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The puppet was led to the top like that, under Chiyohime's silly eyes, hundreds of Toyotomi's retainers neatly crawled under their command, knocked their heads on the floor, and praised loudly.

"Greetings to the Patriarch! We swear an oath in blood to be loyal to the lord!"

In Kyoto, the blood was still flowing. Taking advantage of Kunimatsumaru's disturbance, Mao Jue took the opportunity to wash away most of the opponents. However, not everything went according to his overdue schedule.

"Have you caught Toyotomi's rebellion yet?"

After staying up in the middle of the night, half of the eye circles were darkened, and he yawned loudly. Mao Jue asked tiredly, but it was a pity that Inoue Teng, who had returned to his life, and Dongjiang's ninja leader knelt on the ground guiltily.

"My lord, I'm still hunting!"

"This subordinate has something to report, please make a decision early, my lord!"

One second before a small piece of paper was held in front of Mao Jue, he was still drowsy, but the next second his eyes were wide open, and he turned his head incredulously to look at the Kanto supervisor who was also smoking hotly, Tokugawa home light.

The latter's chubby face was full of silly smiles, and he scratched the back of his head with affectionate hands.

Chapter 437. The killer

The smoke from the gunpowder city of Kyoto hadn't exhausted yet. The Great Wall of Japan by Lake Biwa was billowing with black smoke again. It had been built for four years. For the first time, this fortification similar to the Berlin Wall was breached.

In the Chengguan building, a thick stream of blood flowed downwards, even drowning the bonfires used for heating. The stray corpses were piled up in piles, and the gate of the city below was opened. Big tubes, pushing cannons, and the Eastern Army carrying iron cannons rushing forward like quicksilver. There is a saying that day and night defense is the way to prevent house thieves. The strong and great fortifications can't stop hundreds of people from Donglin, Kyoto. A blow in the back from the chaos.

Mao Jue counted all the strategies, but after all, he didn't count them outside his own territory. The troops brought by Tokugawa Iemitsu this time were Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru's biggest killer.

There is no love for no reason in the world, and it is good to be the boss, especially after winning the Edo defense war three years ago. Why are you suddenly willing to hand over half of your annual income tax to be a younger brother?

To put it in a Jackson dance song whose name I don’t know, it’s all forced! It’s forced!

Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru developed Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as a cult for more than four years. Even if he favored students, Yuan Chonghuan would not turn a blind eye once it became a climate.The reason why Yuan Dushi, who was stationed in the Japanese kingdom, has been forbearing, even a little neglected, is that in Kyoto, Kunimatsumaru's stalls are too small, and he is taking the route of the upper class elite, only to recruit those unsuccessful children from wealthy families , a turmoil in Kyoto, Kunimatsu Maru wanted to break into the palace and take over the emperor. Such a major battle only mobilized more than 4000 ronin and sons of aristocratic families. Naturally, this mob couldn't arouse Yuan Chonghuan's interest.

But for more than four years, as a student of Yuan Chonghuan, and half of Mao Jue’s student, Guomatsu Maru’s methods cannot be trivialized. He has been engaged in a revolutionary export strategy like Cuba. It can be regarded as a bushido training school, and the Neo-Confucianism trained by him was directly transported to the Eastern Kingdom by bypassing the Great Wall of the Japanese Kingdom, where he preached and developed.

Just like the White Lotus Sect, it flickered from the bottom, and finally spread across the water like a water hyacinth.

Whenever evil religions are rampant in troubled times, there will always be people who confuse people with evil words and confuse the crowd, roaring in one place, and there will always be countless people who follow them in a dizzy way, even if they use their flesh and blood to fill the ditch There is no hesitation in blocking arrows, there is no other reason, and the people in poverty and despair need such spiritual sustenance!

Regardless of whether this sustenance is a real god or a real devil, as long as it can bring hope, it can attract countless fools to grab it like the last straw.And Dongguo, at this time, is a perfect breeding ground for the spread of a cult.

The unscrupulous Mao Jue put too much pressure on the shogunate. It was almost a sure-fire victory for the Osaka Sanzho. The 30 shogunate army fought the battle and went to the [-] Saijun. Tokugawa Iemitsu has figured out how to write The biographies of military exploits turned out to be not in vain, they were captured by Mao Jue and published as meritorious service of the Toyotomi family. The outside of Osaka City became a slaughterhouse, and the corpses of the descendants of warriors from the Eastern Kingdom were everywhere.

Moreover, after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the sea power was in decline. After the Great Wall of Japan was completed, the offensive roads on the road were blocked. The Eastern Kingdom is not as vast as the Mongolian grassland. It can rely on the vast strategic space for detours and farming. The only way for the nation to deal with this situation is to follow suit and build tortoise shells.

