After Li Wulang finished talking about who he represented and what he was going to do in Osaka, he looked at these shocked officers and soldiers and the masses, and changed the topic again: "... If the officers and soldiers of the shogunate are willing to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and are loyal to the common cause of our highness, they will all be promoted to the next rank.

If you are not willing to follow my highness, just lay down your arms, and when things settle down, I will let you go. If I still want to resist after dozens of blows, don't blame the bullet for being unsympathetic.

In addition, the citizens of Osaka were willing to assist our army in capturing Osaka Castle and punish the acting officer Shigesumi Sakai and other villains. Ronin with the status of samurai can restore their territory, and others can go to the official treasury to receive three months' rations.

Now I'm counting the numbers, and when I'm done counting the ten numbers, I hope you've all made up your mind..."

Zheng Xiang, who was standing next to Li Chenfang, also knew Japanese, and Li Wulang's words also made him a little stunned. After all, during the previous discussion, Li Chenfang acquiesced to the recapture of Osaka by the remnants of Toyotomi under the banner of Toyotomi.

Now that Li Goro has come forward in the name of Tokugawa Tadanaga, the Mori Katsuya and Sanada Daisuke are equivalent to being betrayed by them. Zheng Xiang's heart was only a little hesitant, and after seeing the next development, he felt that this betrayal was still worth it.

When Hirano Goro counted to six, some of the samurai who had been blocked by them and the townspeople in the castle gate cave dropped their weapons. When he counted to eight, Jiro Sasaki was sweating profusely and shouted to Goro Hirano with a trembling voice: "You said that you represent the Chungcho Palace, can you show the certificate?" ”

Hirano Goro stopped counting, took out the seal cage from his arms and said, "This is the seal cage that His Royal Highness Tadashi rewarded me, in addition to the Aoi Imperial Pattern, there is also a hand charge of the Tadanaga Palace, which is enough to be used as a certificate, right?" ”

The inside of the castle gate cave is relatively dark, and the backlit seal cage in the hand of Goro Hirano can only see an outline. However, Sasaki Jiro had already exhaled and couldn't wait to say: "Since it is the order of the Zhongchang Palace, the lower officials dare not disobey." ”

Jiro Sasaki dropped his weapon and honestly stood aside. Since the chief had given up resisting, the remaining gatekeepers naturally obediently dropped their weapons and stood on the side, making way for the passage of the city gate.

The townspeople, who had been hesitant just now, finally became excited again. Let these townspeople take up arms against the shogunate, in fact, most people still have reservations. Edo, which has 40,000 flags, is an existence that even the daimyo dare not provoke, let alone the civilians of Osaka.

It is nothing to follow the townsnu to come and watch, or to stand in line and fight, after all, there is still a big difference between making trouble and rebelling.

However, now it is the Tadanaga Palace that raises troops against his brother, and it is not a rebellion against the shogunate, but a power struggle in the shogunate. The power struggle of the shogun's family naturally has nothing to do with them as civilians, but in the name of Tadachoden, they go to the city to reap some benefits, and they no longer have to worry about the shogunate liquidating themselves afterwards.

Therefore, after seeing the officers and soldiers guarding the gate like Jiro Sasaki get out of the way, many townspeople shouted, "We are willing to support His Royal Highness Tadacho, but are you really willing to share the food?" ”

The wandering samurai, who had already communicated with the remnants of Toyotomi such as the Mori Katsuya, were also stunned by Hirano's words at this moment. It wasn't until the townspeople around them began to get excited that they remembered that they would have nothing to gain by holding back now.

Many ronins gritted their teeth and said to themselves, "Whether it is Toyotomi's remnants or Tokugawa Tadanaga, in short, they can fulfill their promises." ”

After a while, 7 ronins and 4 civilians stood up, and said to Goro Hirano on the other side of Sasaki Jiro and the others, "We are willing to participate in the grand event with the adults, and please come up with a charter." ”

Li Wulang turned to look at Li Chenfang on the side, Li Chenfang jumped into the car unceremoniously, he glanced at the people outside and then said: "Our incident this time is to punish corrupt officials and profiteers, not to burn and loot.

Therefore, I make an agreement with the princes, that those who kill people and commit adultery without reason will die, and those who plunder privately will die, and the families of the samurai in each town shall not be violated. ”

Although the unnamed samurai who suddenly jumped out had a stiff accent, his words reassured the shogunate officers and civilians even more. This made them believe that the other party might really be a samurai sent by His Royal Highness Tadacho, otherwise why would they make a pact to protect the families of the shogunate samurai and the civilians in the castle.

Li Chenfang's proposal not only received an extremely enthusiastic response, but also made the crowd outside the city gate even bolder, and they all wanted to rush into the city to open the official warehouse to distribute grain.

Li Chenfang found that these townspeople had a white head cloth on their heads, so he said: "Okay, if you are willing to follow His Royal Highness Zhongchang to punish corrupt officials, then tie the white scarf on your head to your left arm." After entering the city, anyone who does not have a white scarf on his left arm but carries a weapon will be killed.

Eleven of you will report your names, and then each of you will choose those warriors with white scarves and form a volunteer team with a limit of 300 people. Whoever organizes the team first will come and accept the appointment.

In addition, those civilians who are unwilling to take risks, take each town as a unit, recommend a fan to come out, and after we capture the official warehouse, you are responsible for organizing the civilians of each town to go into the city to receive food, and maintain the law and order of each town..."

Li Chenfang's concise arrangement immediately made the townspeople outside the city busy, the originally organized townspeople were the fastest to complete, and the commoners who dared to stand up were also the more famous figures in the towns, and it was not slow to organize people.

