Chapter 115 Beware of Kamikaze, oppose colonization! (It will be available this Friday, please pre-order!)

Japan, the tenth year of the reign of Emperor Wenzheng, falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Mito Domain's Oarai Town Port is heavily guarded today. On the pier and in the port town, all Mito Domain soldiers carrying rifles are standing guard. All the townspeople's shops have their doors and windows closed, and no one is allowed to step out of their homes.

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Ten British warships, led by the ironclad battleship "Revenge", and ten large sailing ships towed by steamers rolled up snow-white waves and slowly sailed into Oarai-machi Port on the Pacific Ocean. Since there were no natural bays or coastal islands to shelter from the wind,

, so it is difficult for Oarai-machi Port to protect the ships in the port during the monsoon. However, because Oarai-machi Port has no bays and islands to use, its waterways are very wide. So much so that twenty British ships visited

Ships can enter the port in formation, and the scene is extremely spectacular.

At this time, Tokugawa Saiaki, the heir to the Mito clan and chief of the Tokugawa shogunate navy, was standing on the pier of Oarai-machi port with Enomoto Enbei, the aviation staff officer of the shogunate navy office. They folded their arms and raised their necks to look at the sky.

Surrounding them were a group of Mito feudal lords in charge of coastal defense. They were all looking up at the sky and shouting while looking at the sky.

"Is this a hot air balloon? Why are there two propellers spinning?"

"No, no, no, that's not a hot air balloon, that's an airship!"

"Fly, airship? Is it the Ming airship that unexpectedly attacked Peshawar?"

"How did the Ming Dynasty airship fly to Mito? Could it be that the invasion has already begun?"

"Then, what should we do now? What should we use to fight the airship in the sky? Rifle? Bow and arrow? Or... sword?"

Hearing someone around him saying that he wanted to use a tachi to cut down the airship, Enomoto Enbei was amused when he said "Pfft!". Tokugawa Saiaki's face was a little ugly. After all, it was his subordinate who was talking nonsense. He turned around and saw that the random guy

The speaker was his confidant in the Mito Domain, a young feudal lord named Anshima Kato.

Tokugawa Saiaki said calmly: "Anshima, what are you talking about?"

Wearing a traditional samurai costume, Anjima also had a samurai sword in his waist that could be used for cutting people, anti-ships, and anti-aircraft. He quickly stood at attention, then bowed again and explained: "Sir,

Of course I know that tachi is difficult to use for air defense, but as a samurai, I should fight to the death against the enemies who invade Japan and the Mito Domain at any time, no matter what weapon is used, or even whether there are weapons or not!"

Tokugawa Qiaki nodded: "So, if the ten airships in the sky are really invading Ming airships, how should we carry out effective defense?"

"This." Yasushima thought for a moment with his sword, "Sir, I believe that as long as all the Mito samurai and I pick up swords and guns, we will first lurk carefully, wait until the Akiko get off the airship, and then attack together,

Kill all the invading enemies! Sir, please give the order! We Mito samurai are all willing to die in service to our country!"

"Please obey your orders!" Other Mito feudal lords also shouted together.

Although this method of securing the island is not feasible at all - if the Ming Dynasty's airship paratroopers really come, they will certainly catch the Mito Domain by surprise. How can they give the Mito Domain a chance to summon feudal lords and organize an ambush? But Tokugawa Qi

Akira was still very satisfied. At least Anshima didn't say that he would immediately protect the feudal lord and Qi Akira and escape (actually this was correct). He looked back at Enomoto Enbei proudly.

Enbei Enomoto quickly complimented: "Sir, the loyalty of your Mito Domain samurai is well-deserved, and I admire you greatly." Then he deliberately lowered his voice and said, "But their loyalty cannot be used today, because the sky

The ten airships among them are not Ming Dynasty airships, but airships sold to me by the British Empire and the Japanese Empire!"

"Our Imperial Japanese airship?"

"The shogunate is also going to form an airship team?"

"This is great. We in Japan have an airship fleet, so we are no longer afraid of Minko's airships!"

Hearing that the airships flying in were all Japan's own airships, all the Mito feudal lords felt grateful, but they still had to maintain their loyalty, otherwise their naval officers would order them to have their stomachs pierced.

