The real test of 811 is coming

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But all the people of the Shimazu family, as well as the families of the retainers and generals of the Shimazu family, were all purged by the White Dragon Army, leaving only the female dependents, all the men were executed, and all the family property was taken away.

This is also an order given by Li Zixiao personally, and the order to 'carnival' for three hours after breaking the city has also not changed.

Li Zixiao wanted to use such a ruthless method to tell all the other Wa vassal families that whoever resisted him in the future would be the disaster of extermination.

At the same time, other wealthy merchants in Kagoshima Castle were also looted.

It's just that the white dragon soldiers only need gold, silver and jewelry, and they don't hurt people's lives, but if they encounter resistance, they will kill them the same.

As for the ordinary people in the city, the White Dragon Army didn't plunder.

It's really that after these battles, the White Dragon Army has won consecutive victories and looted many big cities, and they can't look down on the little silver in the hands of those ordinary people at all.

At this time, the people of the Japanese Kingdom were similar to the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't have much oil and water at all, and they might as well go and loot those big households if they had time to delay on these people.

After dawn, the chaos in the city was basically over.

In this night, the people of the Shimazu family who were killed by the White Dragon Army, as well as the retainers under the command of the Shimazu family, were countless, and even many of them were killed by mistake.

In this regard, Li Zixiao didn't care, he could kill him by mistake, and he wouldn't let it go.

After daybreak, the White Dragon Sergeant drove some of the Japanese people to carry the corpses and clear the streets.

A group of Japanese generals under the command of Shuichiro Yoshino brought by Li Zixiao were responsible for recruiting new soldiers in the city and managing the people of the Japanese Kingdom in the city.

There is no way, the white dragon soldiers can't speak the Japanese language, it's okay to let them maintain law and order by force, but if they are responsible for managing the people in the city, it won't work.

Li Zixiao is also thinking of a way to this, he knows that in the future, he really wants to take Kyushu Island as his own, and it is not enough to conquer it by force.

Fortunately, at this time, Li Zixiao was still in the stage of conquest, and how to govern the people of the Japanese Kingdom on Kyushu Island had to wait for him to cross the shogunate army and completely occupy Kyushu.

"After defeating the shogunate army, the Marquis will have to think about it, and transfer a group of officials from the country to manage these Japanese people.

At the same time, we have to bring in some more corrupt Confucians, so that they can educate these Japanese people.

Anyway, those corrupt Confucians in the Ming Dynasty don't do anything serious except criticize Benhou's policies all day long and shout benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long.

It is better to let them come and educate these Japanese people, and let them instill those ideas of benevolence, righteousness and morality into these Japanese people.

In this way, Ben Hou can be regarded as making the best use of it, and it can also make Ben Hou out of sight and out of mind, which is good. ”

At this time, Li Zixiao also had a preliminary idea in his heart.

"Zilong, you immediately lead 20,000 horses to the north, join forces with Luo Chao, and eat the 10,000 Shimazu horses in the Xiongshui Pass in the north."

Li Zixiao immediately gave an order to Zhao Zilong.

"Yes, Master Hou, my subordinates will lead the army forward."

After Zhao Zilong left, Li Zixiao also found Hong Sheng.

"Hong Sheng, you immediately lead the fleet back to Haizhou Port and bring our third batch of reinforcements.

You should have returned a long time ago, but this time you have been delayed by using you to participate in this battle, so go and return quickly. ”

"Yes, Master Hou, my subordinates will return to Jiangbei."

After Hong Sheng received Li Zixiao's order, he led the fleet to leave Kagoshima Bay and return to Haizhou, Jiangbei, on the same day.

At this time, in the port of Haizhou, Jiangbei, the 10,000 White Dragon Army and 30,000 city defense troops brought by Wei Hong were already waiting here, and this was also the third batch of men and horses that Li Zixiao was preparing to transfer to Kyushu Island in the Wa Kingdom.

In addition, of these 40,000 horses, Li Zixiao was divided into three batches, and a total of 80,000 troops were transferred to Kyushu Island in the Japanese Kingdom.

This third batch of 40,000 horses to be transferred to the island of Kyushu in the Japanese country is also the confidence that Li Zixiao used to fight against the upcoming Tokugawa shogunate army.

Otherwise, with only Li Zixiao's men and horses on Kyushu Island at this time, if he waited for the 100,000 troops of the Tokugawa shogunate to land in Kyushu, he might not be an opponent.

At this time, Li Zixiao's territory in the Ming Dynasty, the total number of troops in Henan and Jiangbei was less than 60,000.

Fortunately, at this time, Li Zixiao's territory is large and the population is large, as long as Wei Hong is given time, he can quickly recruit more recruits.

Moreover, the musketeers of the White Dragon Army had a short training time and could become an army.

In addition, Li Zixiao destroyed the three major powerful domains from Kyushu Island, captured several large cities, and plundered a large amount of money, which made him suddenly rich.

