Yanagi stood at the bow of the assault ship with his waist straight.

Bearing the name of Kyoto's Sword Master, he was a pillar of reverence for many samurai in Kyoto, and it was only natural that he should take the lead in such a moment of foreign invasion.

Still that fearless statement, Yanagi Sect was looking at the pure white steel giant beast in the distance, and he really didn't feel any fear in his heart.

Last time, the guns fired by the Westerners' ironclad ships could even be split in two by his spider-ghost, and this time it was the same!

"It's coming! Yanagio-san! The Tokugawa general, who was with him, reminded Yagyu Munemasa, who was standing at the bow of the ship.

Yagyu also sensed the danger coming, and he pulled out the spider ghost on his waist and stared at him...

The world in his eyes was instantly slowed down several times, which was exactly the 'selfless' realm that every swordsman pursued.

In this state, he could clearly see the trajectory of each bullet, and then use the spider ghost in his hand to cut off the bullets.

With the razor of the spider ghost, even the naval cannon Yanagi Munemasa can cut it off.

The problem is that the bullets fired from the close-in defense guns of the destroyer Changning are not just one point, but a side of despair!

Yagyu Somasa, who had entered a state of 'selflessness', could clearly see the number of bullets fired from the close-in defense gun, one, two, ten, all the way... 100 pieces.

Yanagi Somasa's hand trembling as he held the spider ghost, the repeating gun he used to fight with the Westerners could only shoot six bullets in a short period of time!

There was still an interval between the six bullets, and Yanagi was able to cut off several of them and then directly cut off the head of the person who fired the fire.

He had also seen the Westerners' Makqin renoxel, but this machine gun was too cumbersome and fixed to a carriage, so even if the rate of fire was fast enough, Yagyu Somasa could find the blind spot and cut off the barrel after dodging.

But this time, Yanagi was looking at the web of hundreds of bullets coming from afar!

In the face of this net, he has nowhere to hide even if he is on the ground, and no matter how fast he runs, the bullets will catch up with him.

As for cutting off these incoming bullets with his proud spider-ghost?

Yanagi knew that even if the bullets were frozen in mid-air and used as a target for him, it would take him a long time to break through the encirclement network constructed by the bullets.

But these bullets could not be frozen, even if time was slowed down in the eyes of Yagyu Somasa in the state of 'selflessness', but these bullets were still wrapped in potential energy enough to tear a cow to pieces.

After all these years, Somasa Yagyu finally experienced what it was like to gradually approach death again!

But Yagyu decided to die happily, so that the samurai who followed behind him were optimistic... The katana in their hands was a bullet that could never be defeated by the Westerners.

"Come on!" Yanagi Somasa let out a loud shout, holding the spider ghost in his hand and resolutely decided to face the storm of bullets fired by the close-in defense gun.

He had just taken a step in the bow of the boat when someone suddenly pulled him from behind and dragged him back into the cabin.

"Twilight! Bastard thing! What are you doing! ”

Yanagi looked back angrily and found that it was his daughter who had somehow blended into the assault boat and dragged his father back from the brink of death at this critical moment.

"Father, you're sending you to death."

Yanagi Twilight wasn't a samurai, she was just a woman who studied kendo, so she couldn't understand her father's death.

"The people and soldiers of Kyoto were watching just now! You're disgraced to the Yanagi family! ”

As soon as Yagyu Munemasa's words fell, a storm of bullets from the close-in defense gun finally swept the bow of the assault ship.

The Changning gave the cherry blossom warriors a chance to breathe, and the first strafing shot landed just a few miles in front of the assault boat, and the bullets sparkled into the rolling sea, causing a series of splashes.

But these samurai were not afraid of death at all, and when the assault boat continued to advance, the strafing fire of the anti-aircraft guns was aimed directly at the bow of the assault boat!

When the net of fire of the anti-aircraft guns touched the bow of the assault ship made of wood, the terrifying destructive power of the anti-aircraft guns on individual units was instantly highlighted.

The bow of the assault ship was torn to pieces by hundreds of 30 mm bullets in the blink of an eye, and it was crushed in an instant as if it had been thrown into a dismantling machine!

The assault boat, having lost its bow, stopped its advance, and the sea began to pour rapidly into the cabin.

"Matsudaira! Send this bastard thing back! ”

Sensing that the assault ship was about to sink, Yagyu Somasa immediately pushed his daughter into the hands of the Tokugawa general.

"Father!"

"What about you!" The general asked.

"Go and kill that ironclad!"

Yagyu made this vow, and then jumped into the water under the desperate gaze of his daughter, Yanagi Twilight.

The lightly-clothed samurai on the same boat were all in awe of Yagyu Somasa's feat, and only his own daughter Yanagi Twilight felt that her father was completely crazy for doing this!

But Yanagi could only watch as his father dived into the water and swam towards the pure white steel beast.

Several samurai from the same ship also jumped into the sea with Yagyu Munemasa.

The Kyoto samurai's near-deathless behavior was rewarded, and the Nagnin seemed to realize that the close fire of the anti-artillery could not deter the Sakura people.

So the Nagninin turned its guns and aimed them at the sky on the opposite side of Kyoto, firing several cannons in succession, and the anti-submarine torpedo was also fired from the launch tube at the same time, and was detonated in advance in the sea area close to those samurai!

The detonation of a torpedo on the surface of the sea caused a huge wave of waves, and the roar of the sky was carved into the eardrums of every resident of Kyoto.

