Chapter 280: Bombing Edo

The first person to see the black boat were fishing along the Uraga coast.

Against the backdrop of the huge black ship, these fishing boats are as small as ants.

Uraga's fishermen looked at the big black ships that were squirting black smoke and harsh whistles. Some were so scared that they could not speak, while others regarded these big black ships as monsters from the seabed and rushed to escape.

"Is this the black ship that appeared in Nagasaki in the rumor? These monsters are so big!"

On the coast of Uraga, a student of Chiba Dojo who was studying swordsmanship was sighing at the monster-like black ship.

Before Nagasaki was captured by the American army, Naoshima, the hosting of the Hoshima Saga family, and Nagasaki, who followed Osawa Yasu, had sent envoys in advance to inform the Edo authorities about the black ship in the United States.

The American fleet on the way to the Canadian road was very high-profile, and the originally dead Edo also caused a lot of controversy.

"We need to practice swords hard to defend against the enemy outside the country."

An older student said to the students in Chiba Dojo in the tone.

The students nodded and said yes.

There was only an extremely tall student who looked at the thin and fragile samurai sword in his hand, then at the huge black ship that entered Uraga Port, muttering to himself in a suspicious tone: "Can the sword really defeat the black ship? More than a thousand samurai's blood-stained external eagle cannon, but none of them can stop Nagasaki from falling."

This discordant voice made the students of Chiba Dojo feel unagreeable, and the older students are even more furious.

"Sakamoto! You Tosa's country bumpkin, what are you saying?"

At this time, in the captain's room on the Roland, Liang Yao and Perry looked at the Armour Generation's defense map. It can be said that there was no comparison and no damage for a long time.

Compared with Nagasaki, Edo's coastal defense can be said to be completely useless.

There are five forts west of Uraga, namely Chiyosaki, Chitasaki, Hirokiyama, Oura and Kenzaki. These forts are all under the jurisdiction of Hikone vassal.

However, these turrets are of no use. First, the cannons on these turrets are old and have extremely limited ranges, which cannot threaten ships entering and leaving the Edo Bay.

However, the location of these turrets is not good, and it is too scattered, which further weakens the role of these turrets.

Compared to these inaction-free vassal lords in Edo, Naoshima Kumami can be said to be a master of all vassal lords.

"The Tokugawa Shogunate's reaction was a bit slow, and he has not given us a clear reply yet."

The Tokugawa shogunate did not reply for a long time, which made Perry a little impatient.

"We have all entered Edo Bay. It is unrealistic for the Tokugawa Shogunate to turn a blind eye to us." Liang Yao said with his hands behind his back, "Six hours later, if the Tokugawa Shogunate has not responded, we will shell Edo and put pressure on Tokugawa's turtle with its head-shrinking turtle."

"What if the shelling is not effective?" Perry asked.

"Then land on Kanagawa." Liang Yao said confidently, "but this possibility is very low."

The Tokugawa Shogunate's paper force was about 80,000, but with the Tokugawa Shogunate's low organizational and mobilization ability, the actual mobile force can be mobilized is only 20,000 to 30,000.

These numbers look very scary, but these are medieval armies, which are qualitatively different from Liang Yao's army.

Although Liang Yao left half a regiment to control the outer eaves in Nagasaki, there were only one and a half regiments in his hand that could be used for landing.

However, this half-regiment has complete troops and well-equipped troops, so there is no problem in defeating the mobs in the shogunate.

What's more, he still has a navy to rely on, and his lineup is much more luxurious than Perry's simple American East India fleet in history.

"Very low?" Perry was not sure. He knew from Liang Yao and Liang Sen that the Tokugawa shogunate had a lot of troops.

"Yes, with Nagasaki's past lessons, the Tokugawa Shogunate will not rashly start a war with us directly. In Edo, I encountered such a strong resistance as Nagasaki's outer metro battery, which was very small." Liang Yao gave his judgment, "I think the Japanese Shogunate is now discussing how to deal with us."

"His Colonel! Your Excellency General!"

At this moment, Liang Sen walked into the captain's room and reported to Perry and Liang Yaohui: "A whistleboat comes from Ura and let us leave Edo Bay."

Leaving Edo Bay?

Liang Yao seemed to hear a joke, but he just thought it was funny. If he left Edo Bay now, wouldn’t he be in vain?

"Who sent the ship?" Liang Yao asked.

"It was sent by Uraga to the Masaheng Tsukii," Liang Sen replied.

"Let them go back and tell Tsukii Masaki that we will have a direct conversation with the senior officials of the Tokugawa Shogunate! He, Uraga Fengzhi, is not qualified to have a direct conversation with us." Liang Yao knocked on the desk and said, "If Tokugawa Ikei does not take the initiative to directly talk to us, then we will enter the Tensou Pavilion of Edo Oo, and the colonel will talk to him in the Tensou Pavilion."

"Yes!" Liang Yao took the order and passed on Liang Yao's words to the people on the wardrobe.

Liang Yao walked out of the captain's room, looked at the Japanese people watching the fun on the Ura coastline while working overtime, and said to Perry: "General Perry, it seems that he still needs to put some pressure on the Tokugawa shogunate."

"Blasting Uraga?" Perry asked.

"It's not Uraga, it's Edo." Liang Yao shook his head and said, "Where is the effective way to bombard Uraga directly?"

Perry nodded, agreed to Liang Yao's proposal, and drove the boat into Edo.

After the black ship entered Edo, the ships fired fire in the direction of Edo. The huge sound of cannons made Edo uneasy and panic.

In the Edo Oo Temple, the 12th general of the shogunate who was disturbed by Western naval cannons, Tokugawa Ieki, the actual supreme ruler of Japan, summoned his Muge Pavilion to discuss countermeasures.

"General, the Americans are extremely rude. The envoys sent by me were driven back by them and said bluntly that they would talk directly to our top leaders, otherwise."

Tsukii Masaheng, who looked panicked, wanted to speak but stopped.

"What else?"

Tokugawa Ikei's brow suddenly frowned.

"Otherwise they will invade Edo and interview the general in the Edo Tensou Pavilion to discuss the founding of the country and trade." Masahen Tsukii said with his head shrank.

"Ahem. Damn American."

The weak and slapped his thighs straight, but these Americans were very arrogant, but when they thought about the Nagasaki incident, they did have the capital to be arrogant.

Tokugawa Yake asked someone to bring the declaration of war submitted by the United States last year. This was his first serious investigation of the declaration of war in the United States.

Previously, no one in the shogunate took the declaration of war in the United States seriously, and no one would have thought that America would really fight to Japan or Edo.

Reading this letter of declaration of war written in English, Chinese and Japanese, Tokugawa Ikei was very conflicted and weighed the pros and cons of founding a country and continuing to lock the country.

Let’s start a country and trade with the United States, Russia (Tsarist Russia), England, France and other countries will surely come one after another. At that time, we will deal with it.

If we don’t open up the country and trade, the American fleet will stop in Edo Bay, and their muzzles are pointing at Edo.
Chapter completed!