There are many reasons why the Japanese army came so quickly, it may be that the Great Shimizu Division failed to take Edo Castle as planned, or it may be that the Great Shimizu Division has just succeeded, and the Japanese army has not yet received accurate information, and it is more likely that the Japanese army killed the vanguard just a false shot, and its main force has already returned to Edo.

"What does Qing'er think about this?"

The situation is different, the way to deal with it is also different, the top priority is to judge the real movement of the Japanese army, this, the old thirteen is aware of this, but it is easier said than done, Rao is the old thirteen is also considered to be a strategist, but it seems that in the case of such news blockage, it is really difficult to make an accurate judgment for a while, so he frowned slightly and threw the problem to Hongqing who was standing on the side.

"Thirteenth Uncle Mingjian, the little nephew thinks that the Edo Army's move should be desperate, and the planned plan may be executed in advance in case there is a change."

The difficulty of the expedition is difficult to obtain information, even if Hongqing has been arranged a few years ago, but it is limited to time and the pattern of the Wa Kingdom - the middle and upper class samurai of the Wa State are hereditary, and people of unknown origin cannot squeeze into it at all, and it is even difficult to buy it. Hongqing knows that there is no essential difference between the old thirteen, but Hongqing dares to assert that there is no other way, just because Hongqing believes that Sun Mingxu, the admiral of the sailor, will be able to complete the important task of completely destroying Edo, and the Edo army without the nest is now cut off from the support of the back, relying only on the supply of various domains along the way, it is difficult to bear the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops, and only by defeating the main force of the Qing army as soon as possible can this dilemma be solved, because of this, even if it is not clear how Tokugawa Yoshimune stabilized the army's heart, Hongqing can accurately tell what the motive of his army is for killing at high speed.

"Well, that's good, the general attack begins, drag out all the heavy artillery, boom! Be sure to take Kyoto before dark! ”

Hearing Hongqing's words, the thirteenth didn't say anything immediately, but after muttering for a while, he waved his hand and made a decision.

"Wow!"

Under the order of the old thirteen, the generals who followed closely behind all responded with a bang, and even when the horn sounded loudly, two more heavy cannons were pushed out of the battalion, and they moved forward together with the heavy cannon that was firing, and they entered the city less than a hundred paces without any scruples.

"Solid bullets, load, prepare, put!"

The urn city has long been bombarded by the Qing artillery, and the old artillery and large city crossbows on it have long been destroyed, and the Qing artillery has no scruples, according to the command of the artillery commander, unhurriedly loaded the shells and propellant packs, and then the three heavy guns fired almost at the same time, but after listening to three loud noises, the three huge cannonballs were already whistling straight towards the city gate.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The inner city wall of Kyoto City is said to be stronger than the urn city, the same is built of blue strip stone, the height is the same as the urn city wall, but the thickness is more than one-third, the city gate has already been filled with sandbags, it seems to be solid, but after all, it has been bombarded by the Qing army's heavy artillery for several days, and the Qing army's nearly 100 infantry cannons have also looted the city's head, after several days of heavy blows, the foundation has long been unstable, under the three consecutive blows of such heavy artillery, the entire city gate tower is trembling as if there were waves, and the earth and stones are splashed in all directions, which is already crumbling.

"Come on! Each cannon is ready and put! ”

"Put it again!"

……

The artillery commander of the Qing army did not care about how the defenders in the city panicked, and gave the order in an orderly manner, and the three heavy guns fired three rounds without stopping, and finally, the quantitative change was transformed into a qualitative change, and the seemingly majestic inner city wall finally could not resist, and with a loud bang, the entire city wall had collapsed, the stones were flying, the dust was flying, and the defenders in the city were panicked, and they had not yet engaged in the battle, and their hearts were already lost!

"Steady, don't mess up, the people of China dare to enter the city, the knife in our hands is by no means vegetarian, kill all the people of China!"

In the past few days, the Qing army has never launched a storm battle, just bombarded the city wall with heavy artillery, and killed the defenders at the head of the city with light infantry artillery, the artillery fire was extremely sharp, so that the defenders really did not dare to deploy heavy troops at the head of the city, only a few lookout posts were left at the head of the city to watch every move of the Qing army, and most of the rest of the troops were arranged at the barricades a little far away from the city wall. As soon as he saw this, Tokugawa Mitsui's eyes turned red, and he desperately waved the katana in his hand, roaring wildly, trying to suppress the collapse of the army's morale.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Town? Of course, the city is going to enter, but the Qing army did not launch a robbery at the first time when the city gate tower collapsed, but unceremoniously launched an extended fire with nearly 100 infantry cannons that reached a distance of less than 100 steps from the city, a round of rapid fire down, and suddenly exploded a mess within the first 100 steps behind the city wall, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed and wounded. Chaotically following behind Tokugawa Mitsui, desperately fled to the imperial city in the center of the city.

