The black fog rose from Edo Castle, followed by the sound of thunderous explosions.

Shen Shouchong put down the binoculars, the effect of the dark channel should be okay, but he had to continue to increase the intensity of bombing to deter the Japanese people.

He knew very well that Japan had been unwilling to submit to the Ming Dynasty since ancient times, unless it was forced to do so for the sake of trade.

Many Japanese people look down on the Ming Dynasty in their hearts, such as the earth-shattering Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who relied on the unification of Japan, and his mentality drifted, and he actually threatened to conquer the Ming Dynasty and set the capital in Beijing!

Such self-sufficient people were naturally bloodied by the Ming army on the Korean Peninsula in the Wanli Dynasty.

Even so, many Japanese felt that it was Japan's victory that forced the Ming army to retreat, and it was only because the commander Toyotomi Hideyoshi died that they took the initiative to withdraw their troops.

In the face of these Japanese people who do not know the height of the sky, the Ming Dynasty can only use ferocious means to deter the Japanese vassals and make them completely surrender!

Shen Shouchong immediately ordered, and the fleet continued to approach Edo, and started a new round of indiscriminate bombardment!

With the shortening of the distance from Edo Castle and the exhaustion of the second-generation Dongfeng rocket, the Ming army began to use ordinary Dongfeng rockets.

Since the Northern Expedition in the first year of Tianwu, Dongfeng Rocket has performed well, and local ordnance bureaus have begun to build it vigorously.

However, there have been no major wars in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, resulting in a large backlog of Dongfeng rockets.

This time the troops were sent overseas, and the Logistics Department and the Shenwu Army transferred a lot of Dongfeng rockets and interned rocketeers to train them with weapons in stock.

"Launch!"

"Launch!"

The rocket battalion fired another salvo, and a hundred Dongfeng rockets once again dragged their long tail flames into the sky.

The choking smell of gunpowder smoke filled the decks of the ships, and the loaders of the rocket battalion carried rockets bare-chested and quickly filled them into the launch slots.

"Launch!"

As the angle of the fixed launch slot was adjusted by the observer hand, the rocket commander issued a command, and the second round of Dongfeng rockets took off again to carry out a covering fire strike on Edo Castle.

At first, the second-generation Dongfeng rockets were small in number and caused only some damage to Edo Castle, and the Japanese in the city survived the initial panic and fought hard to extinguish the fire under the organization of shogunate officials.

However, as hundreds of ordinary Dongfeng rockets rose into the air like flying locusts, the firepower of the Ming army suddenly increased more than ten times!

The explosions in Edo Castle were heard one after another, and the fire oil was scattered everywhere like a goddess, and most of the buildings in the castle were made of wood, and when they were ignited, the fire quickly spread and converged, and became larger and larger

Regardless of whether it is a building or a person or animal, it will burn when it is splashed, and it will only burn so that the Japanese people roll on the ground and wail endlessly.

The countless pieces of iron and iron sand shot out of the Dongfeng rocket have a huge lethality to the soldiers and civilians in the city!

There was a sea of fire in the city, and countless black clouds rushed into the sky with flames, and the dazzling fire reflected half of the sky.

The soldiers and civilians of the shogunate no longer had peace of mind to put out the fires, and the rolling flow of people scattered like a flood, crowding to other places, looking for a safe place to escape this apocalyptic disaster.

There are still a large number of rockets in the sky dragging long smoke to land, and the continuous explosion sound is endless, as if the emperor is angry, and the thunder is sent down to punish the evil, which makes people feel terrified.

In Edo Castle, the screams and cries were noisy, and the panicked and fleeing Japanese people were trampled on a large number of occasions, and countless people died.

On the streets and under the buildings, many Japanese people knelt on the ground, muttering about mythological gods such as Amaterasu and Yagi Orochi, and begging the gods for forgiveness.

There are also people who chant the Buddha, and some people even took out the cross, shouting God to protect them, no matter which god they are, they must ask for a request as a life-saving straw.

