Tokugawa Ieshige set his sights on his "elder", Anto Nahito, the position of the shogunate's temporary highest position, and was responsible for overseeing government affairs and participating in the determination of important policies.

But today, An Teng Mingren, who was hanging over the river, was silent, looking at the "old middle" An Tenghui with a calm and relaxed look, An Tenghui glared at An Teng Mingren fiercely, An Tenghui served in the old middle, and his duty was the highest responsibility for the government affairs under the direct command of the general, and the shogunate officials of the prime minister's government affairs, normally there should be at least four to five old people, but because General Tokugawa Ieshige was in a hurry, he had not yet had time to appoint the rest of the people, and even An Tenghui himself was rushing ducks to the shelves.

Tokugawa Ieshige looked at his dismal team and sighed helplessly, he was still a child in terms of his surname, and the matter of life and death seemed too heavy for him, Tokugawa Ieshige glanced at the side of the imperial people not far away, not to mention, Satsuma and Choshu confiscated millions of taels of silver from Qing merchants, and it coincided with the unstable time when the new and old successors of the shogunate were unstable, and the left and right Senemon of the Satsuma domain thought that the love to Tokugawa Iemo's sister Sakurako was rejected, and he was embarrassed and angry and united with Choshu to discuss the shogunate, and entered a few years of natural disasters [*** The fact that the people could not survive also gave them a sufficient excuse to raise an army.

At this time, a woman wearing fiery red armor was holding a katana and couldn't believe it, and the woman looked around, An Tenghui, An Teng Mingren and others immediately bowed their heads and were silent, looking a little ashamed.

More than 200 female samurai brought by Tokugawa Sakurako were half-kneeling outside the gate, originally the woman did not bear the family name, but Tokugawa Sakurako was a closed disciple of Yagyu Win, a full-fledged samurai, and more than a dozen people who were idle could not rely on the female god of evil, so they made an exception to give him the title Tokugawa.

Tokugawa Sakurako took a deep breath and said to Anten Minghito: "Do you still think that the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains are tempting?" Now that they are colluding with Westerners, they are training a new army and returning the shogunate to the emperor, do you think you can get a better position in the emperor if the shogunate is broken? Will those people in Satsuma and Choshu leave us a way out? ”

Tokugawa Sakurako, who looked extremely cold, did not reply: "I will take the Sakura team to help in the battle, and you shogunate directors are here waiting for a miracle to appear!" ”

Anten Mingren is very helpless about this, especially the two feudal domains of Satsuma and Choshu are still under the banner of returning to the great government and the emperor, plus the abundant funds naturally recruit a group of outlaw samurai, and now the shogunate's finances are extremely difficult, and the Dutch are dishonest in the shogunate!

Tokugawa Ieshige looked at his sister's departing figure in distraction, it seems that this general is not as good as his mother said? It seems that the person who wants to be a general is not him, but his family? Now for the sake of this damn general, the sister who loves him the most is going to fight the rebels, Tokugawa Ieshige held the little sword tightly, and seemed to be making up his mind.

At the same time, in the Edowan fortress that shouted and screamed to kill, Matsui Kimoto, who was covered in blood, and Miki Kimoto, who was stabbed three times in his body, were saying their final goodbyes, and Matsui Kimoto was pierced through the body by two Muramasa stabbing spears, and the Muramasa soldiers had already become the nemesis of the shogunate in the past dynasties, so much so that the shogunate called it a demon sword!

Outside the city, the light feet of the two feudal clans of Satsuma and Choshu and a large number of samurai are storming the main fortress of Edo Bay, saying that it is a fortification, but in fact it is a very large civil structure of the quadripartite fortress body, adhering to the style of thrift that I have always had, the overall seems to be very simple, the soldiers in the guard can only rest in a half-squat, the only building is the small cabin where the flags are located, shabby and shabby, but it is also a match with the person who can feel very happy to eat a salted fish.

"Report to the commander, there seems to be war in Edo Bay!" The report of the tactical staff officer made Ma Jiang, who was about to leave the bridge, turn around and return, and pick up the telescope with Li Anmin to observe the situation on the opposite side, but the distance was too far away, and he could only roughly see the flags of both sides.

