Yan Yingyuan, a historical bull who became the general of the "God of War", has worked hard in recent years, and the soldiers of the "Jiangyin Battalion" have lived up to expectations and made many meritorious achievements.

Yan Yingyuan did not blindly follow the war, and always felt strange about the arrangement of this siege of Edo Castle.

After all, he is not the general of the Zhongxing Emperor, and he can't help some thoughts in his heart, and he wants to ask the master to exchange stone for gold.

He actually admired Shi Changjin very much, although the main general had just turned thirty years old, but he was quite knowledgeable, and he was also very experienced in battle, and later learned that as early as the second year of Chongzhen, Shi Changjin participated in the Shenyang offensive and defensive battles, which was an absolute old qualification, and was one of the disciples of Emperor Zhongxing.

After a group of senior generals completed their inspection, several chief generals boarded the lookout post, and Yan Yingyuan finally couldn't help but speak, and said, "Lord Shi, there is something unclear in the end. ”

In the fifteen years of Rong Ma's career, Shi Changjin, the leader of the new boys, is already a personable Confucian general, he said: "General Yan doesn't have to worry, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Yan Yingyuan was a straightforward person, and he expressed the question in his heart: "The last general can't understand why the air raid was scheduled for September 18? Our army is already ready for everything, and as long as the weather is favorable for operation, wouldn't it be more flexible to choose a day than to hit it. ”

Obviously, Yan Yingyuan was reasonable, Shi Changjin paused, and after thinking about the wording, he said with a smile:

"As far as Ben Jue knows, when the emperor summoned Sun Jueye and Cheng Jueye to give them a face-to-face instruction, he did not ask them to carry out an air raid on September 18 in the form of an order. The emperor only suggested that it be arranged on this day, and the main general could determine the best time for air raids according to the changes in the battlefield. ”

Yan Yingyuan was even more incomprehensible, and continued to ask, "In that case, why don't we complete the plan as soon as possible?" More than 200,000 soldiers and civilians are here, consuming countless money and food every day! ”

"The boiled duck can still run, the climate is getting drier and drier these days, and there is no harm in waiting for a few days, the emperor has set his sights on September 18, in the case of the beauty of the heavens, we as courtiers should naturally strive to complete the plan on that day."

Although Yan Yingyuan is not very good at being an official, he is not stupid, he suddenly realized at this moment, and hurriedly thought about recovering some of the influence, and said: "Long live my emperor Hongfu Qitian, presumably on September 18, the sky will be clear and the wind will blow." ”

Shi Changjin looked at this pure soldier and said with a smile: "General Yan, there are some things you can't learn at all, just keep your nature, the emperor is far-sighted and insightful, and will only measure a general's character by his military merits." ”

Yan Yingyuan was rarely beaten on the back and was broken by others, his face was flushed with shame, and he arched his hand and said: "The last general has been taught." ”

Li Guozhu, Zheng Sen and other generals also joked with each other, although it was a state of war, the soldiers of the Ming army were able to talk and laugh freely, and the generals all had "lupine scarves, talking and laughing, and the canopy was wiped out." The demeanor of the Confucian general.

At midnight on September 18, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, as Yan Yingyuan said, the moon and stars were rare and the good wind was blowing, and the two hundred hot air balloons that had long been assembled upwind of Edo City had begun to take off.

It's a pity that Sun Jiuge and Cheng Shiju, who have been knighted, were supervised by Shi for gold and couldn't get into the hanging basket in person and fly to Edo City to drop Molotov cocktails.

It is not easy to train a general, who has the mission of commanding hundreds and thousands of soldiers, and cannot put the cart before the horse and consume them as ordinary non-commissioned officers.

The military discipline of the new Ming Empire does not advocate that generals risk arrows and stones, and the generals cannot be dressed eye-catching when they appear on the battlefield, and there will be brocade guards to provide protection.

The 400 pilots on the mission were all flushed with excitement, and there was not a trace of timidity at all about to land in the pitch-black fields, hills, and even the sea after completing the bomb dropping.

These young people are selected from thousands of high school students who have signed up for the Air Force and then enter the Navigation and Aviation Military Academies for three years.

They are hot-blooded intellectual youths, and they are excellent air forces trained by Huang Shenghua with huge sums of money, and they are not only strong enough to fight, but also loyal to the motherland, the nation, and of course, to the Emperor Zhongxing.

I believe that even if these hot-blooded men know that they will not be able to return after launching an air raid, they will put out the flames naked without hesitation, but Huang Sheng has always been people-oriented and unwilling to sacrifice anyone easily, and generals in the army can also do it.

Every time there is a casualty of a soldier, the first-level commander and the chief general will have a detailed report for the record, and after professional assessment, the avoidable casualties will be held accountable.

Therefore, the new Ming generals all understand that the life of a soldier is greater than the sky, and no one dares to take it lightly, let alone make a decision to pat their heads. As soon as the pilots set out, the plan to welcome them to land was immediately activated.

Since the Ming army besieged Edo Castle, there has not been a single decent battle between the two sides, the Ming army did not come to attack the city, and the shogunate army did not go out of the city to take the initiative to provoke the Ming army camp.

After more than a month of siege, the shogunate army, which had been waiting for the Ming army to attack the city, gradually slackened as time passed, and no one could have imagined that something would happen on September 18 without warning.

Edo Castle was founded 100 years ago, and after Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed as the shogun of Seiyi in the 8th year of Keicho and established the shogunate here, Edo became the capital of the Wa Kingdom, and as a political and economic center, Edo Castle was the only big city and fortified castle in the Wa Kingdom, and it also had a characteristic that it was easy to catch fire!

