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Whoosh!

With the sound of flapping wings, a hawk glided over Edo.

Under it, the huge Edo was stained with blood and fire!

Edo was burning!

The flames flickered, and there were guns and swords everywhere! Countless lives were lost in the battle!

From south to north; from open streets to narrow alleys... Figures ran quickly and collided violently!

Battlefields were everywhere!

Soldiers from both armies could be seen fighting each other everywhere!

"Come quickly! There are enemy troops here!"

"The running dogs of the shogunate! Go to hell!"

"You are just Westerners, stop being so arrogant! When it comes to bravery, when we Bando warriors were expanding our territory, you didn't even know where to put on your loincloths!"

"They are attacking!"

"Ura!" (Russian)

"Throw away the iron cannon! This thing is useless! Draw your sword quickly!"

"Nanny! Nanny!"

"Wait, wait! I surrender! Surrender! I don't want to fight at all! It's the tree... wait, wait! Don't kill me! Don't kill... Gu!"

...

Sure enough, the direct officers made a fool of themselves again.

Facing the wolf-like and tiger-like Faqi coalition, they started to lose their composure just by seeing the enemy soldiers from a distance before they even started fighting.

There are only a handful of direct officers who can really show courage, remember that they are samurai, and dare to fight and kill.

Most people lost their courage and fighting spirit instantly when they saw the approaching enemy soldiers and the spurting blood, and fled in panic.

Many people accidentally ran into the fire or plunged into the enemy's formation when they fled in panic, and died in a funny way.

Die quickly to reduce the number of termites - this should be the last contribution they can make.

In the end, everything was as expected by Tokugawa Iemochi and Katsurintaro - only a few troops such as the Kobu Army and the Fire Thieves Kai were useful.

Because he expected that the direct officers would be useless, Katsurintaro specially separated this group of waste from those troops who could fight and dare to fight.

Let the former guard some unimportant positions to consume the enemy's weapons, ammunition and spirit, and deploy the latter in strategic locations.

The strategic location of Edo... In addition to the highlands such as Atagoyama and Gotenyama, it must be the "36 Mitsuke"!

In order to defend Edo Castle, many gates were set up inside and outside the castle, generally referred to as the "36-mitsuke", but the actual number of gates is actually much greater.

The gates are all located in strategic locations.

For example -

Sujibashi Gate near Nakasendo.

Kokibashi Gate near Tokaido.

Yotsuya Gate near Koshu Road.

Asakusa Bridge Gate near Nikko Road.

And so on and so forth, there are countless.

Unlike Chinese gates, Japanese gates do not pursue height and solidity, but are designed with the idea of ​​"making the enemy feel sick"!

The gates in these strategic locations are all double-layered.

The so-called "桝-shaped gate" is a specially designed gate, mainly used for military defense and urban defense.

Its characteristic is that the door opening is designed in a square, that is, an arc shape, with multiple right-angle turns, which can effectively prevent the enemy from passing.

A square gate usually has a double-layer structure, with the outer side being the Goryeo Gate and the inner side being the Toya Gate.

This design makes the enemy have to turn a right angle after entering the Goryeo Gate to attack the inner Dulu Gate, thus increasing the level and complexity of defense.

You have to turn a right angle to attack the next gate... It is easy to imagine that such a design will inevitably frustrate the enemy's charge momentum, and it is very easy to cause congestion among the enemy, with a large number of people squeezed between the first gate (Goryeo Gate) and the second gate (Dulu Gate), like a traffic jam.

While the enemy is congested, the defenders guarding the Dulu Gate can leisurely pour down bullets, arrows, stones, boiling feces... causing great damage to the enemy.

Because of this construction idea of ​​"making the enemy feel particularly uncomfortable and disgusting", the "Sanshiliu Jianfu" is not a tall and majestic city gate.

At first glance, it looks like a large courtyard gate, and you can climb over it with a ladder.

But it is not easy to take down these city gates!

Similar construction ideas are implemented in the ancient Japanese city defense system.

The ancient Chinese city defense system is based on the city wall as the core, and then a series of defense facilities such as moats, urns, and watchtowers are built around the city wall.

Once the city wall is breached, the city is basically lost.

This is not the case in ancient Japan.

Although ancient Japanese architects also built tall city walls and bottomless moats, they are more keen to make the interior of the city extremely complex!

The typical representative is Edo Castle.

Edo Castle is a "の"-shaped structure, like a mosquito coil, and is divided into Honmaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru and other areas.

If you want to attack the Honmaru where the Shogun is, you must successively penetrate San-no-maru and Ninomaru...

Along the way, there are traps everywhere that are hard to defend, high walls that are difficult to cross, and steep slopes that can only be crossed under the barrage of bullets and rain of arrows from the defenders...

In other words, even if you cross the moat outside Edo Castle and break through the walls of Edo Castle, it does not mean that the battle is over and everything is fine.

Rather, it is only after entering Edo Castle that the real siege officially begins!

Regarding how to defend Edo, Katsurintaro has a very clear idea.

