Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 44

With an order, the 5,000-strong army immediately lined up for roll call, sorted out equipment, and made all preparations for battle.

At the same time, the Shinsengumi Village in Kyoto City is now closed and filled with sandbags and earthbags. Chief Okita divided the 1,000 Xinxuan soldiers who had gathered into the colony into thirteen teams, six on guard, six in rotation, and one in the central army, and took the opportunity to manipulate the rockets that had been placed in the colony before.

If you can fight, you will fight, if you can’t fight, you will walk. Holding down a king’s army is also a victory.

On the other hand, on the side of Zunwangjun, although there is already an imperial edict, it can be regarded as a “soldier” for the shogunate. In the end, they are still quarreling, and they have not decided how to fight.

Let’s sum up the so-called honorable troops, the Echizen-Fukui domain has 5,000 soldiers, the Changzhou Yamaguchi domain has 3,000 soldiers, the Yuzhou Yuhedao domain has a thousand cavalry, and the Sazhou Kagoshima detachment troops have 1,200 cavalry. There were 600 soldiers from the Fukuoka feudal lord in Zhuzhou, 300 cavalry from the Shizhou Jinhe Ye feudal lord, 400 cavalry from the Hiroshima feudal lord in Yunzhou, and 1,500 cavalry for the soldiers of the Qin Wang Party.

The other small vassals were all verbally respecting their kings, but they did not actually send troops, or only a small number of vassals came to “leave the vassal”. Some of the feudal vassal are neutral or samu, and there are also feudal soldiers who have left the feudal lords and come to participate in the war. Including the pro-feudal feudal lords such as Aizu domain and Kuwana domain, there are also fiefdoms who leave the domain and become the Qin Wang party.

“I have a large number of people, and the number of enemies is diminished. The advantage is in me!”

Although Matsudaira Qingyong can’t win the fight with everyone, at least the advantage is clear. Zunwang’s army numbered 15,000, but the shogunate’s army was only 5,000. As long as the second Osaka Division of the Fushimi-cho training team is defeated, the prestige of the shogunate will definitely collapse on a large scale, and then decline.

It would be best if Tokugawa Chusama could be captured alive. If you can’t capture it alive, you’d better kill it. After all, according to the shogunate, the dangers of mountains and rivers in Kanto, the soldiers and the people, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers, were difficult to overcome quickly.

Once Tokugawa Zhongzheng runs back to Kanto, I am afraid it will be another east-west war, and even the whole country will be divided into two pieces.

“Now that the enemy is outnumbered, we should use military might over Fujian and force the public to surrender.” Songping Qingyong said that everyone was unwilling to take the lead.

Let’s first pull the team to the front line of Fushimi and Toba, and use three times the superior force to force Chuemon to come to Kyoto to meet Emperor Komei. If you can defeat the enemy without fighting, that is the most perfect thing. They just “invited” Chuemon to go to Luo, and nothing happened.

As long as Chuemon has entered the capital, he has become a puppet under their control. At that time, the parliament will be held, the shogunate will be abolished, Junxian will be abolished, and the reform will be done in one go.

As for Chuemon’s refusal to send out the barracks and stick to waiting for help? Then it’s time to talk about it.

If you still don’t believe that you are on the battlefield, there will be no mishaps, right? Just put a round of guns anywhere, and the battle can start. Three fights one, even if the shogunate military training team is very strong, they should be able to fight.

Anyway, we can win!

“Please follow this strategy and go out to Beijing to deploy.” Maori Jing personally took over what Songping Qingyong said and began to plan the deployment of the various armies.

Needless to say, the most powerful Fukui clan, with more than 5,000 soldiers, stood in front of Fushimi. But the most frontal position, that is, the right flank of the soldiers of the Fukui domain, was handed over to the soldiers of the Tsuwano domain and the soldiers of the Hiroshima feudal domain.

And there is also a saying about the size of this thing, called “slash tactics”, is it called that. Withstand the front, the troops on one side are greatly strengthened, and the flanks that are convenient to strengthen can have enough troops to outflank the enemy.

The left flank of the soldiers of the Fukui domain was the soldiers of the Changshu domain. The purpose of its existence is to cooperate with the soldiers of the Fukui domain to surround the shogunate army after the battle, and ensure that Chuemon is captured alive or killed.

In the eyes of Maori Jingqin and Matsudaira Qingyong, both of them are big thieves on the pirate ship, and no one can escape, so they can fight together with confidence. The other soldiers have different hearts, and who knows what they are thinking, they will be pulled down on the other side.

And with 8,000 people on the flanks, even the mighty shogunate army training team would definitely not be able to handle it. At that time, it is convenient to take all the shogunate army in one bag, perfect.

The Toba area on the other side of the battlefield had a backbone of 1,000 soldiers from the Uwajima Domain of Date Mongjo Castle, 1,200 soldiers from the Satsuma Domain and 600 soldiers from the Fukuoka Domain on the left flank, and 500 soldiers from the Kings of Zhu Domain on the right. people. The main purpose of this route was not to attack Fushimi Town, but to shield the shogunate reinforcements from Osaka or Kobe Kai.

At the same time, a semi-circular encirclement was formed on the battlefield, which was convenient for capturing the shogunate army later, so as not to make too many people run away.

After all, once defeated, the shogunate army is likely to retreat in the direction of Osaka, and the main role here is actually to block the defeated soldiers. The combat task is not heavy, which is in line with the actual situation that the sources of troops are disordered and people’s hearts are different.

In the end, a thousand people from the Qinwang Party left the vassal, stayed in Kyoto, and blocked the Xinxuan group colony.

“Chengzhi!”

The generals of the army responded in succession. Some people are sincere, some are fake, but they must be shouted loudly, and who is not performing on stage. Since it is a performance, you have to work hard.

Yoshida Shoin, who was standing behind Maori Jing, breathed a sigh of relief. In the end, all the arrangements were the same as what he had planned for Maori Jing. Even Zuochi Hashimoto of the Fukui Domain fully recognized this deployment.

Now that the standing is complete, the Changzhou soldiers are on the far left of the Zunwang army, and they can turn their guns at any time to cooperate with the shogunate army and attack the Fukui soldiers.

The opposite Chuemon has been in touch with him for a long time, and the only way to grasp the timing is to think about it. After all, Yoshida Songyin is preparing to become famous in the first battle. It is best to cut off the head of Songping Keiyong and completely wipe out the Fukui clan. He further deterred the princes and turned into the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Japan.

He turned his head expressionlessly, UU reading www.uukanshu. com glanced at Takasugi Shinsaku and Kusaka Genrui. The two disciples had the same mind with him, but nodded slightly. There are three thousand soldiers in Changzhou, and they are all under their control.

It goes without saying that Takayuki Kido is a **** of Yoshida Shoin. Kaoru Inoue was originally a rebel faction, but after interacting with Takasugi Shinsuo, his style gradually turned to the constitutional monarchy faction. Now Yoshida Shoin also needs him to be by Maori’s side to spread the news. It is convenient to go to the battlefield again, and control Maori to respect relatives.

Then the Changzhou soldiers, embracing Maori and respecting their relatives, together anyway!

Well, anyway, the name of surrender, I will give you Maori to respect your relatives. You cannot rely on this great merit to be awarded a grand duke in the future.

hum!

The generals disbanded and arranged their respective camps without mentioning them. The next day it was not yet clear, and the troops of each team entered their positions one by one according to the established deployment.

The battle that decided the future direction of the whole of Japan opened his prelude in the thin morning mist.

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