After entering 1866

The situation in Europe, which had not been stable for a long time, suddenly became tense, and the rivalry between the two powers of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia for the position of the leader of the German nation and the states became more and more intense, and it had reached the point of saber rattling.

On the land of China

The armies of the Manchu Qing government, together with the foreign guns, were frantically encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Taiping Army, and successively won a series of major victories, stabilizing the situation in the southeastern coastal provinces and regaining the dawn of peace after more than ten years of war.

The "Chu Army" under the command of Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, greatly increased its combat effectiveness after obtaining a batch of foreign guns and cannons, and successively strangled several extremely powerful remnants of the Taiping Army, and was repeatedly rewarded and commended by the imperial court.

In view of the strength of the Chu army, the Manchu court rumored that Zuo Zongtang would be reused, and he planned to be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, leading the Chu army to suppress the rebellion of the Twist Army in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and reshape the dynasty.

Fuso Islands

The war between the reformists and the shogunate army intensified, and the bloody and tragic war continued......

After suffering several painful defeats in a row, the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain formed the "Sacho Alliance" in an attempt to change the scattered state of their own battles, and uniformly dispatch and command the army to meet the shogunate army, and achieved immediate results.

The "Sacho Alliance" supported by Britain and the Netherlands was reinvigorated and fought with the shogunate army supported by Tang and France, and the rise of both sides was difficult to see for a while.

Three civil wars in Central America

Now in its fifth year of civil war, once prosperous towns are now in ruins, with a massive loss of women and children and a bare wilderness in the suburbs......

After the Spring Festival in 1866, in line with the friendly desire to maintain stability and long-term peace in Central America, 34,000 troops of the Tang Empire stationed in neighboring provinces such as Zhennan Province, Straits Province, and Costa Rica Province entered the three Central American countries in batches to carry out the task of clearing local armed forces and restoring social order.

Everywhere the army passed, it was like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, and in just over a month, it had completely controlled the situation.

The rest of the work is to completely eradicate the criminal bandits and mobs, and all kinds of local tribal armies, to establish a stable social order foundation for the upcoming Chinese new immigrants, and to clean up the old mountains and rivers from scratch.

Part of its territory will be annexed to the province of Costa Rica, and the remainder will have more than 220,000 square kilometers when combined, which will form the Central Plains Province, the largest province in Central America.

The so-called names of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua will gradually disappear in the long river of history, and the relevant historical documents will only be mentioned in passing places.

It records the history of these small countries in Central America, which were once the continuation of the indigenous civilization of Central America, and merged with Chinese immigrants under the impact of modern civilization, and jointly moved towards a more civilized and prosperous modern society......

In the process

There will certainly be some dark and even bloody events in ethnic conflicts, but in the vast river of history, it is only a small disturbance that will disappear at a moment's notice, and there is no need to waste pen and ink to recount it......

Everything should be forward!

March 4, 1866

Fuso country

Battle of Toba Fushimi

At the end of 1865, the "Edo-me Rebellion" quickly spread throughout the country, and the shogunate army did not hesitate to launch a bloody suppression, and the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest turned to armed confrontation, and the shogunate movement intensified into a civil war that lasted for several months.

Facing the domestic crisis

The shogunate Tokugawa Yoshiki, backed by the strong support of the Tang Empire, received a large amount of food and weapons support, and planned to adopt the strategy of "retreating as advance" in his heart, namely;

In view of the "Shogunate Movement" that was gaining momentum in the country, Na simply resigned from the post of shogun, abolished the shogunate, a ruling body that had been decaying for thousands of years, and changed it to the name of "chairman of the general council of each domain", and in essence still held the authority to govern the country.

In this way, the power of the five regents has not been sidelined, and it echoes the calls of all parties to "fall the curtain", wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?

Therefore, the imperial court planned to summon the feudal lords of more than 100,000 koku to Kyoto for a meeting to discuss the matter.

The lords of the southwestern feudal domains were not fools, and they saw through the donkey and egg tactics played by the Kifu shogun at a glance, and both the anti-shogunate faction and the pro-shogunate faction, which were dominated by the "Sacho Alliance", mobilized large armies and formed a confrontation situation in Toba Fushimi, northwest of Kyoto.

An unprecedentedly tragic large-scale battle is inevitable.

High in the hills, hunting with battle flags.

It was March, when the winter had just subsided, and it was warm and cold, and the cold wind blowing through the hills and fields was full of chill.

In the open field, the winter wheat that had just grown more than half a foot long was trampled and lodging by the troops in array, and the place was in shambles.

The two sides were the anti-shogunist army dominated by the Sachang Alliance, with a total of more than 9,100 people from the Seven Feudatories, known as an army of 30,000.

The marchers were dressed in a strict formation with flags on their backs, and the flags fluttered fiercely in the cold wind, and the murderous aura was boiling into the sky, which looked spectacular.

(End of chapter)