Warring States Eagle

After relocating the newly occupied territories and adjusting the station of the standing squadron, Zheng Liang immediately issued an order to demolish some of the fortresses and sea bans.

The purpose of dismantling the walled city is the same as that of relocating the people in the war zone. It mainly takes into account the need for confidentiality of the territory and the purpose of preventing hostile forces from sending spies into the territory to the greatest extent. At the same time, it also avoids the resistance caused by rebels in the territory. The situation is even more to avoid the need to send manpower to guard.The ones that need to be gradually demolished this time are Hinoe Castle (also known as Hinoe Castle), Antoku Castle, and Uki Castle in Nanhizen; Otsuura Castle and Hondo Castle in Higo Amakusa County.

Sea prohibition.It is also implemented in the need of keeping the territory secret and protecting the territory.At present, the main places where Luo’s family can open fishing to the citizens are Imari Bay, Orange Bay, Omura Bay and Ariake Sea, while Karatsu Bay, Genkai Beach, Hirado Coast, Nagasaki Coast, Amakusa Beach, Shimabara Bay, Yatsushiro Sea Fishing is prohibited in all sea areas occupied by the country.In these waters where the sea ban is imposed, only the existence of the ships of the Luo family's navy or the remaining ships ordered by Zheng Liang himself are allowed.Once the rest of the fishing boats and merchant ships appear, they will be inspected and attacked by the Luo family's navy.

Of course, in order to increase income, the Luo family has set up Hizen's Hirado Island as a free trade island. Any ship that abides by the island's laws and regulations will be able to dock on the island and conduct transactions without tax charges.In addition to participating in the transactions on the island, the Luo family will also charge certain docking fees for ships docked on the island.The order of the island is maintained by the Second Standing Navy Division and some farmers and soldiers temporarily hired in Hizen Matsuura County.

In addition, after completely controlling Amakusa County, Zheng Liang is also preparing to open the sea checkpoint guarded by Jiu Yucheng on Amakusa Island.A certain transit fee is charged.Kuyu Castle is separated from Nagashima City on Satsuma Nagashima by a bay.Long Island and Amakusa Island form a relatively wide strait to the west.The land of Nagashima Satsuma Izumi also forms a relatively narrow strait.

Usually when the merchant ships of the Higo family go to sea.They all enter Amakusa Beach through the Yatsushiro Sea from these two straits, and then go to sea.The strait on the side of Amakusa Island is closer to Jiudama City, so it has been controlled by Jiudama City. It used to be one of the important sources of finance for the Amakusa family, but now it has become a source of income for the Luo family.

After these things were on the right track, Zhengliang began to take revenge on the invasion of Luo's family's sea area by the rich families of Higo.

actually.The revenge has already begun.

At the beginning, with the help of the Oyano family, the Luo family captured Tianping Castle in one fell swoop, and took over the main force of the naval forces of the Nawa, Kakoki, and Uchizara families.

Afterwards, by exchanging Minghe Xingzhi and Uchikawa Zongzhi, the Minghe family was forced to cooperate with the Luo family, and in the name of discussing important matters, the family governor of the Otsupu family and the Sumoto family were lured to the Hongmen Banquet prepared by the Luo family, and finally forced the Dajinpu family to cooperate with the Luo family. The family and the Sumoto family surrendered and surrendered, thus forming a joint navy of the Luo family, the Otsuura family, the Sumoto family, and the Oyano family, and set up an ambush to defeat the Amakusa family's navy in one fell swoop.

As for the Shiki family navy that turned against the water at that time, it was Zhengliang who used 25 Dutch boats to secretly transport the Sixth Standing Navy Division led by Enjoji Shinyin in Fukuda City, Nagasaki Peninsula, to Amakusa Island.Then overnight, the bay where the Shiki family was located was controlled, and then the Shiki family was forced to help lure the Amakusa family into the ambush circle.

It is worth mentioning that.During the battle in Higo Amakusa County, in addition to seizing many navy ships from the powerful families in Amakusa County, they also captured many merchant ships and Dutch ships. At present, there are [-] Dutch ships and [-] merchant ships in the cabinet of the Luo family. up.

The so-called paper cannot keep fire. The news that the Luo family controlled Higo Amakusa County would be spread by the Nawa family and the Kakoki family sooner or later. Therefore, after completely controlling the newly occupied territory in secret, Zheng Liang simply came. The first mover made people spread the name and family's betrayal of allies in the Kakoki family and other territories, and assisted the Luo family to seize Amakusa County.

Seeing it from the wealthy families around, it seems that this is really the case!You see, Minghe Xingzhi and Uchikawa Zongzhi returned to the Minghe family safe and sound, but the other two generals who followed them are still in the hands of the Luo family. If there is no problem with the Minghe family, then hell up.For a while, the Nawa family had to send people to put out the fire, especially sending emissaries to their traditional allies, the Sagara family and the titular main family, the Otomo family.

The name and family suddenly fell into a situation where they were besieged on all sides, but Zheng Liang didn't mean to let the name and family go.Because in addition to the two generals of the Nawa family being captured by the Luo family, the Luo family also captured a lot of relatives of the Nawa family, samurai and ordinary soldiers during the First World War in Tianping City.

