Chapter 46: A Coup d'état in one day

At midnight on October 26, 1909, the Tokugawa coup began under the leadership of Tokugawa Kazunobu, the opposition faction in Japan. The coup d'état, in which 3,000 Japanese army officers and soldiers and 2,000 unidentified armed elements participated, stormed the city of Tokyo, quickly seized the prime minister's residence, the official residence of the interior minister, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the press outlets. Prime Minister Katsura Taro and a large number of cabinet ministers and army generals were detained, and Tokugawa Kazunobu submitted a petition to the emperor demanding that the Katsura Taro cabinet be dissolved and that he form a new cabinet.

At the German embassy in Tokyo, the German ambassador looked very restless. Early in the morning he received demands and threats from Tokugawa, as evidenced by a letter from the Prince of East Prussia. The German ambassador had informed Berlin two hours earlier, but so far Berlin has not heard back.

Tatsuten is trapped in Tokugawa's secret base in Yokohama, and although the terrifying Nohara Shinnosuke is now in Tokyo to look after the high-ranking generals, he is still being watched to death, and Rennie doesn't know where he is being held. When his fate was in the hands of others, Chen Tian felt such a failure for the first time.

"After returning home, we must do a good job of strengthening our security and defense work, and we must quickly build up our own security forces. And those hateful Japanese, they actually dare to put Lao Tzu together! Tatsuten was talking to himself alone in the room, he didn't know that at this time, outside the port of Yokohama, there was a fleet speeding towards Tokyo Bay.

Japanese Admiral Heihachiro Togo stood on the bridge of the flagship Mikasa, looking at the endless sea in front of him, and his heart was heavy. With no leader and Japan's army units in a state of almost disarray, the emperor secretly ordered him to lead the First Fleet of the Navy to Tokyo to quell the rebellion. However, it happened suddenly, and Togo Heihachiro only brought 2 battleships, 5 cruisers and some destroyers this time, and there were no marines. He had no way to bombard the rebels scattered throughout Tokyo, and all the sailors on board were only about 10,000 at the moment.

"Rifles are issued to the sailors, and all sailors are ready to land!" Heihachiro Togo reluctantly gave the order.

However, Tokugawa's coup forces did not expect the emperor to make such a move, and did not place many soldiers on the docks in Tokyo, so after Togo's fleet docked, the docks were quickly occupied by the sailors on the warships. Tokugawa quickly adjusted his deployment and sent a force to stop the sailors from advancing, while he himself went to the palace to petition the emperor again, but the emperor still did not summon him.

Heihachiro Togo personally led thousands of sailors in the direction of the Imperial Palace, and they were soon met by a blocking force sent by Tokugawa, who suffered heavy casualties in front of the opponent's machine guns because the sailors only had pistols, rifles and other light weapons, and soon Togo retreated to the dock with his sailors in disappointment.

On the other hand, Tokugawa Kazunobu, who was again rejected by the emperor, believed that it was the navy's reinforcements that kept the emperor hopeful, so he led a large number of troops to attack the docks in an attempt to drive the naval forces back to sea. The sailors who were holding the pier, supported by small-caliber naval guns, engaged in a fierce battle with the Tokugawa forces attacking the pier.

After all, sailors were sailors, and they could not compete with the regular army units and the elite troops of Tokugawa on land, not to mention that those soldiers were already in a state of almost madness under the leadership of Tokugawa Isnobu. Seeing that his sailors suffered more and more casualties under the fierce attack of the other party, Admiral Togo was very distressed, these skilled sailors could not be trained in a day or two, and in this case, Togo could not care about disturbing the emperor and the citizens of Tokyo, he asked the soldiers at the pier to start retreating to the warship, and at the same time let the main guns of the warship aim at the Tokugawa troops who were rushing to the dock.

When the landed sailors had basically retreated to the ship, Togo gritted his teeth and ordered the battleship's main guns to start firing at the pier. In an instant, the four 305mm guns of the "Mikasa" let out an earth-shattering roar, and almost at the same time, a huge wave of fire was set off on the dock, killing and injuring a large number of creatures on the dock......

"What? The master is dead! In the chief of staff's residence, Nohara Shinnosuke, who heard the news of Tokugawa Kazunobu's death, was like five thunderbolts, and two tears slipped down his face. Tokugawa Isanobu was the only descendant of the Tokugawa family, and his death declared that Nohara had lost his sole purpose in this world.

"Detonate the ZHA drug!" Nohara's red eyes suddenly radiated a terrifying light.

At dusk on October 26, the Tokugawa coup ended with the death of Tokugawa Kazunobu, which the Japanese also called the "one-day coup" because the coup lasted less than a day. Prime Minister Katsura Taro and the cabinet ministers were unharmed, except for the poor army generals, all of whom were unfortunately killed, and the death of these army elites caused unimaginable losses to the Japanese army, and since then the vitality of the Japanese army has been greatly damaged, and the focus of the entire Japanese army has also shifted to the navy. In addition, the Tokugawa forces involved in the coup suffered more than 3,400 casualties, and only some army units surrendered to the government, and all the Tokugawa private forces were loyal. Togo Heihachiro's First Fleet lost more than 2,600 sailors and more than 3,000 wounded.

Hearing the news of the failed coup d'état, the German ambassador to Tokyo fainted on the spot, holding in his hand a telegram that had just been sent back from Berlin, indicating that he had announced his support for the coup d'état to the Japanese emperor and government. After urgently reporting the situation to Berlin, he began to fear again for the safety of the Prince of East Prussia.

When night fell, Chen Tian suddenly heard chaotic footsteps in the corridor outside the door, he walked to the window, and saw that the people below were kneeling and weeping, he quickly understood what this meant, and he had to get out of here with Rainey as soon as possible.

He walked to the door, took a deep breath, and slammed it so hard that it slammed into the ground. At this time, there was no one in the corridor, Chen Tian shouted Rainey's name loudly, looking room by room, at this time he really wondered who was being the bodyguard for whom.

Finally, he heard a knock on the door at the end of the hallway.

"Rainey, are you in there?" He walked to the door, but there was no answer, and it seemed that Rainey was gagged.

"Rainey, can you hear me? I'm going to bang on the door, move away from the door now!" Tatsuten leaned against the door and shouted, only whining inside, and Tatsuten began to pray that the Japanese did not plug Rainey's mouth with socks, otherwise he would never eat with Rainey again.

"I'm going to crash! 1,2,3……”

Chen Tian slammed into the lock of the door this time, so the door didn't fall down entirely, but Chen Tian pounced on it. During the 1/40th of the time he flew in the air, he could clearly see that it was not Rennie in the room, but a woman, an Oriental woman. He couldn't stop his 165-pound body in the air, and the whole person just threw himself on the woman, and his face landed exactly where ......

Wow! What a big piece of tofu!