As soon as the three thousand Marine soldiers arrived at the ancient city, Masato Inaba's face turned pale instantly. The most unknown prediction finally appeared. The Ming army actually sent troops to support these mobs.

The three thousand Marine soldiers who boarded the port successfully stood up under the cover of artillery fire from warships and armed merchant ships, and then transported supplies... into the city.

The Japanese Catholics on the city opened the city gate early, and Shiro Yada happily welcomed the arrival of the Marine Corps at the gate.

"Thank you very much for your help from Uei. If we can overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, we will definitely not disobey Uei's power like the Tokugawa shogunate." Shiro Mada said humbly to the landing Marine Corps battalion commander.

The battalion commander just smiled after hearing the translation, then nodded casually, responded to a few words, and then began to set up a defensive line. After the materials were transported into the city, the Marines directly fired thousands of rockets to the shogunate artillery position in the distance, completely shaking the shogunate artillery, and all the artillery was hoarse.

Without the harassment of artillery, the Marine Corps began to arrange artillery.

The artillery transported from the ship was arranged one after another, and the artillery used by the Marine Corps was naturally not the kind that was backward and inferior to the one sold by the military headquarters to the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Both range and power were used to attack a lot. Once the artillery took action, it suppressed the artillery of the Tokugawa Shogunate again and continued to launch artillery attacks on the Japanese barracks in the distance.

After being bombarded, the shogunate army retreated again.

With the advantage of artillery, the Marine Corps directly forced the shogunate army five miles away. The shogunate army hiding five miles away was safe. The Marine Corps did not carry heavy artillery, so the heavy artillery on the warships naturally could not be removed to defend this broken city. As long as it could be defended, it would not necessarily be eliminated.

Although Inaba Masato saw the Ming army supporting the Catholics in the ancient city, Inaba Masato did not give up, but did the final madness.

Attack, attack again.

The next day, about 100,000 shogunate soldiers, led by the samurai, launched a decisive attack on the ancient city one after another, and hundreds of artillery were arranged on the city.

Hundreds of artillery fired continuously, causing heavy casualties to the forging of the shogunate soldiers.

In such a cold weapon era, there is basically no market for using scattered troops, because the scattered cold weapon troops have no combat power. Even if they possessed Ma Chao, they will be killed by the enemy with dense formations, and they will not be able to attack the city.

Therefore, the charge of the shogunate army was lined up in dense formations. Under the shelling, there were naturally heavy casualties. However, under the leadership of the samurai, the shogunate army rushed to the city.

Rows of ladders were placed on the city wall, and the shogunate soldiers climbed up the ladder like ants. The Marine soldiers on the top of the city, holding rockets, ignited the fire and let go directly towards the dense crowd under the city.

The rockets roared down and froze in the crowd, scaring the shogunate soldiers to jump straight on their feet, and some were frightened by the rockets that were slid by them.

Many of these Tokugawa Shogunate soldiers had never experienced war, and were not samurai or ronin, and had not been instilled with the thoughts of Bushido, so they lacked courage on the battlefield.

After rushing through the artillery area, his will was about to collapse. He thought that he would not be hit by artillery when he rushed to the city, but he was bombarded by rockets.

In addition to the Rockets, some Marine soldiers began to throw grenades dedicated to defending the city.

These grenades are much larger than those used in field combat. Such grenades are not thrown far, but they have great power in defending the city.

If you throw it down, you will definitely kill a piece of it. Its power is comparable to that of later grenades. This is called quantitative change and qualitative change. Although the power of gunpowder is not that strong, the amount is almost the same.

Apart from shooting artillery and throwing rocket grenades, the Marines basically don’t come in close combat. Anyway, there are Japanese people in front of them, so why do they go up and act as meat shields?

The five hundred spearmen in plate armor were on standby, called the reserve team. With such firepower, the Japanese Catholics on the city were enough to take back the shogunate troops that were attacked, so naturally there was no reserve team.

attack!

Attack again!

Failure, septum!

Failure again, and septidum again.

The shogunate army staged a mad attack for two days, and the Marines fought so much that the shells were not enough, so they had to move the shells from the First Fleet warship into the city at night.

After two days of crazy attack, after each failure, the warriors would cut off their stomachs and end their shame in the form of a warrior.

After only two days of fierce attack, only half of the 100,000 troops of the shogunate were killed or injured. Inaba Masakashi's face was pale and only half was left, and he could not continue to fight.

If you continue to fight, your vitality will be wiped out.

And there are only 50,000 people, and it is impossible to win.

With a clang, Masao Inaba pulled out the samurai sword, slowly untied his clothes, then took out a white cloth and wiped his samurai sword. The servants on the side saw Masao Inaba's behavior and silently retreated.

After wiping the samurai sword, Masaka Inaba pinched the middle of the samurai sword with a white cloth and aimed it at his abdomen.

"Ah!" Inaba Masaka roared and quickly pressed the handle of the knife with one hand.

