On this night, the people of Edo, who had enjoyed peace and prosperity for more than 20 years, were destined to have no good dreams.

Tens of thousands of Tojiang troops cut in from the southeast, bypassed the Yotani Gate leading to Kai and went straight to the sea, blocking the Yamashita Gate and Yukibashi Gate leading to Tokaido, and stopped the army next to Edo Bay.

It was night, Mao Jue'an set up a tent steadily, ran for several days in a row, and experienced a vicious battle The Dongjiang soldiers slept peacefully, but Edo Castle broke out several times in a row, the pressure brought by the attack of the enemy, and before Mao Jue attacked the city, Edo Shitamachi itself was in chaos, some dilapidated samurai took the opportunity to loot the town's house, set fire in the city, and a large group of samurai ran around the streets with torches, trying to maintain law and order, and Edo Castle was in chaos for half the night.

However, this chaos only occurred in the dozen or so districts of Shitamachi that surrounded the whole city, and the Honmaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru and Tokugawa Otenshu in the center of the castle were always as immovable as a mountain, and it was as black as a giant beast.

The tension of the night finally dissipated as a bundle of red sun slowly rose in the sea, but the pressure in the hearts of the people of Edo became heavier and heavier, and as the sun rose, the Dongjiang army blew the horn, and the wild beasts outside the city ended their sleep and began to drink blood and eat people.

Even Edo Castle, the core of the Tokugawa family, is a typical Hirayama Castle.

The word city in China and in the Wa country is two concepts, the city of the Ming Dynasty, basically a large circle of city walls built outside, the city and the market are all wrapped in it, the common people, big landlords, businessmen and handicraft workshops can be accommodated in most of them, but the construction of the city wall is really a laborious and laborious large-scale project, only the Chinese land is so extravagant, the Japanese poor ghost like the shogunate is not able to take out so much money, manpower and material resources, the local name is a rich man, and can not afford the Chinese city wall.

As the mainstream method of building a city in the Wa Kingdom, the city building method of Baekje Goguryeo was to build the city on the mountain, and there was no need to build a city wall, and it was directly defended with the help of height advantage.

But the defensive advantage is there, but the economic advantage is gone, Mao Jue just walked out of the Shinano Plateau, the place surrounded by mountains, it is difficult for the army to walk, let alone the caravan, and so, the thing of Pingshan Castle has appeared again, in the plain area where there is no mountain, such as this Kanto Plain, on the spot with soil and stones to build a personal artificial mountain, and then build a castle on it, build a castle tower.

To tell the truth, in fact, in terms of defense, this kind of mountain city is much stronger than the wall of the Ming Dynasty, standing in front of the Mongol army that conquered the world for forty-seven years, and the Diaoyu City that killed the Mongol Great Khan under the city is a typical mountain city, or the Wanli Korean War, the Japanese people also raised a lot of Japanese cities on the peninsula, which is much more difficult to fight than the city established by the Li Dynasty in imitation of the Central Plains.

But such a castle also paid the same price, just like a big peach, the heart is hard, and the main defense power is concentrated there, but the peach flesh is soft and juicy, and it is surrounded by a large number of samurai, craftsmen, and shop owners.

After another peaceful breakfast, at about eight o'clock in the morning, the Dongjiang army, which seemed to be a little lazy, marched in a procession to the Edo Yukibashi Gate.

The defense here is the best in the Japanese city that Mao Jue has seen, more than three meters of Guo wall extended with stone knots to build up a layer, above is the pavilion is also the stone structure of the earth and stone, but these in front of the Ming army cannon, or belong to the bombardment, what really makes Mao Jue attention is that the moat is also dug outside the city, the long moat wraps the entire Edo Castle in it, the moat water leads from the water of the Evenda River flowing from the north, the moat is five meters and six meters wide, and the water flow is quite turbulent, which is more troublesome to fight.

Now that I don't have a boat at hand, the only way to get from here seems to be the Kobashi Bridge, a large wooden bridge several meters wide that the shogunate built to get in and out of the trench.

But just when Mao Jue was thinking about how to break through the soft shell of the outer city, the lucky bridge gate in front of him suddenly creaked open, and then in the messy footsteps, a large number of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the door, lined up on the bridge, and the Oda family's super long spear array, which had made the Dongjiang army suffer in Yunmu, was densely laid out in front of the Japanese army formation, and some iron gunners also drilled to the front from the gap, and the Tokugawa family's black bottom golden sunflower pattern was shining on the brand-new neck flag behind them.