Li Anmin put down his binoculars, picked up the sample map of the flags of each domain compiled by the intelligence department, looked at it for a while, and said to Ma Jiang: "The defending side is the shogunate's personal guard flagbook, and the attacking side's Qinglong and Ape are the two feudal domains of Satsuma and Choshu that we are looking for." ”

Ma Jiang smiled slightly and said: "It's true that there is a way in heaven that he doesn't take, and there is no way to go to hell!" The ships were ordered to follow the flagship's side column and anchor to make preparations for the bombardment. ”

Urging the attack on the shore were Yamamoto Ototo of the Satsuma Domain and Eijuro of the Choshu Domain, and the two of them were also watching the sea on horses not much taller than them.

Yamamoto remembered that the Satsuma clan had also built an ironclad ship a few years ago, and it was just a paddle wheel with a layer of iron on the hull, and the speed was as slow as a turtle shell, not to mention that the huge wheels of the paddle wheel often had various problems, and maintenance was expensive, and it could only be equipped with a dozen small copper cannons, and the range power was simply not worth mentioning.

Yamamoto took the knife and said worriedly to the hebei juro: "hebei-kun! Which country will it be? They wouldn't meddle in our dispute with the shogunate, would they? ”

Bei Juro looked at the seven behemoths on the sea with bright eyes and slowly lined up in a row and sighed: "This is called a battleship, our kind can only be a bath tub, when can we have such a battleship?" It's enough for a lifetime! ”

Yamamoto said frankly: "Westerners have a lot to learn from us, we have been self-contained for too long, the outside world has undergone earth-shaking changes, the English only used tens of thousands of people to defeat the Qing Empire, and the silver compensated by the Qing Empire was transported for several months in dozens of ships." ”

When Bei Juro heard so much silver, he also sighed: "We also want to develop ourselves, the Qing country is too rich, we are too poor, when we become strong, we can also go to the Qing country like the Westerners to ask for our needs, turn their land into us, they become our slaves, and their women will moan under our crotch." ”

Hahaha! Ha ha!

After a burst of laughter, Yamamoto suddenly wondered, "Who has so many ironclad ships in Southeast Asia?" Did such a sharp battleship belong to the English? Dutch? Spaniard? French? Not like the Americans and Russians, because their ships have sails, and these seven have no sails! ”

Yamamoto Obito and Beijuro thought of a force almost at the same time, the group of merchants who were selling Fukuju paste in Saimoto, and Yamamoto Obito remembered that when he killed those merchants, they shouted that the Metropolitan Governor would avenge them, saying that the ironclad ships would sweep away the main island...... No way? Yamamoto exchanged slightly frightened glances with Hyoe Juro and decided to immediately send a few ships over to take a look.

Ma Jiang, who was standing on the Zhiyuan ship, looked at Li Anmin with a smile and said, "Chief of Staff, how about you give this historic order?" Remember to give me one of your two good bottles. ”

Li Anmin also took it upon himself to say: "I must accept your kindness, but there is no way to drink, since you sailed, you said how much wine you borrowed from me?" You don't have to tell you! ”

Ma Jiang immediately swore to the sky: "It must have been my brother Ma Tao who did it, let us cooperate before saying that the Metropolitan Governor set off, yours is us, not to mention wine, if I have a wife, I will share half of you, if I have good wine, I will also share half of you, if I have a good cigar, I will also share half of you?" Brother, am I righteous? ”

Looking at Ma Jiang, who was speaking with a righteous and generous face, Li Anmin stretched out his thumb and nodded: "This is like a human saying, righteous enough." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Anmin suddenly reacted, these things Ma Jiang said were all things that he didn't have? Li Anmin, who felt deceived, glared at Ma Jiang fiercely and said, "I sincerely wish you to be a bachelor for the rest of your life!" ”

Ma Jiang didn't care and said, "The Governor said that in the revenge against Yueben, if you capture the other party's princess or something, you will reward us as a servant." ”

Li Anmin glanced at Ma Jiang helplessly: "You haven't seen a woman before, right?" ”

Ma Jiang nodded, and Li Anmin smiled very unkindly: "Short, radish legs, face covered with lead powder, can't take a shower a few times a year, never brushes his teeth, black and mushy, and sour!" ”

Yes? Ma Jiang was stunned and said, "Without you like this, is it still a human being?" The Metropolitan can't lie to me, can he? For Lin Haijiang, who often jokes with his subordinates, Ma Jiang really has no bottom in his heart.

