Tokugawa's great castle tower, when Ieyasu Gong scolded Fang Xuan, the main hall of the Shangluo Kaifu, it was brightly lit, dozens of old people wearing official uniforms, if the year, the Tokugawa retainers such as Ome were attached to kneel and sat below, between the two oil lamps, there was a fat young man, a splendid general's official uniform faintly flashed in the light, but the face that was smeared with a thick layer of powder fat was showing a sense of exhaustion and anger.

This year can be said to be the most glorious moment in Tokugawa Iemitsu's life, since he was a child, he was not favored by his father Tokugawa Hidetada, even if he finally succeeded to the throne, his abdicated father is still the Great Imperial Palace, and he is involved in power, dualistic politics, and even in the general direction, he has to listen to the Great Imperial Palace, just last year, he finally survived this eye-catching father, he Tokugawa Iemitsu became a real man of the world, and this year is the first year of his sole rule.

However, at this juncture, Mao Jue hit Edo Castle from Kyushu in one breath, as if a big slap slapped the young general's face, making his majesty slammed to the ground, no wonder Tokugawa Iemitsu's face was so ugly.

Indeed, proposing peace is the shogunate's strategy to delay the army, just today, the Honda Tadashi Dynasty has returned, and at this point, this general's imperial meeting is still debating how to deal with the invasion of the Tang thieves, but the reinforcements have arrived, but the opinions of these Japanese bigwigs have not yet been unified.

"It's time for our army to attack!"

A garlic nose with a red head, a short man jumping tall, and the braids on his head combed forward were all trembling because of excitement, which was considered Tokugawa Iemitsu's closest confidant, and his teacher Sakai Tadakatsu waved his fan excitedly.

"The troops of the Honda Tadashi Dynasty have arrived on the outskirts of the city, and they have gathered the army of 50,000 people and 30,000 Edo samurai, which is eight times the enemy! What are you waiting for? ”

"Nagasaki City, there are still 100,000 people in the Kyushu crusade team, Matsudaira Nobutsuna is known as a famous general, and he has not lost to Tang Kou!"

It's a pity that even if he is so excited, the rest of the old guys are still so careless, from the Sanpin Hubu Zheng Shaoqing, the old middle Inaba Zhengsheng is eyes closed slowly and said.

"It's not easy for Lord Ieyasu to conquer the world, as a courtier, you should guard it for Lord Ieyasu, and now it's in Edo City, it's even more foolproof, or wait for the army to come back from the army or the Kyushu crusade, and then fight with Tang Kou, it's the safest!"

"Safe? By that time, Shinano, Ueno, Shimono, and Kai Musashi will all have to be turned into a scorched earth! The elite soldiers are waiting for the city, dividing the troops to plunder, and now the command of the thief is burning and plundering in the core of the shogunate, you still have to be safe! Are you still samurai? ”

The Itakura of the Young Zhuang faction couldn't hold back his anger, and moved up from behind, scolding a few people angrily.

"But what if the army is defeated, if Edo Castle is lost, how much turmoil will the remnants of the Toyotomi family cause, can you afford this responsibility?"

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The big and small leaders of the shogunate are still arguing about whether to send troops or not, and Tokugawa Iemitsu, who plays the role of the arbiter mud bodhisattva, is a little more irritable, politics should never look at the surface, and the radical faction and the old Cheng faction in front of him seem to be arguing about the war with one word, but in fact, the focus of the argument is still around the power of him as a general.

Sent troops early, wiped out Mao Jue in one go, don't care about tens of thousands of fights to 10,000, it was his Tokugawa family who saved his dignity, and when the time came, he would make the world famous, and no one would dare to disobey.

But it was too late to delay the return of the Hokkaido garrison or the shogunate army that had gone south with many daimyo legions, and his face as a general would plummet.

Pushing further, in the past two years, Tokugawa Iemitsu's main political work was to revise Tokugawa Ieyasu's rudimentary "Samurai Laws", strengthen the control of the feudal daimyo throughout the country, and implement a closed-loop lockdown order, which touched the interests of many people, once his authority was weakened, these policies could not be implemented in the future.