Ordinary soldiers will naturally be escorted to Hizen as the leaders of the Luo family, and they can even be added to the Luo family's army.But if you want these soldiers to return to their hearts, they cannot be alone, and their families are also needed.

So, Zheng Liang asked Nawajia to tell him.I don't plan to take those loyal family warriors of yours, and I will exchange them with the family members of the rest of the ordinary soldiers.If I don't want those kin warriors, I will cut them all down.Of course, this quid pro quo was simultaneously spread to the Nawa family's territory.

Upon hearing the terms of exchange, Ming and Wutou, the governors of the Nawa family, were immediately furious.Hizen Eagle, aren't you roasting me on the fire?If I don't agree, not only the families of the relatives and samurai will resent me, but even the general citizens will have objections to me; what if I agree?Although he has won the loyalty of his relatives and warriors, he will not only lose a group of leaders, but also be reviled by the rest of the people.So Ming and Taketou seem to be entangled.

Ming and Taketou here are struggling, but Zhengliang over there can't wait any longer.He beheaded a samurai directly, and sent his head to Nawa Taketou, and told him clearly that within half a month, one less family member of the ordinary soldiers who was captured was not sent to Tianping City, so Nahejia and others The captured relatives and warriors would not be left behind, after all, it would be a waste of food to keep these people.Faced with such a threat from Zhengliang, Minghe Wutou had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree to Zhengliang's terms with tears in his eyes.So Zhengliang sent cabinet officials to take over these citizens, but at the same time sent people to publicize this transaction in the Nawa family's territory, causing the popularity of the Nawa family to drop again and again.

Now that the affairs of the Nawa family have come to an end, it is time to take revenge on the Kakoki family and the Uchikan family.Although during this time, the two families jointly sent several groups of envoys, expressing their willingness to exchange their generals and soldiers back with money and food, and it would be even better if the Luo family was willing to return those navy ships.

Zheng Liang scoffed at the demands of these two families.He directly asked the Third Standing Navy to launch a sweeping operation against the water forces off the coast of Higo Shimabara.

In the Battle of Tianping City, the main naval forces of Kakoki's family and Naiyou's family were wiped out, so in fact, there were not many remaining naval forces along the coast of their territory. Therefore, under the attack of Luo's family's naval forces, the two The navy forces in China were almost completely destroyed.

After the sweep was over, on the water of Shimabara Bay, apart from the navy of the Luo family, not even a fishing boat of the Higo family could be seen.The eight Guan boats and twenty Xiaozao seized this time were assigned to the Second Standing Navy Squadron.There are currently 120 navy ships of the Second Standing Navy Division and 43 ships have been shut down.The captured fishing boats were directly allocated to the Cabinet for disposal.

After the mopping up, Zhengliang, who had returned to Kishidake Castle, ordered the navy to implement a three-grab strategy of "robbing people, looting, and food" along the coast of Higo Shimabara Bay.

Snatching people refers to snatching all the shipwrights and leaders along the coast of Higo Shimabara Bay to Hizen as the leaders of the Luo family; snatching things naturally means taking away all valuable things seen along the coast. Including the wood for shipbuilding and the fishing boats hidden in the river, etc.; the grain grabbing is to help the wealthy people along the Feihou coast to harvest grain. Of course, the grain finally enters the pockets of the Luo family.

For these intrusions, it is not that the wealthy families of Higo Shimabara Bay have not responded. When they were robbed, they once sent troops to drive them away, but after being beaten by the executioners, Tetsunosuke, and Asakura Sodi After several ambushes, they retreated back to the city wall.After all, apart from the enemy of the Luo family, other wealthy families around Feihou also came from hungry wolves. If one was accidentally injured by the Luo family, it might be taken advantage of by other wealthy families, so they wisely preserved their strength.

During the implementation of the "Three Robbery" strategy, Zhengliang also carried out a captive exchange transaction with Kakoki's family and Uchida's family.Zhengliang returned the captured warriors of the two families to the two families, and the two families sent the family members of the ordinary soldiers captured by the Luo family to the Luo family. After that, these ordinary soldiers and their families would be dispersed and resettled in the Luo family. Settle in various places in the home territory.As for the inner empty town house and Kakoki inspector who were captured by the Luo family, they still need to continue to be slaves in the Luo family.Before Zhengliang thinks of a better exchange, they will continue to live as slaves.

Of course, the reason why the relatives and warriors of the two families were exchanged back was that Zhengliang's main purpose was to maintain the balance of power among the rich clans of Higo.Once too many samurai as the backbone were lost, the strength of the Nawa, Kakoki and Uchikan family would be greatly reduced, and under the intrusion of the Luo family, they would be easily eaten away by the surrounding tycoons.

Such a result was not what Zheng Liang hoped to see.He didn't want to make wedding dresses for others, and in the end he increased the strength of the rest of the rich and powerful families out of thin air.

Of course, under the condition that the limit is well controlled, the "three grabs strategy" will continue to be implemented.In the same way, Zhengliang also used the same method to deal with Minghejia. While exchanging prisoners with the two families, while launching a three-grab strategy, Zhengliang also sent a large number of detectives into the territories of the two families to spread rumors. reputation has declined dramatically. (To be continued..)