He knows very well that with the little combat power he currently has, it is not enough to repel the enemy.

Therefore, his core strategy can be summarized in one word - "endure"!

Endure until Aoto leads the Shinsengumi to come to the rescue!

As long as the Shinsengumi launches a counterattack, everything will be fine.

Due to the primitive and backward means of communication, the people of Edo, including Tokugawa Iemochi and Tenshoin, are still unaware of the specific movements of Aoto and his Shinsengumi.

Not knowing when the reinforcements will come... There is nothing more tormenting in the world than this.

In any case, the Shinsengumi's support is their only hope of victory.

In order to block the enemy to the maximum extent, Katsurintaro carefully set up two lines of defense.

The first line of defense is "Sanjuroku-mitsuke".

As for the second line of defense, it is Edo Castle itself.

It is said to be two lines of defense, but in fact, the former is the core!

Katsurintaro's city defense idea is very simple. In a nutshell - other places in Edo can be lost, but "Sanjuroku-mitsuke" cannot be lost!

Once "Sanjuroku-mitsuke" is lost, the enemy can break into Edo Castle in one breath!

If we start a war in Edo Castle... then it will be a bloody battle with no way out!

Although Edo Castle is a famous castle with the best defense capability, there are too many variables if we start a war in the castle, and Katsurintaro dare not take risks.

Therefore, he tried his best to avoid starting a war in Edo Castle and tried to defend the enemy outside the city gates.

He deployed heavy troops at the "Sanjuku Mitsuke", using these city gates as the victory and defeat points of this battle, and countless elite soldiers and generals gathered here.

Defend the "Sanjuku Mitsuke", and the shogunate wins.

"Sanjuku Mitsuke" is lost, and the Fuchi coalition wins.

Simple and clear battle!

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Edo, Yotsuya Gate——

After Shinjuku was breached, Yotsuya was the first to bear the brunt.

And Yotsuya is where Yotsuya Gate is located.

Katsurintaro deployed 200 elite soldiers here.

They held their breath, their expressions solemn, holding their weapons tightly, not even daring to breathe, staring straight ahead, staring outside the city gate.

In a moment, right in front of Yotsuya Gate, enemy soldiers turned the corner and rushed into the center of the street!

In just a blink of an eye, they turned into a surging wave, carrying a terrifying momentum, and rushed straight to Yotsuya Gate!

"They are coming!"

"Damn it! What are those guys guarding Shinjuku doing! How did the enemy soldiers leak in so quickly!"

"Don't worry about it! Get ready to meet the enemy!"

"Raise your gun!"

"Draw your bow!"

Above the city gate, a musket stuck out from the shooting hole, and the black muzzle was aimed at the approaching enemy.

At the same time, behind the musketeers were archers who drew their bows and pointed their bows to the sky, ready to shoot upward.

When the enemy approached, with an order, the barrage and rain of arrows shot out!

In an instant, scarlet blood sprayed out with hot steam, and wailing and screaming were heard immediately.

The enemy soldiers in the front row fell down like mowing grass, and more than ten people fell.

However... this fierce attack failed to curb the enemy's momentum.

They stepped over their fallen companions and continued to run towards Shijo Gate with undiminished speed and momentum.

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Taking advantage of the gap when the musketeers and archers on the city gate were busy loading bullets and nodding arrows, they closed the distance in one breath and advanced to the bottom of the city gate.

Then, they raised their hands high, and in a "you pass me, I pass him" way, let a bunch of long ladders pass over their heads, transported from the back to the front, and then put these long ladders on the city gate.

Long before defeating the Thousands of Hearts, Shuten Douji had already seen through Katsurintaro's strategic intentions.

He knew that Katsurintaro would focus on strengthening the defense of "Sanjuroku-mitsuke" as the key to the victory of this battle, and try to hold on until the Shinsengumi came to help - if he were to command this battle, he would do the same.

So, on the way to Edo, he specially organized a group of people to race against time to make long ladders for attacking "Sanjuroku-mitsuke".

Because the city gate was not high, the long ladders could easily reach the top of the city gate by raising them.

Soon, the enemy soldiers set up the long ladders.

Then, they climbed up along these long ladders like ants.

"Go up!" (Russian)

"Kill them all!" (Russian)

Seeing the enemy soldiers climbing up, the musketeers and archers moved back, and the swordsmen with katana came forward.

A hand-to-hand fight on top of the city gate... This is exactly what they want!

In the vast wilderness, katana is of little use.

If it were a narrow area, the situation would be very different.

The space above the city gate is very small, which is just right for them to swing their swords!

Many soldiers in the garrison have learned swordsmanship since childhood.

They are full of thoughts of using their swordsmanship skills to smash the heads of the enemy soldiers and give them a head-on blow.

However... when the enemy soldiers appeared in front of them and the two sides started fighting, they were horrified to find that they were like the tide hitting the reefs - the next moment of the collision, they were smashed to pieces!

The enemy soldiers were extremely brave and their fighting will was particularly tenacious!

