The northern position of Osaka Castle.
The sky was completely dark, and the warriors who had watched the artillery show all day returned to their tents and set up a fire to warm themselves up.
A rice ball and two pieces of dried kelp were the samurai's dinner.
A shogunate samurai carefully took out a rice ball from his arms and sniffed the rice scent vigorously. The firelight illuminated his thin cheeks.
"The artillery of the Jiuzhou Division is really crazy today. That guy, the sound of the artillery is loud, the smoke is filled, and there are huge crowds of people..."
"Isn't it? We are 2 kilometers away here, and the sound of cannons is still so loud... Oh, alas, please leave some hot water for me."
A warrior hurriedly grabbed the other person's hand and stopped him from taking away the pot on the fire. He was a little angry.
"What do you think the shogunate thinks? They have recruited so many samurai from all over the country, but the military rations are not ready yet. They only give out two rice balls a day. What kind of war is this?"
"Our front line is pretty good. You didn't go to Osaka Castle in the rear. They only have one rice ball a day."
"Hiss...then that's a big deal. Can one rice ball be full? Now that the Kyushu Division has captured Saijo Maru, how can they resist if their soldiers in the city don't have enough to eat?"
"Don't worry about this. Some of the samurai in the city are samurai from the shogunate, and their military rations are fully distributed."
Everyone said, feeling uncomfortable in their hearts.
Today's samurai are no longer the samurai of hundreds of years ago. Their lives are extremely poor. What else do they have besides a samurai sword?
If you don’t know how to farm, you can’t lose face and become a farmer.
These were not Tokugawa samurai, so they were thankful to be half full.
A samurai finished eating the rice ball in two mouthfuls and said.
“The shogunate asked us to work hard, but even the logistics were not prepared.
Military rations are tight on the front line, and Nagoya is tight on the rear! "
"You kid... don't say anything that is not conducive to unity~"
"Why aren't we united? If the Jiuzhou Division attacks at night tonight, let's see if I don't chop their heads off!"
The samurai finished bragging and was about to talk about some exciting topics when he saw his comrades staring into the distance with their mouths agape.
He looked back and saw a group of soldiers from the Jiuzhou Division had reached the front of the formation, the black muzzles of their guns pointed at them.
"No more fighting, surrender!"
In the camp, a large group of samurai simply threw away their samurai swords and chose to surrender.
They are all temporarily recruited wild warriors, not as loyal as the original warriors.
In a mansion far away in Nagoya.
A group of people gathered around a table and looked nervously at Tokugawa Ieki, who was kneeling on a futon.
Tokugawa Ieki looked at the map. He raised his trembling hand and touched his smooth forehead, and then clicked on three people.
"You three stay, everyone else gets out."
A group of people left in a hurry, leaving only three big names sweating profusely.
Tokugawa Ieki stood up, threw the folding fan on the map, and roared loudly at the three of them.
"It only took the Kyushu Division one day to break through the Saijo Maru that you say will never fall. One day, it only took them one day!"
Tokugawa Ieki repeatedly emphasized, and his fingers that were stretched straight out of anger kept poking the heads of the three of them.
"Tell me, where are your generals and your much-hyped military strength?"
A daimyo couldn't help but lean back to avoid Tokugawa Ieki's fingers, and he tried his best to defend himself.
"General, we have tried our best. In order to prevent Konishi Xingzong Wang's defeat, we have supported many samurai in the past, but we are still unable to resist the artillery fire of the Kyushu Division."
"They have more than four hundred artillery pieces. Our artillery pieces are scattered throughout Osaka Castle and cannot fight back!"
"Also, the one who failed in his duty was Konishi Yuzuki Sonomo. His fueling tactics caused us to lose too many troops!"
The three of them talked to each other and started to blame each other. No one wanted to take the blame for the defeat in the first battle.
Tokugawa Ieki looked at the three people sideways and asked.
"So according to what you said, the failure of this battle is entirely the responsibility of Xiaoxi Xingzongwang?"
"Hi, yes, General!"
"And we believe that although Xiaoxi Xingzongwang made serious tactical mistakes, it was not without its benefits. At least, he consumed a large amount of artillery shells and gunpowder from the Kyushu Division."
