"Go to Fukui Phan?!"
Although it was a very simple sentence, it caused a thunderous shock after it was heard by Gao Lao! It made him dizzy!
His eyes were wide open, his eyelids were folded together, and his pupils were tightened into a pinhole.
The next moment, he rushed forward like a hungry tiger, completely ignoring his image and grabbed the attendant's shoulders.
"When did he leave?!"
A ferocious expression and a terrifying roar... The attendant was frightened, his cheeks turned white, and cold sweat broke out.
Now, there is no need to continue to conceal things.
What's more, judging from Gao Lao's current fierce appearance, if he delays, he might have his life!
So, the attendant dared not neglect, stammered and replied in all the same way:
"One, one hour ago... Lord Yiqiao left the Bujing Gate... I only knew that he was going to Fukui Phan, and I didn't know which way he would take..."
[Note: The small wooden door in the backyard of the Edo period in Daming, the Qimoto family was sent to those who collect shit and urine, sinners and the dead.]
After hearing this, Gao Lao said that his already twisted facial lines were even more terrifying.
For an hour...for so long, what do you know where he has escaped now!
The only thing that can be confirmed is that he is definitely not in Edo now - unless he is crawling, he will definitely leave Edo after a full hour.
Even if you send a fast horse to chase, you will definitely not be able to catch up.
Suddenly, Gao Lao figured out many things.
No wonder he was in a hurry to disband the meeting today... It turned out that he was busy running away!
It is unknown whether he decided to run away early in the morning or whether he decided to run away after listening to the man's advice.
In any case, the fact that "a bridge escapes at the battle" has been decided...
In an instant, a strong annoyance swept across his body.
With anger at his heart, he heard a "scarlet" sound. He suddenly pulled out the sword from his waist, turned around and slashed the wooden pillar next to him.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
Every time he shouted "Damn it", he waved the blade in his hand vigorously.
The shadow of the knife sways, and the wood chips fly.
All the people around him held their breath and condensed their breath, trying to minimize their presence, for fear of being implicated.
After a while, Gao Lao, who had cut more than ten times in a row, gradually stopped.
"Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Accompanied by heavy breathing, his hands trembled violently, and even the wrinkles between his cheeks were trembling slightly - this was an extremely angry physical reaction.
Although he was very venting, the indignation on his face did not weaken at all.
At this moment, he deeply realized the heavy sadness of the words "I am about to fight to the death, why did Your Majesty surrender first?"
Lord Yiqiao, we still have the power to fight, and we don’t need to escape with our tails between our legs, why do you have to retreat in a hurry?!
Regarding "how to break through Edo Castle before the main force of the new group arrives", Gao Lao did not blindly emphasize the power of "spiritualism", he has effective specific solutions.
The strategy he thought of to return to heaven was to let Keiki Ichihashi personally fight! Just like Tokugawa Ieshiro during the "Edo Cage Battle"!
It is true that Tokugawa Ishi Shige is the mortal enemy of the "Ichibashi Sect", but Gao Lao has to admire the other party's courage.
It was thanks to Tokugawa Ishiki's personal position that the morale of the defenders was greatly boosted and they fought to the death to fight the enemy.
The "Edo Cage Battle" was able to win and the defenders could hold on until Aoden led his troops to come, which was inseparable from Tokugawa Ishiki's efforts and courage.
Imagine how inspiring it is to imagine that the leader of the "Ichibashi Sect" and Tokugawa's biological son Keiki Ichibashi personally came to the front line?
If the bridge is really able to command the army in person, it will definitely make the entire army more ambitious!
In this way, there is still a chance to capture Edo Castle with this morale that is like a helper of God!
The reason why he suddenly came to Yiqiao Qingxi tonight was to persuade him to take the imperial commander and make his last attempt.
However... Yiqiao's escape made his plan vague...!
As soon as he thought of this, a new anger surged in his heart, and Gao Lao grabbed the hilt of the knife in his palm and creaked.
