At the head of Edo Castle a few days after the smoke cleared, the Tokugawa Shogun, dressed in black armor, was paraded around the repair of the castle defenses under the escort of several courtiers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Tokugawa Shogun, who was almost on the front line, was not like the soldiers of the Han Empire behind the port of Yokohama, who only knew the general process and outcome of the Edo offensive and defensive battles.

It was only because I thought that the Honor of America Regiment had committed heinous murder around Edo Castle, which led to the desperate resistance of the shogunate soldiers and samurai in Edo Castle and their defeat!

Indeed, the Honor of the Americas Independence Regiment's efforts to eradicate the Japanese samurai clan around Edo Castle were hyped and even alarmistly promoted by the shogunate in Edo Castle to inspire the desperate faith of its low-ranking samurai and soldiers.

However, there are many conquerors who slaughtered cities and exterminated tribes in history, and if the cruel killing behavior of not leaving prisoners can really make the remaining enemy soldiers full of morale and become the elite of fighting to the death, how can those brutal conquerors in history lay down a big empire?

If nothing else, Genghis Khan, who regarded killing and plundering as a man's life's work, owed an unknown number of injustices, and under his orders, I don't know how many innocent people died tragically, and as a result?

Genghis Khan's children all inherited his father's tyrannical murder perfectly, and didn't they fight all the way to the Danube Valley in Europe?

If it weren't for the descendants of the Huns, who had already migrated to settle in Europe, and the Mamluks in Egypt and the Middle East, who desperately resisted the Mongol army, would the Renaissance in Europe still be the same thing!

Of course, in the landing force of the Han Empire, whether it was Lieutenant Colonel Wang Gang or Major Mondora, they were not too interested in the process of how the American Honor Independent Regiment was defeated, they only needed to know that the main force of the American Honor Independent Regiment was defeated and scattered, and most of the Flax Duo hardcore henchmen were killed in battle!

Only the Tokugawa shogunate personnel who garrisoned Edo Castle knew the hardships!

Even with the brutal deterrence and threat of the Han Empire's soldiers, most Japanese soldiers did not dare to surrender, in that long offensive and defensive battle, the people of the American Honor Independent Regiment still stepped on the simple ladder and climbed the city several times under the cover of continuous musket volleys!

And this is still when the old commander of the shogunate regime is on the front line!

Even, in the most critical moment, the Honor of America Independent Regiment once occupied the city, opened the city gates, and rushed in!

If it weren't for the die-hard red-clothed mothers and black-clothed mothers raised in the Tokugawa family (that is, the elite guards cavalry directly under the Tokugawa family, all of them have samurai status, and many of them have been given surnames by the head of the Tokugawa family!) Under the leadership of the son of the Tokugawa Shogun, he launched a decisive charge against the infantry of the Honor of America Independent Regiment who had just rushed into the city gate, and I am afraid that the main force of the Honor of America Independence Regiment has already avenged Flax!

The reason why the troops of the Honor Independent Regiment of the Americas who rushed into the city gate were crushed by these 'mother' cavalry was because the infantry of the Independent Regiment in the charge did not form a basic anti-cavalry phalanx, and secondly, most of the charging soldiers of the Independent Regiment fought for a long time and their energy was too exhausted, resulting in a lack of momentum in the charge.

Even so, supported by the belief in revenge, the core of the Tokugawa family's maternal cavalry was severely crippled in that battle, and the sons of the Tokugawa Shogun, who were trained as heirs, were even more bombarded into a hornet's nest by muskets......

Of course, it was also because of his death that inspired the sworn hearts of the cavalry in the mother's clothes, and they survived round after round of musket volleys and rushed into the infantry group of the independent regiment!

The tragic street battle that occurred on the tenth day of the offensive and defensive battle was also a turning point in the attack of the Honor of America Independence Regiment, the sacrifice of the Tokugawa family's mother cloth cavalry team saved the morale of the shogunate army on the verge of collapse, and counterattacked out of the city in one fell swoop, not only killing all the soldiers of the Honor of America Independence Regiment who landed in the city, but also almost breaking the camp of the Honor of America outside the city!

The battle lasted until it was getting dark and the soldiers were tired, and the Tokugawa Shogun had to order the troops to be withdrawn......

Since then, the intensity of the offensive and defensive battles on both sides has immediately dropped by several levels, the Honorary Independent Regiment of the Americas is unable to maintain a high-intensity attack due to excessive attrition of troops, the Edo Shogunate is the elite of the lineage has suffered heavy losses, and the other daimyo reinforcements and low-level ashigaru troops are seriously afraid of war, and there is no way to go out of the city for a decisive battle......

This situation continued until the daimyo reinforcements from the periphery accumulated more than 10,000 horses, and they made contact with the shogunate government in Edo Castle, and with the cooperation of the outside world, they raided the camp of the Honor of America Independent Regiment, which refused to retreat!

Even so, the Japanese army, which had the advantage of strength and front and rear flanking, spent great effort to really defeat the Honor Independent Regiment of the Americas!

It's defeated, not defeated!

There were only more than 1,000 people left in the main force of the defeated American Honor Independent Regiment, and under the encirclement and suppression of the Tokugawa Shogun regardless of losses, it took many days of fierce fighting to finally defeat them completely!

However, after this battle, the strength of the Tokugawa shogunate's descendant army was greatly damaged, and the weak combat effectiveness exposed in front of many daimyo reinforcements also greatly damaged the prestige of the shogunate regime!

In particular, the Tokugawa family's mother-clothed cavalry team, which is known as the strongest in combat, can basically only wait for the news of the reconstruction after the first battle, and it spreads away, which makes the thoughts of many of the daimyo below suddenly complicated!

If it weren't for the fact that the Great Enemy of the Han Empire was currently located, the Port of Yokohama would have become a military base for this overseas empire, and I am afraid that the Japanese Diet would have been directly beaten back to the Warring States Period because of this war......

This is also the reason why after the war, the Tokugawa Shogun personally visited Edo Castle every day, and the core military strength of the Tokugawa family was greatly damaged, and he could only rely on his usual prestige to suppress the careful thoughts of those who came to aid the Daimyo!

What the Tokugawa Shogun didn't know was that the approach of coming to aid the Daimyo's troops was already loyal and courageous compared to the two Satsuma and Chosu domains on the island of Shikoku in Kyushu!

These two powerful feudal clans, far away from the center of Japan, learned that the Han Imperial army had a large number of troops to besiege Edo Castle, and the pace of reinforcements was completely stopped at the border line of their hometown.

It's just that the anxious Tokugawa family can't care about reinforcements so far away, because soon after the Tokugawa Shogun defeated the main force of the American Honor Independent Regiment, he got a tip-off that another thousands of people and horses of the Han Empire with the title of Tiger Wolf Marine Corps had already marched towards Edo Castle!

In addition, they continued to co-opt the men and horses left on the logistical road by the Honor of America Independent Regiment along the road, and according to the analysis of the informants, when they arrived at Edo Castle, even if the military strength was less than 5,000, it was not far behind! (To be continued.) )