Chapter 11 Ryukyu Province (V)

The noise was noisy, and three days passed quickly. The king and minister of Ryukyu finally came up with a solution, that is, to discuss peace, but how to discuss peace, what are the conditions for peace, the king and minister looked around and were confused.

"Peacekeeping?" Looking at the Ryukyu envoy kneeling under the tent, Hong Chengchou sneered repeatedly, just a trick to delay time.

"When the two armies fight, they will not kill the envoys. Go back and report to your king. Today is the hour of You, that is, before sunset, if the King of Ryukyu does not lead his subjects to surrender, the king's army will blow a piece of Shuri City without a single tiles!" Hong Chengchou snorted angrily, threw the peace letter brought by the envoy of Ryukyu to him, and left with his sleeves.

The envoy of Ryukyu left in panic and brought Hong Chengchou's words back to King Shangfeng and the ministers intact.

When King Shangfeng heard this, he fainted immediately. The palace maids were in a hurry. The imperial doctor pinched the people. King Shangfeng then calmed down. After waking up, he cried bitterly. The ministers saw that King Shangfeng was crying miserably and the future was bleak. They couldn't help but cry. In an instant, the crying sounds on the hall were shocking, which was so miserable.

"What should I do? What should I do? Is it really the heaven that will destroy my Ryukyu?" King Shangfeng shouted sadly.

"Master, for the sake of the present, there is only one battle!" Kawayama Kutao said with a sinister look on his face. Although peace talks are just a delaying strategy, Kawayama Kutao, as a samurai, still feels unhappy, which goes against the spirit of Bushido.

"War, how to fight? The Ming army gathered fifty cannons outside the city. Isn't it that General Huashan knew the power of the cannon?" Wang asked Heling.

"If you don't fight, can you let the king go out of the city and surrender? There will be no more Ryukyu in this world in the future?" Huashan Jiugao sneered.

"The Heavenly Kingdom refuses to negotiate peace, there is no reason, right?" Weng Shengdong said sarcastically.

"Why is the reason? My Ryukyu has already agreed to surrender and the number of tributes paid doubled. Is the Celestial Empire still unsatisfied?" said the prime minister Ju Yin angrily.

"Haha, what you Satsuma Shimazu has obtained from me Ryukyu isn't it thousands of times the annual tribute that the Ming Dynasty has. How could you care about such a little tribute?" Weng Shengdong said tit-for-tat.

"Weng Shengdong, this is the time when I am using people in Ryukyu. I will not care about you. If you are here to deceive the public and disturb people's hearts, I will immediately punish you!" Ju Yin said furiously.

"Responsible for Ju Yin, you just say that you are chopping my head!" Weng Shengdong cursed, "You are a monk who secretly takes over the position of my Liuqiu. You are raising girls in the mansion to provide you with lust. Are you worthy of being the prime minister of my Liuqiu?"

Ju Yin is already quite old. Although he is beyond his reach, he has lost his lust. He has raised many beautiful girls in the prime minister's mansion for him to have fun. This is not a big secret, but being pointed out in public is a kind of humiliation.

"Weng Shengdong, you are too arrogant. Lord Ju Yin is a practitioner. How can you let you be humiliated like this? Come and take this crazy man down!" Ma Liangbi jumped out on the side, acted as Ju Yin's vanguard, and ordered the guards in the hall to say.

"Slow!" Uncle Wang stopped the guard who wanted to come forward to get someone.

"Xiang Sikong, what are you doing? Do you want to protect this arrogant person?" Ma Liangbi said with a harsh look on his face.

"I didn't want to cover him up, but at this time, we were still having internal conflicts here. Isn't it worth it? Now there is less than two hours before the sun sets, and Hong Chengchou has less time left for us." Xiang Heling reminded everyone.

"What do you think you should do?" Ma Liangbi stepped down angrily and glared at Weng Shengdong fiercely, saying that he had let him go.

"General Huashan, if we fight, how many chances of victory will our army have, or how many days can we defend Shuri Castle?" Xiang Heling asked the gloomy Huashan Jiugao.

Kasugao Kaori thought for a while and said, "Three days, at most three days, you must withdraw from Shuri Castle."

"What should I do if I am Shuoli City? What should I do if the people in the city?" asked Zijin Doctor Cai Jian.

"The Ming army is strict and does not violate any violations, and the people should be fine." Ju Yin said sinisterly.

"King, Hong Chengchou said that there is only one chance. If you give it, you will not give it again. If the king does not surrender, you will have to wait until one side is defeated!" The envoy of Ryukyu was already in the six gods, but he forgot such an important sentence and then he remembered it.

"What?" Although he was Wuxin, it was just right to tell him at this time. After hearing this, the king and minister of Ryukyu took a breath, and it seemed that a huge mountain was pressing down on his heart and sinking a little.