Of course, as one of the few practical people in the "Yiqiao Sect", he was never the kind of person who would lose to emotions.
I saw him take several deep breaths, barely suppressing the boiling emotions in his heart.
Now that things have come to this point, no matter whether it is "complainting" or "venting", it is of no use! You can only try your best to remedy it!
He lowered his head, pondered and meditated... his facial expression gradually returned to calm.
After a moment, he turned his head and looked at the young surnames behind him:
"No one can tell that Ichihashi has fled Edo...block news!"
He was about to continue speaking, but a sudden hesitation tripped his tongue.
After about 10 seconds, he gritted his teeth and continued the words:
"Send orders to the front line...ready to evacuate!"
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The next day, early morning—
Edo, Edo Castle, Akasaka Mimen—
Today is still cloudy, with lead-gray clouds covering the sunlight.
With the arrival of a new day, the defenders of Akasaka Mimen were cheering up and ready to welcome today's battle.
But the soldiers - whether it is the new selection group, the "Sanfan Group", or the rebels - are all excited and show their confidence.
Since yesterday, more than 2,000 civilians have come to participate in the war!
Compared with the total population of Edo, this number is not too large, but it is far beyond Aoden's expectations.
The civilians... no, correct. The rebels have proved their abilities and backbone through their superior performance yesterday.
Nowadays, although we cannot say "no", no one in the defenders said contemptuous words such as "What are the uses of civilians?" and "civilians should not be allowed to fight".
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At first, the two thought they had read it wrong.
After blinking several times, they caught up with reality.
Tianzhangyuan murmured:
“Retreat…”
Qingdeng immediately turned his head and shouted to the messenger behind him:
"Call Zuosuke over."
The messenger responded quickly to "yes" and then quickly retreated.
After a while, Harada Zuosuke rushed over with great strides.
Qingdeng ordered:
"Sounosuke, you bring 500 troops to monitor the rebels. If the rebels really retreat, you will act according to your opportunity and destroy them as much as you can."
When talking about the sentence "Do what you can to destroy it", Qingdeng specially emphasized his tone.
When Harada Zuosuke heard this, he smiled knowingly:
"clear!"
After saying that, he turned around and left in a hurry.
Qingdeng withdrew his gaze and looked at the enemy camp in the distance again - but found that Tianzhangyuan had his head lowered, clinging to the railings of the watchtower with both hands.
"ha……"
She let out a long sigh, and then slowly sat down to the ground as if she was relieved.
Seeing this, Qingdeng said half-jokingly:
“The floor is very cold.”
Tianzhangyuan replied in the same half-joking tone:
"It's okay, it's better to be cooler, it just cools down my hot body."
She said seriously and used her hand to fan herself.
“It’s not hot today.”
"I know. I'm particularly excited by the rebels' retreat."
After the two of them said a sarcastic taunt, they turned back to the topic.
Tianzhangyuan whispered:
"The rebels actually retreated... I thought this battle would last for another period of time."
Qingdeng said lightly:
“'Everything changes' is a major feature of war.”
Tianzhangyuan said again:
"It's really unexpected... The 'Yiqiao Sect' has not completely lost its chance of victory, so why did it suddenly retreat?"
Qingdeng replied without hesitation:
"I guess it's because Ichihashi Keihi escaped."
Tianzhangyuan tilted his head, showing confusion:
"'Yiqiao Qingxi escaped'? Why did you say this?"
Qingdeng bent his mouth:
"Because this is something that Ichihashi Keihi would do. Well...what should I say..."
He paused, conceived the wording.
After a while, he said slowly:
"To put it bluntly, Yiqiao Qingxi only has a prominent identity and no leader."
After the beginning of the sect, he explained to her concisely the character flaws of Ichihashi.
Judging from Ichihashi's life experience, his talent and morality are indeed amazing.
His father Tokugawa Qiaki believed that the gorgeous and light Edo customs were not conducive to developing a simple and heroic manly spirit.
For this reason, Ichihashi was sent back to the Midoka area for raising him when he was less than one year old.