Tokugawa Saiaki looked at these Mito domain sergeants with expectant eyes and said: "According to Lord Kōkata's order, the airship soldiers of the shogunate naval air force will be secretly recruited from the direct counselors of the shogunate and the Mito domain sergeants!

In addition, the establishment of the airship fleet by the shogunate is a secret, and you cannot tell others that the airship arriving at Mito today belongs to Japan!"

"Hai!"

All the Mito feudal lords were Qi Zhao's confidants, and of course they knew what their master meant - his master Qi Zhao wanted them all to join the airship team of the shogunate navy. Qi Zhao was the leader of the navy, and the airship team was the navy.

Yes, and Qi Zhao, the leader of the navy, is taking care of them, let alone saying that they have a bright future, there is still a future with one or two hundred shi of rice. With so much rice, they can eat freely in the future!

At this time, the ten airships in the sky had flown over the heads of Tokugawa Saaki and others, flew to a piece of snow-covered farmland north of Oarai Town, and began to slowly fall.

Tokugawa Saiaki, Enbei Enomoto, and the Mito feudal lords who followed them all turned their attention to these advanced weapons from England, with the fire of hope shining in their eyes.

When the "advanced aircraft" made in Britain flew to the port of Oarai in the Mito Domain of Japan, Zhuge Weidao, the "aerospace military advisor" of the Ming Dynasty, was following Zhuge Weijiu, the great military advisor, and Zhuge Weiyi, who was about to serve as the Minister of the Navy.

, Chief of Naval Staff Zhuge Weiyong were eating glutinous rice balls together in Prince Zheng Jiacheng’s Mansion!

Although the financial resources and influence of the Zheng family are not as good as those of the Zhuge family, because King Zhuge Wuzhong once took refuge with Zheng Chenggong and also established his own military division camp with Zheng Chenggong's funding, the Zhuge family has always praised the Zheng family.

Starting. Even in the era when King Zhuge Wuzhong had sole power, the post of Prime Minister Zuo, the nominal prime minister of the Ming Empire, was held by turns among the three brothers Zheng Jing, Zheng Cong, and Zheng Ming. After King Wuzhong, the military advisors of the Zhuge family also

They have always adhered to the rules passed down by their ancestors, and have always maintained the Ming Dynasty's first position in terms of strength and third in name.

Of course, after the end of King Wu Zhong's rule, the Ming Empire has been transformed into a modern country in the primary stage of industrialization. The land is even, the people are intelligent, and all systems are relatively sound. The era of feudal warlords is over. The so-called era of feudal warlords is over.

His "strength" is neither private soldiers nor the Ming army controlled by the eight aristocratic families (according to the arrangement of King Wu Zhong, there are many children of the eight aristocratic families and nobles serving as officials in the army, but none of them have become an official).

The army is under the complete control of a certain family), but it is the strong financial resources and the number of political officials who control the political councils at all levels in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, for more than a hundred years, the power struggle within the Ming Dynasty was limited to the financial field and the political council, and no matter the victory or defeat, dignity was maintained.

In an attic in the back garden of Prince Zheng Jiacheng's Mansion, there were four Zhuge military advisors "dressed as Zhuge Liang", three "officers" of the Zheng family, Yu De's uncle, and the seventy-five or six-year-old Yu Quan.

, as well as Lin Zexu, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Zheng Guoxian, who had just returned from the battlefield in Peshawar, all sat down separately, while tasting authentic old Beijing seafood glutinous rice balls - small glutinous rice balls without sinks and various seafood.

Cooking vegetables together is indeed very Beijing-style!

However, people who had just celebrated the Chinese New Year seemed to have little appetite. They just ate a few glutinous rice balls and started chatting about major events in the world.

"What? Join the alliance against Turkey? Then don't we become allies with Britain?" Zheng Guozhong was a little confused when he heard Zhuge Weijiu proposed joining the anti-Turkish alliance, "Aren't we going to oppose the British Empire?"

"Your Majesty," Zhuge Weidao is now a military advisor, so he naturally has a voice, so he is not polite and directly takes Zheng Guozhong's question and says, "What we oppose is not the British Empire, but colonialism!"

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