Beiyang new warlord

Even if Mao Jue was like this himself, God knows how he could meet such a situation where he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

He has fulfilled all the promises he made when he was young, and he has come to Edo with his troops and blood-stained Tokyo Bay!

Looking at himself, the biggest prey, in the brilliant afterglow, he was intoxicated for a long time, until the afterglow of the sunset completely disappeared in the bay, Mao Jue put away the binoculars in a still unsatisfied way, turned around suddenly, and pulled out his knife abruptly. Standing up and holding it up high.

"Follow me and fight Edo!"

"Hit Edo!"

Looking at this huge city, his blood was already boiling with enthusiasm. Mao Jue's raised arms immediately aroused the burning point of the whole army. The castle tower trembled for a while, and the pupils of the shogunate guards on the top of the city couldn't help but show fear.

In the dark night, the tens of thousands of Daming Legion marched forward

Chapter 237. The shogunate is intimidated

This night, the people of Edo, who have enjoyed peace and prosperity for more than 20 years, are destined not to have a good dream.

The tens of thousands of Dongjiang troops cut in from the southeast, bypassed the Yotsuya Gate leading to Kai, and headed straight for the sea, blocking the Yamashita Gate leading to the Tokaido, the Kobashi Gate, and stopped the army next to Edo Bay.

It was night, Mao Jue set up his tent safely, ran for several days in a row, and experienced a fierce battle. Dongjiang soldiers slept peacefully, but there were several explosions in Edo City. Chaos, the pressure brought by the enemy's attack, before Mao Jue attacked the city, Edo Shitamachi itself was in chaos. A group of samurai took the opportunity to loot the town's people and set fire to the city, and the brigade of imperial samurai Running around the streets with torches, trying to maintain law and order, Edo City was in chaos for half the night.

However, this chaos only happened in the dozen or so districts of Shitamachi that surrounded the whole city. The Honmaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru, and Tokugawa Daitenshu in the center of the city were always motionless, black like a giant like a beast.

The tension of the night finally dissipated as a bunch of red sun slowly rose in the sea, but the pressure in the hearts of the citizens of Edo became heavier and heavier. As the sun rose, the Dongjiang Army sounded the horn, The beasts outside the city ended their sound sleep and began to drink blood and eat people.

Even Edo Castle, the core of the Tokugawa family, is a typical Hirayama Castle.

The word city has two concepts in China and Japan. The city of Ming Dynasty basically built a large circle of city walls outside, enclosing the city and the market. Most of the common people, big landlords, and merchants' handicraft workshops can be accommodated in it. Building a city wall is a labor-intensive and large-scale project. Only China has such a large land and rich resources. The shogunate like the Japanese and poor ghosts cannot afford so much money, manpower and material resources. The walls are gone.

So after studying the Tang Dynasty for so many years, the Japanese also learned a Heian capital. As the mainstream method of building a city in the Japanese country, they learned from Baekje and Goguryeo.

But the defensive advantage was gained, but the economic advantage was gone. Only then did Mao Jue walk out of the Shinano Plateau. The place surrounded by mountains was difficult for an army, let alone a caravan. It appeared again, in plain areas without mountains, such as the Kanto Plain, man-made rockeries were piled up with earth and rocks on the spot, and then cities and castle towers were built on them.

To be honest, in terms of defensive power, this kind of mountain city is much stronger than the city wall of Daming. It has stood in front of the Mongolian army that conquered the world for 47 years, and the Diaoyu city that killed the Mongolian Khan under the city is a typical mountain city. During the Wanli Korean War, the Japanese built many Japanese cities on the peninsula, which were much more difficult to fight than the cities built by the Li Dynasty in the Central Plains.

But such a city also paid the same price, just like a big peach, the heart is hard, and the main defense power is concentrated there, but the peach flesh is soft and juicy, surrounded by a large number of super warriors , handicraftsmen, and the castle town of shopkeepers are this peach meat.

After another peaceful breakfast, at about [-]:[-] in the morning, the Dongjiang army, who seemed to be a little bit lazy, marched in line to Edo Yukihashi Gate.

The defense here is the best among the Japanese cities that Mao Jue has seen. The outer extension of the three-meter-long Guoqiang is built with a solid layer of stones. In front of the cannons of the Ming army, they were still bombarded. What really attracted Mao Jue's attention was that a moat was excavated outside the city. The long moat wrapped the entire Edo city in it, and the moat water was drawn from the occasional river flowing from the north. Tianchuan water, the trench water is [-] meters and [-] meters wide, and the current is quite turbulent, which makes it more troublesome to fight.

There is no boat at hand now, and it seems that the only way to go from here is to look at the bridge in front of you, a large wooden bridge several meters wide built by the shogunate to enter and exit the trench.

