In the face of a sudden blow, the fighting qualities of any elite troops are not the main thing, and the only difference between the guards who have been trained all year round and the peasants and peasants who have integrated soldiers and peasants is in their psychological quality and killing skills, and this does not mean that the guards can take two more shots and not die.

Twelve years ago, the Portuguese introduced the arquebus to the Wakoku country, and the Wajin Hachiban Kanbei, imitated and constructed the first Vulcan spear made by the Wakoku, which quickly spread throughout Japan soon after. The large-scale use of iron artillery units was also started by the Shimazu family, who was the first to make iron cannons.

Kishu Nerai, Quanzhou Sakai Town, Omi Kunitomo and Bichu Fukiya flooded the market with a large number of iron cannons of varying quality and inferiority, but the best iron cannons circulating in the market were far inferior to those used today, at least in terms of power and rate of fire.

Iron cannon began to wreak havoc on the land of the Wa country, but the iron cannon in this era is far from being called the mainstream, compared with a knife in the hands of people, the iron cannon still has many shortcomings, once the moisture exceeds a certain concentration, it will immediately have to be dumb fire, rain, snow can only be used as an iron rod, saltpeter can not be produced in the Wa country, it needs to be transported by the Nanban merchants, the intensity of the gunpowder made of earth nitrate can never be compared with the intensity of saltpeter, the most important thing is that the iron cannon at this time is still an expensive weapon.

When the Iron Artillery Team finished wreaking havoc, the guy who called himself Ikeda Kanbei shouted, "Kill me with me!" After shouting, he strode forward a few steps, and the members of the Iron Artillery Team obviously had no intention of joining the battle, but more than twenty men armed with short knives came out of the nearby shanty and followed behind Ikeda Kanbei, and together they attacked the beaten Miyoshi Army.

One after another, the Miyoshi army had no time to escape. Or rather, the members of the Miyoshi Guard, who had been beaten and had not yet recovered from the roar, fell in a pool of blood. It's not that there is no one who still wants to resist, but in the face of the fierce gods, they indulge their killing intent like a vicious one.

Kyoto, which has been ravaged by soldiers from all over the world, has once again become a hell on earth. The guards who came to Kyoto with Miyoshi Nagaitsu to show off their might, in the dirty and messy streets of Kyoto, are now being attacked by a powerful army that has inexplicably appeared.

Now even a fool can see that this attacker, armed with powerful iron cannons and refined swords and guns, could not be a displaced ronin group, let alone a retainer of Akutagawa Sunjuro. If Akutagawa Sun Juro had such a strong army back then, I am afraid that he would not have ended up in a dead family. Even Jucheng is also occupied by the Miyoshi Changqing Magpie's Nest Dove.

An unobtrusive head, hung from the tip of Ikeda's gun, with a yellow crescent-shaped iron helmet confirming the identity of the head. The battle finally came to an end without any suspense, and Miyoshi Nagaitsu, who originally wanted to go to Beijing to show off his might, is now hanging on the tip of his spear, and has become the merit of Ikeda Kanbei.

Ikeda Kanbei said to a bearded man with an iron cannon on his back, "Your Excellency. Five people were injured. There were no serious injuries, a total of 231 enemies were killed, and the enemy general Miyoshi Changyi was also killed! As he spoke, he took off the head that had been picked up on the tip of the gun and handed it over.

The bearded man pushed it, shook his head and said, "Wenwu, well done, since it is your merit, then you can keep it." But wait a while to clean the head with salt, and don't go back to the country to see the lord. It's changed. ”

Ikeda Kanbei is none other than Fumigo Ishimatsu, who has just been promoted from ninja to samurai, and the bearded man is none other than Masanari Yoshida, a close confidant of Masaki, and the two of them led a special team to Kyoto with the purpose of attacking and killing the Miyoshi family.

Come and don't be rude, since Miyoshi Changqing sent Miyoshi Shikyu to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Harima Country, there was also the incident of Katsuga Castle in the country of Zangqi before, coupled with the attempted assassination of the Protector Shrine, pile by pile, if there is no counterattack, I am afraid that it will be said that it will be said to be weak and deceitful.

Assassination is obviously an act that violates the bottom line, once Miyoshi Changqing knows that the Date family did it during this operation, then it will inevitably make Miyoshi Changqing send an assassination force to assassinate the people of the Date family, only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves.

Knowing that assassination is not feasible, it is obviously not in the interests of the Date family to send a naval army to attack the bases of the Miyoshi family such as Zanki and Awa, or to directly send troops to fight to the death with Miyoshi Chokei, and now the only thing that Masahiro can handle is assassination.

Although there have been precedents for the assassination of people from the Miyoshi family, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Yoshiteru father and son, Hosokawa Harumoto, and people who have enemies and have also done assassinations, but they have never succeeded at all.

There is no doubt that success or failure is not to be said, and the retreat is also a difficult thing, and it is obviously a very difficult thing to calmly leave from under the nose of Miyoshi Changqing, especially if he kills his retainers.

