Chapter 14, the twenty-seven moments of Chongzhen's four years (14)

Fourteenth moment: The shogun's cry

A.D. 6-1, the fourth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, December of the seventh year of Kanei, Japan, Osaka Castle, port

Anyone who has ever played the Sengoku game of Japan will usually know the name of this free commercial city.

The port is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Settsu, Hanoi, and Izumi, and the name is derived from this. From the Heian period, it was an important port for merchants from Kyoto and Nara. However, the city's real prosperity came after the Muromachi shogunate was designated as a port for trade with China.

Since then, this trading hub has flourished in the midst of troubled times, eventually becoming one of Japan's leading autonomous commercial cities, symbolizing prosperity, wealth, trade and enjoyment, and a gateway to the outside world.

During the dark age of Japan's Warring States period, Minato was almost the only "land of light" in Japan, with the most prosperous merchants, the richest merchants, and the most outstanding tea ceremony masters of that era: Tsuda Muneki, Imai Munehisa, and Sen no Rikyu......

However, with the domination of Toyotomi Hideyoshitaiko and the advent of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, the port that had risen due to the troubled times also declined with the end of the troubled times-after gaining Japanese hegemony, Toyotomi Hideyoshi built Osaka Castle near the port as the ruling center of the Toyotomi family, and due to the natural attraction of wealth, the prosperity of the port was transferred to Osaka in a large way. Many wealthy merchants also moved to live in the castle town of Osaka. By the Edo period, which followed, the port merchants had completely become Osaka merchants, and the port itself became a port and warehouse attached to Osaka.

(Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Osaka Castle was created by robbing the foundation of Ishiyama Honganji Temple and further expanding it with construction, so the Oda Army's siege of Honganji Temple and the Tokugawa Army's siege of Osaka were actually two wars against the same city.) ）

Even so, as Osaka's most important satellite city, the port of the Edo period was still bustling with merchant ships.

At this time, however, the port was unrecognizable—the once bustling streets were full of ruined walls, the smoke of collapsed roof beams was billowing, there were still a few sparks on the charred wood, there was a slight crackling sound from time to time, and there were still large and small craters scattered on the ground, but there were few people in sight...... In the wilderness on the outskirts of the port, you can see the fallen Tokugawa family Aoi banner, discarded swords, shattered artillery, bloodstained armor, charred ground, and layers of corpses of men and horses, which fully prove that a tragic bloody battle was once fought here.

In fact, it was more apt to say that it was a massacre than a bloody battle......

-- The 12,000 soldiers and horses sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to regain the lost territory had just been defeated and crushed by an unknown enemy in Hong Kong.

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Not far from the port, Osaka Castle, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the shogunate

Looking down from the top floor of the castle tower of Osaka Castle, every piece of vision in the field of vision is white, and the few pedestrians who came out in the heavy snow are mostly hurrying with their heads down. The clogs creaked unpleasantly on the snow, and the knee-high snow made the servants and patrols on duty complain for a while.

And in the majestic and gold-plated copper and gilded castle tower, all the elders and generals of the Tokugawa shogunate also folded their hands and looked at each other with sad faces, although the furnace in the castle tower was burning red, but the mood of the important ministers of the shogunate was as cold and cold as the winter outside-no one dared to say a word, and they did not know what else to say in the face of such a situation, and finally they just sighed incessantly.

On the main seat, a handsome young man in Chinese costumes was holding a battle report that had just been counted, looking at the shocking loss figures on it, especially the death of his half-brother Masayuki Hoshina, his face was really gloomy, and the anger in his eyes was about to erupt.

-- He is the supreme ruler of present-day Japan, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Edo shogunate.

In the original history, as the "three generations of Aoi" of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu was a very capable hero. According to the comments of later generations, he is almost the personification of the Japanese family government, inheriting the black belly and prudence of the Tokugawa family, and inheriting the stubbornness and conservatism of the matrilineal Asai family, as well as the domineering and decisive of the maternal ancestor Oda family During his reign, the Edo shogunate's rule over Japan was completely consolidated, and all the anti-shogunate forces were basically eradicated, and finally in the era of his son Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, ushered in the most prosperous "Genroku prosperous era" of the Edo shogunate.

But in this time and space that has been distorted by many time-travelers, all of them have been changed beyond recognition.

-- Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was only 27 years old, had not had time to show his strength, and the foundation of the Tokugawa family was already crumbling.

What is the cause of this qiē doom and disaster?

