The soldiers of the Kii Domain were asked to sit on the ground, and they watched listlessly as their lord was brought into the main formation of the Choshu Domain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Meet Lord Nayan." Yamauchi Shinmasa said very respectfully.

The Choshu Domain wanted to regain the local territory of China, but it didn't want to destroy the shogunate or anything, it was simply too frustrating and an absolutely impossible task.

Therefore, the plan of Mori Hide, the lord of the Choshu Domain, was to fight first and then negotiate, defeat the territory, recapture the homeland, defeat the shogunate army once, and then negotiate with the shogunate army under advantageous circumstances, of course, with the Ming army as a backup, and finally force the shogunate to accept the reality of the return of the Choshu domain to China.

Blindly attacking, the small body of the Choshu domain can't withstand it at all, and Maori Xiu knows very well that he is not the opponent of the Tokugawa family.

Mao Lixiu also explained to his retainers, to fight and talk, to treat the captured enemy ministers well, will be of great use in the future, as his descendants, Yamauchi Nobumasa of course absolutely obeys the orders of the feudal lord.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu looked at the middle-aged samurai in front of him with disdain, and strode over, and several of his guards hurriedly followed.

Yamauchi Nobumasa is in a good mood now, and he doesn't care about Tokugawa Yorisen's face-throwing, and His Excellency, the high-ranking imperial court lord and the governor of the Wakayama domain, was captured by him, a retainer of the Choshu domain, and it's normal to vent his unhappiness, well, it's understandable.

At this time, the dust in the east was rising, and a group of soldiers who lost their armor and wilted their heads walked here, their hands were bare-handed, and the cavalry led by Etuhun was supervised by them, if someone walked slowly, they would be slashed and killed immediately, and the Jurchen cavalry never showed mercy to these Japanese people, and it was their nature to be bloodthirsty.

These feudal soldiers walked in an orderly manner, fearing that they would be stabbed by the fierce cavalry on the side, and thus abandoned in the wilderness.

This large group of troops from the other vassal kingdoms also numbered in the thousands, and they staggered along the fields.

Yamauchi Nobumasa and Masuda Motoya looked at it with a smile, the reason is very simple, the shogunate army in Kansai is basically exhausted, see how Tokugawa Iemitsu can continue to fight.

After all, if there is a long truce, the fiefdoms of the Chinese region can be closed, and the new standing garrison can be reorganized, so the Choshu domain can have the strength to fight again, otherwise the Choshu domain will never have the strength to hold on.

In this battle, so many soldiers of the shogunate army were captured and wounded, and the original ambition of the feudal lord became a reality, so why didn't the two of them be elated.

The soldiers of the Choshu Domain escorted a group of captives to Fukuyama Castle, and at this time, the dispute between Fukuyama Castle had just ended, and due to the power of the large cavalry outside that did not belong to him, Mizuno and his son decided not to go out of the castle to flank the rebellion of the Choshu Domain.

Then the Choshu clan escorted a large number of troops back to the camp near Fukuyama Castle, at this time received a report that the Mizuno father and son went to the castle to watch, and in their opinion, everything was over, that is, the shogunate sent a large army to quell the rebellion again, and their food and rice in the city could not hold on, and they only had two ways, either surrender or go out of the castle for a decisive battle.

The great victory at Fukuyama Castle in China made the Choshu Domain famous, and Bizen, Harima, Mimasaka, Uchikawa, Kii, Owari, Yamato and other places were popular.

Half of the soldiers of the feudal clans in these places were recruited to participate in the battle in Beizhong, and almost all of them were lost there, and there was no strength left to organize a large army to resist again, so they could only retreat to their own territory for defense.

Doi Toshikatsu, who did not go with the army because of his advanced age, received the news of the defeat at the front and the capture of Tokugawa Yoshinobu at Wakayama Castle, and at this time the Kii domain was in chaos, and Tokugawa Yorisen's wife and concubine cried and complained about the Edo side every day, making Doi Toshikatsu disgraced.

Doi Toshikatsu has no reason to leave at this time, one is that there are rumors outside at this time, and the wealthy clan who fled back from the war from Owari said that the foreign cavalry that decided the combat power this time was the Ming cavalry that burned and looted in the Wa Kingdom two years ago, and this news was very fatal, because whether the news was true or not determined whether the Ming people supported the Choshu Domain to the point of directly sending troops to the war.

There is also chaos on the borders of these feudal states, and he, the old middle of the shogunate, needs to sit here to stabilize the situation.

Toshikatsu Doi first sent someone to report to Edo that the Shogunate had been defeated in the Shogunate War and that the Great Shogunate had lost the Great Nayan, and asked His Royal Highness the Shogun to make a decision.

Then he sent his capable men to various places to inquire about the witnesses who fled back from this joint battle, and finally determined one thing, this cavalry that suddenly killed was very similar to the Ming foreign cavalry that had been burned and looted in Ueno Musashi, Sagami Province and other places in the previous two years, and it was very likely to be the same cavalry.

Doi Toshikatsu immediately sent the news to Edo, and he organized the remaining Kii Domain to prepare for war, although from the current point of view, the Choshu Domain did not even break through the preparation, that is, to consolidate the territory that it had occupied, but it was necessary to be prepared, after all, the Choshu Domain was now in full swing.

