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The night was dark, and there was silence all around, except for the faint sound of waves crashing on the rocks on the shore. Under the cover of night, more than a dozen small morning boats loaded with dry firewood sailed away from the port town outside Wakayama Castle. Looking at the warriors who were destined to never return, a feeling of grief and indignation swelled in the hearts of the Japanese present.

It is impossible to change the cruelty of the real world with simple fluctuations in human feelings, not to mention how large-scale a fire attack can be formed by a dozen or so small early boats, that is, in the degree of a small early ship with a single sloop and four oars, this attack to win personal fame is destined to be a planless death struggle.

No, it was only an hour after the attack, and the originally dense Xiaozao fleet was scattered for various reasons. Some of the warriors of the Kishu domain, who were unfamiliar with the sea routes, lost their way in the dark, and the others became slower and slower due to the direction of the wind and their bodies, and only less than five small boats approached the Awaji coast in one fell swoop.

However, the good fortune of these warriors ended here—in the darkness, a small morning boat silently crashed into the summer army cruiser patrolling the sea at night—unaware that the 6,000 second-class cruisers of the Japanese sneak attack fleet in front of them unconsciously crushed the small morning boat, and the slight shaking during the impact did not even arouse any alarm among the sailors on duty, but it was the howl of the overboard man in the waves that alarmed the young candidate who was so excited that he could not sleep because of the imminent war.

When the torches were dropped from the cruiser, the plot of the Kishu clan was completely exposed. Needless to say, the Japanese ignited the small haya boats and crashed straight into the cruisers, but before they could ignite the hulls of the Xia army, these small morning boats with thin hulls were submerged and sunk under the blow of the shotguns on the upper deck of the Xia army's anti-springboard.

Eventually, the Xia Jun cruiser picked up the warriors of the Kishu Domain, who had been half-drowned by the sea, and then returned to the place of departure with the blackened halfside of the ship, almost unscathed. The rest of the sneak attack fleet, as long as it was still floating on the water at dawn, was sunk one by one within the line of sight of the Xia warships who had raised their vigilance.

The fact that the Kishu clan dared to take the initiative to sneak attack infuriated the Seito camp. Chen Tang, the commander-in-chief of the expedition to the east who had just been in Awalu Deng6, immediately made a decision to launch a retaliatory attack on Wakayama Castle. The next day, four military mixed transport ships carried nearly a thousand dragons and troops to the famous city on the bank of the Kino River.

However, unexpectedly, the people of the Kishu clan did not defend Wakayama Castle and Joshita Port Town. When the news of the fall of the city arrived in Zhouben City along with the report that the Japanese had fortified the wall, Chen Tang finally felt that something was wrong.

In order to avoid falling into the trap of the Japanese army, the Xia army accelerated the pace of transporting troops and materials from the Ryukyus, relying on the strong water transportation capacity, the various units of the Xia army and the servant armies of Annam, Vietnam, Ryukyu, Korea and other countries were in place, and even the Shence army, which had the Japanese ronin as the main force, also transferred a group of people, so far the preparations for a full-scale attack have been completed.

On October 14, the twelfth year of the reign of Kawasaki, when the first snow had already fallen in the eastern country, the main force of the Xia army began to climb in Kobe, Amagasaki, Osaka, Sakai Port and other places.6 In the face of the surging Xia army, Osaka Castle was forced to surrender after only one day, and Kishiwada Castle also raised the white flag, and the merchants of Sakai Town and Osaka were even more trembling to offer millions of rewards to the Xia army, so as not to repeat the tragedy of the city looted in the First Summer and Japanese War.

On October 17, the Xia army, which had gained a foothold in the coastal areas, began to advance along the Yodo River towards Heian-kyo and fled along the way, and the Xia army was able to control most of the Izumi Province, the western part of the Settsu Province, and part of the Yamashiro Province without bloodshed. Only Tokugawa Yoshimune, who had entered the Yamato Kingdom, still convened the and Tokai domains in a high-profile manner in the name of the Imperial Three Clans to organize an anti-Xia army.

On October 19, the Xia army entered Heiankyo. According to the previous agreement with the ministers, the Emperor's court issued an edict that the shogunate was an enemy of the court, and announced that he would deprive Ienobu of his position as a shogun, implement the royal government, and restore the power of the Japanese court to the world. As soon as the news spread, the whole country was in an uproar, and the samurai everywhere were in a panic, many people declared their allegiance to the shogunate, and of course, some immediately changed their ways. Among them, the Mori clan in the western region unsurprisingly announced their submission to the imperial court at the first time, while the influential Tottori, Hiroshima, and Okayama feudal domains unexpectedly continued to remain silent, which made the feudal clans cry out for displeasure.

When the news of the Emperor's retrospective came to Edo, the shogunate beat his chest and stumbled, looking like the end was coming, and the shogun was also very surprised by this. Jiaxuan originally thought that the Xia army would make a comeback along the path of the last attack on Japan, so he deployed heavy troops in the Edo area to fight, but he never thought that this time the Xia army would go straight to with a false shot, so that his plan would fail, let alone that Huaxia would join forces with the imperial court and local powerful feudal lords, so that the rule of the shogunate could collapse.

In the case that the form was already extremely unfavorable, Jia Xuan immediately convened a meeting of relatives and genealogies. At the moment when the shogunate was facing its demise, Tokugawa Tsunajo and other relatives finally united to support the shogunate in a decisive battle against the Xia army. With the support of his relatives and genealogy, Jia Xuan issued an edict, declaring that the will of the imperial court was made under the coercion of the Xia army and was invalid, and demanded that the local daimyo remain loyal to the shogunate and work together to drive the Xia army out of the country.

