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Chapter 14, 27 Moments in the Four Years of Chongzhen ([-])
No.14 Moments: The Cry of the Shogun
In 1631 AD, the fourth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, December in the seventh year of Kanei, Japan, Osaka Castle, Sakai Port

Anyone who has played Japanese Sengoku games will usually know the name of the free commercial city "Sakai".

Sakai Port is located at the junction of Settsu, Hanoi, and Izumi, and the name comes from this.Since the Heian period, Sakai has been an important sea port for merchants from Kyoto and Nara.But the real prosperity of this city was after the Muromachi shogunate was designated as a trade port for exploration and cooperation with China.

Since then, this trading hub has developed rapidly in troubled times, and eventually became the leading autonomous commercial city in Japan, symbolizing prosperity, wealth, trade and enjoyment, as well as a window to overseas.

In the dark age of the Warring States period in Japan, Sakai Port was almost the only "light place" in Japan. It had the most prosperous business in Japan at that time, the richest businessman, and the most outstanding tea masters: Tsuda Soge, Imai Sohisa, Senrikyu...

However, with the domination of Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the arrival of the Azuchi Momoyama era, Sakai Port, which rose due to the troubled times, also declined with the end of the troubled times. After gaining Japanese hegemony, Toyotomi Hideyoshi built Osaka Castle, as the ruling center of the Toyotomi family, due to the capital's natural attraction to wealth, the prosperity of Sakai Port was largely transferred to Osaka.Many wealthy merchants also moved to the castle towns of Osaka.In the following Edo period, Sakai Port merchants had completely become Osaka merchants, and Sakai Port itself became a port and warehouse attached to Osaka.

(Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Osaka Castle was built by robbing the foundation of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, and then further construction and expansion. Therefore, the Oda army besieging Honganji Temple and the Tokugawa army besieging Osaka are actually two wars against the same city.)
But even so, as the most important satellite city of Osaka, Sakai Port in the Edo period was still bustling with merchant ships.

However, Sakai Port at this time has changed beyond recognition—the once bustling streets have become full of broken walls and ruins, the collapsed roof beams are lingering in smoke, there are still a few sparks on the scorched wood, and there are slight crackles from time to time. The sound of the horn came out, and there were sporadically large and small bullet craters scattered on the ground, but few people could be seen... In the wilderness on the outskirts of Sakai Port, you can see fallen Tokugawa family Aoi-patterned flags everywhere, discarded Swords, shattered cannons, blood-stained armor, scorched ground, and layers of corpses of men and horses fully proved that a tragic bloody battle had been fought here.

In fact, rather than saying it was a bloody battle, it would be more appropriate to say it was a massacre...

——The 1 soldiers and horses sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to recover the lost ground have just been completely defeated by an unknown enemy in Sakai Port.

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Not far from Sakai Port, Osaka Castle directly under the Shogunate

Under the cloudy sky, the strong north wind blows goose-feather-like snowflakes, fluttering and scattering on the ground. Looking down from the top floor of the castle tower in Osaka Castle, everything in the field of vision is white, and only a few of them braved the heavy snow. Most of the pedestrians shrunk their heads and hurried on the road.The clogs made an unpleasant creaking sound when they stepped on the snow, and the knee-high snow made the servants transporting supplies and patrolling on duty ashigaru, and they all complained for a while.

And in the majestic and majestic castle tower inlaid with copper and gold, all the elders and generals of the Tokugawa shogunate also put their hands together and looked at each other with sad faces. Although the stove in the castle tower was burning red, the mood of the important ministers Like the winter outside, it was icy cold—no one dared to say a word, nor did they know what else to say in the face of such a situation, and in the end they just kept moaning and sighing.

On the chief seat above, a handsome young man in Chinese clothes was holding a newly calculated battle report, looking at the shocking loss figures on it, especially the death news of his half-brother Bao Ke Zhengzhi, his expression was really serious. It was gloomy like water, and the anger in his eyes was about to burst out.

——He is the supreme ruler of Japan today, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third generation general of the Edo shogunate.

In the original history, as the "three generations of Aoi" of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Iemitsu was a very capable hero.According to the comments of later generations, he is almost the personification of Japanese family politics, inheriting the black belly and prudence of the Tokugawa family, the stubbornness and conservatism of the matrilineal Asai family, and the domineering and decisiveness of the Oda family... During his reign, the rule of the Edo shogunate over Japan was thoroughly consolidated, and all anti-shogunate forces were basically eradicated. Finally, in the era of his son Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the Edo shogunate ushered in the most prosperous "Genroku prosperity" .