When did the Edo shogunate and the Tokugawa family go from prosperity to decline?

A few copper coins hung in the corner of the pen holder as a decoration, and Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but fall into a long memory.

-- Before the Edo Shogunate, Japan used Chinese copper coins for commercial trade due to poor metal casting technology, and basically did not mint coins itself. For example, during the Warring States period in Japan, merchants everywhere were using the Yongle money of the Ming Dynasty. In the Azuchi-Momoyama period, after the war had taken a break, Toyotomi Hideyoshi minted a batch of gold and silver coins, but he did not mint his own copper coins - the Japanese had been using Chinese copper coins for hundreds of years, and they had already developed a habit, and no one would have thought of minting copper coins themselves without any major changes.

Then, this monstrous change detonated the monstrous chaos, and the Ming Kingdom quietly appeared on the other side of the sea.

-- Since the Hongzhi Dynasty of the Ming Empire, all copper coins have been stipulated as copper seven lead three, and copper coins should weigh one penny. The Wanli Dynasty was changed to copper six lead four, and each copper coin weighed one penny and two cents. But since the Apocalypse Dynasty "Zhong Zhengying Dynasty", the insatiable Donglin Party hypocrites have controlled the Nanjing Mint Division, and since then the copper coins produced have been worse than one year, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, the copper coins minted in Nanjing have dropped to copper three lead seven, weighing eight points. By the third year of the Apocalypse (62 years), a new batch of copper coins in Nanjing turned out to be one copper and nine leads, and the weight was unprecedentedly reduced to one quarter.

Such low-quality copper coins naturally led to a widespread wave of boycott among the Chinese people, which made the court officials anxious. Subsequently, under the guidance of an unknown smart person, the Ming court adopted the strategy of "bringing disaster water to the outside world" -- through various channels, these low-quality broken copper coins were all dumped into Japan: this is a very lucrative business, generally speaking, a hanging of inferior copper coins of the Ming Dynasty can be exchanged for about two taels of silver in Japan, and then poured into copper ingots abundant in Japan and shipped back, these Japanese copper can produce at least five hangs of inferior copper coins. Even after deducting the cost of sailing, the transit of Japanese merchants, and the need to bribe Japanese magistrates, the profit in exchange for money was at least 100 percent.

As a result, the Donglin Party government of the Ming Dynasty successfully threw off a powder keg, and all the underwriters celebrated each other, and all underwriters also made a lot of money, and even began to mint fake money on their own in order to organize the supply of goods. However, the Japanese side suffered extremely terrible losses, and soon reached the point where they could no longer sit idly by: no matter how many copper mines there were in the Japanese archipelago, they could not withstand the Ming Dynasty and various fake money manufacturers to build them in such a black and white way

At this point, some people of insight in the Tokugawa shogunate finally realized the importance of self-minting money, and urged the shogunate to mint its own copper coins "Kanei Tongbao" and gold and silver coins from the early years of Kanei, planning to expel Spanish silver coins and Ming copper coins from the Japanese market.

But the problem is that for some reason the implementation of this policy of monetary autonomy is very unsmooth. Although the Tokugawa shogunate knew from the beginning that merchants who could import or counterfeit copper coins were not small ones, they issued a strong warning to the merchants before they began to exchange money. But even under the most severe threat of force, the bad money of the Ming Kingdom continued to pour into the Japanese market, but it was the Kanei Tongbao put on the market by the shogunate, which soon disappeared, so that the pressure of the shogunate could not be lifted, and the financial losses were even greater.

In desperation, the Tokugawa shogunate continued to persist in this kind of loss-making work, and at the same time began to search for suspicious elements in the country, hoping to eliminate the source of bad money production and imports, and finally noticed the Choshu Domain, which turned out to be the ghost of the Maori family

The enraged Tokugawa shogunate immediately issued the harshest warning to the Choshu Domain, but the Mori family of the Choshu Domain continued to collect large quantities of bad money from the Ming Kingdom, and then resold it to the interior of Japan for an astonishing profit. The shogunate's monetary reform turned into a blood transfusion of money to the Choshu domain: how could such a thing be endured?

In this way, the relationship between Choshu and the shogunate soon became tense, and the shogunate used to stipulate that the lords of each domain should go to Edo every two years as hostages for a few months or even a year, but in that year, Mori Hideyo (the first lord of the Choshu domain and the son of Mori Terumoto, the general of the Sekigahara Battle) did not come to Edo to report, but also built a series of forts and forts on the border of Choshu, which obviously meant to start a rebellion.

