A day passed, and Zhao Xingdou and the others did not wait for the supply ship that they had promised, but waited for a shocking bad news.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese people repaired the plank road and secretly Chen Cang, but in the end, they suddenly sent an elite army to the capital of Shuri of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and suddenly killed Shuri Castle, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, yesterday afternoon, and caught the Ryukyu Kingdom off guard.

Even when the Japanese samurai swarmed down from a merchant cargo ship that had a close relationship with the Ryukyu royal family, and rushed towards the north gate of the capital Shuri, the Ryukyu soldiers on duty at the north gate were stunned and did not react.

When the Ryukyu soldiers finally reacted, they rushed away a large number of people who also found something strange at the city gate, and wanted to close the city gate.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and the Japanese warriors wielded their swords, cutting down all the ordinary people who dared to stand in the way in front of them to the ground, and when they came to the north city gate, it was only a short stick of incense.

At this time, the Ryukyu soldiers at the northern gate of the castle had not even been able to drive away the people who were surging inside, let alone close the castle gate.

The next thing, needless to say, on the one hand, there are prepared Japanese warriors, known as the name of martial bravery, and on the other hand, the Ryukyu soldiers who have been in disuse for a long time and have no psychological preparation at all, with swords in their hands, only a few breaths longer than the delay on the road, and the more than ten Ryukyu soldiers guarding the city gate are covered in blood and lie on the ground convulsions, not knowing whether they are alive or dead.

After occupying the north gate, a group of samurai separated from each other, drove and chased the people who dared to approach the city gate, maintained the emptiness of the city gate, and guarded the important place for the Japanese samurai who dared to come later.

The vanguard of Japanese warriors made their way down the streets to the heart of Shuri Castle, where there was an ultimate goal for them to conquer.

This time, the Japanese warriors sent were all the elite of Satsuma, with only more than 500 people, so they knew very well that it was a fantasy to control the capital of a kingdom with a population of more than 10,000 people with this manpower, so they needed to lead the team to the Shuri royal castle with lightning speed, and capture and capture the Ryukyu king King Sanning, so that they could have the capital to confront the entire Ryukyu Kingdom.

However, the reaction of the Ryukyuan people in the early stage can indeed be said to be extremely poor, but the reaction in the Shuri royal castle was much faster than the Japanese samurai imagined, at least before they arrived at the gate of the Shuri royal castle, the gate of the royal castle had been closed, and at the same time, the walls of the royal castle were already full of figures running in a panic.

"Give you half an hour to get time, tear down the house and build a long ladder, and start the siege in half an hour!" A middle-aged man who obviously looked like a samurai saw a small mistake in the battle situation, and he didn't panic, but just calmly ordered to go down.

"Hey!"

Groups of Japanese warriors were ordered to go down and orderly dismantle the residential areas outside the city, looking for all kinds of useful materials.

This time, because it was a lightning battle, the lone army went deep, and the Japanese warriors did not carry those bulky siege equipment, so they naturally needed to use local materials and build the equipment needed for local construction.

Therefore, this time, the team of the Japanese people, with a team of craftsmen and masters who were skilled in making simple siege equipment, used the stairs and other things collected from the people's homes in just half an hour, and finally quickly made several long ladders that could be used.

There was no preparation for the temptation, and in the past half an hour, the chief warrior of the Japanese people has been worried that the people in this Shouli city will react, and if they are surrounded and killed, although they are brave, it is impossible for them to be hostile to the people of the whole city!

However, he underestimated the selfishness of people, and although they were few in number, ordinary Ryukyu people did not dare to joke with their lives, and there were not even Ryukyuan people who dared to appear in the range around them. If you look down from the top of the entire royal city, you can see a large number of people, frantically rushing out from the four gates of the capital.

During the siege, the Imperial Forest Army guarding the royal castle came to the north gate of the royal castle, and when the Japanese people climbed up with their swords in their mouths like agile apes, the Ryukyu Imperial Foresters also reacted at the same time, holding spears in their hands and stabbing the Japanese people who climbed up.

In comparison, the combat effectiveness of this group of Ryukyu Imperial Forest Army is not bad, at least they will not dare to fight because they are afraid of death, even if there are still Japanese people shooting at them with arquebuses at this time, and from time to time their colleagues fall, they are still trembling hands and feet, and they are still standing at their posts.

This is a weapon that the Ryukyu Shoning King has spent a lot of money to build over the years to guard his dormitory, and the armor worn by each soldier in this army alone costs nearly a hundred taels of silver per pair. And the Ryukyu warriors who are wrapped in steel armor almost from top to bottom, everyone has seen blood on their hands, and some of them are the elites recruited by King Shangning from the pirates, and they are bought with real money, which is naturally not comparable to those ordinary warriors.

The first wave of the Japanese offensive was quickly defeated, but the losses were really not much, only dozens of Japanese warriors, most of whom were only injured after falling from a height, and only a dozen people were actually killed in the battle.

Seeing the setback of the offset, the Japanese samurai chief was not very worried, and from this frustrated offensive, the veteran Japanese samurai still noticed that the strength of this enemy was not strong.

And importantly, because of the support for the offensive and defensive battles of Amami Walled City, there were not many soldiers in Shuri Castle in the Ryukyus at this time, and in this Imperial Forest Army defending the royal capital, it seemed that it was at most similar to their Japanese army.

After all, it is a royal city, and it is impossible for ordinary people who don't know the details to be recruited with confidence, and the weapons and equipment of this army are so sophisticated, even if King Shangning and them are not short of gold and silver, it is not so easy to purchase this kind of equipment.

"Attack again!"

The last siege was only half a stick of incense, and the Japanese samurai chief once again issued an order for the construction of the castle, and at the same time, the siege ladder also increased several times over time, which put more pressure on the Ryukyu Imperial Forest Army guarding the castle.

In the end, the Ryukyu Imperial Forest Army could not resist the attack that the Japanese samurai were determined to achieve, and only held four waves of siege operations before the Japanese gained a foothold in the royal castle and were gradually driven down.

(End of chapter)