.Twenty-nine, the melancholy mouth of both sides of the front. At this moment, it was the third year of Renxiao in the Japanese island country, and it was in late May.

It has been nearly half a year since the Changzhou coup in January.

Since the rebel party of Changzhou vassal was determined to officially collapse and the soldiers attacked Chuntianzhuang, almost two people have passed.

However, at the critical moment when the Changzhou rebels were invincible and victorious, the shogunate siege was in a mess, and the vassals in the world were ready to move, and people's minds changed, a small stake named Chuntianzhuang was still firmly nailed to the heart of the Changzhou vassal, and repelled the siege again and again, effectively restraining most of the troops in the entire vassal, causing the whole country to sleep and eat.

But the war heroes who stubbornly defended the coastal riverside and completed unprecedented achievements that tens of thousands of shogunate troops had not achieved. The war heroes who seriously delayed the pace of the Changzhou Army were a group of "filthy" untouchables who had never been treated directly,

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At the beginning, the anti-straitors of the Choshu clan contacted pirates to carry out mutiny. They originally only tried to expel the Shinichi Mori lord who was close to the shogunate, but instead supported a subordinate elder of the Mori family who was inclined to fall into power. They did not intend to change the dynasty. The way of samurai is to value loyalty and righteousness.

It may be barely reasonable to participate in the internal struggles of the vassal lord family and use this to achieve merit and gain power. If you directly and without any concealment, you are no longer the chaotic times of the Warring States Period that only talks about fists but not worldly ethics.

Unexpectedly, these young people who were blinded by passion were really hairless and had no business to do. As soon as the pirate network seduced by them came ashore, the situation completely lost control. When the vassal lord lived, the door was opened by the Maori family. After a large group of pirates easily entered the Tianshou Pavilion, the pirates were soon completely blinded by the gold, silver, treasures and charming female relatives in the Philippines."

So the pirates who were greedy immediately turned against the contract and ordered the city to slaughter and robbery, killing all the slaughtered patriots who led the thief into the house and the Maori family members who wanted to seize power. At the end of the matter, they simply set a fire in the Philippines and destroyed the corpse.

In this way, the famous samurai family, which has been passed down from generation to generation in the Western Kingdom for more than 500 years, has almost completely cut off except for the son-in-law Maori Shinichi, who barely escaped.

Now!

The warriors of the Changzhou vassal state who had originally maintained a default attitude towards this suddenly realized in great horror that they had become the "evil in the world" pointed out by thousands of men. They openly colluded with foreign thieves to rebel, burned and slaughtered the vassal state government, and killed the lord's family. If such a traitor was not seriously guilty, then the world would be regarded as a sage!

Because a considerable number of important officials of the Changzhou vassal family were also martyred together in Ruancheng, a large number of local tyrants hated the Maku faction deeply, and they even held a secret meeting in mid-February, intending to respond to the Shogunate's siege and kill all the anti-Maku people who were killed by the sky. They can avenge their own private revenge on the inside, and can eliminate the bait of the national vassal family from the outside." As a result, they were actually led by the anti-Maku people. The middle-level villager of the Changzhou vassal family, Hizuki Soichiro, got the news in advance and immediately led a large number of anti-Maku people to enter the venue, forcibly suppressing this time "anyway." And they killed the heads and blood flowed into a river.

In this way, everyone in the Longzi Phantom had to suppress their dissent and remained quiet for the time being.

Of course, although Hiroshiro Soichiro barely suppressed the situation within the vassal state, he had no foundation after all. He could only rely on more than 300 ronin under his command to rush across the frost path, but he could not get the support of the entire vassal state. Seeing that the shogunate army was about to arrive, the Changshu vassal state was still as chaotic as a pot of noodles. "There was no choice but to give up his grudges and sit down to have a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

Faced with unanimous condemnation from the Edo Shogunate and the vassals across the country, for the unlucky and unlucky people from the Choshu vassal, the so-called countermeasures are nothing more than resistance and obedience. Choosing the former means that the strength gap between the two sides is too large, and they feel a little guilty when fighting. Choosing the latter means that the crime of slaughtering the entire Maori family. Although the guys who directly attacked were those pirates with no credit and the brainless Makuma, the retainers and wealthy families who were sitting on the verge of the fall of Yuncheng were the most

At least they are accomplices. If they cannot find the mastermind or even lead the leader of the anti-shog faction, Hitsuki Soichiro, you can't get rid of this shit. Therefore, no matter how humble they bow down, it is probably difficult for them to forgive the red-eyed Shinichi vassal master of the Mori, and it is even more impossible to get the Edo shogunate who is determined to establish his authority. "No matter how you look at it, if the whole vassal master does not cut off thousands of heads and destroy hundreds of wealthy families, it is probably impossible to end easily.