But in this time and space distorted by many traversers, everything has been changed beyond recognition.

——Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is only 27 years old, has not had time to show his strength, and the foundation of the Tokugawa family is already crumbling.

What is the cause of all these bad luck and disasters?

When did the Edo shogunate and the Tokugawa family turn from prosperity to decline?
General Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but fall into the long memory of the few copper coins hanging in the corner of the pen holder as decoration.

——Before the era of the Edo Shogunate, due to poor metal casting technology, Japan has been using Chinese copper coins for commercial trade, and basically did not mint coins.For example, during the Warring States Period in Japan, merchants from all over the world used Yongle money from the Ming Dynasty.In the Azuchi-Momoyama era, after the respite of the war, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi minted a batch of gold coins and silver coins, he did not mint his own copper coins. There was no major change, and no one thought of casting copper coins by themselves.

Then, this incident that ignited the heinous chaos quietly appeared in the Ming country across the sea.

——Since the Hongzhi Dynasty of the Ming Empire, all copper coins have been stipulated to be seven copper coins and three lead coins, and copper coins should weigh one coin.In the Wanli Dynasty, it was changed to six copper coins and four lead coins, and each copper coin weighed one coin and two cents.However, since the Tianqi Dynasty's "Zhongzhengying Dynasty", the insatiable Donglin Party hypocrites have controlled the Nanjing Mint Department. Since then, the copper coins produced have not been as good as each year. Seven points for lead and eight points for weight.By the third year of Tianqi (1623), a batch of newly minted copper coins in Nanjing turned out to be copper, lead, and nine, and the weight was reduced to a quarter of a coin for the first time.

Such low-quality copper coins naturally triggered a wave of boycotts among the Chinese people, which made court officials very anxious.Then, under the guidance of some wise man, the Ming court adopted the strategy of "directing disasters abroad"-dumping all these poor-quality broken copper coins to Japan through various channels: this is a very lucrative project. Generally speaking, a sling of inferior copper coins from Ming Dynasty can be exchanged for about two taels of silver in Japan, and then turned into copper ingots that are abundant in Japan and shipped back. These Japanese copper can produce at least five slings of inferior copper coins .Even after excluding the cost of voyages, the transfer of Japanese businessmen and the need to bribe Japanese local officials, the profit of this exchange is at least [-]%.

As a result, the Donglin Party government in the Ming Dynasty successfully threw away a powder keg, and everyone celebrated with each other, and various underwriters also made a lot of money, and even started to mint fake money by themselves in order to organize the supply of goods.However, the Japanese side suffered terrible losses, and it soon developed to the point where it could no longer sit idly by: No matter how many copper mines there are in the Japanese archipelago, they cannot withstand the black and white blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Make it!

At this point, some people of insight in the Tokugawa shogunate finally saw the significance of casting their own money, and urged the shogunate to start casting its own copper coin "Kan Yong Tongbao" and gold and silver coins from the early years of Kanei, planning to use this to Drive out Spanish silver coins and Ming copper coins from the Japanese market.

But the problem is that, for some reason, this significant policy of monetary autonomy has not been implemented smoothly.Although the Tokugawa shogunate knew from the beginning that merchants who were capable of importing or counterfeiting copper coins would not be little guys, they gave strong warnings to major merchants before starting currency exchange.However, even under the most severe threat of force, bad money from the Ming Dynasty continued to pour into the Japanese market. On the contrary, the Kanyong Tongbao that was put on the market by the shogunate disappeared quickly, causing the shogunate's exchange pressure to continue. If it cannot be lifted, the financial loss is even greater.

In desperation, the Tokugawa shogunate had no choice but to continue to insist on this daily loss-making exchange work, and at the same time began to search for suspicious elements in the country, hoping to eliminate the source of bad money production and imports, and finally noticed the Changzhou Fan - it turned out that all of this It's the ghost of the Maori family's adultery this day!
The angry Tokugawa shogunate immediately issued the most severe warning to the Changzhou Fan, but the Maori family of the Changzhou Fan still ignored it, and continued to obtain a large amount of bad money from the Ming Dynasty, and then resold it to the mainland of Japan to make amazing profits. Everyone knows that as long as the hole of the Changzhou Domain is not blocked by the Japanese shogunate, bad money will naturally drive out good money.The currency reform of the shogunate turned into sending money and blood transfusions to Changzhou Fan: How can such a thing be tolerated?

