In the 10th year of the Hongxing reign of the Ming Dynasty, on the eighth day of March, Laoshan Palace.

Early in the morning, Zhu Cihong was having breakfast with Queen Wu Sanmei in the restaurant of Hot Spring Palace. He stayed at the Hot Spring Palace last night and "held hands" with Wu Sanmei... He and Wu Sanmei have been together for thirteen years.

, but the relationship is still good, and there is no intention of neglecting the empress of the palace at all. On the second day of March, the imperial doctor of the imperial hospital also mentioned that Wu Sanmei had been diagnosed with Ximai, which was really gratifying and congratulatory!

Wu Sanmei has raised a total of five children for Emperor Zhu in the past thirteen years, but one of them is a son, Zhu Hexing, who was born in the fifth year of Hongxing. He is six years old this year and has just entered Laoshan Primary School.

However, the child's health has not been very good. Although he has grown quite big, he is a bit weak. He is sick all day long, which makes Wu Sanmei very worried, fearing that he will die young. So she stopped Zhu Cixiang and never gave Zhu Hexing any chance.

Crowning the Crown Prince - This was because he was worried that Zhu He was not lucky enough to be able to assume the honorable position of the Crown Prince, so he planned to wait until he was older and healthy before canonizing him.

Of course, the position of the eldest son of Zhu Hexing is unshakable!

Even if Zheng Chagu gave birth to three sons for Emperor Zhu (she also had five children, three sons and two daughters), all of them were healthy and intelligent, and one of them (Zhu Hehao) was the top student at Laoshan Primary School, they could not sway Zhu.

Kazuyuki's first heir position.

But if the first heir is gone... Zhu Hehao, as the eldest son of a concubine, and his mother is an imperial concubine, will undoubtedly be the first successor!

Therefore, there is always a knot in Wu Sanmei's heart. The only way to get rid of it is to give Zhu Cihong another son.

With two sons in hand, Wu Sanmei can rest assured!

Zhu Cixi also knew what she was thinking, so he worked hard to hold hands with her, and recently it finally came to fruition...

"Your Majesty, I heard that the King of France gave you a stunning Orchid, who is more beautiful than the Emperor's concubine. Is this true?"

While Wu Sanmei was tasting the oyster porridge sent by Zheng Chagu, she and Zhu Cixiang were talking about Mary Manich, but there was no trace of jealousy in her words.

Zhu Cixi chuckled: "It is indeed good-looking, with Western colors and a unique style...but she is wild and untamable, and she is unwilling to enter the palace as a concubine."

"Don't want to enter the palace? Then why is she here?" Wu Sanmei blinked and looked at Zhu Cixi a little strangely, thinking: If she doesn't want to, won't you rob her?

"She wants to be the royal mistress." As Zhu Cixiang spoke, he also took a small spoonful of oyster porridge and put it into his mouth - it tasted good! Zheng Chagu, a girl who is also very good at pretending, clearly doesn't want Wu Sanmei to do it again.

She has a son, but she can pretend to be a sister. Hearing that the third sister’s appetite was a little bad, she asked her own cook to prepare various delicacies and send them over. If only Mancini had her thoughts...

"Royal... mistress?" Wu Sanmei was stunned, "What does this mean?"

"This means...not wanting to have a status." Zhu Cihong said, "She is a Catholic and cannot be used as someone's little wife."

"If you don't want to be a little wife, how can you be together without any name or status?" Wu Sanmei shook her head again and again, a little puzzled.

Zhu Cixiang also shook his head, thinking: I don’t want fame, but I want money! Fortunately, I am the richest in the Ming Dynasty. When Chongzhen becomes emperor, I really can’t afford it!

Just as he was thinking of this, Huang Xiaobao's joyful voice came from outside, "Long live Lord, long live Lord... What a great victory, what a great victory!"

Zhu Cixiang raised his head and looked at the door of the restaurant, and saw the eunuch Huang Xiaobao, who had become a ball of fat, running towards him, shouting while running.

"Long live the great victory of Kashima! The great victory of Kashima!"

Kashima? Zhu Cixiang was stunned for a moment, but immediately thought of Kagoshima Bay!

He was no longer in the mood to drink porridge, so he stood up immediately and walked to Huang Xiaobao in three steps and two steps. Huang Xiaobao immediately handed over a memorial from the Generalissimo's Palace with both hands.

