During the night attack by the Satsuma clan soldiers, the Shimadzu army's Hirata samurai Yoridaemon (son of Yorida Heihachi) led 100 people from his headquarters as the vanguard. They came to the wall of the merchant house and took the lead in boarding the city.
Although the pressure-fired wheel fire mine "invented" by Yin Feng has been removed, Zhang Hai and Mai Yangtian, who are experienced in defending the city, still set up a warning mechanism. They obtained it from the fishermen of the Ryukyu Kingdom in advance. Many fishing nets were set up on the wall at night, hung on the wall of the village, and attached with bells.
As a result, the bodies of Yori Tian and the warriors who first climbed into the city touched the net, and the bells began to clang.
A Chinese soldier on night duty in the store heard the sound, climbed up from the wall, and threw the torch down the wall. The fire flashed, and a dense crowd of people in the corner below flashed by. The soldier exclaimed: "Japanese pirates, the enemy." Attack,"
"Whoosh," a long arrow flew from nowhere and was inserted into the throat of this warrior. He shook his body unwillingly and climbed down the wall of the village. He issued a warning at the cost of his own life. The night soldiers on the wall.
So, after a burst of musket shooting, everyone in the museum was alerted, and the soldiers from the Chinese company's escort team rushed out to join the defense battle. However, the Shimadzu army had already taken the lead after all, and a moment later there were already samurai soldiers. On the top of the wall, wielding Japanese swords, he chopped down several defenders, and captured an area on the east wall of the business building. The Chinese soldiers who rushed to besiege them one after another, in the close combat, almost none of them were able to defeat these Shimadzu warriors. When fighting against the enemy, their flintlocks made of fine iron with fine bayonets were often cut in half by Japanese knives. Many warriors were hit by arrows shot in the dark just as they rushed to the top of the wall. A few were brave and brave. The dead Chinese soldiers desperately hugged the Shimadzu soldiers who had just rushed to the top of the wall and jumped off the high wall, and died together. The Shimadzu army still confused the Chinese company army in front of them with the Ming Dynasty army, thinking that as long as they opened a gap and fought hand-to-hand, they would be defeated. They can seize the opportunity, but the Chinese army is not the Ming Dynasty government army that does not like close combat. They use firearms but are not afraid of close combat. Moreover, many pirate-born warriors are brave and good at fighting. Their spirit of fighting to the death is no better than that of the Shimazu army samurai. Unfortunately, after a series of fierce battles, the samurai warriors of the Shimazu Army who entered the city were unable to break the situation and could only be trapped on a narrow section of the wall more than ten feet long.
Luo Aquan of the special battalion was on duty at the south gate. After being alerted, he immediately led people to throw grenades down. The situation at the south gate was slightly better because the gate tower was taller and the Shimadzu troops here moved slower. They were bombarded by grenades. After that, it was impossible to climb the city for a while. Chen Zhongji happened to be patrolling near the south gate at this time. He immediately climbed up to the south gate to take over Luo Aquan's command and led everyone to throw grenades under the wall. Luo Aquan just had time to support the battle on the east wall. The only way is to use your own special musket from 100 meters away to snipe the Shimadzu samurai who climbed up the wall one by one. After all, personal bravery cannot resist musket bullets, and seize the Shimadzu samurai on the wall - including Hirata who was the first to board the city. Zeng Zong's close friend Tiandu was killed by Luo Aquan. The Chinese Army soldiers swarmed up and regained the wall. They slashed with swords and bayonets and knocked down the few Shimadzu soldiers who had climbed halfway down the wall. Then, grenades were fired again. It started to rain like raindrops without money. Yan Siqi commanded the artillery to load the ammunition and fire from the gun window under the city wall. He didn't care whether there was anyone in the dark outside, he just fired towards the front. Finally, the sky-blasting cannon also fired. Fire was fired, and two exploding bombs fell on the crowd of Shimadzu soldiers who were attacked by the second wave outside the east gate. With a bang, more than 50 Shimadzu soldiers were blown away. The commander of the night attack team sent by Hisamoto Ijuin Ganfu Jianjiu was also seriously injured.