In this way, the relationship between Changzhou and the shogunate quickly became tense. In the past, the shogunate stipulated that the feudal lords of each vassal should go to Edo every two years to be hostages and live there for several months or even a year. Mori Shujiu (the first generation lord of the Changzhou Domain, the son of Mori Terumoto, the chief general of the Sekihara Hezhan Western Army) not only did not come to Edo to report, but also built a series of forts and fortresses on the border of Changzhou with large-scale civil engineering projects. It is obvious that there is an intention to start a war.

Therefore, in order to maintain the prestige of the shogunate and to obtain his own martial arts, the young and energetic Tokugawa Iemitsu resolutely promulgated the "Legacy Order" in February of the third year of Kanei (1627), and mobilized about [-] soldiers in one go. The shogunate army also ordered the rest of the princes to send troops to help in the battle, and launched a western expedition to the Changzhou Fan.

Then, the nightmare of the Tokugawa shogunate finally began:

The border fort built by the Changzhou Fan under the guidance of Ming military officers was very effective in holding back the shogunate and Japanese princes' army coming from several directions.Facing the endless bombardment and seemingly indestructible bastions, the main force of the shogunate army, mainly equipped with bows and arrows, bamboo spears and samurai swords, still stopped at the border of the Changzhou Fan after a month of hard work. We can only hope that it will be captured by a long-term siege.

At the same time, the elite new army of the Maori family and the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty, as a mobile force, relied on sea routes to continuously attack the various domains in southwestern Japan, and "persuaded" them to withdraw from the camp of the shogunate army by force and shells... After successfully defeating these originally After the "outsider" daimyo who was not determined to fight, the Maori family immediately concentrated all their main forces and launched a decisive battle with the shogunate army led by Tokugawa Iemitsu on the eighth day of April.

Then Tokugawa Iemitsu tasted the taste of failure for the first time in his life.

——The Changzhou Army has 5 modern troops as the core, and nearly [-] local farmers who have high morale because of defending their homes and the country; the Shogunate Army has more than [-] farmers from the Kanto, and thousands of people wearing armor "Master of swordsmanship", and they have been under the fortress for two months.In such a contrast, the result of the battle is naturally self-evident. Under the bombardment of field artillery, the army of the Tokugawa shogunate quickly collapsed.Although facing the overwhelming artillery fire, some Banner warriors continued to charge, trying to start a hand-to-hand combat with the enemy to offset the long-range firepower advantage of the Changzhou Army.But when the Changzhou New Army and the Ming Dynasty reinforcements used terrifying chain bullets and shotgun bullets, the shogunate flags also began to flee, and finally they were beaten into colanders by firecrackers...

Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer remembers how he commanded that battle at that time, but he vaguely remembers that his main formation was first hit by an unknown number of shells, and then the ducks were completely scattered.He himself was also escaped from the battlefield by the tide-like chaotic army, and ran for a day and a night in a daze. He was almost caught by the forwards of the Maori army several times. One by one, they were killed or disappeared in battle. In the end, they managed to snatch a fishing boat by the sea, and fled all the way back to Himeji Castle, and then fled to Osaka. Finally, they were out of danger.

But two months ago, the 2 shogunate army that set off from Osaka to take the oath, only a few thousand people ran out in the end-according to the records of the Maori family, they beheaded more than [-] people and captured more than [-] prisoners that day. .In addition to the thousands of people who successfully fled back to Osaka, there are still [-] shogunate troops whose whereabouts are unknown. It is estimated that they all went to nowhere on the way... and the retainer group left by Ieyasu Daimoku to the Tokugawa clan was also lost. More than half.

Such a heart-wrenching and embarrassing defeat seems to have never happened in the history of the Tokugawa family. It is compared by the world to the battle of the Takeda family in the warring state.At that time, the second-generation general "Dayusho" Tokugawa Hidetada, who had retired at that time, vomited three liters of blood on the spot after hearing the news, and was furious to death.

Since then, Japan has ended the dual political tradition in which the emperor listens to the emperor, Kanbai listens to the Taiko, and the shogun listens to the Great Imperial Palace since the Heian period.In fear and confusion, General Tokugawa Iemitsu, bearing the reputation of "prodigal son" and "faint king", began his career of monopolizing power - but at this time the situation of the Tokugawa family was really bad. Almost completely lost, prestige and deterrence also plummeted in an avalanche, but the Maori army, which won a complete victory, was arrogant and high-spirited. According to his pessimistic calculations, if the Changzhou Army attacked on a large scale, all feudal vassals in the Western Kingdom would probably defect to the Shogunate. It's time.

