Chapter 326. Edo, here I come!
In fact, except for Kawaaka Island at the foot of the mountain, the Dongjiang Army is real, but perhaps the Dongjiang coalition of Li Chao was similar. Mao Jue's army was divided into two parts. Li Shanhai led the Palace Back Army. His mission was economic. More than 20,000 Li Chao's army, three thousand Dongjiang reserve soldiers, and Kumano Water Pirates, and more than 2,000 remaining ministers of Toyotomi family. Locusts were scattered from the Hokuriku Road like locusts. Taking advantage of the empty guards of the Japanese, they would steal wherever they caught, including silver, food, cloth, and even population.
Didn’t the Japanese rob the flower girl in the Central Plains? Let’s take revenge on his ancestors and rob his ancestors of the flower girl.
As for the main force, Mao Jue personally led it to Edo, located in Musashi Country. To be honest, this is the most important and core area of the entire shogunate. However, the significance of Mao Jue's march is that he is more political. There is no way. He is too few soldiers and the main force has to take into account the battle for ten thousand. If he plunders, he will be rich and not talk about how to fight, he will not be able to march.
However, the significance of the Mao Jue tribe's march is more like investing for tomorrow. Now it has the reputation of the Toyotomi family. Once you insert the Toyotomi family's 57 tung pattern and golden gourd horse seal at the gate of Edo Castle in the heart of the shogunate, you can imagine how shocking it would be to the entire Japan.
You should know that the shogunate did not rely on a destiny like the Ming Dynasty to take up a dominance. The emperor was orthodox. The foundation for the shogunate rule was force. Just like the Muromachi shogunate, the Muromachi shogunate showed weakness and fatigue, and the ambitious heroes almost rose up. After the Yingren Rebellion, the Japanese Warring States Period that had been fighting for more than 100 years, the Tokugawa Shogunate did not have more kidneys than the Ashikaga General. As long as the power was revealed, the next time Mao Jue came again, the Japanese country he faced would not be as solid as he was today.
At the foot of his wife and daughter, Tada Honda's old face was as green as a green eggplant, and his short body shivered because of anger. If his eyes could kill people, the twenty-something Maeda family's retainers in front of him would probably be cut into pieces.
The three precious days that he had been confronting him was the more than 3,000 prisoners of the Maeda family!
With a sad face, Maeda Mitsugao untied his clothes like a hooligan, and he held his ribs and kowtowed in great tragic manner.
"General General, the last general can apologize for a caesarean section, but my Maeda family has several other zong families in the hands of the Tang thief. If I don't do what he said, the Maeda family will be extinct!"
He didn't want to stay for a minute or say a word. He slammed his sleeves and Honda Tada roared and walked out directly.
"Send the order, the entire army will pull the camp and return to Musashi to help!"
"But General, Ueda Castle..."
"Are you also like accusing of septum?"
He is the same person as Matsuhira Nobutsu. He almost didn't consider the problems left by Mao Jue. He was a universal daimyo, so everything is naturally focused on the shogunate. As for these daimyos, do you care about his death?
But the family was burned and killed by Li Shanhai, but he wanted to change to Musashi to save the Shogunate. Even if a few Daming was too strong, the samurai below was still in panic. His wife and daughter, Yama, was almost turned around and was driven south by the Shogunate army. The morale of the army had already dispersed here. Honda Tadatsuki didn't know how much effect this army could bring back Musashi?
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But even if he robs time so much, he still hasn't robbed Mao Jue. If he wants to go from the northwest to the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is crossing or vertical, it is impossible to go through half a year, but Japan can only wear it against each other for a few days. Who makes Japan too small?
This is also the reason why Mao Jue suddenly made up his mind. From Hokuriku to Sagami to the south, they were almost all the main battlefields of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He didn't dare to fight before because he didn't know the way. But by chance, God brought him the eyes of Mori Sakura. Among the Kumano Water Pirates who defected to, there were even old people who participated in the Hojo Conquest and fought the Battle of Odawara Castle. The terrain of this area was like their own kang for them.
After the raid of Kawaakashima, Mao Jue took the army to move that night, and walked the Chausuyama Trail led by Mori Sakura, and turned into Kakai. It seemed that it had gone a little far, but it threw the shogunate army behind.
