1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 280 Shelling Edo
The first people to see the black ships were fishermen fishing off the coast of Uraga.

Against the backdrop of the huge black boats, these fishing boats are as small as ants.

The fishermen in Uraga looked at the big black boats emitting black smoke and screeching whistles. The monster under the sea escaped in a hurry.

"This is the black ship that was rumored to appear in Nagasaki? These monsters are really big!"

On the shore of the Uraga coast, Chiba dojo students who were studying swordsmanship sighed as they looked at the monster-like black ship.

Before Nagasaki was captured by the American army, Nabeshima Naomasa, the feudal lord of the Hizen Saga Domain, and Yasawa Osawa, the governor of Nagasaki, had sent envoys in advance to inform the Edo authorities of the American black ship.

In addition, the American fleet swaggered through the city on the way, which was very high-profile, and the originally lifeless Edo also caused a lot of trouble because of this incident.

"We need to practice swords hard before we can defend the enemy from outside the country."

An older student said to the students in Chiba Dojo in the tone of a senior.

The students all nodded in agreement.

It's just that a student with an unusually tall figure looked at the thin and fragile samurai sword in his hand, and then at the huge black ship sailing into Uraga Port, and murmured suspiciously: "The sword can really defeat the enemy." The black ship? More than a thousand warriors bloodied the Outer Eye Fortress, but none of them could prevent the fall of Nagasaki."

This discordant voice made all the students in Chiba Dojo feel uncomfortable, and the older student was even more furious.
"Sakamoto! You country bumpkin from Tosa, what are you talking about?"

At this time, in the captain's room on the Roland, Liang Yao and Perry looked at Uraga's defense map, and it can be said that there was no comparison and no damage for a long time.

Compared with Nagasaki, Edo's coastal defense can be said to be completely useless.

There are five forts to the west of Uraga, Chiyozaki, Chidazaki, Hokiyama, Oura, and Kenzaki, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Hikone Domain.

However, these forts are useless. First, the artillery on these forts is old and has a very limited range, which cannot threaten the ships entering and leaving Edo Bay.

It turns out that the positions of these forts are not good, and they are too scattered, which further weakens the role of these forts.

Compared with these useless feudal lords in Edo, Naomasa Nabeshima can be said to be an outstanding figure among the feudal lords.

"The response of the Tokugawa shogunate was a little slow, and we haven't given us a clear reply yet."

The Tokugawa shogunate did not reply for a long time, which made Perry a little impatient.

"We have already entered Edo Bay. It is unrealistic for the Tokugawa shogunate to turn a blind eye to us." Liang Yao said with his hands behind his back. "After six hours, if the Tokugawa shogunate has not responded, we will bombard Edo. Put pressure on Tokugawa Iekei's shrinking turtle."

"What if the shelling doesn't work?" Perry asked.

"Then land on Kanagawa." Liang Yao said confidently, "But the possibility of this is very low."

The paper strength of the Tokugawa shogunate is around 8, but with the low organization and mobilization ability of the Tokugawa shogunate, the actual mobile force that can be mobilized is only [-] to [-].

This figure looks very scary, but these are medieval armies, which are qualitatively different from Liang Yao's army.

Although Liang Yao left half a regiment in Nagasaki to control the outer fort, there were only one and a half regiments of regular troops that could be used for landing.

However, this half-regiment has a complete range of arms and excellent equipment, and it is no problem to defeat the mobs of the shogunate.

What's more, he still has the navy to rely on, and the lineup is much more luxurious than Perry's simple American East India Fleet in history.

"Very low?" Perry also had no idea. He learned from Liang Yao and Liang Sen that the Tokugawa shogunate had a lot of troops.

"Yes, with the lessons learned from Nagasaki, the Tokugawa shogunate will not rashly start a war with us directly. In Edo, we encountered the resistance of the Nagasaki Outome Fortress, which was minimal." Liang Yao gave his judgment, "I think The Japanese shogunate is now discussing how to deal with us."

"Your Excellency the Colonel! Your Excellency the General!"

At this moment, Liang Sen walked into the captain's room and reported to Perry and Liang Yaohui: "A sentry ship came from Uraga, let us leave Edo Bay."

Leaving Edo Bay?
Liang Yao seemed to have heard a joke, but he just thought it was funny. If he left Edo Bay now, wouldn't he be in vain?
"Who sent the boat?" Liang Yao asked.

"It was sent by Uraga to follow Tsutsui's constitution," Liang Sen replied.

"Let them go back and tell Tsutsui Masanori that we want to have a direct dialogue with the top leaders of the Tokugawa shogunate! He is not qualified to have a direct dialogue with us just like Uraga Murakami." Liang Yao knocked on his desk and said, "If Tokugawa Ikei doesn't take the initiative Talk to us directly, then we will break into the castle tower of Edo Ooku, and Colonel Ben will talk to him in the castle tower."

"Yes!" Liang Yao took the order and relayed Liang Yao's words to the people on the watch boat.

Liang Yao walked out of the captain's room, looked at the lively Japanese people on the shoreline of Uraga while working overtime, and said to Perry, "General Perry, it seems that the Tokugawa shogunate still needs to be put under some pressure."

"Bombard Uraga?" Perry asked.

"It's not Uraga, it's Edo." Liang Yao shook his head and said, "Bombarding Uraga is not as effective as directly bombarding Edo."

Perry nodded, agreed to Liang Yao's proposal, and sailed the boat into Edo

After the black ship sailed into Edo, all the ships fired in the direction of Edo. The huge sound of the guns disturbed Edo and made people panic.

In the Imperial Palace of Edo Oku, the twelfth shogun of the shogunate and the de facto supreme ruler of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, who was disturbed by the Western naval guns, summoned his Mukaku to discuss countermeasures.

"General, the Americans are extremely rude. The envoy sent by the minister was driven back by them, and they bluntly said that they would have a direct dialogue with our high-level, otherwise."

The flustered Masao Tsutsui hesitated to speak.

"Otherwise what?"

Ieyoshi Tokugawa's brows instantly twisted into a "Chuan".

"Otherwise, they will enter Edo and meet with the general at the Edo Castle Tower to discuss the founding of the country and trade." Masaki Tsutsui said, shrinking his head.

"Ahem. Damn Americans."

Weak and angry, they slapped their thighs straight, but these Americans were very arrogant, but when they thought about what happened in Nagasaki, they did have the capital of arrogance.

Tokugawa Jiaqing asked someone to bring the declaration of war submitted by the United States last year. This is the first time he has seriously checked the declaration of war of the United States.

Before that, no one in the shogunate took America's declaration of war seriously, and no one thought that the United States would really hit Japan and Edo.

Reading this declaration of war written in English, Chinese, and Japanese, Tokugawa Iekyoshi was very conflicted in his heart, weighing the pros and cons of founding the country and continuing to lock it down.

Let’s establish a mutual market. Once the United States is established for trade, Rusia (Tsarist Russia), England, France and other countries will surely come in droves. How will we deal with it then?
If we don't open the international exchange market, the American fleet is parked in Edo Bay, and their guns are pointing at Edo.

(End of this chapter)