Kaimachi was a small commercial town that emerged during the Warring States period, and the original meaning of the town was actually the dividing line between the fields and the fields, but in Japan it gradually evolved into a gathering place for ordinary people, merchants, and craftsmen.

In the history of Japan, the concept of hierarchy was very prominent, with the emperor living in the imperial palaces of Kyoto and Nara, where the ministers were concentrated, and the local daimyo living in their own cities.

Japan's castle is actually a castle in Europe, and it was built for military purposes from the beginning, and there are too many sporadic wars in Japan, and if the generals and their wives and children don't live in the castle, God knows when they will be wiped out by the enemy.

Therefore, the city in the mouth of the Japanese is a castle, not the city in the mouth of the Chinese. The city where the people live is called a town in Japan.

Relying on the protection of the daimyo castle, a large number of people often gathered under the castle, and in peacetime they lived and worked in the castle town, and in the event of war, they could quickly flee into the castle to avoid the war.

Japan is a mountainous country, and most of the castles are built on the hills with the help of the terrain, and the towns attached to the castles are naturally built on the slopes and plains below the castles, so most of the towns are called castle towns.

Of course, there will be an exception, and that is the famous Kai Town of the Warring States of Japan, which is a pure commercial town very different from the ordinary castle town, and the closest to his residence is Ishiyama Honganji, which was later renamed Osaka.

However, the distance between them is still a full 40 kilometers, and such a distance is not able to control the city at all. Of course, there is no need to control it, the purpose of the Kaimachi is to ask for the control of the daimyo, and what they want is the freedom of the merchants.

During the Warring States period, Kaimachi merchants controlled almost all of Japan's musket and artillery trade, and it was the most prosperous foreign trade port in the Gyeonggi region.

The merchants, who had huge sums of money and controlled the supply of foreign guns, began to seek independence, and they not only made money but also gained a lot of political rights, such as their own army, such as the promise that the daimyo would not attack, and gradually the Kaimachi had a bit of an independent financial center.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he was the Switzerland of Japan during the Warring States period, and the army raised by the financial resources of Kaimachi was very well-equipped, and even the daimyo would not dare to bully these merchants.

When the Tokugawa shogunate unified the whole of Japan, the arms trade suddenly plummeted, and the merchants of Kaimachi no longer had a good time making money every day.

In addition, the political and economic center was shifted to Edo, and the town began to decline for more than 200 years, until after the Meiji Restoration, the town began to slowly merge with the city of Osaka, and after World War II, the commercial city no longer existed, and it became a part of Osaka, leaving only many monuments that are very impressive.

Today, none of the people of Kai Town would have imagined that dozens of merchant ships would come to the sea during the war, and look at the heavy waterline, everyone knows that the big deal is coming, and how many goods must be loaded to be pressed like this.

Excited merchants and stevedores all gathered at the wharf to try to grab more business, shouting the names of their firms, loudly introducing their credibility and financial strength, and boasting that they could underwrite the goods of a million silver coins.

The competition of those stevedores has accumulated even more, and it was not easy to find jobs for the workers in Kaimachi, but now where can they stand during this time, countless Osaka refugees have come to grab business, and the two groups of people have raised their fists without saying a few words, and the entire dock is in chaos.

The people leaning on the beach were squeezed and crackled down, and the scolding was incessant, and the cries of women and children shook the sky.

In the midst of the chaos, the front merchant ship approached the pier, and before it could put down its pedals steadily, a group of samurai with flags on their backs suddenly flashed on the deck of the ship, and they turned over and jumped from the deck onto the pier, without saying a word, thinking about the Kaimachi and killing him.

"Brother Duck...... Control all channels...... Death to those who stand in the way!" a large head rolled into the sea with a flash of light, and the bloody arrows sprayed more than three feet high.

"Murder ......" The crowd collapsed at once, and then they realized that what they were waiting for was not buying and selling, but the devil who killed people.

"Give way, give way...... Those who give way don't kill...... We are samurai of generals, not pirates...... Get on your knees and stay out of your hand!"

More and more merchant ships approached the pier, and more and more samurai jumped off, followed by a group of Japanese soldiers carrying the latest Remington rifles.

The eyes of the merchants of Kai Town suddenly lit up, and their ancestors had been selling weapons since the time of their ancestors, and they were more sensitive to muskets than ordinary people.

"Oh my boy, this is going to Osaka, such a good musket...... This, this, this is definitely the general's killer weapon!"

The businessmen who wanted to understand hurriedly spread the word left and right, "Don't resist, don't escape, as long as we stay honestly, there will be no danger, all kneel, hurry up and ......"

The merchants still had prestige in Kaimachi, and soon the crowd calmed down, and the samurai stopped killing.

However, there are always some people who do not listen to others, especially the refugees who have fled from Osaka, who have just experienced the war, and they are the most cautious when they see the army coming, and they are so frightened that they scatter and flee in all directions, rushing out of the roads of Kai Town.

