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Chapter 1056
The temporary gathering place of the shogunate ministers, daimyo, and banner heard the sound of artillery caused by the refugees attacking the granary, and they were rarely worried because of their high status.The competition for the granary is related to whether they can fill their stomachs.No matter how high your status is, you still have to eat.

"Hotita-kun's military talent is pretty good. He should be able to defeat the rioters with 2000 people." Tadaaki Abe trusted the ability of fellow veteran Masamori Hotta.

Tokugawa Iemitsu went out in person, and several of their important ministers were going to support the situation in Edo Castle. The fire at Honmyoji Temple was already their fault. In the future, I will face Tokugawa Iemitsu without face.

The sound of artillery from Asakusa lasted for more than an hour before it gradually subsided.

"It seems that Hotta-kun has repelled the rioters and protected our granary!" Until this time, the daimyo and Hatakemoto who listened to the movement of the Asakusa granary were relieved, thinking that Masamori Hotta had defeated the rebels .

"Dawn is about to break before we know it. Let's go to bed quickly. We haven't had a good rest for several days." Seeing that the sound of the artillery subsided, many daimyos and bannermen relaxed their vigilance. They could finally sleep peacefully after being tossed around midnight.

However, in the early morning of the next day, when they woke up again to the sound of gunfire, they were already surrounded by rebels.

Twenty thousand rebels gathered around the temporary gathering place, and they surrounded the temporary gathering place.In addition to the Huaxia Society headed by Tanaka Chengichi, there were also samurai led by Hatakemoto, such as Ono Taro, standing by and watching.

"This... what's going on here... why are we surrounded!? Could it be that Masamori Hotta was defeated by the rioters last night!?" Many daimyos and samurai who had just woken up didn't understand what was going on. full of confusion.

The flags of the rebels were planted everywhere on the surrounding buildings and high ground, and the rebels dressed in coarse cloth held flintlock guns, matchlock guns, and samurai swords captured from the samurai in their hands.

"You have been surrounded by the members of our Huaxia Association. Put down your weapons and surrender to us, and we will deal with you leniently!" The Huaxia Association sent representatives to persuade the surrounded daimyos to surrender.

"The hateful people actually want our noble warriors to surrender. We would rather die than surrender!" The surrounded warriors were furious.

"How many troops do we have?!" Abe Zhongqiu saw that after the darkness was lifted, his group was surrounded by rebels, and the most urgent thing to do was to see how many available soldiers he had.

"There are still about [-] available soldiers. All our warriors and children can go to the battlefield. We are willing to fight to the death rather than make peace with the common people!" Aoyama Xingcheng and other daimyos said one after another.

In their view, it was shameful for a noble warrior to surrender to a peasant.

"Who should lead us to fight against the rebels?" Many big names looked around among their crowd, wanting to find someone with rich combat experience to lead them to break through the siege of the rebel army.

"Senior Date Masamune is here too, with Senior Date Masamune leading us, we can definitely defeat the rebels!" A daimyo proposed to let Date Masamune, the Ouyu daimyo during the Warring States Period, lead them to fight.

"Date Masamune-sama lives in seclusion in Edo Castle, among us."

Many daimyos and bannermen searched for Date Masamune among the crowd, and finally found the calm old hero.At this time, Date Masamune was nearly seventy years old, with gray hair and only one eye.

"I'm already dying. I can't even see clearly. I'm afraid I won't be able to wear armor anymore." The aged Date Masamune said helplessly.

Even a generation of heroes can't compete with time, he is no longer the ambitious northeastern daimyo of the past.In fact his life was coming to an end.

"What should we do, Date Masamune-sama can't lead us out, who else can save us?" The daimyo and Hatakemoto found out that the Sengoku daimyos passed away, old and old, almost all the daimyos present were the second generation or even the third generation and the fourth generation , the old era of force is moving away.

"If you can trust me, Tadakatsu Sakai, then I will lead you to take back control of our Edo Castle..." Tadakatsu Sakai stood up when everyone was at a loss and took the initiative to obtain the title of the last shogunate samurai in Edo Castle. Sovereignty.

Tanaka Chengyi led the rebel army to besiege the group of daimyos and banners. Seeing that the victory was in sight, he was a little impatient: "Send someone to persuade them to surrender again. If they don't surrender, we will conquer them by force."

"Ministers and samurai of the shogunate, we are the Huaxia Society and the Edo Peasant Justice Army. You have been surrounded by us! Our president will give you a little more time to think about it. If you don't surrender and accept the trial, we will use Launch a strong attack by force." The representatives of the Huaxia Society once again issued an ultimatum to the besieged daimyos and bannermen.

However, the besieged daimyo and bannermen are the core interest groups of the shogunate, and they do not intend to surrender Tanaka Chengichi easily and lose everything they have.

They took advantage of the time of the ultimatum to count weapons and organize queues for the final resistance.

Ono Taro, who had long been serving the Kyushu Army in secret, led a group of Banners who were also bought by the Intelligence Department to stand by. An official from the Kyushu Army's military department appeared in front of this group of Banners at some point.

"Master Zhang Yuan, as long as you give an order, we can immediately attack the besieged shogunate army." Ono Taro said respectfully to Zhang Yuan sent by the Kyushu Army.

"In the beginning of this final decisive battle, we just need to stand by and watch." Zhang Yuan was sent to supervise the affairs here, leading the bannermen who had defected to the Kyushu Army.

Over the past few years, the ubiquitous intelligence office has infiltrated the loose samurai system, and a group of middle and lower-level bannermen and samurai were bought. They betrayed the shogunate at a critical moment and planned to support a new government.

Now there are three forces involved in the overthrow of the shogunate, the most powerful daimyo, followed by the Huaxia Society and the pro-China faction.

"Without our intervention in the battlefield, those peasants and refugees would probably be defeated by the last samurai in Edo." Taro Ono didn't trust the rebel army led by Tanaka Chengichi and others.

If the battle for the granary hadn't been for Ono Taro and others' betrayal, Tanaka Chengichi would not have been able to retake the granary.

"The purpose of their rebel army is to defeat the samurai of the shogunate. If you rush into the battlefield at this time, it will become a civil war between the samurai of the shogunate. In this way, the rebel army will be greatly disappointed and lose the goal of the struggle. Sometimes war can't just look at Win or lose." Zhang Yuan said.

(End of this chapter)