Chapter 199: Attacking the Imperial Palace

Looking at the Honnoji Temple in the distance, Tuo Lei felt a little headache.

The least good thing for the Mongols was siege, and when they needed to storm a city, they would drive a large number of servant armies into battle, but now they did not have any servant armies.

"Your Royal Highness, are we going to attack here?"

Jebel asked.

Tuo Lei swayed, and then said: "Since the enemy's cavalry has come, then the army must not be far away, and attacking here now is only to increase casualties." But it would be nice if you could lure the enemy out if you wanted to set sails. ”

He thought about it, but he didn't come up with a good idea.

"They must have come here to save the Emperor, as long as we attack the Imperial Palace, they may come out to fight us."

At this time, Subutai suddenly said.

Hearing this, Tuo Lei nodded slightly.

The purpose of their coming here is self-evident, if they don't want the emperor to be captured alive by them, then they have to go out of the temple to fight.

He consulted with Jebel and the others for a while, and decided to do just that.

However, he was still a little worried about the enemy's approaching army, so he sent a large number of scouts to search in the direction where the cavalry came, believing that he would be able to find traces of the enemy's army.

So Tuo Lei left some of his men to guard the Honnoji Temple, and then mobilized some of his men and horses to attack the imperial palace of the Wa Kingdom.

"My lord, they're gone."

Masayuki Yui said to Tadaji Abe.

Tadaji Abe nodded, but sighed.

"If the enemy attacks, we will definitely be able to kill and damage the enemy in large numbers, but alas"

Speaking of which. Abe Tadaji looked regretful.

For the strength of the samurai under his command. He's still quite confident.

If you want to capture Honnoji, you can only send infantry. And the samurai of their Wa Kingdom are best at foot combat, not to mention defending the city.

If the enemy fights on foot, it is definitely the length of the attack that is already short, but the enemy is not fooled.

"What if the enemy attacks the Kyoto Imperial Palace?"

Yui asked.

Hearing this, everyone's faces were solemn.

Tokugawa Iemitsu sent them here to rescue the emperor, not to let them be shrunken turtles here.

The position of the Honnoji Temple is like a sharp knife inserted into the heart of the enemy, but if you don't attack, how can you contain the enemy?

"Then we'll send cavalry to attack."

Tadaji Abe thought for a moment and said. "It's just that you have to use the Honnoji Temple as a camp, and if you don't have an enemy, you can retreat."

Everyone nodded when they heard this, thinking that this plan was good, after all, not everyone wanted to do the thing of sending people to death.

The loyalty of the samurai to the emperor is still far from the level that it was in later generations.

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The Kyoto Imperial Palace, the seat of the Emperor of Wakoku.

It is 700 meters wide from east to west, 1,300 meters long from north to south, with an area of 110,000 square meters, which is basically imitated according to the specifications of the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty, and the scale is quite grandiose.

But at this time, the Kyoto Imperial Palace was already killing the sky.

A large number of young men were driven away and rushed towards the palace with bags of dirt.

"Kill them l kill them! Yes, you can't let them come!! ”

Guan Wei Konoe Shin shouted hoarsely.

This is already their last bastion. The Emperor was behind them, and they had no way back.

The samurai and ashigaru on the castle wall opened fire on the young men. Dense lead bullets and arrows hit those young men.

A large number of young men were hit by these buckshots, and then collapsed in pools of blood.

Some of the young men fled in fright, but soon the Mongol cavalry took out their sabers and hacked them to death.

More of them fell to the ground, screaming miserably.

"Hurry up and give me back, or I'll kill you all."

A centurion said to them in a vicious voice.

Seeing this, those young people of the Japanese country felt extremely frightened.

Under the pressure of the swords of the Mongol cavalry, they had to rush to the palace again with earthen bags on their backs.

"Eight Geyalu are a bunch of goddamn bastards!"

Konoe shinkashi yelled angrily.

He hated these young men who succumbed to the enemy, so why couldn't they sacrifice their lives for His Majesty the Emperor.

So the samurai and ashigaru had to continue firing at the young men of the Japanese kingdom, and soon their guns were red.

One by one, the young men fell to the ground, but the Mongols did not do anything about it.

At this time, Tuo Lei waved his hand.

Strange vehicles were pushed up from behind, lined up in two rows, and slowly approached the walls.

"What is this?"

Seeing this, Konoe Shintomo couldn't help but ask strangely.

The other ministers and nobles swayed one after another, and what they didn't know was the Jurchen chariot.

Mo Rigen and others, who had been in Liaodong for a while, thought that these things might be useful, so they sent people to build some, but they didn't expect to really use them.

In fact, Tuo Lei didn't want to use these things, because it was easier to use those young people to attack the city, and the casualties were smaller.

But the arrival of the cavalry made him feel the danger, so he had to let the chariots appear.

Although Konoe Shinhiro didn't understand the specifics of these chariots, he knew that they must be something used to siege the city.

So he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Quick, fire at them, you must destroy them." ”

After hearing Konoe Shinto's order, a large number of samurai and ashigaru hurriedly loaded their muskets, and then aimed at the chariots, and the young men of the Japanese country were handed over to the archers to deal with.

As soon as the cart had entered a hundred paces, the musketeers opened fire.

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

“”

The sound of intensive firing was incessant, and a large number of lead bullets hit the cart, although the cart clanged, but in the end it could not hurt the cart in the slightest.

At this time, some Mongol archers emerged from behind the chariots, and they aimed at the soldiers at the head of the city, and then fired arrows one after another.

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Ahh

“”

Immediately there were screams from the top of the castle, and some samurai and ashigaru were shot one after another, and most of the arrows were in the face.

"Eight squares! Eight squares!! ”

Konoe Shinxun said with anger trembling all over.

These arrows are poisonous, and these people are dying.

The front row of the cart continued to move forward, and the back row stopped about ninety paces from the city wall, and some Mongolian shooters hid behind the cart and continued to shoot.

A large number of arrows kept coming towards the city wall, and the Japanese soldiers on the city wall also unceremoniously returned fire, and both sides suffered casualties.

But because these Mongol shooters were deliberately wearing heavy armor, even if they were hit, they were only slightly injured.

And those young men of the Japanese country took advantage of this opportunity to rush towards the city wall with a large number of dirt bags on their backs, and then threw the earth bags under the city wall.

Seeing this, Konoe Shinhiro really didn't know what to do.

Whether he was going to order the soldiers to kill the young men or the Mongols.

At this time, the front row of carts also came to the city wall, and some Mongolian soldiers hid in the carts and picked up axes to destroy the city walls.

Seeing this, Konoe Shinhiro couldn't help but be terrified.

"Wreak havoc on those damn wooden carts! Otherwise, the walls will be finished!! ”

The samurai and ashigaru also knew that the situation was serious, so they took out the prepared logs and smashed them downward, along with a large amount of boiling water and boiling oil.

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