Although the shogunate's counterattack edict was issued, the shogunate army could not rush to and the western country to fight in the first place, and even more, some people in the shogunate feared that the Xia army might implement the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and once the main force of the shogunate left Edo, the Xia army might take advantage of the strong maritime capacity to enter and occupy the Edo area again.

Since the main force of the shogunate could not be mobilized for a while, Iedumun had no choice but to authorize Tokugawa Yoshimune to be the general of and the lord of the Owari domain, Tokugawa Yoshitsu, as his lieutenant, and ordered the two to organize troops and horses on the spot to meet the Xia army and recapture Kyoto and regain control of the imperial court.

Under the influence of the shogunate, the daimyo of the Nakasendo and Tokaido feudal domains sent troops to concentrate on Omi Province. It's just that there is a conflict between the general Ji Zong and the deputy general Ji Tong about how to fight. Naturally, according to the original plan, Jizong tried to use raiding and harassment as the main mode of warfare, so as to delay and wait for changes, and consume the military rations and gunpowder of the Xia army; However, Yoshitsu demanded that Kyoto be recaptured as much as possible according to the instructions of the shogunate, so that some of the princes would not be shaken, and then Japan would be divided, resulting in the loss of the authority of the shogunate.

The opinions of the two are higher and which is lower, and it is difficult to make a certain evaluation. However, as the Mori family showed their attitude, the Fukuoka (Chikuzen) domain, Saga (Hizen) domain, and Hirado domain in Kitakyushu also supported the imperial court, which gave Yoshitsu's claim the upper hand. Hiroshima, Otsu, Asada, Komatsu, Ashimamoru, Yamaie, Fukuchiyama, etc., finally defected to the Emperor's court under the threat of the Xia army's artillery, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

On December 16, the 11th year of the reign of Kawasaki and the 9th year of Emperor Hoei of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune and Tokugawa Yoshitsu commanded 40,000 troops into Yamashiro Province and fought with the Xia army in the Fushimi area outside Heiankyo. In this battle, the Xia army invested 20,000 men and more than 60 artillery pieces. Although the shogunate army against was 40,000, it was a patchwork of various feudal domains, and a small number of elites such as Kishu Bei were also hidden by the selfish Yoshimune, so they could not compete with the Xia army at all, and they were defeated in just half a day. The Xia army pursued the situation and pursued all the way to the territory of Omi, and the shogunate army was defeated, and nearly 10,000 Japanese troops either died in front of the battle or died on the way to escape.

After the war, Tokugawa Yoshimune fled to Iga, Tokugawa Yoshitsu fled to Mino, and the Tokugawa shogunate's rule in completely collapsed.

Subsequently, the Xia army defeated 20,000 troops of the four kingdoms of Tokushima, Tosa, Iyomatsuyama, Imabari and Uwajima in the territory of Awa with a total of 10,000 men of the 3rd Brigade of the Navy Division and the servant army, ensuring the safety of their rear.

Affected by the two great victories of the Xia army, the feudal domains of Okayama, Okada, Asahaya, Koizumi, Enbe, Mineyama, and Hayashida turned one after another, and for a time, except for the shogunate relatives and some die-hard loyalists who could not change their camps, most of the princes of the Western Province and Shikoku, including some of the daimyo of the lineage, joined the camp of the imperial court.

The Xia army was not polite to the recalcitrant feudal domains such as Himeji, and immediately ordered the feudal domains to join forces to destroy them, and manipulated the emperor's court to issue a decree announcing that as long as the feudal domains that remained loyal to the shogunate were destroyed, half of the feudal domains would be owned by the imperial court, and the rest would be distributed among the meritorious ones. This greatly stimulated the feudal domains, and throughout the winter, the war in western Japan continued, almost repeating the bloody scene of Japan's Warring States period a hundred years ago.

In the situation where those who go along are born and those who are against them die, those princes who can't hold on to it have declared that they are anyway, but they are naturally reduced their territories, and even deprived of the status of the daimyo. Only some of the state-level princes can continue to survive, but they are obviously also worried about whether they will attract the Xia army if they continue to hold on.

Therefore, under the mediation of the Okayama clan of the same clan, the Tottori clan also lost its sincerity to the emperor's court in the spring of the thirteenth year of Takesei.

As a result, the Satsuma Shimazu clan was left in the entire western country and had not yet taken a stand.

In the face of increasing pressure, the Shimazu family, who had suffered several losses from the Xia army, obviously could not wait for the shogunate to send troops from the eastern country.

On the eighth day of the fourth month of the thirteenth year of Takesei, the Shimazu domain sent an envoy to Heiankyo and officially returned to the emperor's court.

While organizing the samurai of Iga, Yamato and other places to continue to fight against the emperor's court, he urged the Kaga Maeda and Echizen Matsuhei domains to reorganize their armies and fight against the Xia army, and personally rushed to Edo to explain the benefits and ask the shogunate to send the main force westward.

However, what Yoshimune did not expect was that in the face of the loss of control of half of the country, some high-ranking shogunates who were worried about the expansion of the influence of the imperial court to the eastern country retreated, and with the Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Tsunajo as the leader, they tried to use their current position as a bargaining chip to negotiate peace with Huaxia in order to maintain the position of the shogunate.

So a strange scene appeared, and while the shogunate was still in war, a secret peace began??????