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The dense flames illuminated Lei San's eyes.

The sound of the explosion of the flowering shell was deafening, followed by the screams of the wounded soldiers. It is not known how many shogunate soldiers were killed and injured by the violent explosion. Lei San even saw a person who was shocked by the shock wave and flew to the soil layer behind the trench.

Matsudaira was quick and hid in the pit he had dug earlier, dodging the shock wave and flying steel slag.

But when the blast passed, he looked up and found that the damage caused by the bombing was unacceptably terrible.

In the blink of an eye, Matsudaira Sawaye's seven ashigaru teams lost seventy or eighty percent of their manpower.

Two hundred people were wounded and at least one hundred and fifty were killed, and there were wounded soldiers rolling on the ground and bloody corpses everywhere. Broken limbs and minced flesh were everywhere, soaked in the blood that flowed from the wounds. The walls of the trench were charred black, and the sounds of moans and howls were like background music, filling every corner of the trench.

The entire section of the trench still looks like the position of more than 200 soldiers, and it is simply a hell on earth after the massacre.

Luckily not to be blown up, the iron gunner was also covered in blood, probably from the casualties of the soldiers. They no longer had the fighting spirit to continue fighting, and their faces were so pale that they couldn't even stand up straight. Weapons were thrown on the ground, and the routers fled to the other trenches behind the first line of trenches.

Matsudaira Zeye stood there for a moment, shocked by the hellish scene around him, and he didn't know for a moment whether to stop those routs.

However, Matsudaira Zeye was still stunned, and the second round of mortar shells came again.

More than 200 shells fell from the sky.

Matsudaira Swasawa fiercely hid in the cave at his feet, but he still didn't dodge. A cannonball landed steadily on Matsudaira Sawaye's thigh, breaking his leg bone in one fell swoop. Matsudaira screamed loudly, but his voice was muffled by the loud explosion of the flowering bomb.

The bomb exploded next to Matsudaira Sawaye's thigh, and Matsudaira Sawaye's lower body was blown up in an instant. Matsudaira Zeye's "Possession of the World" did not defend against the steel slag that burst out from the nearest place, and his body did not know how much steel slag penetrated.

The pain made Matsudaira Sakai unconscious in an instant, he couldn't scream anymore, only moaned a few times, and died in the hole he had dug with his own hands.

In the blink of an eye, there was no enemy in the trench in front of Lei San.

Elsewhere the battle was similar, with not only Reizan and his company crushing the enemy, but other elite companies also relying on rear-loading guns and fire support to defeat the shogunate forces that tried to stop them.

The shogunate army suddenly added more than 10,000 casualties.

In fact, the 110,000-strong shogunate army had already lost more than 20,000 casualties, and could no longer bear such casualties.

The trenches leading from the first line of trenches to the rear were crowded with defeated troops. These routs had been driven mad by rear-loading guns and mortars, and had lost their minds and ran to the rear desperately.

Even the samurai in battle with their sharp katanas slashing at the deserters could not stop the rout. The deserters rushed forward and scuffled with the samurai who were in formation, while the other deserters continued to flee behind the samurai.

Panic spread in the trenches of the shogunate army.

The battle was lost!

Soon, however, worse was on the horizon.

The elite of the Tiger Army, armed with breech-loading rifles, attacked the first line of trenches, which were already only wounded soldiers and corpses. These elites, armed with rifles, held the passage to the trench behind, and took full control of the trench on the first line.

Even the mortar artillery groups of the Tiger Army began to move towards the newly occupied trenches.

The massacre is about to be staged in the second- and third-line trenches.

Seeing this scene, even the soldiers of the Tokugawa family, who had never been involved in the battle, had no fighting spirit to continue fighting. If you can't defeat the Tiger Ben army, you will be wiped out, but if you continue to fight, you will be slaughtered. For ordinary soldiers, after destroying the country, they can still hide in the mountains and become farmers, and what they lose is their dignity. If you die, there's nothing.

With a bang, the more than 90,000 soldiers who were still alive turned into routs, threw down their weapons and fled into the fields to the east.

Seeing the collapse of the ranks, the samurai dressed in samurai gear drew their katana and frantically slashed at the fleeing soldiers. But when the battle is fought like this, where can a few samurai stop the collapsing army? In the end, the samurai realized that the situation had turned, and they were also carried by the routs and fled to the east.

Of course, the 70,000 Tiger Ben Army would not easily let go of these routs, and chased after them one by one with rifles.

Zhong Feng looked at the soldiers of the Tokugawa family who were rushing and laughed.

Zheng Kaicheng said: "In this way, the main force of the Tokugawa family will be killed and wounded, and as long as we take Edo next, Japan will be destroyed." ”

Zhong Feng thought for a moment and didn't speak.

Zheng Kaicheng's younger brother Zheng Kaida said: "I'm afraid that the samurai will not accept the fact of destroying the country and go into the mountains to be thieves and fight guerrillas!" ”

When Zheng Kaicheng heard this, he took a breath.

Zhong Feng laughed and said, "I'm afraid that the Japanese samurai will not resist and surrender." If they resist, we will have a reason to kill them all. ”

Zheng Kaida has been in Japan for nearly ten years, but he is not as ruthless and murderous as Zhong Feng. He was stunned for a moment, and said: "Japanese samurai are also human, why should the chief military officer rush to kill them all..."

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On the castle tower of Edo Castle, Tokugawa Iemitsu, dressed in white, knelt on the smooth floor of the council chamber, with a disembowelment in front of him.

Next to Tokugawa Iemitsu, Yagyu Sanen, the swordsman of the Tokugawa shogunate, stood with a katana in his hand.

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at the ribs in front of him and said slowly: "The glory of a lifetime is like a dream." Life and death are the avenues of the world. However, the shogunate is destroyed in my hands, how can I, an ominous body, meet my grandfather? ”

After singing the farewell words, Tokugawa Iemitsu wrapped his ribs in Yamato paper. With a single force, he thrust his ribs into his stomach.

Enduring the severe pain, Tokugawa Iemitsu closed his eyes and pulled the knife to the right, slicing his stomach open.

Blood gushed out like a spring.

Huge beads of sweat appeared on the Tokugawa family's bald head, and it was obviously in great pain.

He turned the knife around again, cut from the bottom of the wound upwards, and finally made a cross in his stomach.

After completing this knife, Tokugawa Iemitsu could no longer control himself, and his eyes widened. With a shake of his hand, he dropped the bloody ribs to the floor.

Yanagi Sanyan did not let the Tokugawa shogun let out an undignified scream. He slashed downward, cutting off the head of the shogun, ending his life of suffering.

Blood spurted from the broken neck. The head fell down and fell into the arms of the corpse.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's little surname burst into tears, and he ran to the platform outside the castle tower, shouting at the samurai of the various feudal towns standing below, "Dead! His Highness cut himself by caesarean section! ”

"The Tokugawa shogunate has perished!"

The little surname leaned on the railing and shouted loudly: "The shogunate is gone, Japan is destroyed!" There will be no more Japan in the future! ”

Underneath the castle tower, the eyes of the samurai turned red.

Gradually, all the samurai fell to their knees and wept.

Someone suddenly shouted: "Japan is not perishing!" Into the mountains, we go into the mountains and hold on, we fight to the last man, the last sword! ”