Chapter 187: The Meiji Restoration of the Wa Kingdom (29)

More than ten days later, Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro arrived, and persuaded each other bitterly: The two brothers are on the wall, and they will delay the big thing! Within ten months, the shogunate will raise a large army and besiege Choshu; The long domain is defeated, and the Sa domain can be good alone!

Saigo Takamori suddenly realized, and hurriedly said: In the next moment, reckless, I still hope that Brother Kido Haihan. The sea is rough, and it is difficult to travel in a lonely boat, and Brother Kido is still looking forward to helping.

Kido filial piety: Brother Xixiang is polite, I am honest, and I disregard the survival of my domain, and the crime should be punished!

Sakamoto Ryomamichi: In today's situation, only if Sasa and Nagaji feudud have entered into an offensive and defensive alliance to resist the shogunate army. Once the shogunate marched into Choshu, the Safan must send 2,000 troops directly into Kyoto to hold the important place and consolidate the foundation; Regardless of the victory or defeat of the long domain, the Sa clan must be kind and ask for good words to rehabilitate the long domain; If the shogunate toss Tosa, Hitotsu, Aizu, Kuwana, etc., to bewitch the imperial court and come with strength, the Sa clan will also join hands with the Nagato clan to deal with the end, will Saigo-kun agree to the above items?

Saigo Takamori Road: The two feudal clans of Sacho go hand in hand and fight to the death. If you have the help of God and achieve great things, even if you are broken, it is not a pity!

Kido Takayo said: Sakamoto and Saigo are all read by my Choshu plan; The Satsuma clan got nothing, and this is very unfair! I endured the humiliation and swore to fight to the death to repay the king's help.

Saigo Takamori Road: Just because of the fall of the king, countless people died in the wilderness, Yoshida Shoin, Kusaka Genrui, Takeshi Mizuyama, Arima Shinchi and other former servants one after another, indomitable, generously to death. We have survived to this day, if we still have infatuated thoughts, let the aspirations of countless dead people be realized in this secret covenant of Sachang!

Kido Takayo said: The curtain will crusade, how can Brother Saigo respond?

Saigo Takamori Road: The shogunate has nothing to do with state affairs.

As the Satsuma clan refused to send troops, the shogun Tokugawa Ieshige was furious, so he ordered Hitotsubashi to urge him.

The Governor of the Pioneer of the Expedition and the former lord of the Kii Domain, Tokugawa Shigeru Shin, said: "Shogun Kaiyu, even if there is no Sasa Domain, my 100,000 troops can also set foot in Choshu.

When Tokugawa Ieshige heard this, he ordered Tokugawa Shigeru to lead 100,000 troops in the name of expanding the army privately in the Choshu Domain, purchasing weapons without authorization, and being obedient and disrespectful. Jiamao led 10,000 soldiers and went to Osaka to supervise the battle.

On June 5, 1866, Tokugawa Shigeru divided his troops into four routes and encircled the Choshu Domain.

When the shogunate arrived, the head of the Choshu family, Mori Keiko, immediately ordered Kido Takayoshi, the seat of the Choshu government, Shinsaku Takasugi to use for the prosperity of the navy, Masajiro Omura, the head of the military system, and Ryoma Sakamoto, the Tosa feudal lord, to join hands to meet the battle.

Kido Takayo Road: 100,000 soldiers, four ways to advance, straight to Oshimaguchi, Yunzhoukou, Shizhoukou, Kokurakou; Our army is outnumbered, how to deal with it?

Takasugi Jinsaku: Although there are more than 100,000 enemy soldiers, it is a rabble of 32 feudal domains, except for the shogunate and Kishu two armies equipped with guns and artillery, the rest are swords, swords, halberds, arquebuses, and there is no need to worry. Our army is outnumbered, the island is remote, and the soldiers are fighting; Temporarily abandon the place, lure the enemy deep, and choose the opportunity to encircle and annihilate. Hirobumi Ito, Inoue Shinbe, and the army of the Kaiyan State Domain quickly went to the mouth of Yunshu to take over the army of the Kishu Domain; Masajiro Omura rushed to Shishukou to meet the army of the Hamada domain. I led my navy to meet the shogunate navy and the Kyushu domains such as Kokura, Kumamoto, and Kurume at Kokura Pass, and protect the Kanmon Strait.

Sakamoto Ryomamichi: If our division wins the Shogunate's navy, we have little chance of winning.

Takasugi Jinsaku: The planning in the account is shallow after all, and I never know that this matter must be done. Sakamoto-kun is worried, and the Lord is here, and I also urge him to sink into the sand!

On June 8, the shogunate infantry and the Matsuyama clan army entered and occupied Oshima, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and the people of Oshima complained.