Zhu Cihong took the memorial, opened it, and first read it ten lines at a time, then read it over again carefully, and then showed an expression of ecstasy.

This memorial was jointly signed by Zheng Jiangong and David Jones. It reported the situation of the Great Battle of Kagoshima Bay that took place during the four days of February 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st.

The Great Battle of Kagoshima Bay broke out at dusk on the 18th, and the winner was decided that night - within an hour after the "Ibusuki Turn", the Spanish Eastern Armada suffered heavy losses, including ten ships.

Armed galenic ships ranging from 100 to 600 tons were destroyed or sunk. Another eight Spanish armed galenic ships, including the 1,000-ton "behemoth" New Spain, were forced into the Sakurajima Strait and were at a slight disadvantage.

They were attacked by the landing force commanded by Zheng Jiangong and the naval battle force commanded by David Jones who had entered Kagoshima Bay earlier.

At this point in the naval battle, the Eight-Power Allied Forces fleet had still lost zero warships!

However, the battle did not end here, and it could not end. Because the remnants of the Spanish fleet entering Sakurajima Strait blocked the way out of Zheng Jiangong's forty-five bird ships, and there was a conflict between the Ming army's landing force on Sakurajima and the Sashu samurai.

The bloody battle continues!

In the following three days of February 19, February 20, and February 21, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces and the Satsuma and Spanish Allied Forces engaged in a protracted and fierce battle in Sakurajima and the Sakurajima Strait.

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The Spanish fleet set up a column blocking the road in the Sakurajima Strait, aiming the broadside guns of eight warships at both sides of the strait. Because the strait was too narrow, it was not conducive to large formation maneuvers, so from Sakurajima Strait

It was difficult for the Davy Jones detachment attacking from the south to adopt the same broadside formation to face the enemy.

Therefore, several attacks launched from the south of the strait failed, and Zheng Jiangong's detachment from the north was unable to launch an attack due to the change in wind direction starting on the morning of the 20th.

When the battle at sea reached a stalemate, Zheng Jiangong and Shi Lang commanded the "Second Sakurajima Landing." This time the landing was in the northwest of Sakurajima. The terrain in this area was flat, and the length of the beach suitable for landing reached 134

, and there are many fishing ports available.

In addition, the Satsuma clan did not expect that the coalition fleet could rush into the Sakurajima Strait with their artillery - Shimazu Mitsuhisa obviously overestimated the power of the 6-pound and 12-pound cannon provided by the Spanish!

Therefore, on the long beach northwest of Sakurajima, there are not many Sashu samurai waiting for thousands of fully armed Ming army infantry - although these infantry are not equipped with fusiliers (an infantry division only has one fusilier regiment, the first

The fusiliers of the 1st Division were left behind on the Goto Islands and Nagasaki), but each of them had plate armor, and each infantry regiment also had a company of pikes (because the Japanese cavalry did not pose much of a threat, so pikes

The number of soldiers has decreased), and the ability of hand-to-hand combat is very strong!

They were not like the unarmored Marines who landed southwest of Sakurajima before. Although they gained an overwhelming advantage in the gun battle, they were resisted by the Sashu samurai who were far fewer in number than their own in the subsequent bayonet assault.

Later, it was only with the reinforcements of the second wave of landing Army infantry that the Sashu Army was completely repulsed and the beachhead position was consolidated... However, they only captured the beachhead and were unable to advance towards Sakurajima Fort. Because Sakurajima

The terrain in the southwest of the island is relatively dangerous, with dense forests and mountains surrounding the Ming army's beachhead. At least 2,000 Sazhou warriors were entrenched there, using the terrain to block the Ming army's advance.

But it is precisely because the Sashu Army on Sakurajima deployed its main forces in the southwest, resulting in an extremely empty force in the northwest. After Li Yuanyin led two infantry regiments and an artillery company to complete the landing, the Ming army

They advanced like a rock to the vicinity of Sakurajima Fort, and the Sashu Army's Sakurajima Fort ignored the defense behind it. Therefore, the defenders had no choice but to engage in a field battle with the Ming army in the open area northwest of the fort with no hope of victory. In the end, almost the entire army

Overthrown!

While the Ming army attacked Sakurajima Fort, Zheng Jiangong also deployed eight large-scale bird ships and launched a fireship attack on the Spanish warships, completely destroying the eight Spanish warships blocking the waterway.

destroy!
Chapter completed!