When Zhao Xingdou and Wu Daofu were still in a hurry to prepare for the battle, the Japanese Samoto team was already heading towards the Amami Islands.

Fortunately, King Shangning's side was well prepared, and before the Japanese fleet invaded the Amami Sea, a large number of supplies and grain were transported to the Amami Walled City, which saved Zhao Xingdou and their worries.

These recruits of the Ryukyu Kingdom can only stay in the Amami Walled City, and if they can still exert a little strength, and if they are put in the field and at sea to fight the Japanese people, Zhao Xingdou and they should be ready to pack their bags and go home.

However, the speed at which the Japanese killed them was also very fast, and the reinforcement of many of the fortifications in Amami Castle had not yet been completed, and many of the repaired walls that had been damaged after the siege last time were not yet solid.

Zhao Xingdou and his twenty-three warships poured out of the nest and began to harass the Japanese fleet halfway through, taking advantage of their own artillery fire and the flexibility of their warships to harass and bomb the Japanese fleet left and right, inflicting a lot of damage on the Japanese people.

However, with the addition of pirate warships such as Yuan Laoba, although in terms of artillery superiority, the Japanese coalition forces could not fight against the Hongtang fleet, but Hongtang did not dare to get too close to the opponent's fleet and be entangled by the opponent's warships, otherwise more than 60 warships of the Japanese coalition army would rush up, and Zhao Xingdou would not be able to bear it!

In this way, under the harassment of the Hongtang fleet, the fleet of the Japanese people was entangled by the Hongtang people and it was almost half a day late to see the walls of the Amami Walled City, and they paid a lot of price for this: although Zhao Xingdou and they could not know the specific number, but according to the estimate, at least about 300 Japanese warriors fell on the way they came.

However, Zhao Xingdou and they also consumed all the ammunition and materials carried with the ship, and when they saw that the Amami Walled City was in front of them, Zhao Xingdou and they could only take the opportunity to retreat and go back to replenish a batch of ammunition before the Japanese people surrounded the Amami Walled City.

Zhao Xingdou and Wu Daofu have already discussed, Wu Daofu will lead 5,000 Ryukyu soldiers to stay in the Amami Walled City, while Zhao Xingdou and their Hongtang but three warships will fight guerrillas at sea, so that they can give full play to the maximum strength of the Hongtang Warship, and can also make the Japanese fleet throw a mouse, and dare not put all their armed forces into attacking the Amami Walled City.

Pinching the time, when the Japanese fleet sailed to the sea area of Amami Walled City, Zhao Xingdou and the others once again replenished their ammunition and materials and sailed out of Amami Walled City.

The Japanese people were not polite to Zhao Xingdou and Wu Daofu, taking advantage of the fact that Zhao Xingdou and they had just finished replenishing ammunition and supplies, and almost all the soldiers in the Amami Walled City were new recruits, and they were a little flustered, so they launched a beach-grabbing landing operation without stopping.

On their side, Zhao Xingdou, who had finished replenishing ammunition, wanted to harass them, but more than 30 warships led by Yuan Laoba's pirate gang soon appeared in front of them, isolating them from the coastline of Amami Walled City, and providing Zhao Xingdou with a chance to exert their artillery power.

Of course, there are also more than 20 artillery pieces in the Amami Walled City, most of which were purchased by the Ryukyu Kingdom from Li Tianyang and them, and the remaining half were quietly collected by King Shangning over the years.

Although they were friendly with the Dutch, Li Tianyang did not neglect the relationship with the Portuguese in Macau.

The Dutch promised to provide Li Tianyang with their advanced artillery and guns from the West, but the closest to the Ming Dynasty was in the Javanese colony thousands of miles away, so they could always find a reason to shirk the deal they agreed to Li Tianyang.

Until now, Li Tianyang and the others had only purchased four 36-pounder cannons, four 24-pounder cannons, and two 16-pounder cannons from the Dutch, adding up to only ten cannons, which was far from enough to meet Hong Tang's needs.

Therefore, Li Tianyang and they need to befriend the Portuguese in Macao, because they can also provide a lot of large-caliber artillery to Hong Tang, but the standard and power of these cannons are not as powerful as the artillery in the hands of the Dutch, but who let the family have a cannon factory in Macao!

And in order to prevent Hong Tang, the veritable overlord of the South China Sea, from getting too close to the Dutch, they naturally can't offend Li Tianyang them, and even now the "Yang Fan" warship is gradually exposed, and there are too many similarities in principle and shape with their Portuguese Clarke-style sea boats, which makes the Portuguese somewhat suspicious of the roof injustice in previous years, but they don't really dare to investigate this issue, but they pretend to be confused and have a good relationship with the Bengang team to maintain good cooperation.

The Portuguese now sell cast iron cannons and copper cannons under sixteen pounds to Hongtang without restrictions, but due to the production scale of their cannon foundry, they can actually only cast one or twenty qualified cannons a year, and many of them are as powerful as the thousand-pound Franc machine cannons, which are no longer in the eyes of the Bengang team, whose vision is gradually rising.

However, this did not prevent the Bengang team from being a second-class dealer, buying these cast iron cannons and copper cannons that did not improve Hongtang's strength and trading them with the king of Shangning in the Ryukyus, in exchange for the sulfur, pig iron and other materials needed by Bengang.

Of course, as mentioned above, this kind of business of the two dealers is really a unique business, and the profits are really huge, and the object of Li Tianyang's transaction is the rich royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom, so you can imagine how big the profit should be.

Anyway, since becoming this second-tier dealer, Li Tianyang and others have never felt a shortage of pig iron materials in Hong Kong, Jilong Port and other places, and even the amount of iron tools traded with the natives has doubled compared to previous years.

Thanks to Li Tianyang, they did not hide their secrets from the Ryukyu people, and in this battle, more than 20 more artillery pieces were placed in the Amami Walled City, and the Ryukyu soldiers stationed in the Walled City also had the means to kill and injure the enemies outside the city.

Ten of these 20 artillery pieces were specially transferred from the capital of Shuri in the Ryukyus after King Shōnin received the news that the Japanese Satsuma were preparing their troops. Otherwise, with the temper and character of King Shangning, and the person in charge of Amami Walled City was Zhao Xingdou Hongtang, who was still a guest army, he was really a little worried that Hongtang would take this opportunity to do something and swallow this batch of artillery fire.

Although the artillery was sold to King Shang Ning by the local team, in the eyes of King Shang Ning, who had no way to buy artillery, there would be no too many such high-power weapons of destruction, and as long as there was an opportunity, the people of Bengang would not let go of the plan to take these guns into their own hands again.

(End of chapter)