The Ryukyus Shoning King attached great importance to Amami Goshima beyond Zhao Xingdou's imagination, and he even sent his 500 musket team, which he had finally organized and trained, to Amami Walled City, which was regarded as a great investment.

Previously, Shang Zhong, as a companion, had seen the powerful power of the musket in the hands of the Japanese and Hongtang warriors, and after he returned, he strongly recommended this sharp weapon to King Shangning.

In addition, as far as the firearms themselves are concerned, they happen to be the best solution for the urgent need to expand their strength and form an armed team with combat capabilities, so they quickly received the attention of King Shangning.

It's just a pity that the production of arquebuses in Eastern and Western countries is not large, and the arquebuses that were collected with great difficulty before were fished away by Hongtang, and in more than a year, King Shangning and they only collected 500 arquebuses again.

The biggest advantage of arquebuses is that they can quickly produce a batch of qualified long-range troops, and without being close, as long as the Ryukyu warriors equipped with these 500 arquebuses have a little training, they can form a team with combat effectiveness.

Wu Daofu's side has also become more and more cautious since Zhao Xingdou and them left, and after sending some soldiers to support Zhao Xingdou and them, Wu Daofu and their Western Biao City have a lot fewer available fighters, and if the pirates who appeared last time attack, they will also be difficult to parry.

Therefore, Wu Daofu and the others simply didn't even do the basic parade, and stayed in the walled city with the team members, so that others had no chance to take advantage of it.

After a real battle, although they were not satisfied with the actual combat strength of the sailors, after the tempering of a big battle, the soldiers below did not feel afraid because of the defeat as Wu Daofu did, but they had a little more blood and courage to dare to fight, and they were also very attentive to their weekday training.

The sea is very uncalm, and Wu Daofu is worried, after Zhao Xingdou and they left, there have been many sneaky haunts around Iriomote Island, and there is no good intention at first glance.

These abnormal situations made Wu Daofu and them very embarrassed, and at the same time, they were also very worried, Zhao Xingdou didn't know how the battle on their side was going, and they couldn't live in peace on Iriomote Island, why were all these problems together!

At the same time, in the vast Yellow Sea in the north, on an unknown island, a dock fort of large scale but simple system was built in a disorderly manner. On the sea beyond the dock fort, more than a dozen warships of all kinds were docked in a staggered manner in the harbor in front of the dock fort.

There are many people on the island, and the laughter and scolding of children and the elderly disappear one after another, which looks very lively.

However, the patches hung from the sails of the seagoing ships outside the harbor and the sailors up and down the seagoing ships, but any knowledgeable seafarer here may not be able to exclaim: Pirates!

It can be seen from the scale of the sea ships outside the port that the strength of this pirate cannot be underestimated, especially although these sea ships have different styles, but the hull is generally around 400 materials, and the muzzles of many cannons can be seen faintly, which is quite rare among pirates.

In the middle of the island dock fort, in an obviously spacious and bright earthen house, a familiar figure was in the middle of the house, and a large man sat in it, and a person in obvious Japanese costume and a middle-aged man in ordinary appearance stood below, and the three of them seemed to be discussing something.

The familiar figure's surname is Yuan Minglaoba, who was officially the strongest pirate in the South China Sea, and was later replaced by Hong Tang.

In the past few years, as he led his team north, gained a foothold among the Yellow Sea pirates, and was re-energized by Hong Tang, he became more and more powerful day by day.

Originally, the route around the Yellow Sea was also good, and there were many Ming maritime merchants who went to North Korea first and then went down to the East, so that the risk was smaller, and they could also turn over the two places, and the profits were also not small.

Therefore, there are actually not a few pirates in the Yellow Sea, but compared to the environment of many reefs and islands in the South China Sea, which is easy to build nests, there are not too many islands and reefs in the Yellow Sea, so it is still a little difficult for pirates to find a suitable nest.

"Boss Yuan, we have all been dealing with each other for so many years, you know what our brother is like, if it weren't for the great thing, we wouldn't have come to you!" The middle-aged man of the Ming Dynasty who opened his mouth at the next was also one of the not weak gangs among the Ryukyu pirates, surnamed Liu Tiehu, and had a lot of dealings with Yuan Laoba.

Yuan Laoba was silent, just quietly looking at the two visitors, he had already learned from Liu Tiehu's mouth about the purpose of their visit, but now that the development is in full swing, he really doesn't want to deal with these two people!

In fact, the purpose of these two guests is very simple, they are on behalf of the Japanese Satsuma lord Shimazu family has come to Zhao'an for a long time, since Hongtang relied on the powerful sea power to drive out the rich Ryukyu Kingdom, the Shimazu clan from top to bottom can think about re-attacking Amami Goshima. It's just a pity that they have abandoned the construction of warships at sea over the years, and the entire Wa country is seriously lacking in the market for warships, and for a while, their Shimazu family will not be able to conjure up a large group of warships.

Eventually, they turned their minds to the ready-made pirate gang.

I can think of the Zhao'an soldiers from the pirate gang and take the ships that can be used immediately in their hands, thanks to the advice of the old general Hisataka, who was defeated and returned to Satsuma. At the beginning, Kayama Hisataka relied on the Zhaoan pirates to make outstanding contributions to the defense of Amami Goshima in the Second Naval War.

Later, although the Japanese were finally defeated, but the many pirate gangs that actually offended Hongtang did not go down in the Ryukyu Sea in stages, and some naturally went north to the Yellow Sea to find a new foothold, and some simply took refuge in Satsuma with their ships and became traitors in the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, when Birch Mountain Hisaka gathered this group of pirates, he made a lot of promises, and there was no shortage of the placement of these pirates. Although Kayama Hisataka is now defeated in the war, and his cronies were destroyed in the Battle of Amami, his position in Satsuma is naturally not as tough as before.

But who made the Shimazu clan of Satsuma at this time just want to organize a fleet that can compete with Hongtang in the South China Sea as soon as possible, so under the reminder of the old general Hisataka, who was eager to re-atone for his sins after losing power, the Shimazu family took advantage of the situation to take over the pirates who came to join their family.

(End of chapter)