Nagakura Shinhara, Saito Ichi and Inoue Genzaburo each took their place, ready to go.

Qingdeng did not immediately order them to move forward.

He asked the 11th team to continue shelling and launched saturated bombardment into Sannomaru, which is "aircraft fire to wash the floor".

After several rounds of bombardment, most of the defensive facilities inside Sannomaru were blown up, and Aoden let Nagakura Shinhara and others start to march.

"Second Team! Follow me!"

"Trim team, move forward."

"Sixth Team! Attack!"

Three troops rushed to the gap in the city wall like a tide, attacking the broken Mianomaru.

To be honest, it was a boring battle.

Have the soldiers of the Mito Army ever seen such a violent rain of artillery?

The newly selected group did not take a single soldier, but only used a few shells to destroy the city they relied on... The impact this brought them was like a bolt from the blue!

They were already not very morale. Facing the rushing tiger and wolf men, they were defeated without even making decent resistance.

In fact, even if we don’t talk about the equipment gap and only talk about personal courage, the Mito Army cannot compete with the new selection group.

When the Xinxuan Group fought bloody battles in Gyeonggi and successively fought against the peasant army, Changzhou army, and the Fazhu army, the soldiers of the Mizuto army stayed in the comfortable Kanto and were never baptized by the war.

Their understanding of war is only in the mouth of the storyteller.

A group of new recruits met veterans with hundreds of battles... The result is self-evident.

The offensive of Nagakura Shingao and others was like taking a puppet. They only encountered sporadic resistance on the way, and only suffered extremely minor casualties, they completely suppressed Mianomaru.

Immediately afterwards, the artillery position extended forward and began to bomb Ninomaru's walls.

The next process is nothing more than repeating everything that happened just now.

Bombardment, collapse of city walls, artillery fire washed the ground, the army advanced, Ninomaru fell...

At this point, Mito Castle's Sannomaru and Ninomaru have fallen one after another, and it took 2 hours!

It has only been 2 hours since the war started!

It took only 2 hours to kill Mito Castle with only one lonely Honmaru... It is the best interpretation of the word "out of power"!

Qingdeng coldly ordered:

"Continue! Don't be stingy with shells! Bomb Hiramotomaru!"

He has given Mito monarch and ministers the opportunity to surrender early so as not to waste time on both sides.

He wrote very clearly in the book of persuading surrender: If you want to fight, you will be warned!

Since Mito's ministers intend to oppose him, they will use absolute force to make them realize the reality as they wish!

He will not send anyone to persuade him to surrender again.

Next, either they opened the door and surrendered, or they bombarded Hiramotomaru, drove them out like a rat out of a hole, or pulled out their bodies directly from the ruins.

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Mito Castle, Honmaru—

Bang...!Bang...!Bang...!Bang...!Bang...!

The muffled sound of shells bombing the city walls came one after another.

There was a sound of broken bricks and rotten tiles falling to the ground in the middle.

Tokugawa Kyoto sat dejectedly on the ground, his eyes unconscious.

A group of ministers surrounded him with a blank expression.

Two hours ago, they looked angry, their eyes were glaring, and they shouted slogans like "Never surrender" and "Swear to fight to the end".

And now... they are all depressed and depressed.

This strong contrast is both funny and sad.

In just two hours, they deeply experienced the despair of "falling straight into hell".

The castle they held with ardent hope was on the verge of falling if they could not hold on for half a day!

Now, they are helpless...

Unless they have the magical power of "summoning meteorites" and "summoning the wind", it is impossible to break the deadlock.

Bang...!Bang...!Bang...!Bang...!Bang...!

The muffled sound of shells bombing the city walls was getting heavier and closer.

The sound of broken bricks and rotten tiles splashing on the ground is getting more and more intense.

In this way, it only takes 20 minutes at most, their last stronghold will also be lost.

At this moment, the suffocating atmosphere was circulating between Mito monarch and minister...

In this dead silence, Tokugawa Kyoto said softly:

“…Surrender…Surrender to Juiceng…!”

The last few syllables are squeezed out from the gap between the teeth.

Surrender... If it were two hours ago, when the ministers heard this word, they would be angry and as if they were in a panic.

Carve it out...

After Tokugawa Keitaki finished speaking, no one spoke at the scene.

Quietly...no one expressed objection.

Even if someone opened his mouth and was about to say something, he quickly shut up.

The defeat is imminent, and no matter how unwilling or indignant they are, they cannot change this established fact with their spiritual power.

"Woo...woo..."

Someone shrugged his shoulders and made a low sob.

The rest of the people who had been holding back could no longer stop after witnessing this scene and cried out.

The sobs are getting more and more densely, and gradually ringing.

They all lowered their heads and looked at their toes, not daring to look at anyone around them, as if they would find sin on each other's faces.

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Mito Castle, outside of Motomaru—

Qingdeng looked at Honmaru who was on the verge of collapse with a calm expression.

The Mito Army's counterattack ability has been completely destroyed and it is no longer able to fight against the newly selected artillery team.

Therefore, the soldiers of the 11th Team were able to put the cannon in front of the city wall of Honmaru and bombard Honmaru at close range.

By the way, as Aoden expected, the Mito army did play an old trick - they brought a bronze bell and piled it on the city wall as cannons, bluffing.

After attacking Sannomaru, looking at the bronze bell on the city wall, the soldiers of the newly selected group all laughed.

This move not only did not shock the new selection group, but also helped boost morale.

Looking at Honmaru who was about to fall, Kondo said lightly:

"It's going to end."

Qingdeng nodded gently to show his agreement.

At this moment, he had a sharp eye and suddenly noticed something strange - but he saw that the door of Honmaru slowly opened.

Immediately afterwards, a middle-aged man in white rushed out:

"General Orange! We are willing to surrender! We are willing to surrender!"

He lay on the ground, trembling, and repeated the words "We are willing to surrender."

Seeing this, Qingdeng ordered:

"Stop the shelling."

Soon, the continuous sound of artillery fire stopped.

After sending someone to ask about the situation, Kondo sneered:

"Hmph! Isn't it going to be so much trouble if I surrender earlier?"

Aodo didn't say a word - because Kondo had already acted as his "mouth substitute" to express what he was thinking for him.

Although the moral character of Mito's ministers who do not see the coffin and do not shed tears is very funny, no matter what, it is always a good thing to be able to end the war as soon as possible.

So he accepted the surrender with pleasure.
To be continued...