Although the Xiandao Islands are less than 100 miles from Taiwan's sea route, they are the most marginal area of the Ryukyu Islands.&& At this time, the Ryukyu Kingdom had long become a puppet regime of the Satsuma vassal of Japan, so the merchant army was in Shihuan.
News that the island and Nishioshima established naval bases soon reached Kagoshima, Japan, where the Satsuma family is located.
At this time, several famous figures from the Satsuma vassal in the late Warring States Period in Japan, Shimazu Katsuhisa, Shimazu Takahisa, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Shimazu Tadahiro and others all died. The current vassal lord was Shimazu Tsaiku
Tadagahiro's second son, Shimazu Kokuha, is now 30 years old. He succeeded the Satsuma Daming three years ago.
Now the Ryukyu Kingdom is the main source of financial income of the Satsuma vassal state. The Satsuma vassal state also regards the Ryukyu Islands as its private forbidden area and is not allowed to interfere, even in marginal areas, it is no exception. Therefore, Shimazu Kokusa learned that the Ming army was in Ishikawa Island and
After establishing a naval base in Nishimojima, he was also surprised. The first reaction was that this must be related to Zheng Zhilong, because in Shimazu Kokuha's image, only Zheng Zhilong had a fleet of ships moving in the sea in the Ming Dynasty.
The Satsuma clan and Zheng Zhilong had some business dealings, so Shimazu Kokuha immediately sent his younger brother Shimazu Tadaro as an envoy to advance to Nishimoi Island, negotiated with the Ming army stationed there, and asked the Ming army to evacuate the Xiandao Island area immediately.
After Nachishimazu Tadaro arrived at Nishio Island, he found that the Spanish army was actually stationed here, and they were shocked because they only brought Chinese translations, and Nishio Island did not have Japanese translations, only two missionaries who could preach in some Chinese.
As a result, the communication between the two sides was very troublesome, and they had to translate it into Chinese first, then into Spanish and Japanese respectively. However, there was a big difference between the Japanese translation and the missionary's understanding of Chinese. As a result, after talking for a long time, both sides were
I didn't fully understand the other person's words.
There were only a few incidents, and Tadaro Shimazu finally figured out that the Ming army occupying Ximui Island had nothing to do with Zheng Zhilong. This Spanish army was employed by a private army of the Ming marquis named Shang Yi, but
Tadaro Shimazu didn't know who Shang Yi was. Moya, the chief general of the Spanish army, understood that the other party also wanted to occupy Xibi Island, but was one step too late, so he asked himself to leave so that he could give the island to them.
.The two sides are of course not good now. Moya's attitude is getting tougher, while Tadaro Shimazu thinks that the other party is unreasonable, and the result is naturally disbanded.
After Shimazu Tadaro returned to Ryukyu, he found out after careful investigation that Shang Yi was an emerging force in the sea. He seemed to have fought a war with the Dutch and occupied Taiwan. After he returned to report to Shimazu Kokusa,
Shimazu Kokusa was puzzled and wanted to send someone to the Ming Dynasty to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but it took too much time to find a way. Shimazu Kokusa was also the lord of a vassal, of course he knew
This trip to the officialdom of that country is difficult to leave. Since Shang Yi dared to openly invade the islands of the early islands, he must have some reliance. Even if he found the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he might not be able to evacuate the Ming army. Of course, the Satsuma vassal forced the force to coerce.
The fact that he controlled the Ryukyu Kingdom was directly ignored by Shimazu Kokuha.
Therefore, Shimazu Kokuha finally decided to solve the problem by force. Judging from the attitude of the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, he was not interested in overseas. After the Chinese in Manila were massacred, the Ming Dynasty ignored it, and the Satsuma vassal invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The Ming Dynasty ignored it afterwards. Therefore, this time he used force to recapture Xibiao Island and Shiheng Island, and it is estimated that the Ming Dynasty still ignored it.
However, the current Satsuma vassal is not the strong Japanese vassal in the Battle of Sekihara. Most of the fiefs were cut by the Tokugawa shogunate, and most of the elite soldiers and generals lost. Moreover, they lacked the power of the navy. Shimazu Kokuha ordered the recruitment of ships again.
, organized the army, but it took several months to finally collect more than 60 large and small ships, with more than 6,000 troops in the army. Tadaro Shimazu was appointed as the chief general, and led Ise Satoshi and Hirata Soyoshi
, Kasugayama and other retainers and generals, recovered Nishimojima and Ishigakishima.
However, during the preparation period in the past few months, Shimazu Kokuha also found out some of the situations of the Ming army in Xianshima. Their total strength was about 2,000, and they had to guard two islands, and there were less than 20 warships.
Therefore, with his own troops, it is more than enough to regain these two islands. Shimazu Tadaro was also confident and led the fleet to set off.
The Satsuma fleet first docked in Ryukyu, using Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyu Dynasty as its rear base, and then attacked the Xianshima islands. Shimazu Tadorong sent his retainer, Kazuhira Kazuhira, as the first, leading thirty warships to attack and lead the lead
Miyako Island, northeast of the islands, is the base ahead.
Kuhei Kasuo is the famous general of Satsuma vassal, and Kuhei Kasuo Kasuo was the main hero in helping Satsuma vassal control of Ryukyu. Kuhei Kasuo Kasuo was also proud of his ancestors, but after he was born, he was unified.
Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Satsuma clan was unable to fight against Tokugawa General, so he had to be obedient and follow the peace for a long time, and the samurai had no chance to make achievements. Therefore, Kawayama Kuhei had lamented how long he had been born late
Ten years have not won the great era of power.
Now that I finally have the opportunity to go out, Kuhipei Kamiyama was extremely excited and determined to make martial arts honors in this battle and increase glory to the Kuhipei family. Therefore, after capturing the Pegasus Island, Kuhipei Kamiyama was extremely excited.
Regardless of the fact that the chief general had not arrived, he left a few troops to guard the Hiraki Island and led a large fleet to attack Ishigaki and Ximu Islands.
After the Satsuma fleet arrived at Hiraki Island, it was immediately attacked by the Spanish army on Ishigakijima. After discussion, two Spanish officers, Moya and Alves, decided to lead the fleet to take the initiative and give the Satsuma fleet a head-on attack.
At the same time, he also sent people to report their emergency to Zhejiang and sent people to Taiwan to ask Shen Shouyue, who was stationed in Taiwan, to send troops to support him.
Just then, Kasugayama Kuhei also led the fleet to advance towards Ishigaki Island. Both sides encountered the waters of Mizuna Island in the middle of the Seijima Island and launched a fierce battle.
During this battle, Spain hired a fleet of fifteen warships, all of which were small and medium-sized warships. The largest was the 800-ton Royal Garden Ranger, and there were four 700-ton warships, six 600-ton warships.
Ton of warships, four 500-ton warships. The Satsuma fleet dispatched twenty-six warships, but at this time, Japan's shipbuilding technology was very backward, the largest one was no more than 500 tons, and there were eight 200 ships.
A small boat below tons. As a result, one side has fewer boats but large size, while the other side has many smaller ones. It is considered a total tonnage, which is roughly equivalent.
But it was not the case when fighting, because Japan's naval warfare concept still stayed in the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea. It still used the main tactics to shoot with rockets and then jump to the sidelines.
Not only is the Satsuma fleet's small ship, but there are less than ten warships equipped with artillery, and the most warship has only eight guns, all of which are small cannons. The Spanish hired a fleet to pull out one of them.
The ship's artillery was twice as big as them, and the flagship Royal Garden Ranger, equipped with a total of seventy cannons, was to compare the Satsuma fleet in an instant.
As a result, after the battle, the Satsuma fleet was defeated, six ships were sunk, two were captured, and more than 600 soldiers were dismantled. Kupei Kawayama led the defeated army back to Pingliang Island. The Spanish only hired the fleet One ship was burned down, two were injured, and thirty-four soldiers were lost.
However, although Spain hired a fleet to win a big victory in the first battle, the Satsuma fleet's rear team arrived at Pingliang Island, with a total of more than 60 warships. Although the ships are small and few cannons, there are many ants to kill the elephant. Alves dared not attack Miyako Island easily, so he concentrated the warships between Nishimoi Island and Ishigaki Island to support them on both sides. At the same time, Chen Shouyue, who was stationed in Taiwan, also pulled out a thousand soldiers and six The ship helps guard the island. Just wait for reinforcements from Zhejiang to send.
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Of course, Shang Yi still doesn't know the result of the war between the two sides, but he dares not be careless about the conflict between China and Japan. He has no good feelings for Japan, but now he can't take action to deal with them, let alone this When I returned to Japan, I actually took the initiative to provoke my own head, so I naturally wouldn't be polite.
And Shang Yi was also very clear that Japan in this era was quite a bit towards China a hundred years later, and was in seclusion and peace for a long time. The martial spirit and blood and courage of the Warring States Period were almost wiped out by the peace, while the crazy spirit of the Bushido was still It will not appear until more than 200 years later. Therefore, it can also be said that Japan is now at a time when its national strength is strong but its force is relaxed.
Of course, Shang Yi would not tell Japan anything about the cost of buying the spirit of the strait. On the contrary, the more he fell into the water, the more he would be beaten. Moreover, since the merchant army entered the ocean, the target to the south was Manila, and the target to the north was Ryukyu. These two places are the key roads in the north and south of East Asia and Southeast Asia. Occupying Xibi Island and Ishigaki Island is just the first step. Shang Yi was worried that there was no chance to attack Ryukyu. Unexpectedly, Japan took the initiative to deliver the opportunity to the door. But the business of the gate has to be done. Although it is still quite insufficient to attack Manila with its own strength, it is still enough to attack Ryukyu.
Therefore, in a very short time, Shang Yi made a decision, not only to beat Satsuma's vassal to let them know that it was painful, but also to insert their own maritime forces into the Ryukyu Islands. A whole Japanese storm was a shocking tiger. Let’s see what the Tokugawa shogunate will react.
So Shang Yi immediately decided to cancel the itinerary of Shicha Arsenal this afternoon, recruit naval generals to hold a meeting to discuss the battle arrangements and arrangements for Japan's Satsuma family. He also ordered Cheng Jin and Huang Zhenma to inform the arrangements and let The navy generals rushed to the Supervisor's Office tomorrow afternoon to have a meeting.
After Cheng Jin and Huang Zhen left the Supervisor's Office, Shang Yi suddenly realized that there was a Japanese business group full of doubts living in Hangzhou, and this Japanese business group was from the Satsuma clan. So will this war and them? What's the matter? Therefore, Shang Yi immediately ordered Zhou Qi, the person in charge of the Security Department, to ask about the situation of the Japanese business group.