The exchange and delivery are all conflicts of interests, and as for those who were plundered and ravaged by the Lee Koreans, they are not so important.

While the head was still arguing, the little surname outside suddenly opened the sliding door and bowed heavily.

"General, Lord Aoyama is back!"

All of a sudden, the argument came to an abrupt end, and everyone's attention was focused on the door, after all, it had always been Qingshan Xingxing who had dealt with the Tang thief, and he also had the most right to speak, and it was unrealistic for anyone to bypass him.

That Mao Jue still had a dinner, but this old man in Qingshan didn't have time to eat, and after the negotiation, he went directly into the big palace Honmaru, and regardless of the wind and dust, he directly pounced and fell in front of the palace.

"Subordinate Aoyama Xingcheng, meet His Royal Highness the General!"

"What is the result of today's negotiation with the Tang thief?"

In the end, he is still young, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't bear it, and asked first, instead of waiting for Aoyama Yukinari to report it himself, but it didn't hurt like this, after all, the big guys are also involved in this matter, listening to this urgent article, Aoyama Yukinari didn't talk nonsense, and directly worshipped again.

"The Tang thief wants to set 500,000 stones and not let go, but the remnants of the Toyotomi family still insist on Osaka Castle."

Speaking of this, the old guy was not half depressed, but showed a gloomy smugness, and said gloomily.

"The Tang thieves have been completely confused by the shogunate, the generals are waiting for the shogunate's indemnity, the soldiers are military discipline is lax, the soldiers and horses are scattered and chaotic, these days outside the Xingqiao Gate, there is a ghost market, it is actually the Tang thieves and thieves to buy wine and food from the city, and recruit geisha and form, when the old minister enters the city today, he sees the samurai from the north in a hurry, but the Honda Tadashi Dynasty has returned, in that case, the general, the shogunate can march!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as this old guy came back, his tone was pressed on supporting the march, and Tokugawa Iemitsu, who listened to it, couldn't help but show half of his face, and on the other hand, the old Cheng faction was pale.

"Aoyama Gong, aren't you afraid of being impatient and rash and repeating the mistakes of Matsudaira Nobutsuna?"

Inaba Masakatsu's voice also rose suddenly, but before the blame was over, Aoyama Yukinari actually turned over suddenly, and stretched out his hand to reproach with an angry face.

"Ieyasu Gong didn't destroy Toyotomi back then, and he refused to die! Now that the remnants of the Toyotomi family are outside the castle, they may threaten the life and death of the Tokugawa family at any time, but you are still hesitating, but are you going to repeat the mistakes of the Toyotomi family? Let the remnants of the evil not strike, and you are waiting for the heart? ”

This paragraph of interrogation is ruthless enough, at the beginning, the Toyotomi family was not the opinion of the Yodohime woman, seeing that the Wenchen platoon led by Ishida Mitsunari and the military minister faction led by Tokugawa Ieyasu fought and did nothing, and finally fell to the death of the clan, even the old minister Inaba Masakatsu stuttered.

However, before he could retort angrily, the cold noise rang out, and at the critical moment, Tokugawa Iemitsu waved his sleeves impatiently.

"Go out and see, who's making a noise?"

The people in front of the hall immediately bowed their heads and ran out of the door in a hurry, but after a while, some of them ran back in a panic.

"General! The Tang thieves have attacked the city, and the southeast is full of fire!"

"What?"

Tokugawa Iemitsu stood up suddenly, and the two old ghosts, Inaba Masakatsu and Aoyama Yukinari, also turned their heads in disbelief and shouted.

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Nothing is impossible, tigers hurt people, and people also have the heart to fight tigers! It's just that Qingshan Xingcheng is taking the upper route, stabilizing Mao Jue, the head of the Dongjiang Army, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the lower-level soldiers are pupa action.

You think that wine is drunk for nothing and smoke is smoked for nothing! Is the silver earned for nothing?

Taking advantage of the contact with these hawkers, a few casual words, where reinforcements came, where the samurai masters gathered, and where there were boats, they were all trapped.

If the Dongjiang Army is in a complete state, the outer city defense of Edo City is simply scum, but now Mao Jue can be regarded as half-crippled, and the low city walls of the Japanese people are nothing, but this urgent and fast trench river really makes him embarrassed, filling the trench is unrealistic, if you want to break the outer city, there is no boat, you have to storm from the Xingqiao Gate.

