When Liang Pengfei's fleet arrived at Edo Bay, which was later known as Tokyo Bay, it happened to be noon, and when the red and black warships with masts dozens of meters above sea level revealed their arrogant and powerful figures from the sea level one by one, all the Japanese people had a deep sense of powerlessness that they were completely shocked and unable to fight. 【Reading.com】

The people of Edo Castle rushed in a hurry, and the soldiers patrolling the shore also shouted in panic, if these tall warships appeared in Nagasaki, although they would cause a certain amount of stirring, but they would definitely not be like Edo, like ants that have blown up their nests.

This was because the Tokugawa shogunate had only opened one port of Nagasaki after the closure of the country, and at least Dutch and Qing ships would trade there, and tall Western warships could occasionally see them.

But Edo is different, Edo is the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate, their policy of seclusion is not to see any foreign people and those new things affect their rule over the country, but today, the sudden appearance of the fleet led by Liang Pengfei, these warships are tall and powerful beyond the people and soldiers of Edo know about warships.

Even some of the people and soldiers were stunned, thinking that Amurasu was about to descend on the divine boat.

However, not all Edo people turned into fools, and the shogunate sailors patrolling the Edo port immediately became nervous, and although they were frightened by these behemoths, the soldiers who were the guards of the shogunate still mustered up their courage and drove their boats towards the warships of the castle tower, which were about to catch up with Edo Castle.

When their small sampan, which could carry twenty or thirty soldiers, was still a mile and a half away from the battleships, the samurai of the flag on the small sampan led by the leader ordered the other party to open fire with the small cannon on the bow of the ship to warn the other party not to come any closer. The small cannon, which was at most a three-pounder cannon, had no lethal effect at all for these behemoths.

However, when the leader of the Hachimoto samurai gave the order to open fire, he did not know that he had made a very serious mistake.

"How dare they fire?" Liang Pengfei shouted excitedly, causing everyone around him to be puzzled, and they all looked at Young Master Liang who was dancing happily with excitement.

"Open fire, give Young Master Ben and blow them all up. Don't let them taste it, they still think Lao Tzu's fleet is paper-paste? I call your grandmother's! ”

With the order of Young Master Liang, soon, the guns located in the bow of the ship aimed at the small sampans that were rushing towards this side......

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When Tadashi Makino, who was in charge of the defense of Osaka Castle, led two thousand elite shogunate soldiers to the port of Edo, Makino gasped fiercely when he saw the fleet anchored three miles away from the port.

When the Hachimoto samurai, who had swam back to the shore, wept bitterly and reported to Makino Tadashi what had happened, Makino gasped again. "Baga, you bastards, you actually came back defeated like this, why don't you die?! You're still a samurai, so take out the spirit of a samurai. ”

At the moment when Makino Tadashi waved the back of his sword and knocked on these sailors who had fled back, Tokugawa Ieqi was already standing in the castle tower with straight eyes, yes, the height of the castle tower in Edo Castle was extremely high, so he could see the scene of the port with the clairvoyant mirror of those southern barbarians in this castle tower with a good view, but when he saw those majestic and outrageously tall battleships from the clairvoyant, Tokugawa Ieqi felt a little scared.

Yes, he was indeed afraid, he had never seen such tall battleships, and, moreover, there were so many of them, yes, he never knew that the small number of thirty battleships made him feel so huge at this moment.

Think about it, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Korea, he dispatched a full 700 warships, but compared with the 50 warships in front of him, Tokugawa Iesai felt that even if the number of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's warships was doubled, it would definitely not be able to defeat these sea fortresses.

"Amaterasu Okami......" Tokugawa Ieqi couldn't help but close his eyes, almost unable to hold the light clairvoyant mirror. Behind him, Nobuaki Matsudaira knelt on the floor sweating profusely. "General, please make a quick decision."

"Decide, decide, decide?" Tokugawa Ichiki turned his face and looked at this middle-aged elder, eager to kick him to death, if he hadn't told himself that the Qing fleet that was about to arrive in Yuben only had thirty warships, would he be so negligent?

If it weren't for the fact that this guy hadn't made it clear that the Qing Kingdom's warships were so large and armed to the teeth, would he have so easily rejected the conditions of those Qing envoys called Ling Longyu?

"General, the minister thinks that he should quickly invite the Qing envoys to come ashore, why did the Qing warships trespass into Edo Bay and fire at our warships." Matsudaira Nobuaki quickly touched his head to the floor and replied loudly.

He didn't know what this general's grudge against him, but who could have thought that the warships of the Qing Kingdom would be so huge, and the Qing envoy was really not a thing, and he didn't make these things clear to himself.

