Under the full persuasion of Crown Prince Matsuhito, Emperor Mingbei finally chose to give an order and 'ordered' Tokugawa Yasuaki to lead his troops to resist the attack of the Great Zhou army.

After receiving the decree, a bright smile appeared on Tokugawa Yasuaki's face. If this battle is won, then it is easy to say, but if this battle is lost in the end, the result will naturally be self-evident.

And what is Emperor Meibei doing at the moment?

After Emperor Meibei issued the edict, he began to order people to pack up and prepare to escape from Kyoto City.

In the eyes of Emperor Mingbei, there is a chance that Fuso will lose this battle, and it will still be a fiasco.

You know, it's the Great Zhou army outside!

Who would dare to resist? Who can resist?

Could it be that Tokugawa Yasuaki would really lead his troops to resist the Great Zhou army?

Emperor Mingbei apparently did not believe that Tokugawa Yasuaki would really lead his troops to resist.

In fact, when the decree was just issued, Emperor Mingbei already regretted it in his heart. If it weren't for the persuasion of his son, Crown Prince Matsuhito, and if it weren't for his own hot head, he would not have issued such a holy decree.

Now, leave yourself a handle.

It would not be good if the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty invaded the city, and Tokugawa Yasuaki held the holy decree in his hand and put all the responsibility for the resistance on himself, the nominal supreme ruler of Fuso.

Therefore, packing up his things and preparing to escape from Kyoto City became the inevitable choice of Emperor Meibei.

In the opinion of Emperor Mingbei, although the Great Zhou army was preparing to attack the city, there were not many of them, and it was impossible to surround the entire Kyoto Castle on all sides, so he had the hope of escaping from the city.

However, compared to escaping from Kyoto City, the most troublesome thing for Emperor Meibei at the moment is how to get out of the palace.

In the impression of Emperor Mingbei, it seems that since he ascended the throne, he has never stepped out of the palace at all, because the guards of the entire palace are all members of the Tokugawa shogunate, and he does not put himself as the emperor in his eyes at all.

On the city wall, looking at the Great Zhou army that was ready to attack under the city, Tokugawa Yasuaki said with a 'frown': "The Great Zhou army is extremely brave, relying on this little man alone, I am afraid that I will not be able to resist the attack of the Great Zhou army!" ”

After thinking for a long time, Tokugawa Yasuaki instructed a cronie: "You immediately go to the palace with the general's warrant and transfer half of the palace guards!" ”

"The Last General's Order!"

After his cronies left, Tokugawa Yasuaki looked in the direction of the palace and said in his heart: "Your Majesty the Emperor, there are half fewer guards, if you can't escape from the palace, then the old man, as a courtier, really has nothing to say!" ”

In addition to the guards, there are also a lot of Tokugawa Yasuaki's eyeliner in the palace, so Tokugawa Yasuaki knows everything about Emperor Mingbei's every move.

Therefore, when he learned that Emperor Akibe planned to escape from Kyoto Castle, after a little thought, Tokugawa Yasuaki decided to 'fulfill' Emperor Akibe.

When the time comes, regardless of whether the battle is won or lost, the news spreads, and the prestige of Emperor Meibei will be dealt an unprecedented blow. And the prestige of his own shogun will naturally rise because he led his troops to resist alone.

In this way, before I knew it, an hour had passed.

Seeing that the Great Zhou army outside the city was approaching the city wall step by step, Tokugawa Yasuaki instructed his cronies: "Quietly inform it, there is no need to resist the Great Zhou army with all its might." ”

Tokugawa Yasuaki wanted to preserve his strength, so he naturally didn't want his soldiers to die in vain, otherwise, even if he won the war against the Great Zhou in the end, if he suffered heavy losses, the daimyo below would only be even more unstable.

That's not what Tokugawa Yasuaki wants to see.

Outside the city, seeing that an hour had passed, Han Liang immediately ordered: "Order the soldiers to advance three hundred steps in the direction of the city wall. ”

At this time, the Great Zhou army was 500 paces away from the walls of Kyoto Castle, and after advancing another 300 paces, there were only 200 paces left.

And these two hundred steps are exactly outside the range of the bow and arrow.

On the city wall, Tokugawa Yasuaki watched the Great Zhou army under the city move closer to the city wall step by step, and his brows not only furrowed slightly.

"It's strange, why didn't the Great Zhou army build siege equipment?"

Tokugawa Yasuaki was very puzzled, without siege equipment, how could the Great Zhou army climb the city wall? Is it impossible to rely on those artillery?

But the power of the artillery is extremely limited, and it can't blast through the city wall at all!

In Tokugawa Yasuaki's understanding, artillery is just a thing to scare people, and the thunder and rain are small, and they don't play much role in the war at all.

Because of the seclusion of the country, Fusang rarely communicates with the outside world, so he naturally does not understand that with the current artillery technology of the Great Zhou, it is not a problem to blast through the city wall.

Therefore, Tokugawa Yasuaki saw that the Great Zhou army under the city did not build siege equipment at all, and his heart became more and more curious.

After the army stopped two hundred paces from the city wall, Han Liang continued to order: "Inform the artillery, immediately launch an artillery bombardment of Kyoto City!" ”

With the roaring sound of cannons, cannonballs fell from time to time up and down the city wall, causing a wave of shaking of the mountains.

"It's okay!" Han Liang used the telescope to look at the effect of the artillery test firing and nodded with satisfaction.

This should be regarded as the first time that Da Zhou's artillery has been used in actual combat, and more than sixty percent of the artillery hit the target, and Han Liang was naturally satisfied.

"How so? How so? ...... "On the city wall, Tokugawa Yasuaki was very surprised when he looked at the city wall that was completely devastated by just one round of shelling and the soldiers who groaned from time to time on the city wall.

Tokugawa Yasuaki never imagined that Da Zhou's artillery technology would be so advanced and so powerful!

"Sure enough, it is worthy of the Heavenly Empire!"

Tokugawa Yasuaki, who was not without emotion in his heart, in order to prevent his old life from being accidentally thrown here, took a few cronies to hurriedly walk down the city wall after the first round of shelling by the Great Zhou army outside the city, and hid far away in his general's palace.

On the city wall, after the first round of shelling, the Fusang soldiers defending the city were already stunned and wanted to counterattack, but they did not have artillery in their hands, and the range of bows and arrows was less than 200 steps, so they had no choice but to take the Great Zhou army.

In fact, it is not that Fuso did not have artillery, but that Tokugawa Yasuaki did not order the artillery to be moved to the city wall at all.

Moreover, the artillery technology of Fusang is still at the level of the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and in addition to scaring people, it can't make much power at all, so the current situation will happen.

Outside the city, Han Liangke didn't care what the Fuso soldiers inside Kyoto City thought, and soon after the first round of test firing, he ordered a second round of artillery bombardment.

Another explosion came from the city wall, and along with the explosion, the screams of Fuso soldiers and the footsteps running back and forth were also heard from time to time.

There was even a section of the city wall that had a faint tendency to collapse after the second round of shelling.

Seeing this, how could Han Liang let go of such a good opportunity? Ordered to continue shelling.

After the third round of shelling, less than half of the Fuso soldiers were still standing on the walls, and several of them had already begun to collapse......