King Shangfeng, who had just stopped crying, couldn't stop crying and tears fell down after hearing this. His two old eyes cried almost like ripe peaches.

In panic, everyone's faces were filled with panic. The news just now was like a death-hunting talisman, hitting the hearts of the king and minister of Ryukyu.

"Since you are invincible, why not surrender, right?" King Shangfeng sighed as if his backbone was broken.

"If the king surrenders, I will never surrender!" Huashan Jiugao said loudly.

"The king has decided to lose sincerity, why should the general be stubborn?" Mao Fengyi said.

"I am a retainer of Satsumashimazu, not your Ryukyu minister. It is not a Ryukyu king who will surrender or not! "Haoyama said unruly.

"Bold Huashan Mountain is long high. If you don't surrender, do you want to drag tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Shuri City into the war?" Wang uncle broke out to Heling.

"So what, I will fight this battle!" Huashan Jiugao said arrogantly.

"Old Song, look, the defenders of Shuri City have set up a defensive formation. It seems that the confidence of the monarch and ministers of Ryukyu is still quite good!" Hong Chengchou said happily to Song Xianke.

"Old Hong, have you noticed that the Ryukyu's army guarded the first line of defense. The military discipline was scattered and the morale was low. It didn't seem to have the desire to resist at all. However, the second line of defense behind them was all private soldiers of Satsuma Shimazu. The defense line was arranged with some formations, but the morale did not belong to our army, but it was also commendable. The last line of defense was the palace guard guarding the Shuri Palace. We can't observe it at present, but it was not much better than the Ryukyu's soldiers on the first line of defense." Song Xiance analyzed.

"You mean that the Ryukyu royal family and Satsuma Shimazu have different intentions. Ryukyu doesn't want to fight in this battle, but Satsuma Shimazu has to fight?" Hong Chengchou said understandingly.

"Huashan Jiugao and Juyin have been in charge of the military and political affairs of Ryukyu for many years. Even if the ruler and ministers of Ryukyu surrender, they may not be able to change the decisions of these two people." Song Xiance said.

"You can still use this Ryukyu King." Hong Chengchou said tacitly.

"Come!" Song Xiance shouted softly behind him, and a major staff officer quickly trotted over, whispered a few instructions, the major staff officer nodded repeatedly, and then ran away again.

"Can our shells hit the fortifications of the second line of defense?" Hong Chengchou asked.

"It should be possible, but the current artillery position must be moved forward by 500 meters." The artillery officer said.

"Then move forward five hundred meters!" Hong Chengchou waved his hand unquestionably and gave the order.

"This?" What the artillery staff wanted to say was that the artillery position was too close to the first line of defense, which was very dangerous.

"As the commander-in-chief said, the artillery position must be moved forward before the hour of You!" Song Xiance waved his hand to dispel the doubts of the artillery staff.

"Yes, the position was moved forward five hundred meters before the hour of You!" The artillery officer saluted, turned around and ran down to pass the order.

When the Ryukyu monarch and ministers stared at the huge Western pendulum in the hall, the hour hand pointed to the hour of the hour, and the long self-sounding bell just as it hit the first time, three crisp sounds heard, three green signal fireworks took off, followed by fifty cannons that were roaring like sky, and a strong vibration accompanied by the violent explosion.

Shuri Castle, which had just been restored, was bathed in artillery fire again.

"Master, please make a decision quickly!" Uncle Wang urged Heling anxiously.

Ju Yin and others were all shocked because King Shangfeng had left the hall for a while in the name of washing up, and Wang's uncle Xiang Heling had also made it easy to leave the hall for a while during that time. Could it be that the two of them met secretly and said something?

The tears on King Shangfeng's face seemed to have not been cleaned yet, but he gritted his teeth and made up his mind and said, "The Gu King decided to remove the position of Prime Minister Ju Yin and replace him with Sikong Xiang Heling!"

"Master, what are you doing? You don't have the power to remove your post as a minister!" Ju Yin was shocked, and even the ministers of the pro-Japanese sect in the palace felt that the end of the world was coming.

"Rareless, Ju Yin, you have been in charge of the Prime Minister of Ryukyu for many years, and have been extravagant and debauchery, which has made the people of Ryukyu very difficult. The king is the lord of Ryukyu. Why don't you have the power to remove your position? When someone comes, take Ju Yin down and wait for the sanctions!" Xiang Heling received the authorization of King Shangfeng, so naturally Shangfang's sword was in hand and decided to clear Ju Yin. Huashan had a long high school party.

Soon all the officials of the pro-Japanese faction were taken into custody. Even the father of King Shangfeng, Ma Liangbi, one of the three Sikongs, was placed under house arrest. Weng Shengdong was appointed as the new Sikong, who was fully in charge of the palace guards and the Ryukyu army in Shuri City.
Chapter completed!