Edo Traveler

Vol 8 Chapter 74: Perry hesitated to attack

At least one hundred thousand people came back with a greeting from Chungemon. People, after all, are from the crowd. If there are more people coming back, there will be more people coming back together.

   Help Liu ran back and forth, relocating endlessly. At the suggestion of Chuemon, he also brought back his family and his family, all old and young, and Edo Minami Town followed the Lord Kinmaru. If all the family members were sent away, how could the people's determination to defend the castle be strengthened?

  Of course, we couldn’t pit our iron brothers. Alan and Shiwan were not sent away. They still live at home, and they also rush to the city every day to attend the funeral of Tokugawa’s family celebration.

   All the family members of Laozhong and Qiben's important ministers must come to the funeral every day. If the ruling class is running away, this Edo Castle Tademon cannot be guarded.

   With the supply of the people, the depletion that might have occurred is no longer difficult. The Edo-cho Yamen organized a number of Meikei towns to maintain law and order along the street, and at the same time mobilized materials, on the one hand to organize funerals, on the other hand to supply the army, and carry out take-out lunches in an endless stream to ensure the logistics of the training team.

  When it comes to the Americans, Perry thinks Edo is a bit of a tortoise shell.

   The terrain along the Uraga coast was surveyed by James James, the American earlier, and the hydrology is very familiar. The situation inside Edo Bay can be regarded as a black eye. There was a time before the United States disguised as a whaling ship wrecked and floated to Japan, and it did not survey and map the map near Edo, but it painted a lot in Kyushu and Western countries.

   So after entering Edo Bay, after the volley against Shinagawa, Perry hoped that the shogunate would rush to accept the terms and sign the founding treaty.

   Of course, as a qualified admiral, Perry still ordered someone to survey the hydrological conditions in Edo Bay, and at the same time fully understand the layout of the Shinagawa Fort.

   I don’t know if I check it, I’m really amazed after checking it. Although the shogunate was a feudal and backward government, the fort defense system designed and built by the Dutch, matched with the topography of Kamedo, was simply impeccable.

  The front of the fort is strong and the wooden ships are extremely difficult to break through, so the way is to land after going around, trying to cut off the connection between the fort and Edo from the land, so that it collapsed without a fight.

   Before the shogunate's reply arrived, Perry saw that Shinagawa was tightly defended. He was not going to gnaw hard bones, so he later withdrew to Futtsu to rectify his troops and recruit supplies. At the same time, I began to understand the situation of the Shinagawa and Sumida Rivers on both sides of Edo. The two large rivers flowed straight into the Edo Bay. Perry knew at a glance that this was the most critical place for the defense line outside Edo.

   As a result, the investigators did not return. He first received the news that Kisarazu’s shogunate continued to "defeated" and fled, and the shogunate rejected all the conditions of the U.S. army and said that they resisted to the end.

   Just for a moment, Perry yelled badly!

   We should immediately send a ship to bombard Ekawa Hidetoshi's retreat along the coast to the Sumida River Defense Line, preventing him from quickly entering the Sumida River Defense Line and enhancing the strength of the Sumida River area.

   It's a pity that when he gave the order, Hidetoshi Egawa, who had received the defeated soldiers in Kisarazu and defended on the spot, ran away a long time ago, and he has already ran past the Guofu station. Even if the US military sends a steam battleship, I am afraid that it will not be able to catch up with Yingmin Jiang.

   There are capable people in the shogunate!

   And he is a pretty bold capable person. After all, not everyone can make the decision to abandon the country and stick to the main points. This tactic was considered to be used by the Soviet Union during World War II. It is not appropriate to analyze the specific situation. Let's make an analogy. Anyway, if you give up your land, you will be scolded to death in many cases.

  Futtsu is the leader of the shogunate, but the small feudal vassals on the Boso Peninsula are not the territory of the shogunate, they are all the vassal kingdoms of the vassals. The shogunate dispatched troops and generals to help you guard it is the blessing of the shogunate as the monarch, and it is only natural and righteous that the shogunate cannot come to help you guard.

   I gave you this feudal feudal vassal, just for you to guard the border and be the screen of the shogunate. You took my land, and you couldn't keep it, and on the other hand, you blame me, then you have to be shameless!

   Therefore, the shogunate's withdrawal of troops has no psychological burden at all, and there are no moral and legal issues. It is so happy.

   I don’t think this is okay. Why don’t you ask Maori Kei-Ken or Shimazu Tadashi, if you ask him if a foreign country is calling, the shogunate will directly enter Hagi City or Kagoshima City to defend them and help them.

   A feudal clan is a country, nothing more.

   Yes, what else can Perry say? Since the shogunate is such an iron, then he can only hit the shogunate again, so that the shogunate will feel pain, and the shogunate may choose to surrender.

   But after looking at the defenses of Edo Castle as a whole, Perry was sure of one thing. He had three thousand Marines. Even if the navy was not needed for this battle, the sailors would be armed with a maximum of four thousand men. The U.S. military alone obviously cannot break through the shogunate defense line by land.

   The British still have to come together. Even if the British don't use their full strength, the shogunate will also score troops to deal with it.

  According to Preble’s knowledge, the combat effectiveness of the UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Shogunate Military Training Team is really not bad, at least above the pass line. In the firepower projection phase, that is, when the artillery cover and the guns fire each other, they are remarkable, and there is basically no problem. The U.S. military's victory was due to the fact that a sniper shot and killed the Futtsu Shogunate's general.

   Lost the commander-in-chief of the army, although there are a handful of them that can maintain greater morale and combat effectiveness, and under the call of revenge and hatred, they have achieved brilliant victories. But in more cases, it will quickly lose the will to fight, and then retreat.

   It is a normal situation, ancient and modern, both at home and abroad.

   Perry adopted his suggestion. Twenty dozen rifled guns in the general were assembled to form a small sharpshooter company, which was entrusted to Preble for command.

   Immediately after negotiating with the British army, the British army landed in Shinagawa and tried to break through the Shinagawa line of defense. The U.S. troops landed on the Sumida River and attacked the Sumida River frontal line. I only hate the number of soldiers and horses. If the U.S. army has 30,000, Perry will stick to the shogunate at 15,000, leaving 15,000 to advance upstream, exploring and attacking.

After   , he crossed the river and even took the Edo Castle straight away. There was no need to attack the Sumida River defense line at all. At this moment, the unit can't even do a little larger tactical movement, which makes Perry feel a little aggrieved.

   Reconnaissance, deliberation, hesitation and hesitation, before and after, it was actually delayed for three days. The U.S. army finally landed a little farther away on the east bank of the Sumida River and began to prepare for the next military operation. Under the urging of the U.S. military, the British army went ashore in pretense.

   I didn’t notice anything else, Pashali thinks the port of Yokohama is really good!

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