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Although the shelling of the fleet just now caused casualties, these casualties were insignificant to him, and as long as the main island of Ryukyu was occupied, it was an unsinkable battleship, and the loss of some warships was nothing compared to this.

Many years ago, he suggested that Yamada Nobunaga occupy Ryukyu Island, use Ryukyu Island as a base to control the coastal routes of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and at the same time plunder the coastal cities of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but this suggestion was rejected.

Because at that time the Dutch were still honored guests in the eyes of Yamada Nobunaga, but now everything has changed, and the Dutch's betrayal at this time proves that he was right at that time.

But for him, it was not too late, and the capture of Ryukyu Island was still a brilliant plan.

Walking through the woods along the coast, when he saw Michira's Castle in the distance, high on the mountain, he ordered his men to release a carrier pigeon.

The pigeon was released and immediately flew towards Castle Michira, a pigeon trained to carry messages to Castle Michira.

At this time, Sakai in Michira's castle was waiting for news from Haruaki Makino, and he was overjoyed when he saw a white carrier pigeon landing.

"Makino Chunming has arrived, and now it's time for us to show the Dutch and the colors of the Great Chongqing Kingdom." Sakai shouted excitedly.

When the soldiers heard this, they immediately shouted excitedly, "Fight!" Against! ”

In the frenzy, the soldiers in the castle quickly gathered and headed for the city gates, and more than 10,000 musketeers lined up outside the city gates, ready for a big battle.

Outside the fortress, Xiao Ming and Claire discovered the abnormality of the pirates, and all the pirates in the castle flocked to the outside of the city, forming a neat horizontal line outside the city.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming asked, "Don't tell me that you Dutch have trained the Japanese to fight with arquebuses. ”

"I'm sorry, but that's true, we did train the Japanese in how to use firearms." Claire said apologetically.

Xiao Ming really had the urge to kill Claire, and in contemporary times, Japan was also supported by the West in this way.

But now is not the time to think about these things, Xiao Ming said; "There are reinforcements coming ashore, and now there are Japanese soldiers coming out of the fortress, and they are preparing to encircle us inside and outside."

"Sakai is a very cunning enemy, and he has been waiting for reinforcements." Claire said, "We can deal with the reinforcements that come ashore, I wonder if His Highness's army can deal with the pirates in the fortress?" I doubt you'll be able to defeat these ferocious pirates. ”

"Count Claire, are you flouting my army?" Xiao Ming's heart was on fire, and he also knew whether Claire was deliberate or admonished.

"I'm sorry, it's not that I despise His Highness's army, it's just that according to Sakai, the Japanese are often able to defeat the army of the Great Yu Kingdom, so I'm worried, after all, if we fail in the battle, we will all lose the Ryukyus." Claire's face was solemn, and he was now beginning to regret his desperate gamble, because the strength of the Wa Kingdom was equally strong.

"You're still worried about yourself." Xiao Ming pursed his lips, he could lose to anyone, but he couldn't lose to the Japanese Kou, and then he said, "Our back will be handed over to you." ”

After that, Xiao Ming immediately asked Lu Fei to gather the army.

The Japanese invaders gathered outside the fortress, and Xiao Ming's army needed to assemble now because the encirclement was very scattered, and at this time, both sides were racing against time to complete the preparations.

The war was about to start, Luo Xin immediately led the artillery to find a high place to arrange the artillery position, and half an hour later, the armies of both sides completed the assembly in front of the fortress, and the war was about to break out.

If the war with the barbarians is a war of hot weapons and cold weapons, this time Xiao Ming is facing a war of hot weapons and hot weapons, although the arquebuses used by the Japanese still cannot be taken lightly.

After all, arquebuses and flintlock pistols are just fired differently.

At this time, under the command of Lu Fei, the Qingzhou Army was also arranged in a horizontal formation, with 200 soldiers as a command unit to prepare for an attack.

"Your Highness, the Woko have moved here." After the army was assembled, the array of the Japanese began to advance towards Xiao Ming's side, and at the same time, the sound of artillery came from the direction of the Japanese invaders.

Xiao Ming looked in the direction where the cannon sound came from, and he found that the Japanese had unloaded the cannon from the castle and used it in the current attack.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was about 700 meters, and the artillery shells weakened a lot after flying, and these shells rolled almost from the ground, which could not cause many casualties.

As Claire said, these shells are very old, and the range and power are not very great.

"Your Highness, do you want to return fire on the artillery that destroyed them." Luo Xin asked.

"The range of field artillery is not far, I am afraid that there is no advantage in this distance, and then we will fight when the distance is closer, their artillery is very clumsy, and it is not our opponent." Xiao Ming and Luo Xin stood in the artillery position together, and from here they could clearly see everything on the battlefield.

"Knock Knock ......"

The drums sounded, and under the command of Lu Fei, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army also wanted to go to the array of the Japanese Invaders, and the soldiers lined up in a tight formation and advanced without hurrying or slow.

And as the two sides got closer and closer, the artillery of both sides began to fire at each other.

"The six-pounder cannon shoots at the Japanese soldiers, and the twelve-pounder cannon shoots at the Japanese artillery." When the distance between the two armies was only three hundred meters, he gave the order.

In an instant, twelve six-pounder field guns began to shoot at the Japanese invaders, and the black shells smashed into the dense Japanese array, and the Japanese array that was hit suddenly fell in a row.

However, after the array was blasted out of the gap, the Japanese soldiers immediately filled the gap.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming's brows furrowed, which was enough to show that the soldiers of the Japanese were well-trained, but he was not worried, they had an advantage in weapons.

Compared with the old artillery of the Japanese Invaders, the shooting error of the field guns with the front sights was relatively small, and the artillery moving with the Japanese array was directly smashed under the bombardment of the twelve-pounder field guns, and the gunners were also heavily wounded.

And the six-pounder cannon was not idle, the shells bounced on the ground and smashed into the pirates in the queue, and the soldiers in the first row were hit by the shells and broke their hands and feet, fell to the ground and groaned and shouted.

Two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters.

Although they were constantly shelled, the Japanese did not flinch, and the armies on both sides got closer and closer, and at a hundred meters Lu Fei ordered the soldiers to stop and shouted: "Shoot!" ”

At this time, the soldiers raised the flintlock pistols they were carrying, and a burst of flames and white smoke rose, and the Japanese army on the opposite side immediately fell.

"Reload!" Lu Fei shouted again.

After withstanding the first round of fire, the Japanese continued to walk forward, Sakai's expression was a little gloomy at this time, the arquebus given to them by the Dutch could only be fired at a distance of fifty meters, and he could only let the soldiers continue to advance to the firing area.