473, Crusade to Japan (16)

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Epydz (1457 in the first year of the Western calendar, when Ota Michikan, a retainer of the Uesugi clan of the Kanto governor, began to supervise the construction of Edo Castle High Update. When choosing a location, he decided to build Edo Castle in the Great Kanto Plain, which was wet but surrounded by mountains and seas, but he hesitated whether the new castle should be built between the mountains surrounding the Akabane Prince Suruga, but in the end, he decided to build the castle next to a major road to the north

Ota's Edo Castle was a simple camp built with a brick embankment and enclosed by shrubs, bamboo, and fences

In the eighteenth year of Tensho, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had won the Battle of Odawara against the Go-Hojo clan, transferred Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was then based on Mikawa Toe Suruga, to the eight Kanto countries including Musashi, Sojimo, and Soanbo, and according to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's opinion, Tokugawa Ieyasu chose Edo as his main city

At that time, there was only one castle town in Edo (note: near Chiyoda Ward), but with the influx of many retainers of the Tokugawa family, it was obvious that one castle town could not meet the needs of hoeing, so Mikawaya Omiya store, Iseya Isetan and other merchants and townspeople poured in, and the scale of the castle town gradually expanded, and the town of Oteyama Castle Town, Izumi Town, and Owari Town were built one by one in the Tsunayoshi period, and the castle town that was originally cramped between the inner and outer towns had broken through the limitations of the outer town. It stretches all the way to the suburbs of Asakusa Akasaka

At the beginning of the Shen Dynasty, Fu Shaolin led a group of soldiers and horses and twenty cavalry to approach the Tiger Gate

"My lord," the outpost sent back to report "I have seen the outer moat of Edo Castle" The ordinary soldiers apparently did not understand the difference between the castle and the Chinese city, "according to the captive, what tiger gate is ahead"

"Tiger Gate?" Fu Shaolin bared his teeth, "Is there really a tiger?"

When he walked in, Fu Shaolin realized that the so-called Tiger Gate was not only not connected by the city wall, but also had no city gate in the general sense

After crossing the bridge, the road was paved with fine gravel as when Fu Shaolin and the others came, and not far from the bridge there were two tower-like buildings on both sides of the road

"This is the Toranomon?" Fu Shaolin obviously didn't know that this was the so-called Tang-like building, but he carefully asked the soldiers in front of the breakthrough, "It looks weird, have you seen the enemy?" "The answer is no, before the war, the townspeople in the southern suburbs of Edo had already run a considerable part, and then the ashamed ronin exaggerated the ferocity of his opponent in order to reduce his responsibility, and the result was that the Xia army traveled all the way as if he had entered no one" So Ai Du cheered up, and then he entered Edo, there were many houses, and the alleys were tortuous, so don't be ambushed by the Japanese people, and there is no place to talk about the loss"

After that, Fu Shaolin left a sentry general to guard the Tiger Gate with two teams of soldiers and horses, and at the same time sent two riders back to report the situation, and then he carefully drove into the strange hostile city in front of him with his subordinates

Tong Guò captured, Fu Shaolin already knew that there were two gates to the south of Edo, so Fu did not advance directly into the city, but moved east along the inner side of the outer hao, and walked for another half an hour before Fu Bu's forward saw Yukihashi and Yukihashi Gate

After leaving two connected cavalry and two teams of defenders as usual, the Xia army began to advance along the waterway in the castle on the edge of the bridge to the depths of Edo, but after only two blocks of walking, he saw several ri's himself pushing and shoving around the corner, and some of them even moved their knives, which caused the women and children hiding behind to cry

Is this a decoy or is it really a robbery?

Xia Jun's brain hadn't turned a corner yet, and the group of ri himself had already seen Xia Jun wearing red jackets, and they were also caught off guard for a while, and immediately turned into birds and beasts and scattered, and those things that were probably snatched were thrown to the ground As for those who tried to defend their property, they were also startled when they looked at the step guns pointing at them, and their brains were active and they suddenly ran into the alley on the side, and as for those who didn't have time to escape, they had to follow the women and children to their knees on the ground

"It shouldn't be a show" Fu Shaolin and Tuan Qian looked at each other the same, "Could it be that the people of the shogunate have fled, Edo is an empty city, so there is chaos among the people?" "Since this thought came up, the two of them were a little restless" Someone came, quickly asked clearly, "There are many descendants of RI in the Xia army, especially in the Long Xiang army, many of whom took the initiative to take refuge in Siam, Vietnam, Manila, Naila and other places, so entering RI is a problem of language barriers" No, "The results of the interrogation were quickly put in front of the two, but these alone do not explain anything" Lord Qiu, you and I soldiers are divided into two ways, do our best to find out the truth, and report to the general army to know"

The matter was settled, but what Fu Shaolin didn't expect was that the result of the division of troops could only be more and more detailed, and after a while, the action of the whole regiment would become a squad-level sweep, but even so, the team of less than a thousand people was scattered in the metropolis with a population of hundreds of thousands, and it was simply an inconspicuous group.

After turning around eight times and walking through more than a dozen street corners, Fu Shaolin finally affirmed his judgment, so he ordered the cavalry who was still following him: "Send two people to hurry back and report to the chief soldier,