Ryuzoji Temple was actually quite wronged, the Spaniards landed from the port of Saga, unloaded a few whirling cannons from the ship and sold them to Takanshin, bewitching him to imprison the Ming merchants, at that time in fact, no one on either side thought what the consequences would be.

In Ryuzoji Takanobu's opinion, Xiyi is obviously easier to deal with than Portuguese, at least they only need spices and not souls.

As a result, as soon as he heard that the army had landed on the island, he swept all the way from Matsuura-gun, and the western ship that had been circumnavigating Japan from Guam as a sentinel earlier rushed to Imari Castle before Chen Bazhi attacked Imari Castle, and without hesitation, he took anchor and ran eastward, leaving Ryuzoji Temple to clean up this mess.

This is not just a mess, it is a catastrophe.

The 1,200 defenders of Imari City suffered few casualties after Chen Bazhi's fleet bombarded the city in the bay, but the morale of the army was completely lost, because the triple oars at the highest point of the city collapsed.

At that time, the general who remained in the fortress was overlooking the enemy's formation from the triple oar, and he was glad that the two infantry cavalry had retreated and boarded the ship—he could not have imagined that the fleet in the bay had artillery, let alone such a method of warfare.

It's not anyone's fault, in his cognition, as a swing cannon on a galleon, the Franc machine is already a Nanban big barrel, and it is also the kind of Franc machine that the Spanish blacksmith knocked out with a hammer.

The shell is less than two pounds, and it is already a heavy artillery.

It's not that Bai Wu Xiankan hasn't paid attention to the ships on the sea, at an interval of three or four miles, not to mention those Dafu ships that transport more food and troops, he can see the barrels loaded on the shark ship, and he only thinks that it is a ship, and he doesn't think about the artillery at all.

Who can have so many cannons? There weren't that many of the Southern Barbarians on board.

What's on board Chen Bazhi?

Two-catty cannons, Laozi cannons, and even heavier ten-catty and eighteen-catty cannons, and a fleet of 144 single-string guns, bombarded the city with nearly 300 shells in a circle of battle columns, and the two layers above the wooden ramparts collapsed directly.

What to take?

Less than ten people died in the two salvo bombardments, and they were all unlucky ghosts who ran errands on the triple turret as the command room, and many more people were crushed and injured by wooden thorns and clods, but there were many casualties among the middle and lower-level samurai who gathered in the triple turret to plan the art of war with the hundred martial sages.

A large number of ashigaru were left uncommanded, and the Japanese and Matsuura clans outside the castle took the opportunity to pour into the castle and took the castle with only a small amount of resistance.

Three or four hundred defeated troops fled all the way towards Lion City, and Matsuura Takanobu was more decisive after collecting and surrendering his troops, regardless of Imari City directly chasing the routed army to Lion City, and then recaptured Lion City twenty miles away that night.

The wars in Japan were so frequent that Li Dan's scalp was numb, and he was really physically and mentally exhausted not to mention the results of the war.

He heard his adoptive father say that in his early years, he was recruited by Wu Guifang with his father-in-law to go from Qingyuan to Li Yayuan, the source of the Wengyuan River, and the round-trip journey was more than 500 miles, and during the war, he traveled 300 miles to various places, and less than 900 miles away, and he fought a few battles around Xinjiang Town.

What about here?

From the landing of Hirado in Matsuurazu, the march was less than 100 miles, to the attack on Imari Castle, there were 23 battles, and from Imari Castle to Lion Castle was even more powerful, along the way was the territory of Ryuzoji Temple, and you had to fight or really see the army before you either fled or surrendered.

As soon as he heard that there was an enemy army entering the country, he called for a bamboo gun to dry clothes at home and ran up the mountain road, and when he arrived at the mountain road, he found that the enemy army was also discovered by the enemy, and when he saw the situation, he shouted and ran around, and fled in the mountains without a trace.

