There's no rush!
The British and American fleets left little time for Japan to react. After the bombardment began at 11 noon, the four ten-inch cannons on the American ironclad California were the first to fire on the fort.
The California, with a displacement of 7,200 tons, was built in response to the Ming Dynasty's growing navy, and its target was the "Nanhua class".
But history has made a little joke here. Although the design of the "California Class" borrowed from the "Nanhua Class", the increase in displacement and the enhancement of the artillery during the construction of the Nanhua Class resulted in the "California Class" being replaced as soon as it entered service.
Far inferior to the "Nanhua Class", but this does not prevent the "California" and the "Texas" of the same class from becoming the most powerful battleships in the U.S. Navy.
The power of the ten-inch breech-loaded cannon is extremely astonishing. It only took a few salvoes to turn the five turrets of the Odaiba Fort in Tokyo Bay into a pile of scrap metal. Even those cannons could not bring any damage to the fleet.
How many threats are there, either the backward muzzle-loading cannon or the smaller-caliber Armstrong cannon.
After the Odaiba fort was destroyed, at two o'clock in the afternoon, and after three hours of shelling, the landing force composed of British and American marines and armed sailors, also known as boilermen, began to row boats or
Towed by a transport motorboat, the landing operation began.
Facing the landing Western monsters, the Japanese resistance was brave, but their bravery meant nothing at all. After all, at the beginning of the bombardment, they bombarded the military camp near the Imperial Palace. Those who resisted were either
The police, or those noblemen who were laid off by the emperor, although they were laid off, many of them still felt that they had an obligation to be loyal to the emperor.
"Miko, Miko, the knife, the knife is there!"
The man with a smokey face broke into the house, looked at the woman with patches on her clothes and shouted.
"Quickly, bring me the knife quickly. Today is the day for a man to die for justice. Quickly, bring me the knife quickly."
"Didn't Daodang let you pawn it for rice a long time ago?"
"What?"
At this time, the man remembered that his katana had been pawned a long time ago, but he quickly thought about it again.
"Knife, I'm talking about you, the tachi I gave you before. If it doesn't work, a kitchen knife can also..."
A kitchen knife can also be used,
For a samurai, all he needs is a sword.
But there are quite a few down-and-out samurai like him. After all, Tokyo, also known as Edo, is the headquarters of the Tokugawa family. The samurai here used to be from the Tokugawa family. Since they are going to be laid off, they must be the first of the Tokugawa family.
approved.
There is no way, this is the way of the world.
But even if there is such a principle in the world, there are still some relatively unscrupulous people who choose to be loyal to the emperor.
Like many people, Yamamoto, holding a kitchen knife in his hand, originally thought he could be loyal to the emperor on the battlefield, but how could his kitchen knife stop bullets? He fell to the ground before he even saw the Western monster.
At gunpoint.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
Times have long since changed.
However, after the abolishment of the knife order, even if someone wanted to resist, they could only use a kitchen knife, but more people were indifferent.
Why do they want to protect the emperor?
During the "Return of Prints", they thought the Emperor was their new lord, and they knelt there and swore allegiance to the Emperor. They dedicated their loyalty to the Emperor, but what did they get in return?
Even if they were laid off, the Emperor regarded them as a burden. In order to maintain their livelihood, they had pawned their clothes, pawned their houses, and even sold their wives and daughters. Even so, the Emperor and the reform government still scratched their hearts.
One sword - "Abandoned Sword Order".
For samurai, the sword is their life and their glory!
But to the Emperor, these are nothing worth mentioning. Their anger has reached the extreme, and they have already accumulated so much anger. If it were not for the sense of superiority and inferiority engraved in their bones, they would have been defeated long ago.
Of course, even if someone were to defeat him now, it would be a treacherous official in the court, not the emperor.
But they knew very well in their hearts that the Emperor... was like that. Therefore, during the bombardment, more former nobles chose to escape and fled out of the city.
While running with them, he looked back at Tokyo under fire and said to himself there.
"Emperor, didn't you say that everyone is a samurai? Then let the common people fight against the Western monsters for you now."
The warriors escaped so quickly, let alone the ordinary people?
Not to mention some ordinary people, those ordinary people who joined the army and became soldiers. Faced with the devastating artillery fire, many of them rationally chose to escape. The Japanese army in this era did not have the ability to fight.
It’s a shame that during the Southwest War, thousands of soldiers armed with guns would be routed and fled by even one or two hundred samurai armed with swords.
Everyone is on the run!
Ordinary people are on the run, and so are the powerful, and the emperor is no exception. "Nishishi" is not the exclusive property of the Empress Dowager Nishi, and it is the same in Japan.
After learning that the British and American sailors came ashore and were unstoppable, at Sanjo Mimi's suggestion, Emperor Kouka, also known as Wagoniya, the female emperor finally decided to leave. She had to leave. She was a woman and knew very well about those Western monsters.
What will he do after living with her? She is only 1.4 meters tall...
"Your Majesty, we can't leave from Niju Bridge. The people at Niju Bridge now are Iwakura's people!"
When Wagoniya was about to flee, Sanjo Sanimi said directly.
"Now we must be careful about them coercing the emperor and ordering the princes."
It has to be said that the Japanese are also very fluent in reading Three Kingdoms. Not only can they read Jin Pingmei, but Wagongong has no such idea and just chooses to agree with it. Of course, she herself is also worried about not being able to make peace with Britain and the United States. After all, Britain and the United States
If the conditions for deposing Iwakura and others fall into their hands, they will definitely be under their control.
"In that case, let's do it!"
After making this decision, Wakura got into a carriage under the service of the palace maid, and left from the side door of the imperial palace under the escort of the palace maid. When they left, Iwakura Tomomi and they were still
At Nijubashi, the main entrance of the Imperial Palace, you are waiting for the Emperor's arrival.
But after waiting and waiting, the emperor still did not arrive.
"What is going on? Doesn't your Majesty know that there is no time?"
Iwakura shouted loudly. Although he was very anxious in his heart, according to the palace order, he could not enter the palace without being summoned by the emperor, no matter how anxious he was.
In comparison, Oboku Totsuichi was more decisive. He glanced at his pocket watch and said directly.
"No matter what, if you enter the palace, you will commit great treason and send the emperor out of Tokyo!"
It has to be said that even at this time, Okubo and the others are still loyal to the emperor, but... Sanjo Sanimi is a typical politician.
After they broke into the Imperial Palace, they learned that the Emperor had already left the Imperial Palace with Sanjo Sanimi and other ministers under the escort of palace attendants. Faced with this result, Iwakura was stunned for a long time before saying.
"Baga! Sanjo Japan died at the hands of this rat..."
In the past, when they played politicians' tricks in front of those warriors, those warriors were simply vulnerable, but now it seems that they are still far behind compared to those public ministers.
When it comes to playing tricks on politicians, public ministers are better at it. After all, they have been playing those tricks for the past few hundred years.
They are just playing political tricks. But at this time, when Japan is facing national subjugation, they are still playing these tricks here.
Are you really not afraid of Japan’s subjugation?
Thinking of this, his face was filled with sadness and anger. How could he run the country well with these insects?
This chapter has been completed!