Fortunately, the war situation at that time did not develop to such a sad level-the Maori family seemed to be very aware of their limited strength, and had no intention of protracting the war, but showed the demeanor of a mature politician. Released all the captives of the shogunate army, and at the same time took advantage of the victory to propose a reasonable, well-founded, and restrained peace agreement...In the context of the shogunate army suffering a devastating defeat and all the feudal vassals in the world at the time, in order to prevent The Choshu clan repented, and the Tokugawa shogunate signed an armistice treaty almost impatiently, restoring peace to Japan again.

When the war subsided and the situation initially returned to calm, General Tokugawa Iemitsu, who had returned from a major defeat, was determined to strengthen military construction no matter what. "8 Banners", but in fact, the total number of Banner warriors and imperial family members is less than [-], and it is necessary to count the agricultural and soldier ashigaru to get about [-] people.This time, tens of thousands of farmers and soldiers and thousands of samurai were lost in Changzhou Fan in one breath, and even the backbone was really broken.If we don't rearrange our armaments again, do we have to wait for the tide to fall?
But although the determination has been unified, how to raise funds is still a big problem - since ancient times, wars have been burning money. This time, tens of thousands of people were mobilized for the battle of the long march, and the shogunate's inventory had already been emptied. .Next, in order to negotiate a truce with the Changzhou Domain, the Tokugawa family had to cede several shogunate territories in Kansai. The family took it back, and the attitude of the rest of the vassals towards the general was not as good as before, which made the fiscal revenue of the shogunate fall year after year.

By last year (1630), another important source of income for the shogunate, the Gold Mountain on Sado Island was attacked by pirates again, and the mined gold disappeared without a trace, along with almost all miners and supervisors. According to several insane survivors The author claimed that it was a few incredible large iron ships and a group of strangely dressed ghosts who ransacked Sado Island... Naturally, no one would believe such crazy words, but it is an indisputable fact that the shogunate's finances were hit hard again.In short, the Tokugawa shogunate struggled for two years after the war before trying their best to raise funds for rearmament.

However, just having money is not enough. The Tokugawa family also needs more powerful arms and modernized combat models.

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Through the personal experience of the fiasco of the "Long War", General Tokugawa Iemitsu has fully realized that there is a desperate difference in combat effectiveness between the traditional feudal army of the Tokugawa shogunate and the new Changzhou army of the Maori family. ——Except for a few professional banner samurai, most of the soldiers of the shogunate army were assembled hastily before the battle.But before the outbreak of the Zhenglong War, Japan had not fought a war for a whole generation, so unlike the ashigaru peasants and soldiers who were used to fighting in the Warring States Period, today's shogunate army ashigaru has never killed anyone. They are peasants, and they have never received any decent military training. Their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of Ming Dynasty military households, and their performance on the battlefield is naturally conceivable.

And the banner warriors supported by the shogunate, although they are indeed professional soldiers who have practiced swordsmanship all their lives, most of the martial arts they practice are only useful in individual combat, and there is a serious lack of training in coordinated combat—just imagine , the "Shinsengumi" at the end of the Bakumatsu had excellent swordsmanship, and they were very good as security police, but if they were to fight against the regular army, how could the loose style that only emphasized personal martial arts work?

What's worse, except for a few old men, most of them, even the banner warriors, have never seen a battlefield, and most of them only have the experience of fighting in taverns.Compared with the Changzhou new army who followed the generals of the Ming Dynasty to train in battle, fought with Jurchen Jiannu and Southern Fujian pirates many times, and witnessed many big scenes, it is the difference between a rabbit and a hungry wolf—even In single-handed combat, the Banner Samurai also can't beat their opponents!
In addition, the Changzhou Army has been equipped with a large number of metal breastplates, new muskets, fortress guns and field guns, which can be arranged into a fairly neat army formation.The shogunate army is still using weapons left over from the Warring States period. Most of them have no armor, and the number of artillery is pitifully small, and the quality is worse than that of the Koreans. Just like this, they dare to boast of "the collapse of the country".On the battlefield, a considerable number of inexperienced shogunate soldiers really regarded the war as a large-scale gang fight: it has been this year, and there are still people who want to "fight with the enemy" (generals singled out )of!

Such an all-round backwardness is simply desperate, but no matter how desperate, the shogunate must seize this fleeting precious time and try to pull out an elite team that can compete head-on with the Changzhou Fan The new army - otherwise the world of the Tokugawa family will be over!