In the battle report written by Li Dan to Chen Mu, such a sentence can very well reflect his mood about this: 'In Daming, they are not as active as they are in catching thieves. ’

There is no way, it's not that the farmers want to be active, it's really a samurai group, especially the daimyo like Matsuura Forty-eight, who are born of Japanese invaders, and the discipline of the soldiers under their command is too poor, and they often can't defeat Ryuzoji, and whenever they attack, they often don't want to occupy, but to rob.

If it is robbery, it is normal to burn villages, rob money, and kidnap women.

Not to mention that they are poor and insignificant, even those rich and well-dressed people in the land will not be able to run away when the war comes.

It is a pity that this enthusiasm cannot bring the slightest waver to the direction of the war.

Ten days after sending troops, Chen Bazhi led the fleet to destroy all the cities that could be seen along the coast of Feiqian Country, of course, Chen Bazhi recorded in the war report that he was 'pulling out four villages', and he really didn't want to call this a city.

The city and town are separated here, and a mountain city looks at the large compound of wealthy merchants who went to Xuanda to visit his adoptive father when he was under the command of Qi Jiguang a few years ago, and if you want to say the city, the Guanghai Acropolis that was overturned by his father's coffin is similar to this.

Chen Bazhi pursued the Xiyi ships all the way to the northern waters of Dayou, but after all, he failed to catch up, and he was worried that he would erect a new enemy to expand the war, so he was unwilling to retreat - he did not retreat, and sent a letter to the lord of the country to explain the way, and directly put down the two thousand households of Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei from the country of Zhuqian, and then retreated by land and water, and separated at the fork in the road when Li Rumei was about to withdraw from the country of Zhuqian.

He didn't mean anything else, the two thousand households under his command seemed to be the most ferocious, and he wanted to knock the mountain and shock the tiger against the Otomo clan to stabilize the situation in the east.

Obviously, Chen Bazhi reached his idea, whether it was the general of the Otomo family in Tachibana Mountain Castle, Toji Michiyuki, or the young city governor of Iwaya Castle, Takahashi Town, they were extremely cautious about borrowing this way.

If it weren't for the constant rebellion of Chikuzen Province at this time, which overwhelmed the two townsmen, they would probably have killed and intercepted Li Rusong and Li Rumei when they led their troops through Tachibanaya Castle without Iwaya Castle - the tall horses, bright iron armor, and strong bows from the northern Ming Empire were all coveted.

But there is no way, the Otomo family has shed too much blood to recapture Chikuzen Province, not to mention a fleet of dozens of huge warships on the sea, so that the veteran Toji Michiyuki not only does not dare to move, but also makes a gesture of good hospitality.

In fact, what is even more eye-catching is the warships at sea and the grain and grass transported, all of which were hard currency in the Warring States period.

Once it is at odds with this rude army, it is very likely that the combined attack of land and sea will cause the wealthy clans of Chikuzen Province to rebel again, and it will not be a little iron armor and a few hundred war horses to make up for the losses at that time.

When Chen Bazhi's fleet docked at Songpujin again, 2,000 troops stayed behind to guard the ships, and personally led 3,000 elite flag troops to the east.

During the time when he was leading his army, Matsuura Takanobu had already repelled the fierce general Narimatsu Nobukatsu of Ryuzoji Temple, who had killed Otomo in the Battle of Imagawa, and the horse team of Li Ruzhang and Li Rumei also swept away the troops that had just gathered on the way back from Hizen and joined the siege from the east.

All the soldiers and horses gathered at the last Saga Castle of Ryuzoji Temple, and the sailors of Ryuzoji Temple docked in the Ariake Sea still wanted to dock to help in the battle, but before they landed the largest Ataku ship and two Seki ships, they were sunk by the two-pound artillery arranged on the shore, and only a few small early boats broke through the artillery fire and were expected to land on land.

It's just hopeful, the seventy or eighty Ataku ships with a crew have sunk, and the little morning boat has long been scared away.

Chen Bazhi shouted an order, and thirty artillery pieces spewed out cannon fire in turn, and in the smoke of gunpowder in the sky, a general attack was launched on Zuojia City!