Kido Takayo was angry and vigorously reincarnated Takasugi Shinsaku to regain the lost territory. Takasugi Jinsaku did not dare to slack off, so he ordered Sakamoto Ryoma to temporarily supervise his army, and since the Yama Prefecture Youpeng Soldiers marched by sea and land, they raided in the starry night and recaptured the big island.

At the mouth of Yunzhou, Inoue Xin and Ito Hirofumi led the strange team and came out fiercely. The army of the Hikone domain collapsed at the first touch, and the army of the Takada domain fled when they heard the news.

Shigeru Tokugawa, the lord of the Kishu Domain and the governor of the vanguard of the expedition, stabilized the battle formation and personally led the army of the Kishu Domain to counterattack, and the two sides fired their guns together, and the victory was inseparable.

On the 13th, Masajiro Omura attacked the Ishishukou Pass, and the Tsuwano domain retreated without a fight; Masajiro Omura concentrated his forces and fought fiercely for two days, defeating the army of the Hamada domain.

The good news was frequent, Takasugi Jinsaku was ecstatic, and then wrote a poem saying: 80,000 soldiers of the Hehedong Domain attacked Langhua City; I'm going to die when I'm going to die, and I'm smiling at my neighbors when I hear the sound of cannons.

In the early morning of the 17th, Takasugi Jinsaku personally led five warships, the Bingchen Maru, the Guihai Maru, the Bingyin Maru, the Gengshin Maru, and the Otocho Maru, to sneak across the Kanmon Strait, suddenly bombarded the Kokura Domain, and took advantage of the chaos to capture Moji and Tanoura.

Tokugawa Ieshige, the shogun, was defeated, sat alone in the city, depressed and sick, and couldn't afford to be sick.

After the shogun, he saw the news of the Hitotsubashi celebration, and the starry night was both, and in two days, he arrived at Osaka Castle, but he saw that the shogun was like an autumn butterfly.

Ichibashi was happy and sad, and he didn't feel crying.

Tokugawa Ishige was dying, and said: I, nothing can be done! After my death, His Royal Highness Kaminosuke of the Tokugawa family succeeded to the throne; The Tokugawa family, please celebrate it!

Hitotsubashi Qingxi said: General Kaiyu, Qingxi must do everything in his power to protect the Tokugawa family! His Royal Highness Tian Anjia Kaminosuke is subordinate to the Imperial Second Secretary, and his succession to the throne is very legitimate. However, he is only three years old, and at this eventful time, how can he take on a heavy responsibility?

Tokugawa Ishige Road: If you can't take responsibility, there is a Ratsubashi Keiki to choose the British master.

On August 29, 1866, Shogun Tokugawa Ieshige died at Osaka Castle at the age of 21.

The president of political affairs, Matsudaira Keiyong, urgently summoned all the officials and said: His Royal Highness Tian Yasuke Kamenosuke is three years old, and he can manage all opportunities every day! The general died suddenly, and the general inherited the throne after seeing the general, and the name was justified.

Hitotsubashi rejoiced: The princess has already been entrusted, and I dare to trespass!

Keichoo Matsudaira: Can His Royal Highness Kaminosuke come to the battlefield in person and strategize?

Matsudaira Yasueido, the elder of the shogunate: The current situation, but the Lord of Tenshoin can solve it, I will return to Edo immediately, and I implore the Lord of Tenshoin to make a clear decision.

The shogun died young, and the Tianzhang Temple was sad and sad, and when he heard the intention of the shogunate elders, he shouted: You must abide by the last wishes of the princess!

Matsudaira Yasueido: Lord Qiyu Tianzhang Yuan, the war with Choshu has reached the point of life and death; His Royal Highness Kaminosuke is young, and if it weren't for Lord Yoshiki Hitotsubashi, he couldn't solve this crisis, so he implored Lord Tenshoin to put state affairs first.

Tianzhang Yuan Dao: Life and death? Just fighting with the Choshu Domain, the Utokugawa Shogunate has declined to such a point?

Matsudaira Yasueido: Lord Qiyu Tianzhang Temple, his subordinates saw with their own eyes, after the death of the general, all the feudal clans did not think of war; If the people who are powerless to turn the tide support the endgame, the shogunate is in danger!

Tianzhang Yuan said: If it is really as the adults say, the danger of the war is like a thousand jun, then the non-Qingxi adults will not be able to support this situation. However, the will of the Lord of the Public Authorities must not be disobeyed! A hundred years after Lord Qingxi, the candidate for the sixteenth general of Zhengyi is none other than His Royal Highness Kamenosuke.

Although he was approved by Tianzhang Academy, Hitotsubashi was also unrelenting.

Matsudaira Keicho: The sudden death of the general, the turmoil of the army, the anxiety of the battle, as if there is a rout, I implore Keiki to put the state affairs first.

Ichibashi rejoiced and said: I can't help myself, I will temporarily hold the authority, just wait for the adults to choose the new master.