Although the main force of the shogunate was either left behind, or the middle plan went to the rebellion of Hirashimahara on Kyushu Island, in terms of overall strategy, the shogunate was indeed empty of troops, but no matter how empty it was, the capital of a country would not be empty to no one's head, just like the battle of Jingshi in the second year of Chongzhen, Houjin was surging with momentum, and there were only 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, while the Beijing camp had 100,000.

The same is true for a large number of samurai banners who live in Edo Castle, and as long as the shogun gives an order, it is easy for Edo Castle, with a population of more than 200,000, to come up with 30,000 samurai.

However, looking at this posture, the shogunate army seems to want to go out of the city and fight with themselves, which is a bit boring, right? In addition to Houjin, who has a large number of heavy cavalry, in this era, who is the field Mao Jue!

Under Mao Jue's eyes, a few chuckles, just experienced a tough battle, and grew a lot of huge sea, Shen Rong, Liu Chong, Zhao Tiehan several Dongjiang generals are also scattered, under the sound of military drums, the Dongjiang army also put up a military posture, the artillery was snorted by the artillery and retreated, the infantry walked in a tight formation, and the large team formed a new training formation this year, a hollow triangle formation.

This is a variant of Mao Jue's hollow phalanx when referring to Napoleon's battle of the Egyptian pyramids, after all, the Japanese have no cavalry, and they don't need to worry about being besieged by highly mobile troops in all directions, the team is arranged in a triangle, the cannon is located in the two corners of the rear of the military formation, and the slanted formation firing surface is not narrower than the hollow phalanx, and the only weak point is that the firing angle is limited, but it is not a big problem.

The most important thing is the sharp formation, once the cold weapon engagement, you can concentrate the superior forces to attack a little and quickly cut through the formation, while the inclined wings can quickly cut through the torn formation like the blade of the sword, expanding the wound to the point that it is difficult to deal with.

The five regiments are the five big triangles, and they point sharply at the shogunate army on the bridge.

But the tiger and snake tail let these devils play thoroughly, the Dongjiang army waited so murderously, but these shogunate samurai were like constipation, just squeezed out of the bridge a little, they didn't move, from eight o'clock to half past eight, I didn't see them squeeze out a little more, the sun was so golden that the sun was shining for a long time, and Mao Jue was angry and drunk again.

"The whole army maintains a formation, rests on the spot, and begins to shell Lao Tzu after a stick of incense, and plays Lao Tzu with a little bit!"

The Dongjiang sergeant who was also waiting for the fire sat down in a low voice with the order, and some took out the cigarette revenge, but even if they were sitting, it was five huge triangles, and in the gap of the military formation, there were reservists carrying buckets to hurry up to distribute water to the team, although everyone had a kettle, but I don't know how long it would take, the water in the kettle could be saved or saved, and the artillery at the two corners of the triangle also began to wipe the cannon.

It is said that the temper of the soldier is urgent, it is really true, when he first joined the army, the artillery commander Sun Chun, what a weak boy, this will also be like an artillery battle, jumping back and forth and shouting and scolding the whole artillery position, determining the direction of progress.

Seeing that the Dongjiang Army was about to start to break out like a cannon battle, the shogunate army guarding the bridge suddenly changed its formation, and the Tokugawa samurai, who were shining with golden eyes, suddenly cracked a crack with a bang, and then, several sedan chairmen hurriedly came out carrying a sedan chair that was not much bigger than a box, and there were retainers behind them who were still waving white flags there.

Mao Jue didn't love himself enough to feel that these little devils were going to surrender, watching the little sedan chair and the servant in a green robe wander between the two armies, and stopped there, he also tilted his head to the side, and whipped the war horse violently, Mao Li Sakura rushed out with a dozen horsemen holding a knife.

After a quack-la-croaking exchange in the Japanese language, the pirate girl came back in a hurry again, turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee with a very samurai-like neatness, and pressed her knee with one hand to pray.

"My lord, it's Kosei Aoyama, the old man of the shogunate, who represents the shogun and wants to negotiate with the lord!"

"Negotiations?"

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It was not done again, the Dongjiang army placed in several big triangles was then sitting comfortably smoking a cigarette, and in the middle of the confrontation between the two armies, a big tent was placed, this widow was poor, and the meat could not be eaten, but the score came one by one, and the small sedan chair was never lowered, until the servant behind him carried out a rather large tatami wooden kang, and a tea table was placed on it, and an old man who was not black and did not slip away was forced to come down, and was supported by several subordinates on the kang, and the monk sat like that.

However, the maid who was in charge of making tea next to her looked pretty good, and I don't know if the time was too quick to paint her face white, but it was difficult to reveal the true color of the girl's skin.

