In terms of personal strength, Harada Sonosuke is far from comparable to the "New Selected Three Masters" (Shiba Nagakura and Ichi Saito).
But no matter what, he is also one of the veterans of the newly selected group.
In fact, there are so many experiences in combat that few people from the new selection group can match it.
The morale of the entire army was boosted by himself and killing several people in one go!
Tadashi Matsuhara, deputy captain of the 10th team, shouted:
"Come on Captain!"
The next moment, Matsuhara Tadashi set an example and personally led more than ten team members to form a small "weed formation", pierced straight into the enemy group, and plowed out a blood arc.
Immediately afterwards, more and more soldiers were inspired by the help of Harada Zuonosuke and Matsuhara General, and they all moved forward bravely and fought for their own good!
Compared with the rebels, the defenders had a significant advantage, which was that they controlled the arsenal of Edo Castle.
Almost all arsenals in Edo... cannot even be said to be "almost", to be precise, all arsenals are concentrated in Edo Castle!
The importance of the arsenal is not to be described in detail.
The reason why the shogunate arranged all the major arsenals in Edo Castle was to prevent rebellion and mutiny.
No matter where you are, excellent weapons are not so easy to obtain.
Swords, which are cheap and easy to make, may be relatively easy to obtain.
You can easily buy a lot of cheap Wumingdao in pawn shops and tool shops in major cities and towns.
But "heavy weapons" such as spears, naginatas, bows and arrows, guns and cannons, armors and other "heavy weapons" are not so easy to get.
Among them, counting armor is the most rare and important.
Under the close monitoring of the "Nanji Sect", no matter how hard the "Yiqiao Sect" works, it is impossible to get enough armor.
From a certain perspective, "raising armor" is more difficult than "training dead soldiers".
Due to the limited productivity, armor is extremely difficult to make.
A set of excellent armor often takes weeks or even months to make.
Not only that, every time you make a set of armor, it consumes a lot of materials.
The flow of large quantities of materials is easy to track down.
If something goes wrong, the "Nan Ji School" will follow the clues and catch the handle.
There is no need to judge. The crime of "secretly making armor" alone is enough to make the "Yiqiao Sect" fall into an abyss that will never be restored!
In the era of cold weapons, "privately making armor" is a serious crime that is enough to sentence death!
For the "Ichiqiao Sect", if you want to get enough armor to arm the entire army in a short period of time, you can only capture the arsenal of Edo Castle!
Whichever party possesses the arsenal will have a large amount of armor, and then gains a significant advantage on the battlefield - this is enough to raise the strategic importance of the "arsenal" to the highest point!
The current battle explains the difference between "controlling the arsenal or not".
But the defenders were well-equipped, and everyone was wearing armor, helmets, arm armor, leg armor, and chain mail.
In contrast, the rebels... only a small number of them have armor.
Not to mention weapons, most people only hold an ordinary Wuming Knife.
The equipment gap between the two sides is so big that it feels like a sky.
However, the rebels were not useless.
Although their equipment is not good, they have advantages that the defenders cannot reach.
One is the number of people. Their troops are twice as powerful as the defenders.
The second is that he is full of fighting spirit! He is not afraid of death!
What is a "dead soldier"?
The brave warrior is the dead warrior!
These two thousand dead soldiers are secret legions accumulated bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit in recent years, and their members are very complex.
Some people were orphans who had no support before and didn't even have a name.
Some people were just ordinary farmers.
Some people were once the lower-level warriors who lost their families.
They are either hungry and cold and are about to die on the streets; they may experience major changes in their families and are unable to treat their parents, wives and children who are dying; or they suffer great grievances and no one can stand up for them.
It was the "Yiqiao Sect" who adopted them, gave them a place to live and food and clothing.
It was the "Yiqiao Sect" who extended a helping hand to them.
It was the "Yiqiao Sect" who gave them the opportunity to stand up and be a human being.
It is precisely because of the favor of the "Yiqiao Sect" that they are today!
