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In the matter of leasing Yokosuka, Sakai Tadashi can't be the master himself. Of course, even if he could be the master, he would not be the master.

In terms of military and political affairs, his talents were mediocre, but how could he become the shogunate elder of the Tokugawa Iemitsu era? There is no other reason, Sakai Tadashi is not good at anything else, but he is good at fighting for power and profit, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

Although Yokosuka is only a deserted fishing village, it guards the gateway to Edo, and if the Qin State builds a port garrison in Yokosuka, it is equivalent to choking the throat of Edo Castle.

Whoever lends Yokosuka out will inevitably have to take a big political risk. With Sakai Tadashi as a person, such a political risk will naturally not be borne by himself.

Now in the general's mansion, there is also a Baoke Zhengzhi, who is the most suitable for being the wronged leader.

Out of the Great Qin Embassy, Sakai Tadashi sat in a carriage and hurried back to the General's Mansion.

Edo is a large city with a population of more than 300,000, and the low-slung bamboo-and-wood houses crowd the sides of the streets. Because it was daytime, although the patrol in the city was strengthened, martial law was not allowed, otherwise it would be strange if more than 300,000 people in the city would not starve to death.

Sakai Tadakatsu's car was driven by more than 50 soldiers, and just out of the intersection of Feng's Street, where the Great Qin Embassy was located, he encountered a sudden change, but he saw that in the houses on both sides of the street, something suddenly flew out, and in the exclamation of the soldiers who opened the road, several loud noises were heard.

Rumble!

Rumble!

Rumble!

The explosion caused the soldiers in front and behind to be dizzy, and the horses in the carriage in which Sakai Tadashi was riding were also injured, and the horses in the wounded horses went on a rampage, knocking down the soldiers in front of them. Screams and howls rang out, and at last the wheels rolled over the wounded man who had fallen to the ground, and the horses fell to the ground, breaking one of the wheels.

Tadashi Sakai, who was in the car, was knocked to the point that his bones fell apart, and his forehead was bleeding. He groaned in pain, and his vision was blurry.

"Capture Sakai Tadakatsu alive!"

At this time, in the houses on both sides, twenty or thirty ronins with katanas, dressed in black and white striped clothes, rushed out with wild shouts, killing anyone they saw. In the smoke of gunpowder, the snow-bright Oriental sword slashed through, and one by one the heads flew up, and blood sprayed like rain.

These people moved very quickly, but unfortunately Sakai Tadashi's carriage rushed forward for a while before it overturned. so that their ambush point is slightly off, and they have to rush forward;

"Protect the Elder!"

"Protect the Elder!"

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Sakai Tadakatsu's guards were very loyal, and those who were not injured immediately shouted and rushed up to fight fiercely to stop the enemy, even some of the ones who were not too seriously injured, and after coming to their senses, they immediately joined the battle group.

The twenty or thirty ronins came prepared, cooperated with tacit understanding, and killed the guards who were in a hurry to meet the battle. The bloody streets, the nearby patrol shogunate soldiers, also arrived, and the streets were in chaos; That's when it happened. Flames broke out in the houses at both ends of the street, and the heat spread rapidly, soaring into the sky, making Kaede's street even more chaotic.

"Elder. Are you alright, Boss? Sakai's personal bodyguard, Saburo Murakami, slammed open the deformed carriage door and watched Sakai Tadakatsu fall into the car covered in blood, and couldn't help but be shocked.

"I'm still stunned for what to do. Help me out. Sakai Tadakatsu came back to his senses at this time, his head ached, and his heart was full of anger.

Saburo Murakami hurriedly took Sakai out of his arms, but before he could get up straight, he heard a whoosh, and there was a sharp pain in his buttocks. On the tile ridge next to it, a ninja wrapped in black cloth was holding a bow and arrow, one arrow had just been shot, and the other was on the string. Shocked, Murakami Saburo rolled directly into the carriage, pressed Sakai Tadakatsu with his body, and shouted at the same time: "There are assassins on the roof, on the roof"

More than 20 guards who were fighting fiercely behind the carriage found that there was another ninja sneak attack on the rooftop, "Horn Quack! The guards cursed and fought back with bows and arrows, but they were already retreating in the face of the fierce attack of nearly thirty ronins, which took into account the roof, and the shape below was even more unfavorable, and those ronins shouted and rushed up, slashing with their shiny katanas in both hands, and the guards who blocked the enemy were slashed to the ground one after another, and blood was sprinkled into rain.

