The shogunate army received an order from Tokugawa Yorinobu and immediately prepared to retreat, and the brigade began to move towards Kyoto. He also left the samurai to lead some ashigaru and set fires everywhere to burn military rations and other supplies near Osaka.

Because of the rush of time and the relatively rough means of arson, many Japanese civilians' houses near the storage site of the materials were also ignited by the fire, and most of the people were asleep at this time, and many people were burned alive. For a moment, flames rose into the sky, and the dark night sky was baked red.

The sky-high flames can be seen in a radius of dozens of miles. Hu Guosheng immediately realized that the Tokugawa shogunate army was going to run, he picked up the microphone and shouted loudly: "All troops speed up, the little devils want to run......"

The units of the Southern Army of the Far Eastern Army, which had received orders, also accelerated their marching speed, surrounded the shogunate army from all directions, and slowly tightened the encirclement.

Moreover, the sniper units were in place and deployed, and the blocking forces were a field regiment and a cavalry brigade, of which the field regiment was interspersed with various vehicles to the blocking positions, for which the southern corps had almost all the vehicles of the land attack force were evacuated.

Three BTR-60 armored carriers of the Southern Corps, dozens of UAZ-469 jeeps and UAZ-452 light off-road vehicles, as well as dozens of KAMAZ trucks, each of which was so full that even the roof was full of people.

Even so, it was only necessary to load all the fighters of Baba's general, and many logistics support personnel did not go with the team to the blocking position. However, there was no place to load ammunition and other materials, so dozens of airships had to be hoisted to the blocking site.

In order to ensure the firepower of the blocking troops, the corps headquarters transferred a number of heavy machine guns and mortars from various units to strengthen this cavalry brigade. And the use of airboat units will be six 75-mm mountain guns and six 107-mm rocket launchers. Extremely ammunition and artillery, all airlifted to block positions.

Under the guidance of the airboat unit, the blocking force penetrated the enemy's blocking position several tens of kilometers deep in the darkness of the night, and established a position there.

Because the troops rushed here for a long time in the starry night, the officers and men were quite tired. He received another order from Hu Guosheng and learned that the shogunate army had begun to retreat. So they could only give up rest and immediately plunge into the preparation for battle.

Regardless of their fatigue, the officers and men quickly stepped up the construction of fortifications on the nearly two-kilometer blocking position, and set up machine gun and artillery firing positions one after another. Engineer units also set up a barbed wire fence and several snake cage barbed wire in front of the position. The entire line was armed with dozens of water-cooled heavy machine guns, eighteen 82-mm mortars and thirty-six 60-mm mortars.

The Theater Command has transferred dozens of airships to the Osaka area, ready to attack at any time. It's just that at the moment the attacking forces of the Southern Corps in all directions are shrinking the encirclement, so the airship troops in the air. He did not dare to take the lead in attacking, so as not to startle the snake and cause the shogunate army to collapse.

In fact, it was very easy to defeat the shogunate army, but it was relatively difficult to completely annihilate them. If the attack is carried out now, it will easily cause a large-scale rout, and the encirclement of the Far Eastern Army has not yet been tightened, and it will be difficult to completely annihilate the Shogunate Army.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu rode on a war horse. For some reason, he became more and more uneasy. There was always a feeling of unease. Therefore, he constantly sent his bannermen to urge the soldiers and horses to speed up. But the sky was not yet bright, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses marched with torches, and the speed could not be accelerated much at all.

But the retreat of tens of thousands of shogunate elites went smoothly, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu slowly felt at ease. He thinks he has made the most correct judgment, and in the shortest time. led the soldiers and horses to complete the preparations for retreat, and even if the Satsuma army reacted quickly, it was impossible to send troops and horses to ambush them in such a dark night.

"Woohoo...... Woo Woo ......"

Suddenly, there was a shrill hissing in front of me, followed by a violent roar. Tokugawa Yoshinobu was shocked. He looked up ahead and saw fires rising in the distance.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu secretly shouted that it was not good, it seemed that the Satsuma Domain had deployed troops and horses in front, and it could be seen from the dense artillery fire in the distance that the Far Eastern Army should have entered the battle.

Moreover, the location he is in now is extremely unfavorable, with the Amano River in front and the Yodo River next to it, and the soldiers and horses he leads have no room for maneuver at all. Either rush over, or you can only retreat to Osaka.

He couldn't figure out how the Satsuma Army had arranged this reinforcement here. But he didn't have the heart to study how the soldiers and horses of the Satsuma clan came here, and he had to return to Osaka with tens of thousands of elites under his command.

Since the Satsuma clan can deploy its troops and horses here, it means that they may have fallen into the siege of the Satsuma domain, and it is estimated that there will be their ambushes on both sides and in the rear. If you want to make it back to Kyoto alive, you have to rush through it in one go.

Thinking of this, he immediately made a decision, pulled out his katana suddenly, and shouted to the Hachimoto samurai beside him: "Give the order to go down and rush over......"

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

Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen 107-mm rocket launchers fell from the sky in an instant, smashing Tokugawa Yorinobu's side, and a huge impact force lifted off the war horse.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu fell heavily to the ground, and the bones on his body seemed to be broken. I couldn't hear anything in my ears except the buzzing sound. He struggled to get up from the ground, but as soon as he reached out, he realized that his entire right arm was gone.

He turned his head to look around, and his eyes were blood-red. The hundreds of flag-book warriors who had been guarding him all along, along with their warhorses, were gone, and were all over the place, with severed limbs, blood and flesh scraps.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu was lying on the ground with his back facing the sky, his heart was extremely sad, he knew that the Tokugawa family was finished. The Satsuma clan thought that it could use the power of the Far East to rule the world of Japan, hehe...... In the end, the Far East must be swallowed cleanly.

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

At this time, a behemoth appeared in the sky above Tokugawa Yorinobu, and two flames erupted, like two flaming whips, whipping the soldiers and horses of the shogunate army unscrupulously. Tokugawa Yoshinobu looked at all this with a dull gaze, and his gaze became more and more dazed.

Suddenly, the ground began to tremble slightly, and in a few moments, horses roared past on both sides. Frightened, Tokugawa Yoshinobu wanted to flee from here, but no matter how hard he tried, his body just didn't move. Fortunately, his luck was extremely good, so many war horses passed by, and not one of them stepped on him.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu let out a sigh of relief, secretly glad that his life should not be extinguished. But two blinding beams swept over, and then a hideous steel monster roared over, and he watched as the steel monster ran over him with his mouth wide open. (To be continued......)