After leaving the Kafei, it was the Kanto Plain. Mao Jue, the city he encountered on the road, was even disdainful to fight, and just rushed straight to the beach. On March 27, the scarred Dongjiang Army shook off the mountains behind him and finally reached the foot of Edo Castle.
It happened to be evening when he arrived. He stopped in the southeast of Edo Castle. Mao Jue brought out his cannon telescope. Looking into the distance, a golden seaside city came into his eyes.
To be honest, Edo Castle is not suitable as the capital. It is located in the Pacific earthquake zone. There will be a small earthquake in a few years. The Tokugawa Shogunate has been in a state of destruction and reconstruction for more than 200 years. It is said that Edo Castle was in a state of destruction and reconstruction for 40 or 50 years. The spectacular Sancheong Pavilion built by Tokugawa Ieyasu has only existed for fifty years. Moreover, it is still on the Kanto Plain, where there is no danger to defend. When the shogunate period is strong, no one dares to provoke it. However, at the end of the Makugawa period, the last general Tokugawa Kiyoshi surrendered, and there is no danger to defend.
However, there was a reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu chose to establish the core of the shogunate rule. The northeast of this place was a fertile wilderness, rich in resources and a hundred meters. It was a blessing for the samurai group based on the rice-based basis. It also relied on the Edo Bay, with developed transportation and prosperous economy.
At this time, what is displayed in Mao Jue's telescope is the most beautiful scene in Edo Castle. In the setting sun, the towering Tianshou Pavilion stands gorgeously. From there, the high-end houses where the Samurai Banner lives are lined up one after another, and there is a faint shadow of the Heian Kyo chessboard layout. Further down, although the Shimocho scattered around is much more chaotic, it also has its own characteristics and many people!
Commodities are lined up one after another, and almost all the most developed businesses in Japan gathered here. During the Tokugawa Shogunate period, a unique Edo culture was formed. Mao Jue didn't know much about the cultural connotation. His generals didn't even think about it. There were many people and big houses, which directly meant something in their eyes.
rich!
"Good! No wonder our general wants to beat Edo even if he dies. This city is as good as Liaoyang City back then! How much money does it cost?"
Almost all his life has been in the north, and I have never seen so many people. Liu Xingzuo and his brothers almost glared out, and they were all smoking coldly. They shook their heads with emotion and counted the five of them the most bragging. Seeing them looking like a local bun, they went to Jiangnan once, and Pang Dahai, who had gained great knowledge, immediately hugged his arms and turned his head disdainfully.
"What's the point of Lao Liaoyang? At its peak, it was only more than 100,000 people. Judging from this specification, there were almost 200,000 to 300,000 people here? I have to catch up with Songjiang, no, Hangzhou! Mr. Jiang, don't you think so!"
Several generals were quarreling there, but Mao Jue ignored it. His full spirit was still on the city in front of him, and this place still had a special meaning to him.
The name of Edo Castle in later generations, Tokyo!
I still remember that when I was young and frivolous, I was studying, and I had a few passionate young people gathered together to spit out their saliva, pointing out the country, yelling to stain Tokyo with blood, and avenging a century of revenge. At that time, when I mentioned this, everyone seemed to be proud, as if they were a great hero.
Unfortunately, time gradually smoothed out the childish edges of the past. The former classmate and boy also went their separate ways. The girls were hahaha, while the men drove a Japanese car to sway across the market. They could only shout for the protection of the Diaoyu Islands online. They were addicted to the dull life and numb themselves, as if the passions back then were cold.
Even if Mao Jue himself is like this, God knows how he encountered such an encounter that he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.
The awesome promise he made when he was young, he has completed his promise now. He is coming to Edo and stained Tokyo Bay with blood!
In the brilliant afterglow, he watched his biggest prey indulge for a long time. Until the sunset rays completely disappeared into the bay, Mao Jue put away his telescope with unfulfilled desire, suddenly turned around, drew out his knife, and raised it high behind him.
"Follow me and fight Edo!"
"Battle Edo!"
Looking at this huge city, he was also already full of passion. Mao Jue's arms raised immediately and the army was ignited. Behind him, his hands were raised high with countless excitement. The shocking cry seemed to make the towering Edo Tensou Pavilion tremble a little. On the top of the city, the shogunate defenders couldn't help but show fear in the pupils of the shogunate defenders.
Chapter completed!