How could the Tokugawa army let them leak their secrets, and with the order to kill the flagship, this group of samurai chased them out frantically all over the mountains.

"Whoever escapes from the trench will be killed!"

The samurai rushed out with their helmets and armor in an attempt to kill the fleeing civilians, but the samurai in armor would certainly not be able to outrun the civilians in civilian clothes or even in their crotch trousers!

At this time, the rifle team had just come ashore, and even if it was too late to chase. At the most chaotic moment, the Japanese commander-in-chief of the army appeared.

At the bow of a merchant ship, the lord of the Aizu domain, Matsudaira Yoho, who was thirty years old and in the prime of life, sneered at the fleeing civilians and suddenly shouted, "Where is the Wakamatsu Castle Youth Troop?

Before the words fell, hundreds of samurai in civilian clothes suddenly rushed out of the new army on the docks, with an average age of seventeen or eighteen, and these immature faces were the proud youth team of the Aizu Domain.

In the real history of the Battle of Nihonmatsu in the Boshin War, these boys' teams once fought a decisive battle with the fallen army, and the youngest was only 12 years old. In that real war, none of the boys' team surrendered and fled, and all of them died.

This was the pride of the Aizu Domain, and it was for this reason that Matsudaira Yoho gained the greatest trust of the Tokugawa family.

Historically, the most stubborn resistance of the Tokugawa clan in the Boshin War and the greatest casualties to the Shogunate army was the Aizu Domain, and under the leadership of Matsudaira Yoho, the entire Aizu Domain fought to the last man.

After the victory of the new government forces, the Choshu Domain's war dead were condemned as "thieves" and were not allowed to be buried, and their bodies were exposed to the wind and sun for a long time, or pecked by birds and beasts. During the entire Boshin War, the humiliation of the bodies of the dead after the Aizu War was the most brutal, and some people were even imprisoned for several days for burying the dead. Half a year later, the burial of the dead was allowed due to the epidemic of the epidemic, and the burial of the remains was also very extreme.

Because the way Aizu dealt with it after the war was too cruel, the people of Aizu had a grudge against the Choshu Domain for more than 100 years. Even the people of Fukushima Prefecture (renamed Aizu Domain), which has entered the modern era, are still nostalgic about the Aizu War.

After the end of the Boshin War, when the military and other government agencies recruited people, most of them were recruited from Yamaguchi Prefecture (Choshu Domain). Conversely, in World War I, the Aizu people were generally sent to battlefields where there was little hope of survival.

For the citizens of Aizu-Wakamatsu City, the war reminded them not of World War II, but of the Boshin War. The people of Fukushima Prefecture do not interact with people from Yamaguchi and Kagoshima prefectures. The people of Aizu-Wakamatsu City refused to allow people from Yamaguchi Prefecture to stay, and even taxi drivers refused to allow them to ride.

In 1986, Hagi City, the former Choshu feudal castle, believed that the war had been over for nearly 120 years, and proposed to form a friendship city with Aizu-Wakamatsu City in order to reconcile the people of the two places, but the people of Aizu-Wakamatsu City refused.

What kind of hatred is this! Being able to make a feud to this point shows the tragedy of the war in those years.

Matsudaira Rongbao gave an order, and the young soldiers who were brainwashed by Zhongjun's thoughts rushed to the mountains and forests, they had a small knife in their left hand, a big knife in their right hand, and some people even had a rib in their mouth.

They have long been accustomed to shuttling in the mountains and forests, and their speed is comparable to that of long-distance runners, and their agility is comparable to that of apes. Soon the children overtook the heavily armored warriors and gradually approached the fleeing people.

"Kill!" A burst of applause, the little knife rolled and flew straight ahead, piercing the back of the heart with a knife, and then the rib cha was cut with a gentle touch of the throat.

The young army did not hesitate and continued to assault forward, and with a slight drag of the long sword, the back of the escapee was dragged with a wound more than a foot long, and even the ribs were exposed.

This was a one-sided massacre, and for more than 100 years, the army outnumbered all the fleeing crowds, blocked several traffic crossings in advance, turned around and slaughtered those refugees.

At this time, the armored warriors who were chasing after also arrived, and the two sides joined forces to end the battle in only twenty minutes, and all the fleeing civilians were killed.

"Your Excellency Minister Rosh, may I see how useful my Boy Army is?" asked Matsudaira Rongbao politely.

Rosh's back was covered in cold sweat, and it felt really bad, very bad to watch a group of seventeen or eighteen-year-old children kill people so calmly.

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Japan's Meiji Restoration during the Boshin War, the most remarkable battle is the Battle of Aizu Wakamatsu Castle, interested friends can take a look, although Matsudaira Rongho failed in the end, although the shogunate is not a completely righteous party.

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