The sudden and massive invasion of the Ming army shocked not only the shogunate in Edo, but also the imperial court in Kyoto.

However, after learning that the Ming army had the banner that the Ming army had actually "respected the emperor and expelled the barbarians", the young Emperor Houmio became much hostile to the Ming army. Then, he summoned the imperial court for the first time and asked him about the true intentions of the Ming court.

"Your Majesty, judging from the Ming Dynasty's notice, the enemy of the Ming Dynasty is the Tokugawa family, not the Emperor!"

Nijo-faith is the most prejudiced official of the Kyoto court against the shogunate. He is now the most powerful position in Japan, "Kanbai", which is also the position that his family Fujiwara clan has been monopolized for thousands of years. Of course, except for the nameless Toyotomi.

"That is to say, the Ming people respect me, the Emperor? They don't want to destroy Japan, but to destroy the Tokugawa family?" Gomizuo was greatly inspired.

"Yes, your majesty!"

Nijo, who hated the shogunate and Tokugawa family very much, gave the emperor a clear and satisfactory reply. He told the emperor that the Ming people had announced the entire Japan that once the Tokugawa shogunate was eliminated, the Japanese regime would still be borne by Japanese knowledgeable people.

Then, the great power must be returned.

Guan Bai will inevitably regain real power, rather than becoming a puppet of the shogunate.

These were released to Kyoto through some means by the Ming people.

Although Nijo knew that the Ming people did not have a good intention to release goodwill to the Kyoto court at this time, but hoped that the court could confront the shogunate, which would be beneficial to the Ming people's military actions.

However, Nijo still accepted the "good intention" of the Ming people. After all, the Ming army could not truly conquer Japan. After defeating the shogunate, the Ming people would inevitably return the major power.

By then, the imperial court with the emperor is the real existence that can take over the shogunate heritage. Those wavering and waiting-and-see powerful vassals are not qualified to be the second Tokugawa Ieyasu, and not even qualified to be the second Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Therefore, both the public and private sectors have firm hopes to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty.

The Emperor is the biggest weight of this cooperation.

Now, the young Emperor has shown his attitude. This is crucial.

After hesitating for a while, Houshuitai lowered his voice and said, "So, is that okay?"

"I understand what Your Majesty means, and I will send someone to do it immediately."

With the emperor's approval, Nijo had greater confidence to convince those important officials to rise up and oppose Tokugawa Hidetachi.

"Your Majesty, the Satsuma Shimazu family has written to the court to publicly express their willingness to respond to the Arima family of Himema." In order to strengthen the emperor's desire to eradicate Hidetachi, Nijo told the emperor about a good news he had just received.

"The Shimazu family has also risen?"

Gomizuno was surprised and happy. Satsuma was a powerful vassal. If the Shimazu family could express their support for the great power and return it, Kyoto would become the real Kyoto in Japan.

"The shogunate will do something wrong, and everyone will be punished! I ask Your Majesty to secretly entrust the various vassals to fight Xiuzhong together!" The two irons that were struck while the iron was hot actually came up with the secret entrustment.

The young Emperor, however, he hesitated. He did not discuss the secret edict, but said, "That person is so hateful, I don't like him very much."

In this way, after leaving such a sentence to the only trusted important minister, Hou Mizuyo got up and left the secret room.

His Majesty the Emperor's hatred for the Tokugawa family was unreserved, because the Tokugawa family gave the Emperor too much humiliation.

Back then, the reason why Gomizuo's father, Emperor Goyoseki, gave up his throne was because of Tokugawa Ieyasu. If the court needed the shogunate's financial assistance and had to surrender to the power of the shogunate, then it would be even more abominable to Tokugawa Hidetachi's fingers at the Emperor's personal affairs.

Gomizuo loved his female official deeply and gave birth to a son and a daughter. This incident was originally a matter of the Emperor's harem, but it aroused strong dissatisfaction from Tokugawa Hidetachi. He wanted to force the Emperor to marry his eleven-year-old daughter and son, which was simply too much!

I will never become the son-in-law of the Tokugawa family!

Gomizuo secretly swore that if it weren't for the shogunate army gathered outside the city, he wouldn't even want to send people to express condolences to Tokugawa Hidetachi who wanted to fight the Ming army in a decisive battle with the Ming army every day.

To be patient, you still need to be patient.

Kyoto is still under the control of Hidetaka's close surveillance. Even though the young emperor has all kinds of ideas, his important officials have all kinds of courage, they dare not reveal their true thoughts at this time.

The decisive battle with the Ming people was not only the hope of the shogunate, but also the hope of the emperor.

Your Majesty, how much I hope that the great power can be returned!

Your Majesty hopes that all the knowledgeable people in Japan can "respecte the emperor and expel the barbarians" together with the Ming army.

Whether it is history or the notices of the Ming people, it shows that the Ming Dynasty has absolutely no territorial ambitions for Japan, and their conquest is simply to eliminate all evil shogunate power.

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The Satsuma clan published an open letter to oppose the shogunate, which deeply stimulated Tokugawa Hidetachi.

In order to seize the initiative in the war, the Ming army in the Nara area was wiped out before the Ming army reinforcements arrived. Tokugawa Hidetaka ordered the shogunate army near Kyoto to approach Nara, and he wanted to establish the unshakable position of the shogunate with a big victory.

On the 14th, more than 80,000 shogunate standing troops advanced towards Nara with flags of five colors: red, white, blue, yellow and black.

The news kept coming back to Kyoto, and turned into a scene of red and dark action, which had a huge psychological shock to the Kyoto court.

Whether the Ming army wins or the shogunate wins has become the biggest question mark in the hearts of everyone in Kyoto.

The Imperial Army on the Nara line also received news of the Japanese general attack. In terms of military strength, the Japanese army had a great advantage. The Japanese army was equipped with a large number of iron guns, iron cannons, and cavalry combat. The Imperial Army was stationed in Nara City only the first infantry regiment and part of the baggage and engineering troops of the Guard Division, with a total strength of less than 5,000.

The latest order came from the base camp, and Eunuch Wei wrote, "The Guards Division must win the battle of Nara City!"

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army moved from all directions to Nara, and both sides were constantly increasing their troops.

On the 18th, the Third Infantry Regiment of the Taiwan Security Division, the Third Infantry Regiment Division, the First Regiment of the Taiwan Volunteer Yong Imperial Alliance Army, recruited by Fujian and Zhejiang, reached Tianjin City in total, and immediately reinforced in the direction of Nara.

The "Yuxi Detachment" led by the brother-in-law of Wei, Wang Youxi, also successfully landed in Osaka. In order to expose the Japanese army's resistance, the commander of Wang Youxi's brigade ordered the looting of Osaka, causing the innocent deaths of at least 20,000 Osaka people.

The Ming army in the direction of Osaka seriously threatened the Japanese flanks. In order to gain time, Hidetachi Tokugawa ordered an attack on the Castle of Nara on the 24th.

Although the imperial army in the city was weak, it relied on the Nara wall to resist stubbornly and had firearms better than the Japanese army, which made the shogunate army unable to complete a major breakthrough.

After several days of hard fighting, the shogunate army still could not defeat Nara.
Chapter completed!