The soldiers of the Satsuma clan built artillery positions on the periphery of Sacramento City, and one steel cannon was bombarded at the American positions. Solid bombs and blasting bombs poured down like money, raising mud and dust.

At this time, the artillery still used black gunpowder, but its power was incomparable to the black gunpowder two hundred years ago, making the Americans huddle behind the trenches and stone walls.

"Hey, the firepower of the shogunate is stronger than the rebels in the slave states. We are just a group of temporary militias!"

California militia heard the explosion of blasts outside, and they barely organized artillery to fight back.

The artillery angle inside the fortress was limited and was suppressed by the Satsuma artillery deployed on the high ground outside the city, which made the Americans feel the fear of being ruled by shogunate samurai.

Their group of militias are far from the samurai who were born specifically for war, not to mention that the shogun samurai used not samurai swords, but the exquisite guns and cannons sold to the shogunate by the Ming Empire arsenal.

The sale of a batch of slightly backward firearms to the vassal states was also an important source of income for the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty.

The militia in California hardly participated in the Civil War. They lacked experience than the United States soldiers on the Western Front and the Western Fronts. Many of them were just peasants. They were very frightened when they encountered the fierce offensive of shogunate samurai.

Takamori Saigo led a group of vassal generals from the Satsuma clan, who commanded the offensive against the California prefecture on the high ground.

"The weak Americans, who have not experienced a cruel war, even the fortifications they have built, will soon be able to complete the task. How great would it be if the California gold mine was the origin of our Satsuma Pharaoh. California's area is larger than our Toyo Islands combined, but its population is so small. The Americans have only ruled here for more than ten years."

"Brother, I think we should try less in California gold mines. This is the gold mine that the Ming Dynasty wants to control. No one can take it away from them. We just help them capture this place."

Takamori Saigo looked at his young brother Saigo and said, "I just said it casually."

He also recruited an infantry captain from the Satsuma clan: "After the artillery is stopped, you will lead your troops to attack the fortress in front of you in a scattered line, so be sure to take it down."

Takamori Saigo was blocked by the fortress guarded by California militias, while the surprise troops led by Takasugi Shinsaku, the Nagashu family, secretly bypassed the fortress and advanced straight into the road. The surprise troops were a mixed team of samurai and commoners, breaking the hierarchy. The samurai still maintained a privileged position under the acquiescence of the Ming Empire, but the samurai could not withstand the consumption of cannon fodder. A large number of commoners were allowed to become soldiers, and there were a team of surprise troops, which were treated similarly to the samurai.

The Changzhou vassal state is a powerful vassal state that is not inferior to the Satsuma vassal state.

The surprise troops led by Takasugi Shinsaku were less than a thousand people, and his tactics were like the sinister style of the Orientals. On the front, Takamori Saigo took the lead and attracted the attention of California militias, and behind his back, Takasugi Shinsaku's surprise attack on the city of Sacramento.

When this surprise troops from the Changzhou clan appeared in the city blockade streets, the residents of Sacramento, the gold diggers were panicked and the doors and windows were closed.

The governor, congressman, mine owner, and farmer of California were blocked in the city hall before they had time to escape.

The hundreds of surprises were led by Shinsaku Takasugi, and the city hall was divided into the left and right sides, sealing all entrances and exits of the city hall.

"Hey, this is the state capital of California? The resistance is too weak."

Takasugi Shinsaku stood in front of the city hall, squinting his eyes at the stone building. The gold rush brought the poor and deserted California to the development of taxation to build such a city hall building.

He led a surprise army like a divine weapon descending from the sky. He occupied Sacramento without much resistance, and did not need the Ming Empire behind him to take action.

Occupy Sacramento, you can almost declare your possession of California.

More than a decade ago, the United States also seized land such as California from Mexico, so neither the Ming Empire nor the Tokugawa Shogunate believed that there were any moral issues in occupying California.

In the steam era that follows the laws of the jungle, the caliber is justice, the range is truth, and whoever has a big fist will have the best land.

Takasugi Shinsaku said to the left and right captain: "Let the Takao hat barbarians in the city hall come out to surrender within an incense stick of time, so as to ensure that they will not be moved."

Inside the town hall, many members of the council were as if the end of the world had come. They could see the surprise troops holding muskets outside through the window.

"God, why did the Eastern Samurai appear in Sacramento! Is the fortress lost?!"

"The governor, the warriors and the rebels of the Union are not soldiers of the same level at all. They are simply demons with wings!"

"Everyone calm down. They are for the land and gold, not our lives. Our lives are worthless to them."

Stanford took a deep breath and made a solemn decision: "Everyone, Sacramento City has been lost, so we will temporarily surrender to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to ensure our personal and property safety."

Everyone was silent. They were almost pushed to their chests by the warriors of the Changzhou vassal family. There was no other way except to surrender.

A gold miner tried to say: "Can we use gold to buy those warriors? Anyway, they are also working for the Ming Empire and the shogunate. There is no one in this world who cannot be bought with gold. If not, it just doesn't produce enough gold."

"You're right, we have gold hidden everywhere in Sacramento, and they may not be able to find it. Their warriors attacked Sacramento for the master behind them. Giving some of the gold to the warriors, we might be able to escape to New York safely and save some of the property."

When Stanford heard the discussions of the congressmen, he muttered: "Can warriors really be bought by gold?"

Takasugi Shinsaku was still waiting for the California lawmakers to surrender decently, and he also ordered the members of the surprise troops not to move the Ming Dynasty gold rusher in Sacramento.

Just like the transcendent status of the Ming immigrants in San Francisco, there were also gold miners and miners from the Ming Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty. Jin Zuo Takasugi did not dare to provoke immigrants from the Ming Empire. This is the place that the Ming Dynasty likes.

Thinking of this, Shinsaku Takasugi couldn't help but envy it. California's area is dozens of times that of the Changzhou vassal where he lived, and the land is the most precious property of the Changzhou vassal. The Ming Empire didn't even have to do it himself, but just talked, and the cities in California belonged to the territory of the Ming Empire.

A state legislator walked out of the city hall with a white flag and watched the members of the surprise team and came to Takasugi Shinsaku: "His Excellency General from the East, the governor intends to negotiate with you."

Takasugi Shinsaku looked indifferent: "We have nothing to negotiate."
Chapter completed!