After the Far East Combined Fleet had annihilated the Satsuma Domain's naval forces, it immediately marched north towards their next target.

Tanegashima is located in the southern part of Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, in the sea south of the Okuma Peninsula. The next target of the Far East Combined Fleet was the port of Akaogi on Tanegashima.

This is the territory of the Shimazu family's retainer Seed Clan, and this time the Seed Clan also wanted to fight for certain benefits after the annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom, so they also sent some elites to join.

When the Combined Far Eastern Fleet arrived at Tanegashima in the early hours of the night. Liu Baoguo led the special combat team members to take an assault boat, first touched the coast, took control of the wharf, and then led the combined fleet into the port.

Six jeeps carrying a platoon of officers and men of the War Department set up a number of machine-gun firing positions on various major roads outside the port of Akaogi, cutting off all traffic here.

More than 200 soldiers of the Death Army and 3,000 Ming soldiers landed at the pier and frantically rushed to the castle town of the Tanegashima clan of the Tanegashima clan of Akamigi Port. Throughout the night, there were all kinds of mournful wails, and in many places there were fires.

Early the next morning, Gao Jianguo stood on the edge of the dock, and next to him stood the heads of the various detachments of the Combined Fleet, as well as the captains and captains of the ships. He glanced back at the blood-colored castle town in the distance, and then said with a cold face, "How's the situation?" ”

Yesterday, this place was plagued by 3,000 Ming army ruffians and more than 200 daredevils [enough choking, so Gao Jianguo never went in. For these Ming army ruffians, he didn't want to manage them too strictly.

He didn't want the ferocious wildness of these ruffians to fade away. These people are the vanguard of the company, and more Ming army ruffians, peasant rebels, Mongolian Tatars, and even Japanese samurai and natives of the Outer Northeast will join in the future. Formed an expeditionary corps to expand the territory in various places.

Zhou Cheng stood upright, and then reported loudly: "Report to the commander, the Tanegashima clan has resisted stubbornly, and the entire clan has been wiped out." Tanegashima's workshop has been brought under control, and hundreds of craftsmen and their families have been properly housed. Two armed fishing boats are sweeping around Tanegashima to ensure that not a single boat escapes Tanegashima. ”

As soon as his words fell, Liu Baoguo next to him also said loudly: "Report to the commander, the first company of the teaching battalion has set off, leading the samurai of the Death Army and the newly trained Ming army of 2000, and is going to all parts of Tanegashima in batches to sweep up." ”

Gao Jianguo nodded and said, "Tanegashima will be the forward base of our combined fleet. It is very important for our battle plan this time. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to ensure the safety here, so that we have no worries about the rest of the battle. In addition to the Tanegashima family's workshop here, there must be a lot of craftsmen in other shops, and they are all trying to gather them together."

Zhou Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Commander." You can rest assured. Now the craftsmen and their families have been gathered. That's right. We found dozens of ruffians hiding booty......"

Gao Jianguo thought for a while and said, "Petty theft, don't care about them." If it is too disagreeable, they will be given twenty lashes and their right to distribute the spoils of war this time will be revoked. ”

Zhou Cheng smiled bitterly: "This time these people have passed. They got a family and got a lot of gold, so ......"

When Gao Jianguo heard this, he said angrily: "Although we connive at them, we can't be embarrassed." We don't have regulations, whatever they do, but we have repeatedly ordered that we are not allowed to hide the loot privately, and there are still people who stand up to the wind. Kill...... When the other troops come back, they will be killed in front of all the commanders and fighters, and they can't get used to this problem, and if they find a few more who don't know how to converge, they will also be arrested and whipped twenty times. ”

Tanegashima is not small, but it is sparsely populated. The population is concentrated in the castle town near Akaogi Port. It took only two days for the Far Eastern Combined Fleet to comb through the entire Tanegashima island.

Because the Far Eastern Combined Fleet was raided at night, the Tanegashima clan was slaughtered without having time to react, and nearly half of the elite samurai conquered the Ryukyus with the army, so Tanegashima was easily controlled.

Two days later, all the soldiers of the Combined Fleet gathered at the docks of Akaogi Port, where dozens of soldiers who had hidden trophies were executed, and more than 100 people who had hidden too much were sentenced to twenty lashes and confiscated their ill-gotten gains.

This method of execution greatly deterred the soldiers of the Ming army, each of whom had some petty theft, but as long as it was not excessive, their platoon commanders generally pretended not to see, but there were always some people who did not know the depth and wanted to take more.

When the heads of dozens of soldiers were blown up by muskets, Zhou Weifan and Zhao Si's backs were soaked, and they also had some privateer silver hidden in their satchels.

After all, they didn't have much courage and took less, so they didn't dispose of them either. But the two of them were also so frightened that they were afraid that they would be dragged out and killed. The other ruffians share the same mentality as them. It wasn't until the fight was over, and the killing was finished, that they put their hearts in their stomachs.

Gao Jianguo saw that it was almost there, so he walked up to everyone and said coldly: "I know that you all have private silver in your pockets, and some people have hidden a lot, do you still think I don't know?" ”

When Zhou Weifan and Zhao Si heard this, their eyes suddenly darkened, this time it was over, if they flipped their pockets one by one for a while, they wouldn't be able to run away. Therefore, the faces of these thousands of soldiers turned pale.

