Chapter 171: Charming Edo Castle IV

"General Mingguo, say, what do you want me to do?"

"The war is no longer something you can control, according to your past practice, you are already a dead end at this moment, as the lord, shouldn't you commit suicide?"

After Liao Yaowen translated, the retainers around Tokugawa Iemitsu roared again.

Chen Cao shook his head: "It seems that what the spirit of bushido says is not true, and the guy who doesn't even want to cut his stomach is only worthy of being a ronin." ”

"Yaga..."

'Bang...'

This time it was Chen Cao who fired a shot himself, at least he had often heard this curse on TV before.

After the death, Tokugawa Iemitsu took a deep breath: "I can give you whatever you want, your Ming army is not our enemy, and I also know that there are many wars in your Ming country, and you use money everywhere." ”

Chen Cao raised his eyebrows: "Oh, it seems that you know the details of my Heavenly Dynasty Kingdom?" In that case, I don't know how much money the Tokugawa shogun can have with the Homoto? ”

"As long as the general of the Ming Kingdom can withdraw his troops and leave, without harming my lord, the money in Edo Castle can be taken." Sukazu Ishikawa spoke again.

Chen Cao shook his head: "Ben Hou reiterated in the end, kill all of you, the wealth in Edo City is still mine, and the people of the Junfu Domain also told me so." ”

"Sunfu Domain?"

The people in the palace were shocked, they couldn't be clearer about who the Junfu Domain was, and the Tokugawa family looked at Chen Cao with fiery eyes: "The letter from that guy Zhongchang to you?"

No wonder... can fight so quickly, if there is no thief, it is impossible..."

Chen Cao couldn't say much, so he said: "Ben Hou asked you one last time, do you want to be a coward and die or break yourself?" If you are a coward, Benhou will kill all of you present, and if you kill yourself, they can all live. ”

How can the contemporary general of the dignified Tokugawa shogunate be a coward, Ishikawa Shuwa saw Tokugawa Iemitsu's determination, and immediately knelt down: "Lord, don't do it..."

As soon as Ishikawa Shuwa spoke, the other retainers and samurai in the hall knelt down towards Tokugawa Iemitsu, and their words were the same, and even said that they would die with the gang in front of them.

Of course, their demands were all vetoed by Tokugawa Iemitsu.

"Taking advantage of my father's expedition to the west, I contacted foreign countries to invade Edo, and this bastard boy Tadashi dared to do it..."

When Ishikawa Shuwa heard Tokugawa Iemitsu say this, he immediately woke up: "My lord, could it be..."

Tokugawa Iemitsu laughed sadly: "He still covets the position of general..."

After Tokugawa Iemitsu finished speaking, he looked at Ishikawa Shuwa and several important ministers and cronies around him with a firm look in his eyes and said, "So you must not die...

You are alive to testify to the evil deeds of that bastard of the loyal chief, he must not become the next general, if things are not harmonious, he will be elected as a general. ”

Ishikawa Shuwa said bitterly: "My lord, Masayuki-sama passed on to the Hokoshi..."

"It doesn't matter, after all, he is the biological son of his father, if there is any difficulty, the choice of the three royal families is good, but he can't let the Zhongchang bastard be a general."

"My lord..."

The crowd wept and bowed, which was touching.

Chen Cao didn't think so, and he didn't have the slightest sympathy for foreigners, especially the Japanese people: "Which of you should be the wrong person?" ”

The crowd looked at Tokugawa Iemitsu, who looked at the crowd and said, "Let's count and come..."

"My lord..."

Ishikawa Shuwa cried bitterly and asked him to cut off Tokugawa Iemitsu's head, but he couldn't get off the knife.

"Ben Hou can't see if you are wrong, Zhao Xin, you go..."

Zhao Xin walked out of the gun formation with the Yanling steel knife and walked towards them, and Ishikawa Shuhe stood up: "I don't need you, my general's mistake, I'll come in person..."

Seeing this, Zhao Xin retreated again.

The samurai seppuku was a strict one, not to mention the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who took off his general's robe, then exposed his abdomen, took a roll of white cloth and began to wrap around his stomach, also to prevent his intestines from slipping out during seppuku.

A retainer took out a short knife for seppuku and handed it to Tokugawa Iemitsu with both hands, he took the knife and looked at Chen Cao: "I also hope that General Mingguo will keep his promise and let them go." ”

"That's nature..."

After speaking, Tokugawa Iemitsu instructed everyone for the last time: "Remember what I said, you must not let Tadashi ascend to the position of general." ”

"Yes..."

The crowd wept and bowed down and never got up again.

'Whoa...'

The blade of the knife sank into Tokugawa Iemitsu's abdomen, and the blood suddenly dyed the cloth on the abdomen red, Tokugawa Iemitsu endured the pain, held the handle of the knife with both hands and slashed it in the other direction: "Ah..."

Ishikawa Shuwa stood behind Tokugawa Iemitsu with a knife, his body trembled uncontrollably, and while Tokugawa Iemitsu had not fainted, Ishikawa Shuwa shouted 'Lord', and then slashed down with his knife, and Tokugawa Iemitsu's head rolled down to the floor.

"Take the head and go back to Tokugawa Hidetada."