However, the reinforced concrete fortification method and the Japanese traditional earth-rock piled fortification method are not on the same starting line in terms of efficiency and cost. Mao Jue only took a few months, and 6 to 27 people completed this large-scale project that cut the Japanese country in half. It took 70 shi of grain and 10 taels of silver to build a city and fortress along the road of the Western Kingdom's attack, but the shogunate spent four years renovating it, invested several [-] people, and millions of shi of grain and funds, and it has not yet been repaired. In the end, the huge project was an out-and-out disaster for the small and populous Dongguo.

Even on the fertile Kanto Plain, Japanese radishes had to estimate how fat they would grow, and then keep the radish skins for their own consumption, pickled the radish cores and handed them over as taxes. The starving farmers have degenerated back to the situation of starving for half a year a year, and the time of starving for food shortages is getting longer and longer every year.

There is simply no hope!

Under such circumstances, the Kunimatsumaru Bushido cult with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism at its core is like a fish in water.The root of all suffering is explained here at Kunimatsu Maru. The rites and music that Confucius said are broken! Let’s get over it! Those rebellious officials and thieves stole the power of the emperor and put cruelty on the people of the world!

As long as the Tokugawa shogunate and Toyotomi Sheguan are overthrown together, the emperor is returned, and the kingdom of God comes to the world, all the good things can come back, and the whole Japanese kingdom can be restored to the ancient era when men farmed and women weaved, and the people were stable and prosperous. People can eat enough, wear warm clothes, don't need to go to war, and don't need to work hard to build a city. Everyone can live a good and rich life.

In front of the Japanese people who are naked and hungry all day long, this is simply a paradise scene, who can not follow?Just like the White Lotus Sect, Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru's power expanded exponentially.

Since last year when Masaaki Inaba was sent to Dongjiang, there have been several outbreaks of turmoil in Dongguo, spreading from the Tokugawa Territory to the Sendai Fan. The consistent and consistent will also explode accordingly.

Originally, they were already powerless to deal with a Toyotomi family. After a few years, Kunimatsu Maru threw them into a huge ignited powder keg under their own rule. It's not that hard anymore!

However, even Tokugawa Iemitsu did not expect that he and Dongguo Daimyo's army could be infiltrated to such a degree. I am afraid that if he surrendered two or three years late, Kunimatsumaru's power could grow into a climate in Dongguo. Li Daitao froze, the Tokugawa shogunate is doomed to collapse, Dongjiang will also usher in an unprecedented enemy!

Fortunately, Tokugawa Iemitsu was overwhelmed! Kunimatsu Maru was not given the time to grow, and the plants grown from seedlings were too immature to withstand the baptism of the storm!

In the early hours of the morning, the city wall of the Japanese kingdom was broken. At ten o'clock in the morning, more than [-] Dongguo troops were already approaching outside the city of Kyoto. The army is the central army, the troops of the Mito clan and the Kurokawa clan and the Kawakami clan are the left wing, and the Ashikaga clan and Takaoka clan are the right wing. There is no rear army, and the [-] army is like a huge tortoise lying outside Kyoto. on a flat plain.

However, before the attack, this army had already encountered a head-on blow. Just outside the west gate of Kyoto, the Yizhou Corps under Mao Jue's command and the [-] affiliated regiments had already set up a defensive position, and they were more exciting than cannons. It is the large banner with the emblems of the hundreds of families in the Eastern Kingdom brought by Tokugawa Iemitsu.

In the Sekigahara War, the biggest mistake of the Western Army Ishida Mitsunari was that he did not lend Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s golden gourd and horse seal from Osaka. In this era, samurai could not fight against the suzerain. Once the golden gourd and horse seal appeared on the battlefield, Fukushima Masanori, Todo Takatora, Kato Masaki, Kuroda Nagamasa and other old subordinates of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who are the vanguard of the Eastern Army, have to withdraw from the war immediately. Ishida Mitsunari is only facing the power of the Tokugawa family. Maybe it can really change history. indefinite.

However, what Ishida Mitsunari failed to do, Mao Jue did it today. Seeing his family's badge standing in front of the Western Army's formation, a large group of retainers who were infiltrated or not were infiltrated. Panicked! Up to now, I still don’t know that I have been kidnapped. The general of the Date family, Tamura Soyoshi, looked at the Fujiwara Bamboo Sparrow Monument of the Sendai Clan on the opposite side, and ran back anxiously on a pony. Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru, surrounded by the retainers of the Tokugawa family who had been infiltrated by Donglin Neo-Confucianism, roared angrily.

