"Ming Jun?"

Takanobu Matsuura's eyes were different in size. He listened to the retainers' return facial expressions, and forgot to close his open mouth.

He actually had the same idea as Naoshima Kaori, and he thought these people were Shimazu Army.

Although Takanobu Matsuura also felt that if the Shimazu family really came over, they would definitely beat him up.

Among the rumors he heard, only the savages from the Satsuma clan had the strength to defeat the elite Ryuzoji army. Now the person who heard the arrival was the Ming army, and Takanobu Matsuura's eyes rolled around several times.

In the entire Kyushu, if there is any family that is most incompatible with the Ming army, it is probably the Matsuura clan, who is hiding on Hirado Island and being suppressed by various forces in turn, without any sense of existence.

Their family fought with the Yuan army and first organized Japanese pirates to plunder in the Central Plains to retaliate against the Yuan army, maintaining the long-term Japanese pirate tradition. Therefore, when he heard the word Ming army, Takanobu Matsuura was frightened and directly ordered the recall of the troops outside the city to repair the city and prepare to surrender.

First defend, then surrender.

But if we talk about which family in Kyushu has the most favorable impression of the Ming Kingdom, it is undoubtedly the Matsuura clan who is hiding on Hirado Island and being rubbed by various forces in turn.

Moreover, the one closest to Ming people in this family is the contemporary head of the family Takanobu Matsuura.

The last Ming Dynasty man who had a deep contact with him was Wang Zhi, the leader of the Ming Dynasty pirates, who brought the bird guns and the Portuguese to Japan.

Takanobu Matsuura once built a gorgeous residence for Wang Zhi in Hirado. Later, because Wang Zhi came to Japan to call himself the owner of Wufeng by Wudao, he simply handed over Wudao to him to garrison the troops to repair the port in order to attract more Ming smuggling maritime merchants to Hirado trade.

That was Hirado and the most glorious moment for Takanobu Matsuura. In the last few years of Wang Zhi's life, the many Ming merchants attracted by Wang Zhi made Hirado Port prosperous unprecedentedly, and its economic prosperity also strengthened the military strength of the Hirado Matsuura clan to a certain extent.

More iron cannons and wealth gave Matsuura Takanobu's strength to unify the Matsuura family, intervened in the inner affairs of the Shisa clan in time, supported his son-in-law Shisa Junyuan, and allowed his son-in-law to take the initiative and control Shisa clan; intervened in the struggle between the Hado clan and the retainer Higashi, and took the opportunity to defeat the Hado clan, obtain Iki, and build the Matsuura clan's largest territory.

Then, Wang Zhi was killed in prison by Hu Zongxian.

It was the Matsuura clan, which was prosperous in time and unprecedentedly, used marriage and other means to stabilize Otomo and Ryuzaoji, but could not stop the economic downturn of Hirado Port.

There was no Wangzhi, no Ming merchants, but Hirado and Nanbarbarians trade. On average, five large Portuguese ships came to Hirado trade every year. However, Matsuura Takanobu, who lost his ally, was very weak to the Portuguese people. He allowed trade and missionary preaching.

The conflict between Buddhists and Chezhidan is getting deeper and deeper. In order to maintain the rule, Takanobu Matsuura had to expel the missionaries. As a result, Tutor Torres, the head of the Bud, said that he was betrayed and told the Nanban ship not to come to Hirado again.

As for merchants, as long as there is profit, missionaries cannot limit most of them, so although the Southern Barbarian ships have become one or two years, there are still people coming to trade.

Then it was the seventh year of Yonglu, and the 43rd year of Jiajing. Juntachi of the Kitchitan Daming Omura opened a port in Nagasaki. This was like the heavens gave Matsuura Takashi's wake up after Wang Zhi's death. Hirado Port was completely declining, leaving only the elderly, weak, sick and disabled Japanese pirates and the increasingly defeated Hirado Port.

Without Ming Shang or Nanman Shang, the Matsuura family would be dying of poverty.