But when Mao Jue was thinking about how to break through the soft shell of the outer city, the Xingqiao gate in front of him suddenly creaked open, and immediately amidst the sound of messy footsteps, a large number of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the gate and lined up on the bridge. Above, in Yunmu, the Oda family's ultra-long spear array, which once caused Dongjiang Army to suffer, was densely packed three layers in front of the Japanese army's formation. Shining brightly on the brand new neck flags behind them.

Although it is said that the main force of the shogunate was either left behind, or it was planned to go to the Kyushu Island Hirashimabara Rebellion, in terms of the overall strategy, the shogunate is indeed empty of troops, but no matter how empty, the capital of a country will not be so empty that no one will lead it Yes, just like the battle of the capital in the second year of Chongzhen, Houjin came in a fierce manner. There were only [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, but there were hundreds of thousands in the Beijing camp.

The same is true for a large number of samurai banners living in Edo Castle. As long as the shogun gives an order, it is easy for Edo Castle with a population of 10,000+ to produce [-] samurai.

But looking at this posture, the shogunate army seems to want to go out of the city to fight with him, isn't this a bit boring?Except for Houjin, who has a large number of heavy cavalry, in this era, Mao Jue in the field is worthy of no one!

Under Mao Jue's wink and a few chuckles, the Dongjiang generals Shen Rong, Liu Chong, and Zhao Tiehan also scattered around after a tough battle just now, and the Dongjiang army The military posture was also put on, the cannons were pushed forward by the artillery, the infantry walked closely in formation, and the large team formed a formation newly trained this year, a hollow triangle formation.

This is a variant of the hollow phalanx Mao Jue refers to during Napoleon’s Battle of the Egyptian Pyramids. After all, the Japanese do not have cavalry, so they don’t need to worry about being besieged by high-mobility troops in all directions. The shooting surface of the formation is not narrower than that of the hollow square formation. The only weakness is that the shooting angle is limited, but it is not a big problem.

The most important thing is the sharp front. Once a cold weapon is engaged in a battle, you can concentrate your superior forces to attack a point and quickly cut the formation, while the slanted wings can quickly saw through the torn formation like the blade of a sword, and heal the wound. Expanded to be unmanageable.

The five regiments are the five big triangles, pointing aggressively at the shogunate army on the bridge.

But the anticlimactic behavior made these devils play it completely. The Dongjiang army waited so murderously, but these shogunate warriors seemed to be constipated. Seeing that they squeezed out a little more, and their eyes were shining golden after basking in the sun for a long time, Mao Jue angrily ordered to go down again.

"The whole army stays in formation, rests on the spot, and starts shelling me after an incense stick of time, so you're just playing me!"

The enraged Dongjiang sergeants, who were waiting for the order, sat down cursing in a low voice, and some even took out cigarettes, but even if they sat, they were five huge triangles. In the gaps in the army formation, there were reserve soldiers carrying Grab the buckets and hurry to distribute water to the team. Although everyone has a water bottle, the battle will last for an unknown period of time, whether the water in the water bottle can be saved or saved, and the artillerymen at the back two corners of the triangle also began to wipe the cannons.

It is said that soldiers have a quick temper, and it is true. When I first joined the army, Sun Chun, the commander of the artillery, was such a weak boy. This meeting was like a firecracker, jumping back and forth, yelling at the entire artillery position, and determined to move forward. direction.

Seeing that the Dongjiang army was about to explode like a big artillery battle, the shogunate army guarding the bridge suddenly changed again, and the Tokugawa samurai, whose eyes were shining golden, suddenly cracked a crack, and then, A few bearers rushed out carrying a sedan chair not much bigger than a box, and there were retainers behind them waving white flags.

Mao Jue didn't love himself enough to think that these little devils were about to surrender. Seeing the small sedan chair and the servants in green robes wandering between the two armies, he stopped there, and he also tilted his head to the side and twitched violently. On the war horse, Mao Liying led a dozen riders and rushed out holding a knife.

After exchanging in the Japanese language croak gua la, the pirate girl came back in a hurry again, got off her horse, knelt down on one knee in a samurai style, and pressed her knee with one hand to report.

"My lord, here is Yukunari Aoyama, the senior shogun, who represents the shogun and wants to negotiate with the lord!"

"negotiation?"

The battle was not successful, and the Dongjiang army arranged in several big triangles continued to sit and smoke comfortably, while in the middle of the confrontation between the two armies, a big tent was set up. The Japanese were so poor that they could not eat meat. They came up one after the other, and the sedan chairs remained empty until the servants at the back brought out a rather huge wooden kang with tatami mats, and put a tea table on it. Only then did he pretend to be forced to come down, and was helped by several servants to the kang, where he sat like a monk.

