At noon that day, Yang Zhen gained a comprehensive understanding of the specific results and losses of his own army in this battle from the reports from Li Lu and Lin Qingye.

In addition to the 731 large and small Japanese slave ships reported by Li Lu in Hirado West Bay, 231 large and small Japanese slave ships and small morning ships were captured, and more than 5,300 Japanese slaves were captured alive.

In addition, Lin Qingye also reported the results obtained since their landing on the island and the siege.

After they landed on the island, when the situation on both sides was unclear at first, land and sea troops quickly seized the old site of Hirado Castle, which had been destroyed due to the plague last year, and captured thousands of soldiers sent by the Matsuura clan to rebuild the city.

Japanese.

Then they forced these Japanese to work as coolies and continued to rebuild Hirado Castle.

The thousands of Japanese masons and carpenters they captured were certainly an important achievement.

In the ensuing battle to guard the fortress at the old site of Hirado Castle, the Loyalty Army led by Lin Qingye, Lin Siye and others led the Youshuying Chaoren troops, relying on the various artillery ammunition and air generals and other military supplies previously obtained from Jinhai Town.

They repelled three strong attacks by more than 10,000 Japanese slaves and caused considerable casualties to the Japanese slaves.

According to the results of the post-war inventory, there were more than 4,100 Japanese slave corpses alone, although most of them were peasant soldiers temporarily recruited by the Matsuura clan, the Kuroda clan, the Nabeshima clan, the Terasawa clan and other feudal lords.

, but there are also retainers and samurai of these feudal lords.

Even the head of the Terasawa family, Terasawa Kengo, was seriously injured while supervising the battle. In the end, he was captured by Lin Qingye and his retainers because he could not retreat in time.

Of course, Lin Qingye's losses were also quite huge.

Not only was the main force of the fleet anchored in Hirado Port severely damaged, losing more than a hundred ships, but also during the battle to guard the fortress at the old site of Hirado Castle, the two thousand soldiers and horses that he and Lin Siye had brought to Hirado Island were killed.

, the total number of employees has been reduced by nearly half.

As for Goto Morikiyo and his more than 200 servants who were brought to Hirado Island by Lin Qingye, they also died on the battlefield of the lower city counterattack.

Yang Zhen actually wanted to use Goto Morikiyo, the second son of the Goto family of the Fukue Domain.

Previously, Lin Chongfan learned a lot about the situation of Japanese slaves from Wu Dao Shengqing, and these situations were finally reported to Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen heard that Goto Mingqing had been very cooperative after his surrender and had the potential to lead the Japanese traitor. Originally, Yang Zhen had intended to summon him after the war to see if he could be used to his advantage.

But when Yang Zhen made this request, the answer he received was that this person had been shot and killed during his second counterattack out of the city.

The more than 200 bow and naginata ashigaru of the Fukue clan he led also suffered all casualties in the counterattack that captured Terasawa Kendaka.

When Yang Zhen learned about this, he had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​forming an army of Japanese slaves and asking them to serve as the leader of the Japanese traitors.

Of course, although the losses of Lin Qingye's troops were not small, compared with the results achieved, it was still worth it.

In addition to capturing a large number of prisoners in this battle, more than 2,800 Japanese iron cannons, also known as matchlock guns, were captured.

There are also 250 large barrels, more than 3,000 bows, more than 4,200 long-handled naginata and large and small waist swords, more than 1,500 burnt fires, and more than 1,000 tents.

There was also an accumulation of rice, gunpowder, sulfur and other supplies.

Correspondingly, the main fleet led by Yang Zhen did not lose a single person or a ship in the naval battle at Hirado West Bay, except for the consumption of some guns and ammunition.

With such results in front of them, both Lin Qingye and the Lin Siye brothers suffered heavy losses, and their military morale was still quite high.

Not to mention the generals of the various battalions of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and the new South Road Naval Battalion brought by Yang Zhen.

After this battle, the anxiety and fear caused by having never fought against the Japanese slaves and knowing nothing about the military force of the Japanese vassals were completely gone.

At the same time, everyone was gearing up for the next action, shouting and killing the feudal vassals in the western part of Kyushu, the Japanese slave country that participated in the war, especially the Iki Matsura clan and the Ma Zong clan.

As for Yang Zhen himself, after experiencing this war, he felt more confident, and the idea that popped up in his heart not long ago became clearer.

