Just when Lou Ting was fighting the Qing troops outside Guilin, Wang Qiang, who was far away in Osaka, Japan, also transferred from the "Yue Fei" to the "Anqing" and was heading to Kyoto along the Yodogawa River.

The scenery on both sides of the Yodogawa River is very good, but Wang Qiang is not in the mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery, at this time he is asking a few Japanese businessmen about the situation in Japan with the help of an interpreter.

At first, several Japanese businessmen were reluctant to say that they were extremely tough under the threat of interpreters, and they had the courage to regard death as home.

Wang Qiang smiled, asked people to take out a few boxes from the cabin, and opened them in front of several merchants.

"You tell them that if you tell us the truth, it's all theirs." Wang Qiang said to the translator with a smile.

The interpreter was about to translate Wang Qiang's words, but he saw several Japanese businessmen staring at the box with greedy eyes in their eyes.

The box is full of glass tea sets and glass mirrors, which reflect dazzling light in the sunlight.

When the interpreter translated Wang Qiang's words, several Japanese businessmen all nodded their heads.

As the interpreter kept translating, Wang Qiang slowly understood the current situation in Japan.

Although the current "Later Emperor of Japan" has no real power, he still enjoys high prestige in Japan, and even Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is in great power, is nominally loyal to the "Emperor," and Tokugawa Iemitsu is now Japan's left minister.

Although the Tokugawa shogunate owned more than a quarter of the land and many cities in Japan, there were still many feudal domains in Japan, and although the daimyo (chieftains) of these domains were nominally subject to the shogunate's rule, they still spared no effort to develop their power in private, just as Zheng Chenggong and Lu Wei wiped out the army of the daimyo Shimazu clan in the Sulphur Ball.

Listening to the interpreter constantly translating the words of several merchants, Wang Qiang felt that Japan was really a magical country, and the "emperor" without power could last for thousands of years, while the shogunate with real power was constantly changing.

Wang Qiang couldn't remember the strange official names in the shogunate at all, such as "Nian Ji Zhong", "If the Year is sent", "Pursued", "Damu Fu" and the like, after listening to it for a long time, Wang Qiang is still like being in the clouds.

At this time, Japan's Later Emperor Shohito was only fifteen or sixteen years old at this time, and although Shohito had a strong personality and wanted to restore the status and rights of the emperor, since Tokugawa Ieyasu formulated and promulgated the "Prohibition of China and the Laws of the Public Family", the emperor's rights were all taken over to the shogunate, and even the shogunate had to agree to go on patrols, leaving only the sole right to decide the era name.

After Tokugawa Iemitsu, the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, ascended to the position of shogun, in order to strengthen his rule over the daimyo and to prevent the religious invasion of Japan by Catholicism, he adopted an extreme policy of seclusion and seclusion.

Neither the Ming nor the Dutch had ever made a religious invasion of Japan, so the Tokugawa shogunate retained trade with these two countries, but only allowed trade in Nagasaki and other places, because Nagasaki was under the direct jurisdiction of the shogunate, and Tokugawa Iemitsu feared that other daimyo would develop because of trade and threaten the shogunate's rule.

Listening to the continuous translation of the translator, Wang Qiang's mind was thinking about the "imperial army" in another time and space, Wang Qiang secretly gritted his teeth, determined to strangle this "imperial army" in the cradle.

The huge fleet of boats on the Yodogawa River caused great panic among the Japanese people on both sides of the river, many people stood on the shore and pointed at the fleet, and some had even begun to pack up and prepare to flee from their homes.

The "Anqing" walked in the front with black smoke, the "Fengyang" pressed at the end, and in the middle were the Japanese ships that had been collected.

The poor Japanese shipwrights were desperately rocking the oars and rowing the paddle, but they could not keep up with the steamships in front of them, which made the soldiers sitting on these ships very angry, and many soldiers even took the paddle in their hands and rowed it themselves.

The distance from Osaka to Kyoto is not too far, at most more than 100 miles, in the afternoon, the fleet has arrived near Kushi County next to Kyoto, the next river is too narrow, even the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" do not dare to go further, Wang Qiang has already asked the boatman, here is about 20 miles away from Kyoto Prefecture.

Wang Qiang ordered the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" to stop at Jiushi County, and let Shi Lang personally guard the "Anqing", Wang Qiang clearly told Shi Lang that if there were Japanese ships to provoke, they would be directly sunk.

After arranging for the ships to anchor, Wang Qiang led more than 3,000 infantry to land from Fushimi, preparing to go directly to Kyoto Prefecture to find the Japanese emperor.

Wang Qiang's original intention was not to abolish the Japanese emperor, he just felt that this title was too annoying, and this time he went to Kyoto to force Japan to cancel the title of "emperor", as long as he was not called "emperor", whether he was called a king or an emperor, Wang Qiang would not care anymore.

Several Japanese businessmen were definitely blinded by a few boxes of glasses and glass mirrors, and they actually sent five or six subordinates to show Wang Qiang and them all the way, but Wang Qiang and them did not take a detour.

As soon as he landed on the shore, Wang Qiang ordered the troops to prepare for battle, he knew that there was no easy task, and sure enough, he walked less than two or three miles from Fushimi landing, and a large number of Japanese troops were ushered in in front.

With Wang Qiang's order, 3,000 soldiers quickly deployed, forming an offensive formation, and unlike other units of the Wehrmacht, Wang Qiang's offensive formation had many bombardiers.

Liu Weimin did not make all the new ZHA medicine into cannonballs, he felt that the shells could not be hit accurately, and it was possible to waste them, but if they were made into grenades, they would basically not be wasted, so he made half of the new ZHA medicine into grenades for Wang Qiang to bring.

