In the summer of the seventeenth year of the Han Dynasty, the shogunate army and the southwest coalition army finally broke out a decisive large-scale battle after several months of entanglement, the whole battle lasted for several days, the number of people far less than the shogunate army of the southwest coalition army, the Tokugawa shogunate's counterinsurgency army, beheaded the shogunate family general, all the way to the shogunate's tens of thousands of troops completely defeated!

It is rumored that on that day, the heavens and the earth changed color, lightning and thunder, and the entire mountains and plains were covered with the corpses of shogunate soldiers and samurai, and the commander of the Southwest Coalition Army was like a god of war......

Well, these rumors are all nonsense from the Japanese civilians out of awe, in the eyes of the upper echelons like Mondora, the final outcome of the shogunate army is that less than 10,000 people were killed in battle, 30,000 surrendered, and most of the rest fled and disappeared, and the remnants of the shogunate were defeated by less than 5,000 people......

This defeat is called a crisp, that is called a perfect, that is called a crunchy......

Even 'outsiders' like Mondora and Appado are a little incredible, they already have a lot of information at this level, although they can't meddle in the control of the shogunate army, but this is only a large army that gathers almost all the essence of the shogunate, and Mondora's people will naturally pay attention to it, and at the same time have a lot of understanding of their combat effectiveness. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

To use a popular evaluation, in the war of the Cold Weapon Age, the combat power of this army has completely reached the standard of the regular army, and it is also filled with a large number of elite samurai!

From iron cannons to the cavalry of the Mother's Clothes, it is even bigger than the shogunate army that resisted the flax-rich Honor Independent Regiment of the Americas!

However, it was such an army that was almost completely annihilated!

Even if it is defeated, it is divided into several levels, those rabble cannon fodder and peasant armies are excluded, and the regular armies of normal countries, even if they are defeated, will not be completely annihilated, because as long as it is a commander and general with a little brain, plus the army whose soldier quality is not too bad, a group of broken troops will be arranged when they are defeated and retreated.

It's a big deal to cut off a few more elite troops, and after the break, you can still keep a lot of people!

In the war of the cold weapon era, unless it is limited by the terrain or ambushed by the front and rear, it is too difficult and difficult to fight a war of annihilation......

Of course, it is easy to pull up an army of that level, but how did the shogunate army manage to be almost completely wiped out?

As the news continued to come, Mondora and Appado suddenly discovered how hesitant and fragile the seemingly powerful shogunate army was!

In fact, this defeat was inseparable from the 21 articles signed by the Han Empire and the Tokugawa family......

In the beginning, the soldiers and samurai gathered by the daimyo from all over the country were panicked and unstable, and there were many reasons for this, such as that they had no goal to fight, or that they felt that they were fighting for traitors......

Of course, no one will scrutinize the real reason, but even so, the morale of the shogunate army, which is the core of the main force, is still good!

This is also the reason why the two sides have been entangled for so long, almost all of them are fought by soldiers and samurai loyal to the shogunate army!

Those daimyo troops can only be used as auxiliaries and miscellaneous forces, if they are allowed to fight alone, it is better to collapse, but if they defect collectively, it will be fatal!

This is not a joke, in the final battle, the reason why the shogunate army was defeated so badly was because an army that was a reserve suddenly rebelled, cutting off the back road of the shogunate's main force, leading to a massacre!

If it weren't for the fact that the Southwest Coalition Army had fought many battles and needed to recuperate, I am afraid that even 5,000 people would not have gathered, because most of the soldiers and samurai of the shogunate army did not choose to return after the rupand, but disappeared!

Most of the soldiers who surrendered were also troops cobbled together by local daimyos, reinforcements annexed by the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo Castle!

This ragtag army, under the appearance of being strong and middle-class, was smashed to pieces by the united Southwest Coalition Army!

However, the bad news began with the defeat of the shogunate army, and it continued to reach the ears of Mondora, first the remnants of the shogunate army, and then a group of ashigaru cannon fodder, intending to hold on to Kyoto City and wait for reinforcements, but under the strong attack of the Southwest Coalition Army, the Shogunate Army, which had been all soldiers, collapsed at the touch of a button, and finally escaped from the field of Kyoto City, and was forced to surrender by the Southwest Coalition Army!

On the second day after the main force of the shogunate was wiped out, the emperor of Kyoto publicly announced an edict in the main hall of the Imperial Palace to deprive the Tokugawa family of all rights, declared the Tokugawa family a rebellion, and ordered the coalition forces of the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest to fight together......

However, it seems that the edict ignores the Tiger and Wolf Marines of the Han Empire stationed in the base camp of the Tokugawa shogunate, and there is no mention of how to deal with this foreign invading army......

This made Mondora and Appado feel very funny, but what made them look even more strange was that there was news from Lieutenant Colonel Wang Gang that the Southwest Coalition wanted to unilaterally make peace with the Han Empire!

The bottom limit opened can even spare the life of the shogunate family!

At the same time, many benefits were promised, but compared with the 21 tariffs that directly cut off all rights of Japan to the outside world, they were not half a bit......

Of course, when the Southwest Coalition Army secretly courted the Han Empire Expeditionary Force, their movements were not slow at all, and they wantonly expanded their troops in the newly occupied territory in the name of the Emperor, not only replenishing the troops lost in the battle with the main force of the shogunate, but also having a slight surplus, reaching nearly 30,000!

Well, this is according to the standard of Mondora, there are more than 30,000 regular soldiers who can go to the battlefield in the Southwest Coalition Army, but the number of coalition troops has actually swelled to more than 100,000!

The Southwest Alliance, which knew that the military strength of the Han Empire was at its peak, could be regarded as ruthlessly pulling strong men in the control area!

It seems that in the eyes of the Japanese, war is all about who has the most people......

A wooden spear and a coarse linen coat, this is the 'main force' of the expanded Southwest Coalition Army......

It is very unified, consisting of farmers from the water and vagrants from the city......

In the playground, there is no end in sight, and the shouts in unison can be heard ten miles away!

The leaders of the various families of the Southwest Coalition Army were very satisfied with this scene......

It seems that you can also have a confrontation with the legendary invincible Han army!

I haven't seen the southwest buns of the Han army, and there will be this illusion!

Just as the Southwest Coalition was expanding unscrupulously, Pavlov's men and horses finally disembarked at the port of Yokohama! (To be continued.) )