However, the maid next to her who is in charge of making tea looks pretty good. I don’t know if it’s too late to paint her face pale, but it’s difficult to reveal the girl’s true color. Liu Xingzhi, who is in charge of the guard in front, is still very rogue. He squinted at the past.

Not to mention, she really deserves to be the maid of a big family. Instead of being afraid to bow her head, the maid who made tea even raised her head and smiled at him, but just this smile made the old rogue Liu Xingzhi sweat all over his body, and immediately turned his head away. Go aside and never look again.

Damn, this little girl has a dirty mouth?It's disgusting to look at.

The way of kneeling and sitting was indeed passed down from Japan since the Tang Dynasty, but with the development of chairs, kneeling and sitting has been gradually eliminated in the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty, but in this poor country of Japan, it still insists on kneeling and sitting. The way, as one of the prime ministers of the Tokugawa shogunate, the old man Aoyama Xingcheng just knelt and sat on the tatami mat upright, with the weight of his whole body on his knees and legs, waiting for Mao Jue full of majesty. Mao Jue, who was in the guard, walked slowly, and the next second, his old face twitched abruptly.

Several guards neatly placed a chair on the tatami without taking off their shoes. Mao Jue stepped on it directly and sat opposite him. The height difference between the two was quite a bit, so Mao Jue sat like this again. From the side, it looks like an adult training a child.

The corners of his mouth twitched for a long time before he could hold back. The old guy picked up the tea and bowed to Mao Jue. Who knew that after holding back again, Mao Jue didn't mean to take it at all, and his eyes were still fixed on him. Staring at his old face, that look, is extremely uncomfortable.

It seemed rude, but in fact, Mao Jue made sense. He was not used to sitting on his knees. If his legs became numb, once the Japanese ambushed the killer, how could he quickly draw his sword to fight?And God knows if the tea is poisonous, now he has the advantage, so he needs to be more cautious and not take risks.

The tea ceremony was rejected by Mao Jue, and the old guy surnamed Qingshan didn't have the intention to continue pretending to be gentle, and he just babbled Japanese with a dark old face, listening to Mao Jue with one head and two big heads.

Fortunately, there is a pirate girl who is a translator next to her.

"My lord, he said, General Mao is the great general of the Ming Dynasty, one of the commanders-in-chief of Liaodong, and one of the dignified officials of the Ming Dynasty. Have you lost your identity?"

This old guy really has a big heart, he has been beaten to the bottom of his capital, and he still has the mind to tell who is right and who is wrong.

But since he asked, Mao Jue couldn't help but answer. He turned around confidently and asked someone to bring up Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Wuqitong pattern, and Mao Jue also shouted confidently.

"Do thieves? This will be a majestic master of the line, crusade against disobedient ministers! During the Wanli period, the Toyotomi family was the lord of the Wa Kingdom proclaimed by the Ming Dynasty! One of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, you and the Tokugawa family are disloyal, filial, and unkind Unrighteousness, conspiracy to usurp the throne, treason and injustice, so much so that the Feng Chen family promoted Yu Yi, an orphan, to Liao Town to beg, and as the suzerain, of course Daming will go out to crusade!"

Not only did Aoyama Yukunari's old face gloomy when he heard these words, even the corners of Mouri Sakura's mouth twitched slightly when he was translating.

Although it is in the Chinese cultural circle, while absorbing the nutrients of China, the Wa country is still reserved like a little daughter-in-law. The Wa country has never been a vassal to Ming Dynasty like North Korea.

What Mao Jue said just now was a beautiful misunderstanding.

It was the time of the Wanli Korean War, just after the Battle of Imchen, the first time Ming and Japan came into contact with each other to negotiate a peace, and Ming sent Shen Weijing as an envoy to confer Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the king of Japan in the name of the Celestial Dynasty.

But at that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had his sights set on the great tomorrow. His request was to marry the princess of the Ming Dynasty and cede half of the Lee family's North Korea. The interests of the two parties were not at the same level. down.

However, Shen Weijing is a businessman, and the president Xiaonishi who is in charge of receiving him is also a businessman. Both of them are afraid that the conversation will collapse and they will be punished. When the two profiteers discussed it, one went back and lied to Toyotomi Hideyoshi that the Ming Dynasty had agreed to the request, and the other was to Wanli. The emperor lied that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had accepted the canonization, and almost the biggest diplomatic narrow in East Asia was fooled by the two.

What can be fake is fake after all. Half a year later, when the requested bounty and Princess Daming were not available, Toyotomi Hideyoshi became angry and launched the Battle of Keicho, the second Korean War against Ming Japan.