bookrebus Chapter 1214 The Head of the Old Thief Tokugawa Ieyasu
Chapter 1214 The Head of the Old Thief Tokugawa Ieyasu
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The streets of Edo Castle had long since become a living hell of blood and fire.
The vanguard, composed of Date Masamune and his five hundred "collaborator" samurai who knew the terrain of Edo Castle like the back of their hand, plunged into the heart of the city, which had been completely thrown into chaos, like a red-hot dagger.
Behind them stood a thousand soldiers of the Daqian Shenji Battalion, dressed in black uniforms and wielding the latest flintlock muskets that the Japanese had never even seen before!
This is a complete and utter defeat!
It was also a one-sided massacre with no suspense whatsoever!
Those Edo garrison troops who were still putting up a stubborn resistance, and those self-righteous samurai.
Their proud samurai swords and the iron cannons they considered divine weapons.
Faced with the terrifying flintlock muskets in the hands of the Shenji Battalion soldiers, capable of firing more than five times in a minute and easily piercing the thickest armor from two hundred paces away.
It seems so ridiculous and vulnerable!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The crisp, rapid gunshots, like popping beans, echoed throughout the entire Edo Castle.
Before the rows of fearless Japanese samurai could even reach the Shenji Battalion soldiers, they were still at a distance.
They fell in droves amidst the precise and deadly rain of bullets, like the scythe of death!
Without exception, each of them had a gruesome, bloody hole the size of a bowl in their chest!
Blood and shattered internal organs were spilled all over the ground.
The scene was even more bloody and brutal than the previous shelling in Edo Bay!
"Demons...devils! They are demons!"
All the surviving Japanese soldiers were utterly terrified by the terrifying army before them, which resembled demons from hell!
They collapsed!
They threw down their weapons and fled in all directions, crying and screaming.
However, what awaited them was Date Masamune and his five hundred crazed samurai, who were completely blinded by hatred and the thrill of revenge, and their merciless blades!
"Kill! Slaughter all these Tokugawa lackeys!"
"Avenge the General!"
Date Masamune's single eye gleamed with a morbid, crazed, bloodthirsty light!
He brandished his katana like a vengeful demon crawling out of hell!
They were frantically reaping the lives of those routed soldiers who had long since lost all will to resist!
Just less than half an hour.
The entire Edo Castle was thoroughly ravaged by this deadly alliance that colluded with internal forces!
Yue Fei and his main force of the Shenji Battalion finally fought their way to the castle tower that symbolized the highest power of the Tokugawa family without shedding a drop of blood!
"boom--"
A loud bang!
The heavy castle gate, built with the sturdiest century-old ironwood, was blasted into countless fragments by a twelve-pound ship-mounted cannon!
Yue Fei expressionlessly put away the flintlock pistol that was still emitting wisps of smoke.
Then he glanced at the one-eyed man behind him, who was already trembling with excitement.
“Date Masamune”.
"Go."
"When you take your revenge."
"arrive."
"Thank you for your kindness, General!"
He suddenly stood up from the ground and then issued the final, most frantic attack order to the five hundred warriors behind him, whose eyes were also bloodshot and filled with murderous intent.
"Young ones!"
"Our new master, the general of the Celestial Empire, has already bestowed this castle tower upon us!"
"All the gold and silver treasures, silks and satins inside, and those Tokugawa women who are usually so high and mighty, are all ours!"
"Come at me!"
"Kill every single member of the Tokugawa family!"
"Avenge our fallen brothers!"
"oh--!"
Those five hundred Japanese samurai, whose minds were already clouded by hatred and greed, became like mad dogs after hearing Date Masamune's inflammatory order!
They let out a series of inhuman roars, then brandished their samurai swords stained with the blood of their comrades, and like a black torrent of death, they rushed into the wide-open gates of the castle tower.
Yue Fei stared expressionlessly at the scene before him, a human tragedy of Japanese people killing each other. His tiger-like eyes, as calm as still water, showed not a ripple of emotion.
He knew that this was human nature.
It is also the most real and cruel side of war.
Using Japanese pirates to control Japanese pirates—this was the supreme guiding principle His Majesty and the Prince entrusted to him for this eastern expedition.
What he needs to do is achieve the greatest victory with the least cost.
As for the process...
that's not important.
“General,” a captain from the Divine Machine Battalion standing beside him said, looking at the castle tower that had been completely engulfed in a bloody frenzy, his voice tinged with confusion, “Are we... are we just going to watch?”
"Otherwise what?" Yue Fei retorted calmly, "Do you want to go in and join them in robbing women and treasures?"
"This humble general dares not!" The centurion trembled under Yue Fei's icy gaze and quickly lowered his head.
"Since you dare not, then guard this place well for me." Yue Fei's voice was cold and resolute. "Pass on my order to seal off all exits of the castle tower! Anyone who dares to rush out from inside, whether one of us or one of the Tokugawa family, shall be killed without mercy!"
"Yes!"
The commander-in-chief took the order and left, but in his heart he was filled with endless awe for this young commander-in-chief who was younger than him but whose mind was more unfathomable than the abyss.
It's too cruel.
General Yue was truly ruthless.
He's trying to wipe out Date Masamune and Tokugawa Ieyasu, the two most powerful forces in Japan, all at once!
The bloody massacre inside the castle tower lasted for a full half hour.
The piercing screams, the clash of weapons, and the desperate wails of the dying echoed throughout the entire Edo Castle.
Finally, after the last scream faded into silence.
Covered in blood, like a god of death crawling out of hell, Date Masamune carried the head of an old man, still dripping blood and with unseeing eyes, as he walked out of the castle tower step by step.
With a "plop," he knelt down in front of Yue Fei and then held the severed head high above his head.
"General!"
"I have brought you the head of that old scoundrel Tokugawa Ieyasu!"
"From this day forward, Edo Castle, and indeed the entire eastern country, will be the prize of the Celestial Empire!"
His voice was hoarse from excessive excitement and exhaustion. But his one remaining eye was filled with boundless joy at avenging his great grudge, and absolute worship and submission to the young commander who had given him all of this!
Yue Fei looked at the head of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a powerful and ruthless figure in Japanese history, but there was no joy on his face.
He simply nodded, then glanced at the five hundred Japanese samurai behind Date Masamune, who were also covered in blood, but whose numbers had been reduced by nearly half.
“Well done,” he commented in a completely emotionless tone. “What about casualties?”
"Reporting to the General," Date Masamune hurriedly replied, "Our army suffered 183 dead and 72 seriously wounded. Tokugawa Ieyasu's 3,000 personal guards, along with all their families, totaling over 4,000 people, have all been slaughtered by us! Not a single one survived!"
“Very good.” Yue Fei nodded, then his gaze slowly fell on Date Masamune’s ugly face, which was filled with fanaticism and excitement.