Edo garrisoned 7,000 troops, which seems to be not much.

However, for the Wa Kingdom, if it takes up more time than 7,000 people to participate in a battle, it can be regarded as a 'big war'.

So, 7,000 is still a lot.

At least, Ishida believes that 7,000 troops are enough to deal with many emergencies.

Therefore, he didn't pay much attention to it.

I don't know if the sailors on the other side of the Maori Dragon have already killed the enemy's fleet.

If the Maori Ryuzo side also wins, then there really will be no way out for these foreigners.

Hehe, after defeating those foreigners, I will torture them to death one by one, and let them taste the most terrible punishment in this world.

When Hiroshi Ishida thought of the foreigner who suddenly appeared, his irrepressible anger rose in his heart.

Because of Zhao Hongyu's behavior, the shogunate has lost face here.

So, how could Hiroshi Ishida not hate.

He hated it to death.

At the same time, Ishida Hiroshi did not know that the sailors he sent out of Lu had been wiped out by those foreigners.

In addition, after the enemy had destroyed the naval forces he had dispatched, he began to march towards Edo in a mighty manner, intending to attack Edo Castle directly.

This is unimaginable for Hirorai Ishida.

It is impossible for him to imagine that his own naval army was actually defeated by the other party, and his naval army did not even destroy a single battleship of the opponent, but the casualties of the other party were zero when he achieved such a result...... Such a shocking fact.

Even, even the most powerful naval army general in the Japanese kingdom was buried in the sea.

If Ishida Hiroshi had known it, he would have been surprised.

It's just that in that naval battle, Emma and Sara didn't stay alive.

Even some of the Japanese sailors fell into the sea, although they were not killed by Emma.

However, Emma and the others did not reach out to help.

Therefore. In the icy waters, the chances of those guys surviving are very low.

Since these guys can't survive, how can the Edo side get the news?

So, after sending reinforcements, Edo was still a scene of singing and dancing, and no one expected that the crisis was already coming.

Edo was the political and economic center of the Wa Kingdom in this era.

The whole city has a population of more than half a million people, including many foreigners.

Arguably. It's a very big city too.

This is the 17th century, not the 21st century.

In such an era, a metropolis of 500,000 people, that is already very remarkable.

Of course, on the side of the Ming Dynasty, there were cities with a population of more than one million, but that was on the mainland.

Instead, this is an island country.

on the entire island. Edo is the only city with a population of 500,000.

In Europe at this time, the average urban population was only 50,000 or 60,000.

Even if it's Paris, France. London, England, is only 200,000 people.

It can be seen that in this era, the East is much more prosperous than Europe.

It's no wonder that the Europeans came to the East. You will be attracted by the 'prosperity' of the East.

It's just that everyone doesn't know that there is also an empire in the Americas that is slowly rising. And cities with a population of more than one million will also spring up in the near future.

Today, there is only one city in the Americas with a population of more than one million, and that is Manhattan.

However, as time slowly passes, there will definitely be more and more cities in the Song Empire, that's for sure.

After all, who made Zhao Hongyu have such an anti-heaven thing on his body.

He stayed with his subordinates in the Americas, and eight others were delegated authority by him, and they were busy day and night for the rise of the empire.

Outside Edo Castle, private houses are lined up one after another.

The streets are paved with gravel and look very clean.

Wooden houses are neatly arranged on both sides of the road, and pedestrians come and go on the street.

The Nanban, Ming, Goryeo, and some ronin samurai, as well as merchants in gorgeous costumes, perfectly depict the most realistic ukiyo-e of this era.

Tenwa Castle, the residence of Shogun Hiroshi Ishida, is located right in the middle of Edo Castle.

In addition, small city defense facilities were built outside Tianyu City, and all the garrisons were stationed in these facilities.

It can be said that Ama Castle is in Edo, and it is a completely impregnable castle.

If you want to attack Tianyu City, then the first thing the enemy will face is those densely packed dwellings built outside Tianyu City.

God knows if the people in these dwellings will suddenly give such a sudden attack to the invaders.

Also, here in Edo Castle, there are many ronin samurai.

They're not good characters.

Ronin, who has appeared many times in the history of the Wa Kingdom.

In fact, ronins are basically bankrupt samurai.

Many of them, they are samurai who have been expelled from their territories by their lords because they have made mistakes.