In Edo Castle, a watchman knocked on a basket and mechanically shouted in Japanese language, "The weather is dry, be careful of the fire and candles...... and suddenly looked up at the sky and grew his mouth.

Then he rubbed his eyes vigorously and stared wide-eyed. "Nani, is Amaterasu a manifestation? Nani, Amaterasu shouldn't have so many! ”

At the same time, the shogunate troops guarding the city on night also looked at the hundreds of fires burning in the sky one by one, and they all thought that it was a miracle, and many people were already worshipping.

At this moment, all the Ming troops are in full array, all the flintlock pistols have been loaded, all the artillery has entered the first level of combat readiness, of course, all the guns are loaded with flowering shells.

The night was quiet, and more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians in the Ming army camp were united, they were ready, and the Japanese were destined to have no sleep tonight.

"Ninety thousand miles of wind is rising, the wind is resting, and the boat is blowing the three mountains." At this time, a gust of good wind blew, and all 200 hot air balloons entered the preset range of Edo Castle.

It is estimated that each hot air balloon carries as many as 40 incendiary bottles with fierce fire oil as the main component, and the net weight of the combustion liquid is not less than 400 catties.

The 200 hot air balloons carried a total of 80,000 catties of incendiary liquid, and in this completely wooden city, they took advantage of the darkness and the wind to set fire, and the destructive power was unimaginable, and I am afraid that the casualties caused by the atomic bomb attack were not much different.

It doesn't matter, the Japanese people don't remember to eat or not, whoever throws an atomic bomb to bomb them, the Japanese people will hug people's thighs and add eggs.

If anyone is exempted from the war reparations of the Japanese country, they will think that this country is easy to bully and too soft, and they will consider harming that country and fighting for territory with that country next time.

In order to make the Japanese people better accept the sinicization, Huang Sheng hugged the thighs of the Han people tightly, and deliberately created the effect of the atomic bomb attack, so that the Japanese people could remember this unforgettable day - September 18.

In the terrifying gaze of the shogunate army and the gaffer guarding the city, the miracle floating in the sky became powerful, and I don't know what divine object was dropped, and a sea of fire suddenly rose on the ground, and the fire instantly became a prairie fire by the wind.

The guards immediately began to shout, "It's on fire, it's on fire, it's on fire." ”

Immediately, terrible shouts came out everywhere, and the sound of banging gongs and bangs resounded throughout Edo Castle, and the same meaning was conveyed in the Japanese language: "Fight the fire!" Come out to put out the fire! ”

It didn't take long for the content of the shouting to change: "The fire is too big, there is no way to save it!" Mother, what can I do? ”

"Run! It's important to save your life, so hurry up and run to a place where there is no fire! ”

The raging fire became more and more vigorous, and the flames rose several feet high, and it was really a drop in the bucket to carry water to fight the fire by relying on the Japanese soldiers and civilians who were sleeping in a daze.

The Japanese who were stunned before they woke up were like headless flies, and from time to time they crashed into the flames to replenish fuel, and the cries of Edo Castle within a radius of several dozen miles were continuous.

Flames are rising everywhere, where is there a place to escape? The soldiers and civilians of the Japanese kingdom who were in chaos were running around, and the smell of barbecued meat filled the city, which soon turned into a scorched smell.

The city was full of flammable materials, piled up with hay, oil, leather, food, etc., including the tatami mats they used to live in, and the burned human body became a fuel for combustible materials, and if the purgatory-like city did not open the gates and escape outside the city, there would be no more life here.

Some of the widows were desperately fleeing to the gates of the city, and swarms of rats were scurrying at their feet, many of them carrying flames.

The shogunate army, which had lost its command system, was in chaos, and at this moment everyone knew that they had already been defeated without going to war, and the Ming army was so vicious that it was ready to burn hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians all over the city with a fire attack.

With the efforts of the Japanese army and civilians, the filling materials in the city gate hole were cleared out, and a large number of anxious soldiers and civilians immediately poured out of the city.

The shogunate army, which had been burned to the company camp and then blown up, understood, and they shouted: "The Ming army is rushing to kill everything!" Brothers, sooner or later it will be a death, rush up and fight to kill a Ming army! ”

"Kill, give!" The fierce warrior brandished a pheasant knife and braved the artillery fire to launch a decisive attack, and suddenly, the Ming army's position was lit up with fire, and the guns rang out, and rows of dense bullets poured in.

The charging Japanese fell one after another as if they had been cut wheat, and in the end they did not even see a single shogunate army rushing to the edge of the Ming trenches, the Ming artillery was still roaring, and the fire of Edo Castle was still burning......

Li Guozhu, who was observing at the lookout post, had a few jumps on his face, and said quietly: "What a big fire!" Originally, I thought that it would take a hard battle to completely defeat Tokugawa Iemitsu, but today it seems that the Tokugawa family will become desperate. ”

Zheng Sen pondered, pondered for a moment and said: "Such a method of warfare is unheard of and unseen, from now on, under the attack of the Ming army, there will never be a so-called strong city and hard wall, and it will become the norm for the Ming army to conquer all battles and win." ”

Li Guozhu and Zheng Sen have been partners for several years, the two get along happily, and they are both pirates and maritime merchants, and they have a lot of common language, they are both murderous, but at this time they are a little unbearable.

But they knew that this plan was approved by Emperor Zhongxing and focused on it, and they didn't dare to show a trace of killing too heavy and hurting the peace of the heavens.