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The only remaining 30 or so Japanese warships rushed towards the south regardless of it, but unfortunately their end will be the same as Shimazu Hisao, which can be said to be a copy of the Kagoshima sailor. The Seventh Detachment in Yokosuka would be a nightmare for them, and it would depend on how quickly they could react if they abandoned ship and landed.

Looking at the fleeing Japanese warship, Wang Zhenbang also did not give an order. Just like in Kagoshima Bay, the remaining Japanese warships have no fighting spirit, and they can only deliver food in front of the Seventh Fleet, which is waiting for work. However, Wang Zhenbang guessed wrong, and Tokugawa Tsunashige did not plan to escape to the ocean at all, but was ready to abandon the ship and go ashore.

Tokugawa Tsunashige sailed for only an hour with the rest of the ships before approaching Yokosuka. On the surface of the sea, a few kilometers away, the situation in Yokosuka can already be seen from the telescope.

"Not good, my lord, there are still enemy warships ahead, there are twenty of them!" Tokugawa Tsunesge's lieutenant was the first to discover the situation on the other side through the telescope, and his heart was shocked, and he immediately reported it to Tokugawa Tsunshige in a panic.

"Nani?" Tokugawa Tsunashige quickly took out his telescope and began to watch. When he saw that there were still twenty sail warships blocking the mouth of the bay in front of him, he was greatly shocked. "The Mawei fleet just now wasn't all they had?"

"Quick! Dock now and swim up! "Thirty or so warships received the order, immediately turned to the right, rushed straight towards the beach, and then ran aground on the shallow water. Then the remaining more than 2,000 widows jumped into the sea one by one like dumplings. I climbed ashore while swimming.

At the time of Tokugawa Tsunawa's order. They were similarly discovered by the Seventh Detachment. I am waiting to be happy. The naval soldiers, who thought that there was a war to fight, found that the Japanese on the opposite side quickly turned to the west, that is, to the right of the Japanese warship, ran aground on the beach, and then fled ashore!

"Coward!"

"Coward!"

"No eggs. Egg stuff! ”

The Seventh Detachment scolded one after another, and all the ideas of wanting to make war achievements and pick up cheap ones were all in vain. They were ordered to hold the Yokosuka waterway and not to go ashore. Otherwise, I really want to catch up and eliminate these pirates.

Since the place where the Edo Navy Division and the Mawei Fleet fought was in the sea of Edo Bay, which was very close to Edo Castle, the rumbling sound of cannons from the sea made the whole of Edo panic. The entire Edo could be heard up and down the city, and the dense and fierce thunder-like cannon fire could be heard, and the merchants and people were all panicked.

They didn't even know that anyone was going to attack Edo, and they didn't even hear the slightest word of it. Even Abe Tadaaki ordered the army to be prepared, and it was also carried out outside the city, after all, whether it was the army or the navy, it was not stationed in the city.

At this moment, the clearly audible sound of artillery made the Japanese people in the city really feel that the footsteps of the war were so close to them. Except for the ronin rebellion eighteen years ago. Edo Castle was not in turmoil for 60 years. Most people could not imagine what kind of disaster would be brought by such a fierce and dense artillery fire, and the large-scale invasion of foreign enemies filled them with fear before they had never experienced war. One by one, like headless flies, they don't know where to go.

This sudden war made them unprepared, and even the Japanese people of Kagoshima Castle were not as good as them. At the time of the great war between the two armies, the Japanese people outside the castle, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, fled to Edo Castle with their families, and everyone felt that there were many samurai in Edo Castle and that they could protect them.

In the city, more than half of the Japanese people have taken refuge in their homes, and nearly half of them have gathered at nearby temples and temples, praying that the "kamikaze" that has protected the Japanese kingdom twice will once again exert its power and destroy all future enemies. If Geng Jingzhong knew about this situation, he would definitely laugh off his big teeth directly. This is Edo Bay, not the open sea, and if a strong typhoon blows, the most unlucky thing will not be his horsetail fleet, and the entire Edo Castle house may not be able to be saved.

It is not only the ordinary people who come to the temple and temple to pray, but also the Tokugawa family and the families of various nobles, large and small, praying sincerely, hoping that the gods will bless them.

Akasaka Town, that is, the Tokugawa Shogunate's direct military station, the Tokugawa Shogunate's direct military is called the "direct retainer group", they are based on the flag and the imperial family of less than 10,000 koku as the core. The meaning of the flag is that at the ceremony of the shogun's appearance, you can directly meet the shogun's retainers, and basically some of the lords' concubines and sueko are served. The Imperial Family, on the other hand, was a samurai who maintained a master-slave relationship directly with the shogun. It is slightly lower than the flag book, and the difference is that the imperial family is not qualified to meet with the shogun.

The Tokugawa shogunate's "retainers regiment" has always maintained a scale of 30,000 people, and in China, it is equivalent to the guard troops outside Beijing and the five battalions of the Nine Gate Infantry Army in the city, of course, this force is much less. However, unlike the Chinese, there are many samurai in Edo Castle, and they can entangle 30,000 to 50,000 samurai at any time, but they can't in Beijing City or any city in China, at most, they can catch some young people to make a show.