They cannot repay this great kindness.
The only thing they have is this life!
Due to lack of education and frequent brainwashing by the "Yiqiao Sect", only two words are remembered in their limited brain capacity: "loyalty and righteousness" and "repaying kindness".
In fact, they only have a vague understanding of "why attack Edo Castle".
They didn't understand what this move meant, nor did they know what would happen after killing Aoden and Tokugawa Ieshima.
They only recognize one thing: I want to repay my kindness! I want to use this life to repay the kindness of the "Yiqiao Sect"!
It is true that the centripetal force of the newly selected group is very strong, and countless soldiers regard Qingdeng as their idol.
However, "respect and worship" cannot be compared with "repaying kindness to death".
There are many people in the new selection group who respect Qingdeng, but few are truly willing to die for Qingdeng.
This has nothing to do with morale or training, it is purely due to human nature.
Furthermore, the soldiers of the newly selected group have not yet fully recovered from fatigue.
The "Second Sekihara Joint Battle" and "Running to Kanto" were the first, and the "Faqi Alliance" was defeated later. The high-intensity war had already made them exhausted.
They had just finished a fierce battle and had not had time to take a breath, but they were about to fight again... To be honest, they all felt extremely difficult and already had a lot of war-weariness.
One side shouted "Resist the chaos and conquer the bandits" and "sweep away the traitors."
The other party shouted "The enemy is in Edo Castle" and "attack the rebellion of the jujube".
One party has the advantage at the material level.
On the other hand, it has the advantage in terms of spirit.
The two sides with distinct contrasts fought to the death, causing the land of Akasaka Mimen to be stained with layers of blood.
Aoden had expected in advance that the "Yiqiao Sect" would use Akasaka Mimen as the main attack direction, so he deployed the main force here in advance.
In fact, this kind of thing is not difficult to predict.
The other zodiac gates that "Thirty-six See" are intact. In the absence of siege equipment, it is extremely difficult to break through these tall and exquisitely designed city gates, but the only one of the Akasaka zodiac gates is empty and wide.
In this case, fools know where to focus on the offensive direction.
Therefore, Qingdeng only deployed the minimum number of troops in other imperial gates that were attached to the "Thirty-Six Sees" to serve as a warning.
Although the battle has just begun, the scene is extremely bloody and terrifying.
Knife slashed at the opponent in front of him.
Pieces of remains of limbs fell to the ground.
The newly selected team members here were besieged and were killed by random knives before they could launch a counterattack.
The dead man there followed the example of Zuo Nosuke Harada and plunged into the chaos, but he didn't know whether it was because of his lack of strength or bad luck. Before he could use his skills, he let someone chop his head off.
The 7th and 10th teams were not good at fighting in the field. The strong fatigue and lingering war-weariness really made their movements dull.
But even so, their strong discipline is still there!
As long as the discipline is still there, the combat power will exist!
But seeing that they have evidence of advancing and retreating, they flexibly changed their queues and formations according to the battlefield situation, resolved crises again and again, and blocked one attack after another.
The "Dead Soldiers Legion" opposite should not be underestimated.
The tenacious blockade of the newly selected group did not discourage them.
"Don't panic! The opponent is the new team! This level of hardship is already within our expectations! Isn't it?"
"Our troops are above them! Don't fight alone!"
"Attack the guy who fucks the spear! He is the captain of the tenth team of the new selection group, Harada Zuosuke! Kill him soon!"
Fluent movements and calm mentality... It is not difficult to see that these dead men must have undergone quite rigorous training.
Every dead soldier has very outstanding skills, many of them have the "catalog" level of swordsmanship, and a few of them even have the strength of "free Xu Ji Chuan".
Harada Zuosuke could not be able to rush back and forth between the enemy groups like Aoden, the chief minister, and the others.
After being besieged by the enemy, Harada Zuosuke immediately stopped being calm and carefree as he had just fought and retreated, and finally withdrew from the siege.
