Edo, the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, was later the capital of Japan, Tokyo.

In the history books, the period when the Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan is also called the Edo shogunate, the Edo period.

The fall of the Japanese navy made it impossible for the Tokugawa shogunate to stop the advance of the Ming army from the sea

At the beginning of July of the 7th year of Tenmu, the Ming Royal Navy marched eastward, unimpeded along the way, successively bypassing Kyushu Island and Shikoku, and killing Edo, and the fleet sailed into Uraga and Kanagawa in Edo Bay on the 7th.

Edo Bay is the seafront barrier of Edo Castle, surrounded by the two peninsulas of Boso and Miura, and is connected to the ocean by the Uraga waterway, which is wide and narrow outside, and the narrowest part of the bay mouth is only 8 kilometers.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan and established the shogunate, he built forts in the Yokosuka area of the Miura Peninsula at the entrance to Edo Bay, and built the first line of defense on the Edo Bay Sea.

In later generations, the U.S. military base in Japan chose the Yokosuka Military Port, which guarded the choke point of Tokyo Bay.

At this time, Yokosuka was just a small fishing village, silent, as early as half a month ago, all the villages along the coast of Yokosuka were empty, and there was not even a dog left.

In fact, neither the Tokugawa shogunate nor the local daimyo issued a war alarm to the coastal residents, let alone organized the evacuation of the residents.

The Japanese people smelled the smell of war from the gossip and the growing number of shogunate troops on the coast.

These gossip was dismissed as rumors by the shogunate, but the Japanese people believed in this so-called rumor, and the people had their own judgments, and what was generally officially declared a rumor by the shogunate was basically true.

Therefore, the people made the decision to run away early.

At six o'clock in the morning of the 7th, when the sun was gradually rising, the commander of the Ming army, Shen Shouchong, gave the order to destroy the Yokosuka Fort!

Thirty large and medium-sized warships of the Ming army lined up on the sea, aimed at the batteries of Yokosuka, and launched a fierce bombardment.

A flowering bullet exploded in a makeshift barracks behind the Japanese battery, and with a loud roar, the horses in the camp struggled desperately to free the reins tied to the manger.

"The Ming army is coming!"

Amid the explosion, the hysterical howls of the shogunate soldiers rang out.

In the barracks and on the forts, the golden drums of warning were beaten, and the short shogunate army was in chaos, all panicked and prepared for battle.

In a short time, more shells whistled in, and the violent explosion drowned out the fort, and the corpses of the horses and men that had been blown up flew everywhere over the fort.

The panicked soldiers were in a trance, hiding aimlessly, no one knowing where the next shell would fall.

The Ming army fired not only flowering shells, but also solid shells and hundreds of Dongfeng rockets.

On the sea, the Ming warships were filled with gunsmoke, and the Japanese batteries on the opposite shore were even more shrouded in huge explosions and smoke.

Dense shells covered almost every corner of the fort, and the shogunate soldiers who had taken refuge behind the cannons, along with the cannons, were blasted into the sky, scattering stumps and severed arms everywhere.

"Fight back, fight back with artillery, bombard them!"

The shogunate's elder, Abe Tadaaki, shouted loudly in the smoke as he commanded the defenders of the fort to counterattack.

However, these forts, which were laid out by the shogunate without a sense of coastal defense, were nothing but useless.

Each country has its own national conditions, the Ming Dynasty focused on heavy artillery and light artillery, while Japan focused on heavy artillery and light artillery in the development of firearms.

The Japanese bird guns of the sixteenth century were more advanced than those of the Ming Dynasty, and the bird guns of the middle and late Ming Dynasty were imitations of Japanese bird guns.

Because of the mountainous area, Japan almost did not use artillery, so the artillery technology was very bad, after the end of the Tokugawa shogunate Warring States period, the development of firearms also stagnated, and even the firearms gradually lagged behind the Ming Dynasty, and in the Tenmu Dynasty was thrown eighty streets.

There are only twenty or thirty small guns with a short range on the Yokosuka Fort, and in the face of the fierce blows of the Ming army's artillery fire, they have no power to fight back, and they can't fight back with Ben, so they can't reach it at all!

The shogunate army on the fort was completely blown up, with countless casualties, and all the soldiers were fleeing, and it was useless to let the old middle Abe Tadaaki shout out his throat.

Under the cover of battleship fire, the Ming Royal Marines began to land in the Yokosuka area, forcibly occupy the forts, and build positions on the spot to meet the counterattack of the shogunate army.

Shen Shouchong ordered a detachment to stay along the coast of Yokosuka, cooperate with the ground forces to hold the entrance to Edo Bay, and the remaining warships all entered Edo Bay and forced Edo Castle!

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the Ming fleet appeared on the shores of the Edo Sea and bombarded the shogunate defense line along the coast.

By the time the rumbling cannons were heard, chaos was already in place in Edo Castle, and a large number of Japanese residents fled outside the city.

Tokugawa Iemitsu, who received the war report, sent people to pacify the people in the city, and on the other hand, mobilized troops and stationed them along the coast of Edo, preparing to meet the landing force of the Ming army.

The Japanese people were talking in fright, looking for high ground and looking forward to watching, many hesitated to leave or not, and some timid people hid in their homes and closed the windows, not daring to come out.

At the suggestion of the elder Sakai Tadakatsu, Tokugawa Iemitsu personally took a group of important officials of the shogunate and the daimyo who remained in Edo to ascend to the Edo Castle Castle (the highest place in Japan's castle).

The castle tower is tall and magnificent, luxuriously decorated, with seven floors, all gray tiles and white walls, eaves and flying corners, and only the highest layer is gold powder and blue tiles.

The castle walls were full of soldiers of the shogunate army, and a large number of bows, arrows, firearms, stones and other weapons to defend the city were piled up on the castle walls, and in addition to a small number of artillery, there were actually some trebuchets.

Tokugawa Iemitsu held a monocular and watched the Ming fleet coming from the sea.

It's a long way away, but you can tell from the number of people on board that these ships are huge!

The ministers of the shogunate couldn't help but look at each other, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have dared to believe that the Ming army would have such a huge warship!

Look at other people's warships, and then look at their own boats, it's not a level at all!

Until now, Tokugawa Iemitsu was confirming the injustice of the defeat of the Japanese Qing coalition.

"Those bastards of the Satsuma Domain, this is harming Lao Tzu!"

The Tokugawa family coughed repeatedly, and almost didn't come up and carry it in one breath.

If only he knew that Da Ming had become so powerful now, he wouldn't say anything to offend, and it would be good to be a filial son honestly!

Maybe Ming's father will be happy, send troops to drive away the Qing demon, return Kyushu Island, and reward Ryukyu to Japan by the way!

Well, it's too late to say anything now, people are calling, and they don't want to negotiate amicably!

After the Battle of Yamakawa, the shogunate had sent an envoy to Kyushu Island half a month ago, hoping to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the conditions given by Shen Shouchong were very harsh, and after saying a lot of conditions, the main premise was that the Ming army would enter Edo Castle and open up a military port in Edo Bay!

How is it possible to give up your base camp to the Ming army, and let the Ming army garrison at your doorstep!

Tokugawa Iemitsu could not accept it, and eventually the negotiations broke down.