Tokugawa Iemitsu thought for a moment and said, "Draw as many more soldiers as possible from the other daimyos." They are limited to seven days to arrive. ”

Everyone bowed down and agreed. Everyone understands what Tokugawa Iemitsu means. The Edo area was not the traditional territory of the Tokugawa family. Here are all big and small daimyos. And these daimyo are basically ambitious! I want to push the Tokugawa family down so that I can replace it. Then it makes sense to use this campaign to drain their strength.

The important ministers received Tokugawa Iemitsu's orders, and after discussing the conscription for a while, they went their separate ways. In fact, they also know that this time they have encountered a real challenge and must be taken seriously!

In the battle of Yokohama, almost all the Tokugawa family and the nearby daimyo sailors were lost! In addition, Liu Pei swept from Nagasaki along the way, sinking all the ships they could see. This is a huge loss for the Japanese sailors!

The most terrifying thing is that Liu Pei's fleet refuses to let go of even the fishing boats! Sink or burn any ship they see along the way, big or small! This nakedly shows an attitude: "I let you go to the sea, you can go to the sea, if I don't let you go down, you can't go down!" ”

And this time they actually brought in the army, which is even more dangerous than the navy! You must know that no matter how powerful the battleships of the navy are, they will not be able to land on land, but the army is different. They can really fight on land!

Now that the battle was being fought under Edo Castle, it was most beneficial to the Tokugawa family. If this pirate landed elsewhere, I'm afraid they would already have a large territory before the Tokugawa family reacted! At that time, the Tokugawa family had to go on an expedition, and even if they won, it would be a miserable victory. That would greatly weaken the strength of the Tokugawa family.

If the war is lost, it will be even worse! Because those daimyo who have surrendered on the surface and harbor ghosts in the dark will definitely target the Tokugawa family. Trying to push the Tokugawa family down from the top and take its place. At that time, it will be a situation of wolves devouring tigers! Maybe the Tokugawa family's century-old foundation will be ruined! So there is no room for loss in this battle in Edo!

Seven days after the arrival of the Army, all the soldiers had recovered their spirits, one by one

Rush up. At the same time, under everyone's busyness, the fortifications on the perimeter of the port have also been built. Liu Pei left 800 marines and the entire fleet in Yokohama to defend against the Japanese attack. All the other army soldiers boarded the ship again and rushed directly to Edo.

It's only a one-day voyage from Yokohama to Edo. And they all sailed in a relatively large bay, and the waves were so small that the soldiers could afford it. Escorted by ten warships, a long line of ships sailed along the coastline to Edo.

Prior to this, Wu Yizhou had repeatedly swept the interior of the bay twice to ensure that not a single Japanese ship existed. So the actions of this fleet are quite safe.

When the fleet sailed to the vicinity of Edo, Liu Pei did not advance directly to Edo Castle, but found a place far away from Edo, but the terrain was quite flat and suitable for battle, and began to build a trestle bridge and send people to land.

Edo spies had already spread across the coast, and as soon as the fleet appeared, they received information and quickly passed it on to Tokugawa Iemitsu. Tokugawa Iemitsu was not impatient at all, and he went directly to the top of the castle tower.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu felt this, various important ministers also gathered to greet him. Tokugawa Iemitsu climbed to the top of the castle tower surrounded by everyone. Tokugawa Iemitsu reached out and took the monocular handed by the small surname and looked into the distance, where a group of soldiers in blue shirts were building a trestle bridge on the shore.

Thanks to the efforts of the soldiers, five zigzag trestle bridges are stretching deep into the sea. It won't be long before it will be connected to the boats on the beach. When the time comes, a large number of soldiers and supplies will pour from the trestle onto land.

There are also countless small boats shuttling across the sea between these trestles. Ship a shipload of soldiers was transported to the shore. They arrived with a number of apparently Japanese men, who were driven by the soldiers onto the beach and unloaded their supplies from the boats. Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that these people were captured soldiers and civilians.

The people who came ashore began to ask you to deliver supplies, level the land, and everything looked very organized. Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at everything in front of him and was very angry! The appearance of those people makes it clear that they don't care who the people in Edo are? How many people

Over here? It's like treating the Tokugawa family as nothing!

However, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face was calm and did not show any dissatisfaction. He asked lightly, "How many cavalry do we have now?" Can I launch a raid? ”

Abe Tadaaki bowed down and said, "General, we now have 2,000 cavalry. But I don't recommend that the general send cavalry to raid! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu's face and voice did not change, and he still said lightly: "Oh, why? ”

Abe Tadaaki bowed his head and said, "General, please pay attention to the fact that the range of those pirates is close to the sea, within the range of those ships!" If we send cavalry to raid, they just have to duck to the shore and our cavalry will be bombarded by those ships! And I see that many of them have iron cannons on their backs, and if they take advantage of the chaos to design, our cavalry will lose a lot! ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu sighed softly, handed the telescope to the little surname beside him, and then took the folding fan and said, "It seems that there will be no accidents today." Tell the soldiers to prepare, the day after tomorrow should be the day of the decisive battle! You're watching, and you're telling me. I have to say, that pirate picked a good spot! There was a flat place, suitable for the unfolding of the corps. “

After saying that, Tokugawa Iemitsu walked directly down the castle. So they bowed down and sent him away. When Tokugawa Iemitsu was gone, the people began to talk in a low voice. Everyone thinks that it should be a little difficult to deal with these people and the big tube, but it is not difficult! After all, the number of their armies is there, several times the number of the opposing army. These numbers alone are enough to overwhelm and defeat the enemy.

Liu Pei landed on land with the second group of soldiers. The first thing Liu Pei did when he landed on land was to order the expansion of the defensive circle and began to drive away the spies not far away. Liu Pei's defensive circle was not large, just within the range of the naval guns.

After the spies were expelled, the soldiers drove the captives to harvest a large number of trees. By evening, a fortified camp was almost complete. However, this camp is not a regular square, but a semicircle. The wooden walled wall is like an arc, just enclosing all the five trestle bridges by the sea.