Seeing that both sides were dead, the Changzhou vassal suddenly had a sad thought of giving up. He simply made up his mind and vowed to carry out this unforgivable evil to the Maku Dayao. The Kyoto court, the secret envoys sent by the Satsuma clan in the southern region and other forces further strengthened their determination to fight: It turns out that we are not fighting alone!

However, the most vigorous jumping up and down, Ichiro Jutsuki, was unable to climb to the throne of the new vassal lord. This guy's family background was too low and his methods were too cruel. He was unanimously disliked by everyone. The only one who escaped from the hereditary family of the Changzhou clan who was massacred by the city because he went home to hold a funeral for his old mother. Shusui Nobuyoshi, who was born in the last generation of the Takeda family in Kanto, took a big advantage with the support of local tyrants and became the "temporary ruler of the so-called "Changzhou Military Government".

Correspondingly, as compensation for giving up the highest leadership position, Hizuki Soichiro became the chief of the "Shock Force" and was allowed to incorporate the original 300 new-style troops in the vassal state, expanding his troops to a scale of about one thousand.

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The Shigao of Changzhou vassal was about 300,000. According to the prevailing practice of mobilizing 250 people per 10,000 stones in this country, it should be possible to gather 7,500 soldiers. If it is to carry out domestic operations, this number should be doubled, which can reach 15,000.

But the problem is that the island nation of Japan has been peaceful for a long time. For most vassal states, including the Changzhou vassal states, this military service mobilization system that was widely used in the Warring States Period has been almost abandoned. The rural peasants and soldiers have not been trained for more than ten generations and are simply unusable. The castle's arsenal is also empty and there is no way to take out many equips. Moreover, the Huocheng arsenal in the Changzhou vassal has been burned to ruins by pirates.

In addition, the collapse of the ruling order caused by the successive civil strife and the escape of a large number of war refugees, even though the powerful Hitsuki Soichiro attracted sponsorship everywhere, they suddenly got a lot of arms and food from somewhere. Shosui Nobuyoshi only barely collected about 3,000 traditional old-style military warriors. Including Hitsuki Soichiro who searched for the fallen Muroons everywhere, the total strength of the 1,000 "Shock Warriors" that finally pulled up was only 4,000, which was equivalent to one-twentieth of the actual number of the Shogunate siege army. This was really a desperate match.

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Unfortunately, there was no turning back when I opened the bow. I reached this point now. No matter how guilty and panic, I could only choose to hold on to the end.

Since we have made up our minds to start a war, according to the military principle of first resolutely defending the country, we should first clear out the unstable factors within the territory. In the Choshu vassal, which has always hated the shogunate, the only one who is likely to fully support the shogunate seems to be the only "filthy, non-human" untouchables who have suddenly received strong support from the shogunate in recent years, and have completely turned over for a while, and have gained a lot of benefits.

So, Soichiro Hiratsuki and Nobuyoshi Soshi immediately divided the work and cooperated. The former led the "Shock Force" to be responsible for the war in the north. He attacked from Shizhoukou and plundered many weak vassal states around and the Izunori Silver Mountain directly under the shogunate to raise military reserves.

The Shousui Nobuyoshi commanded the old army of the Changshu clan, mainly responsible for the war in the south, resisted the advance of the shogunate's main force in the Yamano Road, and before that, he first attacked the Shuntianzhuang where the untouchables lived, but unfortunately stepped into a huge tragedy!

When Mr. Mori Shinichi, who was born in Kanto, married into the Nagashu vassal state and finally became the vassal lord, in order to consolidate his fragile dominance, he also began to learn from the "advanced experience" of the Edo Shogunate or the Daluo Merchant Group, "the filthy and inhumane and the untouchables were rewarded by the untouchables, and at the same time recruited young and middle-aged people. He also hired instructors from the Edo Town Management Team to train carefully, trying to imitate the formation of a powerful Changshu City Management Team as his most reliable direct force rule to emerge from the bar of a single shot. No matter where he placed it, it was almost the same.

Unexpectedly, the future Changzhou Urban Management Team was still practicing at the Fortress of Maguan. The tragedy of the Philippine City that destroyed the entire Maori family had already broken out. Taking advantage of the chaos in the entire vassal state, these untouchables quickly fled back to their hometown, Chuntianzhuang, and immediately started to build fortifications. Most of the local untouchables in the Chossal state were short-sighted and ignorant. In this chaos that had not been seen in hundreds of years, they only knew that they were at a loss. However, the instructors of the urban management team from Edo were all old foxes who had experienced countless sinister struggles and suppressed many warrior riots, and knew that the situation was not good: unless the Chossal state chose to admit guilt and obediently, otherwise, as long as the two sides fought, the "master remnants of the shogunate minions" of Chuntian Village would definitely be the first to be taken to the Makuta Sect to sacrifice the flag!

Therefore, while the Changzhou vassal was still quarreling about whether to fight or surrender, Chuntianzhuang had already begun to prepare for the war.