Later, he invited Masashisai Aozawa and Yankushi Aoyama to be his teachers.
Huize Masashizhai is the author of the book "New Theory", which is regarded as the classic work of respecting kings and expelling barbarians.
Aoyama Yankun is the chief professor of the "Hongdaoguan" of the vassal school and the president of the "Zhangkaoguan" of the History Bureau.
The two of them thoroughly instilled Mito's knowledge and the Fu Feng Xingqi of Ichihashi.
Tokugawa Qiaki also believed that Daming's children should be more powerful than ordinary samurai, so the education was extremely strict and did not allow Higashi Kaiki to be infected with bad habits such as wine, sex, gambling, etc.
With the careful training of Tokugawa Shiaki, Ichihashi Keiki indeed grew into an excellent samurai.
He is civil and military, and has a good moral character.
He is not drunk, does not gamble, does not lust - he has only married a full-time wife at present - he has never developed "person-like behavior".
Compared with other people of the same level in the same era, Keiki Ichihashi is definitely a model among samurai.
To be rigorous, Yiqiao's moral character is still above Qingding.
At least, he has three good wives and is still unclear to the "Empress Dowager", so he absolutely has no position to accuse the other party of "misconduct".
In this case, it is no wonder that so many people support Ichihashi.
On the surface, Ichihashi is indeed a very outstanding young man.
At first, Qingdeng also believed that Yiqiao Qingxi was a strong enemy that should not be underestimated.
It was not until the farce of "May 10th, the barbarians began to be expelled from the other party's personality weaknesses.
Simply put, Yiqiao Qingxi's compressive ability is extremely weak! His resilience ability is very poor!
In a relaxed environment without any pressure, his excellent talents will be fully utilized and he will make very wise decisions from time to time.
But once he enters a high-pressure environment, his rationality will be greatly reduced, and he will not be able to achieve 10% of his ten costs.
Not only that, according to Qingdeng's observation, Yiqiao Qingxi also has an escaped personality.
Once you encounter an accident that is difficult to resolve, you just want to escape.
Haikou, which originally praised the court for "the anti-barbarians on May 10th, began to expel the barbarians", is the best testimony to this argument.
There is no complicated reason behind this incident.
Without any planning or thinking about it, I just felt annoyed and wanted to leave Kyoto as soon as possible, so I just talked about the date of "May 10" - that's all.
In fact, this kind of person is not uncommon.
Anyone who has experienced many vicissitudes of life... no, anyone with a little social experience has encountered such people more or less.
There is no big problem when the environment is comfortable; when the environment is urgent, the ugly thing will appear... There are not too many people like this.
Facts have proved that Yiqiao Qingxi is indeed not suitable to be a monarch.
He is only suitable to be a scholar who studies knowledge in his study - only a quiet study is his best destination.
After listening to Qingdeng's explanation, Tianzhangyuan nodded slightly:
"Has Yiqiao Keixi escaped... If so, we can indeed understand why the rebels suddenly retreated."
Qingdeng Road:
"This is just my guess and it is not guaranteed to be correct. The rebels may have to withdraw their troops for other reasons."
Speaking of this, he stopped for a while.
Then, he chuckled "ha" and changed into a light smile:
"Well. In any case, the 'rebel retreat' is a foregone conclusion."
"Although it was earlier than expected,... Your Highness, let us celebrate this hard-won victory now."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand to Tianzhangyuan.
Tianzhangyuan looked at the big hand in front of him, smiled, gently raised the tenderness, and put it on.
With Qingdeng's assistance, she stood up again.
Then, the two of them stood shoulder to shoulder as they had just now, looking at the slowly retreating rebels.
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The next day, late at night—
Kyoto, Imperial House—
“Are you ready?”
Iwakura looked at the confidants in front of him.
"It's ready!"
Someone answered like this with a strong force.
Iwakura Nodded:
"Very good! Then, follow me! Let's go and save His Majesty and the Prince!"
After speaking, he took the lead and rushed to the depths of the imperial station.
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