Because the pontoon bridge was attacked, Naotaka Ii, who attacked Hirakata, had to return to the old camp. However, the light of the pontoon bridge that night was clearly visible even from the far walls of Osaka Castle.

On this night, whether it was Yuta Higuchi, Goro Hirano, Kojiro Sasaki and others stationed outside the city, or Xu Xinsu, Mizuno Shinko, Meswold, Yodowa Musashi and others who were stationed outside the city, they all had sleepless nights like Naotaka Ii, waiting for the final situation of this change.

When Li Chenfang sent a messenger to Goro's camp in the early hours of the morning to convey Li Chenfang's order to him, the military and political leaders in Osaka finally knew the current situation.

In just three days, His Royal Highness not only defeated Abe's Shoji army and cut off the food route of Ii's army, but also eliminated the sub-camp of Ii's army west of Yodogawa, making Ii's army a lone army trapped under Osaka Castle.

Even the former ministers of the shogunate, such as Yuta Higuchi and Nobuko Mizuno, who had been wavering before, also knew at this time that the current situation of victory and defeat had reversed. After Li Chenfang blocked the retreat route west of the Yodo River, the Naotaka army of Ii was left with only two options, either to retreat back to Kyoto by the same route, or to fight the Osaka army under Osaka Castle.

But the Naotaka army of Ii, who had lost its logistical supplies, could not compete with the Osaka army with its back to Osaka Castle. Now as long as the Osaka army is approaching the Ii Naokaka army and waiting for the other side to retreat before pursuing, the entire army of the Ii Naokaka army can be broken up.

In the endless plain, trying to withdraw an army with a demoralized army in front of the demoralized enemy army, instead of turning it into a whole army collapse, this is something that the long-experienced Liaodong Ming army could not do, let alone these untrained and mostly temporarily recruited farmers.

After confirming the change in the situation, Xu Xinsu immediately pulled out the last 7,000 troops in the city, and joined forces with the 1st and 2nd Divisions that had set up camps on the east and west sides of the enemy's front army camp yesterday to encircle the front army camp of Jing Yi Naoxiao's army.

Although these 7,000 troops were just cobbled together to defend the city, it was really difficult to say whether they would win or lose a war against the shogunate army in the field. But with Li Chenfang's repeated defeat of the shogunate army in the past three days, the morale of these 7,000 soldiers was very high, thinking that as long as they went out for a walk, the shogunate army on the opposite side would surrender.

Abe Masaji, who was in charge of the former military camp, also saw the fire in the rear last night, and the soldiers of the former military camp were even more worried about this, and everyone was worried about whether something had happened to the old camp.

In order to calm the morale of the army, Abe Masaji could only let Saigo's heavy men return to the old camp at dawn, first, to find out if the old camp was really attacked last night and how serious the losses were; The second is to let the Xixiang heavy staff persuade Jing Yi Naotaka to let the former army retreat first.

Abe Masaji felt that if he stayed where he was in the current situation of unstable military morale, if the Osaka army really attacked, he really didn't have the confidence to block the other party.

Especially when he saw that thousands of soldiers with high morale had been pulled out of the city from the opposite side, inviting the front army camp to fight from the front, and he didn't dare to fight the Osaka army easily.

Although I don't know if the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is strong, but looking at their performance of taking the initiative to invite battle, Abe Masaji feels that he is stronger than these farmers who have begun to tremble in his own battalion.

He could only pin his hopes on the 3,000 red reserves of the real army in the hands of Naotaka Ii, and after these cavalry teams were broken, the infantry of the Osaka Army on the opposite side should not dare to break away from the formation to pursue the front army.

Whether it was retreating across the Yodo River in one go, or retreating to the old camp first to hold on and wait for reinforcements, the outcome of being surrounded by the Osaka Army was much stronger.

While Abe Masaji was anxiously waiting for Naotaka Ii's response, a group of retainers of the Ii family were busy around Naotaka Ii in the old camp east of Yodogawa. After Naotaka Ii fainted from anxiety and anger and vomited blood, the retainers led by Kimata Morian fell into a panic.

In the current situation, if even the head of the family has a problem, then they will really be wiped out. They may not be able to guess what punishment the others will receive, but the Hikone clan will definitely have to pay a heavy price for this defeat, and their courtiers will bear the brunt of it.

Under the care of the military doctor, Naotaka Ii finally woke up and turned around, and as soon as he woke up, he grabbed the arm of Mamoru Kimata, who was sitting next to him, and asked, "What time is it?" How long have I been dizzy? What is the movement of the Osaka Army? ”

Naotaka Ii grabbed very hard, Kimata Shou'an was very happy in his heart although his arm hurt, and the head of the house had a lot of strength in his hand, obviously the blood just now was just an accident.

"Your Highness, don't worry, you haven't passed out for a quarter of a moment, and the subordinates covered His Highness's head and face at that time, and then quietly sent it back to the big tent, and no other soldiers saw it.

The movements of the Osaka Army, those on the other side of the river, who have been monitoring the old battalion, seem to be intending to intercept our troops east of the Yodo River.

On the side of Osaka Castle, thousands of men and horses were transferred from the city this morning, and judging by their intentions, they wanted to leave all our troops behind, and they didn't plan to let any of them go. ”

After hearing this, Naotaka Jing suddenly struggled to sit up, and was about to get out of bed and put on his boots, he said with a flushed face: "These dog thieves in Osaka Castle are simply bullying me too much. I'm going to fight them to the death today, but I want to see how capable these thieves are. ”

Kimata Shouan immediately stopped Naotaka Ii and pleaded with him: "Your Highness is angry, Your Highness is angry." Your Highness doesn't care about yourself, please think more about the name of the Jing family, you can't abandon it here so easily..."

