In the narrow cabin, Ayano Mochizuki, who had completely calmed down from the disappearance of the city, began to think about this matter.

The entire cabin was deserted due to the lack of lights. She knelt upright on the hardwood chair, although the hardwood chair was painful, but she seemed to be unaware, and there was a hollow look in a pair of beautiful eyes.

"It's completely reduced to ashes! The Shogun has promised to surrender and pay them so much money every year! Why did he do that? Don't...... No matter what we do, Edo Castle will inevitably be burned. ”

In the cabin, there was only a bit of moonlight (as would be the case on a destroyer) through the sloping string windows, and in the darkness they made the place deserted. Mochizuki Ayano looked at the cold pillar of light stupidly, and sincerely felt terrified, Edo Castle had been lost forever, and it would never be possible to appear in front of her again.

For the entire Southern Front cluster, most of the soldiers were pleasant, except for a few officers who were somewhat uncomfortable with the excessive bloodshed and cruelty. For them, this "leapfrog decapitation" on the southern front was a pleasant combat operation, and no decent operations were conducted at all.

"It's nothing more than fishing, shopping, collecting cash, it's that simple!"

No, Edo is definitely the largest metropolis in Fuso, and it is the capital of Fuso in the true sense of the word. Among the cities of 400,000 people, the gold content is naturally self-evident.

Due to the fire that burned almost all over the city, in addition to gold, silver, copper and other metals, the rest of the harvest was the Fuso craftsmen and beauties who were "bought" by Wu! At the end of the battle, they carried all the metal onto the captured Fuso warship, despite the residual heat of the metal.

In this campaign, the amount of gold obtained by the Southern Route Cluster from Fusang alone reached as much as five tons, and if 100,000 taels of gold were converted into silver, the amount would be very powerful, not to mention those loaded with strategic materials such as silver cakes and copper that had been burned.

This is all thanks to the monetary system implemented by Fuso, where gold represents most of the gold and silver of Fuso, which came from the deliberately protected Fuso mint "Ginza", and of course, thanks to the shogunate's system of making the daimyo their home in Edo.

The "Fuso Iron Ships" loaded with gold, silver, copper, iron, or Fusang people not only spread their sails, but also had people in shifts shaking the slurry in order to increase their speed. Ahead are the "Whale-class amphibious assault ships" that are also sailed by captured Fuso coolies, and because of their strong power, they are now acting as tugboats. Despite this, the speed of the entire fleet was not satisfactory, and there were constant fears that the remaining ships in southern Fuso would attack.

Of course, these are not things that Wu Shu needs to worry about. His duties were mainly for landing and land operations, and the affairs at sea were naturally a headache for the navy. His mind was still on the day Edo Castle was burned to the ground.

"Go and collect the ships now, and when we leave, if there are not enough ships, the rest of the people can stay where they are, and be free with them!"

Hearing Yue Xiaofei's command, Wu Zhi turned bitter.

There is no doubt that if this order is evaluated by the people of Shenzhou City and now the people of Mingyue Bay in China, then this order can almost be regarded as inhumane. In this cold winter weather, leave these people who have lost their homes and have no food here?

However, Yue Xiaofei obviously didn't intend to listen to his feelings, looking at the back of Yue Xiaofei leaving with Luo Na and the city lord's guards, Wu Zhi shook his head again and retracted his thoughts.

He had to concentrate his attention on the matter at hand, and now it was imperative to find the ships that the "chief" had requested, and to have them to transport away the large number of people here.

Otherwise, with the temperament of that chief Yue, I am afraid that all these Fusang people who cannot be transported away will be thrown here.

"They're all going to starve to death!" Wu Zhi, who had a bitter face, thought so in his heart. "Chief's hatred for the Fuso people...... Last night's incident was enough to hurt the heavens and the peace, and if we kill all these people again...... ”

Thinking of this, Wu Zhu didn't dare to think about it anymore, and began to fulfill his duty of "finding a ship". As soon as the people of Fuso heard that they were looking for a boat, otherwise they would have to stay here and wait for the dead, people who were familiar with the situation came out to offer advice. Not to mention, with the help of the locals, I really let the boat be found.

This resulted in a large and bloated fleet, which was not too slow. But compared to Shenzhou City's original plan to quickly break away in order to prevent the desperate retaliation of the Fuso Navy, it was too slow.

As I said earlier, this is not something that Wu Zhu is worried about, he has more things to think about.

After this "decapitation operation" of the Southern Front cluster, he finally saw clearly the mystery of this "short and sudden attack" tactical method that Yue Xiaofei was accustomed to.

In Wu's mind, this tactic is described as follows: do everything possible to paralyze and mobilize the enemy's forces, so that the combat situation changes in favor of our army. Then concentrate all forces, use highly mobile troops, and conduct short and continuous high-intensity operations, trying to destroy the "balance" of the enemy's army in a short period of time, plunging it into chaos.

This operation was even more so, first directing the enemy's attention to the northern front, while the main forces of the "southern front cluster" were "fishing" at sea, and then relying on the rapid maneuverability of the warships to break into the vicinity of Edo Castle, which lasted less than two days in total, Edo Castle was reduced to a blank field, and you can imagine how chaotic Fuso was at this moment. If the assault carried out by the "Wolf Teeth" is also completely successful, then Fuso will be in complete disarray.

"Short assault" is a very powerful tactical application, but of course it also has its flaws, such as the secrecy work before launching, and this operation on the southern front was kept secret until the "wolf's teeth" were launched, and the general staff began to formulate a plan of action for the Edo side. The entire fleet is hiding in the archipelago, and even if there is news, there must be time to communicate.

In addition, there is an extremely high risk of such operations, and once the rear routes of the interspersed troops are cut off, or their mobility is lost, then the losses are obvious.

As it floats slowly on the sea, God knows when the fleet of the Fuso will catch up!

"As for myself......

Wu Shu, who had always been immersed in thinking, had a smile on his face, he had something to gain.

"It seems that I also have to change a little bit to succeed, from Taiwan to the southern front of the decapitation operation, my ideas are too conservative, too little thinking about the mobile combat of the troops, I want to think and improve it!"

Sure enough, after this operation, the style of the battle plan drawn up by Wu Shu changed greatly, and his boldness and high-risk, high-reward combat method often surprised Xu Liejun as well, and what was even more advantageous was that he would have the right to formulate the battle plan for the Fusang Theater, which was undoubtedly a very good "test field."