Chapter 1152: The End of the Tokugawa Shogunate Era

Tokugawa Ienari was kneeling at this moment in the courtyard of his residence in Edo.

The people surrounding him were packed three layers deep inside and out.

Everyone was almost fully armed.

Weapons were pointed at him.

Killing intent was directed at him.

Tokugawa Ienari looked up, his eyes filled with a roar.

What came into view was a Dragon Flame general, along with the Emperor of Japan by his side.

That awe-inspiring general was naturally Li Yun from Nanyang.

Thinking back on his recent experiences, even Li Yun still felt a lingering fear.

It was terrifying.

Nearly half a year of combat...

He had fought a guerrilla war in this Wa nation for half a year! He had to admit that the people of this Wa nation were exactly like cockroaches that could not be killed! Even with the Emperor helping him, he was still left battered and exhausted by the guerrilla forces of this Wa nation. He thought he had won every time, that he had conquered them every time, but soon, another group of Wa people unafraid of death would emerge—ambushes, incendiary bombs, human bombs, all sorts of underhanded tactics that caught him completely off guard...

No wonder His Majesty hated these Wa people so much...

Because even when they accepted their surrender, they would turn around and bite them hard once more...

Animals!

The character of these Wa people was that of animals who had not yet shed their bestial nature!

Kill!

Ever since then, Li Yun's troops had practically been killing their way through.

Corpses littered the fields.

The entire Wa nation was littered with corpses.

If not for the help of the Emperor, he would have wanted to wipe out this country entirely.

"Why? Why? Haven't you lived comfortably enough all these years? Haven't we, the Tokugawa Clan, given you enough!"

Tokugawa Ienari roared, looking at the Emperor before him.

The Emperor remained silent.

Why?

You ask me why?

In these hundreds of years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, have they ever taken me, the Emperor of Japan, seriously? The more hysterical Tokugawa Ienari became, the more it showed his frustration over the loss of power. Power—in all the years the Tokugawa Clan had ruled the Wa nation, the Emperor had truly never felt even a trace of the taste of power.

He was just a puppet.

He was just a piece of trash.

He was just a canary kept by the Tokugawa Clan in the Imperial Palace...

Although he did not lack money, although he lacked nothing, what he lacked was freedom—the freedom of power, the freedom to govern.

Since he was the Emperor of the Wa nation, then the Wa nation should be his!

Why must he always be constrained by this Great General?

Why?

"Great General... the Shogunate era is over, isn't it..."

The Emperor sighed.

Looking at the history of the Wa nation, one certainly could not erase the contributions made by the Tokugawa Clan; it was the Tokugawa Clan that ended the chaotic state of the Wa nation and allowed the Wa nation to achieve unification... However, hundreds of years of rule were enough; this was sufficient repayment for the Tokugawa Clan.

The Wa nation should return to the Emperor.

"Traitor!"

"Consorting with wolves!"

"Bastard!"

"Baka!"

Tokugawa Ienari shouted angrily, his body suddenly erupting with powerful force. Following his movements, the hundreds of Samurai kneeling behind him who had already laid down their weapons also let out a simultaneous roar, rising to their feet together and stripping off their clothes to reveal explosives strapped all over their bodies!

"Careful!"

"Your Majesty!"

"General!"

Seeing this situation, the group of people immediately changed color and shouted one after another.

The Emperor was also frightened deathly pale.

Yet Li Yun remained calm.

"Kill!"

"Kill them!"

The explosives on Tokugawa Ienari's body had been prepared for a long time. The dignity of the honorable Tokugawa Shogunate had been lost in his generation; the Bushido spirit of their Tokugawa Shogunate did not allow him to continue living! But rather than die without dignity, it was better to perish together with these bastards! His face had already begun to turn ferocious.

During this period...

This indiscriminate combat power had left him with no ability to turn the tide, no matter how he resisted in Edo.

He had just watched helplessly as his troops and his Samurai were lost bit by bit, and his territory fell bit by bit.

If he were given another one hundred thousand soldiers...

If he were given another one hundred thousand soldiers!

He would surely be able to continue the glory of the Tokugawa Clan!

However...

There were none left.

The soldiers are gone, the Samurai are gone, and the territory is gone too!

Emperor!

All of this is because of this detestable Emperor!

"Kill!"

Hundreds of Samurai simultaneously wore expressions fearless of death.

Before the people on Li Yun's side could even react, they had already pulled the fuses on the explosives on their bodies.

"General, watch out!"

"His Majesty the Emperor!"

The crowd cried out in alarm.

However...

The explosion did not happen.

Everything remained quiet.

"What?"

Tokugawa Ienari's expression was ferocious to the extreme.

The explosives he had prepared actually didn't detonate?

This...

How could this be!

He panicked all of a sudden.

Li Yun watched him quietly.

The Emperor also looked completely bewildered.

The explosives on those hundreds of Samurai also showed no movement.

Li Yun said quietly: "Did you think everyone is like you, not wanting this country to be well?"

His words made Tokugawa Ienari tremble all over.

A traitor!

There was a mole on their side!

"Who?"

"Who exactly is it!"

"Where is your loyalty, where is your Bushido spirit!"

"Bastard!"

"Baka!"

However, no one answered him.

At this point...

Wa has been defeated.

The Emperor has already admitted the defeat of Wa; what can you, a Great General without elite Samurai, do?

The civil and military officials, as well as the generals here in Edo, had already lowered their heads one by one.

Seppuku?

If one can live well, who would want to commit seppuku?

Furthermore...

Wa is a country; who doesn't want their country to be well? Who doesn't want their wives and children to be well?

Wa has been defeated.

What they need to consider is how to survive and how to rebuild this country.

Endure!

They need to endure!

"Kill!"

Tokugawa Ienari was still screaming crazily.

The Emperor of Wa finally gave an order.

In an instant, arrows were fired from all sides at the scene; Tokugawa Ienari's angry shouting came to an abrupt halt, over a dozen arrows were already pierced into his chest, and his wide-eyed, furious expression told of his unwillingness to die with regrets...

Those Samurai also dropped dead on the spot, one by one.

Thus.

The entire Edo was finally taken by Li Yun.

The entire Wa fell into Li Yun's hands.

Wa officially ended the era of the Tokugawa Shogunate's rule.

But, a layer of despair and bewildered atmosphere began to spread in Wa

country.

What will the future of Wa be like?

What will their national structure be like? Will they still be able to possess their own sovereignty? Or will they start to be led around like stray dogs, wantonly manipulated by the Nanyang Xie Clan...

Bewildered.

Lost.

The Emperor and the guards by his side also began to exchange glances.

And then...

Facing Li Yun and the generals beside him.

Bowed deeply...

Submission.

He represented the Wa nation and formally announced the submission of the Wa imperial family. Pop-ups are frequent recently, you can click to download to avoid pop-ups.