The hardships of a day are not something that outsiders can know.

Shimazu Hisao thinks that his strategy is correct, the Ryukyu warriors in the Amami Walled City are already trapped beasts, and for the Japanese samurai, if it weren't for the Hongtang team outside to contain their manpower, it would be impossible to say that the Amami Walled City could be included in their hands yesterday.

And if Hongtang doesn't clean up, the Japanese people can't concentrate on dealing with the Ryukyu warriors, because it is a trapped beast, so the toughness of the Ryukyuan people is very strong, but their counterattack is really not enough, otherwise they attacked the Hongtang team outside the city for so long today, and they didn't see the Ryukyuan people in the city organize manpower to help, and only a few people made a trivial counterattack.

However, Shimazu Hisao underestimated the resilience of the Hongtang people, more than doubling the number of the opposing party, and the Japanese could not force the Hongtang team to take a step back after a day of fighting, which was a very incredible thing in the eyes of the Satsuma Japanese samurai.

According to the city guard, there may be such a record, but the simple fortifications of the Hongtang team members are not much different from the vigorous movements of the Japanese warriors, not to mention that the number of Japanese warriors is twice as large as the Hongtang team!

Since this battle, Shimazu Hisao has completely recognized the strength of Hongtang's team, and he has eaten so much in Hongtang's hands before, and it is more above the sea, so for Shimazu Hisao, who has not seen Hongtang's land combat strength, of course, he is not convinced by Hongtang's strength in his heart!

It's just that in the battle that came down on this day, the Japanese warriors could not be said to have fought hard, brave and strong, but under the mountain-like defensive measures of Hongtang, they were stunned and could not move forward.

In particular, Hong Tang held a small and exquisite, but powerful grenade, although Shimazu Hisao did not know its name, but on this day, there were no less than hundreds of Japanese people injured under it, and the wounds on each injured Japanese samurai were torn apart in a large piece, and some even had foreign objects such as iron nails and iron sheets, and a little carelessness would bring secondary damage to the wounds of the samurai under him!

Of course, Hongtang's side was not without losses, after all, the opponent was a Japanese samurai, and the number was twice as large as theirs, even if there were hot weapons such as grenades, but the iron cannons of the Japanese were not vegetarians.

After a big battle, in addition to the more than 100 Hongtang soldiers who lost in the fierce battle yesterday, Hongtang lost nearly 300 people today, and in the end, there were less than 600 Hongtang soldiers who could still fight at night, and there were not a few of them who could not get out of the line of fire with minor injuries.

Fortunately, among the Japanese people, there are no longer a few people with night blindness, and the fierce battle during the day is too fierce, and their losses are not small.

At this time, in the Japanese camp, a figure appeared in Shimazu Hisao's camp, attached to Shimazu Hisao's ear whispered a few words, Shimazu Hisao's originally relaxed face suddenly attached a layer of ice: "Baga, why did their reinforcements come so quickly?" ”

It turned out that although the Japanese people put their main force in the offensive and defensive battles of Amami Island, Shimazu Hisao, who had suffered a lot of losses from Hongtang, was still very careful to distribute a lot of sentinels in the open sea, firstly, to facilitate the monitoring of the movements of the Ryukyuan people on the main island of Ryukyu, and secondly, to worry about Hongtang's reinforcements.

Although he felt that the possibility of Hongtang's team being able to catch up was very small, Shimazu Hisao still underestimated the importance that the Bengang team attached to intelligence. Even if there is a distance of more than ten days between Dayuan Island and the Ryukyus, but with the support of prophetic intelligence, the speed of the Bengang headquarters dispatching a large army is actually not much slower than the speed of the Japanese coalition army going south!

Fortunately, the navy has always been a mobile force, and the battle in Hongtang has not stopped over the years, and as soon as the order of Chen Yumo and the others arrived, Wu Juren and Wu Shu and their teams were quickly assembled.

This is also unintentionally inserted willows, originally more used to monitor the Ryukyuan people who had a flash marriage on the main island of the Ryukyus, which Cheng wanted to come from Wu Shu this time, because there was some time at sea drifting, in order to be cautious, he wanted to spend two hours in Shuri Capital City to replenish it and go north immediately, but Wu Shu They did not expect that Shuri Castle had fallen into the hands of the Japanese people at this time.

Without much effort, Wu Shu and his team recaptured Shuri Castle from the hands of more than a hundred Japanese samurai in the city, but their whereabouts were also exposed, fell into the eyes of the Japanese people, and quickly returned to Shimazu Hisao on Amami Island.

"Retreat! Right now! "Shimazu is ambitious, but he is also very sensible, they can't deal with the Hongtang team of 1,000 people is so troublesome, and when the Hongtang increase arrives, I'm afraid they won't be able to leave even if they want to.

"This, this is going to take down Amami Castle, otherwise we simply ignore the Hongtang people outside the city and concentrate on dealing with the Ryukyuan people in the city. At that time, even if Hongtang's increase in troops arrives, and we have a geographical advantage to defend it, can they really take Amami City from us again? "The chief of the Japanese samurai below is unwilling, and the elite samurai under his command are either lost in the siege battle, or they have sacrificed a lot in today's battle with Hongtang, and so far they have not sacrificed many men in Shuri Castle, but they have lost all of them on this Amami Island.

"Hmph, what if we capture Amami Castle, Hongtang's most powerful force is at sea, and this time they have twenty more warships, plus more than twenty ships that were already stationed on Amami Island, this force, how do you let us break through their defense network and obtain material resources from the headquarters?" Shimazu Hisao is not reconciled, but he knows very well that even if Amami Castle is defeated and this new Hongtang army arrives, they will only sit in the lonely city: "What's more, what has Amami Castle become now that we have destroyed, how can you guarantee that it will be impossible for them Hongtang people to retake the city from us?" You have also seen in today's daytime battle, the strength of their Hongtang warriors is not weaker than our Satsuma boys, plus the infinitely powerful firearms in their hands, what do we use to fight them? Take the body of our Samoa boys? ”

If there were no reinforcements from Hongtang's new army, or if it was a little later, let the Japanese renovate the Amami Walled City, or if Hongtang's land combat strength was not so strong, Shimazu Hisao would not have given the order to retreat, but because there were so many unfavorable factors, at the last moment, Shimazu Hisao had to give up the fat that was about to arrive again and turn away.

And Shimazu Hisao knows very well that after this departure, their Satsuma headquarters will no longer have the ability to organize such a team to go west for a short time, which means that the Ryukyuan people are temporarily out of the danger of destroying the country!

(End of chapter)