Now, the other party has actually entered Edo Bay, and unceremoniously blew up and sank more than a dozen warships, which greatly shocked the shogunate and the people of Edo. Now, I can't hide it from the people.

"Envoy?" Tokugawa Ieki walked back to his place and sat down. "You mean that the purpose of the Qing people here is to force my shogunate to sign that treaty with the Qing country?"

Nobuaki Matsudaira replied loudly. "Exactly, so the minister thinks that no matter how the shogun responds, in between, the first thing to do is to delay time, as long as my shogunate recruits troops in time to make arrangements, no matter how powerful those warships are, they will be helpless against me Edo."

Tokugawa Ieqi narrowed his eyes, the folding fan in his hand kept tapping his thigh, and after a long while, Tokugawa Ieqi said slowly: "Tell the Qing people that we are willing to negotiate with them, and you, Matsudaira-kun, you are the first middle-aged elder of my Tokugawa Shogunate, and you are solely responsible for the negotiation, I hope you will not let me down." ”

Hearing Tokugawa Ieqi's words, Matsudaira Nobuaki scolded his mother again and again in his heart, isn't this using himself as cannon fodder? No, although he is a courtier, he can't resist at all.

"General, the minister thinks that it is better to wait for the news from Makino-kun's side to be confirmed before making a decision." Matsudaira Nobuaki quickly came up with a good excuse in his head.

"Yaga, this old fox." Tokugawa Ieqi cursed secretly in his heart, but he couldn't come up with a better opinion, so he could only wait. Soon, Makino Tadashi had already rushed to the general's mansion.

"General, the Kiyoshi people demand an explanation for the hostile act of shelling the Kiyoshi fleet, and second, ask our shogunate to give a satisfactory answer as to whether or not the last treaty was signed......" Makino Tadashi glanced at Namatsunaira Nobuaki, bowed to the ground, and reported to the somewhat restless Tokugawa family.

"Baga, these damn Qing people are clearly taking the opportunity to blackmail!" Tokugawa Ieki couldn't help but throw the folding fan in his hand on the ground and roared angrily. "I said, "How could I have allowed them to be humiliated! Makino-kun, gather soldiers and horses, declare war on those Qing people, and let them know that the style of our samurai family is not something that anyone can shake. ”

"General, our sailors will not be able to get close to the other party's warships, but please rest assured, General, I will never let the Qing people set foot on the land of Edo." Makino Tadashi took the order, turned around and walked out of the Heavenly Guard Pavilion, although he made a promise in front of the general, but Makino Tadashi's heart was very uneasy, because those warships were beyond his knowledge, and he really couldn't predict what the consequences of the confrontation would be.

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In less than half an hour, nearly 10,000 shogunate soldiers were gathered at the port of Edo, and the area around the port could be described as a forest of spears and murderous spirits, and Makino Tadashi, who was once again dressed in battle, was very satisfied with the momentum shown by his subordinates. He also made a highly inflammatory speech as a way to boost the morale of the soldiers.

One sent a flag warrior to the Qing fleet with a white flag, warning the Qing people to leave Edo Bay quickly, otherwise they would bear all the consequences.

Soon, Makino Tadashi got a very clear answer from the other party. Five of the thirty ships moved forward about a hundred paces and then turned their hulls to face the harbor, opening their guns to pierce them, and before Makino Tadashi and his brave men could respond properly, a blast of cannon fire that could tear the sky apart fell on them.

With the deafening explosion, a cloud of fire burst into the port of Edo, and the elite shogunate army was instantly torn to pieces by those terrible artillery fire, and shrapnel flew everywhere, easily cutting the bamboo armor of those soldiers, and harvesting the lives of each one.

After the clumps of scorching flames flashed with a roar, they turned into clouds of smoke and rolled upwards, forming cute little mushrooms, leaving only hideous craters, and the scars of broken corpses near the point of impact proved the terrifying lethality of the shells.

Five warships, more than 100 guns only fired one round, the entire Edo port turned into a sea of fire, the destructive power caused by those flowering shells was absolutely shocking, many of the nearly 10,000 shogunate elites who were originally standing in the port were directly killed by artillery fire, and the surviving soldiers had already fled the port.

And his face was covered with dirt, and his armor was missing in several places, Makino Tadashi gasped for breath, his distorted face was full of horror, and the pupils of his eyes reflected the sparks of the harbor, looking desperate and helpless

From the shoguns to the poor, all of them looked at the burning Edo Port with horror, as if it were a red lotus karmic fire that could destroy everything in the world. Edo flowers, this time in full bloom extraordinarily bewitching and dazzling......

(To be continued)