Sixteen mountain cannons marched slowly on the muddy road, each of which was pulled by horse-drawn men, and while the rain was still pouring, in the mud, they made a hard advance in the direction of Tokyo.

The horses neighed loudly, struggling to support their hind legs and pulling hard, the horsemen waved their whips and shouted loudly, and the Japanese soldiers who rolled like mud monkeys crowded on both sides of the carriage, and they were also pushing the wheels desperately.

Heavy rain will undoubtedly cause a big hindrance to the attackers. The Qin army had already begun to prepare to attack Quanyue Temple, and they had to temporarily endure the offensive under the heavy rain. At the same time, for the Japanese troops in the southwest who reinforced Tokyo, this heavy rain could not have been worse.

The artillery units, which were already pulled, could not keep up with the speed of the infantry at all, and were left behind. Although the local governments of Japan through which the reinforcements passed through tried their best to provide convenience to the troops, the Japanese transportation in this era was really the same level as my Qing Dynasty.

The rain poured down, and the mud was everywhere, and when you stepped on it, the muddy water directly overflowed your ankles.

Liu Xiandu had already prepared 3,000 troops for the attack on Quanyue Temple, but the rain suddenly increased by a level, and he could only stop. However, this is not to say that he Liu Xian does not plan to fight when it rains heavily, but to give the army a time to prepare psychologically. And three brigades, more than 1,000 troops, were again mobilized to add to the sequence of attacking troops.

Therefore, the rain curtain was heavy, and the pro-army positions that the Japanese could not see, so the entire battlefield was a scene of full soldiers and horses, although the heavy rain was heavy, it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the Qin army for war.

An officer directs soldiers to transport ammunition into an artillery position. The movements of the soldiers around him suddenly stopped, and one by one they turned their heads behind him. The officer was stunned for a moment, and was about to curse, when he heard one of the soldiers laughing: "It's Lord Junmen!" The military gate is here to inspect us! ”

Liu Xian rode a black war horse, and this beast was by no means native to Xiao Ni. It should be a horse of Western origin, with a height of at least one and a half meters. It was the army that swept through the city hall when it passed through the city of Yokohama, and then it was presented to Liu Xian by the officers. With dozens of heavily armed guards, they walked through this battlefield scene, everywhere they went. Every officer and soldier knows their own **oss. At first, he still stood and saluted, but later, I don't know who cheered at him first, and the cheers rang out one after another, and finally became a wave as deep and wide as the sea.

It was Liu Xian who brought them to the world. It was Liu Xian who taught them how to fight, it was Liu Xian who gave them the best armament, and it was Liu Xian who led them to victory after victory!

The soldiers were simple. Whoever gives them good, who changes their lives, will be engraved in their hearts in the slightest. Enlisting in the army and being a member of the Qin Army changed the fate of ordinary people. The Qin army had a generous military salary and high-quality treatment. Let every soldier be grateful to Liu Xian! Not to mention that Liu Xian also gave them supreme glory and honor.

Liu Xian sat on horseback, and he went out on patrol to boost morale. The rain was pouring down, drenching him and the guards behind him. But looking at the reaction of the soldiers, the effect is obvious, thousands of tigers, such as Lin bayonets, are cheering for him!

The sound of cheers easily reached the Japanese positions opposite. Prince Arisugawa Palace's originally relaxed face immediately became nervous. The forty-year-old Arisugawa Miyashihito was the third man in the Japanese Army, after Jiyama Aritomo and Saigo Takamori. Stepping down from the position of Secretary of War, he has already become the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the Council. If it weren't for the fact that the battle situation was really critical this time, Emperor Meiji himself would not want to see him appear at the forefront. In order to express the will of the royal family, in order to inspire the soldiers of the army in the bloody battle. It was also because Prince Akihito Komatsumiya, another important figure in the imperial family, was captured, that Arisugawa Palace had to come forward again. Put on your lieutenant general's uniform and clean up the morale of the people on behalf of the royal family!

Striding out of the command post, the heavy rain soaked the military uniform of Arisugawa Palace, and the muddy water was stained with his pants, Arisugawa Kung Chiren walked directly to the forefront of the position without caring at all, and watched every move on the opposite side with a nervous face. Fortunately, after the thunderous cheers, there was no immediate sound of artillery and the horns of soldiers charging on the opposite side. After all, on the opposite side, there was an attack group of the main force of the Qing army.

"Yamato's warriors, work harder to resist the attack of the Qing ** team! Our reinforcements have come to Sagamiwara. The end of the Qing people is just around the corner! ”

It was really the Qin army that had caused too many wounds to the Japanese. There was a slight movement on the opposite side, and there was no negligence in the palace of Qichuan Gong. To use an idiom to describe it, that is, the wind is loud, and the grass and trees are soldiers. Today's Japan is a frightened bird!

After all, before the Daejeon counterattack, the Japanese army had more than 15,000 people, and a large counterattack directly lost 6,000, and then the Qin army struck while the iron was hot, and it didn't take long to take the entire Shinagawa.