"Why! Why did the head of the family and the general appear in the army formation of the Western Kingdom! Didn't it be agreed that you Donglin Confucian scholars would open the city gate, and then welcome the shogunate to Luo Jingdu to capture the emperor? Where is the emperor now? "

These words also caused a group of retainers to look over with concern, but in the angry eyes of the Northland general, the answer was really a shot of anger.

Dongjiang has close contacts with Westerners. Although Mao Jue's continuous-fire revolver has not been mixed in, there is still no shortage of exquisite Western pistols, such as Kunimatsu Maru. There was a bloody hole on Tamura Soyoshi's forehead, and an unbelievable expression remained on his face, and he fell off the horse limply.

Compared with yesterday, Kunimatsumaru's face has completely lost the vigor of forging ahead, and replaced it with the gloom of death. That expression makes this god-given lord of Fusang look like a judge in hell, exuding all over his body. With a chill in his eyes, Kunimatsumaru immediately tilted his head at a retainer of the Sendai feudal clan beside him amidst the trembling of those people.

"Masanobu Sakuma, you lead the Date team!"

Even if they knew it was a trick, it was too late. A large number of soldiers who believed in Kyoto Neo-Confucianism pressed down with iron cannons, biting the bullet, and the ministers of the Eastern Kingdom entered the battlefield with difficulty.

He also rushed to the front in person, facing the ignorant warriors, Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru was like Alexander the Great in the movie, galloping wildly in front of the military town on horseback while roaring loudly.

"Samurai! Amaterasu God's people! The evil spirits of the Dongjiang River in the form of Yamata no Orochi are right in front of you. They imprisoned the emperor evilly, seized the power of the world, and put tyranny on your heads. Just defeat them and save them. The Emperor! Peace will come! No need to work hard on the battlefield, no need to pay such heavy taxes! No need to be approved for military service, no need to pay military service! No more!"

Just like Chuang Wang came and refused to pay food, such slogans are too inflammatory among the Eastern Army who have completely hated war!The spears in the first few rows even raised their spears excitedly.

However, at this time, the cheers suddenly stopped.

On the flag that was also held high, the royal emblem of the sixteen-petalled golden chrysanthemum swaggered in front of the black clover pattern of the Tokugawa family. On the sixteen-carried sedan chair carried by the maid of the priest, surrounded by veils, a hazy figure of a young girl appeared in a trance Appearing in the sight of the Eastern Army, they kept saying that they were fighting for the Emperor, but the Emperor was on the opposite side of him, looking at the logo of the imperial family, even the most fanatical ashigaru team was stunned.

Among them, Toyotomi Kunimatsumaru was the one who was hit the hardest. The painful memory of last night resurfaced in front of his eyes again. He even got off his horse and knelt down on the ground with a distorted face. His fist hit the ground and was dripping with blood. .

"Are you really going to help that traitor and fight against me?"

Chapter 438. Withered like cherry blossoms

The 32 bronze horn horns rang out a low and majestic tune neatly, and the [-] cowhide snare drums made a deafening roar under the violent beating of the shirtless man. The dark but shiny steel helmet on the top of the head reflected In a neat cold light, every Dongjiang regiment, no matter whether it is a pro-legion or a militia regiment, is neat and outrageous, and the bayonet pointed at the front exudes an astonishing murderous intent.

It's just that in the majestic military music, the main commanders of Dongguo also seemed uneasy. They never imagined that their entire army was incited. Although it was not the full strength of the Tokugawa family, it was also the main force. It's political life. The Tokugawa family without the army is nothing to Mao Jue, and beads of sweat continue to flow from Tokugawa Iemitsu's slightly fat face.

And the girl "Emperor" under the tulle also turned her head worried frequently, begging in a low voice.

"Master, concubine, can concubine do it?"

"Please, let Sister Le'er replace it!"

The little emperor's spirit was greatly stimulated yesterday, and now it would be a bit too much for Mingzheng to come to the battlefield in person and fight to the death with the lover who fought for her, so Mao Jue also played Li Dai to challenge the royal family. I borrowed the family crest and flag from my family, dismantled a flower pavilion, and pieced it together to create this temporary sixteen-carrying sedan chair.

And the little emperor is Mao Jue's most well-behaved girl, Su Yi!

Although Mao Jue never claimed that the person he brought out was the little emperor, Ying Ji, who was born in an island country, would not dare to accept the matter of pretending to be the little emperor, but Yu Leer was eager to try, but Mao Jue couldn't trust her. When the fighting was at its most intense, what would she do if she wanted to come to a royal conquest?So I can only let Su Yi wear it.

Kicking the horse and lazily walking by the side of the sedan chair, Mao Jue waved his hand nonchalantly: "What's the matter, didn't you look quite imposing up there last night? This time you're just sitting, and you're not doing another one." ****The old tree is rooted! Why are you nervous?"