Seeing that the assassinated ronin was about to kill next to the carriage, at this critical moment, Huang Zhiqiu led more than a dozen soldiers from the Great Qin Embassy, fully armed, and the 69-style rifle fired a volley, the guns were screaming, the bullets were chirping, and the ronins who were attacking the carriage were shot and fell to the ground.

Huang Zhiqiu hurriedly glanced at the fires that had ignited in the houses on both sides of the street, it was already a heat wave at this time, he was in a hurry, and couldn't help yelling: "Quick, shoot quickly, hurry up and rescue Elder Sakai." ”

Those ronins were scattered by a burst of gunfire, and those who were lucky not to be shot rushed towards the houses on both sides in fright, but Huang Zhiqiu did not let go of any of them, and under his order, the two rockets that had been prepared immediately sprayed out;

Boom! The bamboo-and-wood room next to it was blown open and collapsed with a bang, and then two fires burst out, causing the house to burn brightly.

Huang Zhiqiu, with a dozen Qin troops, rushed to the side of the carriage under the cover of the fire, dragged the wounded Sakai Tadashi out, and "Take the body of the assassin with you." Huang Zhiqiu didn't mean this, the dozen or so Qin soldiers who came with him, holding the corpses of several assassins, quickly withdrew.

Subsequently, the raging fire engulfed the entire street, spreading in all directions, and the smoke billowing enveloped the entire Edo Castle, and the shogunate sent 20,000 soldiers to tear down all the houses around the fire, and divided the fire belt, so that the fire was finally controlled, and the entire Kaede street had almost been burned down, and only the Great Qin Embassy was able to survive the fire because there were no houses around it, and the shogunate sent a large number of soldiers to guard it in time.

The embassy's medical hall helped Sakai Tadashi to apply medicine to bandage, his wound was not deep, but he hit a hole in his head when the carriage overturned, and after the bandage, he basically recovered as usual.

The wound was bandaged, but the fear in his head and the anger in his heart were difficult to get rid of, and this incident could not be more obvious, dozens of ronins were coming at him.

However, God didn't seem to think that his anger was enough, and one of his bodyguards, Ichiro Ibbe, hurried in and reported a few words to him in Japanese, and Sakai Tadakatsu got up and walked out of the house to the front yard.

In the front yard, there were several assassin corpses brought out by Huang Zhiqiu and them, one of the assassins' shirt had been turned open, Ichiro Inabe took a wooden plaque, handed it to Sakai Tadakatsu and said: "Elder, this is what I found from the assassins, hidden in the inner layer of the cotton clothes"

As soon as Sakai Tadakatsu saw the wooden card, he immediately became angry, where did he care to listen to what Ichiro Inabe said, he grabbed the wooden card tightly and shouted: "Abe Tadaaki! ”

Huang Zhiqiu stood under the corridor of the embassy, looking at Sakai Tadashi like an angry lion, and even forgot to say hello to the embassy, so he asked the guards to leave in a hurry with the corpses of the assassins.

Lu Zhimu, who was standing on his side, saw Sakai Zhongqiu leave, and said softly: "Huang Baihu, there won't be any problems, right?" ”

"Don't worry, Lu Zansen, Sakai Tadashi originally wanted to deal with Abe's Mid-Autumn Festival, besides, this kind of thing, if you change it, you would rather believe it than believe it."

Huang Zhiqiu guessed correctly, as soon as Sakai Tadashi returned to the General's Mansion, he immediately sent troops to attack Abe Tadaaki's Mansion in the west of the city, and no one listened to it, and even sent a message, regardless of life or death.

Abe Tadaaki never expected that Sakai Tadashi would suddenly target him, and he was caught off guard, and the mansion was quickly broken by Sakai Tadaaki's men, and Abe Tadaaki led the people to retreat to the backyard, while desperately resisting, while trying to send people out of the house to ask for help.

Sakai Tadashi then went to the front of Abe Tadaaki's mansion in person, seeing that under the bloody battle, there were heavy casualties, and the backyard was always unable to attack, Sakai Tanekatsu was angry and ordered someone to ignite the backyard fire with rockets.

The fire burned the entire backyard, and Abe Tadaaki also died in the fire.

On this day, Edo Castle can be said to be upside down, with a series of major events, first of all, the shogunate elder Sakai Tadaaki was attacked, and he almost died; This was followed by the burning of Abe Tadaaki's mansion by Sakai Tadakatsu, and it happened so suddenly and so inexplicably. It's over, and many people still don't know why.

And what happened on this day will inevitably change the entire history of Japan!

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