As soon as the three thousand marines arrived at the ancient city, Inaba Masakatsu's face instantly turned pale, and the most ominous prediction finally appeared, and the Ming army actually sent troops to support these mobs.

The 3,000 marines who boarded the harbor, under the cover of gunfire from warships and armed merchant ships, successfully gained a foothold and carried supplies...... Town.

The Catholics in the city opened the gates early, and Shiro Masuda happily greeted the arrival of the marines at the gates.

"Thank you very much for the help you have given us, if we can overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, we will definitely not disobey the power of the kingdom like the Tokugawa shogunate." Shiro Masuda said very humbly to the commander of the Marine battalion who landed.

The battalion commander just smiled when he heard the translation, then nodded casually, dealt with two sentences, and began to arrange the defensive line, after the supplies were transported into the city, the marines fired thousands of rockets directly at the shogunate artillery position in the distance, completely blinding the shogunate's artillery, and all the artillery was dumbfounded.

Without the disturbance of artillery, the marines began to deploy artillery.

The guns brought down from the ships were arranged one after another, and the guns used by the marines were naturally not the kind of outdated and inferior guns sold by the military headquarters to the Tokugawa shogunate.

In terms of range and power, they fought a lot, and as soon as the artillery shot, they once again suppressed the artillery of the Tokugawa shogunate, and constantly launched artillery bombardments on the Samoto barracks in the distance.

The shogunate army, after being shelled, retreated again.

Relying on the superiority of artillery, the Marines directly forced the Shogunate army to five miles away, and the Shogunate troops hiding five miles away were safe, the Marines did not carry heavy artillery, and the heavy artillery on the warship was naturally impossible to dismantle to defend the broken city, as long as it could be defended, it was not necessary to eliminate many Shogunate troops.

Although Inaba Masakatsu saw the Ming army supporting the Catholics in the ancient city, Inaba Masakatsu did not give up, but made the final madness.

Attack, attack again.

The next day, about 100,000 shogunate soldiers, led by samurai, launched a decisive attack on the ancient city, and hundreds of artillery pieces had been arranged on the city.

Hundreds of artillery pieces continued to fire, and the charging shogunate soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

In such an era of cold weapons, there is basically no market for the use of straggler tactics, because the scattered cold weapon troops have no combat effectiveness, even if the pony is super possessed, they will be killed by the enemy army in a dense formation, and they will not be able to attack the city.

So the shogunate army that charged was lined up in a dense formation. Under the shelling, there were naturally heavy casualties, but under the leadership of the samurai, the shogunate army still rushed to the castle.

Rows of ladders were placed on the city walls, and the shogunate soldiers climbed up the ladders like ants, and the marines at the top of the castle, holding rockets, lit the fire and let go directly to the dense crowd below the castle.

The rockets whizzed down and swerved through the crowd, causing the shogunate soldiers to jump on their feet, and some of them were frightened by the rockets that slipped by.

Many of these soldiers of the Tokugawa shogunate had never experienced war, and they were not samurai and ronin, and they had not undergone the ideological indoctrination of bushido, and their courage on the battlefield was very insufficient.

Rushing through the shelled area, the will was about to collapse, and I thought that if I rushed to the city, I would not be hit by artillery, but I was bombarded by rockets.

In addition to rockets, some Marines began throwing grenades under the city for the purpose of defending the city.

These grenades were much larger than those used in the field, and they could not be thrown far, but they were extremely powerful in defending the city.

One throws down, it is definitely a piece of death, and the power can be compared to the grenades of later generations, which is called quantitative change causing qualitative change, although the power of gunpowder is not so strong, but the amount is a little more is about the same.

In addition to shooting artillery and throwing rocket grenades, the Marine Corps basically does not come in close combat, anyway, there is a person in front of him who is on top, why go up and be a meat shield.

The five hundred pikemen in plate armor stood by on the side, known as the reserves. With such firepower, the Catholics at the head of the castle were enough to push back these shogunate troops who rushed up, and naturally there was no need for any reserves.

Offensive!

Attack again!

Failure, seppuku!

Failure again, seppuku again.

The shogunate army staged a frenzied two-day offensive, and the marines ran out of shells, so they had to carry the shells from the warships of the First Fleet into the city at night.

After two days of frantic attacks, after each failure, those samurai would cut their stomachs and end their own shame in the manner of a samurai.

It was only a two-day onslaught, and only half of the shogunate's 100,000 troops were killed and wounded, and Inaba Masakatsu was pale, and only half was left, and he couldn't fight any more.

If you continue to fight, your vitality will be exhausted.

And with only 50,000 people, it is already impossible to win.

With a bang, Inaba Masakatsu pulled out his katana, slowly untied his clothes, and then took out a white cloth and wiped his katana, and the attendants on the side saw Inaba Masakatsu's behavior and retreated silently.

After Inaba finished wiping the katana, he pinched the middle of the katana with a white cloth and aimed it at his abdomen.

"Ahh I saw Inaba Zhengsheng roar, and quickly pressed down on the handle of the knife with one hand.

