The Shogunate coalition army broke and fled, and the Tence army continued to pursue and fight, chasing the tail of the Japanese army to cover the kill.

On the ground were tanks, armored vehicles, fuel tankers, and scuds of the soldiers of the Tiance Army, and in the sky were the Zhi-18 transport planes and Wuzhi-9 helicopters constantly strafing and bombing.

The Japanese army's escape was so miserable that the Tiance army pursued and killed Shizuoka more than 100 kilometers away, and then stopped the pursuit and collected the troops and returned.

"After three days of fighting, our army annihilated about 228,000 Shogunate Coalition troops, captured more than 3,000 people, and captured 930,000 taels of silver and 3,500 taels of gold. According to rough statistics, Tokugawa Iemitsu's family army suffered modest losses in this battle, with about 10,000 killed and captured. Li Zixiong made a post-war summary.

Wang Yue said: "Did the rest of the shogunate coalition follow Tokugawa Iemitsu back to Edo?" ”

The Tokugawa family is actually a daimyo as well, but it is the biggest daimyo in Japan.

Li Zixiong said: "Judging from the aerial reconnaissance, there are about 30,000 troops who followed Tokugawa Iemitsu into Edo, so I guess that the total number of troops in Edo should be less than 50,000 now. ”

Wang Yue smiled and said, "Tokugawa Iemitsu is going to vomit blood now." ”

The other officers present also laughed, and Li Zixiong said again: "Commander, the air reconnaissance report that Zhou Yan from the Osaka side just sent back, the shogunate army that confronted the rebel army and the Heto clan dispatched an army of 60,000 people to move in the direction of Nagoya, maybe after receiving the news of the defeat of the shogunate coalition army in the barrel narrow, and shrunk back, can we fight these people?" ”

Wang Yue waved his hand and said: "These people don't care about them, the shogunate has been greatly damaged after this defeat." These days, we are resting on the spot and preparing for the march into Edo. ”

"Yes!"

Of course, the Tiance Army's on-the-spot rest is not idle, after all, in the combat operations against the Shogunate Coalition Army, because the weapon generation difference is too large, its own losses are about equal to zero.

The so-called rest is to loot the wealth of the surrounding cities, which is actually robbery.

The main force of the shogunate coalition was wiped out, and the surrounding cities became almost undefended, and the castle complexes of Nagoya Castle and its surrounding castles, such as Narumi Castle, Ōtaka Castle, Kamoku Castle, and Kamobara Castle, were looted, and the large cities of Tsushi, Nara, Kyoto, and Kobe were also swept away by the Tence Army.

For more than forty days, from the end of March to the end of April, the Tence Army did not launch an offensive in the Edo area, but it was extremely busy.

A fleet of motorized cargo ships from the ports of Osaka and Nagoya was loaded with cargo and headed for Daming, while fleets from Tianjin, Shanghai, and Incheon arrived one after another.

Grain, livestock, medicinal materials, raw silk, gold and silver and other materials are the key looted materials, and later statistics have transported back to Daming more than 800,000 tons of grain, more than 90,000 heads of various livestock, more than 6,000 tons of medicinal materials, about 30 million taels of silver, 26,000 taels of gold, and 200,000 quintals of raw silk.

Japan learned from China and was the world's second largest exporter of raw silk in the 17th century, although the output of raw silk was only one-tenth of that of the Ming Dynasty, which was also considerable. Japan's raw silk industry gradually equaled China after the Meiji Restoration.

Due to the development of industrialization, in 1903, for the first time in the history of the world, Japan's raw silk exports surpassed China's, leaping to the first place in the world.

This time the troops sent to Japan have already reaped fruitful results after just a little month of busy work.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was really frightened by the Tence Army, and he was unable to conquer the Tence Army entrenched in Osaka and Nagoya again, and he could only secretly wipe away tears when he heard that Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto and other places had suffered such a catastrophe.

However, in the process of the sweep, the spontaneous resistance of the Japanese civilians never stopped.

It has been too long since the Japanese state was peaceful, and forty years have passed since the Battle of Sekigahara, and then the daimyo of each feudal domain were deposed, and the shogunate continued to suppress the feudal domains, and many samurai who had been reformed were reduced to ronin and fell to the people, so there were hundreds of thousands of samurai ronin in Japan.

These samurai ronin are the main force of the rise of the rebel army, in order to quell the domestic rebellion, the shogunate has expanded its armament in the past two years and recruited many samurai, but there are still a large number of civilian remains, and these samurai ronin are the vanguard of the attack on the Tiance army.

During this period, there were more than 1,000 attacks with more than 50 people and 30 attacks with more than 1,000 people.

Skirmishes are staged every day around Osaka and Nagoya, and the gunfire and artillery fire never stops. Japanese civilians armed with rudimentary weapons, where are the opponents of the Tiance Army.

According to statistics, nearly 50,000 Japanese civilians died in the more than 40-day conflict, and their performance was not unheroic, but under the blows of various automatic weapons, everything was in vain. This is still the focus of the Tiance Army's looting only on those rich households, otherwise the civilian casualties will be greater.

However, the only place that the Tence Army did not invade was the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, where Japan's puppet, the Emperor, lived.

Although the emperor has no real power, he is the spiritual leader of Japan.

The number of direct casualties in the war and conflict further widened a year or two after the end of the war, as the Tiance army plundered vast amounts of wealth and food, and the unrest and famine in these areas continued for nearly three years, resulting in the displacement of large numbers of civilians and starvation to death in the streets.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, on April 6, 1640, the Tiance Army gathered the main force to reach the sea outside the river by sea, and the two occupied areas of Osaka and Nagoya, each leaving a battalion of the security army to lead the Korean army and the mercenaries of the Heto Domain.

Edo was later renamed Tokyo in the first year of the Meiji era (1868), and Edo Castle was completed four years earlier after nearly half a century of construction, becoming the largest city in Japan.

Edo Castle is about 5.5 kilometers from east to west and 3 kilometers from north to south, and there are inner and outer moats around it, and the outer moat is about 16 kilometers in circumference. There are two layers of city outline, and the total area of the inner outline is 2.64 million square meters. The buildings in the castle are magnificent, with 20 prospective buildings, 36 gates, and palaces such as Honmaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru, and Nishinomaru.

In terms of area, Edo Castle was about half the size of Ming Dynasty Beijing Castle and had a population of nearly one million, but the height of the castle walls was not comparable to that of Beijing Castle, and half of Edo Castle's population lived in castle towns outside the castle.

Edo Castle is also known for its history as one of the world's most famous fire cities, including the 1601 Great Fires that destroyed the entire city during the 267 years of the Edo Shogunate's rule, including 1,798 fires and fires.

Because of its status as the capital, the port of Edo was also a large port, with many ships and forts, including seven forts and 21 cannons.

After the arrival of the Tiance army, they first began to shell the port batteries to announce their arrival.