"Attack!"

The smoke of the extended artillery fire has not yet dissipated, and I saw the old thirteen who was always sitting on horseback raised his hand and waved his hand, and issued the final general attack order, and then saw countless Qing soldiers rushing out of the formation with a roar, like a tide across the ruined urn city, and quickly rushed into the city, killing in all directions, the east gate fell, the south gate, and the north gate soon fell into the hands of the Qing army, thousands of Qing soldiers swept around, before and after only more than half an hour, except for the imperial city, the rest of the important places were swept away by the Qing army in one fell swoop!

"Set up a cannon, hurry, give Lao Tzu a fucking blow!"

The walls of the imperial city were tall and sturdy, and the remnants of the Japanese warriors resisted desperately, and the Qing army rushed several times in succession, not only failed to break into the imperial city, but was shot and killed by the Japanese crossbowmen at the head of the city, and the Qing army in anger immediately transferred a heavy artillery from the rear and more than a dozen light infantry guns to cooperate in the battle.

"Boom!"

Under the close fire of heavy artillery, the seemingly sturdy copper-clad gate of the imperial city was really not much stronger than the paper paste, and with only one shot, the gate was shattered into pieces of wood flying all over the sky, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who desperately blocked the door behind the door were bombarded into minced meat, and its condition was so miserable.

"Rush in and capture the Wa King alive!"

"Kill, capture the king alive!"

"Kill, kill!"

……

The gate of the imperial city was opened like this, and the last obstacle to the Qing army had been completely destroyed, and before the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the soldiers of the Qing army who had risen up had already launched a charge again, pouring into the imperial city like a tide, killing the Japanese warriors who dared to resist were killed and wounded, and the gunfire rang out like bursting beans.

The battle to the three o'clock, just when the sky has been dark, the entire Kyoto and the imperial city have fallen into the control of the Qing army, the Emperor of the Middle Gate was captured, the Minister of the Imperial Government Fujiwara Tetsuo committed suicide by disembowelment, the left minister Uesugi Creed died on the spot to protect the Emperor of the Middle Gate, the right minister Tokugawa Mitsuyoi led the remnants to surrender, so far, there is no organized resistance in the city of Kyoto, only some scattered stragglers are still fighting guerrilla with the Qing army, but it is just a dying struggle, not even ringworm scabies, with the Qing army all entered the city, None of the Japanese warriors who dared to resist escaped alive, and they were all crushed by the Qing army!

At the end of the unitary time, the night is dark, the north wind is howling, although there has been no snow, but the temperature is very low, there is a dead silence on the Wakayama Fort, except for a few sentry posts are still sticking to their posts, most of the soldiers of the more than 200 marines have been immersed in sleep, the reason why a group of people are so relaxed, is not for no reason, there is no side, since the attack of the three feudal coalition forces was defeated in one fell swoop, the daimyo of the Wakayama surrounding the Japanese army have been honest, and no one dares to provoke the majesty of the Qing army, for nearly half a month, here are calmEvery night, the officers and soldiers really didn't know what to do except sleep, but Li Shun was not sleepy at all, and he paced back and forth on the fort in an anxious mood, even the biting cold wind could not extinguish the restlessness in his heart.

Li Shun is very annoying, annoying is that the current peace, no side, the war everywhere is in full swing, but there is nothing to do here, since he took the fort, he has fought a battle, although the victory is neat, but it is just a child's play of adults beating children, for Li Shun, there is no meaning at all, this peaceful day is obviously not what he wants, but the limit of fate, Li Shun can only honestly lead his troops to nail this bird does not on the fort, This makes Li Shun, who wants to make military achievements, how can he be willing.

"Well...... huh?"

Although extremely unwilling, Li Shun had no choice, so he could only look up to the sky and sigh, but the sigh did not fall, Li Shun suddenly heard the originally very regular wave sound below suddenly messed up, his brows immediately frowned, and after listening to a few breaths, he hurriedly strode to the edge of the fort, looked down into the strait, and immediately changed his face - there is a fleet! Although the scale and flag could not be seen clearly under the hazy moonlight, the fleet that was moving silently was obviously not the Qing army, let alone the fishing boats returning from fishing, in other words, this fleet could only be the fleet of the Japanese people, and there was no doubt that it was definitely heading for Osaka!