Although Emperor Yang's bad taste made his subordinates at a loss, since it was a holy decree, it must be strictly implemented. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

So all the eighteen cruisers of the Beiyang Fleet were painted black, sailed out of the port of the Wei Navy and headed straight for Edo, and under the impetus of the northwesterly wind and the Kuroshio Current, which blew from the side, it took only ten days to reach Edo Bay, and then sailed into the Uraga waterway in a murderous procession. At this time, Edo Bay did not have any coastal defense force, and at this time, the shoddy iron cannons of the Japanese Kingdom were not capable of defending a waterway nearly ten kilometers wide, and it was said that their iron cannons could hit one kilometer even if it was very rare. The sea forts that were originally located at the entrance to Tokyo Bay did not exist at this time, which were reclaimed and built in the First Sino-Japanese period to prevent Ding Ruchang from bombarding Tokyo, which is why Perry was able to reach Edo unimpeded.

After more than a hundred years, the black ships were able to move unimpeded, let alone at this time, the gate of Edo can be said to be completely open, and the Beiyang Fleet reached Edo in a mighty way, and then lined up on the sea, all the cannons were raised to the highest elevation angle, and the muzzles of nearly 300 black holes were aimed at Tokugawa Tsunyoshi's old nest at the same time......

Edo Castle.

Or the future capital of the Japanese Empire in what was originally history.

Tokyo.

More precisely, the Tokyo Imperial Palace.

At this time, Edo was very different from modern Tokyo, and the coastal port area did not exist at all, and it was all reclaimed from the sea later, but at this time it was still a natural coastline, and Edo Castle was not far from the coast, and it was completely within the range of naval guns.

The news of the arrival of the black ship caused the city to immediately be filled with chickens and dogs.

Poor Tokugawa Tsunayoshi didn't even think that there would be such a thing, he didn't even know that Yamamoto's sailors had disappeared, and although the matter had been reported to Edo, his ministers obviously didn't think that such a trivial matter was worth bothering him, and besides, he didn't know exactly what was going on, so there was no need to rush to report it to him. In fact, for the shogun, pro-government and love for the people has always been just a side job, and enjoying life is his main job, and the same is true for his ministers, but for Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the matter was quite sudden, and he really didn't understand why the Ming fleet sailed to Edo all of a sudden?

"Are you all talking?"

General Dog said to his ministers.

Well, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's nickname is Shogun Dog, he has achondroplasia, so he is only 1.24 meters tall, so he is nicknamed Inu-Shokata, that is, Shogun Dog.

Of course, maybe he does have a special affection for dogs, the infamous order of mercy for living beings is what he did, forcing the common people to build a house for the dog, the dog must ask a doctor when it is sick, as for killing the dog and eating meat, it is to cut off the head, and he himself spent a lot of money to build a large-scale kennel, sheltering a full 40,000 stray dogs, maybe the dog lovers of later generations will regard him as a saint, but the common people of the Wa Kingdom who eat less than his dogs are estimated to be difficult to agree.

Later, even his love extended to all animals except humans, such as not allowed to fish, not allowed to use animals for performances, and at the most heinous time, even killing a mosquito was a crime, and the whole country was tossed by him to cry without tears.

In addition, his personality is not like his figure, in fact, he is extremely tailory and domineering, which may be because of the psychological distortion brought by his figure, and it is even rumored that the eldest Hotta Masatoshi was hacked to death by Wakanian Inaba Masakyu was instructed by him. And since the resignation of the successor Boss Ii Naokei, there has been no appointment of a new elder, and the current chief is his side employer Yanagisawa Yoshiho, several old Mid-Autumn Yuan Qiao Zhi, Inaba Masato, Honda Masanaga, Okubo Tadazen, and Inoue Masaen are joint assistants.

But at this time, not to mention those old people, even Yoshiho Yanagisawa, who was close enough to share a woman with him, was also dumbfounded.

What does this say?

What can this say? I don't even know what people are doing here!

"Enlighten the lord, a messenger has been sent from the black ship to ask to meet the lord!"

At this time, an attendant came in to report.

"Then bring him here!"

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi regained his composure and said.

"Messenger of the Ming Kingdom!"

Then there was shouting outside.

Fang Heng, the special envoy of the Ministry of Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, who was waiting outside, held Yang Feng's holy decree in his hand, and quickly walked with the guided attendants to the table of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi inward, although he had heard of the current supreme ruler of the Japanese Kingdom, but when Fang Heng didn't need to look up to see the small lump of things hanging down behind the curtain hanging in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

This is too weird, if it's a child, it's nothing, after all, it's not uncommon for a child to be an emperor, but what's the matter with such a monkey with a crown of monkeys? That's it, it's still a general?

"His Majesty's holy decree of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the general of the Japanese State to conquer the country, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, kneels to receive it."

Then he reacted, holding the decree and shouting loudly, and the interpreter next to him quickly repeated it to him in Japanese.