Just as the onlookers at the city gate began to organize, Li Chenfang had Sasaki Jiro's subordinates driven out of the city gate cave, and at the same time had the weapons of these gatekeepers collected.

Then he called Sasaki Jiro over and said, "You are the first shogunate official to abandon the darkness and surrender to His Highness Tadacho, so I plan to give you a preferential treatment."

You convince your men that you will also be loyal to His Highness, and then I will assign you to the various volunteer teams to discipline them.

First of all, it is necessary to protect the families of the samurai in the towns of the castle, and not let the volunteers harass them, and do not let them leave their homes to attack the heroes. Can you do it? ”

didn't let him attack Sannomaru's colleagues, Sasaki Jiro finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he nodded hurriedly and said: "Xiaguan will definitely do it, Xiaguan believes that they will definitely do it in order to protect their families..."

Li Chenfang had just finished talking to Jiro Sasaki, the first team of more than 180 volunteers had been formed, and Kataoka Saemon himself who led the team was a well-known leader of the town, so he directly pulled out all his subordinates, and by the way, he coerced dozens of civilians.

Li Chenfang glanced at the team behind him, and then said, "Give them some weapons, Major Zheng, you take the fourth and seventh squads with them to attack the Osaka East Town Office, and then the Osaka West Town Office." After killing these two offices, we will go and take Ginza..."

Although Kataoka Saemon was a little unhappy, he was in such a hurry to run in front, but he wanted to go into the city to catch a handful first, but he didn't expect this adult to let his team gnaw hard bones. However, looking at the soldiers under the other party's orders, he still silently accepted Li Chenfang's order.

The 2nd and 3rd Vigilantes and the 5th Squadron were sent to attack the granaries, and each of the Vigilantes formed after that was assigned a place to control the people and the families of the samurai in those areas.

The layout of the castle town in Osaka Castle is such that the center of the shopping street is near the main entrance, and the back streets are inhabited by craftsmen, and merchants and craftsmen who work in the same industry live in the same block, and the neighborhood is generally named after the name of the industry in which the residents work.

The merchant districts are known by name: Uoyacho, Timaki, Shiocho, Paperhouse, Oilhouse, Chacho, etc. Common street names in the handicraft neighborhood include Forgeyamachi, Umbrella House, Barrel House, Wagamachi, Kamaya, Leatherhouse, and Tushicho.

Therefore, when the first group of volunteers rushed into the city and demanded that the pedestrians on the street leave the street immediately, the commercial area near the city gate suddenly became a little chaotic.

After receiving a request for help from Jiro Sasaki, the officers and soldiers guarding Sannomaru rushed down the slopes and commercial districts, trying to drive the rebellious people out of the city.

However, Junichiro Noma hurriedly ran with his subordinates, but what he saw was two rows of iron gunners waiting in battle.

In such a city street, fighting with the iron gunners who are already lined up in the street is completely suicidal. Not to mention that the opponent's first row of iron cannons is still equipped with bright iron thorns, even if they rush forward, they may not be able to take advantage of anything.

Junichiro Noma and his subordinates behind him froze in place for a moment, neither daring to charge forward nor to turn around and flee to cause the other party to shoot. Just when Junichiro Noma didn't know what to do, Jiro Sasaki flashed out from behind the Iron Gunners.

With the appearance of Jiro Sasaki and the threat of the black hole in front of him, Junichiro Noma quickly bowed to the prestige of His Royal Highness Tadacho.

Except for Zheng Xiang who cleaned up the defenders at the head of the city and killed more than a dozen people, the next officers and soldiers were all disarmed without blood. Of course, this is the degeneration of the officers and soldiers of Osaka Castle, but Li Chenfang's refusal to use the name of Tokugawa Tadashi undoubtedly dispelled the little resistance of these officers and soldiers.

Anyway, they are all surnamed Tokugawa, and no matter who is the general, these low-level samurai will not suffer too much. Even if His Royal Highness Tadacho really fails, the most that the shogun will do is to punish those officials who take the lead in surrendering, and it is impossible for them to not let go even of ordinary samurai. This was the common sentiment of the surrendered officers and soldiers.

However, the number of shogunate officers and soldiers who made two forced landings soon exceeded more than 90 people, and the four squads in Li Chenfang's own hands were only more than 130 people. There were too many captives, which made him a little nervous.

Junichiro Noma and Jiro Sasaki quickly saw Li Chenfang's worries, and they soon realized that if they couldn't dispel this person's worries, if something bad was wrong, the other party might not be able to kill him.

So the two immediately suggested to Li Chenfang that he should send a team out, break up the captives and the volunteers, and reorganize them, and let this small group of warriors serve as the leader, so that the captives would not have any other ideas.

Li Chenfang listened to the suggestions of the two of them in a good manner, and transferred some prisoners who were unwilling to fight with their colleagues out of the city and let them maintain order outside the city. As a result, the atmosphere on the side of the outer city gate became harmonious again, and Junichiro Noma and Jiro Sasaki also gained some trust from Li Chenfang.

By the time Li Chenfang had packed up the prisoners, more than 3,000 people had joined the volunteers, and more than 4,000 townspeople had entered the city. Pillars of smoke had begun to burn all over the city, some of which were set on fire by Li Chenfang sent by people to the open space, and some were set by someone who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to loot.

However, Li Chenfang's department, which was waiting for the battle, was unable to wait for the second unit of Sannomaru to attack, which cast a shadow on everyone's hearts, thinking that Sakai Shigesumi had seen through their plan.