The war was in full swing, and although the Matsuura clan did not make much effort, they were all worried about it.

This time, the Matsuura clan was a shame before the snow, mobilized 800 troops, led by Matsuura Takannobu's eldest son, Jinshin, and sailed from Hirado to Matsuura County, claiming to recapture his hometown.

Once upon a time, the Matsuura clan once commanded the entire territory of Matsuura Prefecture and could mobilize nearly 10,000 people, and even under the oppression of Ryuzoji, they were able to hire pirates to fight for Hirado...... Before Li Dan landed on the five islands, this was the case.

However, the Ming army came and surrendered the thousands of Japanese soldiers entrenched in the Goto area without any suspense, so that the Matsuura clan could only gather more than a thousand troops, and they had to stay in the place, where could they mobilize more ashigaru.

However, Chen Bazhi, who fought as a guest army, swept tens of thousands of legions, including both Japanese and banner troops, and two thousand northern armies, and attacked Songpu County with great momentum for a while.

Chen Bazhi's soldiers were divided into two routes, the banner army bypassed Songpu County by boat and went straight to Saga Port, and on land, Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei 2,000 households led the army and the Japanese to sweep all the way through Songpu County, of course, Songpu Zhenxin followed them and received the villages along the way.

It is said that it is Songpu County, but in fact, there is no big city, and the local wealthy families in various villages are somewhat armed, but most of them were once one of the 48 parties in Songpu, and when they saw the attack of the Matsuura Town Shin Army, they immediately defected to help maintain law and order.

Although they also encountered some resistance, but dozens of peasant soldiers on the road volley, where could they resist the majesty of the Jurchen Mongol cavalry, the Mongol riders were in a mess and shot arrows, and the Jurchen swordsmen shouted and rushed to kill to end the battle, and the defeated enemies knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.

This was not the first time the Li brothers had gone into battle, but it was the easiest battle in their lives, with few enemies and many weak soldiers, and all the victories were without casualties, which was easier than hunting in their hometown.

Even swept five villages, and even the cowering North Korean soldiers rose up bravely.

Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei were very happy, and they almost didn't kill Songpu Zhenxin and the Korean soldiers along the way, and in just four days, the cavalry marched 60 miles along the Haida Road like a walk, but the battlefields of the foot soldiers were scattered in the mountains and forests of Songpu County, running back and forth for more than 100 miles.

They didn't go deep into the county because the grain ships and gunboats were floating with them along the coast, of course, not to protect the ships, and Chen Bazhi didn't need others to protect them, they were just to be able to eat hot.

Liaodong Iron Cavalry is the most ferocious in drills, the most brave on the battlefield, but the daily supply is also the most squeamish, these people are Li Chengliang's carefully raised family members, neither practice nor war, this group of people is like an uncle.

Regardless of the good uniforms and combat effectiveness of the Chen Banner Army, they are all the same in terms of baggage rationing, but this is not the case with the Li clan in Liaodong, this group of proud soldiers have their own fields and lands in Liaodong, and the double salary and silver are the elite fed by real silver, supplemented by bows and swords, strong horses, and Xuanfu precision forging armor.

To tell the truth, whoever they wear in this set of things, their combat power can't be low, let alone the athletes carefully selected by the veteran Li Chengliang.

This situation swept all the way through Matsuura County, and immediately the whole county resuspended the Matsuura Kaji leaf pattern, and it was tired, but Matsuura Zhenxin was definitely happy. This man shined in assisting his father in the development of the Hirado trade, and his brain was very smart, and he ran all the way to the place where the soldiers came to Saga, and the soldiers under his command were still 800, but they had already changed to another batch.

His cronies stayed in the villages, and he led an army composed of local wealthy clans, hoping to take advantage of the Ming army and the Japanese to subdue this group of men and horses, and serve the Matsuura clan in the future.

On the fifth day of the departure from Hirado, the troops arrived at Saga Port.