Not to mention, she really deserves to be the servant girl of everyone's household, not only was the maid who made tea afraid to bow her head, but she actually looked up at him and smiled slightly, but this smile made the old hooligan Liu Xingzhi of Ji Nian in a cold sweat, and immediately turned his head to the side and never looked at it again.

Fuck, this little girl's skin, her mouth is full of dirt and black? It's disgusting to watch.

The kneeling way is indeed passed down in Japan since the Tang Dynasty, but with the development of chairs, the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty has begun to gradually eliminate kneeling, but in this poor jingle of the Wa country, still adhere to the way of kneeling, as one of the prime ministers of the Tokugawa shogunate, the old man is kneeling on the tatami mat upright, the weight of the whole body is pressed on the knees and legs, full of majesty waiting for Mao Jue, but seeing Mao Jue in the heavy armor guard slowly walking, the next second, his old face is twitching rapidly.

A few guards put a chair on the tatami mat neatly, and did not take off their shoes, Mao Jue stepped on it directly, sitting opposite him, the height difference between the two was a lot, Mao Jue sat like this again, from the side, it looked like an adult training a child.

The corners of his mouth twitched for a while before he came back, the old guy took the tea and saluted Mao Jue, who knew that he was suffocated again, Mao Jue didn't mean to answer at all, he still stared at his old face, and that look was extremely uncomfortable.

It looks quite rude, in fact, Mao Jue is also reasonable, he is not used to kneeling, if his legs are numb, once the Japanese ambush the killer, how can he quickly draw his sword to fight? And God knows if the tea is poisonous or not, and now he is an advantage, so he needs to be more cautious and not take risks.

This tea ceremony was pouted by Mao Jue, and the old guy surnamed Qingshan didn't have the heart to continue pretending to be Sven, and he was directly babbling with a black old face, and Mao Jue listened to Mao Jue with two big heads.

Fortunately, there is a pirate girl who works as a translator next to her.

"My lord, he said, General Mao is the general of the Ming Dynasty, one of the commanders of Liaodong Town, and one of the dignified Ming officials, why do you repeatedly do things like thieves, invade his Tokugawa shogunate, plunder the coast, and kill good people, aren't you afraid of losing your identity?"

This old guy's heart is really big enough, and he has hit him under the capital, and he still has the heart to break who is right and who is wrong.

But since he asked, Mao Jue couldn't help but answer, turned around with confidence, and asked people to move Toyotomi Hideyoshi's five-seven tong pattern, and Mao Jue also shouted justifiably.

"A thief? This will be the dignified king of the line, and he will crusade against the ministers! During the Wanli period, the Toyotomi family was the lord of the Ming Dynasty! One of the subject countries of the Ming Dynasty, you and other Tokugawa families are disloyal and unfilial, unkind and unjust, plotting rebellion and usurpation, and great rebellion, so that the Toyotomi family promoted Yu Yi to orphan and went to Liao Town to ask for it, as the suzerain, of course the Ming Dynasty will go out to crusade!"

Not only did Kosei Aoyama's face be gloomy when he heard this, but even the corners of the translator's mouth twitched slightly.

Although it is in the Chinese cultural circle, while absorbing the nutrients of China, on the other hand, the Wa State is still reserved like the little daughter-in-law, and the Wa State has never been a vassal to the Ming Dynasty like North Korea.

What Mao Jue said just now is a beautiful misunderstanding.

It was still the time of the Wanli Korean War, just after the end of the Battle of Imchen, the Ming and Japan for the first time to contact and negotiate peace, the Ming sent Shen Weijing as an envoy to canonize Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of the Japanese Kingdom as the Celestial Empire.

But Toyotomi Hideyoshi had his vision for the future at that time, and his request was to marry the princess of the Ming Kingdom and cede half of the Li family's Joseon, and the interests of the two parties were not at the same level at all, and it was reasonable to say that they could not be discussed anyway.

But on the contrary, Shen Weijing is a businessman, and the governor of Konishi, who is responsible for receiving him, is also a businessman, both of them are afraid that the conversation will collapse and be punished, and the two profiteers discussed, one went back to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and lied to Toyotomi Hideyoshi that the Ming Dynasty agreed to the request, and the other lied to the Wanli Emperor that Toyotomi Hideyoshi accepted the canonization, almost, the biggest diplomatic fraud in East Asia was fooled down by the two.

But the fake is fake after all, half a year later, unable to wait for the required bounty and the Ming princess, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was angry, and launched the Battle of Keicho, the second Ming Japan's Korean War.

(End of chapter)