Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

In an instant, the warships were blown to pieces, flames shot up into the sky, thick smoke billowed, the hulls shattered in violent tremors, and debris flew everywhere, as if the end of the world had come.

Such terrifying power made Yamamoto Jusan gasp.

He stared at the tragic scene in front of him with wide eyes, secretly thanking his luck that he did not become the target of these shells.

At the same time, he was deeply aware that this war was doomed to fail for the Tokugawa shogunate. Faced with such powerful weapons, no one could compete.

At this moment, under the fierce bombardment of artillery fire, the Izu Navy was completely unable to resist. Their warships were destroyed one after another, and the soldiers were terrified and fled in all directions. The fleet, which had been so aggressive and arrogant, was instantly in chaos and had no power to fight back.

At this moment, some warships of the Izu Navy raised white flags, indicating their willingness to surrender.

"Brother Wei, they raised the white flag and surrendered!" Mao Shiba shouted.

"You only know how to surrender now? What were you doing before! If you don't accept your surrender, bombard them hard and keep bombarding them. Bomb all the warships into pieces!" Wei Xiaobao shouted.

The huge naval guns spewed out merciless and blazing flames, and the shells seemed to carry endless anger, smashing towards the Izu Navy fleet like meteors.

In an instant, the sound of explosions resounded through the sky, and the huge waves caused the warships to capsize one after another. The Izu sailors fell into the water like helpless fallen leaves, and were then violently blown into the sky by the subsequent artillery shells.

The entire sea surface was dyed blood red, and miserable wails and cries for help were heard everywhere.

In less than a quarter of an hour, no intact warship survived on the turbulent sea.

When the ship's guns stopped attacking, nature's "corpse collection team" - all kinds of huge sharks, swarmed in impatiently and came to this tragic battlefield.

The cruel and inhumane scene that just happened at Hulukou was repeated here again.

However, Wei Xiaobao was only concerned about how to get to Edo Castle as soon as possible to rescue his father-in-law, and had no time to care about the ghosts and wolves howling in the Izu Navy! For him, these were irrelevant.

Although the Edo Navy had turned around to defend Yokosuka Port, the distance was relatively short and a quarter of an hour did not allow them to go too far.

At this moment, everyone's face was filled with horror. They witnessed the destruction of the Izu Navy with their own eyes.

This scene deeply shook their hearts. Not only did they feel shocked at the powerful strength of the Heaven and Earth Alliance, but they also secretly felt fortunate that Yamamoto Jusan had made the wise decision to surrender.

Yamamoto Jusan was accompanying Wei Xiaobao and Princess Lingzhao, and his heart was also filled with horror.

Although he had experienced a similar scene in Hulukou before, when he once again felt the deafening sound of artillery fire and the smoke that covered the sky, he was overwhelmed with admiration for the powerful force of the Heaven and Earth Alliance.

Now that there were no obstacles at sea, the naval fleet accelerated at full speed and rushed towards Edo Castle deep in Tokyo Bay.

After entering the Puga Channel, as long as you pass through the narrow Hulukou, the sea surface will gradually become wider. The artillery batteries that originally stood on both sides of the strait have now been replaced by towering beacon towers.

These forts and beacon towers were not under the jurisdiction of the Edo Navy; they were directly under the command of the Minister of Water Affairs.

However, just as the Edo navy hoisted the white flag to express surrender, billowing yellow smoke rose from the beacon tower on the shore.

In ancient times, there were two ways of using smoke alarms on beacon towers. One was to release black smoke when a powerful enemy was attacking, which was the so-called wolf smoke; the other was to release yellow smoke, indicating that the battle had been defeated.

Yellow smoke is usually produced when air-dried mugwort is ignited (the smoke produced when burning mugwort contains a variety of ingredients, such as ammonia, ethanol, ethylene glycol, acetic acid, acetamide, propionic acid, cyclohexene, methylfuran, etc., which have the effect of disinfection and sterilization).

At this moment, the Izu Navy had been completely wiped out, and the yellow smoke on the shore became thicker and thicker.

In Edo Castle, the Minister of Water Affairs, Masamizu Oda, who had been closely following the progress of the war in the front, had already learned the news of the defeat of the navy in the front through the signals transmitted from the beacon tower. Now Edo Castle is facing a huge crisis!

Before leaving, Tokugawa Koyasu had specifically instructed that if the Heaven and Earth Alliance launched an attack from the sea and the navy was defeated, then the city should be abandoned immediately and the Emperor and his family should flee to Kyoto.

Masamizu Yuda knew that this was a matter of life and death, and he dared not neglect it. Since he had a response plan, he immediately activated it without hesitation.

Before he even saw the silhouette of the Heaven and Earth Alliance, he hurriedly took the Emperor and his family and fled the city that was about to fall.

An hour later, the naval fleet passed through Tokyo Port and arrived directly at Edo Castle.

The Edo Castle dock was originally a busy civilian dock. It was at this dock that Wei Xiaobao boarded the 102 ship and returned to Osumi last time.

However, due to the war, the dock has lost its former prosperity. There are only a few cargo ships moored there, and the dock is deserted, with not even a single person to be seen, let alone a single soldier.

After careful observation, the lookout on the mast signaled safety downwards, and the fleet entered the port berth smoothly.

As soon as the ship dropped anchor, Princess Lingzhao couldn't wait to get off the ship and rushed towards Edo Castle.

Seeing this, Wei Xiaobao, Su Quan, Shuang'er and He Tishou hurriedly followed.

However, the captain of the imperial guard, Shan Zuo Aben, and the captain of the security guard, Zhu Youli, suddenly panicked.

After all, the enemy situation in the city was still unclear, but the commanders actually rushed into the city first. This tactic was really confusing!

At this moment they have no time to care about other things. Protecting the safety of the commander and the princess is the top priority!

So the two of them immediately ordered their soldiers to dress lightly and quickly follow them.

Ling Zhao was extremely anxious at the moment. He hurriedly used his true energy to rush to the front, as if he wanted to leave all his troubles behind.

Wei Xiaobao and others did not dare to slack off and followed closely behind.

They knew that if they encountered enemy troops in Edo Castle, they would not be afraid, because they believed in their own strength and knew that as long as the enemy did not have an army of tens of thousands, they should be able to deal with it easily.

They can move freely in the enemy camp like the wind, kill countless enemies, and then leave in style.

Of course, this was only the worst-case scenario. They hoped to pass through Edo Castle smoothly without clashing with the enemy. After all, rescuing people from the Tokugawa Shogunate was their top priority.