Therefore, in order to maintain the prestige of the shogunate and to obtain his own martial arts, the young and vigorous Tokugawa Iemitsu resolutely issued the "Edict of the Commander of the Shogunate" in February of the third year of Kanei (62), mobilizing about 60,000 shogunate troops in one go, and ordering the rest of the princes to send troops to help in the war and march west to the Choshu domain.

Then, the nightmare of the Tokugawa shogunate finally began:

The border fortress built by the Choshu Domain under the guidance of the Ming officers was very effective in holding back the shogunate and the armies of the Japanese princes from several directions. In the face of incessant heavy shelling and seemingly impregnable fortresses, the main force of the shogunate army, armed mainly with bows and arrows, bamboo spears, and katanas, remained at the border of the Choshu domain after a month of hard fighting, unable to do anything about the strange fortresses, hoping that they would be captured by a prolonged siege.

At the same time, the elite new army of the Maori family and the reinforcements of the Ming Kingdom, as mobile forces, relied on the sea route to constantly attack the southwestern Japanese domains, and "persuaded" them to withdraw from the shogunate camp through force and artillery shells...... After successfully defeating these "out-of-style" daimyos, who had already been weak in battle, the victorious Mori clan immediately gathered all their main forces and fought a decisive battle against the shogunate army led by Tokugawa Iemitsu himself on the eighth day of the fourth month.

Then, Tokugawa Iemitsu tasted defeat for the first time in his life.

-- On the Chōshū side, the Choshu army was composed of 3,000 modern troops as the core, and nearly 10,000 local peasants with high morale for defending their homes and defending the country; On the shogunate side, there were more than 50,000 peasants from the Kanto region and thousands of "swordsmanship" in armor, and they had been stationed in the fortified city for two months. In this contrast, the outcome of the battle was self-evident, and under the bombardment of field artillery, the army of the Tokugawa shogunate quickly collapsed. Despite the overwhelming artillery fire, some of the Banner samurai continued to charge, attempting to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat to counteract the Choshu Army's long-range firepower advantage. However, when the Choshu New Army and the Ming reinforcements used terrifying chain bullets and shotguns, the Shogunate Banner also began to fled, and was finally beaten into a colander by the firebolt......

Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer remembers how he commanded the battle at that time, but vaguely remembers that his own camp first suffered an unknown number of shells, and then completely dispersed the ducks. He himself was carried out of the battlefield by the tide of chaos, ran dizzily for a day and a night, and was almost caught by the Maori army several times, and even his beloved little surnames (roughly analogous to the little boy and the prostitution) were killed or disappeared one after another, and finally luckily grabbed a fishing boat on the beach, and then fled all the way back to Himeji Castle, and then fled to Osaka, finally out of danger.

But the 60,000 shogunate troops who had been sworn out from Osaka two months earlier had managed to escape only a few thousand men - according to the Mori family's propaganda record, they had slashed more than 10,000 and captured more than 20,000 prisoners that day. In addition to the thousands of people who managed to escape back to Osaka, there are still 20,000 shogunate troops whose whereabouts are unknown, and it is estimated that they have disappeared on the way...... And the retainers left by the first generation of Ieyasu to the Tokugawa clan also lost more than half.

Such a humiliating defeat seems to have never been seen in the history of the Tokugawa family, and it was fought by the world compared to the warring country Takeda family. At that time, the second-generation general "Great Imperial Palace" Tokugawa Hidetada, who had already retired, vomited three liters of blood on the spot after hearing the news and was angry to death.

Since then, Japan has put an end to the dual political tradition of the emperor listening to the emperor, the guanbai listening to the Taiko, and the shogun listening to the daigosho, in which the old man listened to the government. In fear and confusion, General Tokugawa Iemitsu began his reign with great power under the infamy of "loser" and "faint king" - however, the situation of the Tokugawa family was really bad at this time, the armed forces of the lineage as the core were almost lost, and the prestige and deterrence also fell in an avalanche, while the Maori army, which had won a great victory, was arrogant and high-spirited, and the call for "fighting to the Kanto region and burning Edo" was loud for a while: according to the pessimistic calculations of the important ministers of the shogunate at that time, if the Choshu army attacked in a big way, The Tokugawa clan could only abandon Kyoto, which was unsafe, and concentrate on holding on to Osaka Kagojo, to buy as much time as possible for the shogunate to reorganize its army in the rear of the Kanto region.

