After the Taiping envoy entered the Meiji era, he saluted according to the procedure and made it clear that he was appointed by Huang Xu to deliver a letter to the Meiji Emperor.

When Meiji heard that it was sent by Huang Xu, he was very confused, he didn't know what Huang Xu's intention was to send someone to him at this time.

However, despite his doubts, Meiji still ordered the letter to be presented to him.

He also wanted to know what Huang Xu wanted to say to him.

So, the letter was quickly handed into Meiji's hands, and Meiji calmly opened it and read it carefully.

After reading it, Meiji raised his head and asked the envoy with a blank face, where is your emperor now, and then the envoy replied truthfully, My lord is preparing to oversee the siege of the city.

When Meiji heard this, he screamed, dragged out, and chopped! then tore up Huang Xu's letters.

By killing people to establish his authority, he also expressed his determination to fight to the death, which was planned by Meiji a long time ago, and the tearing of the letter was added later.

Ripping books, his trick is really ruthless.

As soon as Meiji's shouting fell, a personal soldier rushed forward and dragged the Taiping envoy out, and then a human head stained with blood was presented to Meiji.

Meiji glanced at it casually, then waved his hand and ordered his soldiers to take the head of the Taiping envoy to the Japanese army and gradually display it, so as to show his sworn to resist the enemy, and at the same time, to boost the morale of the army.

After this qiē was done, Meiji issued a death order to the army, and they would fight to the death against the Taihei army in Kochi.

However, after such a toss by Meiji, the morale of the Japanese army really gradually improved, and Meiji was very happy when he saw this, and. This also strengthened his confidence in fighting to the death.

And since there is going to be a battle, let's first talk about the deployment of troops on both sides and the comparison between strengths.

The Taiping army participated in the siege of the city with a total of 280,000 troops, including 200,000 troops of the First Army Corps and 80,000 people of the Firearms Corps.

And at sea. The Invincible Armada of the Taiping Army has sailed to the waters near Kochi, ready to cooperate with the army at any time.

Although the sailors on the armada specialized in naval warfare, they were originally the elite of land warfare, so if necessary, they could also be immediately reorganized into a special force to support the army at any time.

It can be seen that the strength of the Taiping Army is really very strong.

The Japanese army, on the other hand, was not so lucky.

Although they were not far behind the Taiping army in terms of total numbers. But the quality is far inferior.

The total number of Japanese troops was close to 300,000, including the 30,000 who had been stationed in Kochi, plus about 100,000 remnants of the defeated generals who had retreated with the defeat of the Meiji era, and more than 100,000 strong men were subsequently transferred from Hokkaido, so that the total calculation was 300,000.

The 300,000 Japanese troops are quite numerous, and they are defending the city, so it should be said that they have the upper hand. However, they are not inferior in combat effectiveness. The morale is even worse than that of the Taiping Army, so compared with a variety of factors, the Japanese army is still at a disadvantage.

And a careful analysis of the 300,000 Japanese troops, their comprehensive strength is also uneven, and the defenders of Kochi can only be regarded as a local army. It's okay to bully the common people, but if you really want to fight to the death with the brave Taiping Army, it seems to be far worse.

The remnants of the army that retreated with the Meiji were good at fighting, but they had been killed a little frightened by the Taiping army, and their morale was greatly affected by this retreat. On the whole, they are not as good as they used to be.

Speaking of those strong men drawn from Hokkaido, most of these people have not undergone strict military training, and it is difficult to have the heart to fight against the enemy.

In short, on the whole, the Taiping army was more than a star and a half stronger than the Japanese army.

Therefore, before the battle began, the Japanese army had already lost most of it.

And Meiji was well aware of the power between the two sides, so he made a gesture of pulling books and cutting envoys to show his determination to fight to the death.

The head of the Taiping emissary who had been cut off by Meiji was displayed in the Japanese army and then hung on the city wall to demonstrate to the Taipings.

From this point of view, Meiji and his Japanese army are really dead pigs who are not afraid of boiling water, and they are tired and crooked, and they have the courage to treat the Taiping Army like this.

As expected, as expected, as soon as the head was hung out, the matter reached the ears of Huang Xu and others.