After Chen Cao gave the order, Zhao Xin immediately stepped forward and packed Tokugawa Iemitsu's head in a box.

Ishikawa Shuhe was about to open his mouth to stop him, but Chen Cao said: "You can solve the corpse by yourself, the head must not be given to you, Ben Hou wants to exchange him for money with others." ”

Ishikawa Shuhe didn't know what Chen Cao meant, so he scolded: "That bastard of Zhongchang, how dare you do such a dirty thing, you must inform His Highness Taige." ”

"Zhao Xin, take Liao Yaowen to take all the young women in the mansion away."

Zhao Xin smiled when he heard this: "Yes, my subordinates will do it." ”

After the affairs of the general's mansion were completed, Chen Cao immediately led a large group of people to arrange the transfer of property in Edo Castle, according to Chen Cao's instructions, at this moment Edo Castle was already full of blood, but all valuable goods had been loaded onto pack horses, and the bodies of the fallen soldiers were transported by their war horses.

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"Master Hou, after a rough inventory, the forward regiment where Ke Guangxian is located suffered the heaviest casualties, and the rest of the troops suffered a few samurai counterattacks in the final cleaning stage, but they have all been suppressed, 732 people killed, more than 1,300 injured, of which more than 40 are seriously injured, I don't know if they can survive."

Chen Cao felt a pain in his flesh after hearing Zhang Fengnian's confession.

"The sword skills of the Japanese are really powerful, and our soldiers are no match even if they have a three-edged bayonet on their guns."

As soon as Chen Cao finished speaking, Zhao Xin approached as he spoke: "Master Hou, the turtledove's foot firearm of their iron artillery team is a red-haired firearm bought from Haojing, what kind of miscellaneous people are the people who operate the guns, I heard that these people have been using arquebuses since their Warring States Period, and it is these people who injured our army at the gate of the city." ”

"Master Hou..."Song Che quickly ran into the city, his face solemn: "There are hundreds of Japanese troops in the direction of Guanlin, and there are many Japanese outposts in the southeast, north and south, I have arranged an ambush, I believe that the Japanese army that comes to the aid of Guanlin can be blocked out of Edo." ”

Chen Cao immediately looked at Zhao Xin: "How is it, everything is almost loaded, right?" ”

"There are too many Hou Ye, and all companies are stepping up to load trucks and transport them towards the port." Zhao Xin said and said, "It will take at least two hours." ”

Chen Cao looked at the sky, and then looked at Song Che: "Give you a division, disperse, except for the reinforcements of the Japanese army in the direction of Guanlin, after defeating all the reinforcements in the direction of Guanlin, be responsible for guarding Edo Castle, so many treasures, all we need, you have to buy me at least three hours, how about it?" ”

Song Che took a deep breath and nodded: "So leave it to me." ”

"Zhao Xin, women have to be arrested, except for the old gangsters, the rest of them must be taken away, regardless of beauty or ugliness."

Chen Cao said righteously.

Zhao Xin took a deep breath and asked again: "Master Hou, the people's?" ”

Chen Cao squinted his eyes: "Non-my race, no matter who it is, take them all away, don't you forget that most of the people in the army are untouchables and homeless, at least half of them are not married, we have to take care of the army, understand?" ”

"My subordinates know..."

This was a great migration that belonged to Chen Cao, but in the eyes of the Japanese people, it was a great disaster, but all the men and women in Edo Castle, regardless of whether they were men, women, or children, as long as they were armed against the Dingwu army, were all killed.

According to the later "Records of the Wakoku Kingdom", on the 11th day of the sixth month of the Otto, the Celestial Army landed at Edo Port, attacked Edo Castle, broke the Tokugawa Shogunate army, and beheaded 17 people, including the shogun Iemitsu, and the shogunate was defeated; In the battle, the treasures of the heavenly army were innumerable, and all the women in the city under forty, rich and poor, all migrated away, and counted more than 30,000; At that time, there were 200,000 households in Edo, but after this battle, there were no more than 80,000...

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"Master Hou, all the loading is complete..."Zhao Xin quickly came to Chen Cao's side.

"After blowing up their castle tower, let's leave, and the time is about right."

With a loud bang, the Edo Castle Castle Tower, the symbol of all the power of the Tokugawa family in the entire Wa Kingdom, was destroyed, and the complacent Chen Cao sent a signal to the remaining Song Che and galloped towards Edo Port.

Chen Cao, who was comfortable as a Tartar for a while, deeply felt the joy of the Jurchens plundering the Han people, and also felt the pleasure of being a good thing as long as they robbed something that was not their own.

Because there were too many things to take away, and the shogunate was ambushed by Chen Cao, the Japanese army who went to reinforce Edo participated in the rescue of the fire of Edo Castle.

Tokugawa Iemitsu is dead, and all Ishikawa Shuwa has to do is dispute Edo Castle, and then gather the remaining army to go on a crusade against a man, a sinner of the Wa Kingdom.

So much so that Chen Cao, who was a little flustered, didn't wait for a chasing Japanese army two days later, which made him puzzled.

Of course, Ishikawa Shuwa is not a fool, it is completely pointless to pursue Chen Cao, what he has to do now is to rectify the mess for Tokugawa Hidetada, who is still alive, and then send a fast horse to report to Tokugawa Hidetada.