In Nagasaki Harbor, where cherry blossoms are flying, there is a noisy scene of gongs and drums, with bustling heads and roaring salutes.

Tens of thousands of troops stationed in the suburbs are now carrying guns and weapons, standing on the roadside in the spring breeze, ready to go.

The merchant ships and warships in the bay are densely packed like ants, untied their cables and anchors, waiting for military orders to set sail.

dr On April 1, 1994, Major General Ferie Taylor set out again at Nagasaki Port after completing rest and replenishment.

In this southern expedition, in order to show off his military power and shock the dissatisfied people from all directions, the new imperial court in Nagasaki dispatched almost the entire army, mobilizing 15,000 Giant Bear Army and 5,000 Fleet of the Far East Fleet of the Naseril Empire and 5,000 Marines. The total force was more than 20,000, and it was claimed to be 50,000 to the outside world. At the same time, it set off from Nagasaki Port in Xijing, and went south to fight against the Satsuma tribe of the Shimazu family - the only vassal state in Kansai area that was still insisting on resisting after the destruction of the Hoshikoshi court.

In fact, there was no suspense in the entire battle from the beginning - before sending troops, the Shimazu family had already surrendered.

The Shimazu family, which originally ruled the Satsuma family, was rashly organized all the strong men of the vassals to form an army when they were ravaged by the Naserel Marines, crossed the dangerous space portal and threw them into the flesh and blood mill on the battlefield in the Gyeonggi. In the end, the radiation disease occurred due to the use of the inferior portal, which was wiped out by the calamity.

Therefore, this vassal state, which originally had a total population of less than 400,000, had lost about 30,000 young and middle-aged men at one time, and the whole vassal was almost empty. None of the adult men of the Shimazu clan survived, and there was no remains of the weapons and ammunition in the vassal (all of them were plundered to Kyoto). In the vassal state, Satsuma and Osumi were now left with only a group of orphans and widows, and a small number of old, weak and disabled soldiers, led by the wife of the vassal state, barely supported the empty vassal state under the leadership of the vassal state.

Like these, a group of yellow-faced women holding bamboo guns, pot lids and kitchen knives, and dying old men who were panting all day long with rusty knives, and little kids who were not as tall as knives, naturally they did not have much combat power.

After meeting a small number of warriors who escaped from the Nagasaki stronghold and barely repelled the tentative invasion of the Hinaga National Neighbors (a bunch of soft eggs that even women could not beat), facing the tens of thousands of sea and land troops that were eyeing the new court, the widow of the vassal lord did not even have the courage to insist on fighting, so he sent an envoy to Osaka to secretly discuss the surrender of the Satsuma family to the new court that had not moved at that time.

If this momentum continues, the Satsuma clan would have been "proud" for a period of time, and like the other vassal states on Kyushu Island, they would have "opened the city without blood" to the Giant Bear Legion, and then deposed or transferred out.

However, as time goes by, the situation within the Satsuma Domain has once again undergone subtle changes...

——From late December, after the destruction of Kyoto and the defeat of Emperor Renko's departure spread, the Kansai vassals soon broke out in a frenzy of turning against each other. The conservative families of the vassals launched mutinies or coups one after another, deposed and purged the radicals who had just been in power, returned to power, and turned against the winners in Osaka in order to keep their wealth and wealth.

During this period, almost every day, countless radical warriors were forced to seduce the stomach, and many more were imprisoned or exiled to the barren mountains.

Therefore, radical samurai in Kansai was either unwilling to fail or simply to save his life, and they all left the vassal states to escape. Some crossed the ocean, some crossed mountains and ridges, and successively sneaked into the only Satsuma vassal state that had not yet turned against him, trying to regroup here and make a comeback.

The conservatives in power in various vassals also wished to cause trouble to the outside world to avoid causing their own casualties. Therefore, they only banned the fugitives on the surface, but secretly gave the green light... As a result, in just a few dozen days, there were more than 3,000 radical samurai soldiers from all over the country who fled to the Satsuma vassal for a time. If they were accompanied by family and servants, they could actually bring in nearly 10,000 people.

The widow of the Shimazu family's vassal lord, as the male members of the Shimazu family were killed and injured, and the hearts of the people were dispersed to the extreme. The rich families in the countryside no longer obeyed the orders, so they could only gather seven or eight samurai and more than a hundred poor soldiers in the city.

As a result, under the impact of nearly 10,000 exiles entering the country, a funny situation of the sacred bird's nest soon appeared in the Satsuma tribe.

——Because the widow's personality was a little weaker, she could not make up her mind to prohibit them from entering the country at the beginning, and the situation quickly became out of control. First, there were several villages by the sea, and then Kagoshima Town... In the end, due to the lack of the minimum suppression force, she could not even control Kagoshima Castle, and could only hide in Sakurajima in the bay with her only daughter in order to seek peace.

The problem is that even though she was tolerant to this point, the refugees still insisted on making her decisions. There was a samurai leader who brought hundreds of people from Shikoku Island to cross the sea. At this time, he still did not forget to fight for power and profit. He climbed onto Sakura Island repeatedly and made trouble, wanting to force his widow of the former vassal lord Shimazu Noschi, to gain the honor of the lord of Satsuma...

In this regard, the relatively knowledgeable widow of Shimazu family was really both angry and funny. Tens of thousands of troops from the new imperial court had already been pressed into Nagasaki, and there were Western warships on the coastline often patrolling. The destruction of you people was day and night, but you didn't think about how to clear your relationship and try to save your life. You were still thinking about distinguishing each other... If you want to remarry such a stupid person, wouldn't you be tired of living?

But the problem is that the brainless suitor had more than a hundred strong men under his command, but there were only two or three big cats and kittens around her. He couldn't resist it. He was so frustrated that he could not help but scream. In the end, it was absolutely necessary. The poor widow had to leave the territory and ignore the private property of the dead ghost husband. She took a dozen confidant maids and servants to escape to Seed Island further south to take refuge.

Then, in mid-March, she took the cruiser of the Far East Fleet of the Naserier Empire who had been patrolling Seed Island by chance, came to Nagasaki Port to meet Emperor Kumazawa, and on behalf of the Shimazu family, returned the official position, resigned from the office, and received a pardon, and then received a letter of pardon, and since then she started to be a public servant in Nagasaki Port... Well, it seems that it should be said that it was her mother or sister... Anyway, she just stepped down and retired and left the matter.

Since even the Shimazu family, who was the vassal lord, had this attitude, the other tyrants in the Satsuma vassal were naturally even more unwilling to resist.

Therefore, after the Giant Bear Legion crossed mountains and ridges from the north and entered the border of the Satsuma vassal state, there were often several kind-hearted old men and women who came to reward the soldiers with wine, vegetables, food, and rice to avoid disaster. Some people were willing to act as guides and porters so that the chaos could end as soon as possible.

Before this, there were even some local tyrants who had not relocated with the vassal lords and relocated, and they actually brought their own swords, guns, bows and horses to come to the army to serve.

In the eyes of these speculators, although Kyushu Island was directly under the jurisdiction of the new court, it still had to appoint a group of local officials to manage it. If you can take advantage of this last battle and perform well in front of Shangguan, you may be able to get a single official position - everyone knows that this country will be pacified, and anyone with a little ambition wants to make as much benefit as possible for themselves before this last moment.
Chapter completed!