Shimazu Tadashi and a group of retainers also followed the legion headquarters to the defense line, and they now had only one thought, that is, to see where those samurai and ashigaru of the shogunate army had gone.

Shimazu Tadashi and his retainer samurai came to the defense line, and they searched everywhere for the shogunate samurai and ashigaru on the defense line. But to their surprise, the line was almost empty. Shimazu Tadashi saw a bunker nearby, so he walked over to see what was going on.

As soon as he entered the bunker, he was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him, and his stomach suddenly rolled violently, and then he ran out of the bunker in a few steps, lying on his stomach in the trench and vomiting profusely.

"Vomit...... ...... vomit"

A group of Shimazu clan retainers also ran over to take a look, but they all retreated with frightened faces, although they did not vomit like Shimazu Tadashi, but they all had a creepy expression.

Although the Tokugawa shogunate army was the enemy of the Satsuma Domain, when they saw the layers of corpses in the bunker, they were still stunned by the scene in front of them, which was really miserable. Yesterday, these shogunate troops were so good, how they died overnight, it's incredible.

Shimazu Tadashi vomited for a while, took the silk scarf handed by a retainer and wiped his mouth, and then said with a wry smile: "Have you gone to see other places?" ”

A samurai from the Shimazu family nodded and said, "My lord, the surrounding bunkers and fortresses are also dead, and I have already asked people to go to the castle over there to see if it is the same as here." ”

Shimazu Zhongheng shook his head, and said with a heavy face: "You don't need to go, it is estimated that it is similar to here." Have you checked the causes of death of these samurai? ”

The warrior sighed and said, "I have examined it myself, and there are no wounds on the body, only burns on the face and hands. Looking at the way they looked, it seemed that they were in pain before they died. ”

Shimazu Tadashi listened and did not speak. He closed his eyes, smiled wryly and shook his head.

The Far East is too terrible, and he now has an inexplicable fear in his heart, always feeling that the Far East may not let go of their Shimazu family in the end. But when he thought about it, he still felt that it was impossible.

After all, Japan is in an overseas frontier, and the Far East has the strength to enter the Central Plains. There are those who have the leisure to occupy Japan. They killed all the daimyo in Japan, and they were bound to leave behind one or two loyal forces to help them govern Japan. Thinking of this, Shimazu Tadashi put his heart in his stomach.

At this time, Hu Guosheng also walked out of a bunker with a gloomy face, and the scene inside also made his stomach turn upside down. He had seen such a scene before, that is, in a documentary he had seen about Auschwitz, in which the Jews were persecuted and slaughtered by the Nazis, exactly the same situation here.

He turned around and beckoned the chief of staff of the regiment and instructed him, "You send a unit to requisition a group of Japanese civilians around. Clean up the battlefield here immediately, and then bury it in a centralized manner, so as not to make any more big epidemics. ”

The chief of staff nodded, turned around and went to make arrangements. Hu Guosheng looked back at the bunker, his stomach suddenly churned again, and he finally couldn't help retching. He cursed secretly, then took out a cigarette and lit it, and took a few puffs. This is what can be regarded as gradually calming down the mood.

At this time, a communications staff officer led a soldier with a radio on his back and ran over. Panting breathlessly, he said: "Commander, the airship brigade of the Air Force has called, and a large number of shogunate troops have arrived from the Kyoto area, and they are rapidly advancing towards the dress area. ”

When Hu Guosheng heard this, he hurriedly picked up the microphone and shouted: "The idea of all units, the enemy situation has been discovered at the front." The detachments seized the time to pass through the line of defense and were ready for battle. ”

He put down the microphone and summoned the commanders of each unit to a meeting at the headquarters of the corps to meet the shogunate reinforcements that were coming from the direction of Kyoto. Study and formulate battle plans.

A large number of Tokugawa shogunate troops were hurrying from the Kyoto area to Osaka with torches. A shogunate general, dressed in a full beard, was galloping toward the defense line in the Hyogozu region with hundreds of samurai on horseback.

He was the Tokugawa shogunate's chief general in Kyoto, Tokugawa Yorinobu, the tenth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and previously the Tokugawa shogunate's pro-feudal head and fief Kii Province. He was also the head of the Tokugawa Shogunate's Imperial Three Clans, the Kii Tokugawa family.

In addition to the Tokugawa family, the "Gosanka" family was a branch of the Oshu family, the Kishu family, and the Mito family, which had the right to inherit the shogun Seiyi. Later generations referred to the "Big Three" recognized in the same field, and it was also decided by the Mito family who would inherit the shogun's heir. The current shogun is the Tokugawa Yoribo of the Mito family, and he sits in Edo.

Tokugawa Yorinobu was the shogunate's chief general stationed in the Gyeonggi region and had been sitting in Kyoto. Faced with the Satsuma Domain, which received strong support from the Far East, Tokugawa Yorino was always very nervous. He made several major concessions on behalf of the Tokugawa clan and made several major concessions, but the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma clan still flatly refused.

He had no choice but to mobilize all the resources and forces of the shogunate and prepare for war on a large scale. Taking advantage of the fact that the Satsuma Domain had not attacked for more than two months, he organized the construction of two lines of defense and built Osaka and Kyoto into impregnable walls. It wasn't until such a huge defensive line project was completed that he was relieved.

In his opinion, with such a strong defensive line, even with the support of the Far East, if the Satsuma clan wanted to take Osaka and fight all the way to Kyoto, it would cause the Tokugawa family to suffer heavy losses. Only by blocking the attack of the Satsuma clan could the Shimazu family have to sit down and negotiate with the Tokugawa shogunate.

In the early hours of this morning, he received an urgent report from the Osaka area, and the defense line in the Hyogozu area and the Osaka area was under attack for unknown reasons, and the shogunate troops on the defense line were killed and wounded.

When Tokugawa Yoshinobu heard the news, he suddenly felt like the sky had fallen. It took him several months, countless resources and manpower, and the two lines of defense that he carefully built turned out to be like this.

He hurriedly gathered the elite of the Kyoto area and continued to rush to the aid of the Osaka area while it was dark. The two defenses he had painstakingly built must not be lost, and once they were broken through by the Satsuma Domain, they would be slaughtered all the way to the castle of Kyoto.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu did not know that as soon as he led the shogunate army out of Kyoto, he was discovered by a Far Eastern airship over Kyoto, and the news was sent to the Southern Army.

At this time, the four passages through the Tokugawa shogunate's defense line had all been opened, and the main force of the Southern Army of the Far Eastern Army was rapidly advancing across the defense line and advancing in depth. At the same time, the naval attack force of the Southern Army also successfully landed near the Yodo River and opened the coastal defense line of the Tokugawa family.

The land and sea attack forces that crossed the two lines of defense quickly spread out in the Osaka area, and while clearing the remnants of the enemy, they actively moved in all directions, and deployed a huge pocket to wait for reinforcements from the shogunate in the Kyoto area. (To be continued......)

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