Fortunately, the war situation at that time did not unfold to such a sad Cheng Dù - the Maori family seemed to be well aware of their limited strength, and did not intend to prolong the war, but showed the demeanor of a mature political family, and after the victory, they released all the shogunate prisoners, and at the same time took advantage of the victory to propose a reasonable, well-founded, and restrained peace clause...... Against the backdrop of the devastating defeat of the shogunate and the intent of all the feudal domains in the world, the Tokugawa shogunate was in a hurry to prevent the Choshu clan from repenting, and the Tokugawa shogunate almost impatiently signed an armistice treaty, allowing Japan to restore peace again.

When the war subsided and the situation initially calmed down, General Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had returned from the defeat, learned from the pain and decided to strengthen military construction no matter what, and this was also the unanimous consensus of the entire shogunate -- the Tokugawa shogunate claimed to have "80,000 banners", but in fact, all the banners and samurai and imperial families combined were less than 10,000, and it was necessary to count the agricultural soldiers and the ashigaru, and it was probably possible to make up about 80,000 people. This time, the Choshu Domain lost tens of thousands of peasant soldiers and thousands of samurai in one go, and even the backbone was broken. If we don't rearmament, do we have to wait for the trend of the curtain to rise?

However, although the determination had been unified, how to raise funds was still a big problem - since ancient times, fighting a war was to burn money, and this war, which mobilized tens of thousands of people, had already emptied the shogunate's inventory. Next, in order to negotiate an armistice with the Choshu Domain, the Tokugawa family had to cede several shogunate tenryo in Kansai, and even the Iwami Kuniku Shengno Silver Mountain, which was finally snatched from the Mori family, was retaken by the Mori family this time, and the attitude of the other feudal domains towards the shogun was also much worse than before, causing the shogunate's financial revenue to decline year after year.

Last year (63), another important source of wealth for the shogunate, Kanayama on Sado Island, was attacked by pirates, and the mined gold, along with almost all the miners and overseers, disappeared without a trace. In short, the Tokugawa shogunate took a two-year respite after the war before he managed to scrape together the funds for rearmament.

However, money alone was not enough, and the Tokugawa family also needed more powerful arms and modern combat models.

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Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu had fully realized the desperate difference in combat effectiveness between the traditional feudal army of the Tokugawa shogunate and the new Choshu army of the Mori family, with the exception of a few professional samurai, most of the soldiers of the shogunate army were hastily assembled before the battle. However, before the outbreak of the Zhengchang War, Japan had not fought for a whole generation, so unlike the ashigaru peasant soldiers who were accustomed to fighting in the Warring States Period, today's shogunate army Ashigaru is an Anfen peasant who has never killed anyone, and he has never received any decent military training in peacetime, and his combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty military households, and his appearance on the battlefield can naturally be imagined.

And the Shogunate Houroku Shogunate's samurai, although they were indeed professional soldiers who practiced swordsmanship all their lives, but most of the martial arts they practiced were only useful in individual combat, and Yan Zòng lacked training in coordinated combat - imagine that the "Shinsengumi" at the end of the shogunate was certainly excellent in swordsmanship, and it was very good to be a security policeman, but if they were to fight the regular army, how could the casual style that only emphasized individual martial arts work?

What's worse is that, except for a few old men, even the Hachimoto samurai, most of them have never seen the battlefield, and at most they only have the experience of fighting in the tavern. Compared with the Changzhou New Army, which once followed the generals of the Ming Kingdom to train in battle, fought many times with the Jurchen Jiannu and the thieves of the southern Fujian Sea, and saw many big scenes, it is simply the difference between a rabbit and a hungry wolf - even if it is a single combat, the Qiben samurai cannot beat the opponent

In addition, the Choshu army was already equipped with a large number of metal cuirasses, new muskets, fortress guns and field guns, which could be arranged in fairly neat formations. The shogunate army was still using weapons left over from the Warring States period, most of them had no armor, and the number of artillery was even more pitiful, and the quality was worse than that of the Koreans. On the battlefield, a considerable number of inexperienced shogunate soldiers really regarded the war as a large-scale group fight: at this age, there are still people who want to fight with the enemy "one-on-one" (generals go head-to-head).