Seeing Ma Jiang's tangled look, Li Anmin, who had achieved his goal, looked at the naval guns that had already adjusted and corrected Zhu Yuan, and said loudly: "Each gun of the whole ship is divided into a base for self-fire. ”

Boom, boom! The twin 260 mm guns have 100 mm secondary guns when firing the muzzle punch instantly washed the sea out of a ditch, the rolling waves slapped on the hull again, the ship's swing was a little greater than before, in the interval of each shot, the sighter needed to quickly fine-tune the elements, to ensure that the accuracy of the shot was not affected by the muzzle surge.

When the first shells landed on the light feet of the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains, a huge blast wave tossed Yamamoto Ototo and Beijuro from the pony to the ground, and several wooden gunboats that had rushed to inquire about the other side's intentions were also overturned into a pile of floating rotten planks by the auxiliary guns of the Zhiyuan.

It didn't matter who Yamamoto Obito and Gordo were now, the important thing was that they were the enemy, and the huge and dense explosion brought more of a sensory impact, flying stumps and severed arms, huge waves of air and fire, and pieces of light feet or samurai disappeared without a trace in the explosion.

The samurai who was cut by shrapnel in the belly covered his intestines and struggled in pain, the victory just now in front of him seemed to have vanished, Yamamoto with a knife looked at the fleeing samurai in a little panic and was very helpless, compared to the light foot of the Satsuma and Choshu feudal clans was still enduring artillery fire, but this kind of enduring was more of a huge fright, no one had ever seen such a powerful artillery.

Bei Juro anxiously grabbed Yamamoto's belt knife and said with a crying voice: "Hurry up and retreat!" The elites of the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains cannot be cut off here, so the wandering samurai who receive commissions are left behind to prevent Tada and Matsui Kimoto from pursuing them with victory, and the enemy is from the sea, so we must stay away from the coast, so that his warships cannot be used. ”

Matsui Kimoto and Tada Kimoto have a kind of luck in escaping death, Satsuma and Choshu are both daimyo feudal towns in the extreme west, and the relationship with the shogunate has always been very tense, and its secret contact with the United States, Britain and other countries, ignoring and bad friends with the shogunate, originally the Dutch promised to use iron ore as collateral to provide the shogunate with 5,000 muskets and three five-class eighteen-gun cruisers for the formation of the shogunate fleet to blockade the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories, but for some reason the Dutch actually broke their word?

The Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains received a large amount of money during the October Incident against Qing merchants, and relied on these funds to form a new army armed with foreign guns and a small number of artillery, but this was a test of the shogunate that the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains had already paid a lot of money to hire wandering samurai, because the new army that the Satsuma and Choshu feudal domains were proud of did not appear.

However, even if it was a temptation, the financial difficulties were so difficult that the shogunate could not parry, and the three banners were either dead or injured! In the violent explosion, the attack of the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories was completely disintegrated, Matsui Qiben looked at the unidentified battleship on the sea in a daze, even his forehead was cut by shrapnel and he was unconscious, let the blood flow down his face, this is the first time Matsui Qiben has seen the power of Western ironclads, this power has exceeded his imagination, I don't know what words to use to describe.

It must be the Dutchman that the general is looking forward to, right? Tada Kimoto and Matsui Kimoto thought of going together.

When one of the battleships slowly approached the simple dock, Tada Qiben suddenly felt very blushing, as if the dock was really not worthy of the majestic battleship, but he had never seen the blue and white flags on the battleship, it should not be Dutch? So why should they help themselves to repel the rebels?

There were many conflicts between the shogunate and the daimyo in various places, but this was the first time that the conflict of this scale had begun, and before the killer new armies of the Satsuma and Choshu feudal clans appeared, the shogunate was almost defeated by the mercenaries sent by the other side to test it.

After Tada Qimoto and Matsui Qimoto boarded the behemoth-like Zhiyuan ship, the two of them were dumbfounded, especially the hideous front main gun, the explosion just now was too shocking for Matsui Qimoto and Tada Qimoto.

But what is even more shocking is that these steel giants turned out to be the Chinese Empire from the Old Port? They were ordered by the Metropolitan Governor Lin Haijiang to come to conquer and kill legitimate merchants and swallow up millions of taels of silver from the old port political axe.