In view of the fact that the Changzhou Fan has obviously received strong support from the Ming government (in order to "hold the Ming Dynasty with self-respect", the Changzhou Fan has carried out exaggerated propaganda in Japan to intimidate opponents from all walks of life), General Tokugawa Iemitsu turned to ask With the help of the "Southern Barbarians", a huge order for artillery and military instructors was placed with the Dutch.Sure enough, the Dutch did not disappoint the general's high expectations, and soon sent a large number of powerful artillery and dozens of experienced military instructors.And the iron cannon craftsmen of the shogunate, under the heavy reward, successfully made a batch of flintlock guns by combining some of the captured objects.

Therefore, with the full support of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogunate successfully formed a new modernization army with a total strength of 5000. A series of fresh tricks such as artillery tactics have been learned well.The various classic European battle examples explained by the Dutch instructors in the classroom also gave the ignorant Japanese samurai a refreshing feeling.

All in all, through the above-mentioned efforts, the shogunate army finally gradually began to change from the army of the feudal era to the army of modernization.

However, this kind of peace-of-mind military and martial arts days did not last long, and a series of unexpected accidents forced General Tokugawa Iemitsu to hastily mobilize this "prototype" of a modernized army that had not yet completed training, An army pulled into the battlefield ahead of schedule:

In the spring and summer of this year, Changzhou Fan, which had basically digested the fruits of the last victory, finally started a new round of large-scale military expansion. Island invasion (from the point of view of the Tokugawa shogunate, each has its own idea as to who is in charge), defeated and subdued Shimadzu, the Satsuma domain known as "the most powerful soldier in Kyushu" in one fell swoop. Home!

This bad news shocked the entire Tokugawa shogunate—since the failure of Kanei’s three-year conquest war and the devastating blow to the troops directly under it, the Tokugawa shogunate’s deterrence against the vassal states west of Kyoto has shrunk greatly. It is already difficult to get out of Osaka, so we can only sit back and watch the Changzhou domain gradually expand in the Western Kingdom, annex and subdue the Kansai domains through various civil and military means, and gradually restore the prosperous territory of the Maori family at the end of the Warring States Period.

According to the views of the important ministers of the shogunate, the reason why the Maori family has not sent troops to Beijing to "Shangluo" to realize the dream of their ancestor Maoli Yuanzuo The ambition is mainly because there are a series of powerful feudal clans such as Satsuma, Fukuoka, Higo, and Saga in Kyushu, and Tosa in Shikoku.If when the Maori family dispatched all-powerful soldiers to fight against the shogunate in Kinki, these vassal states were persuaded by the shogunate to take advantage of it and stabbed the Changzhou clan in the back, then the Maori family's hegemony was in danger of collapse in an instant.

Therefore, before the Changzhou domain and the shogunate start another contest, the Maori family must first clarify the backyard of the West Country to ensure a safe future.In particular, the Shimadzu family of the Satsuma clan that ruled Southern Kyushu since the Heian period is the number one opponent of the Maori clan to dominate the Western Kingdom. Tokugawa Iemitsu originally thought that although the strength of the Choshu clan has increased dramatically recently, the Satsuma clan is by no means weak Therefore, the battle between Changzhou and Satsuma is bound to be protracted.Unexpectedly, the Ming Kingdom broke the promise of listing Japan as a country not to be conquered this time, and personally sent troops to the East (when they were crusade against Japan, Huangshi still held the banner of the Great Ming Funing Army), and dispatched their most skilled legendary generals and The most elite army of hundreds of battles, crossing the sea to assist Changzhou Fan in the attack on Satsuma!After such a heavy bargaining chip was bet on the side of the Changzhou Army, even the Satsuma warriors of the Shimadzu family were still defeated no matter how tough they were, and they had to surrender to the Mori family.

And the rest of the feudal clans on Kyushu Island were even more frightened when they heard the news, and they secretly sent envoys to the Maori family to surrender, and they were about to betray the Tokugawa shogunate!

As a result, not only the shogunate's strongholds in Nagasaki and Hirado in the West Country have been left alone behind the enemy, but even Kyoto and Osaka are in danger!

——What's even more frightening is that, according to gossip from Kyoto, even some court ministers seem to have signs of "secretly communicating with Changzhou"...