Gao Jianguo glanced at them with a sneer, and then said gloomily: "Originally, I didn't want to do this, everyone secretly touched ten or eight taels, and I should not be able to see it." But there are always those who kick their noses and faces, and treat our kindness as donkey liver and lungs. This time, I will not pursue your private possession, but cancel your distribution of loot this time. If you are not convinced, stand up now, as long as you don't take a tael of silver, I will give you the right to distribute the spoils.

From now on, if any of you dare to hide a penny of silver, you will be killed! Next, we're going to start plundering the coast of the Satsuma Domain. My demands are simple, rob all things, burn down houses, and kill all those who dare to resist. Destroy all the dock ships along the coast, and leave not a single boat or board for the Satsuma Domain. ”

In the afternoon of the next day, four huge sailboats slowly sailed into Kagoshima Bay and went on a rampage. Attacking every ship they saw, they didn't stop until they reached the vicinity of Kagoshima Port. Then, with several front-loading guns, they bombarded the castle town next to Kagoshima Castle.

The Satsuma clan was caught off guard by this sudden attack, and the main expedition of the navy to the Ryukyus almost poured out, and the Kagoshima Castle of the Shimazu family was built not far from the sea. In the face of several huge ships of the Southern Barbarians, the artillery could almost hit the city directly. Therefore, Shimazu Tadashi and a group of retainers could only mobilize all the samurai in the domain to gather in Kagoshima to protect the Kagoshima Castle of the Shimazu family.

The Satsuma Domain under the Shimazu family had a unique feudal organization system called the Outer Castle System. The most distinctive feature of the outer castle system is that his samurai did not gather to live and live near the main castle, but lived in small strongholds near the fields. These places are collectively referred to as the Outer Castle, and the main castle of the Shimazu family is called the Inner Castle.

In these military strongholds lived a large number of groups of semi-samurai or quasi-samurai. These people usually farm. Organize and attack in wartime. Because the Satsuma Domain has been in the Warring States period since it entered the Warring States. The Tokugawa clan had been fighting until the opening of the Tokugawa clan, so the Satsuma clan needed more mobilized troops than other feudal domains to maintain its combat effectiveness.

A large number of would-be samurai were set up in various villages. The samurai of the Satsuma Domain accounted for more than 26% of the total population, close to 40%. It is rare to see such a high proportion of people. Moreover, these samurai and quasi-samurai of the Satsuma Domain are very fierce and good at fighting. This is also the real reason why the Tokugawa shogunate has been suppressing the Satsuma domain.

Gao Jianguo is also based on this reason. This battle plan was formulated. The Satsuma clan is too difficult to handle. If you don't destroy the samurai base of the Satsuma Domain. After a few years, it is a strong domain.

Summoned by Shimazu Tadashi, all parts of the Satsuma Domain flocked to the Satsuma Domain, and in less than a day, a large number of samurai ashigaru gathered. A defense line was established in Kagoshima to protect the main castle of Kagoshima, the main family of the lord.

Kagoshima Castle is a castle located at the foot of Mount Castle in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a Hirayama Castle, also known as "Tsurumaru Castle", which was designated as a designated historic site in Kagoshima Prefecture by Kagoshima Prefecture, and was the residence of the Shimazu clan during the Edo period.

Four sailboats stopped at sea opposite Kagoshima Port, firing a shot or two from time to time, making Shimazu Tadashi extremely nervous. Now that the navy is not in the domain, there is nothing he can do about these Nanban giant ships, so he can only urge his retainers to build tight fortifications to prevent the Nanban on the ship from landing and attacking.

After three days, all the samurai from all over the Satsuma Domain, Ashigaru, had arrived at Kagoshima Castle, numbering 20,000 or 30,000. However, the four Nanban giant ships have been staying here and not leaving, only firing a cannon from time to time.

Some fierce samurai of the Satsuma clan piloted small boats and tried to use the night to touch the edges of several giant Nanban ships and set them on fire, but all of them failed.

At the time of the confrontation between the Shimazu family and several sailing ships, the coast of the Satsuma Domain was already full of smoke, and more than a dozen itabaya boats dragged several captured Japanese wooden boats and landed in more than a dozen coastal towns.

In the early morning, a board house boat pulled a few wooden boats slowly into a dock, at this time the sky was just dawning, and the surroundings were very quiet. There are many merchant ships parked on the wharf.

As soon as the Banwu boat docked on the dock, dozens of Ming soldiers jumped onto the boat, threw ropes one by one, and pulled several boats behind it, and hundreds of soldiers jumped from the boat to the dock with weapons.

Zhao Si held the sword in both hands and rushed into the town first, just as a sailor on the dock walked out of the house sleepily, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a group of people rushing up fiercely.

Before he could even shout, he was split in half by Zhao Siyi. Hundreds of ruffians and more than a dozen daredevils rushed into the castle town and kicked the shops open from house to house, and then ransacked them on a large scale.

More than a dozen soldiers of the training team stood guard in the street with rifles. A five-man support team from the War Department took up a vantage point on the dock and set up a machine gun to guard the dock.

A few hours later, a large quantity of food supplies, as well as items from various shops, were transported to the ships at the docks. These soldiers were all poor together, and they were so hungry that they took whatever they liked, and even the brass handles on the doors of several shops were removed.

When the ruffians had finished plundering, they took all the men out of the town, and then burned the whole town to the ground with a single fire. The fishing boats and merchant ships on the docks picked up a few larger ones to load the booty, and the others were all burned down. (To be continued......)

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