Zhao Yunkai knew better than anyone that the bombing of Edo Port was nothing more than a trivial matter, and this was true for both Tokugawa Iemitsu and Daimei.

Just one Edo port, Zhao Yunkai knew that the shogunate had not yet seen it.

Even if it's gone... They just feel sorry for a moment.

His true goal was not achieved, what Zhao Yunkai wanted was to provoke Tokugawa Iemitsu and at the same time make him feel afraid, and he did not dare to continue to fight head-on with Daming.

Only in this way will the Tokugawa shogunate continue to shrink its forces in the surrounding area towards Edo.

The follow-up Ming army had a chance.

But.. They couldn't push too hard, because they were a little too fast, and they didn't just have to give the large number of troops behind them enough time to arrive.

More importantly, Tokugawa Iemitsu had enough time to deploy nearby troops back to Edo Castle, which required Zhao Yunkai to have enough ability to grasp the timing.

"Your Excellency the Governor... Do you want to continue to sink the shogunate's second ship that came to negotiate peace? Li Ze on the side was a little puzzled, after all, the original plan was only to sink for the first time.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yunkai indifferently took down the telescope in his hand.

"Fear has... But they're not angry, we're not attacking that little sampan, we're provoking them..."

Li Ze nodded and went down to arrange the sailors.

...

Bang!

The shells were a little off this time, after all, the shelling at sea could not be accurate every time, but it exploded around the ship that could only be called a small sampan by Zhao Yunkai.

In an instant, it brought a lot of splashes, and the powerful destructive force still tore the small sampan apart in an instant... After a while, they disappeared into the sea again.

On the dock, Tanaka Xiujie blushed.

His eyes were red and he looked at the sea not far away, and at this moment, his heart had changed from horror to anger at Da Ming's tough attitude just now.

Angry Tanaka Hidejie said loudly: "Why! Why? How dare these Ming warships be so arrogant on the boundaries of Edo Port! We're just going to make peace with them, can't they see that it's just a little sampan? ”

Another military attache on the side said with some fear: "Tanaka-kun, in my opinion, should this matter be discussed with the general again, after all, if this continues... Doomed to be in vain! ”

"Nope! I'm going to try again, this time! It's up to me to do it myself! ”

Tanaka Hidejie strode onto another small sampan that had just been prepared, and the boatman struggled towards the Ming warship not far away.

On the sampan, Tanaka Hideji's palms were also full of sweat.

He knows.. As the initiator of this plan, if he could not complete it, he would inevitably be blamed by Tokugawa Iemitsu when he returned to Edo Castle.

I'm afraid I'm still a dead end when the time comes.

He can only gamble .. Those sailors on the warships of the Ming Dynasty not far away didn't really want to come to blockade Edo Port, they just came to deter the shogunate!

It must be so.. Definitely!

He didn't have a chance anymore.

After all, this time he also gambled his life on this small sampan!

The boatman's speed was very fast, and after a while, he drove the sampan to a place not far from the Ming warship, standing on the sampan, Tanaka Hidejie could already see the expressions of the Ming sailors on the warship, and he was secretly happy in his heart: "Sure enough.. Is that really the case? Bet right! ”

After a while, the ship arrived.

Tanaka Xiujie pulled his voice and said loudly in his broken Chinese: "Minister... The minister, the military attache of the Wa Shogunate, was ordered to come and serve as an envoy to the peace council! Please see the Great Tomorrow Army! ”

shouted for a long time, and no one paid attention to Tanaka Xiujie.

Finally, when his voice was gradually hoarse, a soft ladder was finally thrown down on the first ship, and Tanaka Hidejie was immediately happy...

Hurriedly climbed up.

...

"You're Hidejie Tanaka?"

"Hey!"

"Can you represent the shogunate?"

"Uhhhh

The first meeting between Zhao Yunkai and Tanaka Xiujie was very embarrassing, and the atmosphere seemed to be condensed together.

....

At the same time, in Edo Castle.

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked indifferently at the daimyo of the Wakuni who were surrounding him and said, "You don't have to think about it anymore, there is only one way in front of us now. ”

"That's to take out the money you put at the bottom of the box, and your army... Only by resisting the attack of the Ming people and the peasant uprising will we have a chance. ”

The daimyo on the side were all angry, after all, no one would like to be watched like a captive...

One of them stood up and said to Tokugawa Iemitsu, "Isn't our help to the shogunate enough?" We have handed over all our troops ... We don't have any soldiers available for you! ”

Unexpectedly, these words did not make Tokugawa Iemitsu let him go.

Instead, he said, "Really? While you're saying this... Have you ever thought about the fate of lying in front of me.?"

Hiss.. Tokugawa Iemitsu's cold language shocked the souls of many of the daimyo present.

"We... There really aren't many samurai left to give you... The rest are just some old and sick people, so you can leave us some seeds."

"Don't talk about this! Don't you see the current situation clearly? The shogunate has reached its most critical moment, what do you want me to do? ”

The social model of Japan determined that although the number of samurai directly under the control of the shogunate remained the majority, a considerable number of them were scattered in the hands of the daimyo in various places.

These samurai, who belonged to the local area, would not obey the orders of the shogunate at all.

Because from the very beginning, all the expenses were borne and responsible by the local daimyo, and on weekdays... They were loyal only to the daimyo and maintained local law and order.

A daimyo who has the power of self-government in the local area.

Naturally, they will be very keen to cultivate their own military power, so they will be when the shogunate is short of troops...

It became the first source that came to Tokugawa Iemitsu's mind.

"Within three days.. I want to see your armies. After Tokugawa Iemitsu left this sentence, he turned around and left.

Only a group of daimyo were left with their heads bowed and did not dare to speak.

The enemy is coming... Even if they destroyed the port of Edo, they might be under Edo Castle in the next second, and they also knew that everything they had came from the shogunate.

Eventually, the daimyo relented and relinquished the command of the last samurai.

A large number of samurai .. Begin to assemble towards Edo Castle.