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Chapter 465 An Easy Journey ([-])

The city wall of Osaka Castle is built with blue stones. Although it is not very tall, it is only about four feet in total, but when it comes to sturdiness, it is second to none in Japan, only slightly inferior to Kyoto City, but even so, Under the fierce artillery bombardment of the Qing army, it is really not much better than paper. After only two rounds of shelling, the city wall has collapsed in many places. Nearly half of them had been wiped out by then, and the rest had already run away. At this moment, Osaka Castle is like a big girl who has stripped off her clothes, waiting for the Qing army to deal a happy final blow to her. up.

"Stop the shelling."

After the two rounds of shelling, Old Shisanyi waved his hand and ordered a ceasefire. He picked up the binoculars hanging from his waist and stared at the smoky Osaka Castle for a long time. He nodded in satisfaction, but instead of ordering the attack, he ordered the entire fleet to drop anchor and anchor on the sea one mile away from the Osaka pier.At the end of the day, when the sky was about to turn dark, the follow-up fleet of the Qing army had also arrived, but the old thirteen still did not order an attack, or even send troops to occupy the empty pier, but ordered the whole army to rest on the spot, so that Prepare for tomorrow's battle.

It's the time of Haishi, the night is already a little dark, but the Qingliang Hall in the Kyoto Imperial Palace is still brightly lit, a young man in a Chinese dress is sitting on the couch, his eyes are slightly squinted, listening to the All the courtiers argued fiercely. This young man in his early tenth year is the current emperor of Japan, Chugomon. He succeeded to the throne at the age of eight. He has only been in power for more than three years now. No matter how you look at it, he is ignorant of government affairs. An ignorant young man, of course, as far as the embarrassing position of the emperor is concerned, it makes no difference whether the person sitting on the throne is a child or an adult. But in fact, it is just a thread puppet, and the thread is now in the hands of the Tokugawa shogunate. As for the emperor, it is actually just a symbol, and no one takes it seriously. No, a group of close officials are arguing There were endless debates, but no one asked the emperor himself what he meant.

In such a deep night, there is only one thing that can make all the top dignitaries gather together to discuss, and that is the large-scale arrival of the Qing army. However, what the officials are arguing about is not war and peace. On the other hand, although these ministers are all extremely respectable people, to put it bluntly, they are all idlers sent by various families to the imperial city. It is not to say that they have no say in the affairs of their respective families, but they are pitifully few It is really not their turn to decide on the matter of dispatching troops to serve the king. All they can do is argue whether they should ask the emperor to leave the capital to avoid possible attacks by the Qing army. The families are not in harmony. The controversy never ends.

"Aha……"

Generally speaking, the Taizheng Minister (the official name of the Japanese country, which is equivalent to the prime minister) Fujiwara Tetsuo and the left minister (the official name of the Japanese country, which is only under the Taizheng Minister) Uesugi Dodo insisted on sticking to Kyoto, while the right ministers Tokugawa Misei and A few ministers headed by Dana Yan Hojo Kazuo insisted that the emperor withdraw from Kyoto to avoid the sharp edge of the Qing army. When this dispute started, the two sides refused to give in to each other. Emperor Nakagomon, who was about to doze off, could no longer suppress the drowsiness surging in his heart, and yawned involuntarily.

"Your Majesty, do you have any instructions?"

As soon as Emperor Nakagomon yawned so loudly, all the dignitaries couldn't continue arguing, nothing else, although everyone didn't care about the emperor, but after all, the emperor is the symbol of the country, and if he wants to express something, everyone comes out Out of politeness, I still had to ask. After a while of dead silence, the highest-ranking Taizheng Tetsuo Fujiwara bowed and asked.

"I, ah, I believe that the loyal and brave soldiers can drive out the Chinese people."

instruction?In the three years since Emperor Nakagomon's reign, he has done nothing except put on an appearance and listen to the government, and he hasn't read many books. There is no instruction at all. Emperor Mentian just pretended to say "Yes" after the discussion was over, and now he was asked to give instructions, so he had no idea to take, so he could only make a perfunctory statement .

"What your Majesty said is that there is no shortage of loyal and brave men in Dongpu, and the Chinese who will commit crimes in the future will definitely be driven to the sea. Why do we have to move the capital to take refuge?"

Tetsuo Fujiwara was originally a staunch local resistance faction. Hearing what Emperor Mimon said, he immediately echoed loudly. He planned to use the imperial criticism as a weapon to suppress the opinions of the Tokugawa clan.

"Your Majesty, there is indeed no shortage of loyal and brave warriors in Dongpu, but it may be difficult to mobilize right now. Now that the Chinese army has arrived in Osaka, it is only a hundred miles away from the capital. If they insist on doing something reckless, the capital of the country may suffer catastrophe. We should take shelter first. should."

