Dense artillery fire rained down on Edo Castle, and the inner and outer castles were bombarded to varying degrees. The artillery units of the Far Eastern Army, under the command of observation teams in the pods of several airships, blew up the civil fortifications and walls of Edo Castle one after another like the eyes of Nagaraku.

Countless samurai and ashigaru of the shogunate army were blown to pieces, and there were broken arms everywhere, and the entire Edo Castle was littered with mutilated corpses. Many civilians in the outer castle towns were also affected by the pond fish, and the wooden houses were blown to pieces, and the losses of the civilians were extremely heavy.

When the first round of artillery fire fell, Tokugawa Yoribo was lucky to survive, and most of the important ministers of the shogunate, including the elders, the old man, the Wakanyo, and the Imperial Side Prince, as well as the Samurai of Hachimoto, were killed on the spot.

But he was still blown up by a wave of anger, and fell the city wall, so that he hung under the city. The eldest elder, who was talking to him beside him just now, was blown into several pieces, and the blood and intestines and other internal organs degraded his face.

Tokugawa Yoribo was picked up by several surviving retainers and a samurai of Banner and fled to the castle. The castle was already in chaos, and many samurai and ashigaru of the Tokugawa family turned around and fled.

The shells of the Far East continued to fall as if they didn't want money. Often, a heavy artillery shell, falling in a dense crowd, can instantly sweep away the shogunate army with a radius of more than ten meters. Originally strong civil fortifications will also be blown to pieces.

The castle towers outside Edo Castle have been blown apart, and the castle towers and castle towers have been reduced to ruins. The civil fortifications under the city are even more miserable, a mess, like a scene of the end of the world.

When Tokugawa Yoribo arrived at the castle, he finally woke up from his confusion, and he gave an order for all elite soldiers and horses to withdraw into the inner city. Leave behind a group of samurai and ashigaru, organize a large number of civilians to stand up, and defend the outer city without taking a step back.

When the Far Eastern Army was pressing, he mobilized almost all the civilians inside and outside the city, and even the women and children were distributed with a bamboo gun to participate in the defense of Edo Castle. Serve as the runner of the shogunate army.

In the face of the ferocious artillery fire of the Far Eastern Army, Tokugawa Yoribo left hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder in the outer city, and he withdrew to the inner city with the elite shogunate army to try to make a last resistance.

A large number of samurai and ashigaru of the shogunate army fled to the inner castle like crazy, and the shogun Tokugawa Yoribo was also caught in the rolling crowd. The streets of the outer castle were crowded with samurai and ashigaru fleeing to the inner castle.

"Buzz...... Buzz ......"

At this moment, there was a buzzing sound in the air. Tokugawa Yoribo looked up and saw several behemoths suddenly appear in the air, and the surrounding samurai and ashigaru were so frightened that they shouted one after another. Several huge flying boats hovered in the air. Suddenly, several things were thrown down and landed in turn in the dense crowd of people on the street.

"Boom...... Rumble......"

After a loud bang, Tokugawa Yoribo felt as if he had been pushed hard, and the whole person was lifted up, and the many samurai and ashigaru around him fell to the ground in front of him, piled up on top of each other.

This was followed by an incomparably hot wave of air, which rushed to the face in an instant. Flames erupted from behind them. The streets dozens of meters long were swept by violent flames, and countless samurai and ashigaru of the shogunate army. was devoured in.

There were bursts of heart-rending howls from the raging sea of fire, and the sound was so terrible that it made people feel their scalps tingle when they heard it.

Tokugawa Yoribo was pulled up by several Samurai Banners, desperately trying to escape from the sea of fire behind him. In just an instant, the incomparably hot air waves had already curled their hair upside down. The face is hot as if a layer of skin has been peeled off.

One by one, the burning men rushed out of the raging fire, and some samurai and ashigaru tried to save them, trying to extinguish the flames on them, but instead of saving them, they set themselves on fire. They were overwhelmed by demonic flames.

The scattered flames also ignited the shogunate army outside the flames, and they desperately slapped the flames on their bodies, but no matter how they beat them, they couldn't extinguish them until they also became burning people.

The streets of the entire Ego Castle were like a hell, and the flames that rose to the sky raged wildly, constantly devouring the samurai and ashigaru of the shogunate army, and there were hoarse and terrible screams everywhere.

The demonic flames also ignited the houses on both sides of the street, and the wooden houses were swallowed up and submerged, and a large number of civilians in the city were also swept in.

A group of Hachimoto samurai dragged Tokugawa Yoribo desperately, and they got into the side alley, but they were also attacked by the flying boats, and the overwhelming hot bullets rained down on their side. The Samurai of Kimoto around Tokugawa Yoribo were constantly beaten into a sieve.

Fortunately, they were lucky enough to escape into the inner city. However, due to the bombing of the Far Eastern airboat forces, not even half of the elite shogunate troops who finally fled into the inner city died in the streets.

As the artillery fire from the Far East continued to expand, the inner castle of Edo was also under attack. The huge castle tower was also blown away by a 122mm grenade, leaving only a pile of ruins.

Qiang Quansheng put down the binoculars in his hand, turned around and shouted: "Order the artillery units to extend their fire, and the assault troops will start attacking......

Two Soviet-style MTY-20 armored bridge-erecting vehicles, which roared to the moat outside Edo Castle, were modified from the chassis of the T-55 tank, using a double-rutted, folding springboard and flat-push bridge.

Manipulate the chain transmission device, make the cantilever erection beam push forward together with the bridge body, stop when the former reaches the limit position, and the bridge body continues to advance along it, when the front end of the bridge body reaches the opposite bank, manipulate the cantilever erection beam, make the front end of the bridge descend and is located on the fulcrum of the opposite bank, and then put down the near-shore end of the bridge body, the cantilever erecting beam is separated from the bridge at this moment, and the bridge car retracts the erection beam and drives away from the bridge erection point.

In less than 10 minutes, two steel bridges 20 meters long and 3.3 meters wide with a load capacity of 60 tons were erected. Behind them, two Soviet-style rocket obstacle breaking vehicles with bulldozers slowly rumbled over the steel bridge and pushed all the way to the civil fortifications arranged by the shogunate army under the castle.

One rocket after another, the barrier-breaking rockets were launched with a roar, and with an earth-shattering loud noise, accompanied by the ash and dust rising into the air, two passages were opened.

Several armoured engineering vehicles roared up, pushing through the rubble and driving all the way to the bottom of the city walls. One by one, the sappers jumped out of the car and got busy carrying boxes of explosives. (To be continued......)