In order to raise supplies and increase the number of soldiers, the shogunate army broke into the palace of the minister in Kyoto and the homes of the people, robbed the property, and forcibly arrested the people, without exception, even those rich ministers who had a good relationship with the daimyo were not spared, so they almost broke into the palace to loot.

Looting spread from Kyoto, and the area under the control of the Shogunate was filled with part-time bandits of the Shogunate, carrying large bags and small bags, chickens hanging from their weapon poles, and driving people to carts full of food and goods.

There were rumors of crying in the streets, alleys, mountain villages, and towns, and the men of the family were taken away and filled into the army, so that the number of soldiers in the fallen army increased dramatically to 300,000.

The fallen army fell into the last madness and tore off the last disguise, because the Ming army was coming!

If they can't defeat the shogunate army before the Ming army arrives on the shore, then everything will be over, and no one will be able to escape from the shogunate army, and at that time, it will not be the Ming army but the shogunate army that will kill them the most.

On the contrary, if the shogunate army is defeated and Edo is captured, it is best to kill the general Tokugawa Iemitsu, then the situation of the fallen shogunate army will be greatly improved, and the Ming army will lose the support of the arrival and become an invader.

If the shogun is here, there is a righteous name, everyone obeys the shogunate's strategy of uniting the Ming army, once the shogun is defeated, the Japanese people will look at the coming Ming army with another kind of vision, and they will rise up to resist.

This is the wishful thinking of the Shogunate Army, for the sake of victory, but also for the sake of their own lives, the Shogunate Army launched a large-scale attack on Edo!

The suzerain sect leader Shuiyue Dazong, who proclaimed that "I am the vanguard", had 5,000 monks under his command, half armed with iron cannons and half with cold weapons, well-equipped and well-trained, but he did not take the lead at all, but drove the cannon fodder to rush forward, forcing those newly incorporated into the fallen shogunate army to hold wooden sticks, many of them were bare-handed and unarmoured, and rushed towards the cannons and iron cannons of the shogunate army!

Iron cannon ---- is the name of the musket of the Japanese people, the shogunate army according to the battle plan, build deep ditches and thick fortifications, guns into battle, they used the inventory of iron cannons, including the previous arquebus have been moved to the position, one by one the muzzles of black holes are aimed at the enemy's source, ready for battle.

The Shogunate Army went crazy, and the Shogunate Army mobilized the people of Edo to dig ditches in a frenzy, increase the defenses, and even build double walls in a hurry!

The Battle of Edo began, first the outer war, the Shogunate Army first had to remove the outlying strongholds of Edo, the Shogunate Army did not fight in the field, but defended according to the wall, in the outermost two stockades, the defenders looked at the Shogunate Army as if the ocean was like a vast sea, and they all gasped.

They were still kind of with the seeds, and they did not run away, but defended to the death.

Although the army of the fallen curtain is outnumbered, as soon as it attacks, the army will be in chaos immediately!

Those people who had no training at all and had nothing rushed to the formation, and were attacked by musket bombardment and cannon shotgun, some of them fell to the ground, and after seeing the blood, the cannon fodder was in a chaotic formation, and fled to the rear one after another, even if they were beheaded by the Overseer, they could not stop the retreat, and even the Overseer was crushed!

The sect leader Shuiyue Dazong has always seen the defeated army like a landslide, Rao is he is as determined as a rock, and he can't help but tremble, knowing that he has miscalculated, it is not easy to let the cannon fodder die, since they are all deaths, catch who bites whom, attack the city wall and can't hit the enemy, but the supervision team is around, the supervision team can kill ten, can kill a thousand? !

The overseer team was severely taught a lesson by the cannon fodder people with fists and wooden sticks, and in desperation, the Shuiyue Great Sect could only let his monks and soldiers join the people, and they were mixed by the people and reluctantly reorganized into an army.

Teach the monks and soldiers in front to use more swords and shields, and arrange the iron gunners in the back, and the people have them as the bottom, so they tremble together, and they slowly carry the long ladder forward in the sound of "dong dong" drums.

The cover is the iron cannon, and the equipment is only a long ladder, and there are no cannons, catapults, ladders, rushing carts, etc.

The ground grew noisy, and the drums, shouts, and shouts soon turned into gunfire and screams that echoed across the field.

The defenders opened heavy fire, lit the cannons, and the fallen army turned into a fallen army, and people kept falling.

With the monks and soldiers participating in the battle, the calculation reached the bottom of the walled city, and the people flocked, erected a long ladder on the wall, and then threw down the black and lit clay pots on the wall.

Boom Boom Boom ...... The explosion sounded, and the "mushroom clouds" rose up and soared into the sky.

Countless people fell in pools of blood, and because the cannon fodder lacked tactical literacy, they all huddled together and suffered the maximum damage from the black powder bombs dropped by the shogunate army.

But the cannon fodder did not retreat, because the monks were also with them, suffering from the killing of firearms.

The bullets on the walls rained down, and the fallen army continued to attack, and under some of the walls, the corpses were piled up to three meters high, and the ladder that had just been erected to the top of the wall was erected above the corpses!

The defenders used all their strength to shoot, throw stones, and drop bombs, and they prepared a large number of stones, which were smashed down towards the city, and the fallen army was smashed to the point of bleeding and bleeding, and was riddled with firearms, and the air was filled with bloody rain and bloody wind, which was disgusting.

More than 10,000 people were killed and wounded in five days, and the level of medical treatment was poor at that time, and the wounded were ant people, and the injuries were almost death, so tens of thousands of people died.

The two walled defenders did not suffer many casualties, but they were ordered to retreat when their ammunition was almost used up, and retreated unharmed to Edo Castle.

After the road was unimpeded, the Fallen Shogun Army launched a tidal charge towards the wide front of Edo Castle!

They don't care about the dead and wounded, there is only one word in front of them, then rush!

Not only the monks and soldiers, but also the princes from all walks of life also participated in the battle in time, and they mixed their small troops with a large number of cannon fodder, playing the role of a kind of hard walnut, so that the cannon fodder was timid but would not run away, after all, "brothers follow me" is better than "brothers rush me".

Start the attack early in the morning, eat a rice ball at noon, and continue the attack in the afternoon until dark, there is a second rice ball to eat, as for those who die, there is no rice ball to eat, and the harsh daimyo even save a rice ball, so that it is difficult for the cannon fodder to be a full ghost.

Under the dense gunfire of the Edo defenders, hundreds of fallen soldiers died, and people died every minute, and more than 20,000 people were killed and wounded in a day!

At this rate, there will be 200,000 people in 10 days!

However, the results were obvious, and the defense of Edo Castle was violently impacted and shaken in many places, and Masayuki Hoshina, as the commander-in-chief, had to use reserves on the first day of the battle and filled them into the holes in the defensive line, so as to ensure that Edo was not lost.

That night he summoned the generals of the garrison, and was furious to see them in a panic.

Don't ask everyone to fight to the death, as long as you try your best to use firearms to defeat the shogunate army, you can't hold it?!