In July of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the leader of the rebel army, Amakusa Shiro, who was called "Heavenly Man" and "angels" by Catholics, joined forces with Satsuma Shimazu and the leaders of various uprising organizations in Japan, jointly issued a notice of "supporting the Emperor and fighting to the shogunate."

The anti-strait organization proposed the idea of ​​"returning the emperor to the emperor, imitating the Ming system to establish politics and military courts", abolishing the vassal system, abolishing the harsh and complicated taxes, etc.

A huge reversal movement that swept across Japan began!

Due to strict confidentiality in advance, the Tokugawa Shogunate did not receive any news at all. When things were irreversible and the opposition to the Shogunate sprung out like mushrooms after a rain, the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was already short of troops, was even more unsustainable.

In just half a month, wars broke out in various parts of Japan. Many small princes were caught off guard and were defeated by the rebels. They wrote letters to the shogunate for help. Most of the shogunate troops fought against Amakusa Shiro. Where did they get the troops to put out the fires everywhere?

At this time, two elite troops quietly embarked on the journey, with Song Xiance as the head coach and Zhao Shujiao as the deputy head coach. From Jeju Island, there were more than 200 ships. In addition to the naval fleet, the three elite Liaodong divisions of the landing army, one brigade of the Marine Corps, one brigade of the Royal Special Forces Brigade, and one brigade of the cavalry regiment, a total of more than 40,000 people. Their target was Kyoto, the location of the Japanese Emperor.

Another fleet, Hong Chengchou, was the head commander, Xiong Zhaolian, deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, was the deputy commander, and Zhou Wenyu was the chief of staff. He led more than 300 ships and more than 60,000 landing troops. Their target was to raid Edo Port!

Both teams were under the banner of "the invitation of the Japanese Emperor to quell the rebellion and help Japan restore peace". Song Xiance's branch was under the banner of protecting the emperor, while Hong Chengchou was under the banner of "pushing to the shogunate and restoring the emperor's rule."

On the fourth day of August, Song Xianke led a large army to land in Wakasa Bay in the northwest of Fukui, Japan, and captured Maizuru the next day. Three days later, the army arrived in Kyoto. The long-term troops in Kyoto were less than 20,000. With the efforts of several generations of shoguns, the Japanese Emperor had become a spiritual symbol. Although he was still the monarch of Japan, he basically became a puppet. Apart from the thousands of imperial guards defending the palace, the garrison of the shogun in Kyoto would not obey the emperor's command at all. The Ming army came not only too fast, but also too fierce, and did not give the Kyoto defenders a chance to react. The army entered the center of Japanese political culture, as well as the sacred land that symbolized the Japanese spirit.

The Ming navy was no better than the Genghis Khan Mongolian Navy. For this battle today, the Ming navy had been doing homework for several years, intelligence collection and hydrological detection, and Wakasa Bay was only one of the alternative landing sites. There were hundreds of Japanese intelligence personnel sent into Kyoto alone, and many of them were Japanese themselves.

After occupying Kyoto, Song Xiance first ordered the dismissal of all the weapons of the Japanese captured army and issued a military order to prohibit the private storage of weapons. The whole city confiscated weapons. Any Japanese samurai who did not hand over the weapons would be sentenced to death. In order to show that the Ming Dynasty was here to help the Japanese emperor and return to his rule, Song Xiance retained the so-called weapons of the imperial guards and no longer confiscated. Other knives with more than a certain length were confiscated. In this foreign country, there should be no mercy at all, which would cause great harm to himself. The rebellious samurai Song Xiance was executed by thunder. For a moment, a samurai with a knife could not be found in the huge Kyoto city!

The war broke out so suddenly that there was no preparation in Japan at all. At this time, the Ming Dynasty sent such a huge expeditionary force into Japan. As soon as it came in, it occupied Kyoto, the emperor's location, with lightning speed. As a large number of samurai were confiscated, the rebels were cruelly suppressed, shocking Japan!

After occupying Kyoto, Song Xiance was in charge, and Zhao Shujiao led his army south. Wherever he went, he was invincible. Most of the towns in Kansai fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. After learning the news, the Japanese shogunate army that fought against Amakusa Shiro had no intention of fighting. They were defeated by Amakusa Shiro's army on the front battlefield, forming a defeat.