"Father!"

Yanagi could only watch as his father dived into the sea, being affected by the waves caused by the explosion of the torpedo, but could not do anything about it.

She looked at the steel beast on the sea in the distance, and a feeling of despair and fear spread through her heart.

But it didn't take long for Yanagi to see several more small boats appear on the sea in the distance.

"It's a Westerner's ship!"

The generals of the Tokugawa family also tensed their nerves, and they put their hands on the katana at their waists.

"Wait a minute!" Yanagi Shuno spoke out to stop the samurai of the Tokugawa family.

However, although her father, Yagyu Munemasa, had a good personal relationship with the samurai of the Tokugawa family, he was a samurai who supported the emperor's lineage, and Yagyu Munemasa himself was the emperor's kendo teacher.

So these samurai of the Tokugawa family would not listen to Yanagi Shuno at all.

They lined up and drew their katana swords at their waists, nervously preparing to meet the group of 'Westerners' who were about to go ashore!

"Stop."

But a very young voice sounded behind the samurai, and it was much more effective than Yanagi's dissuasion.

The samurai saw the man behind them and immediately withdrew their katana swords, and then bent down deeply to the man behind them.

Standing behind them was none other than the 121st Emperor, Emperor Jimori.

This emperor was a boy who looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was also a fellow disciple of Yanagi Tsuno.

But Yanagi Yuno saw that this fellow disciple still had to bow his head and bow to him, and the people of Kyoto behind Emperor Jimori knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty, the Westerners' ironclad ships are approaching, and it is too dangerous for you to come to the port in person!" A slightly powerful samurai of the Tokugawa family spoke out to Emperor Jimori.

"That's not a Westerner's ironclad ship... Kimura step aside! ”

"Yes, that's a lot to say!"

Although the Tokugawa shogunate was now in real power, the shogunate did not dare to openly disdain the divinity of the emperor, especially in front of many people in Kyoto.

After Emperor Jimori came forward, the samurai could only watch as the small boat from the pure white ironclad ship arrived in Kyoto Bay.

"Father..."Yanagi saw the corpses of a group of samurai lying on the boat, not corpses... It should just be a coma!

Yanagi watched as his father's chest rose and fell.

These Westerners seem to have saved their father... Wait, not Westerners?

Yanagi was surprised to find that the people who stepped out of the boat were all black-haired and black-eyed... Same with her.

Emperor Jimori looked at the steel behemoth docked in the sea in the distance, and the damage caused by the cannon fire of the behemoth before, he could only secretly hold the katana at his waist to give himself the courage to stand here!

"Your Excellency Yi Zheng!"

Emperor Jimori recognized at a glance a familiar figure on the boat.

"What is the purpose of Great Xia's visit to our country now?" Emperor Jimori spoke Chinese with a slight accent.

The decline of Great Xia was already known to Fanying, and even the shogunate of Fanying was actively preparing to invade the Chao Kingdom and then attack the Great Xia from the Chao Kingdom.

But before the Tokugawa shogunate had time to send troops, Daxia drove the ironclad ship to the gate of Kyoto first?

What did Great Xia do this for? Let the cherry blossoms turn back into a vassal state of Bactria ? Nagon? Or is it all-out war?

If Emperor Jimori hadn't seen the three ironclad ships parked in the sea, he might have laughed at Isho's arrival.

But now, the deterrence of ironclad ships has penetrated into the hearts of every resident of Kyoto.

Emperor Zhisheng must be cautious about the attitude of Great Xia, and the most likely way for Emperor Zhisheng to understand Great Xia is to let Fan Sakura pay tribute.

But he really didn't understand, it was obvious that Great Xia, which had already declined to the point of almost extinction, where did he find these three terrifying ironclad ships?

"Your Excellency, Great Xia has long since died, and now in front of Your Excellency is the naval and diplomatic attaché of Hua." Imasa told Emperor Jimori about a... The fact that it should have been good news, but it seemed to be bad news.

What the? Great Xia is dead? When did he die?

Although Great Xia has declined to this point, it will not be destroyed in a few days!

"Then Your Excellency is the new national teacher of this Hua country?" Emperor Jimori asked again.

"In the next place, it is now Huaguo... Public servant? It seems to be this kind of title, in short, Your Excellency Zhisheng, do you want to talk about it here? Yi Zheng asked.

Yi Zheng's words instantly woke up Emperor Zhisheng, and the three pure white ironclad ships were enough to demonstrate the national strength of Huaguo.

Although he did not understand the purpose of Huaguo's visit here, Huaguo's visitors still had to be treated with caution.

"Invite the envoys from Huaguo to my palace, and we will talk about it again when we go." After saying this, Emperor Jimori turned around and left first.

With the emperor's order, the samurai of the Tokugawa clan did not dare to act rashly, and the guns of the ironclad ships in the open sea were still facing them.

This is already the second time... Emperor Jimori realized from the merchants of the Ainran Empire that there was a huge gap between the current cherry blossoms and the Western countries.

And the arrival of Huaguo's ironclad ship made the gaps in the mouth of the Ainlan merchant really put in front of him.

From this moment on, Emperor Jimori realized that Sakura had to embark on a path of change.

And this road of change could only choose to follow the example of Western countries, desperately absorbing and learning the advanced knowledge of Western countries!

But the emergence of Huaguo seems to have given Fanying a new choice, a path that was never conceived.