Such an all-round backwardness is simply desperate, but no matter how desperate it is, the shogunate must seize this fleeting precious time and try to pull out an elite new army that can compete head-on with the Choshu domain - otherwise the Tokugawa family's world will be doomed

In view of the fact that the Choshu Domain clearly received strong support from the Ming government (in order to "blackmail the Ming Dynasty into self-respect", the Choshu Domain carried out relatively exaggerated propaganda in Japan to intimidate various opponents), General Tokugawa Iemitsu turned to the "Southern Barbarians" for help and placed a huge order for artillery and military instructors with the Dutch. The Dutch did not live up to the general's high expectations, and soon sent a large number of powerful artillery pieces and dozens of experienced military instructors. And the shogunate's iron cannon craftsmen also succeeded in making a batch of flint guns under heavy rewards, combined with the captured Ruyu real objects.

As a result, with the full support of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogunate successfully formed a new modern army with a total strength of 5,000 men, and relying on the careful guidance of Dutch instructors, it quickly learned a series of new tricks such as the Spanish phalanx, the fortress, and artillery tactics. The various classic examples of European battlefields explained by the Dutch instructors in the classroom also made the Japanese samurai who were unknown to them quite refreshed.

All in all, through the above efforts, the shogunate army finally began to gradually begin to change from a feudal army to a modern army.

However, this kind of peace of mind did not last long, and a series of sudden unexpected changes forced General Tokugawa Iemitsu to hastily use the "prototype" of this modern army that had not yet completed training, and pulled this army to the battlefield in advance:

In the spring and summer of this year, the Choshu Domain, which had basically digested the fruits of its last victory, finally began a new round of large-scale military expansion -- with the great assistance of the Ming reinforcements, the Mori Army launched an invasion of Kyushu Island, and the Tokugawa Shogunate had its own ideas

This bad news greatly shocked the Tokugawa shogunate - since the defeat of the Sei Cho War in the third year of Kanei and the destruction of the direct army, the Tokugawa shogunate's deterrent power against the feudal states west of Kyoto has been greatly reduced, and it is basically difficult to leave Osaka, so it can only sit back and watch the gradual expansion of the Choshu domain in the western country, annex and subjugate the Kansai feudal domains by various means of civil and military means, and gradually restore the extremely prosperous territory of the Mori clan at the end of the Warring States period.

According to the views of the important ministers of the shogunate, the reason why the Mori clan has not yet entered Beijing to "Joraku" and realize the grand wish of their ancestor Mori Motosho is that there are a series of powerful feudal domains such as the Satsuma Domain, Fukuoka Domain, Higo Domain, and Saga Domain in Kyushu, and the Tosa Domain of Shikoku behind the scenes. If the Mori clan sent troops to fight the shogunate in, and these feudal states were moved by the shogunate to pick up the bargain and stab the back of the Chosu clan in the back, then the hegemony of the Mori clan was in danger of collapsing instantly.

Therefore, before the Choshu Domain and the shogunate fought again, the Mori family was bound to clarify the backyard of the Western Kingdom to ensure that the road ahead was worry-free. In particular, the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain, which had ruled southern Kyushu since the Heian period, was the number one rival of the Maori clan to unify the western kingdom - Tokugawa Iemitsu originally thought that although the strength of the Choshu domain had increased dramatically recently, the Satsuma domain was by no means weak, and the war between Nagasu and Satsuma was bound to be protracted. Unexpectedly, the Ming State violated its promise to list Japan as a country not to be conquered this time, and personally sent troops to the East (when the crusade against Japan, Huangshi was still under the banner of the Ming Funing Army), and sent their most warlike legendary generals and the most elite hundred battle heroes, and crossed the sea to assist the Choshu Domain in attacking Satsuma After such a heavy bargaining chip was waged to the side of the Choshu army, Rao is Satsuma samurai of the Shimazu family no matter how fierce and good at fighting was, they were still defeated, and they had to surrender to the Maori family

The rest of the feudal clans on the island of Kyushu were even more frightened, and secretly sent envoys to the Mori family, and they were about to turn their backs on the Tokugawa shogunate

As a result, not only were the shogunate's strongholds in Nagasaki and Hirado in the western part of the country already lonely, but even Kyoto and Osaka were in danger

-- What is even more frightening is that, according to the gossip from Kyoto, even some of the imperial court ministers seem to have signs of "secretly communicating with Choshu......

