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Shocked the world!

When the news of the British fleet attacking the Japanese navy and army fleet reached Hiroshima, Zhao Yaozu was speechless for a long time. As for the naval officer Junyoshi Kawamura, who is also the Minister of the Navy of Japan, he simply said "Japan It's over!"

Indeed, Japan is over!
In a way, Japan is doomed.

It doesn't matter that Shanxian Youpeng's "rear shock army" was wiped out at sea by the British. What is important?It's the attitude of the British.Prior to this, for the local former feudal lords who were trying to separate themselves, they only saw the British fleet visit Osaka. This kind of support was not direct, and indirect support was not enough to show the attitude of the British.

But what about now?
In order to help Tokugawa Maocheng, the British fleet went directly to the field.Directly wiped out the Japanese army and navy fleet at sea.

It doesn't matter that tens of thousands of land and navy soldiers sink into the sea.

What is important?
It was they who saw the British attitude.Not only did they see it, but they also saw it with nearly ten thousand government army officers and soldiers who were besieged in the Nagoya town of Nagoya.

Faced with such a situation, what choice will they make?

Once they surrender, there will be no more things to do with the new government.Tokyo, too, opened its doors as Shigeru Tokugawa.

In this way, Japan will not be finished.

What's more terrible is that the local separatist feudal lords will recognize the rule of Tokugawa Maocheng?Do you agree that he is the new shogun?

If you don't agree, then Japan's civil war will continue.

Japan will usher in a new era of Warring States. Whether those Japanese are willing to face this reality or not, they must face this terrible future.

However, the future of Japan seems to have nothing to do with Ming Dynasty. In the midst of this turmoil, the dispatch fleet separated by the "Nanhua" is still carrying out their mission in Hiroshima - a friendly visit to Japan.

"Sir, what shall we do now?"

Li Shengqi, the chief of staff who dispatched the fleet, looked at the fleet commander Zhao Yaozu and asked.

"It seems that Japan is going to change soon."

"Don't worry, the sky won't fall down."

Zhao Yaozu said with a smile.

"Let's just stay in the port. Let's stay the same. We're here for a friendly visit. Since it's a friendly visit, of course we can't interfere with these matters."

When he was speaking, his eyes were narrowed into a thin slit, staring at the center of Hiroshima, and there seemed to be some strange looks flickering in his eyebrows, and then he asked again.

"What has Staff Chen been up to these two days? After he comes back, ask him to come see me immediately."

The Staff Officer Chen he was talking about was Major Chen Dekun of the Naval Intelligence Department. He had come to Ryukyu a year ago and often traveled between Ryukyu and Japan. To put it bluntly, he was a spy.

In the past year, he has been implementing a plan jointly developed by the Naval Intelligence Service and the Imperial Investigation Department.

This plan is very simple. It is nothing more than using the dissatisfaction of the Japanese gentry and the people to instigate rebellion in Japan, and the achievements he has achieved are very effective. In the past year, behind the so-called local separatist forces in Japan his shadow.

In the past year, he has provided large quantities of arms to those local forces through so-called arms smugglers.It was under Daming's secret support that they were able to successfully separate the region and even defeat the government forces of the Restoration government.

As early as half a month ago, Chen Dekun had been in Hiroshima under the pseudonym Akashi Genjiro, colluded with those down-and-out nobles, and started to implement another plan of the Naval Intelligence Department.

"Yuxi, although the British are Western monsters, after they destroyed all the attacking troops behind the government army, the road to Tokyo has been opened. The Nagoya town will soon surrender like the Osaka town. At that time, the shogunate can regain power."

Many people in Hiroshima cried differently when they learned that the Hiroshima town was attacked and annihilated by the British fleet at sea.

Takato Shizuichi and the others all looked happy.In their hearts, the so-called Hiroshima Township is just a group of farmers, how can a group of mud-legged people hold military positions?From ancient times to the present, only warriors are soldiers.

The high officials of the Restoration government used them as samurai to overthrow the shogunate, and then quickly betrayed them.Since the abolition of swords, they have been abandoned as samurai.Then the Meiji government promulgated the "Military Conscription Order" and reformed the military service system. The three-year compulsory military service system was implemented, and all the people became soldiers, and everyone became a samurai.

Everyone can be a samurai... Are those mud legs worthy?
At least in the eyes of Shizuichi Takato and the others, those mud legs are not worthy of being called soldiers at all, let alone samurai.These are the real samurai, but they were betrayed by their lord after the "Return of Books"—Emperor Meiji and his government.

"It does not matter."

Akashi Genjiro said.

"The most important thing now is in Hiroshima. The strength of the government army is extremely weak, but there are only a few hundred people. As long as we seize the opportunity, we can take this city. In the future, even if the shogunate is restored, they will fully Consider our status."

"What Akashi-kun said is true. As long as you have a sword in your hand, as long as we occupy Hiroshima, General Tokugawa will definitely consider our opinions."

How can we give full consideration to their opinions?

But they will definitely care about the resettlement of these former laid-off soldiers. How will they be resettled?Of course, they are given a certain status, and by then it will not be as simple as just restoring their previous status.

They may even become feudal lords!
After all, heroes come out of troubled times!
What if there is that possibility?This kind of thing is not certain, just like those high-ranking officials of the reform government, they used to be of ordinary gentry origin.Didn't they change their own destiny and become high-ranking government officials by overthrowing the achievements established by the shogunate?

For this batch of laid-off warriors who had no food and clothing and no lord, they knew exactly what they should seize.

In the troubled times, of course they have to use their knives to regain their status and dignity.

"It is true that there are not many government troops in Hiroshima, but don't forget that there are warships of the Ming Dynasty moored in the port. They are supporters of the Restoration Government. If we act, will the Ming Dynasty fleet turn a blind eye?"

Facing other people's worries, Akashi Genjiro said directly.

"This is simply unfounded worry. The people of the Ming Dynasty will never take money from the fire for the sake of the reform government, but anyone who understands the Japanese form knows. The failure of the Tokyo government is only a matter of time. Besides, the British have already occupied the Tokugawa family. On the other side, how could they risk the world to support Tokyo? Those are completely Hiroshima, not Tokyo, even if they do something here, what's the use? You too, they want to support Tokyo, Their fleet will definitely go to Tokyo first."

Akashihara Jiro's analysis made everyone nodded in agreement, Gao Teng Jingyi and the others thought for a while, and then said.

"In that case, let's do it."

(End of this chapter)