Tokugawa Sansei is Tokugawa Yoshimune's cousin, and he represents the interests of the Tokugawa family. Although he doesn't care about the emperor's life and death at all, he never wants to lose the power to hold the emperor to order the princes. Since I was thinking of taking this opportunity to move Emperor Nakagomon to Edo for better control, since it was impossible to agree with Fujiwara Tetsuo, I quarreled with him again unceremoniously, so, The two sides began to debate again and again. As for the Emperor Nakagomon, of course it was once again used as a display. There is no doubt that it is impossible to make any resolution under the circumstances of different opinions among many families.

On the seventh day of November in the 50th year of Kangxi, the sky finally dawned, and a round of red sun poked its head out from under the sea, shining golden sunshine on the world. The seven warships left the anchorage and slowly approached the shore. After adjusting each other, they formed the configuration of the battle line. Rows of black guns aimed obliquely at the Osaka City. Immediately afterwards, dozens of warships The small boat full of soldiers was lowered from the seven warships, and rowed unhurriedly towards the pier. After a while, groups of soldiers with guns in hand had landed one after another, but they did not Instead of rushing towards the dilapidated city wall, more than a hundred people rushed into the warehouse area, swept around carefully, and after confirming that there was no ambush, left more than [-] soldiers as guards, and the rest Join the big team.

"Line up, move forward!"

Following the commander's order, more than three hundred officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty quickly lined up in three rows, and walked towards the dilapidated city wall with neat steps. On the trigger, ready to attack suspicious targets at any time, the commander of this small force, Wan Shanhe, was walking right in front of the team. , he was sent into the army by Hongqing, as the commander of the Marine Corps, and he was officially a guerrilla general.

"The whole army stops, Wang Kuan, bring your men up!"

The advance speed of the Qing army was not considered fast, but the total distance from the pier to the city wall was only more than [-] steps. In a short time, the whole army had already reached the distance of [-] steps from the city. At this time, the direction of the city wall was still the same. It was a dead silence, not even a sound, upon seeing this, Wan Shanhe couldn't help worrying that there might be an ambush in the city, so he drank his throat.

"twitter!"

Wang Kuan was the commander-in-chief of the first sentinel. Hearing the order from his own master, he dared not neglect him in the slightest. He hurriedly responded, and led more than a hundred soldiers under him to rush towards the broken ground. The city wall climbed up the ruins, and quickly arranged a defensive formation on the ruins.

"Report, report to General Wan, there is no trace of the enemy at the city wall. In addition, the streets as far as the eye can see are all quiet and no one is there. The enemy's situation is unknown. Please tell the general!"

Wang Kuan led his troops to wait on the city wall for a long time, but no enemy troops appeared, and the city was still dead silent. He couldn't help feeling suspicious in his heart, and he didn't dare to be good at it, so he sent a messenger to return In this formation, I reported what I saw to Wan Shanhe.

"Huh? Uptown!"

Hearing that no enemy was found in the city, Wan Shanhe couldn't help being taken aback. After thinking about it with a frown, he didn't rush to draw a conclusion. Instead, he waved his hand and gave the order loudly. More than [-] officers and soldiers on standby rushed up the broken city wall like a whirlwind, scattered in all directions, and firmly controlled the strategic points everywhere.

"Wang Kuan, lead your people to search and move forward. If you encounter the enemy, you can't fight, just withdraw!"

Holding a binoculars in his hand, Wan Shanhe looked around carefully for a while, but he still didn't see any movement in the city. The suspicion in his heart suddenly deepened, and he didn't dare to be careless, so he called Wang Kuan. Coming closer, he exhorted with a solemn expression.

"twitter!"

Now that Wan Shanhe had given the order, Wang Kuan didn't dare to delay, he hastily responded, greeted all his subordinates, and then got off the ruins, and slowly moved forward along the road. After crossing the street corner, we went deep into the city of Osaka.

"Send a signal to the fleet, our troops have successfully occupied the city wall without encountering resistance!"

Wan Shanhe waited silently on the city wall for about a stick of incense, but still saw no movement in the city, so his brows were involuntarily furrowed. After thinking about it, he raised his hand and gave an order in a low voice.

"twitter!"

As soon as Wan Shanhe's words fell, the communications soldier who followed him loudly agreed, waved two small flags, and sent the news back to the flagship.

"No resistance? What do these Japanese slaves want to do?"

On the tall bridge of the "Zhenyuan", Old Shisan has been observing the city wall of Osaka with a binoculars. He does not need a messenger to come to report, he has clearly seen the semaphore sent back by the Marine Corps, and he is in his heart Unavoidably, he also became suspicious, frowned, and muttered...

(End of this chapter)