This news made Tokugawa Iemitsu feel like he was on pins and needles: he clearly remembered how the Ashikaga Shogunate and the "Southern Dynasty War God" Kusunoki Masanari, who founded the Muromachi Shogunate, used the Emperor's decree and the influence of the Minister to set off a vigorous nationwide overthrow frenzy in one fell swoop, defeating the Kamakura Shogunate in a very short time. Today's Choshu Domain itself is difficult enough to deal with, not to mention that there is a behemoth like the Ming Kingdom behind it, if the imperial court is also a wall grass to the Edo shogunate, it will grant the Mori family the name of righteousness...... The consequences are unimaginable

Therefore, in order to stabilize the situation in and deter the rebellion of the imperial court, Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to mobilize the Tokugawa family and the Shogunate Tenryo in Kanto at the end of October this year, regardless of the fact that the new army had not yet been trained, and gathered 40,000 troops to send troops to Shangluo, preparing to show the shogunate's force to the imperial court and the princes -- as a result, due to the hasty mobilization and inappropriate planning, the entire marching army was broken into several sections as it walked, and the new shogunate army, which was the first formation, had already arrived in through Guò Sekihara, and the traditional old army and the allied armies of the various feudal domains behind it were still slowly grinding in the Tokaido. There are a few clansmen who have not even crossed Mt. Fuji......

Then, as soon as Tokugawa Iemitsu held a small-scale military parade on the outskirts of Kyoto, bringing the new army of the Shogunate, which had been painstakingly built, to appear in front of the Kyoto Minister, he received an urgent report from Osaka that foreign pirates had attacked the port...... Tokugawa Iemitsu was not very worried at first, but felt that it was just right to use these exotic pirates as the target of the new shogunate's new army, and use their heads to prove that the Edo shogunate's sword was still sharp.

As a result, General Tokugawa Iemitsu himself stayed in Kyoto to prepare for an audience with the emperor, and sent his most trusted half-brother Masayuki Hoshina as the commander-in-chief, with 5,000 new shogunate troops and 7,000 newly arrived samurai and clan troops from all walks of life, totaling 12,000 people, to go to Hong Kong.

However, what General Tokugawa Iemitsu did not know was that the so-called "foreign pirates" who attacked Hong Kong were in fact the "grain convoys" of the Far East Company in Vladivostok -- so at best, the "semi-modernized" shogunate army, which had just reached the advanced level of the 17th century in terms of equipment, ran head-on into the weapons of the Soviet Empire in the 20th century in the unobstructed wilderness behind the snow:

Japanese Ataka and Kozawasa-ship, crocodile-class boarding 6 ships;

early flint and arquebus, Deshka anti-aircraft machine guns, AK47 automatic rifles, PK machine guns;

bronze front-loading field smoothbore guns, Soviet 22mm howitzers, PP quivers, and Chinese "civilian" rocket launchers;

musketeers, spear cavalry, Russian armored vehicles;

-- In such a desperate comparison, the outcome of the battle is evident: 5,000 new shogunate troops were destroyed on the outskirts of the port, the remaining 7,000 old troops fled without a fight, the general of the shogunate army, Masayuki Hoshina, was defeated and killed, and most of the Dutch instructors were blown to pieces......

When Tokugawa Iemitsu finally learned of this unbelievable news and hurried to Osaka to supervise the battle, all he could see was the corpses scattered all over the outskirts of the port, and the rubble all over the city—the "pirates" had quickly emptied the warehouses and warehouses of the port, kidnapped the remaining residents, set a fire to the market, and then set anchor and left.

As a result, General Tokugawa Iemitsu was suffering from the grief of losing his brother and at the same time had a nervous breakdown at the incredible contents of the war report: "...... A big iron boat floating on the water? A sharp firearm that eroded dozens of miles with one shot? A big iron car that can gallop like a fly without being pulled by oxen and horses? What is this? Could it be that we're at war with youkai? Well? Big iron ship? How is it a little similar to what happened when I was born on Sado Island last year......"

However, these questions are no longer important, and what really matters is that the Tokugawa shogunate was caught off guard and suffered another military defeat that was devastating...... Next, with the demoralized and broken army in its hands, the shogunate's unsolvable problem became an unsolvable problem as to how to resist the possible battle of Joraku in the Choshu Domain, and how to suppress the dissenting princes in various places. As soon as he thought of this, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally couldn't help but cry...... Heavens, why do you punish my family so much? Could it be that the world of my Tokugawa family is really going to die in three generations? ”

When the ministers heard the sound and saw the general crying so sadly, they also felt something in their hearts, and they all cried and cried silently for a while.

However, the bad news of the Tokugawa family's Edo shogunate was good news for the Maori clan. Therefore, while the shogunate army in Osaka Castle was gloomy and mournful, the Maori family of the Choshu Domain was full of smiling and happy faces......

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