Chapter 171 Charming Edo Castle IV
"General Mingguo, tell me, what do you want me to do?"
"The war has reached this point, and it is no longer something you can control. According to your past practices, you are already dead at this moment. As the lord, shouldn't you commit seppuku?"
After Liao Yaowen translated, the retainers around Tokugawa Iemitsu roared again.
Chen Cao shook his head: "It seems that the spirit of Bushido is not true. A guy who is not even willing to commit seppuku is only qualified to be a ronin."
"idiot..."
'boom...'
This time it was Chen Cao who fired the shot himself. At least he had often heard this curse word on TV before.
After the death, Tokugawa Iemitsu took a deep breath: "I can give you whatever you want. Your Ming army is not our enemy. I also know that your Ming country has a lot of civil wars and spends money everywhere."
Chen Cao raised his eyebrows: "Oh, it seems that you know the details of our country, Heavenly Dynasty? In this case, I wonder how much money General Tokugawa can have with me?"
"As long as the general of the Ming Dynasty can withdraw his troops and leave without harming my lord, the money in Edo City can be taken away." Ishikawa Sugawa spoke again.
Chen Cao shook his head: "I reiterate one last time, if I kill you all, the wealth in Edo City will still belong to me. Besides, the people of Sunfu Domain also told me so."
"Shunfu Domain?"
Everyone in the palace was shocked. They knew who the Sunfu clan was. Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at Chen Cao with burning eyes: "Did that guy Tadachō send you a letter?
No wonder... we were able to fight over so quickly. If there were no thieves, it would have been impossible..."
Chen Cao couldn't say much, so he said: "I ask you for the last time, do you want to be a coward and die, or do you want to kill yourself? If you are a coward, I will kill everyone here. If you kill yourself, they can all live." .”
How could a contemporary general of the Tokugawa Shogunate be a coward? Ishikawa Sawa saw Tokugawa Iemitsu's determination and immediately knelt down: "My lord, you must not do this..."
As soon as Ishikawa Sukazu opened his mouth, other retainers and warriors in the palace knelt down towards Tokugawa Iemitsu, saying the same words, and some even expressed that they would die together with the group in front of them.
Of course, their requests were sternly rejected by Tokugawa Iemitsu.
"While Father is sending troops to conquer the West, he contacts foreign countries and invades Edo. How dare a bastard like Tadanagi do it..."
When Ishikawa Sukiwa heard what Tokugawa Iemitsu said, he woke up immediately: "My lord, could it be..."
Tokugawa Iemitsu laughed sadly: "He is still coveting the position of general..."
After speaking, Tokugawa Iemitsu looked firmly at Ishikawa Sukazu and several important ministers around him and said: "So you must not die...
Only if you are alive can you prove the evil deeds of that bastard Tadanagi. He must not become the next general. If things are not harmonious, elect him as the general. "
Ishikawa said bitterly: "My lord, Masaru-sama has been adopted by the Hoko clan..."
"It doesn't matter. After all, he is my father's biological son. If there are difficulties, it doesn't matter what the Yusan family chooses, but we can't let the bastard Tadagabu become the general."
"Lord..."
Everyone cried and worshiped, which was touching.
Chen Cao didn't take it seriously at all. He had no sympathy for foreigners, especially Japanese people: "Which of you should introduce the wrong person?"
Everyone looked at Tokugawa Iemitsu. Iemitsu looked at everyone and said, "Let's count..."
"Lord..."
Ishikawa Suwa cried bitterly and asked him to chop off Tokugawa Iemitsu's head, but he couldn't do it.
"I see that you guys can't make mistakes. Zhao Xin, you go..."
Xin Zhao walked out of the gun formation with the Yanling steel sword and walked towards them. Ishikawa Shuhe stood up and said, "You don't need you. I will come in person to correct my general's fault..."
Upon seeing this, Xin Zhao retreated.
A samurai is very strict about committing seppuku, not to mention the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. He took off his shogun's robe, then exposed his abdomen, took a roll of white cloth and began to wrap it around his waist. On the abdomen, the purpose of this is to prevent the intestines from sliding out during hara-kiri.
One of the retainers pulled out a short sword used for seppuku and handed it to Tokugawa Iemitsu with both hands. After taking the sword, he looked at Chen Cao: "I hope General Mingguo will keep his promise and let them go."
"That's natural..."
After speaking, Tokugawa Iemitsu told everyone for the last time: "Remember what I said, you must not let Tadanagi ascend to the position of general."
"yes..."
Everyone cried and worshiped and never got up again.
'Bah...'
The blade of the knife sank into Tokugawa Iemitsu's abdomen, and the blood immediately dyed the abdominal cloth red. Tokugawa Iemitsu endured the pain, held the handle of the knife with both hands, and slashed in the other direction: "Ah..."
Ishikawa Sukazu stood behind Tokugawa Iemitsu holding the katana sword, his body trembling uncontrollably. Before Tokugawa Iemitsu fainted, Ishikawa Sukazu yelled "Lord" and then swung the sword to chop him. After going down, Tokugawa Iemitsu's head rolled to the floor.
"Take the head and send it back to Tokugawa Hidetada."