"Yoshi..."
Hearing this, Tokugawa Ieki slowly moved his fingers across the map, stopping briefly in the Saijo Maru area.
"So, the Kyushu Division seems to be victorious, but in fact the real advantage is our shogunate army?"
"That's right. General, please look at the map."
The daimyo couldn't wait to sketch around Saijo Maru and said: "Although Saijo Maru was lost, there are vast plains and stretching trenches around Saijo Maru. The terrain here is very unfavorable for the artillery deployment of the Kyushu Division."
As the daimyo explained, Tokugawa Ieki glanced back and forth around Osaka Castle.
According to the name.
The closer the Kyushu Division is to Osaka Castle, the more favorable the situation is to the shogunate army!
Tokugawa Ieki looked like "Do you think I'm stupid?" and angrily interrupted the daimyo's self-pleasure.
The enemy is getting closer and closer, and the shogunate is winning more and more, and it is losing money.
"Do you think I'm a fool?"
Tokugawa Ieki pointed at himself, then picked up his star pocket from the shelf behind him and threw it at the three of them.
"As early as half a year ago, I, the general, thought that I had countless famous Japanese generals and that resisting the Kyushu Division would be easy.
But what happened in the past six months?
We lost Kyushu Island, and the Nara Ichibei supported by the Ming Dynasty steadily pushed the front to Osaka.
You all think that I am the strongest in the world, but I have never heard even a single victory report.
Now I understand, it's not that the enemy is too strong, but that you are too weak.
Now, immediately, immediately, disappear from my face, and let me go to the front line to supervise the battle in person! "
Tokugawa Ieki finally couldn't stand it any longer and drove the three of them out of the mansion, causing other famous people who were eavesdropping on the meal outside to look at each other.
While Tokugawa Ieki was angrily reprimanding the Daimyo, the Ming Dynasty's Coast Guard fleet was sailing silently on the inward-dented sea south of Nagoya.
There were a large number of transport ships in the fleet. After entering the harbor at night, these transport ships immediately launched a charge towards the shore.
The Kyushu Division attacking Osaka actually had only three brigades, two infantry brigades and one artillery brigade.
When Ichibei Nara learned that Tokugawa Ieki was in Nagoya, he immediately contacted the Coast Guard and asked the Coast Guard to escort the other two infantry brigades to land from Nagoya.
As long as these two infantry brigades can capture all the daimyo in Nagoya and Tokugawa Ieki, no one in Japan will be able to assemble samurai to resist the Kyushu Division.
To capture the thief, capture the king first.
Two infantry brigades came ashore in the darkness. They quickly passed through the port and streets and marched towards the city of Nagoya.
Soon, gunshots were heard in the dark night.
The sound of gunfire gradually changed from sporadic to neat, followed by bursts of shouts.
By the time Tokugawa Iekei learned that the Kyushu Division had landed in Nagoya, the infantry brigade had completely surrounded the mansion in the city center.
"Wow~"
Countless soldiers squeezed in from all directions and pressed Tokugawa's samurai into a huge courtyard.
Owari Sukeo was wearing a large suit of armor. He pulled out his imperial samurai sword, pointed at Tokugawa Ieki and others who looked horrified and shouted.
"I will give you a chance. As long as you can beat me in a duel, how about I release one person?
Putting the honor of the samurai on the line, which of you will come first? "
A samurai glanced around, and under Tokugawa Ieki's encouraging gaze, he drew his katana and approached Owari Sukeo in a strange posture.
"ah!"
Suddenly, he roared, used his legs and feet to rush out in one step, and raised his katana high to slash at Owari Sukeo.
"Bang~"
Owari Sukeo did not fight with the sword, but quickly pulled out the short musket from his waist and killed the challenging samurai with one shot.
The samurai fell, and Sukeo Owari retracted his musket and silently stroked his katana.
"My samurai sword was given by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, so I can't leave scratches during the sword fight.
Therefore, I can only use Owari-style swordsmanship and kill you with one shot.
If you don't play with guns in a martial arts contest, how can you become a grandmaster? "