At this time, Nakazawa Koto, the deputy captain of the seventh team behind, shouted suddenly:
"Everyone in front is back! The musketeer comes forward!"
Accompanied by Kotoshi Nakazawa's shout, noisy footsteps came from behind.
After a while, a large number of musketeers—a total of thirty people—ranging to the front of the front line in one breath, divided into two rows, half-squatted in the front row, and stood up in the back row.
These muskets are all new items taken out of the arsenal, and the shiny barrels radiate a bright luster.
What a pity... Qingdeng is now extremely lacking in sergeants who are good at using muskets.
The 7th and 10th team members have never received relevant training.
It took him a long time to force himself to gather these thirty soldiers who knew how to use muskets.
Koto Nakazawa stood beside the musketeers and ordered loudly:
"Rise the gun! Shoot!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Such a sparse barrage can naturally not be expected to achieve any remarkable results.
After the barrage roared past, only three people were shot and fell to the ground.
Although the damage was very small, the shocking momentum really suppressed the other party's arrogance.
While firing the gun, there were archers behind the gun array firing arrows.
The projectiles attacked together with the arrows, and the order of the "Dead Soldiers Legion" instantly became disordered.
Although they lack excellent equipment, they have the means to make up for it.
"Tail the stone! Quick!"
Hundreds of dead soldiers reached out to their hearts, took out simple and sturdy scattering ropes, and threw stone rain at the Xinxuan group.
Stones flew into the air, drew neat parabolas, and then fell like raindrops to the newly selected array.
In terms of advancedness alone, the stones everywhere are naturally not comparable to arrows and projectiles.
But in terms of lethality, these seemingly ordinary stones cannot be underestimated!
If they fall on their heads, they will be seriously injured even if they don’t die.
Even if you wear a helmet, you cannot completely resist the impact of stones - this is the power of blunt weapons.
In an instant, many people were hit by this sudden stone rain and were confused.
The "Dead Soldiers Legion" took the opportunity to step forward and launched a pursuit, trying to advance the front in one breath.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they took a step, a new shout came immediately:
"Long spear formation! Come forward!"
The musketeer and the archer retreated, and the spearman replaced it.
More than forty teammen joined the battlefield with three serious guns.
One room is about 1.818 meters, and three rooms are 5.454 meters.
Just like the musket array just now, these spearmen were divided into two rows, with the people in the back and the people in the front row intersecting. The spears in the back row explored the gap between the front row, and the two rows of spears pointed directly at the enemy who was about to embrace.
group.
Harada Zuosuke shouted:
"Run!"
The next moment, the spear formation started to move!
They are like tanks that are slowly activated.
First, jogging, then constantly accelerating! A stern murderous aura hits the face!
In a moment, they plunged into the enemy group and plowed out countless blood beads in the blink of an eye!
The "Dead Soldiers Legion" offensive was beaten back before it was launched.
Under normal circumstances, unless you use long-range weapons or use a spear to fight, you will only be passively beaten when facing such a spear formation that charges.
A nearly 6-meter-long spear... How can you fight with a knife in your palm?
Japanese are generally short sluts with poor physical development, so they have no power to fight back when facing a spear of this length.
Even Qingdeng faces this "three gun formation" head-on, he has to avoid the edge.
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Qingdeng abides by the medical order that "no battle" is allowed.
After arriving at Akasaka Mimen, he always stayed behind.
He and Shimada Kui stood on the same high ground, quietly observing the battlefield and studying the battle situation.
At first, the two armies fought hard and fought evenly.
But as time goes by, the power of the spirit is ultimately inferior to the material gap.
Let’s not talk about the lethality of spears, bows, arrows, and muskets. The 100% armored rate alone is enough to make the "Dead Soldiers Legion" anxious.
Gradually, the scales on the battlefield began to tilt, falling towards the side that was beneficial to the new group.
Seeing this, Shimada Kiyoshi shouted excitedly:
"Lord, that's great! Our army already has the advantage! We're about to win!"
Qingdeng glanced at him and said lightly:
"Shida-kun, don't be too happy too early."
