Amidst the intensive gunfire, a great purge kicked off at this moment!

But in fact, this entire operation was simply a blitzkrieg.

Miyamoto Shingen was undoubtedly well prepared, and at the same time, Uesugi Ryu was by no means the only officer to respond to his call.

The moment the signal was sent out, many officers within the Eighth Army Corps of the Imperial Army took action at the same time, allowing Miyamoto Shingen to take control of the Eighth Army Corps overnight, and at the same time complete a wave of bloody attacks.

Clean!

However, this is just the beginning.

The city where their Imperial Army's Eighth Legion is stationed is adjacent to the capital.

Before anyone could react, the Eighth Army, which occupied the train station, rushed straight to the capital and officially arrived at the capital train station at four o'clock in the morning the next day.

At that time, the Eleventh Army Corps, which was stationed in the capital, was directly attacked by the Eighth Army Corps without even receiving the news.

At the same time, the most important thing is that within the Eleventh Army, there are actually officers who responded to Miyamoto Shingen's call, and he is even a lieutenant colonel.

With both sides cooperating internally and externally, the Eleventh Legion, which was caught off guard, completely collapsed internally and was completely defeated without even showing much resistance.

During this period, it can be said that there was chaos in the Emperor's palace after receiving the news.

Yamamoto Yoshikazu, who was frightened and angry, transferred almost all the imperial guards in his palace to the surroundings of the main hall to protect himself.

However, no matter how many people there are in the Imperial Guard, how much more can they get? One or two thousand is almost as big as the sky.

On the other hand, the Eighth Army and the Eleventh Army, even after a wave of major purges, their troops are still at the level of legions. If they pile up more troops, they can be killed.

Not to mention that the Imperial Guards in this palace are even worse than the Imperial Army.

The Imperial Army still has to undergo rigorous training on weekdays, but the Guards has now become a place where a lot of second-generation officials have mixed seniority.

On average, at least six out of ten Guardsmen have backgrounds.

As for these young men, who usually just row in the water and don't go to training or anything, can their immediate superiors really train them? Every parent stands up, and the officials are all higher than him. Anyone who stumbles him will be punished.

It can make him walk around without being able to eat.

In this way, the commanders of the Imperial Guards basically turned a blind eye to them. Occasionally His Majesty the Emperor asked, so naturally he had to put it mildly.

Anyway, after so many years, nothing happened. Not to mention the soldiers under his command, even the commanders of the Imperial Guards have been replaced dozens of times. Looking through history, there is really no time when they were really needed.

Going to the battlefield to fight, or to defend against foreign enemies.

It is almost the consensus of the military that the Imperial Guard is a flashy force that is used to set up formations for His Majesty the Emperor to show off his majesty.

In this way, the gate of the Emperor's palace was quickly blasted open by cannon.

Stepping on the corpses of countless Imperial Guards, a large number of soldiers from the Eighth Legion and the Eleventh Legion rushed into the palace with rifles in hand, but the result was surprising...

There was no one in the palace guarded by the Imperial Guards.

In response, Miyamoto Shingen directly captured several members of the Imperial Guard alive and came over for questioning.

But regarding this situation, the other party also looked in disbelief, and even felt like he had been deceived.

His Majesty the Emperor is not in the palace where they defended, so why did they die so many brothers?

After confirming the information, Miyamoto Shingen quickly cleared his mind.

Yamamoto Yoshikazu was definitely in this palace before, this is confirmed information.

After that, their army surrounded the palace. In other words, the people inside could not get out.

Then, the answer is obvious. The other party is either still hiding somewhere in this palace, or there is a secret passage inside the palace, and their Emperor escaped through the secret passage.

To be honest, Miyamoto Shingen prefers the latter, because there is really no place to hide people in this palace.

"Colonel, it's empty down here!"

Because he had done construction work in his early years, Uesugi Ryuu vaguely noticed something was wrong when he walked through a certain part of the palace. After some knocking, he decisively discovered that the place below was actually empty.

"Lift this piece off!"

After giving the order, several soldiers around him came up to lend a hand.

Soon, a dark corridor leading underground appeared in front of everyone.

Needless to say, he directly signaled Ryuu Uesugi to lead a troop and follow the tunnel to catch up, while Miyamoto Shingen himself took the remaining troops to occupy the Emperor's Palace.

The whole staircase leading to the underground was in the shape of a trapezoid, so they didn't know how many meters underground they were at this time.

Anyway, after walking down the stairs for about ten minutes, the road in front of me finally became smoother.

After walking for about five or six minutes, an iron gate blocked their way.

"No, this door is locked from the other side."

The soldier under his command who confirmed the situation said so.

In this regard, Uesugi Ryuya, who obviously had no intention of getting involved with this door, naturally chose to violently unlock it.

I have to say that sometimes, by being simple and crude, many things can be solved.

After that, I pursued the underground passage all the way, and finally discovered that this secret passage was actually connected to the sewer of the capital...

This is troublesome. The sewers extending in all directions are indeed a good place for those fleeing for their lives, but they are not very friendly to the party pursuing them.

There is no other way. At this time, the only choice is to launch a blanket search and ask one of his soldiers to return to the palace to report the situation.

At the same time, on the other side, Miyamoto Shingen, who stayed in the Emperor's Palace, was also busy making subsequent arrangements.

This time, he contacted some like-minded military officers to jointly carry out this operation.

The main members are concentrated in the Eighth Army and the Eleventh Army.

However, in addition to these two legions, there is also the Thirteenth Army Corps currently stationed on this island!

Having adopted a quick battle and captured the capital and the Emperor's Palace as quickly as possible, they naturally had no time to confirm the attitude of the Thirteenth Army Corps.

Therefore, it is necessary to maintain appropriate vigilance.

And just when Miyamoto Shingen was thinking this, a soldier under Ryuya Uesugi had already returned along the tunnel and made a report on the situation below.

After listening to the report, Miyamoto Shingen quickly thought of what just happened.

"In the current situation, if His Majesty the Emperor wants to escape, I am afraid there is only one way to survive, and that is to defect to the Thirteenth Army Corps..."
Chapter completed!