At the same time, a Kusumu samurai from the Uraga Administrative Office brought his subordinates Yuli, Tongxin and fifty ashigaru to the vicinity of the whale cutter. They first dispersed the fishermen working nearby, and then began to plan the formation.

set up.

At dusk, the Thor received a notification document from the Uraga Administrative Office, stating the time and place of the negotiation. However, when the Thor followed the guidance of Tanzawa Hisaemon and drove the ship into the bay, standing on the deck

Zhao Xin immediately became happy.

Isn't this the location of Perry Park in later generations? Well, Zhao Xin felt very satisfied.

At nightfall, the three thousand Hatamoto samurai who arrived panting from Edo took advantage of the darkness to enter the west side of Mount Hirone and camp. In addition to the hills on both sides, they mainly set up defense lines overnight at the mountain pass on the west side of Whale Kiri Field.

Antler fence.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At around four o'clock the next morning, when the sky was still bright, Zhao Xin walked to the deck and looked around for a while with an infrared telescope, and then asked a few sailors to

The gangway on the right side of the ship was lowered to a position close to the water. After that, he drove away the sailors, waited for a few more minutes, walked down the gangway alone, and took out the two catamaran passenger boats that had previously transported oil field workers.

This ship can hold 300 people at a time. With three round trips, a group of people can complete the landing.

Zhao Xin came with two regiments this time in order to shock the shogunate and let them know that he had the ability to capture Edo Castle at any time, so that they could put an end to their ambitions in Ezo.

As for the thankless task of conquering Edo, Zhao Xin was not interested.

When the sky lightened up, the samurai on guard on the shore discovered two more strange white ships underneath the Thor. Although they were not as huge as the Thor, their size was comparable to the main ships of the Shogunate Navy.

Especially the guards who were on duty all night on the shore and the naval forces monitoring the nearby sea were even more frightened. They couldn't figure out when these two white strange boats slipped in.

Good guy! You can do things under your nose without anyone noticing. If you sneak into Edo Bay at night, even a hundred heads of people like you wouldn't be enough to chop them off. And the water masters on several ships have already been killed.

With an ashen face and weak defense, there is no way to escape the shogunate's thundering wrath!

At eight o'clock in the morning, another group of thousands of samurai and ashigaru, riding donkey-like southern war horses, wearing bright armor and holding large flags, came slowly from the direction of the Uraga Office.

After these people arrived at the Whale Cutting Ground, they quickly set up security near the negotiation point and planted flags. The Ashigaru took tools and set up a screen at the negotiation point.

Since the Nara period, the formation curtain has been the curtain surrounding the army when camping in the field. It is also called the "military curtain". The early military system stipulated that every 10 soldiers must carry a dark blue curtain for camping in the field.

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"The Story of the Past" says that when warriors set up camp, the curtain could not only block the wind, but also withstand weakened bow and arrow shots.

According to the "Honcho Military Weapons Examination" written by the famous Confucian scholar Arai Shiraishi in the Edo period, the height of a screen is 5 feet per screen, and the total length must be two feet and eight feet; that is, each screen is 1.5 meters high, and the total length is

It is 8.4 meters.

The vertical poles with patterned decorations that protrude from the formation are called "makusushi". There should be 10 curtains for a general's formation, and eight for ordinary generals. The ropes tied to the formation

There are also requirements, usually white rope, black rope, or green cloth rope.

As for the family emblem on the array curtain, it is required to be in the position of three, five, or seven corresponding to the curtain string.

It should be noted that by the middle and late Edo period, the formation had a religious nature like a barrier, which could drive away evil spirits and avoid ghosts. This thing cannot be cleaned, otherwise it will be an ominous sign.

An hour later, a screen surrounded on three sides with a total length of more than ten meters was completed.

On the Thor's side, at ten o'clock in the morning, before Uraga sent anyone to notify him, Zhao Xin began to order Pan Xiucheng to take people to board the catamaran passenger ship and prepare to disembark.
Chapter completed!