Abe Tadaaki had arrived in Akasaka Town at this moment, and ordered his retainers to immediately rearm for battle, and at the same time, with the cooperation of Masayuki Hoshina, urgently recruited samurai in Edo Castle. Not only that, but he also issued an order to the surrounding daimyo in the name of the shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, and urgently called in troops to help in the battle. An hour later, Abe Tadaaki headed for Edo Port with 5,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry, ready to meet the invading enemy.

The feudal lords of various regions living in Edo faced this sudden invasion. In the face of the chaotic Edo, in the face of the empty defense of Edo Castle, no one dared to take the opportunity to attack, because they knew very well in their hearts that if anyone dared to advocate chaos at this time, they would definitely die an ugly death, on the contrary. At this time, all the feudal lords were united as never before, and they all rushed to Edo Port with their respective retainers and banners after the retainers directly under the shogun's palace.

Outside Edo Castle, the sound of cannons was heard more clearly, but as they approached Edo Port, the sound of cannons on the sea became sparse and then disappeared. Abe Tadaaki's face was gloomy, and his heart began to feel a little unsteady, he knew very well what it meant that the sound of the cannon disappeared, he really didn't expect it, it was only less than an hour. Tens of thousands of sailors, more than 100 warships are all finished? Then this Mawei fleet is too powerful, and in the future, won't the sea area of this Wa country become their backyard, and they can come as they want?

On the side of the Mawei Navy, Geng Jingzhong did not let the soldiers go ashore directly. Now that the strategy against Edo has changed, there is no need to go ashore and fight them. According to information provided by Ryukyu Prefecture Major Master Karaji and others, there are three rivers that pass through the entire Edo Castle, and from west to east, they are the Arakawa, the old Edogawa, and the Edogawa. The old Edo River was narrow, only 300 meters wide at the interface with Edo Bay, and the further you went inside, the narrower it became, and the water was not deep. However, the Arakawa River and the Edo River are different, although they are also narrower and narrower as they go inward, but there are still more than 200 meters in the narrowest place, and the depth is more than 10 meters, even a third-class battleship can barely move forward.

"The order is that all the fourth-class and fifth-class battleships of the first, second, and third fleets will enter the Arakawa, and all the fourth, fifth, and sixth fleets of the fourth, fifth, and sixth fleets will enter the Edogawa River, and they will give me a hard blow when they meet the enemy. Then destroy a small part of the houses in Edo Castle and give them some color to see! After the naval battle was over, Geng Jingzhong also walked to the foredeck and began to give orders. Now is not the time for mercy, and the Tokugawa family in Edo Castle must be forced to send someone to sue for peace, otherwise they will directly shell or even set fire to Edo Castle.

Geng Jingzhong conveyed this order just in case, although the Arakawa and Edo River were said to be wide and deep, they were not necessarily suitable for third-class warships to sail, and if they ran aground in it, they would lose a lot. It is better to let the fourth- and fifth-level warships enter it, although the number of artillery is much less, but it is still out of reach compared to the Japanese Kou.

The range of the naval guns of the Mawei fleet was not less than one kilometer, and many warships went up the two rivers, outflanked on the left and right, and most of the Edo would be within the range of the naval guns. And this is an inland river in Edo, there are no batteries at all, so the naval warships do not have to worry about it at all. They were on a river hundreds of meters wide, and even if they wanted to attack, they could only look at the boat and sigh!

"Captain, look! There's a lot of pirates over there! "As soon as the fourth- and fifth-class battleships of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fleets entered Arakawa, they found 5,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry led by Abe Tadaaki, who were not far from them.

"One Shot!"

"Thirty degrees of elevation!"

"Fire!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

Half of the thirty-five fourth- and fifth-class warships lined up in a vertical line began to open fire, and the muzzles of their guns were aimed at the Japanese army that was approaching this way. It seems that these widows are going to experience the same treatment as Shimazu Mitsuhisa, and they should be worse than Shimazu Mitsuhisa.

The warships moved forward slowly, firing their cannons continuously, and one shell after another fell into the array of troops led by Abe Tadaaki. These would-be pirates were also young children who had never experienced a real war, and they were suddenly blinded by such a dense artillery bombardment. This time, the ships bombarded the Japanese war array, but they were all flowering bombs, which was a level higher than the 10,000 people who were on Shimazu Mitsuhisa. The number of guns on one side of the 35 battleships exceeded 500, which was far from being comparable to the 160 guns of the two artillery battalions of the Marine Corps. Moreover, many of the naval guns on this battleship were heavy guns of more than 18 pounds.

In the first round of shelling, the 200 guns on the left side of the seventeen ships fired 200 shells, at least half of which fell into the Japanese army. At this moment, thousands of pirates should have died. The 5,000 cavalry of the Japanese were also in chaos at the same time, and most of the horses could still hold up to the cannons on the battleship, but the cannonballs that fell around the cavalry exploded again, causing these horses to explode one after another, just like the cavalry of the Shimazu family, scurrying in all directions. (To be continued......)

PS: Brothers, I hope you will support you a lot, spiritually, in action, and physically! →←

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