Everyone looked at the commander of the armored engineering vehicle pretending to be forced, and they couldn't help but feel a burst of contempt in their hearts. As soon as they wanted to continue questioning, they saw the commander suddenly pull his headphones and shout, "Yes...... Mission completion guaranteed! ”

After he finished speaking, he smiled at Hikten and said, "Brothers, step aside, brother will open your eyes, you can just look at it, haha......"

Everyone was speechless about this cargo, so they could only take a few steps back and leave the armored engineering vehicle. Hikten looked at a few arrogant armored soldiers, pouted, and cursed in the words that were more popular in the troops: "Pretend to be a prisoner." ”

"Boom......" sound.

A thick cloud of black smoke protruded from the back of the armored car, and then it rushed out, stopping at the street in front. The man jumped into the car and directed several armored engineering vehicles to slowly drive out of the street.

The platoon commander also ran over and shouted: "Attention all squads, serve as a guard for the engineering unit......"

Hearing the order of the platoon commander, Hikten hurriedly ran up, and the cavalry platoon was on either side of several armored engineering vehicles, forming two columns to protect the flanks of the engineering units.

"Bang...... Bang......"

A cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the row of houses opposite, dozens of iron cannons opened fire almost simultaneously, and a piece of lead bullet crackled on the armored car, except for some paint removed, it did not cause the slightest damage to the armored car.

"Boom ......"

A loud bang suddenly came from a wooden house on the street in front, and with a "bang", a live ammunition smashed heavily on the frontal armor of the armored engineering vehicle. But the armored engineering vehicle didn't have any, and the solid shells bounced back heavily. Arquebuses and front-loading artillery of this era, attacking armored engineering vehicles, are no different from tickling.

When they heard the sound of gunfire, Hikten quickly squatted on both sides of the street and hidden, and the platoon commander turned around and shouted: "Pay attention to concealment...... Running group. Hurry up, artillery is found in front, others cover ......"

Before the artillery crew behind them came up, the armored car led by it adjusted a slight direction, and then only heard a whistling of "woo". A barrier-breaking rocket takes off. The rocket dragged a heavy blasting rope and smashed it into the wooden house opposite.

With a loud "boom", the houses opposite were instantly blown apart, and a wooden house could withstand such ravages, collapsing and raising a burst of smoke and dust. The rocket obstacle breaker reoriented and continued to fire a group of obstacle breaking rockets, leveling an entire large area of wooden houses on the opposite side.

Several armored bulldozers in the back also rushed up, with huge bulldozers. Rampage rushed to the opposite side, scourging the surrounding wooden houses back and forth several times.

In order to improve the firepower of the engineering units, several armored engineering vehicles were equipped with a twin water-cooled heavy machine gun, which was removed from the steam deck barges along the coast and temporarily installed in order to strengthen the attack capability of the armored engineering vehicles.

Hickten had forgotten that he was at the forefront of the battlefield and stood up dumbfounded. stared blankly at the flat ground in front of him. It was a wooden house just now, and it was gone in an instant. It's too fierce, isn't it? If the battle had been fought like this earlier, it might have advanced to the inner city by now.

The addition of the engineer unit made the Far Eastern Army's sweeping work in the outer city several times faster in an instant. And the process of fighting has become simpler. Faced with powerful rocket obstacle breakers and armored bulldozers, the wooden houses of Edo Castle looked like papier-mâché, as long as the shogunate army was found on the opposite side. All of a sudden, it was a blast.

Although the speed of the battle has increased several times, the efficiency of the attack has also been greatly enhanced. However, large-scale accidental injuries are also inevitable, as long as the engineering obstacle breaker is fired, often the wooden house within a radius of several hundred meters will cease to exist, plus several armored bulldozers have been repeatedly ravaged. A large number of civilians in Edo Castle died in droves.

But the Far Eastern Army is already red-eyed, where is there any spare time to care about that. The Japanese civilians who survived by luck were lucky enough to meet other units of the Far Eastern Army, and they might be able to save their lives.

But if they encounter the beasts of the daredevils, whether they are old men, women or children, they must die by their swords. Many people died horribly, even tortured to death by these humanoid beasts. The place where the warriors of the Death Army passed was like a hell on earth.

In the afternoon, the outer parts of Edo Castle finally calmed down. The Far Eastern Army's sweep was almost over, and the shogunate army in Edo Castle, although loyal and brave, finally collapsed in the face of those steel monsters in the Far East.

The outer castle of Edo Castle has completely changed, and most of the houses have either been razed to the ground or reduced to ashes. According to post-war statistics, the Far Eastern Army finally collected only a quarter of the civilians in the city, and hundreds of thousands of civilians became victims of the war.

The Far Eastern Army carefully screened the surviving civilians in the city, singled out young women and craftsmen, and sent them to concentration camps on the shore, where they would later be sent to Liaodong. The rest of the old men and young men were handed over to the management of the death army, helping the Far East to clean up the battlefield under the city and collect all kinds of loot in the city.

After the units of the two corps gathered under the castle of Edoi, they did not rest at all, and immediately went on the attack. Attacking the inner castle of Edo, the Far Eastern Army simply concentrated all its artillery fire and airships and carried out a fierce bombardment.

Compared to the brutality of the battle in the outer city, the battle in the inner city of Edo is much simpler. When the engineer units of the Far Eastern Army blew up the city walls and broke into the inner castle, they attacked the Honmaru in the inner castle of Edo in one go.

Tokugawa Yoribo is a single, and he directly took his family to set a fire in Honmaru, and came to self-immolate.

At this point, the Battle of Edo, which was launched by the Southern Army of the Japanese Theater Command of the Far Eastern Army, came to a successful conclusion. After two days of hard fighting, the Far Eastern Army finally captured Edo, the base camp of the Tokugawa shogunate, and annihilated the last elite of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Over the next few days, the armies of the Far Eastern Army began to attack in all directions, chasing down the remnants of the nearby Tokugawa family. He cleaned up a number of small households and swept away the forces of Owari, Mikawa, Mino, Omi, Kii, Ise, Hitachi and other countries.

The Southern Army also launched an attack on the Shogunate Army, and the elite of the Shogunate Army defending Kyoto had been wiped out in the Osaka area by the Far Eastern Army. So Kyoto was soon occupied by the Far Eastern Army. Now that the Tokugawa clan has fallen, Shimazu Tadashi and the samurai of the Satsuma clan have also entered Kyoto to meet Emperor Akisho. The daimyo lords from all over Japan, seeing that the general trend had turned, also sent people to Kyoto to ask for a meeting with the soon-to-be-opened shogun Shimazu Tadashi.

has achieved the hegemony of the Shimazu family, and Shimazu Tadashi can be said to be in high spirits at this time. Many of the retainers of the Satsuma clan also began to prepare for the opening of the Shimazu clan in preparation for the imminent reign of the Shimazu clan in Japan. (To be continued......)

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