After Edo Castle received the report, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Ii Naotakaka, Hikuda Masamori, Sakai Tadashi and others were shocked beyond measure, they didn't think about defeat, after all, since the Choshu Domain dared to argue with the shogunate, there must be a killer weapon in their hands.

However, the entire army only ran back with more than 6,000 people, and more than 10,000 casualties were captured, and no one expected such a fiasco.

The shogunate immediately stepped up preparations for the expedition, and at this time the shogunate had 20,000 troops on stand, and the various feudal states in the Kanto region also issued conscription orders, and it was estimated that there would be 40,000 to 50,000 troops ready for the expedition.

Of course, so many standing feudal soldiers are conscripted, and the money and food here are not a small amount, and now the shogunate has to pay a huge amount of indemnity to the broken army every year, and this time it is going to go on an expedition, saying that most of the part of the feudal army is the responsibility of the domain itself, but the shogunate does not come up with some benefits, who is willing to give you your life.

Jing Yi Naotaka has racked his brains to allocate money and food these days, which can be described as a painful ********, and it is not yet busy here, and another wave of military intelligence is coming.

First of all, after Fukuyama Castle was cut off from rice and food in the city, Mizuno Katsunari and his son were forced to go out of the city with 5,000 feudal soldiers and more than 20,000 people to surrender.

Secondly, Doi Toshikatsu sent a message that the foreign cavalry that played a role as a surprise soldier in the Beizhong War may be the foreign cavalry that caused the Ming people to trouble the Kanto countries two years ago.

This is tantamount to a thunderclap on the ground, if there is a Ming person intervening in this, the rebellion of the Choshu Domain will not end well.

You can hate the Ming people who did all the evil in the Wa Kingdom, but you can only worship the combat power of their cavalry, with the help of such a strong cavalry, how can you conquer the Choshu Domain, and there will be another Nagasaki defeat, I don't understand why the Ming army appeared in the middle of the rebellion of the Choshu Domain, and there is no need to think about the armed crusade.

"What exactly does the Akito want to do, do you want to destroy my Tokugawa family?" Tokugawa Ieba's eyes were on fire, and he had been tormented by the Broken Army over the years.

From the destruction of the naval army to the siege of Edo, to the humiliating unprecedented 20 million silver Xiaopan, the reparations that needed to be repaid by the shogunate for decades simply nailed his Tokugawa family to the pillar of shame.

Fortunately, these are secret agreements, and only a very small number of retainers know about them, and the Akito is also trustworthy, so he did not spread the news and give his Tokugawa family some face.

However, sooner or later, the news would spread, and the difference was that he retired during his reign or spread after his death, and he was destined to be regarded by later generations of countrymen and retainers and other feudal lords and samurai as an incompetent person who had lost all the glory of his family, which was a great shame for the Tokugawa family and the Wa Kingdom.

Tokugawa Iemitsu admitted that he had misjudged the situation and provoked a powerful opponent, so he failed repeatedly and was knocked to the door, and he deserved it, and he confessed.

But now, he has been humiliated to Zhao Lie, a thief, to offer a large amount of ransom silver, what does Akito want, if he wants his life, even if he takes it, Tokugawa Iemitsu is already a little crazy and can't bear it anymore.

"His Royal Highness the General, the Ming people will not be so unwise, our Tokugawa family gives them such a large sum of silver every year, how can this Zhao Lie make our Tokugawa family lose the position of general, otherwise where will they get these silver coins in the future, is there any misunderstanding here."

Although he gritted his teeth when he mentioned Zhao Lie, he still put forward a different opinion.

Everyone was puzzled for a while, and what he said was right, if he didn't do this, he killed the long-term worker who had been on the contract for thirty years, and where to find someone to work.

Who can still recognize this contract, it's impossible, no one can do such a stupid thing.

At that time, won't the Ming people be beaten with chickens and eggs, and their hands will be empty.

Due to the severance of diplomatic relations between the Japanese and the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the war, the news they got from the Ming people was half-understood, knowing that Zhao Lie was dominating one side in Denglai, and also knowing that the Son of Heaven and Zhao Lie were suspicious of each other, but the specific situation was not very clear, after all, the sources of the news were all merchants who went to the Japanese maritime trade, and their status determined that most of the news they got was just rumors.

"Then the Ming people have only one idea, either the Ming people's son of heaven or the Ming people's Zhao Lie, that is, they can't let the Ming Kingdom be united, they may think that our Japanese Kingdom has great hatred for the Ming Dynasty, and if one day it is finally unified, it will pose a threat to them."

In the words of the big guy Jing Yi Naoxiao, he basically said what Zhao Lie thought, that is, when he unified the Ming Dynasty and fought with the Jiannu, the peasant army, the Northern Captivity, and the Ming court, the army would be incapable of separating themselves, so that the Japanese country could recover its vitality and become a big disaster in the Central Plains again.

Therefore, it was in Zhao Lie's best interest to divide the Wa Kingdom and leave it in a state of fragmentation, so supporting the self-reliance of ambitious daimyo was put on the agenda.

Tokugawa Iemitsu and the others thought carefully after listening to Ii Naotaka's words, and this is indeed the most likely, but this also means that it is not feasible to attack the Choshu Domain, what to do, this is a sad death. (To be continued.) )