Chen's army marched unfast, and sank two ships of the Ryuzoji family at sea, not to mention that the news of the Ming army's attack had already spread to Imari City with the news of Nabeshima Naoshige's retreat, and the local gathering of hundreds of ashigaru from Hirado rout, and even mobilized local ashigaru, encouraging not weak troops to defend the city, in order to wait for Nabeshima Naoshige to return and mobilize a large army to help.

"Cage City!"

"Within a month, this city will be conquered!"

With one great victory after another, there were soldiers behind him, and the morale of the town who won the battle of Matsuura was extraordinary, and he swept away a forest area at a very fast speed in the south of Imari Castle, and cut wood to lay down the main formation. Looking at Imari Castle three miles away, he drew his saber and shouted loudly to boost his morale.

The same is true for the more Japanese robbers who accompanied the army, and it was also noisy to see Matsuura Zhenxin draw his sword and shout, although this kind of high morale was very fascinating to Li Dan, who was regarded as the leader of the Japanese robbers, and he really couldn't understand what they were crazy about.

After boosting the morale of the foot, Matsuura Zhenxin looked bullish and led several samurai to swagger back to the main formation, and was beckoning people to serve sake, when he heard the little surname whispering a few words, his face changed greatly, and he cautiously asked Li Dan, who was sitting on the side, "Leader Li, why did the two generals Li bring troops on the ship?" ”

Li Dan originally wanted to tell Songpu Zhenxin and the plan, but at this time, seeing Zhenxin's anxious and bottomless appearance, he didn't want to say anything, so he chuckled and raised his two fingers to point at Imari City, and teased: "The cavalry is attacking the city, and the horses are running up?" That wooden city has to be climbed! ”

Li Dan took a closer look at Imari City with a telescope before the battle, and Liandou under the command of Long Junxiong went to battle with him this time, telling him that this form of city belongs to Pingcheng, as the name suggests, it is a flat city, although there is no danger of mountains, it covers a larger area, if it is not for this is a branch city in the form of a city, this city can be far more majestic.

Before Nobunaga built Azuchi Castle, many castles in Japan were mostly wooden and earthen castles, and stone castles were not common, and there were no tall castle towers.

There are no daimyo in the whole of Japan who sleep in the castle tower, everyone sleeps in the palace, and only in emergencies do they take refuge in the castle tower, only Oda Nobunaga sleeps in the castle tower and lives every day.

Although Imari Castle is not a heroic city, it is very solid in Li Dan's opinion, with wetlands on the periphery that divert water to irrigate mainly muddy ground, and two wooden walls on the third floor of the town outside Nimaru, which are enough to delay the speed of the attack and bring enough time to the defenders.

But the problem is that this city is close to the sea.

"The enemy army can see our own formation clearly in the city, and the deployment of the army will be known to the enemy, which will strengthen its determination to defend the city!"

This battle is a fateful battle for Matsuura Zhenxin, how many years they have never captured Imari City, this time with the help of a large army, Matsuura Zhenxin is bound to win, at this time the second general of the Li family withdrawing troops is tantamount to disturbing the morale of the army, he can endure without getting angry is already rare.

"I just heard that Your Excellency is going to besiege the city for a month, or is it a morale-boosting statement?" Li Dan pursed his lips, raised a finger, and said: "At this time, it's time to send a message, let the city guards go out of the city for half an hour to surrender, and in an hour, Your Excellency should be ready for the final attack." ”

"Assault?"

Li Dan's tactics are not contrary to Songpu Zhenxin, it is completely nonsense, even if they don't take human lives as their lives, their troops are not strong and can directly attack the fortified city of thousands of defenders.

At this moment, a rumbling sounded from the distant shore, and when it reached the main formation, the sound was not loud but it was shocking, and Matsuura Takanobu asked in surprise, "What is this?" ”

"General Chen's test shot, both General Li are ready to leave for the next city, Brother Zhenxin, it's really time to prepare for a general attack."

As soon as Li Dan's voice fell, the sound of cannon fire coming from the coast, like thunder, continued to be like thunder, and a large number of bombardments seemed to make the entire Imari City tremble.

Matsuura didn't answer, and looked to the north in a daze.

In the pupils, the Jiancheng was reflected falling apart.