Some enemy soldiers fought one against five, not only did they not lose the upper hand, but also showed signs of counterattack.

Some enemy soldiers were stabbed several times and bled all over their bodies, but they continued to fight as if nothing had happened.

Some enemy soldiers killed several people in a row, and became more and more courageous as they fought. Their facial expressions were dominated by strong excitement, without any signs of fatigue.

If only a few people are like this, then that's it.

But all enemy soldiers are like this...anyone will feel something is wrong.

"Be careful! These guys are very strong!"

"Damn it! Stop them!"

"Damn! How can we lose to these barbarians?!"

"Hey! Don't you always brag that you have the catalog license of Beichen Yidao style? How come you can't even kill an enemy soldier?!"

"Stop talking nonsense! I've tried my best!"

The powerful enemy and huge pressure caused the city gate defenders to become chaotic.

They completely misjudged the enemy's combat effectiveness.

Can't blame them.

After all, they don't know the existence of the evil thing "Decisive Lake"!

Before the attack on Edo, no matter which battle it was - whether it was the attack on Nagoya or the offensive and defensive battle of Hachioji - Shuten Douji did not use the "Decisive Battle of Yodo" and always hid it in the snow.

The purpose was to give the Edo defenders a "surprise"!

The purpose is to allow the soldiers to be in the best condition to capture Edo!

If "Decisive Battle of Yodo" is used in advance, the soldiers will definitely be unable to participate in the subsequent battle due to the side effects.

Now that the matter has come to an end, there is no need to hide it anymore!

Just last night, the night before the war started, Shuten Doji distributed "Decisive Battle of Yodo" to the entire army!

Katsura Kogoro wants to defeat the shogunate more than anyone else.

But... after all, he is not the kind of radical and unscrupulous person.

Deceiving his subordinates and making them take dangerous drugs without knowing anything about it... was not what he wanted.

Therefore, when distributing "Decisive Battle of Yodo", he specifically informed all the soldiers of the surprise team about its side effects.

Whether you take it or not depends entirely on your own will, and he will never force it.

As for the "Slavic Legion"... this is not his department, and he would not be able to interfere even if he wanted to.

Compared with Katsura Kogoro, Shuten Douji is not so conscientious.

Not only did he not inform the side effects of "Decisive Battle", but he also deceived the mercenaries of the "Slavic Legion": the side effects of this medicine are very small! You can take it with confidence!

Under Shuten Doji's deception...or rather under his inducement, almost all the Russian soldiers accepted the "Decisive Battle of Yodo"!

In this way, their combat effectiveness naturally increased linearly and became extremely terrifying!

Under the fierce attack of the enemy soldiers, the city gate defenders gradually became exhausted and began to retreat backwards.

Just like that, in just a moment, the first gate of the Yotsuya Gate (Goryeo Gate) fell!

The defenders retreated to the second city gate, Duolu Gate.

The first gate of Yotsuya Royal Gate was captured effortlessly, and the morale of the enemy army rose greatly.

On the other hand, the defenders... Every one of them was proud of themselves.

They didn't even have time to put up any decent resistance, and they were beaten to pieces... This was a huge blow to them.

Panic spread like a plague.

Affected by this, the order of the defenders has not been restored for a long time.

Even a layman can see that if this continues, they will never be able to stop the enemy's offensive!

If even the Wataru Gate is lost, then Yotsuya Mikado will be completely lost!

Not long after the war started, a big hole was made in the defense line of "Thirty-six Seeing Attachments"... Such a result would undoubtedly be disastrous.

In the midst of this panic, suddenly, an old male voice suddenly came from above the city gate of Dulumen and behind the defenders:

"...You all stand down."

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers couldn't help but be stunned. They all turned their heads and looked back following the sound - they saw an old man with a sword on his waist walking forward slowly and leisurely.

The soldiers did not recognize the old man, let alone what he wanted to do.

But intimidated by his fierce aura, they invariably separated to the left and right to make way.

The old man had no expression on his face and continued to move forward calmly, passing through the array of defenders and reaching the edge of the city gate. If he took another step forward, he would fall.

Then, he made a move that made the defenders present couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: he bent his knees slightly, leaped out, and jumped towards the enemy group below the city gate!

At this moment, someone in the defenders finally recognized him and shouted his name loudly:

"It's the 'Sword Master' Seiichiro Tanani!"

When the old man...that is, the male Tan Seiichiro fell straight down in mid-air, a shining silver snake popped out from his waist.

He pulled out the knife, raised it above his head, and used the momentum of his falling body to slash from the top of his head to his crotch, splitting an enemy soldier into two neat halves!

After his feet landed on the ground, he released his offensive almost non-stop.

I saw a silver light flashing in mid-air.

Horizontal chops, vertical chops, upward lifts, forward thrusts... In just a blink of an eye, all the enemy soldiers around him were killed, and a "vacuum zone" was created!

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PS: I'm in a bad state today. My head hurts and I really can't write. I'm so sorry... Could it be that I'm suffering from influenza A? It is said that the recent flu is very severe, everyone should pay more attention...