“The battlefield changes rapidly.”
"Until you decide the winner thoroughly, you can't feel like you're sure to win."
Aoden's blame made Shimada Kui very embarrassed.
He lowered his head obediently and apologized to Qingdeng:
"Yes, my subordinates have thoughts."
Qingdeng rolled his eyes calmly, glanced at the battlefield again, and said:
"It is not difficult to repel the dead soldiers of the 'Yiqiao Sect'. But... I'm afraid there will be reinforcements from the other side."
When Shimada Kui heard this, he tilted his head in confusion:
"Reinforcements? What other reinforcements can the 'Yiqiao Sect' have? They can't take out thousands of dead soldiers again, right?"
Qingdeng sinks his eyelids and his eyes are deep:
"There are definitely no death soldiers in the 'Yiqiao Sect'. However, they still have 'potential combat power'."
After saying that, he ordered Shimada Quei:
"Go to pass the order to Zuosuke and let them step up their offensive! Don't hold back and defeat the rebels as quickly as possible! Be sure to be fast!"
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Edo Castle, a town residential area—
"Wife! Get all your luggage and follow me!"
"What, what's wrong?"
"There is a war! A civil war has really broken out! Let's leave Edo while you are not implicated yet!"
"This, this...how could this happen..."
He hurriedly fled Edo with his family and hurriedly - a similar scene appeared in various parts of Edo.
The "New Year atmosphere" dissipated, and the urgent atmosphere of war came again.
The people no longer care about the holidays, they just want to leave Edo quickly and stay away from the smoke of the civil war.
What a pity... Edo, who finally recovered a little bit of fireworks, became deserted again.
It's strange that although countless people want to escape from Edo, at the same time, countless people volunteer to stay in Edo.
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Edo, a certain warrior place—
"I decided! I want to join the war! I want to fight side by side with Yiqiaogong!"
A warrior said this with a firm expression.
His words attracted everyone around him to look surprised.
"What? Are you going to join the war?"
The warrior nodded vigorously:
"That's right! I want to join the war! I want to join the First Bridge Army!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was immediately refuted:
"Are you crazy? Don't do it randomly! It's not our business! Don't get involved! Just watch quietly on the wall!"
"Yes, the situation is not clear at the moment, and it is still unknown who is a loyal minister and who is a treacherous minister. Don't act rashly until the situation is completely clear."
The warrior stared at the eyes of a wide open face and looked angry:
"What did you say? 'It's not our business'? This is a bad thing! Today's war is closely related to us!"
"Da Shu Gong did a rebellious move! He introduced the weapons and military tactics of the barbarians, and intended to form the so-called 'new army'!"
"Yiqiao Gong has made many criticisms about this wrong behavior of Dashu Gong!"
"I firmly believe in Ichihashi's character! I also firmly believe that he can allow the shogunate and let our samurai regain the glory of the past!"
"No matter what, I will stand by Yiqiao Gong! If you are willing to go into battle with me, please follow me!"
After saying that, the samurai stopped talking or stopped. He turned around and left without hesitation, and headed towards Akasaka Mimen.
His friends stayed where they were, looking at each other.
In a moment, more than a dozen people raised their feet to catch up with the warrior!
On the way to Akasaka Mimen, they kept meeting like-minded companions.
"Are you going to support Yiqiao Gong?"
"That's right! The 'Nan Ji Sect' is acting against the rules and flattering the barbarians! I've long been upset about the 'Nan Ji Sect'!"
"I have long thought something is wrong with Ju Qingdeng! He must be a traitor!"
"The time has come to gain fame and fortune!"
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Edo, a certain warrior place—
"Shameless! It's so shameless! That Yiqiao Qingxi is so bold! He dares to launch a coup!"
"Don't be excited, this is a great opportunity for us."
"What do you mean?"
"It may be a good thing to let Yiqiao Gong be our new general! According to Yiqiao Gong's current attitude, he has no intention of forming a 'new army'!"
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