Now, Li Zixiao wants money and people, and Wei Hong also has enough money to recruit soldiers and horses on a larger scale in Henan.

At this time, the war potential of the White Dragon Army was initially revealed.

In addition, at this time, the White Dragon Army was already a firearm leading this era, and Li Zixiao already had the strength to dominate the world and dominate China.

Five days after Li Zixiao captured Kagoshima Castle, Zhao Zilong and Luo Chao broke through Xiongshui Pass in the north and south, destroying the last group of the Shimazu family of the Mosa Domain.

At this point, the Mossa domain was officially destroyed.

The Mosa Domain's Shimazu family is even worse than the Hida Domain's Nabe Island family, which was the first to be destroyed by Li Zixiao.

After all, although the Nabeshima family was destroyed, there were still clansmen who fled in advance, and the clansmen of the Shimazu family of the Mosa Domain were completely killed by Li Zixiao.

And soon, the news also spread to Kumamoto Castle.

At this time, Kumamoto Castle had fallen back into the hands of Hosokawa Mitsusao.

Peng Hao led 4,000 city defense troops and left Kumamoto Castle to the north to join Li Yan, and soon after Hosokawa Mitsusho got the news.

Then, Hosokawa Mitsusho led more than 10,000 Hosokawa troops back to Kumamoto Castle.

However, when Hosokawa Mitsusho was in Kumamoto Castle, he couldn't help but shudder when he heard the report of his subordinate generals and learned that Li Zixiao had captured Kagoshima Castle and destroyed the Shimazu family of the Mosa Domain so soon.

"This Ming Dynasty marquis is really evil."

Hosokawa Mitsushang was in his heart at this time, and he already had a strong sense of fear for Li Zixiao and the White Dragon Army under his command.

"Send this news to the shogunate immediately."

Subsequently, Hosokawa Mitsusho sent someone to quickly send the news to Edo Castle.

After the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo Castle learned of the news, Tokugawa Iemitsu threw several cups in a row, and ordered his general Tokugawa Masamitsu to quickly send troops and land in Kyushu, he didn't want to wait any longer.

By the end of March, the Tokugawa shogunate's 100,000-strong army had been assembled and was ready to board a ship at the port of Osaka to the west.

This time, the Tokugawa shogunate recruited more than 1,000 large and small ships, and under the protection of more than 100 of their warships, they prepared to go to Kyushu Island.

At this time, on the island of Kyushu, Li Yan and Peng Hao joined forces and defeated more than 10,000 Japanese troops of the Maori family of the Choshu Domain outside Saga Castle.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao also received the secret agent planted by Yoshino in Edo Castle and learned that the shogunate army was about to sail from Osaka.

Li Zixiao had long expected that the Tokugawa shogunate would send troops, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

Now, Li Zixiao has just captured Kagoshima Castle, and the third batch of reinforcements has not yet arrived, and he still needs some time to prepare.

Therefore, Li Zixiao then sent an order to Li Yan and Peng Hao, asking them to evacuate Saga City with the wealth accumulated in Saga Castle and withdraw to Nagasaki Port to standby.

Now, although Li Zixiao has preliminarily defeated the three strongest feudal clans on Kyushu Island, if there is no external intervention, Li Zixiao's occupation of Kyushu Island is ironclad.

But who let there be a Tokugawa shogunate, that is the orthodox court of the Wa Kingdom at this time, and will never sit idly by and watch Li Zixiao occupy Kyushu Island.

Therefore, Li Zixiao knew his plan to occupy Kyushu Island, and at this time he could only be regarded as completing the first step.

Next, the shogunate army he will face is the real test.

Li Zixiao had to defeat the upcoming 100,000 shogunate army, and at that time if he wanted to occupy Kyushu Island again, there would be no one to stop him.

"Master Hou, according to what General Yoshino said, the army of the Japanese Shogunate can reach Kyushu Island within two days at the earliest, what should we do?"

Luo Chao and the others were in Kagoshima Castle at this time, and after seeing Li Zixiao, they expressed their worries.

"Master Hou, Deputy Commander Hong has just returned to Jiangbei, and it is estimated that it will take a week before he can bring the third batch of men and horses.

Once the shogunate army of the Wa Kingdom is killed before this, our battle will not be easy to fight! ”

"Master Hou, what we are in trouble now is not only the problem of the third batch of reinforcements not being able to arrive in advance.

What's more, now our men and horses on Kyushu Island have been split into two, and Li Yan and Peng Hao have stayed in Nagasaki with most of the supplies.

And the main force of our current army is in Kagoshima Castle, and without the fleet under the command of Vice Hung, our two armies will not be able to converge!

In order to capture Kagoshima Castle, our army consumed a lot of artillery shells, and we urgently needed to replenish it from Nagasaki.

If we can't be allowed to merge with Li Yan and Peng Hao's baggage camp, the strength of our army will be greatly reduced.

Master Hou, you have to plan in advance! ”

Luo Chao, Zhao Zilong, Du Tengfei and others all spoke to Li Zixiao.