After Chen Cao's instructions, Zhao Xin immediately stepped forward and packed Tokugawa Iemitsu's head in a box.
Just as Ishikawa Shuhe was about to stop him, Chen Cao said: "You will deal with the body yourself. The head will never be given to you. I will exchange him for money with others."
Ishikawa Shuhe didn't know what Chen Cao meant, so he yelled: "That bastard Tadachang, how dare you do such a dirty thing, you must inform His Highness Taige."
"Xin Zhao, take Liao Yaowen to take away all the young women in the house."
Upon hearing this, Xin Zhao smiled and said, "Yes, I will do it now."
After finishing the affairs at the general's residence, Chen Cao immediately led a large group of people to arrange the transfer of property in Edo City. According to Chen Cao's instructions, Edo City was already a river of blood at this moment, and all valuable property had been lost. Pack horses were loaded, and the bodies of the fallen were carried on their horses.
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"Master Marquis, after a rough inventory, Ke Guangxian's vanguard regiment suffered the heaviest casualties. The remaining troops suffered some counterattacks from the samurai in the final cleaning stage, but they were all suppressed. Seven hundred and thirty-two people were killed and a thousand were injured. There are more than 300 people, more than 40 of them are seriously injured, and we don’t know whether they can survive.”
Chen Cao felt a pain in his body after hearing Zhang Fengnian's report.
"The Japanese swordsmanship is really powerful. Even if our soldiers have three-pointed bayonets mounted on their guns, they are no match for them."
As soon as Chen Cao finished speaking, Zhao Xin came closer and said, "Master Hou, the turtle-dove-footed muskets of their iron artillery team are red-haired rifles bought from Haojing. What kind of Zahezhong are the gunmen?" , I heard that this group of people started using matchlocks to injure our troops at the gate of the city since the Warring States Period. They are the same group of people."
"Master Marquis..." Song Che quickly ran into the city with a solemn face: "Hundreds of Japanese troops are coming from the direction of Guanlin. There are many Japanese outposts from the north, south, south, and south. I have already arranged an ambush. I believe we can keep the Japanese troops coming for reinforcements from Tatebayashi out of Edo."
Chen Cao immediately looked at Xin Zhao: "How about it, everything is almost ready, right?"
"There are too many, Lord Marquis. All companies are speeding up loading and transporting them to the port." Xin Zhao said and then added: "It will take at least two hours."
Chen Cao looked at the sky, then looked at Song Che: "I'll give you one division to spread out. In addition to destroying all the Japanese reinforcements in the direction of Tatebayashi, you will be responsible for guarding Edo Castle. There are so many treasures. It’s all what we need, how about you buy at least three hours for me?”
Song Che took a deep breath and nodded: "Leave it to me."
"Xin Zhao, the women must be arrested. Except for the old gangsters, all the rest, regardless of their beauty or ugliness, must be taken away."
Chen Caoyi said righteously.
Xin Zhao took a deep breath and asked again: "Master Marquis, do you belong to the common people?"
Chen Cao looked sideways and said: "Take away all those who are not from my race, no matter who they are. Don't forget that most of the army are untouchables and refugees. At least half of them are unmarried. We have to take care of the army, understand. ?”
"My subordinates know..."
This was a great migration that belonged to Chen Cao. However, in the eyes of the Japanese, this was a catastrophe. Anyone in Edo City, regardless of age or sex, who held weapons and resisted the Dingwu Army, would be killed.
Later generations' "Japanese Country Farewell Chronicles" recorded: On the 11th day of the sixth lunar month in Oto Chou, the Japanese army landed at Edo Port, attacked Edo Castle, defeated the Tokugawa shogunate army, and killed 17 people, including the general Iemitsu, and the shogunate A great defeat; during this battle, the heavenly army obtained countless treasures. All the women in the city under forty, no matter rich or poor, all moved away, accounting for more than 30,000 people. At that time, there were 200,000 households in Edo. After the battle, the plan was no more than 80,000...
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"Master Marquis, everything is loaded..." Zhao Xin quickly came to Chen Cao's side.
"After blowing up their castle tower, we will withdraw. It's almost time."
With a loud noise, the Edo Castle castle tower, a symbol of all the power of the Tokugawa family in the entire Japanese country, was wiped out. The proud Chen Cao, after sending a signal to Song Che who stayed behind, galloped towards Edo Port. go.
Chen Cao, who had lived a comfortable life as a Tatar, deeply felt the joy of the Jurchens when they plundered the Han people, and also felt the joy of being a good thing as long as the things they robbed were not their own.
Because there were too many things to take away, and the shogunate was ambushed by Chen Cao, all the Japanese troops who went to reinforce Edo participated in the operation to rescue the fire in Edo Castle.
Tokugawa Iemitsu is dead, and what Ishikawa Sawa has to do is to dispute Edo City, and then gather the remaining troops to attack a person, a sinner of the Japanese country.
Chen Cao, who was even a little panicked, did not see a Japanese army chasing him after two days, which made him puzzled.
Of course, Ishikawa Sukazu is not a fool. Chasing Chen Cao is completely meaningless. What he has to do now is to sort out the mess for Tokugawa Hidetada who is still alive, and then send a fast horse to report the news to Tokugawa Hidetada.