On the coast of Maguan, there are about 600 Changzhou untouchables. They originally used traditional channels of contact between untouchables in various places to get a lot of old martial arts from the Edo Shogunate and the Naisse East Army to join the Shibaku this time, and a batch of new weapons were equipped with a batch of new weapons. When they received the bad news of the tragedy of the city and escaped from the Maguan Fortress in a hurry, they even swept the fortress arsenal and the granary. Anyway, there were only a few miles between the two places, so the transportation problem was not too big. Moreover, the very few fortress defenders had already disbanded and returned home to watch the situation, and no one was willing to do so.

"Use your life to defend national property"...

Therefore, Chuntianzhuang has sufficient weapons, ammunition and food to stock up, and can withstand long-term siege.

In addition, at the same time as the Mucheng tragedy broke out, an envoy from the Naseril Empire happened to arrive at the port of Maguan. In the midst of the chaos, he also retreated to Chuntianzhuang with the city management team. Among them, there were several good magicians and priests, which further enhanced Chuntianzhuang's defense.

Moreover, the terrain of Chuntianzhuang itself is also very conducive to defense. The mountain is covered with muddy swaths and swamps, while the mountain is steep and steep cliffs. Only a rugged path can wind up. The defenders can rely on terraces and the platform to block layers, but the attackers cannot find any suitable location for heavy artillery. Although the hills where Chuntianzhuang is located are surrounded by sea water, they are covered with rocky shallows. Not to mention large warships, even small boats are difficult to approach.

At the beginning, the Changzhou vassal state seemed to have no desire for the untouchables to come into contact with ordinary people from time to time, so they deliberately gave them such poor and remote mountains and rivers. As a result, when they needed to send troops to attack, they found that this was equivalent to giving the untouchables a difficult Tiancai Fortress. "The so-called impermanence of the world is really this.

From March to May this year, Shu Sui Nobuyoshi commanded the main force of the three thousand Changzhou Army and carried out a full eleven strong attacks on Harutazhuang. However, it was difficult to make any progress. On the contrary, Soichiro Hiratsuki led more than 1,000 surprise troops under his command, despite the huge gap in strength between the two sides, and attacked from all sides. He shone on the outside battlefield three battles of the Iron Silver Mountain, which made tens of thousands of Shogun Northern Army scared and could not step into Shizhoukou. He ventured across the sea to land in Kitakyushu. He attacked the Okura Fan, which was heavily deployed, and destroyed 20,000 Shogun Western Army in one battle. He also found a group of foreign aid from somewhere, and wiped out the entire Shogun fleet in Kumanotan, allowing the 7,000 most elite Shogun New Army to feed all the fish and turtles...

Such a series of brilliant and dazzling achievements not only made Hiroshiro Sect's reputation among the Makuma-sanctuary, but almost seemed to be the reincarnation of the war god, but also made Shosui Shinji, who could not conquer a small village for more than two months, and was even a laughing stock. Looking at the dejected defeated soldiers on the beach, Shosui Shinji couldn't help but sighed long, full of depression and no interest.

In fact, his so-called "temporary rule" has been regarded as very famous from the beginning.

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Although Shousui Nobuki's family's fiefdom is more than 1,000 stones, he is the old man in Changzhou and has received the support of most wealthy families in the Changzhou vassal state. In terms of status, he is definitely much higher than that of Hitsuki Soichiro, who only has a salary of fifty stones.

But if he is a broad relationship and connections, he is basically limited to the Changzhou vassal, and he is much worse than Ichiro Hiroshiro, who is really not sure how many times this guy has wandered around Kyoto and other places, and after that, he met a group of big figures. Even the imperial court officials can come to cheer him up and even send him urgently for ammunition supplies!

Not to mention the foreign fleet that he had somehow attracted, when he remembered the more than twenty giant ships he saw outside the port of Maguan at that time, each of which had firepower far exceeded all the coastal defense and coastal artillery of the Maguan Fortress. Shosui Shinji was really shocked and confused, and at the same time he felt like an ignorant and arrogant frog in the well.

How could a "subordinate" with such terrifying strength be able to stay with him?

Therefore, from the official flag-raising rebellion to the present, Shou Sui Nobuki not only did not participate in Cego and make a decision in advance, but even had the minimum notification. The whole family had generally regarded him as a temporary transitional figure. Just when the shogunate attack was repelled this time, he should consciously resign from his post and let Hirotsuki Soichiro come to power.

This naturally made Shou Sui Xinji, who had not yet sat on his butt, feel very depressed for a moment, but he was completely helpless about it. His record, reputation and influence were clearly there. He looked up at the still towering Chuntianzhuang in front of him. He couldn't help but slowly close his eyes and sighed quietly again.

The siege has lasted for more than two months. My morale has long been depressed and declining. So, what kind of situation should the untouchables who have always been trapped in the parish fighting?
Chapter completed!