Because they have no source of income and become bankrupts, they become ronins.

Ronin, originally on the side of the Wa Kingdom, is a derogatory term.

In later generations, the ronin slowly evolved into 'Yakuza'.

And 'Yakuzha' is the name of the Japanese underworld in later generations.

Actually, many people think that 'Yakuzha' is a glorious word, but in fact, on the side of the Wakoku, 'Yakuzha' means the same as 'waste'.

At the same time, you can also understand that ronin is not a good word.

However, these ronins fight every day, but they have a little bit of martial bravery.

As a result, it caused a lot of trouble for the security of Edo.

Moreover, because these guys have no source of income, in order to live and fill their bellies, they will often be hired by others to do some illegal things, or simply become some people's thugs.

Here in Edo Castle, there are many groups that look like ronin.

They only need to give money, then they can work for you.

As for morality or something, they don't think about it.

Therefore, if they attack Edo's side, these ronins are likely to inflict a lot of damage on the invaders.

Very simple. The shogunate could quickly assemble an army of ronins to fight the invaders.

And although these ronins are all bankrupt samurai, they basically still have some ability, especially in combat.

These ronins are much more elite than Ashigaru, and some of them are even stronger than Qimoto.

A metropolis with a population of 500,000 people doesn't know how many ronin organizations have been fed by Ludao.

And these organizations have some shadows of the 'underworld', but they are not the underworld after all.

If you really want to give an adjective, then it can be said that these ronin organizations are like gangsters in later generations of Huaxia.

Yes. It's a gang of hooligans.

The sun rises and sets as usual every day.

The people who live in Edo do do the same thing every day and are busy with their own lives.

The battle that took place on the 'far-flung side of Osaka Castle) was just an after-dinner conversation for the people of Edo.

They think that everything that happened in Osaka Castle has nothing to do with them.

Aren't they just foreigners?

Could it be that they can still make big waves?

No one believed that things would turn out like this.

It's also too unrealistic.

But the truth is often very different from what people think.

After a seven-day voyage, the shogunate dispatched the elite of the family on the third day. A fleet of more than 50 warships appeared outside the river, and they quickly headed for Edo Port.

The appearance of these more than 50 warships is very different from the sea ships seen by the Japanese people in this era, and there are particularly obvious differences.

Rather, it is those who live in Edo. Or the Nanban who was doing business in Edo felt a little familiar when they saw these warships.

Yo, isn't this a Dutch battleship?

However, to say the battleships of the Dutch. Again, it can't be.

Because on these battleships, there are shadows of Dutch battleships, but the volume and some appearances have changed greatly.

Especially the sides of the hulls of these battleships. There are dense artillery muzzles, which make people feel numb at a glance.

Hey, so many artillery, this is a beast of the sea.

Battleships can be built like this, and artillery can be placed on ships like this.

This is what many Nanban people think.

And the Japanese people are just watching the excitement in the port.

When people saw the flag hoisted by the warship at sea, they were puzzled again.

Because, they had never seen that kind of flag before.

The five-star red flag with a red background and a yellow five-star red flag swayed in the wind on the top of the main pole of the battleship, making a 'grin' sound from time to time.

Which country's warship is this?

Soon, though, these people's minds won't be on that.

Because these battleships were still some distance from the port, they began to turn sideways over the hull and open the muzzle baffles.

Run, everyone, this is the enemy!

The reaction of the southern barbarians was the fastest, and they could see the other party's intentions from this practice of the warships at sea.

This is a complete prelude to the shelling.

Half of these battleships turned sideways to begin preparations for the shelling.

The remaining half of the warships rushed to the port very quickly.

On the decks of the battleships that rushed to the harbor, soldiers with muskets stood in hand.

Hula!

The crowds that crowded the docks of the port all scattered and fled.

They didn't know where this guy came from, and how they were going to attack Edo as soon as they appeared.

Behind these fleets, there were three even more massive warships.

Among them, on the deck of one of the battleships in the middle, Emma and Sara each hold a telescope, observing the situation on the Edo pier.

"Well, I didn't expect Edo Castle to be so prosperous, but it's still a lot worse than Manhattan."

Emma looked at the dock, then looked at the telescope in a different direction, then pouted and said to Sarah. (To be continued......)