The Shimadzu troops gathered under the wall were bombarded by grenades and bombarded by all kinds of overwhelming firepower. They once again suffered heavy casualties. In addition, the commander was injured. The Shimadzu troops could not hold on any longer and had to withdraw.
After this night attack, the Shimadzu army once again killed more than 120 people and injured more than 200 people.
More than 40 people were killed and more than 50 were injured among the defenders inside the Chinese Commercial Building. This was the largest casualty since the war to defend the commercial building began.
The most troublesome thing is that more than 400 grenades, a defensive weapon, have been consumed again, and there are only a dozen grenades left in the warehouse.
Fortunately, the next night, the Sea Spirit miraculously took advantage of the high tide and sailed to the vicinity of the wall to the north of the merchant house.
100 sailor musketeers and a large amount of ammunition were sent to the shore by boats and bamboo rafts and entered the village wall. Especially the more than 500 grenades were a timely rain from Chen Zhongji.
The Sailor Musketeers have now developed into a mobile force that Yin Feng has at his disposal. Although their organization is the same as the infantry's battalion, sentry, team, etc. system, the number of people in the organization is much smaller. One sentry has 100 soldiers. There is one captain and deputy sentry, who is usually the ship's boatswain. The weapons are equipped with muskets, crossbows, daggers, short spears, and hot and cold weapons. Unlike infantry, which is equipped with all firearms, this is different from that of sailors fighting at sea. During the war, they often needed to jump from the ship to help melee combat. Therefore, the melee combat skills of these sailors were quite good, which just made up for the shortcomings of the merchant guards in melee combat.
For the guards of the commercial center, the most encouraging news is: "Captain Yin has sent troops. Ten thousand troops arrived at Miyako Island ten days ago, and reinforcements will arrive at Naha Port in five days."
Chen Zhongji breathed a sigh of relief; he had been on Ryukyu Island for ten months, and the battle to defend the commercial building had been going on for almost two months. The hard days were finally coming to an end.
The Sea Spirit rushed out of Naha Port at dawn and was chased by dozens of so-called main ships and scout ships of the Shimadzu Army and Navy. It was a single-masted Japanese-style ship of the Shimadzu Army with a superstructure on the hull. It is tall, and it is troublesome to drive around and turn. It is impossible to catch up with a fast sailing ship like the Sea Spirit. Moreover, the Sea Spirit has been back and forth to Naha many times since the Shimadzu Army came to Naha Port. The Japanese have lost sight of it. I couldn't catch up with my temper, so I just pretended to withdraw my troops and return to Hong Kong.
Ijuin Hisamoto, Hirata Masumune and others were sitting in the camp at Naha River North in great distress. Japanese soldiers during the Warring States Period preferred field battles to siege battles. The Satsuma Army, known as the strongest infantry in Japan, actually continued to fight in They were very annoyed by the loss of soldiers and generals under the wall of the small Chinese merchant house.
At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Ryukyu expedition, Kaguyama Hisaka, had just sent a guard to deliver a secret letter. After reading it, both Ijuin Kumoto and Hirata Masumune felt a little at a loss.
The Kawasan clan, to which Kawasama Hisaka belongs, began with Shimazu (Kayama) Shizuhisa, the third son of the Shimazu family's fourth-generation family governor, Tadamune. As a tributary of the Shimazu family, they have served as family elders for generations. When Kawasama Hisaka went to Korea to fight, As the deputy general of Shimazu Yoshihiro, he participated in the Noryang Sea Battle. It was the troops under his command that attacked the turtle ship commanded by Yi Sun-shin and killed him.
Although Ijuin Hisamoto was also descended from a branch of the Shimadzu family, 10 years ago the current head of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Tadashi, killed the family's elder, Ruan Zhongdong, and his son, Ijuin Tadama, and then suppressed Tadong, who had set up a rebellion in the country. The Ijuin clan quelled the so-called "Shōnai Rebellion". Although the Ijuin clan surrendered to the Shimazu clan, they have always been marginalized.