The samurai sword was silently inserted into Inaba Masatsuka's abdomen. Inaba Masatsuka's eyes suddenly turned white, and then he was silent and fell to the ground, kneeling and sitting in front of his body.

Apologize for death!

Inaba Masaka also ended his life and ended his shame and guilt in the way of a samurai.

...Inaba Masakaku apologized for his death. The shogunate army had no leader and soon stopped attacking. They no longer had the courage to attack the ancient city with the assistance of the Ming army in front of them.

Five days later, Tokugawa Ieki received the news and was very shocked.

This time, I was so panicked that the envoy who went to Kanto had already returned. Tokugawa Iemitsu first faced the conditions proposed by the Ming army and expressed his strong rejection.

But at this moment, Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer had the hard time that it was at that time.

His hardening was built on a Japan that was completely under his control, allowing him to use the power of the entire Japan to fight against the Ming army.

At this moment, the Catholic riots in Shimahara and Amankara Island were not eliminated in time, and the Ming army intervened in this matter. It was completely impossible to destroy these Catholics.

If the Ming army is unhappy and supports these Catholic thugs in large quantities, Japan will soon fall into the hands of these Catholic thugs.

There is no other reason. If the Ming army invaded on a large scale, it would inevitably arouse strong resistance.

But these Catholics are Japanese, and Japanese can agree with them.

Once this sense of identity is found, the resistance will be very weak, and the people will only support the side that is beneficial to them. Those Catholics will naturally receive support from many people with the slogan of equality for everyone, and the religious brainwashing surname is very strong.

At that time, things cannot be done.

Tokugawa Iemitsu sighed, do you really want to agree to Mingjun’s request?

If agreed, the shogunate will face a serious financial crisis in the future, and the compensation of 30 million taels cannot be raised casually.

In addition, the market is completely open, it is very likely that there will be no tax on business, because the Ming army requires that Ming Dynasty goods be exempt from tax.

But if we do not agree, the shogunate's dominance will soon disappear, and even for the Yamato nation, it will be useless.

In fact, Tokugawa Iemitsu did not have much national consciousness. Everything he did was to rule Japan and always surpass the people.

Since neither agreeing nor agreeing can save Japan's fate of defeat in the war, why not? In this way, it can still maintain its dominance and survive its glory and wealth.

The shogunate was still the ruler of Japan and only distributed the benefits to part of the Ming Dynasty.

But if he didn't know what to do, he would not be able to save anything.

"Naoi, you bring people to negotiate with the Ming army, but we have to fight for the conditions on the treaty." Tokugawa Iemitsu said to his attendant Naoi Naoi.

When Tokugawa Iemitsu was Takechiyo, there were five servants in total. When these five servants grew up, they became his right-hand assistants.

However, Matsuhira Nobuzu and Inaba Masaoka have both apologized, leaving only Okabe Shinosuke (Naozunaga), Mizuno Kiyoshiro (Mitsunaga) and Nagai Kumanosuke (Naosaki).

Naokai Naokai was the youngest and was only five years old when he became Tokugawa Iemitsu's boy, but he was the smartest one.

"Hai." Naokai Naoi said with great emphasis. He also understood that the situation in Japan was no longer controlled by the shogunate, and the only way out was to negotiate with the Ming army.

Tokugawa Iemitsu and Naoi Naokai were unsure of the outcome of the peace talks, but the worst plan was just like the few items established in the treaty.

Can't have a navy.

Ceding Hokkaido.

Exempt customs duties and any remaining miscellaneous taxes on goods in Shandong.

Compensation for military expenses of 30 million taels of silver.

...If there is no navy, there will never be a turnaround. After this defeat, Tokugawa Iemitsu completely realized the important surname of the navy. However, Tokugawa Iemitsu was not very clear about how to form a navy.

Japan's navy was a bad thing. Even North Korea could defeat the Japanese navy even if it built a turtle ship. In addition, it was closed to the country for many years, and the navy's development was even more backward.

There is nothing to ceding Hokkaido and Hokkaido fishing grounds.

Hokkaido is just a place to exile criminals. There are indeed many fish in the Hokkaido fishing grounds, but there is no need for Japan to go so far to catch fish.

This cannot be changed by exempting Shandong goods from irrigation and any miscellaneous taxes. Tokugawa Iemitsu and Naoi Naoi Naoki knew very well that the cause of this war was because the shogunate imposed unequal tariffs on Shandong goods. Although he cared about this, this point could never be changed.

Compensation for military expenditure of 30 million taels of silver is what the shogunate cares most. Now the shogunate's finances are almost exhausted, so it is completely impossible for them to take out 30 million taels at once.

The following negotiations will revolve around this clause. Naokai Naoi knows that he must strive to reduce the compensation, and it is best to be able to pay in more years.

At the same time, as a condition of exchange for the signing, the Ming army not only had to withdraw troops from the Kanto region, but also had to make them give up their support for the Shimahara mob.

This is necessary. If these mobs exist for one day, the shogunate rule will not be stable for one day.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!