In view of the above reasons, Takanobu Matsuura was extremely cautious about the Ming army god landing in Hirado without knowing it and going to war with the Ryuzoji family under his nose. He did not choose to contact the Ming people immediately, but sent people to the Goji Islands to find Ming pirates who were stranded in Japan.

These people did not appear when he was fighting. Now that the war is over, should they give him some use? They should find out the purpose of the troops stationed in the city for him.

Speaking of which, Takanobu Matsuura was also puzzled, where are his Japanese pirates?

Where are his huge numbers of Japanese pirates with strong combat power?

Actually, there is no need to look for it. His Japanese pirates did not intend to abandon him, but were just scared.

On the way they drove the Guan boat and Xiaozao all the way to help the head of the family, they all found a terrible large fleet docked in the bay not far from Hirado Port.

What would a group of Japanese pirates with strong combat power and well-equipped equipment do when they see the huge Ming warships?

Rob.

What about the result of the robbery?

Even the people and boats sank to the bottom of the sea to feed the whales.

The Japanese pirates and ronin people who witnessed the horror scene were wandering on the sea, and they did not dare to land in Hirado at all, so they summoned Japanese pirates from all over the place to retreat.

Among them were a considerable number of Ming pirates. They were far away from their hometowns and were deeply afraid of the Ming army. They did not hesitate to transfer the bow of the ship to send the news back to the five islands.

While Matsuura Takanobu was waiting for his confidant, Chen Bazhi was not leisurely. He relied on the battle of Kusino Castle to roughly understand the combat power of the regular army of Ryuzaoji, which made him much easier for this trip. He immediately moored the fleet to the shore and ordered the troops to go out everywhere.

Only one thousand households left behind the ships on the sea, two thousand households searched for suitable areas to build trestles on the shore, and the other thousand households led their troops westward to search for islands along the coast.

In fact, these actions are redundant. The only Matsuura family in Hirado Island is the Matsuura family. In order to deal with the troops that Ryuzao Temple has come from Fei, the troops that Hirado can allocate gathered in Kusaro Castle, and those who didn't have time to arrive were all overseas islands, and Hirado did not have any hostile forces.

After waiting for three days, Chen Bazhi's flag army set up camp only four or five miles away from Kusato City. The Matsuura clan in the city was ready for battle, but both sides remained restrained and reserved, and neither wanted to send someone to communicate with each other first.

In this strange peace, the people of the castle town who fled into the mountains returned to their homes. Many people thought that it was the Ming army who drove away the enemy for them, and thought it was the rescue soldiers invited by the Daming Takanobu Matsuura, so they received a very high favor and specially sent some rice and radish. They even taught them to boil radish in salt water and then grind it into a paste and mixed a small amount of rice to eat - the common people eat this.

This allowed Chen Bazhi to collect more information. The Hirado people did not find it strange that Daming invited Ming people to reinforcements. The strangest thing was that they felt that their weapons were much better than Hirado Samurai.

Chen Bazhi turned his head several times before he realized that the Hirado samurai mentioned by the Hirado farmer was not a Japanese person, but a Japanese pirate and descendant of the Japanese pirates who lived in Japan after Wang Zhi's death.

These criminals transformed here and became regular soldiers who were not controlled by the local daimyo, relying on each other, just like the Matsuura Forty-eight Party.

He obtained the information of Takashi Matsuura from the farmers' mouths, and Takashi Matsuura was able to obtain their information through the same means. Chen Bazhi believed that someone would soon invite him to Kusino Castle.

At this critical moment, a warship from Guangdong led the way through several small shark boats and docked on the edge of the pier that Chen Bazhi had not yet built. A veteran who was not wearing armor but had a waist and hip sword came down from the boat. Chen Bazhi knew this man.

The visitor's beard was already gray, and he knew the year of destiny. He bowed to Chen Bazhi with wide robe and big sleeves and said, "Commander Chen, I, Wang Rulong, will be ordered by Chen Shuai to help you fight against the nine islands!"
Chapter completed!