The "Takasago Kingdom Strategy" mentioned in Kagoyama Hisaka's letter, that is, the plan to sneak attack on Taiwan, Ijuin Kumoto and Hirata Masumune didn't know about it at all beforehand. Before the war, they knew that the Tomo Yamaguchi Naotomo also came to Kagoshima, but they went out for the expedition. Afterwards, the whereabouts of Yamaguchi were unknown, and even Yuki Kayama's troops were unknown. It was only then that Ijuin and others knew that these people had gone to Taiwan Port.
The Takasago Country Strategy was launched at the instigation of the Spanish missionary and iron cannon instructor Dasmarinas, with the participation of the shogunate Naotomo Yamaguchi and the Sendai clan. The main force was a large number of wandering ronin. The Tokugawa shogunate simply acquiesced. This sneak attack plan also allowed ronin from all over the country to participate, which essentially drove all the trouble-making desperados to Satsuma Domain. From the perspective of the Tokugawa shogunate, whether the Takasago Kingdom strategy could be successful or not, it would not matter to the shogunate at all. There is no harm. If it succeeds, the Satsuma clan will not be able to swallow up the entire Taiwan, and the shogunate will have to deal with it; if it fails, the responsibility belongs to the Satsuma Shimazu family and has nothing to do with the Tokugawa shogunate. The old fox Tokugawa Ieyasu is now He was focused on dealing with the Toyotomi family in Osaka and had no intention of causing conflicts with foreigners.
Moreover, Chunghwa Company is now well-known, and it is also a large merchant that ships the most Chinese goods to Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate is unwilling to openly fall out with Chunghwa Company and affect its own business interests. Therefore, the shogunate announced a month ago Order: Give preferential treatment to Ming merchants.
In the original plan, after Dasmarinas landed in Taiwan Port, he would send an envoy to report back to Kaguyama Kudaka after the war broke out. Now more than two months have passed since the day of the sneak attack, and all the Ronin troops and Sendai Domain warships that attacked Taiwan have disappeared. There is no news, and the defenders in the Chinese Commercial Building are resolute in defending the walled city, which means that the "Takasago Country Strategy" may have gone bankrupt.
This Chinese store was like a hard-to-gnaw walnut stuck in Shimazu Jun's throat. He couldn't eat it and couldn't let go. This made Huashan Jiugao unable to do anything.
After his troops plundered the entire Ryukyu Islands, they all wanted to return with a full load, and the soldiers and generals had no desire to fight. Therefore, he had to send people to Satsuma Domain to report to Shimazu Tadahashi for instructions, and at the same time send a letter to Ijuin and Hirata to inform them of the truth. , asking them to suspend the attack on the business building and wait for the order from the family leader Shimazu Tadahashi.
At this time, the Shimazu army did not know that the Chuka Company's army had already moved north and was marching into the Satsuma domain.
After the night attack, the area around Naha Port suddenly calmed down. The Shimadzu Army went in batches to the areas around Naha to search for "supplies" and continued to plunder the few remaining belongings of the Ryukyu people. The Shimazu Army of the Kawasaki Division in Shuri The Ryukyu royal family was taken into custody and prepared to go north to Nakijin Castle and then bring them back to Satsuma.
The Ryukyu Royal Guards who were living in various places in Ryukyu gradually heard the news about the Chinese Merchant House in Naha Port, and people kept coming to Prince Shangfeng of Ryukyu. For these former soldiers, Chen Zhongji let them enter the city and let them stationed at the inn of Prince Shangfeng. In the end, Prince Shangfeng had a guard of about 150 people at his residence. However, Yan Siqi led a team of his own troops to station beside the inn. He did not know the situation in Ryukyu as well as Chen Zhongji, so he always remained wary of the Ryukyu people. Later, Chen Zhongji found an opportunity and said to him: "The Ryukyu people are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. As long as we can hold on to the commercial building, they will never dare to have any different intentions."
Yan Siqi shook his head and said, "Even so, it's always right to be careful." He still left more than fifty people to guard the inn, and also transferred 50 of Prince Shangfeng's men to strengthen the defense in the north.