After the translation, Tada Qiben realized that this was not something he could handle with a banner, so he immediately personally escorted Shen Tianfu to the Edo General's Mansion, and Li Anmin sent five hundred marines to accompany him, he didn't dare to be a little sloppy about Shen Tianfu, this old thing is likely to become Lin Dudu's old father-in-law!

And Matsui Qiben stayed on the battleship to heal his wounds, and Matsui Qiben, who was seriously curious, didn't bother to bandage his wounds, so he had to go down to the engine room to see how such a huge battleship could all be made of iron? In Matsui's impression, how can iron float on the sea? Moreover, although this battleship is not small, it is not as powerful as the third-class battleships of the Western Ocean.

Li Anmin and Ma Jiang ignored Matsui Kimoto, who was like a curious baby, they were soldiers, and they had to face how to carry out punishment actions against the Satsuma and Choshu feudatories, how to cooperate with the shogunate, and how to get the most benefits from the shogunate.

However, Matsui Kimoto also brought some basic information to Li Anmin, and after repeated research by Li Anmin and the staff officers of the Intelligence Department, the Satsuma Domain, which is said to be the territory of the Honhon, is located in the northern half of Kagoshima in the southwest of Kyushu.

The daimyo clans that were close to the shogunate were near Edo Castle, and the more distant they were, the farther away they became. The Satsuma Domain was located in the westernmost part of the four islands of Saimoto, and its relationship with the shogunate can be imagined. As a result, the young samurai class promoted innovation, and together with the young samurai of the nearby Choshu Domain, they developed through contact with the Western powers, and became known as the Powerful Domain. At the end of the Edo period, the Satsuma Domain and other powerful feudal forces formed an alliance to abolish the shogunate and return it to the emperor. The shogunate has always had little control over the powerful feudal domains in the southwest, and it is a bit out of reach.

Although the daimyo there was weakened, it was not as good as the situation in Gyeonggi where the original daimyo was wiped out and the shogunate was all over the country. The shogunate did not have too strong a force to contain the strong feudal clan in the southwest, and the powerful feudal clan in the southwest had earlier contact with Westernized civilization, and the introduction of Western technology and modern military was better than that of the shogunate, and diplomatically the two feudal domains of Satsuma and Choshu opened up the door to Britain and the United States, while the shogunate relied on the Netherlands, which was not as good as it was back then, and the backers were not the same, and the shogunate did not know that the power of the Dutch had been uprooted, which would be extremely beneficial to Shen Tianfu's negotiations.

The feeling of firing on the territory of another country is a very, very enjoyable thing for Li Anmin, a junior ultra-nationalist.

However, there is one thing that Li Anmin is more confused, that is, the Sekihara Naka Mori and Shimazu of the Saiben belong to the Western Army, although they have not been cut down, but they have also been reduced fiefdoms, logically speaking, their strength has been seriously weakened, and they are also the object of close surveillance by the shogunate, but now they are suppressing the shogunate? It seems that the shogunate itself also had great problems.

Lin Haijiang, who was waiting for news in the old port, personally participated in the renovation of two captured Dutch ironclads, and in general the Dutch design had a lot of the same design as the battleships ordered by their own Prussia? This made Lin Haijiang suddenly alert? It seems that it is still difficult for the world to keep secrets, and I must remind the Prussian side to pay attention to secrecy, but it is not certain how much effect it can have.

Lin Haijiang knew that the technology and personnel training of the Chinese Navy in later generations came from the United Kingdom, according to the tradition of the British Royal Navy, when the warship was sunk or sunk by itself, the senior generals usually sank with the ship, in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in the First Sino-Japanese War, in addition to the stranded Guangjia, the remaining four ships sank according to the battle time sequence of Jingyuan, Zhiyuan, Chaoyong, and Yangwei, Lin Yongsheng, Deng Shichang, Huang Jianxun, and Lin Luzhong did not abandon the ship, all of them sank with the ship, and they supported the iron backbone of China's modern navy. Similarly, Fang Boqian's shameless name will also be spurned.

That's what James is. The main reason why Admiral William disappeared in a very short period of time after the defeat at Dagukou is that a senior general who should live and die with the fleet is still shamelessly alive after losing the fleet? It has to be low-key.

(To be continued)