Jing Yi Naotaka slightly got up twice, but was hugged tightly by Kimata Shou'an, and finally sat down, he said angrily: "If you don't fight with those dog thieves, can my Jing Yi family still keep the family name?"

The combined strength of my two armies was far greater than that of the rebels and hawkers who had been temporarily recruited in Osaka Castle, and we lost to those dog thieves. This makes me go back, how will I face the Grand Imperial Palace and His Royal Highness the General? Rather than go back and be humiliated, it is better to die here. ”

Kimata Shouan hurriedly persuaded: "Your Highness calm down, in fact, if you really want to talk about it, the reason why our army will fall into the current situation this time is completely due to the evil result of the sneak attack of Abe's main army.

Without the cover of those deserters from the Abe Shoji Army, Hirakata's lodging ground would not have fallen into the hands of Osaka's rebellion so easily, Okubo Shinemon and they would not have been attacked on the road, and Nagano Yehui and Anhara Asama on the west bank of the Yodo River would not have been killed by the rebels, and our army would not have been cut off from the back road.

In the final analysis, this is all due to the disadvantage of Abe Masaji's management of the army, which led to the defeat of the army, how can His Highness help him carry the black cauldron. ”

Although Naotaka Ii came to his senses, he quickly said in discouragement: "The matter has come to this point, Abe Massaji and I are grasshoppers with a straw rope, how can the shogunate believe my words." ”

Kimata Morian gritted his teeth, and said in a trembling voice: "If we were the only ones who went back, the shogunate would naturally believe His Highness's words." ”

Naotaka Ii was startled, and then looked at Kimata Morian viciously and said, "Do you want me to leave Abe Masaji and run by themselves?" Did you know that there were still five or six thousand soldiers loyal to the shogunate in the former military camp? What's going on in your head? ”

Kimata Morian glanced at his colleagues below from the corner of his eye, and simply ignored Mukai Naotaka and continued: "Your Highness, although there are five or six thousand soldiers loyal to the shogunate in the former military camp, there are even three thousand red reserves loyal to the family here.

The soldiers of the former army battalion were nothing more than farmers recruited from the countryside by the various feudal domains, and such soldiers could be recruited by order of the shogunate. But the Red Reserve who is loyal to his family, who is not a samurai?

If these Red Reserve members are lost here, will the family be able to form a second Red Reserve Team? Without the Ii Red Reserve, can the family continue to keep the Hikone Domain?

The subordinate said another rude word, as long as His Highness still has the Red Reserve in his hand, even if he is defeated and retreated, the shogunate still needs to weigh the disposition of His Highness. If the Red Reserve is destroyed, does the shogunate still need to consider disposing of His Highness? ”

Naotaka Ii glanced at the retainers in the tent and found that everyone bowed their heads and remained silent, obviously the suggestion that Kimata Shouan had just made was the voice of everyone.

However, after serving as the chief elder of the shogunate for nearly 10 years, Naotaka Ii is not a newcomer in politics. He also knew very well in his heart that these retainers were not only for the Hikone Domain, but also for themselves.

If they didn't go back alive to bear the responsibility for the defeat, they couldn't afford the punishment of the shogunate. However, Naodaka Ii really didn't make up his mind to end his life here, but he really couldn't find a reason to retreat.

If he really wanted to abandon the front army and flee like this, as these retainers said, he could not find a reason to explain to the shogunate to retreat except to show his incompetence.

While Naotaka was about to send his retainers away so that he could think quietly, one of his guards suddenly reported from outside the tent that a captured samurai had been released and crossed the river, and sent a letter on behalf of the chief general on the other side of the river.

At this time, the other party sent a letter, obviously suspected of being a melon field and Li Xia, and Naotaka Ii did not accept the letter, but asked Kimata Shouan to read it for himself.

Mamoru Kimata cleared his throat, picked up the letter and read it, "... The coast of the four seas, thousands of miles of waves, are all my ministers and concubines of the Ming Dynasty.

I was instructed by the Emperor to inspect the shores of the East China Sea, but I heard that the Japanese shogunate wantonly bullied foreign merchants and threw believers in Catholic doctrine into the crater, which was called the punishment of Unzen Hell. Such brutal and inhumane acts are shocking to the people of the country.

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, from the Song Dynasty to our Emperor Ming, the people of our country have spread benevolence and righteousness in all directions, so that the people outside our country can also bathe in the bright world of benevolence, righteousness and morality. But the behavior of the Japanese shogunate today is neither benevolent nor moral, what is the difference between assimilating barbarians outside the country?

I was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to cross the sea and come to the shogunate to ask for the guilt. One of his crimes: Toyotomi Hideyoshi was canonized by our emperor Ming and became the king of Japan. Why did the Ertokugawa clan commit a crime and destroy the Japanese king canonized by our emperor?

Crime 2: The Guangxing is a merchant ship of our emperor, and it came to Japan only for trade, why did the shogunate seize the ship for no reason and arrest my innocent merchants and sailors?

The third crime: The merchants of the country came to our emperor to sell goods, and our country has always taken good care of them, and there is no forced buying and selling. However, when our merchants came to the country, the shogunate set up a silk cutting charm system to buy and sell the raw silk trafficked by our merchants, and what is the reason..."

Jing Yi Naotaka was very annoyed when he heard this, and couldn't help but grab the letter from the retainer's hand, flipped to the end, and finally saw that the letter was signed: Li Chenfang, deputy envoy of the Ming East China Sea Road.

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