But in the battle of Yunmu Mountain, Mao Jue has already lost a lot, he doesn't want to have any more soldiers and horses, these days Qingshan Xingcheng has stabilized him, he is also secretly looking for fighters, and sure enough, he also let him find it!

Edo Castle is almost located at the mouth of the Sumida River, the Tsukiji Market behind the Yukibashi Gate is called the Tsukiji Market, because this piece is almost all used to impact out of the estuary delta, on land, Edo Castle ravines and ravines, the defense is tight, but the estuary, whether it is a defensive offensive or troops, the shogunate is more than a few chips, these days Liu Xingzuo, Liu Xingxian has been collecting ships nearby, just had dinner in the evening, has been lazy Dongjiang Army suddenly attacked like a wolf, With the second regiment as the main attacker, they landed on Tsukushima Island, an island outside the river, and were caught off guard by the Japanese people, and easily captured the shogunate's annex here, which is also the temple of Buddhism.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu discovered it just now, Mao Jue had already advanced quickly, seized the defenseless Shibaguchi Gate, and the Shujiya Bridge Gate, and entered Osaka Castle.

Half of the city was lit up by the flames of war, and on the streets, the panicked shogunate banners were holding their swords forward, shouting and scolding for their subordinates to charge, holding trembling bamboo spears, and retreating from the Kohashi Gate in a panic, and groups of samurai ran out of the street panting, trying to block the pace of the Dongjiang army's attack.

Seeing this scene, the huge sea who was ordering the house couldn't help but sneer, and he also pulled out his war knife suddenly, and the sergeant in front was half-kneeling on the ground in a hurry, and the one in the back was holding the gun on their shoulders, looking at the big gun formation of the Oda family that made them suffer a few days ago like a hedgehog, no Dongjiang army showed a cruel smile on their faces.

Street fighting, the space to move is too small crackling a burst of shooting, the front row of the Japanese army formation was directly penetrated, the dense big guns lay on the ground with a bang, and the thick layer of samurai corpses fell directly at the street entrance, without waiting for the samurai corps to come to their senses, holding bayonets, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were wild and launched a charge with bayonets.

Lao Tzu is better than you can fight, and you will be finished when you are close!

In the sound of puff, a samurai was stabbed to the corner of the wall and stabbed directly to death, and a samurai on the other side threw the inconvenient spear in a panic, and did not pull out the knife, and a bayonet was already pierced in his chest, picking him up alive, and throwing it out in a scream.

This is the army that Mao Jue wants, war-hungry, in front, the huge sea is like a big pirate, the knife in the right hand, the musket in the left hand, the revolver that is close to the spray and then the knife is slashed, and there are pro-soldiers handed to the head after the bullet, and half a street is cut in a row, and no one can resist this hooligan play.

But just when he was killing and laughing wildly, the rear army of the Japanese warriors, who were barely supporting, was suddenly in chaos, and among the hurried horses' hooves, a saber that was flushed in the firelight was raised high.

In the face of the infantry, these warriors dared to hold on, but as soon as they were rushed by the cavalry behind them, the banner team of thousands of people collapsed directly, and the blood-glittering knives did not need to be waved.

"What the fuck are you doing? If you don't beat you, what kind of situation are you coming to Lao Tzu to stir up? ”

This is all military feats! Seeing that as soon as Liu Xingzuo made a move, his military exploits let him reap, and the huge sea was jumping straight behind him, but with the saber held high, Liu Xingzuo shouted triumphantly.

"The general has an order! The departments speed up, and in twenty minutes, they must arrive at the gate of the forging bridge, and the general is behind, if you are not convinced, you tell the general to go!"

Saying that, urging the cavalry, Liu Xingzuo and the guy ran forward with a wild laugh, and in the street not far away, he could hear the roar of the cavalry and the screams of dying, and turned around suddenly, and the huge sea slapped his head sadly.

Under the light of the fire, a hairy character Daxu was like a white banner that summoned spirits, and it was not far from him.

"Offensive !!"

(End of chapter)