Chongzhen's open life

Chapter 418
"Where are the people! Where are the people you sent out!"

Masakatsu Inaba stood in a rest area under the city wall with red eyes and questioned Atsuji Ishida.

Ishida Atsuji looked bitter, he didn't know where he went.

Just as this happened, there was a sudden report from outside, and Ishida Atsuji could hear the voice of his subordinate.

The two of them didn't understand what the man outside said at first, but when they listened carefully, their expressions changed drastically.

"It's not good! It's not good! There were tens of thousands of troops outside the city overnight, and now Diancheng has been surrounded!"

Inaba Masakatsu and Ishida Atsuji looked at each other in shock, then immediately got up and hurried towards the city wall.

When they came to the city wall, the scene they saw in front of them made them unforgettable for the rest of their lives.

On the snow-covered land, some black spots appeared at some time, but when you look carefully, you can find that these black spots are not rare, but spread all over the city. At a glance, it can only be described as endless .

The two of them had already guessed what these black spots were. According to the battle report sent back from the front line, the Ming army uniformly wore black standard armor.

Thinking of this, the two couldn't help but feel boundless fear.

Armor has always been a luxury defensive munitions for an army.

In an ordinary army, it would be great if one out of ten people had a piece of leather armor. Only high-ranking officers could have a pair of iron armor with extremely strong defense.

But in this war, what is frightening is that the armor rate of the Ming army has reached [-]%!
What is even more frightening is that these Ming soldiers are not wearing leather armor but iron armor!

At a glance, the Ming soldiers were all wearing black iron armor!
The armor worn by the Ming army has also been recorded in Japan. It was the best armor in the Tang Dynasty when the Ming land was in the Tang Dynasty!
As for the matter of wearing armor for all members, when it was reported, the Ming people did not believe it, because they knew how much a pair of armor cost, and wearing armor for all members, even the Tokugawa shogunate could not do it unless they went bankrupt do it.

Therefore, they do not believe that the Ming army is really full of armor.

But now, Inaba is winning the letter.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, because the Ming army with all its members in armor has already appeared in front of his eyes.

Looking at the busy Ming army below the city, Masakatsu Inaba felt his whole body was icy cold, and a bone-chilling chill rushed straight to his forehead from the tailbone.

A sharp voice that had become terrified due to fear instantly resounded on the city wall. It was Masakatsu Inaba's voice.

"The Ming army is here! Organize the defense of the city! Quickly! Stop the defense of the city!!!"

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In the second year of Chongzhen, the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month.

In this winter, the Ming army uncharacteristically launched an attack on Diancheng.

Three days ago, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops began to attack the city.

The lord of Diancheng, Masakatsu Inaba, tried his best to defend the city, but three days later, under the seemingly endless artillery fire from the Ming army, the walls of Diancheng were almost completely destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops rushed into Diancheng with a crushing attitude. Fortress, with Inaba Masakatsu and the garrison army under his command, had a cordial and friendly Sino-Japanese exchange.

However, during the communication, Masakatsu Inaba, who is a landlord, was extremely irritable and attacked Daming's side many times. When the situation was unbearable, Daming's side finally stopped taking it and started to fight back.

Finally, a five-meter-high wooden pole was erected at the gate of today's Diancheng City. Masakatsu Inaba was hung on it thinly and let the cold wind blow, and was frozen into a human-shaped popsicle.

After capturing Diancheng, the Ming army set off again on the third day, the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, for Osaka City after a night of rest.

On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Osaka City was broken, and a five-meter-high wooden pole was also erected on the top of the city.

The journey of the Ming army did not stop there.

Ogaki, Qizao, Nagoya, Toyohashi, Hamamatsu...Matsumoto, Kofu, Saitama...

By the time the Tokugawa shogunate reacted, the Ming army had already approached the city.

Edo Castle has also been under heavy siege!
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"Baga! Baga! Are you all useless? You only found out after the Ming army hit Edo, and you didn't receive any news before that? You just want to watch my Great Wa Kingdom fall to the Ming Dynasty. Isn’t it under the country’s iron hoof! Ah!!!”

The current patriarch of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Ieyasu, furiously accused all his subordinates of their incompetence, spitting out bad words one after another.

But in the face of his stormy abuse, all the subordinates could only bear it.

They are also very confused!

When I wake up, I feel that the world has changed. Why is the Ming army approaching the city?
This is winter!
Before the snow fell, the Ming army had just captured Kyoto.

Where is Kyoto?
In Kansai!

This is Kanto!

There is a distance of thousands of miles!
Why did the Ming army come to the city?

There was no news about the cities in the middle. Did they all fall?
Even if [-] pigs were put on the way here, the Ming army couldn't have come to Edo so soon. Are all the daimyos along the way all trash who grew up eating rice fields?
But no matter how much they refused to answer, it was a foregone conclusion that the Ming army was approaching the city. It was better to be scolded by the general honestly first, and then think about how to resist the Ming army.

In this way, the angry Tokugawa Iemitsu slammed like a machine gun for half an hour before he let out a breath and stopped.

The scolded and beaten subjects finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's finally over!

After venting the anger in his heart, Tokugawa Iemitsu quickly regained his senses and began to arrange the defense of the upper castle.

Tokugawa Iemitsu first ordered Matsudaira Nobuzuna to rectify all combatable forces in the city, and resist the Ming army's siege at any time.

On the other hand, due to the sudden arrival of the Ming army, the number of troops that can be assembled in Edo City today is no more than [-] at most. Can it defend against the attack of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops? Edo is an unknown, so he has to prepare for the worst.

After Matsudaira Nobutsuna ordered the army to deploy defenses, Tokugawa Iemitsu secretly sent people to gather several confidantes and let them secretly prepare a plan to escape from Edo.

As the third generation of the current shogunate, if Edo can keep it, he will naturally keep it, but as the saying goes, if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood.

If Edo really couldn't keep it, he didn't need to lose his life for Edo.

In his capacity, as long as he escaped, he could call up an army from the surviving daimyos and territories directly under the shogunate at any time, so as long as he was alive, the shogunate still had hope.

On the first day the Ming army arrived in Edo, they did not rush to attack.

Having already reached Edo, the Ming army no longer had a sense of urgency, so they could have time to make full preparations for the siege and capture Edo City with minimal casualties.

Since the Ming army was stationed, the surrounding trees have been destroyed, but at the same time, siege weapons have been manufactured, and the Ming army's siege ability has been greatly improved every day.

After three days of siege, the Ming army finally prepared all the siege weapons.

And the offensive against Edo Castle was officially announced!
boom!
(End of this chapter)