On the morning after the naval battle in Hirado West Bay, that is, on the morning of July 18, the 14th year of Chongzhen's reign, around 1:00, Yang Zhen asked people to rely on the old wall at the place where the original Hirado Castle castle tower was.

He set up a tall and spacious tent, and summoned the captured and surrendered feudal lords in it.

Among the feudal lords who were summoned, there were two from the Matsuura family of the Hirado domain, three from the Fukuoka Kuroda family, two from the Saga Nabeshima family, one from the Karatsu domain, the Terasawa clan, one from the Omura clan, and one from the Shimabara domain, the Kori clan.

One person, one person from the Tsuima clan.

Two people from the Matsuura family of the Hirado Domain were Hizen Matsuura Shigenobu, the lord of the Hirado Domain, who moved to Iki Island to escape the plague, and his uncle Ikimori Matsuura Hironobu of the Hirado Domain.

Originally, there was another Matsuura Nosada of the Hirado Domain, Matsuura County, but this Matsuura Nosada was ordered to lead a team to block Hirado Port. Seeing that the situation was not right, he directly fled and fled back to Matsuura County.

The three people from the Fukuoka Kuroda family are Kuroda Tadayuki, the feudal lord of the Fukuoka feudal clan, Kuroda Takamasa, the feudal lord of the Akizuki clan, a branch of the Fukuoka clan, and Kuroda Takamasa, the feudal lord of the Higashirenji clan, a branch of the Fukuoka clan.

As for the two people from the Saga Nabeshima clan, they are Nabeshima Masashige, the chief of the Saga Domain's main domain, and Nabeshima Masashige, the chief of the Kashima domain of the Saga Domain.

The last few remaining are the lord of the Karatsu Domain, Kendaka Terasawa, the lord of the Omura Domain, Junnobu Omura, the lord of the Shimabara Domain, Takarikatsu Tadabo, and the lord of the Tsushima Domain, Muneyishari.

Some of these large and small lords of the Western Kyushu feudal lords were affiliated with the Wonu Hizen Kingdom, and some were affiliated with the Wonu Chizen Kingdom.

But regardless of whether they belong to the same kingdom, they have a very close relationship with the Matsuura clan, either as former allies or actual marriage relationships.

Even many of these families were originally members of the pirate gang Matsuura Party.

This time, they accepted the call and request of Matsuura Shigenobu, the head of the Matsuura clan, the lord of Hirado domain and Hizen governor Matsuura Shigenobu, and sent troops to help the Matsuura clan. They originally thought they would recapture Hirado Island and the Goto clan's five islands from the Minami Sandō navy of the Toyō people.

Archipelago is a piece of cake.

Moreover, after recapturing Hirado Island and the Goto Islands, they could also accuse the North Korean people of invading Hizen Kingdom, send troops to capture the North Korean people's Jeju Island, and even go to the North Korean people's Nansan Road to plunder.

After all, the plague that raged from last winter to the turn of spring and summer caused heavy losses to the daimyo of Kyushu Island, and they were unable to make up for the losses without going out to sea to grab some supplies.

And because in the past, the Matsuura clan had almost always called for the vassals to go out to sea to plunder, so they thought it was the same this time.

However, what they never expected, and what they regretted at the same time, was that behind the so-called North Korea Minami Three Marines that took advantage of the opportunity to enter Hirado Island, there would actually be an army with powerful firepower waiting for an opportunity.

move.

Now they have figured out that what is targeting them is not the so-called Qing Dynasty that was rumored to have conquered the Koreans last winter, but the Ming Dynasty that was rumored to have repeatedly defeated the Qing army with its powerful navy and expanded its power to Jeju Island.

General of the country.

"Shangshang, may I ask how you call your superiors?"

A group of daimyo, the lords of western Kyushu, and young Japanese with daimyo status were led by Zhang Guogan himself to a tent early in the morning and were waiting for them with a group of musketeers.

After waiting for more than an hour, Yang Zhen, the real leader who ordered to summon them, arrived.

And when Yang Zhen led a group of people into the tent, and sat down on the upper seat with his back to the north and south, the head of the Matsuura clan and the lord of the Hirado domain, Hizen Matsuura Shigenobu, straightened up from where he was kneeling and spoke.

Yang Zhen was asked about his identity.

And the words he spoke were not Japanese, but Ming Southern Mandarin with a southern Fujian accent.

This made Yang Zhen a little stunned for a moment, but soon Yang Zhen realized it and knew that there must be Tang Tongshi beside him.

