The Southern Army of the Japanese Theater of Operations was in the Osaka area and carried out a perfect battle of annihilation against the shogunate reinforcements from Kyoto. The elite main forces of tens of thousands of shogunate armies were wiped out by the Far Eastern Army.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the commander of the shogunate army in the Kyoto area, was hit by the first wave of 107-mm rocket artillery of the Far Eastern Army's blocking force, and although he did not die on the spot, he died tragically under the wheel of a 6X6 KAMAZ in the Far East, and his death was extremely miserable.

In fact, the original plan of the Southern Army was to break through the shogunate army's defense line, first deal with the remnants of the shogunate army in the Osaka direction, and then concentrate on destroying the elite of the shogunate army around Kyoto.

Unexpectedly, the situation on the battlefield changed, and Tokugawa Yorinobu, the commander of Kyoto, actually led the main force south to support Osaka. This also provided the Southern Army with an opportunity to annihilate the elite main force of the Shogunate Army in Kyoto. As long as the Southern Army succeeded in annihilating the main force of the shogunate army in the Kyoto-Osaka area, it also meant that the Battle of Gyeonggi was basically over.

Therefore, the Southern Army arranged a pocket in the Osaka area and completed the encirclement of the main force of the Kyoto Shogunate Army. After the battle began, the artillery and airships of the Far Eastern Army carried out a fierce bombardment of the shogunate army in the encirclement, and then the mechanized mobile detachment and cavalry unit, as well as the field brigade, overseas brigade, and death army troops also launched an attack, and in only a few hours, most of the elite main forces of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Kyoto and Osaka areas have been annihilated.

After the Southern Army annihilated the main force of the Kyoto Shogunate Army, it did not let the troops rest, but took advantage of the emptiness of troops in the Kyoto area and led the troops all the way to Kyoto. The mechanized mobile detachment and the two indigenous cavalry divisions of the Outer Northeast, which were responsible for the assault mission, carried forward the spirit of continuous combat and, with the support of the Air Force's airboat brigade, broke through the Kyoto defense line and fought all the way to the city of Kyoto.

The main forces of the follow-up of the Southern Corps. I also quickly felt that the city of Kyoto surrounded Kyoto, Japan. He also eliminated the remnants of the shogunate army around Kyoto.

At this point, the Southern Army of the Japanese Theater successfully ended the Battle of Gyeonggi. In the following time, the Far Eastern Army only surrounded Kyoto, and then pushed Shimazu Tadashi out, and played the banner of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain.

Gao Jianguo also paid more attention to this battle. He deliberately rushed to the Osaka area by airship and observed the entire process of the Southern Army's encirclement and annihilation of tens of thousands of shogunate troops. After the Southern Army surrounded Kyoto City, Gao Jianguo also sent a congratulatory message to the Southern Army and encouraged them to make persistent efforts to strive for greater victories.

The attacking forces in several other directions of the Japanese theater of operations also progressed very smoothly, and the Eastern Army also successfully broke through to Edo Bay, and then divided its troops into three routes. Organized a large number of offshore steam deck barges, and used the waterways of the Arakawa, Sumida River, and Tama River to fight all the way into the deep Edo area, and then began to land in various places, sweeping around Edo Castle and blocking all the roads around Edo Castle.

The Northern Army successfully landed in Hitachi Province and annihilated the Mito Tokugawa family of the Mito Domain in just one day. and captured Mito Castle. Then only a small number of troops were left to clear the remnants of the enemy, and the main force waved south. Successfully rendezvous with the Eastern Army and Edo Castle. The Western Army also successfully entered Ise Bay and landed at Owari, sweeping through the Owari Domain along the way and capturing Nagoya Castle with ease.

The offensive of the Far Eastern Army was extremely fierce, and in order to speed up the offensive, various corps organized assault groups consisting mainly of mechanized mobile detachments and cavalry units. With the support of the Air Force's airboat brigade, they went on a rampage all the way to a sharp knife to the enemy's center.

The shogunate army only set up a large-scale defensive line in the Kyoto and Osaka areas to prevent the attack of the Satsuma domain. The Owari Domain, Edo Castle, and Mito Domain all only strengthened their defenses. There was no defensive line as perverted as the Osaka area, so the attack in the other three directions of attack went extremely smoothly.

The Southern Army dropped a large number of special weapons at the Battle of Gyeonggi, causing heavy losses to the shogunate's defenders on the land line between Harima and Settsu, as well as on the coastal line along the Yodo River in Osaka.

According to incomplete statistics after the war, nearly 100,000 people died within a few hours of the special weapons being dropped, and another 100,000 people were injured due to the erosion of poisonous gas, but they did not receive effective treatment, and in the following days, they all died one after another.

The situation was even more serious in the area of Osaka Castle and Joshitacho, as the Far Eastern Army used the more powerful phosgene, and the direct and indirect death toll was probably greater than that of the shogunate defenders on two defensive lines.

In addition, after the Nagoya Castle of the Owari Domain and the Mito Castle of the Mito Domain were captured by the Far Eastern Army, the Death Army units entered the castle first as assault troops, and the various legions began to connive at them to massacre the castle for three days, and no one counted how many people died in the last two castles.

Two days later, the Northern Army and the Eastern Army were ready for a joint attack on Edo Castle. In fact, when the two legions met under Edo Castle, they would have the ability to take Edo. However, the area around Edo was the base camp that the Tokugawa shogunate had painstakingly managed for many years, so the two regiments sent a large number of troops to carry out a brutal sweep of the area around Edo for several days.

In the 8th year of Keicho (1603 AD), after Tokugawa Ieyasu was appointed shogun and established the shogunate there, Edo became the capital of Japan. In the first year of the Meiji era (1868), after the Meiji army entered and occupied Edo, Edo was changed to Tokyo.

Edo Castle was built on a large scale from the 11th year of Keicho to the 13th year of Kanei (1636 AD), and was built for nearly half a century. At that time, Edo Castle was about 5.5 kilometers from east to west, 4 kilometers from north to south, and there were inner moats and outer moats around it, and the circumference of the outer moat was about 16 kilometers.

In 1868, a coup d'état took place in Japan, and the Restoration government led by the four great feudal clans of Satsuma and Choshu was established, announcing the abolition of the Tokugawa shogunate and placing power in the emperor's court. The "official army" of the Restoration government, mainly composed of Satsuma and Choshu samurai, marched to Edo Castle, the ruling center of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The morale-boosting Sacho samurai are gearing up to storm the Tokugawa lair to avenge the battle of Sekigahara more than 200 years ago. Faced with a strong enemy, the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshiki, did not organize resistance, but took the initiative to retire and self-confinement and introspection at Kaneiji Temple.

After negotiations, the Imperial Court decided to exempt Tokugawa Yoshiki from death, and the Tokugawa family business was inherited by Tayasu Kaminosuke (Tokugawa Ietatsu), and the former shogunate retainers were properly settled. Subsequently, Katsukaishu officially handed over Edo Castle to the new government forces, marking the end of the 300-year reign of the Tokugawa shogunate. This is the famous "Edo bloodless opening of the city" in Japanese history.

However, this time, the soldiers of the Eastern Army and the Western Army of the Japanese Theater Command of the Far Eastern Army were under Edo Castle, but they did not have the consciousness of "opening the castle without blood", and nearly 10,000 troops of the Death Army were extremely excited, hoping to capture Edo Castle, which was in charge of the Japanese world. (To be continued......)

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