The faces of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and those ministers immediately changed, this is directly treating them as vassals! If they accept this holy decree, then they must kneel, and once they kneel, it is equivalent to admitting that they are vassals of the Ming Dynasty, which is absolutely impossible, so no matter what the content of this holy decree is, they can't accept it, and they are all educated by Zhu Shunshui, and they are still very sober in the face of this major right and wrong.

"Your Excellency, the Ming Emperor has no right to give us an order, please tell us what your army is here for."

Yoshiho Yanagisawa said.

"The Wa State is a subject country of the Ming Dynasty, of course His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has the right to give you an order, if you don't accept the order, then it is a great disrespect to Your Majesty, and a great disrespect to Your Majesty is equivalent to rebellion and chaos, so you had better think clearly about the consequences of doing so!"

Fang Heng said with a sneer.

"Yaga!"

A samurai next to him immediately cursed in anger and made a sword drawing motion.

Fang Heng looked down with disdain, and then turned his head to look down at Tokugawa Tsunayoshi proudly, he only then understood why His Majesty the Emperor appointed him to come, he was more than one meter and eight meters tall, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was sitting on a two-foot-high platform just to the height of his chest, and those Japanese people next to him, including the samurai who threatened him, were basically at this height, and now he seemed to be standing in the middle of a group of elementary school students, what was even more outrageous was that the house was also very short, and he could reach the roof with his hand, such a contrast made him very powerful.

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was also furious at this time, it was obvious that there was nothing to talk about now, it was impossible for him to kneel down to receive the order, and it was impossible for him to surrender to Yang Feng, he did not say anything with a gloomy face in the curtain, but waved his hand directly outward.

"Your Excellency, in that case, you are no longer welcome here!"

Yoshiho Yanagisawa immediately understood what he meant, and then said.

"Well, I think you'll be sober next time you come back."

Fang Heng said.

Then he turned and left.

At this time, a large number of samurai had been gathered, and they were staring at him very fiercely outside, holding on to the hilt of their swords one by one, while some other samurai were putting out iron cannons, as well as carrying arquebuses and bows and arrows, and even large swords and shields, as if they were preparing to resist the invaders. When you walk out of the city, you can see that there is even more panic in the residential areas outside the city, those samurai are moving in confusion, and the common people are running to the temple to pray for another divine wind from the gods and Buddhas, and some people are even fleeing out, in short, Edo has become a mess by this time.

Fang Heng calmly returned to the port in the chaos, and then returned to the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet in his small boat.

"How?"

Gao Tai, the admiral of the Beiyang Fleet, asked.

Fang Heng didn't answer him, but turned his head and pointed to the dozen or so warships of the Japanese Navy that were on guard nearby and said very simply: "Sink them all!" ”

Gao Tai immediately understood!

"Brothers, work!"

He said with a sinister grin.

The flagship's mainmast commander immediately waved his flag, and then the eighteen cruisers' sides suddenly erupted in dense flames, and in the whistling of shells, the explosion resounded across the sea, and in the blink of an eye, those Japanese warships became floating pieces of wood, and none of them even had a chance to counterattack. They couldn't fight back, these old warships were not much better than the Wanli period, they were all equipped with small-caliber iron cannons, and they couldn't beat the sturdy teak cruisers at all, and the main battle still relied on soldiers holding iron cannon bows and arrows to fire at close range, and then relying on hand-to-hand combat.

In front of the fifteen-pound rifled cannon flowering shells, all of them were killed in an instant, not to mention the salvo of eighteen cruisers, even a cruiser could crush it when it came over.

Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, who was carried to the castle tower to watch the battle, rubbed his eyes in disbelief, he didn't even understand what was going on, he saw countless fires shining on the sea like a volcanic eruption, and the smoke instantly filled the sea, and the next moment his warships were drowned in flames, turning into piles of smoking floating sea garbage, and at this time the huge explosion had just arrived, and the explosion that seemed to be the dense thunder in a summer storm made him sit on the ground all of a sudden.

"Lord, don't worry, their iron cannons can't hit us here."

Yanagisawa Yoshiho helped him and said with relief.

As soon as he heard this, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi also regained his composure, indeed, although Edo Castle is close to the sea, it is also six or seven miles away from the sea, and it is impossible for the black ships to get too close, it is absolutely impossible to hit the city, as for their bombardment of the outside of the city, it is not worth mentioning, and the death of those poor ghosts in Shitamachi can be ignored by him. If the Ming army wants to fight him, it has to land and attack, but tens of thousands of soldiers are stationed in Edo Castle all year round, how many people can be loaded in total on these black ships? There is no need for him to be so nervous, once it drags on for a long time, the armies from all over the country gather, then the Ming army must be defeated.

But he was wrong again.

The next moment all the black ships were facing each other, and the fire shone densely again, and the whistling of cannonballs suddenly pierced the sky. (To be continued.) )