The katana silently plunged into Inaba Masakatsu's abdomen, and Inaba Masakatsu's eyes suddenly rolled white, and then he fell to the ground in front of his kneeling body.

Death to apologize!

Inaba Masakatsu also used the way of a samurai to end his own life, ending his shame and guilt.

…… Inaba Masakatsu apologized for his death and the shogunate army was leaderless, and soon stopped attacking, and they no longer had the courage to attack the ancient city in front of them, which was defended by the Ming army.

Five days later, Tokugawa Iemitsu received the news and was shocked.

This time he was really panicked to the extreme, the envoy to Kanto had already returned, and Tokugawa Iemitsu at first faced the conditions put forward by the Ming army, and refused very strongly.

But at this moment, Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer has the hardness he had at that time.

His stubbornness is based on a book that is completely under his control, allowing him to mobilize the power of the entire book to resist the Ming army.

At this moment, the Catholic riots in Shimabara and Amakusa Island could not be suppressed in time, and the Ming army intervened in this matter, and it was completely impossible to exterminate these Catholics.

If the Ming army was displeased and supported these Catholic thugs in a big way, then Ben would soon fall into the hands of these Catholic thugs.

For no other reason, if the Ming army invaded on a large scale, it would inevitably provoke a strong resistance.

But these Catholics are themselves, and they are able to identify with them.

Once this sense of identity is found, the resistance will be very weak, and the people will only support the side that is in their favor. Those Catholics who use the slogan of equality for all people will naturally have the support of many people, and the brainwashing of religion is very strong.

When things are not done.

Tokugawa Iemitsu sighed, did he really want to agree to the Ming army's request?

If he agreed, the shogunate would face a serious financial crisis in the future, and the 30 million taels of indemnity would not be something that could be raised casually.

In addition, the market is completely open, and it is very likely that there will not be much tax in business, because the Ming army requires the goods of the Ming Dynasty to be exempt from taxes.

But if they don't agree, the shogunate's dominance will be wiped out, and even for the sake of the Yamato nation, it will be useless.

In fact, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not have much national consciousness, and everything he did was to rule the Motomoto and always be above the people.

Since neither agreeing nor not agreeing will not save the fate of the defeat of Yuben, why not agree? That way he can still maintain his dominance, and he can live his glory and wealth.

The shogunate was still the ruler of the Shogunate, but only a part of the benefits were distributed to the Ming Kingdom.

But if he didn't divide it, he Tokugawa shogunate would not be able to protect anything.

"Nagai, you take someone to negotiate peace with the Ming army, but we have to fight for the conditions on the treaty." Tokugawa Iemitsu said to the boy Nagai Naosada.

When the Tokugawa family was Takechiyo, there were a total of five boys, and when these five boys grew up, they became his right-hand men.

However, Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Inaba Masakatsu have both apologized for their seppuku, leaving only Okabe Nanosuke (Nagsuna), Mizuno Kiyoshiro (Mitsuzuna) and Nagai Kumanosuke (Naosada).

Naosada, Nagai was the youngest, only five years old when he became Tokugawa Iemitsu's boy, but he was the smartest.

"Hello." Nagai Naosada, nodded heavily, he also understood that at this time, the situation was no longer under the control of the shogunate, and the only way out was to negotiate peace with the Ming army.

Tokugawa Iemitsu and Nagai Naosada, who were unsure of the outcome of the peace talks, but the worst plan was just like the few items stipulated in the treaty.

It is not possible to have a navy.

Cession of Hokkaido.

Exemption from customs duties and any other miscellaneous taxes on goods in Shandong.

30 million taels of silver for the military expenses.

…… If there is no navy, there will never be a turnover, after this defeat, Tokugawa Iemitsu thoroughly realized the important surname of the navy, but how to form a navy, Tokugawa Iemitsu is not very clear.

The navy was so bad that even the North Korean could build a turtle ship to defeat the navy, and in addition, the navy was even more backward in terms of its seclusion and seclusion from the rest of the country for many years.

The cession of Hokkaido and Hokkaido's fishing grounds is nothing.

Hokkaido is just a place where criminals are exiled, and there is a lot of fish in Hokkaido's fishing grounds, but there is no need to go that far to catch fish.

It was impossible to change the exemption from irrigation and any miscellaneous taxes on Shandong goods, and Tokugawa Iemitsu and Nagai Naozada knew that the cause of the war was the unequal tariff imposed by the shogunate on Shandong goods. I care about this, but I can't change it.

Compensation of 30 million taels of silver for military expenses is what the shogunate is most concerned about, and now that the shogunate's finances are almost exhausted, it is completely impossible for them to come up with 30 million taels at once.

The rest of the negotiations would revolve around this clause, and Nagai knew he would have to fight to lower the reparations, preferably over a longer period of time.

At the same time, in exchange for the signing of the agreement, the Ming army must not only withdraw its troops from the Kanto region, but also make them abandon their support for the Shimabara mob.

This was necessary, and for the day that these mobs existed, the rule of the shogunate would be unstable for one day.

(To be continued)