Soon, the Kansai area of ​​Honshu Island in Japan was occupied by the three coalition forces of the Ming Dynasty, Amakusa Shiro and Satsuma Shiro, while the four countries fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty Navy. The coalition forces issued a special land decree to distribute the land of Daming, their retainers and samurai to the poor and people without land, and to reduce taxes by half. This move was supported by the people of the occupied areas. The troops of Shimazu family and Amakusa Shiro grew rapidly, while the Ming Dynasty was welcomed by the Japanese people, making a lot of money in a muffled voice!

The richest place in Japan is not in Kansai, nor in Kyushu, nor in Shikoku, but in Kanto, where there are many plains and fertile land. It is also the location of Edo under the shogunate rule. The commerce and trade are prosperous, and it is Japan's real power center.

"General Song, Kyoto is our capital of Japan. According to the agreement, you should hand it over to us!" Amakusa Shiro couldn't wait to control Kyoto in his own hands, because controlling Kyoto was equivalent to controlling the Emperor. If the Emperor was in his hand, then he was just, and he was wielding the emperor to command the princes!

The Shimazu family actually thought that their hometown was still under the threat of the Ming army, so the Shimazu family did not dare to face the Ming Dynasty head-on, even if their strength has increased significantly now, they would not dare to.

Song Xiance looked coldly and said, "Kyoto was defeated by me. Your Majesty the Emperor also agreed to my control over Kyoto and handed over Kyoto and the royal family to me. According to our agreement, whoever occupied the place will be temporarily ruled. After overthrowing the shogunate, we will discuss it. If Mr. Yida does not want to fight in the internal strife, please organize your army quickly and we are ready to attack at any time!"

Song Xianke could not hand over Kyoto City, because Japan will become history after this war, and this will be the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If Shiro Amakusa knows the current affairs, he may be able to gain wealth. If he doesn't take the initiative and has too much ambition, he will have to die.

On the other hand, Hong Chengchou had some trouble attacking Edo Port. After all, he got into someone's stomach and was discovered, and Tokugawa Iemitsu was prepared.

The battle with preparation was not so big. Fortunately, few enemies could suddenly attack Edo Port from the sea. The port's defense facilities were even worse than those at the original Naha Port, so Tokugawa Iemitsu urgently recruited tens of thousands of soldiers, including more than 12,000 standing guards.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was quite military-minded. He knew that the Ming Dynasty was coming in a fierce manner and was well-equipped. His fragile shore defense could not stop the bombing of the Ming Navy's sharp artillery, and he could only sacrifice in vain. So he simply gave up the defense of Edo Port, instead shrinking his troops and concentrating his defense against Edo Castle.

The enemy is strong and we are weak, and the troops are disparate. Putting the enemy in and fighting, using our own geographical advantage and human harmony to offset the advantages of the opponent's equipment is undoubtedly the best way. Unfortunately, he encountered Hong Chengchou, and what he did not expect was that it was not a day or two for the Ming Dynasty to plan Japan. The intelligence organization had already infiltrated Edo Castle for several years, and taking advantage of the rift between Japanese foreign vassals and the shogunate, the Ming Dynasty mastered almost all the military deployment and official intelligence of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Therefore, although Tokugawa Iemitsu strengthened its defense against Edo Castle, in Hong Chengchou's eyes, these were nothing but uselessness. The only thing that could pose a threat to the Ming army might be the Japanese army's unfearing Bushido spirit.

The Tokugawa shogunate unified Japan but failed to establish centralization. In fact, it only established a system of mutual management: one was the shogunate rule based on Edo, the capital of the shogunate, and the other was the Daming regime that was autonomous in various territories. In other words, it was a mixed regime of Tokugawa ruling institutions and local vassal regimes. This mixture was consistent with the dual basis of the shogunate regime. On the one hand, the shogunate possessed the territory of the Tokugawa family, the so-called "Tianling", which accounted for about a quarter of the land in the country, and was much more land than any feudal family owned.

The Tenge" is located on the strategic front of the East Japan coast and the central plains. Half of these lands are directly managed by the shogunate organization, and the rest are divided into small pieces and handed over to the Tokugawa family's "Qianma" operation, with the number of chess itself being about 5,000. In addition, the shogunate first relies on about twenty rich families of the same clan as the Tokugawa family, or "Suzai", who are qualified to propose heirs of the shogun. Secondly, the smaller lords with a large number of people, who were loyal to him before becoming a general in Tokugawa Ieyasu. These people constitute the so-called "Classic Period" or "Uinfan".