In the castle tower, Tokugawa Iemitsu held on to the railing of the castle tower, staring at the tragic image in the castle below in a daze, and his faith was shaken.

The Ming Kingdom is called the Heavenly Empire by the countries of East Asia, could it be that they are really relatives of the Heavenly Emperor's family and sent heavenly soldiers?

At this time, the elder Sakai Tadakatsu beside Tokugawa Iemitsu said: "Lord, the Ming army is coming, it's too dangerous here, go out of the city and avoid it!" ”

The elder Abe Tadaaki also persuaded: "Lord, Elder Sakai is right, it's too dangerous here, let's withdraw from Edo temporarily, wait for the shogunate to negotiate with the Ming army, let it retreat, and then we will come back!" ”

The shogunate officials were already so frightened that they did not dare to stay in Edo any longer, and they spoke out one after another.

The Tokugawa family ignored it and did not move.

Under the continuous persuasion of the surrounding shogunate officials, Tokugawa Iemitsu suddenly weakened and fainted.

The elder Sakai Tadashi exhaled a long breath, and hurriedly drank the order: "Take the Lord away quickly, and leave the city immediately!" ”

He left in a hurry, and after just a few steps, he turned back and said: "Abe Zhongqiu, you go to negotiate peace with the Ming army, as long as they don't rush to kill everything, it's easy to say anything!" ”

Abe Zhongqiu, who had just stepped forward and was about to run away, was stunned, his face was like a bitter melon, and he cursed secretly in his heart.

In less than half an hour, a large group of important ministers such as the Tokugawa shogunate, escorted by the remnants of the shogunate army, fled all the way to Kyoto, where the emperor was located, with the unconscious shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Ming army landed in Edo, opened the way with the surrendered Japanese traitors, and effortlessly attacked Edo Castle and occupied the base camp of the Tokugawa shogunate.

As the sun set, the sky grew dark, but the castle was still red, and the flames lit up half of the sky as if it were day.

Shen Shouchong took his guards to the Zhengyi General's Mansion, and felt the scorching heat wave everywhere along the way, as well as the choking smell of burnt paste, and the corpses all over the street.

Groups of Ming troops shuttled through the streets of the city, followed by a bunch of Japanese traitors, arresting officials of the shogunate and looting the city's property.

If Shen Shouchong didn't ignore it, the war was already cruel, as strong as the external expansion of the Han and Tang dynasties, slaughtering cities and destroying the country at every turn, and the actions of the Ming army were already very restrained.

As soon as he stepped into the Zhengyi General's Mansion, he was greeted by several legal soldiers from the Military Justice Department.

They were escorting a disheveled regimental general out with a shy girl.

"Let go of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu didn't commit anything!" The group leader shouted loudly and struggled.

Shen Shouchong frowned and said, "What's the matter?" ”

The captain of the legal corps stepped forward and saluted: "Report to Shen Shuai, Lan Haoran, the commander of the Marine Brigade of the Jinghai Fleet, openly raped ** and violated Article 7 of the "Seven Killings Order", and the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Military Justice will question him according to the law!" ”

"Oh?"

Shen Shouchong's brows furrowed even tighter, according to the iron law of the "Seven Killings Order" set by Emperor Tianwu back then, bullying the people, raping and capturing the captives, killing!

This Lan Haoran became a rapist in the battle of the mountains and rivers of Kyushu, but he made the first contribution to killing Azig?

When I was on Kyushu Island, although many people in the Ming army enjoyed this convenience for several days, they were all uniformly distributed from above, and many of them were sent by the Japanese traitors on their own initiative, which was a voluntary act.

After the detailed narration of the captain of the legal army, Shen Shouchong knew that it turned out that Lan Haoran, this kid, had actually become strong with Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter, Tokugawa Chiyohime.

That is, the girl hiding behind the legal soldiers, Shen Shouchong took a look and found that this woman was really good-looking, but she didn't look very old, only fourteen or fifteen years old, about the same age as Princess Zhaoren.