Shimazu Tadashi shook his head with a wry smile, sighed and said, "Now we have no choice but to defend it." As long as we move the line, the Tokugawa shogunate army will inevitably pounce, and the entire defense line will collapse at that time. Even if we retreated, the team would have to be torn apart, and the other daimyo would pounce on us as well. We can only gamble that the Far East will come to our rescue. I don't believe that the Far East has invested so much in us, can we watch our Shimazu family and the Kyushu coalition collapse before our eyes. ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his head sharply and shouted in a deep voice, "No matter what, we must block the attack of the Tokugawa family." Ladies and gentlemen, whether our Kyushu army can win the world, this battle can only be fought, even if it is fought to the last person, I ...... Please, everyone......"

After Shimazu Tadahiro's words were finished, there were few daimyos from all over Kyushu in the big tent, and only the retainers of the Satsuma clan responded loudly. Shimazu Tadashi secretly complained in his heart, in fact, he regretted it very much now, if he hadn't played tricks, he wouldn't have come to this point.

The reason why the Far East has been slow to move is probably deliberate. Satsuma's attempt to take advantage of the chaos in the early days of the Tokugawa family and rely on the Kyushu coalition's own forces to eliminate the Tokugawa shogunate is self-evident. Maybe the Far East will save Satsuma, but if Satsuma is defeated, then Satsuma will also lose the meaning of existence, and the Far East will immediately turn to support another daimyo.

None of the Choshu and Tosa domains were inferior to Satsuma, and with the support of the Far East, they quickly became powerful. Therefore, the Satsuma Shimazu family must not be defeated, if defeated, the most elite forces will also be exhausted in this battle, and Satsuma will die without a place to be buried.

Suddenly, a Satsuma samurai stormed the big tent. Ran to the side of Shimazu Tadashi, and said a few words in his ear, Shimazu Tadashi's face suddenly changed, and everyone in the big tent also made a commotion, it seems that the Tokugawa shogunate has begun to attack.

Shimazu Tadashi had a gloomy face and roared loudly: "Gentlemen. The shogunate army has begun to attack, and the fate of our Kyushu coalition army is on the line. I hope that the princes will kill the enemy bravely, let the Tokugawa family see the bloody nature of our Kyushu boys, and swear to fight them to the death! ”

The daimyo of Kyushu in the Great Tent still had the heart to stay here, so they left the Great Tent one after another and returned to their respective defensive lines to resist the attack of the Shogunate Army. At this time, the elite reserves of the shogunate army had already poured out of the nest and frantically launched an attack on the Kyushu coalition army.

The main battlefield of the two sides is in the southern part of Harima Province. The entire front had been turned into a pot of porridge, and although the Kyushu coalition army had desperately resisted, months of fierce fighting had already exhausted them and suffered heavy casualties, and in the face of the elite divisions of the shogunate army, they had begun to gradually lose their support.

Shimazu Tadashi and many of the retainers of the Satsuma Domain also personally put on the battle, but they still couldn't stop the decline of the Kyushu coalition army. At the moment of extreme crisis, the Kyushu coalition was second only to the Shimazu family in strength, and the Saga Nabeshima family defected, and then two more daimyo successively let the shogunate army cross the defense line.

The change of flags of the Nabeshima family had a ripple effect. The situation on the battlefield has deteriorated dramatically. The Kyushu Coalition Army, which had long been out of support, suddenly collapsed on all fronts. Only the samurai of the Satsuma clan and Ashigaru continued to hold the defensive line.

Shimazu Tadashi received the news of the Nabeshima family's defection, and his eyes instantly went black.

It seems that the Nabeshima family of Saga has been in contact with the Tokugawa shogunate for a long time, and they may have been plotting for a long time to destroy their Shimazu family and several other daimyos, and after Kyushu, it will be the Nabeshima family of the Saga Domain.

Anyone can see that the Shimazu clan has now reached the point of exhaustion. The Satsuma clan fought fiercely with the Tokugawa shogunate for several months, not only exhausting its own resources, but also dragging the Tokugawa shogunate into the water. It is no longer possible to command the many daimyo feudal lords in Japan.

Post-war Japan was bound to fall back into the Warring States period, which was an outcome that many Japanese daimyos, including Kyushu Saga Nabeshimaya, were happy to see. In the future, whether it is the Saga Domain, the Choshu Domain, or the Tosa Domain, or other Japanese daimyos, they will be able to develop their armaments unscrupulously and prepare for the conquest of the world.

Shimazu Tadashi did not know what was going to happen in the future, and the Shimazu family was doomed, perhaps as a result of a compromise between the Tokugawa shogunate and many Japanese daimyos. He knew that the Shimazu family had been defeated, and the Far East had not come until now, and the ambitions in his heart were instantly shattered. The only way to do this is to try to withdraw the main forces of the Shimazu family from Honshu Island, return to Kyushu as soon as possible, and retain the last trace of Satsuma's blood.

Fortunately, he also left a back road, and the defense line of the Shimazu family was set up in the coastal area, and he also arranged a large number of Satsuma sailors along the coast, just to serve as the back road of the Satsuma clan in times of crisis. In addition, during this time, Shimazu Tadashi made contact with the feudal lords such as Tosa, who controlled most of Shikoku, and the Satsuma army was to be received by the naval forces of Shikoku Zhufan.

Shimazu Tadashi painfully gave the order to retreat south, and the Satsuma army immediately abandoned its position and began to move south. However, several daimyo in Kyushu, such as the Tokugawa shogunate and the Nabeshima family, as well as other wall-headed feudal lords, frantically attacked the Satsuma army, and did not give them a chance to retreat at all. Countless Satsuma samurai used their lives to block the attack of the shogunate coalition army, so that Shimazu Tadashi and the main force of the Satsuma domain retreated south to the southern coast of Harima Province.

However, when Shimazu Tadashi led the remnants of Satsuma's defeated army and felt that the coast was ready to board and leave, a large number of Tokugawa shogunate sailors, as well as Sanuki's Ikoma clan's navy, and Awa's Awa and Awaji beesuka navy armies, came from all directions.

Countless naval warships blocked all the Harima Beach and Kii waterways, but the sailors of several daimyo such as the Tosa Chozong Ibu family, who were scheduled to come to meet them, did not even have a shadow. Tens of thousands of Satsuma feudal clans and the remnants of the Kyushu coalition army were surrounded by the shogunate's land and water alliances.

Shimazu Tadashi sighed in his heart, he didn't expect the Shimazu clan to perish in his own hands. He was really unwilling, a few months ago, the Shimazu clan had a chance to win the world, but a few months later, the Shimazu clan was going to perish. In fact, from beginning to end, without the support of the Far East, the Satsuma clan would not have been, and after only a few months of fluttering, it fell into the abyss of destruction.

At this time, even if the Shimazu clan admitted defeat, the Tokugawa shogunate and many daimyo of Japan would also be slaughtered. Because they want to find a substitute for this war. The Shimazu family is now at the end of their rope and is at the end of their rope to be a "national thief" who has caused trouble in Japan, and the Tokugawa shogunate and other daimyo from all over Japan have exterminated the "national thief" and have a reputation for righteousness. (To be continued......)

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