When the Japanese people gained a foothold on the royal wall, it meant that the siege was about to come to an end.

The performance of the Ryukyu Imperial Forest Army was good compared to their colleagues, but in front of these elite Japanese samurai, they were still just a group of militiamen who could only wield swords indiscriminately.

Even those pirates who had experienced a hundred battles before they were recruited were no match for the Japanese samurai, and they were picked up on the ground by others after three or five moves.

While fighting and retreating, someone behind him had already gone to report to King Shangning in the palace, and the sacrifice and resistance of the Imperial Forest Army were not without gains, at least they bought a lot of time for King Shangning's escape.

After being taken captive by Satsuma and sent to Kagoshima for three years, and after being insulted for three years, the first thing King Shanning did after returning to China was to dig out a secret passage leading directly to the outside of the city in the royal capital, that is, to beware of one day when someone would enter the palace of the royal city, and their royal children would become fish and meat under the knife of others like him, and let others slaughter them.

King Shangning himself did not expect that he would really use the opportunity of this secret passage in his lifetime, when he learned that the Imperial Forest Army, which he regarded as a heavy weapon, was still vulnerable in front of the Japanese people, and was finally beaten into the palace by the Japanese people, King Shangning was ready to flee.

In addition to his five highly regarded sons, as well as the queen and a few favored concubines, King Shangning did not even have time to inform the other princes, princesses, and concubines to flee together.

In the end, in a sad gaze, King Shang Ning, who had entered old age and walked tremblingly, waved his finger at the dark hole in front of him: "Let's go!" ”

In order to conceal himself, King Shangning's escape trip was not very large, except for a dozen of his own wives and children, there were only more than thirty of his most trusted attendants and soldiers.

When the Japanese completely defeated the Ryukyu Imperial Forest Army and plundered the Ryukyu royal palace, the Ryukyu Shoning King and his men had already passed through the Shuri royal castle without realizing it, came to the outside of the castle, and soon arrived at a hidden pier, where a speedboat was already waiting.

The Japanese searched through the entire Shuri Palace, but still did not find any trace of King Shangning, and even several of King Shangning's highly respected princes and spoiled concubines were not found.

It was only at this time that the face of the Japanese samurai chief, who was the commander of this battle, finally began to change, and the longer the search took place, the more ugly the face of the Japanese samurai chief became.

If they can't find any trace of King Shangning, then this time their Satsuma Warrior's surprise attack on Shuri Castle will be at least half of the significance.

According to Shimazu Hisao's plan, if they could capture King Shangning and let him control it for themselves, then they could hold the king hostage and make him give various orders, such as making the Ryukyu army in Amami Walled City surrender, or even causing the Ryukyu army to immediately turn against them and attack the Hongtang team that had originally cooperated with them. In this way, they will have to face far fewer opponents.

This is not an impossible thing, as a country connected to China, under the influence of the Confucian culture of the Ming Dynasty, the people of Ryukyu have long been instilled with the idea that the whole world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's minister.

Therefore, the will of the king of the Ryukyus, in the eyes of the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom, was the supreme authority, and they would never have rebelled against the will of the king of a country when there was no situation in which the people were in dire straits.

Moreover, after all, this King Shangning has been controlled and monitored by them Samoto for so many years, and he still knows something about his temperament, so Samoa believes that this King Shangning may be manipulated by them and become their puppet.

But this time King Shangning suddenly disappeared, then it means that their greatest wishful thinking has failed, even if at this time, the chief warrior of the Japanese people has taken the capital of a country with a lone army, I am afraid that it will still make up for his major mistake of losing King Shangning.

"Check every corner for me, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find the trace of Shang Ning, the dog king." The cold aura emanated from the samurai chief's body, making the Japanese warriors shudder.

"Hey!"

However, when they were digging three feet into the ground in the Shuri Palace, a sea ship quietly sailed out of a harbor and headed north.

The reason why King Shōnin did not go south and take refuge in other cities of the kingdom was because he knew that the territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom was not huge in the first place, and although there were other castles, these castles were actually dilapidated compared to the fortifications of the king's capital Shuri.

In the past two years, although King Shangning has intensified the construction of the national defense army, it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, there are not enough soldiers and suitable instructors, and they are equipped with weapons in batches, how can they immediately conjure up an army.

Most of the troops that have been cultivated over the past year have long been sent to Amami Castle by King Shangning, and only a few remain on the main island of Ryukyu and are stationed in various castles, and the overall size is only a few points more than that of his Shuri Wangcheng, but under the dispersion, it is not as much as Shuri Wangcheng.

And westward in the direction of Dayuan Island, seeking the help of the Ming Dynasty or Hongtang, for the king of Shangning, this risk is too great, the Japanese can think of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, then there is no reason why the head of Hongtang can't think of such a beautiful thing. Although the Ming Dynasty is a ceremonial state, there will definitely be no such dirty thoughts, but they are now eroded, when the Satsuma Bo first invaded Shuri, their Ryukyu Kingdom sent people to ask for help, and the final help was only a piece of national letter, and the content of the book on it was only to condemn and threaten the Japanese Satsuma, and there was no actual action.

However, it was a good choice to go north to Amami Goshima, because there was still the last formed army in their kingdom, and Zhao Xingdou, the commander of the Hongtang Whale Division, could not have the courage to detain him, the king of a country, and make any bad moves.

Therefore, after various considerations, King Shang Ning decided to go north to join up with Zhao Xingdou of Hongtang, who was at war, and then announce his existence to the outside world.

The purpose of the sudden attack on Shuri Castle by the Japanese people this time, King Shōnin did not sleep stupidly, and there were people around him who gave advice, so he naturally knew the intention, so after he successfully escaped and was truly safe, he would tell the world that the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom were still alive, and he would mobilize the whole country to officially declare war on this group of Japanese people who were too deceitful.

(End of chapter)