When Huang Xu heard this, he was furious, and the soldiers were even more angry, and they demanded to level Kochi, kill Ito, capture Meiji alive, and kill and humiliate the blood messenger.

So, Huang Xu ordered that the Taiping army should take Kochi at any cost, and hated it with blood.

In addition, Huang Xu ordered the Invincible Armada to block the passage of the Japanese army from the sea from the direction of Hokkaido.

In short, the Taihei army was going to settle Meiji and his Japanese army in Kochi this time.

If it is only from this point of view, Huang Xu and Mingzhi want to go together, they are not willing to drag it out any longer, and they all want to solve the problem in Kochi on the spot, which may be called the same as the hero's vision.

However, this is quite ironic.

After Cui Min received the order, he immediately ordered the First Army and a part of the Firearms Regiment to attack the Japanese army.

For a time, the arrows were like rain, and the offensive was like a tide.

The tsunami-like offensive of the Taiping army defeated the Japanese army to the point that it was completely impossible to find the north, and if it were not for Ito Hirobumi and Meiji personally supervising the battle, the Japanese army might have been defeated.

The offensive of the Taiping Army can be described as a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, and it can definitely be called wave after wave, which simply overwhelms the Japanese army.

In the face of such heavy pressure, the Japanese army was almost exhausted, and it was full of mistakes and omissions, and many defensive lines were in danger, if it were not for Meiji personally leading people to check and fill in the gaps, the Japanese defense line may have been broken through by the Taiping army in many places.

If this continued, it would be a matter of time before the Taipings broke through the Japanese defenses, and it would be much sooner than Meiji had anticipated.

The Japanese army was in danger.

However, at this time, Meiji was also deeply involved in a bitter battle, the overall situation or something, he couldn't care so much, at this moment he took his own pro-army all the way to kill, where he saw that there were many Taiping troops, they would kill wherever they saw that the Japanese army was in danger, and they would kill wherever they went, in short, Meiji's gang was playing the role of tinkers, doing their best to keep the Japanese defense line intact.

However, the Taiping army did not slow down the pace of the offensive because of the Japanese resistance, but attacked more selflessly, and then attacked.

The Taiping Army is really crazy.

However, the madness of the Taiping army is also understandable, this can only blame the Japanese army for not killing the envoy of the Taiping army, as the saying goes, the two armies do not kill the envoy, besides, the envoy went with Huang Xu's goodwill, Huang Xu's purpose in writing this letter was to persuade Meiji to surrender, but what he didn't think was that the Japanese army not only failed to understand this kindness, but also did this kind of thing that people and gods were angry about, which made people really angry.

As the saying goes, it is tolerable or unbearable, besides, the initiative of life and death was originally in the hands of the Taiping army, since Meiji was shameless, then the Taiping army could no longer be blamed for being ruthless.

Therefore, before the siege of the city, Huang Xu also gave a death order, that is, except for Meiji, Ito Hirobumi and Sakurako, all other Japanese must die.

Slaughter the city! The Taiping army still wants to slaughter the city!

This is Meiji's own self-inflicted, no way, who made him so uninteresting.

In this precarious situation, the Japanese army only held out for about two hours, and then could no longer hold on, and its defense line was forcibly broken through by the Taiping army.

The Taiping army that attacked the tower was like a tiger and slashed wildly, and the Japanese army fell in waves, but they still fought to the death, because they had no way to retreat.

Meiji also led his own army to fight fiercely against the Taipings, while Ito Hirobumi guarded Meiji around him, helping him resist swords, guns, and halberds from all directions.

It seems that the Japanese army is gone, and the only thing they can do is to fight this trapped beast.

At the same time, Huang Xu also entered the city, however, he did not participate in the fight with the Japanese army, but went directly to look for Sakura, he led people to the city to look around, but did not find Sakura, he was very anxious, so he sent people to continue to search, while coming towards the city tower.

He had to find Meiji and ask where Sakurako had gone.

And under the identification of the pro-army, he finally saw Hirobumi Ito and Meiji, who were struggling.

He looked at the place where Meiji was in a complicated way, then raised his hands and suddenly said loudly, "Stop everyone!"

And with Huang Xu's shout, all the Taiping and Japanese troops in the battle stopped. (To be continued......)