This news made Tokugawa Iemitsu feel like he was sitting on pins and needles: he clearly remembered how the Great General Ashikaga Takashi who founded the Muromachi Shogunate and the "Military God of the Southern Dynasty" Masanari Kusuki used the imperial decree of the emperor and the influence of the ministers to set off a vigorous national movement in one fell swoop. The frenzy of sexual collapse and the defeat of the Kamakura shogunate in a very short period of time.Today's Changzhou Fan is difficult enough to deal with, not to mention that there is a giant like the Ming Dynasty behind it. If the imperial court also makes trouble for the Edo Shogunate and grants the Maori family the righteous name of falling down...the consequences will be unimaginable ah!
Therefore, in order to stabilize the situation in Kinki and deter the imperial court from changing, Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to mobilize the Tokugawa clan and the shogunate in Kanto at the end of October this year, regardless of the fact that the new army had not yet been trained. Show the imperial court and princes the force of the shogunate——as a result, due to hasty mobilization and inadequate planning, the entire marching team broke into several pieces as they walked. The traditional old army and the coalition forces of various vassals are still slowly dawdling along the Tōkaidō, and several soldiers who are pro-fans have not even crossed Mount Fuji...

Then, Tokugawa Iemitsu had just held a small-scale military parade in the outskirts of Kyoto, pulling the painstakingly built new shogunate army to make a debut in front of the Kyoto minister, and received urgent reports from Osaka that foreign pirates attacked Sakai Port. Report... Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't worry too much at first, but felt that this group of foreign pirates was the target of the new shogunate's first battle, and used their heads to prove that the swords of the Edo shogunate were still sharp.

Therefore, General Tokugawa Iemitsu stayed in Kyoto to prepare to meet the emperor, and dispatched his most trusted half-brother Hoshina Masayuki as the general, with 2000 new shogunate troops and [-] newly arrived samurai and pro-vassal troops. A total of [-] people rushed to Sakai Port in mighty force.

However, what General Tokugawa Iemitsu did not know was that the so-called "foreign pirates" who attacked Sakai Port were actually the "grain requisition team" of the Far East Company in Vladivostok. The advanced "semi-modern" new army of the shogunate in the seventh century collided head-on with the twentieth-century Soviet imperial war weapon in an unobstructed snow-covered wilderness:

Japan Anzhai Ship, Kohaya Ship VS Crocodile Class Landing Ship;

Early flintlock and arquebus VS Deshka anti-aircraft machine gun, AK47 automatic rifle, PK machine gun;

Bronze front-mounted field smoothbore gun VS Soviet 122mm howitzer, RPG rocket launcher and Chinese "civilian" rocket launcher;

Musketeers, Lancers VS various types of Russian and homemade armored vehicles;
……

——In such a desperate comparison, the result of this battle is obviously self-evident: [-] new shogunate troops suffered a devastating blow on the outskirts of Sakai Port, and the remaining [-] old-style troops fled without a fight. Masayuki Hoshina was defeated and killed, and most of the Dutch instructors were blown to nothing...

When Tokugawa Iemitsu finally learned of the unbelievably bad news and rushed to Osaka to supervise the battle, all he could see were the corpses everywhere on the outskirts of Sakai Port and the rubble everywhere in the city—that After the "pirates" easily wiped out the shogunate army, they emptied the warehouses and warehouses in Sakai Port at a very fast speed, kidnapped the remaining residents, set a big fire in the market, and then sailed away up.

Therefore, while bearing the grief of losing his brother, General Iemitsu Tokugawa felt mentally broken by the unbelievable content of the battle report: "...a large iron ship floating on the water? A sharp firearm that rots for dozens of miles in one shot? A big iron cart that can run fast without being pulled by a cow or horse? What are these things? Could it be that we are fighting monsters? Huh? A big iron ship? Why is it similar to what happened on Sado Island last year..."

But the above-mentioned questions are no longer important. What really matters is that the Tokugawa shogunate was caught off guard and suffered another devastating military defeat... Next, the shogunate, with this demoralized broken Military strength, how to resist the battle of Shangluo that the Changzhou Fan may launch, and how to suppress the dissident princes from all over the world have all become unsolvable problems.Thinking of this, Tokugawa Iemitsu finally couldn't help crying, "...God! Why do you punish my Iemitsu like this? Is it true that my Tokugawa family will die for three generations?!"

When the ministers heard the sound and saw the general crying so sadly, they all felt something in their hearts, and all of them burst into tears for a while, sobbing uncontrollably.

However, the bad news for the Edo shogunate of the Tokugawa family is the good news for the Maori Nagashu Domain.Therefore, when the shogunate army in Osaka City was gloomy and mourning, the Maori family of the Changzhou Domain was full of ambition and smiling...