The reason why the feudal lords of Kyushu Island were more powerful in the Wonu Kingdom was because they were located in the south of the Wonu Kingdom. In the past, they had been doing business with the Ming Dynasty and foreign barbarians, and they had many Tang officials around them.

In order not to be deceived by Tang Tongshi or middlemen, many of them would hire Tang Tongshi to teach their family members some Ming Dynasty Mandarin.

And because most of the Tang officials who lived in Hirado, Nagasaki and other places were from Fujian and Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty Mandarin they learned had a strong Fujian and Zhejiang accent.

But no matter what, it would be good if you could speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin, so as not to have to communicate with them through their Tang officials.

Yang Zhenfang didn't arrive for a long time. In fact, he didn't mean to neglect them and kill their prestige.

Yang Zhen is not willing to play such a trick with them, and he doesn't even bother to play such tricks with them.

The reason why he asked them to wait here for so long was actually because Yang Zhen went to the prisoner of war camp to select Tang Tongshi.

From yesterday morning to this morning, Lin Qingye and Li Lu commanded various troops to identify more than 5,300 surrendered Japanese slaves one by one and imprisoned them in the newly built prisoner of war camp on the island.

Moreover, according to Yang Zhen's instructions, they also registered the retainers, feudal officials, ashigaru fantou, group leaders of each feudal clan, and some named people among them.

Among them, several Tang generals serving in the Hirado Domain, Fukuoka Domain, and Saga Domain were registered.

Yang Zhen selected the oldest one among these people, whose name seemed a bit familiar and who worked for the Matsuura clan, Tang Tongshi, and brought him over, preparing to use him as an interpreter.

This skinny old man, who has almost become a Japanese slave, is named Taguan Wengyuhuang.

The surname Tagawa reminded Yang Zhen of Zheng Chenggong, because Zheng Chenggong's mother, Tagawa Song, was born in the Tagawa clan of Hirado.

As for Taguan Weng Yuhuang, Yang Zhen also asked about it. His real name was Weng Yuhuang. He was from southern Fujian. Because he married the Taguan family's widowed daughter, he took the surname of the Tianchuan family.

As for whether and what kind of relationship he had with Zheng Chenggong's mother, Yang Zhen did not ask.

At this time, Emperor Tianchuan Wengyu was waiting for the summons outside the tent.

However, when Yang Zhen saw that some of the feudal lords he summoned could speak Ming Dynasty Mandarin, he immediately did not summon him to come in, but directly said to the young man who straightened up and looked at him:

"Who are you? Tell me your name!"

"I am the head of the Matsuura clan, the head of the Hirado clan, and the guardian of Kyushu Hizen Kingdom, Matsuura Shigenobu!"

"Are you Matsuura Shigenobu?!"

"That's right, I am Matsuura Shigenobu! How do you call your superior?"

When Yang Zhen was about to order the summons for these feudal lords, he had already learned about the general situation of these feudal lords from Lin Qingye and Li Lu in advance.

He had already heard that Matsuura Shigenobu, the current lord of the Hirado clan who could command one side, was very young and was the youngest among the daimyo of the western Kyushu clan captured this time.

But when Yang Zhen saw with his own eyes that the arrogant young man in front of him claimed to be Matsuura Shigenobu, he was still stunned.

Because Shigenobu Matsuura is too young, probably around 20 years old.

He alone can summon thousands of ships and more than 15,000 Japanese slaves?!

But seeing the indifferent, calm and depressed expressions of the other Japanese slave lords present, Yang Zhen had no choice but to believe it.

"Haha, that's fine. I have to let you know whose hand I lost to. I am Yang Zhen, General of the Ming Dynasty Zhengdong. You can call me Your Excellency the General!"

"General of the Ming Dynasty's March to the East? Well, General - Your Excellency General, my Matsuura family has nothing to do with Your Excellency the General, why did the General raise an army to invade?"

Although the title of general was very noble in the Ming Dynasty, there were many generals of various kinds in the Ming Dynasty, and their level of dignity was naturally incomparable to that of the Japanese slaves.

Because now there is only one general in the Wonu Kingdom, and that is the so-called General Zhengyi.

From the Muromachi shogunate a long time ago, to the Kamakura shogunate, and now to the Tokugawa shogunate, the shoguns are all the truly powerful figures in the Wonu Kingdom.

The so-called emperor of the Wonu Kingdom, who is known as the eternal lineage, is just a mascot with no real power who is controlled by the shogun.
Chapter completed!