At this time, Li Zixiao's face was very solemn, and when he heard the worried words of his generals, he nodded slightly and said, "What you said, Ben Hou knows."

However, Ben Hou also coped.

Now, you first make two battle plans for Benhou.

One is according to the plan of the situation that the army of the Japanese shogunate was killed before Hong Sheng returned.

The other is to plan according to Hong Sheng's plan to bring our third batch of reinforcements before the shogunate army arrives, and to transport Li Yan and Peng Hao from Nagasaki to us.

Both plans should be formulated in detail and prepared, as for which set we will use, we will find out in a day. ”

Luo Chao and other generals of the White Dragon Army, after hearing Li Zixiao say this, fell into deep thought.

They knew that since Li Zixiao said so, it meant that Li Zixiao must have prepared in advance, and it was obvious that he was waiting for something.

Luo Chao saw that Li Zixiao didn't plan to say anything at this time, so he didn't continue to ask, and planned to ask Li Zixiao separately after the meeting.

"Lord Hou, are you planning a decisive battle against the shogunate army of the Wa Kingdom in Kagoshima Castle?"

Luo Chao asked.

"That's right.

In the past few days, Benhou has led people all over Kagoshima Castle and found that it is very suitable for defense.

Before, if we hadn't crossed the sea without concealment, crossed the sea and landed in Kagoshima Castle, and hit the Shimazu family of the Mosa Domain by surprise.

At the same time, there weren't many defenders in Kagoshima Castle at all, so we were able to capture Kagoshima Castle so smoothly.

Otherwise, if Shimazu Mitsuhisa had 10,000 horses in his hands at that time, it would not be easy for us to land, and it would not be so easy to take Kagoshima Castle after landing.

After a few days of inspection, it was found that not only the defensive design of Kagoshima Castle was excellent, but the terrain around Kagoshima Castle was more suitable for defensive operations.

At the same time, Kagoshima Castle is close to the sea, and when the time comes, we can completely rely on the power of the fleet in the hands of Hong Sheng.

Therefore, the Marquis decided to wait for the army of the Tokugawa shogunate at Kagoshima Castle and fight them here. ”

Li Zixiao stood up, walked to the map around Kagoshima Castle, and said with a smile.

"We can be on the side of Kagoshima Castle in advance, get ready, and wait for the Japanese shogunate army to attack, but we also have a geographical advantage.

Master Hou, two battle plans, the subordinates will take people to do it, and hand them over to the general two days later. ”

Luo Chao understood what Li Zixiao meant and said.

"Okay."

After this meeting, the White Dragon Army will leave, but Luo Chao did not leave.

"Master Hou, what news are you waiting for?"

Luo Chao looked at Li Zixiao and asked.

"Luo Chao, you forgot, Benhou was deployed in the Wa Kingdom in advance, in addition to the chess piece of Shuichiro Yoshino, there is another chess piece!"

Li Zixiao took a sip of tea, raised his head to look at Luo Chao, and said with a faint smile on his face.

"Master Hou is talking about Fujino Yokokawa."

Luo Chao's eyes widened and he exclaimed.

"That's right, it's him."

"He's not...... Betrayed! ”

Ben Hou is not sure if he betrayed Ben Hou or not, but Ben Hou really needs to use him this time.

Therefore, Benhou sent someone to contact him in advance, asking him to sabotage the exit of the Japanese shogunate army to the sea and delay the arrival of the shogunate army on Kyushu Island.

When the time comes, Fujino Yokokawa will not accept Benhou's order, so he will naturally know whether he has betrayed Benhou.

So, that's why Ben Hou asked you to make two battle plans.

If Fujino Yokokawa hadn't betrayed Benhou, he might really be able to buy us a few days to let Hong Sheng return.

As long as Hong Sheng can transport our third batch of reinforcements before the Japanese shogunate army attacks, this battle will still be fought.

It is not yet known who will win and who will lose! ”

Li Zixiao walked to the door, looked at the western sky, and said in a deep voice.

After Luo Chao heard Li Zixiao's words, he understood what was going on.

However, his impression of Fujino Yokokawa is not very good, greedy and lustful, ruthless and cunning, and he is not very loyal to Li Zixiao.

Therefore, Luo Chao said with some concern: "Master Hou, my subordinates think that Fujino Yokokawa is not very credible, and I am afraid that he has already rebelled." ”

"Not necessarily, if Fujino Yokokawa has really completely betrayed his back, I'm afraid that Shuiichiro Yoshino would have been exposed a long time ago, and he would not have been left with so much time to prepare.

Fujino Yokokawa is greedy, and whoever can give him greater benefits will be attached to whomever he will be attached to.

Since, he did not expose Shuiichiro Yoshino.

It also shows that the benefits given to him by the Wa Kingdom did not make him completely satisfied, and he will leave himself a way out.

So, maybe this time, we really expect him to succeed! ”

"I hope so." Luo Chao responded.

(End of chapter)