The shogunate tried to connect the various daimyos with the Tokugawa family through marriage policy. In addition, daimyos must leave their residences in Edo, the capital, and relocate every six months or a year. When they return to their own vassals, they must leave their families in the capital as hostages. The purpose of this so-called "study and confession" system is to monitor the whereabouts of the princes in various places for a long time and prevent them from taking any arbitrary actions in their respective fortresses. This system relies on a dense whistleblower and the system is maintained by the ombudsman system, which is the intelligence department of the shogunate. The shogunate strictly controls traffic routes through domestic passports and road cards. The government formulates regulations on maritime transportation, especially prohibiting the construction of ships of a certain size. Daimyos are allowed to retain only one castle, and the number of armed entourages is stipulated by the official list of shogunate. The vassal does not have to pay rent, but when there are additional expenses in the shogunate, tribute taxes should be paid as required.

In fact, its real power is less than nominal sovereignty, and the gap between the two is growing day by day. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, defeated the southwestern warlords who competed with it in the Battle of Sekihara, but did not destroy it. The daimyo under the Tokugawa Shogunate had a population of 250 to 300 households, of which about nine floors represent the foreign vassals. They were not the old subordinates of Tokugawa, and many of them had fought with Tokugawa. The foreign vassals were regarded as traditional, potential hostile forces in the Shogunate, and were strictly excluded from the shogunate government.

.They owned the largest and most prosperous territory: at least eleven of Japan's largest vassals were "outer vassals". These vassals were located in remote areas in the southwest or northeast of the country. The "outer vassals" occupied 40% of Japan's land. However, in fact, their wealth and strength were much stronger than the official figures disclosed by the shogunate statistics. Satsuma Shimazu was one of them. By the time of the recession movement, Satsuma Shimazu had nearly 20,000 samurai, which far exceeded the shogunate restrictions on him!

During the anti-scene movement, many local daimyos defected to Satsuma Shimazu, because Satsuma Shimazu was the spokesperson for their interests. Perhaps after overthrowing the Japanese shogunate, after the Shimazu family came to power, they would gain greater rights. Most of the areas under some killed daimyos ruled by Amakusa Shiro. After all, Amakusa Shiro has a mythic embodiment, and many people still miss the era of President Konishi. In addition, Amakusa Shiro is still covered with a layer of mythical color. Many Japanese believe that he will be a great figure who leads Japan to glory!

The conflicts between the inner vassals and the outer vassals were all inspired by the anti-strait movement. The Daemons of the outer vassals who disobeyed the Tokugawa shogunate hoped to go further from the anti-strait movement, and perhaps they would even be the next shogun. Just as they started to act, a shocking news came that Edo was captured by the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force and the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed!

In order to break through Edo Castle, Hong Seungchou also paid a considerable price and finally blew up Edo Castle. Nearly 10,000 casualties were killed and killed, and Edo Castle was captured. The samurai trained by the Tokugawa family was indeed very powerful. There were ninjas who had sneak attacks, which were the main reasons for the casualties. In this battle, Edo Castle almost did not survive. I don’t know how many people were buried under the rubble. Until many years later, when people were clearing the ruins and rebuilding, they could still dig out bones from the ground!

Just when Shiro Amakusa was still fantasizing that he would become the master of Japan and become a greater existence than Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga, the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force had completed the occupation of Kyoto, the Japanese spiritual holy land and the Japanese ruling political center Edo Castle!

When the Japanese Crown Prince Shaoren pointed at Song Xiance's nose and scolded the Ming for being treasonous.

Song Xiance said calmly: "What's wrong with me betrayal? Anyway, history is written by the victors. In history books, you will be asking for incorporation into my Ming Dynasty. No word of betrayal will appear!"

The spiritual symbol of Japan, Emperor Akimasa, fell because she was powerless, because she had become a prisoner, and the next time would be spent in that distant country, although that would be his own country.

In Song Xiance's eyesight, Amakusa Shiro's army was as similar to that of the Japanese shogunate. Although it was equipped with weapons, muskets and cannons similar to that of the Japanese shogunate, it was still one level short of that compared to the elite Liaodong army. Therefore, if Amakusa Shiro resisted, it would sooner or later become history.

With the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was no other army in Japan that could compete with the Ming Dynasty. After controlling the Japanese Emperor, Hong Chengchou quickly commanded the army to start the conquest of opposition forces in Japan. Anyone who resisted was brutally suppressed. After this battle, except for those who had seen early and knew that resistance was a dead end, there were almost no decent vassal forces in Japan.

The following year, Satsuma Shimazu announced the disbandment of the army and surrendered. Amakusa Shiro immediately supported him and refused to surrender and all of them were beheaded!
Chapter completed!