Kyoto, the best place for political and horizontal selection, as the de facto ruler of Kyoto, it is obviously impossible for Miyoshi Chokei not to send a retainer to Kyoto, this retainer cannot be a cat or a puppy, so he became the best target for their assassination, and Kyoto is also quite in line with another condition, and can retreat calmly. If the fight on the streets can be used as a conversation point for people living in Kyoto, then the rest of Kyoto will not be so leisurely and elegant for them.

Yoshida Masanari looked at the bloodied street, paused, and then instructed Shimatsu Fumigo: "Let your people set the whole street on fire, we need a fire to hide their whereabouts, and after lighting it, go to the predetermined location, do you know the predetermined location?" ”

Fumigo Ishimatsu nodded slightly, and as he left, a fire premeditated with the assassination operation burned. At this time, a large number of wooden buildings traditionally built in the Wa Kingdom showed extreme vulnerability, and almost immediately burned after encountering Mars, and soon spread to neighboring buildings.

Countless people ran out of the building, trying to extinguish the fire by all means, and it was clear that the speed of extinguishing the fire could never be compared to the speed of igniting the fire, and with the deliberate action of Fumigo Ishimatsu, a sea of fire quickly spread in the direction of the Kyoto Imperial Palace along the seven avenues of Kyoto.

As the buildings were ignited, a sea of fire formed in the most densely built area of Kyoto, and the cries of the people continued to sound, accompanied by screams, ** sounds, and the sound of killing, the ronin and the wild thieves took advantage of the fire to start looting the merchant houses with a little surplus wealth.

Normally, these shopping houses in Kyoto were protected by a lot of force, and the greedy ronin and wild thieves only dared to look far away and did not dare to play profane, but now that the chaos is in full swing, it is a good time for them to wreak havoc, and the guards who were supposed to resist have joined their ranks.

When Ishimatsu Fumigo and the others left in a hurry, the fire could no longer be suppressed, and the people who usually had a grudge against each other led the fire in an unknown direction, and a large number of defeated people hiding in Kyoto also began to take advantage of the fire to loot or attack the residence of the Miyoshi army.

Emperor Imakami, who came out of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and was called Emperor Go-Nara after his death, looked at Kyoto, which was almost covered in smoke, and asked questions and grief in the emperor's characteristic crane voice: "Who started the war in Kyoto?" ”

The group of ministers behind him were also full of fear, since the imperial court lost its authority, Kyoto Yanbian has become a place of struggle between various princes, whenever someone wants to come out, they will provoke a war in Kyoto.

Yoshida Masanari also didn't expect that Fumigo Ishimatsu would burn the fire so violently, which made him secretly regret it, and now it's too late to regret it, accusing Fumigo Ishimatsu of being useless, the order to burn Kyoto was given by him, and Fumigo Ishimatsu carried it out, and he was mainly responsible.

The fire was still burning, and Ishimatsu Fumigo finally came to the intended place, looking at his masterpiece, he was also a little afraid, but he was not in a dilemma like Yoshida Masanari, since he had done it, he had to have the courage to do it, and the fire had already covered up all their evidence.

Yoshida Masanari looked at the burning Kyoto, took a deep breath, and said, "Let's go, we still have to pass through Tanba Province and return to Harima Country, how long is the way?" ”

……

Settsu, Akutagawa Yamashiro, just as Miyoshi Nagakei was pondering how to establish political power and dominate the world's grand goal, an ashigaru captain on the watchtower ran in, and his hurried footsteps explained his mood, and the content of the report made Miyoshi Nagakei have no intention of punishing him for his unreasonableness.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, there is a fire in the direction of Kyoto."

The retainers climbed the tallest building in Akutagawa Mountain Castle, the castle tower, along with Miyoshi Chokei, and when they looked up, they were already red in the direction of Kyoto, and immediately realized that something big had happened, Kyoto had suffered heavy losses, and Miyoshi Chokei's authority would inevitably be swept away.

Miyoshi Changqing's eyes were deep, and he asked Matsunaga Xiu beside him: "Yizheng, where did the flames come from so fiercely, could it be that Kyoto has been attacked, it is impossible, there is no news from the border outpost, is there anything to hide from me?" ”

Matsunaga Shu was in charge of the peace with the Rokkaku family, and Rokkaku Yoshiken was moved by the olive branch extended by Miyoshi Changqing, and the relationship between the two sides eased a lot. The meaning of Miyoshi Changqing's words, how can Matsunaga Xiu not hear it, to be able to put such a big fire, looking around, only the Rokkaku Yoshiken of Guanyin Temple has this capital, and the rest of the people are either far away, or there is no capital, because Matsunaga Xiu is the main person in charge of going to negotiate peace with Rokkaku Yoshixian, once Rokkaku Yoshiken goes back on his word, Matsunaga Show will obviously have to bear the black pot of burning Kyoto.

Matsunaga Shu moved two steps to the back of the gap, looked up at the red sky carefully, and replied, "Your Highness, the only thing we can do now is to immediately organize people to go to Kyoto to fight the fire, and we must not let the fire hurt His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Iwanari Tomomici made up for it in the back: "Your Highness, Hinata Mamoru had already gone to Kyoto before the fire, he should know the details, recall him immediately, and ask what happened?" (To be continued......)