The news that the Ming Dynasty had sent a powerful fleet had actually reached Japan a long time ago, and Wang Qiang's fleet was dragged by a large number of Japanese ships, and it was not moving fast, and the news had already reached Kyoto on land.

It was the army under the jurisdiction of the shogunate that came to intercept Wang Qiang, and it was said that it was the army, but in fact, a considerable number of them were professional samurai in Japan.

The samurai in Japan is a freak that has been formed since the ninth century. With the abolition of the power of the Japanese emperor, the phenomenon of private carrying of weapons was very common, and at first, these people were both farmers and martial arts, mainly farmers, and then slowly evolved into professional samurai.

Once the feudal lords and daimyo on whom the samurai relied changed and could no longer support these samurai, they could only become ronin, and most of the Japanese in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty were born from these ronin.

At this time, the spirit of "bushido" such as that of the Japanese invasion of China was far from being truly formed, but the form of caesarean death had become a custom among the samurai, and although the Tokugawa shogunate ordered the prohibition of such "martyrdom", this kind of practice in Japan is now becoming more and more intense.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Tokugawa Shogunate, which is now the largest feudal domain in Japan, gathered countless samurai, and after all, the Tokugawa Shogunate relied on these samurai to start its business.

Lu Wei followed Wang Qiang's side, looking at the Japanese troops that kept coming, and was secretly a little worried.

Wang Qiang watched more and more Japanese troops but became more and more excited, beating them here, and it was much easier to talk about many things when he stepped into Edo.

Despite knowing that the Ming Dynasty had sent a large number of warships and troops, the Tokugawa shogunate's troops stationed near Kyoto did not allow Emperor Shohito to evacuate Kyoto, for the simple reason that they did not receive an order from the Edo Shogun's office to allow the emperor to leave Kyoto.

Wang Qiang held up the binoculars and looked at the Japanese army and samurai who were desperately rushing over, these Japanese soldiers were far from the harsh military discipline of the Japanese army invading China, and many samurai wearing kimonos were sandwiched among the soldiers, looking chaotic.

And not all of these samurai were holding katanas, they had all kinds of weapons in their hands, and some even carried hoes.

"Xiao Wang, do you want to send someone to negotiate with them?" Lu Wei said to Wang Qiang anxiously.

"Negotiations? Aren't we talking to them with these? Wang Qiang smiled and pointed to the rifles the soldiers were holding.

The Japanese army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and Wang Qiang could see the katana in the hand of the Japanese samurai rushing to the front without a telescope.

Staring at the Japanese samurai and soldiers who rushed over, Wang Qiang took the copper whistle into his mouth, only fifty meters away, Wang Qiang blew the copper whistle.

As a whistle sounded, the gunfire characteristic of the Yangzhou Type 1 rifle rang out on the Wehrmacht position, and the Japanese soldiers and samurai began to fall in rows, but the people behind were still desperately rushing forward.

In an instant, there were hundreds of Japanese samurai and soldiers who fell in front of the Wehrmacht position, but more and more rushed up from behind, and the problem of the riflemen of the 7th Division who were nervous when they first entered the battlefield began to appear.

Wang Qiang saw it, took a few steps back, and shouted at the bombardier standing in the fourth row: "Bombardier prepare!" ”

Following Wang Qiang's order, fifty-six bombardiers took out grenades from the cloth bags hanging on their chests and pulled out the pull rings.

"Stand back in the front row! Bomb in the back row! Wang Qiang looked at the Japanese soldiers rushing over and gave orders loudly.

A few seconds later, fifty or sixty grenades exploded among the Japanese soldiers and samurai, this time causing much greater damage than rifles, and the places where the grenades exploded were basically blank, and no less than 500 Japanese soldiers and samurai were killed and wounded.

No matter how fierce the Japanese samurai and soldiers were, they were completely stunned by this blow.

Wang Qiang did not give them the slightest chance, and ordered the troops to reload quickly, and the rifles began to fire again without pause.

The soldiers of the Seventh Division, who had gradually adapted to the battlefield environment, became more and more proficient in their movements, and their loading speed was also getting faster and faster, and none of the Japanese samurai and soldiers could rush to within 30 steps of the Seventh Division's position.

Several Japanese businessmen sent to lead the way shrank behind the position of the Seventh Division, and one by one they shrank in fright.

"Forward!" Wang Qiang saw that the Japanese soldiers and samurai began to flee to the rear, and then gave the order to advance.

The soldiers of the 3,007th Division soon formed a small phalanx and chased after the Japanese army.

Wang Qiang carried a pistol and ran at the front with a guard of thirty people, Wang Qiang's guards used all the new rifles given by Liu Weimin, and the guards were basically invincible on the way forward.

Lu Wei stopped for a moment and didn't stop him, so he had to run with Wang Qiang with a new rifle in his hand.

The Japanese samurai and soldiers had already run in disarray, in all directions, and Wang Qiang was followed by two teams of more than 100 people, chasing them in the direction with the largest number of people.

has already chased into the city of Kyoto, Lu Wei wanted Wang Qiang to stop, but Wang Qiang was already running at the front of the team, but Lu Wei was pulled behind the team, and he couldn't stop shouting if he wanted to.

As the gunshots continued to ring, there were fewer and fewer Japanese samurai and soldiers in front, and Wang Qiang's speed slowed down.

Just as Wang Qiang wanted to gather a team and march in the direction of the Japanese Imperial Palace, a team of several hundred people ran on the street in front.

Wang Qiang stopped and looked, there were men and women in this team, and the clothes were also colorful, but they looked extremely luxurious.

Wang Qiang's heart moved, and he waved his hand to let the two teams behind him step forward to stop these hundreds of people, Wang Qiang didn't expect this stop to stop the extremely unlucky Emperor Houguang Shaoren.