At the moment, there are only 2,000 Japanese soldiers who are ready to defend Sengakuji Temple. And the Japanese army in the entire Tokyo Metropolitan City, counting these 2,000 people, only had 5,000 remnants. When Arisugawa Gong Chiren came to Sengakuji Temple, he didn't have much hope in his heart, and he just did his best.

If Sengakuji Temple is lost, there is a chance that Tokyo will not be able to defend it. The remaining 3,000 soldiers were the necessary force to protect the government and the retreat of the royal family. But this shame of breaking the country, the royal family must do something about it. Otherwise, after the smoke clears, how should the Japanese government and the opposition view the imperial family? What should we think of His Majesty the Emperor?

It was not easy for the imperial family to return to power, and no one from top to bottom wanted to see the imperial family return to the situation of the shogunate era. At the same time, the capture of Akihito Komatsumiya is also a shame that the imperial family must wash away. If Izumigakuji is not protected, Arisugawa Gong Chiren will use his life to wash away this shame.

Of course, with a population of millions in Tokyo and so many samurai families, there are still many people who are willing to defend their families and defend the country. And the curtain war has just passed a few years, and there are countless people with blood among the people, and there are no less than 1,000 people in Quanyue Temple. It can even be said that if it were not for the intervention of veterans, policemen, and samurai in Tokyo, Liu Xian would have taken Shinagawa at least two days in advance, and the number of casualties among the Qin army would have been reduced by two or three hundred.

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Lake Tama. It is 20 km from Tokyo.

The torrential rain poured down.

An army was marching tiredly. A small number of cavalrymen wore raincoats and cloaks, patrolling around in the vast rain and fog, but the heavy rain almost formed a rain wall, dense and impermeable.

From Fuji to Lake Tama, a small distance of 300 miles, heavy rain poured down, and the three Japanese wings reinforced from the southwest took four days to arrive, and the march can be described as rapid. Although their artillery is all lagging behind.

Under such a torrential rain, the Japanese soldiers were marching towards Tokyo with their tired legs unswervingly. Each soldier walked with a backpack on his back, a raincoat and a gun on his shoulder, and walked with his head buried in his head. Occasionally, lightning flashed to illuminate the plaster flag at the front of the queue, which was completely wrapped around the flagpole.

Kuroki was riding on a horse, surrounded by the young staff officers of the wing, as well as his guards, all with rifles on their backs, and immediately looked in the direction of Tokyo in the rain.

"It's still too late, it's still too late......"

The rain hit Kuroki Weizhen's face, barely opening his eyes, and the sound of the rain covered his muttering.

There is daily contact between the southwest reinforcements and Tokyo, and as of yesterday's briefing, Kuroki knows that Tokyo is still holding on.

The second lieutenant of the Komatsu cavalry rode on his horse a little listlessly, and the more than 20 cavalrymen under his command formed a vigilant formation with heavy front and light rear, walking on this muddy road.

"Yaga. This damn rain—"

The downpour is not something that a raincoat can block at all, and people can't stand it if they soak in water for a few days in the middle of summer. Komatsu felt that everyone was going to 'hair'. With such vigilance, he really didn't feel the need to do so. This is on the land of the Imperial Kingdom!

But this is what Deputy Chief of Staff Gentaro Kodama meant, not a cavalry second lieutenant in Komatsu can disobey.

In fact, in the jungle on both sides, where Second Lieutenant Komatsu could not see with the naked eye, Li Shien and Xie Jigui were watching the fish coming with blazing eyes, and they were walking into the enemy in their encirclement little by little.

"Liu Hou is really a god." It's only been a few days since the army came to this place? Constantly fighting and fighting, Liu Xian can still figure out the surrounding geographical conditions, and expect the direction of reinforcements from Japan, which is really unusual. And while expecting the direction of reinforcements, it is even more like a 'magic calculation' to predict the time period when the reinforcements will arrive.

Liu Xian had a total of 10,000 soldiers at hand [the first batch of 3,000 people, the second batch of 5,600 people, plus Xie and Li's two divisions, minus the hundreds of casualties in the Battle of Taiwan], and more than 2,000 logistics baggage troops. The army of tens of thousands of people has been fought one after another these days, and the Qin army has also suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

There were more than 8,000 people left, half of whom were placed in Quanyue Temple, and the rear was all kept by heavy troops and a brigade of soldiers. The remaining 3,000 people were arranged by Liu Xian to Qiujin in the east of Lake Tama yesterday.

In addition to Li Shien and Xie Jigui, there are also two brigades of Chen Boring here. The 3,000 men of them began to march yesterday, and after leaving Shinagawa, they settled down in a small village, rested for two hours, and changed all the green camp gowns on their bodies into Japanese military uniforms that were still stained with blood and tears, and all of them had their braids cut off, as well as the lives of more than 300 Japanese people in that village. Then they marched overnight, and arrived at Qiujin before half past ten o'clock this morning. Then at three o'clock in the afternoon, the scouts caught two Japanese cavalrymen, and at a quarter past four they found a large reinforcement of the Japanese army.

The number of people on both sides was 1:2, but everyone was confident of victory in the battle. Because people who don't brave the heavy rain and walk dozens of miles will not know the hardships, but the Japanese reinforcements in front of them have been walking for four days in a row under the heavy rain...... (To be continued) R640