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Chapter 1057 Occupying Edo Castle

"Kill!" Edo City shouted "Four Banners of Killing". The rebels waved their banners and started a life-and-death duel with the last samurai of the shogunate.

Sakai Tadakatsu, Abe Tadaaki and other samurai were ashamed to surrender to the lowly peasants, and wanted to break out to the northeast.There are still many daimyos and bannermen who are loyal to the shogunate in the northeast.

"Ah!" A refugee screamed after being cut in the shoulder by a samurai sword.

Several samurai fight back to back, even if they face dozens of peasants and ronin at the same time, they will not fall behind.A group of warriors guarded their families and gradually broke through the blockade of [-] rebels.

"President, our army's defense line has been breached, and we can no longer besiege the samurai!" The leader who commanded the rebel army to surround the shogunate samurai anxiously reported to Tanaka Chengichi.

"I've seen it. Sure enough, the power of the people is strong, but they have never been on the battlefield, and there is no order. It is very difficult to defeat the warriors who have experienced battles... Hurry up and ask Master Zhang to let the defected banner go into battle. , cannot let the important ministers of the shogunate escape from Edo Castle!" Tanaka Chengyi has a deep understanding of the fighting power of his subordinates, although he also has no good impression of the group of defected shogunate flags like Taro Ono, but in order to eliminate Sakai Tadakatsu and other ministers loyal to the shogunate , Tanaka Chengyi had to turn to Taro Ono and others for help again.

Only people such as Ono Taro, who is also a samurai, can compete with the shogunate daimyo.

"Master Zhang Yuan, Huaxia will ask us for help, should we intervene in the battlefield?" Ono Taro and others are gearing up, eager to try.

They didn't sincerely want to help China defeat Sakai Tadakatsu and others, but wanted to make a contribution to the Kyushu Army.What they turned to was not Tanaka Chengyi's Huaxia Society. The Huaxia Society was purely a peasant army that Tanaka Chengyi had inadvertently grown.

"You can join the battlefield." Zhang Yuan had been observing the decisive battle between the rebel army and the shogunate samurai. When both sides were seriously injured, he ordered Ono Taro and other defected flags to enter the battlefield.

Taro Ono and others took up muskets and samurai swords one after another. In order to avoid accidental injury, they all tied red turbans on their foreheads, and they were called red turban warriors by themselves.

Many of Taro Ono and others are descendants of Chongwu's Banner. After they joined the battlefield, the balance of the war began to tilt towards the rebels.

"You hateful rebels, how dare you betray the shogunate that gave you samurai status!" Tadakatsu Sakai, who was in his 40s, beheaded several red scarf samurai one after another with a samurai sword.

Beside Tadakatsu Sakai, there are also a group of important shogunate ministers such as Abe Tadaaki and Aoyama Yukunari, who are almost the most powerful people below Tokugawa Iemitsu. However, at this moment they have to bite the bullet and fight in person to protect their honor.

One by one, the red scarf warriors and refugees died in the final battle of honor among the shogunate samurai, and the most tragic infighting and reshuffle broke out in Edo Castle.Among them, the rebel army, which lacked combat effectiveness, suffered the most losses in this battle, and some family members of the shogunate samurai who were unable to keep up with the large army were killed.

Zhang Yuan looked at this big reshuffle of Edo City indifferently, and was indifferent. He had seen a larger-scale massacre of the city during the peasant uprising in the Central Plains.The Central Plains has a large population, and every time a peasant uprising kills [-] million people, the peasant uprising that sweeps across the country may even result in the sacrifice of tens of millions of people. Compared with the Central Plains, the civil war here can only be said to be insignificant.

The tragic civil war lasted from the early morning when the shogunate samurai were surrounded until noon. The brave Sakai Tadakatsu had many wounds on his body, and was captured by the red scarf samurai due to lack of energy.

A group of ministers such as Aoyama Xingcheng and Banner were killed in the battle, and Abe Tadaaki was also captured by many farmers during the battle.The former hero Date Masamune was too old to fight and became a prisoner.

Because leaders such as Sakai Tadakatsu and Abe Tadaaki died or were captured, the remaining daimyo and samurai gave up their resistance one after another and surrendered to the rebels and red scarf samurai.

The Rebel Army and the Red Turban Warriors began to clean up the battlefield.

Edo Castle was in a mess because of the ban, fire, and war. There were broken walls and ruins everywhere, and it entered a temporary and disorderly city.

"The red scarf warriors control the granary and restore order. Huaxia will be responsible for selling grain and distributing relief food to citizens and farmers, burying corpses, and cleaning up the ruins caused by the fire. A considerable part of the grain in the granary of the shogunate had to be transported to the front line. But now that there is no need to transport grain to the front, the grain can barely be used by the residents of Edo Castle, and our Chinese merchants will continue to transport the surplus rice from the mainland to Edo Castle.” Zhang Yuan temporarily let Ono Taro’s red scarf warrior Acting as a violent institution in Edo Castle, Tanaka Chengichi's Huaxia will appease the residents of Edo Castle and begin to stabilize the situation in Edo Castle.

"What should we do with these prisoners? Should they all be executed?" The rebels pushed out the names of the captives, such as Sakai Tadakatsu, Abe Tadaaki, and Date Masamune.

"Execute all!" Almost all the refugees shouted loudly.

"Master Zhang, what do you think?" Although Tanaka Chengichi also wanted to execute the daimyo who stayed behind in Edo Castle on the spot, he had to follow the face of Zhang Yuan sent by the Kyushu Army.

Soon the fleet of the Kyushu Army will arrive at Edo City to officially take over the city. Even the Huaxia Club he led was supported by the Beiyang Fleet. When the city is in a food crisis, there are still ways to get food to relieve refugees and win people's hearts.

"Many of them are local daimyos who are being watched as hostages in Edo Castle. If they are all executed, there may be frequent rebellions in their places. We still need them to win over cities in various places. Why don't we imprison them temporarily? In the future, the sentence will be appropriately commuted according to their contribution." Zhang Yuan's consideration is different from that of the angry rebels, he wants Dongying to be under the rule of the new government as soon as possible, so Date Masamune and others have become the trump cards to appease all parts of Dongying .

"Okay, according to Mr. Zhang, lock up these daimyos and flag books..." Tanaka Chengyi was quite dissatisfied with Zhang Yuan's handling opinions, but Zhang Yuan was sent by the Kyushu Army, so he still had to obey the other party's words .

"Then what about these ordinary samurai who worked for the shogunate?" The rebels saw that they could not execute Sakai Tadakatsu and others at will, so they targeted the samurai who had little influence.

"They will serve as labor labor, clean up the ruins, and rebuild Edo City later." Zhang Yuan completely regarded the captured shogunate samurai as free labor.

(End of this chapter)