the black shells hit the dense array of Japanese pirates, and the hit Japanese pirates fell down a row.

However, after the array was blasted out of the gap, the Japanese pirate soldiers immediately filled the gap.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming frowned. This was enough to show that the Japanese pirates' soldiers were well-trained, but he was not worried that they had the advantage in weapons.

Compared with the old artillery of the Japanese pirates, the shooting error of field artillery with the sight was relatively small. The artillery moving along the Japanese pirate array was directly smashed under the bombardment of the twelve-pound field artillery, and the gunners were also seriously injured.

The six-pound cannon was not idle either. The shells bounced on the ground and hit the Japanese pirates in the queue. The soldiers in the first row were directly broken by the shells, and fell to the ground and groaned.

Two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters.

Although he was constantly under shelling, the Japanese pirates did not retreat. The troops of both sides were getting closer and closer. At one hundred meters, Lu Fei ordered the soldiers to stop and shouted: "Shoot!"

At this time, the soldiers raised the flintlock rifle they were carrying, and a burst of flames and white smoke came out, and the Japanese pirate army on the opposite side immediately fell down.

"Recharge!" Lu Fei shouted again.
Chapter completed!