Inoue Yu and Sasaki were truly shameless to the extreme, or rather, they had no shame to the extreme. In the previous battle, they did block the Ming army outside the city, and they shot and killed several people and injured more than a dozen people without sparing arrows.
But this kind of casualties is insignificant even compared with the number of Japanese casualties caused by the Ming army's bombardment of Dongchuan City last night.
However, in the current situation, he could not care less. With the help of Inoue Takeshi himself, he wrote a 5,000-word memorial in a very eloquent manner. He described last night's battle in a thrilling way, showing how cunning the Ming army was and how brave the Japanese soldiers were. Of course, this bravery was only displayed under the leadership of Inoue Takeshi.
As for the final battle situation, Inoue Yu thought for a while and wrote that his own soldiers suffered hundreds of casualties and killed 8,000 enemies. Even Sasaki thought it was nonsense after reading the memorial. If it was written by Sasaki, he would only write that 5,000 enemies were killed at most.
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Six days later, after being delivered by express horses day and night, the memorial finally reached Hirohito Hiroichi.
When he opened the memorial and read it, he was delighted. The number of Ming troops was not large to begin with, and 8,000 Ming troops were annihilated in one battle, which was truly a great victory.
Then, he praised Inoue Yu in front of all the Japanese officials in the Amaterasu Hall.
Of course, with Hirohito's intelligence, he knew that Inoue Takeshi's 5,000-word memorial was undoubtedly filled with boasting. But according to Hirohito's calculations, even if Inoue Takeshi boasted a lot, he still had at least three or four thousand enemies killed, right?
What he wants now is this momentum. He wants to use this victory to warn all the officials in the Amaterasu Palace and the Japanese soldiers.
He even had to warn the people in Tokyo that their emperor was still the most supreme emperor in this land, and as long as Hirohito was still alive, he would be able to protect his people.
However, when the old eunuch beside Hirohito finished reading the 5,000-word memorial, the officials in the Amaterasu Hall did not give the expression that Hirohito wanted.
There was no joy as imagined, only doubt.
Hirohito Koichi was quite dissatisfied with their expressions.
"Ichiro Tanaka, what do you think?"
Ichiro Tanaka said: "In one battle, we can kill 8,000 enemies?"
"I just think that Inoue Takeshi is a bit boastful. Given Inoue Takeshi's personality, if he really killed 8,000 enemies, he would probably say that he killed 20,000 enemies."
After hearing this, the ministers in the Amaterasu Palace echoed the words.
When Hirohito heard this, he became furious. As an emperor, how could he not know that Inoue Takeshi was bragging? But at the moment, the people of Japan really needed a victory.
Even if this kind of thing was fake, Hirohito Koichi did not want anyone to expose it.
However, at this moment, Saburo Abe, known as the Little Zhuge Liang of Japan, said: "Your Majesty, I think this is absolutely true. We should tell the world immediately and let the people know that our Japanese soldiers can also win the battle. Tell those people that the Ming army is also flesh and blood and there is nothing to be afraid of."
Saburo Abe was smart and deserved to be called the Little Zhuge Liang of Japan. He immediately guessed what Hirohito was thinking.
After hearing this, Hirohito nodded with satisfaction and said, "Yes."
"I also think that Inoue Yusada achieved a great victory in Dongchuan. The number of enemies killed alone reached 8,000. If the wounded enemies are included, the number would be more than 10,000, right?"
Saburo Abe smiled bitterly and said: "That's right. In the battle of Tokawa, Inoue Takeshi killed and wounded more than 20,000 Ming soldiers. It can be said to be a great victory and he deserves reward."
Hirohito smiled and said: "Yes, more than 20,000 Ming soldiers were killed or wounded. Immediately issue an order to commend them. Good wine and meat should be sent to me as soon as possible to reward the soldiers at the Dongchuan front line."
Cabinet Minister Ichiro Tanaka said, "Your Majesty, is there really no need to investigate this matter?"
Hirohito glared, obviously acting like an emperor: "Verification? What the hell? It's a great victory. Don't you believe that my Japanese soldiers can achieve such a record?"
After being glared at, Ichiro Tanaka obviously understood what Hirohito Koichi meant.
"Your Majesty made a wise decision. This battle can be regarded as a great victory and deserves commendation."
Saburo Abe, Ichiro Tanaka, and Hirohito Hiroichi all believed that this was a great victory, so the civil and military officials in the Amaterasu Palace all accepted it as a great victory. After the court was dismissed, these ministers began to deal with the matter of rewards.
However, anyone with a discerning eye could see what was going on.
Hirohito ordered people to reward Inoue Takeshi as soon as possible, while at the same time he frantically accelerated the preparation of his Tokyo defense circle, and even ordered that the taxes in Japan be collected five years later.
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On the other side, just when Hirohito Hiroichi received the victory news from Tokawa, just an hour earlier, the Japanese Queen Chiba Sora also received an urgent message.
The matter in the urgent report was naturally related to the war in Dongchuan, but what the war report said was that the Ming army's attack on Dongchuan was blocked.
"A few days ago, the Ming army failed in their attempt to bomb the city and worked in vain all night. The final result was that several people were killed and more than ten people were injured."
The information obtained by Chiba Sora was completely different from the information obtained by Hirohito Hiroichi. What a fucking great victory! It was pure bullshit.
As expected, this so-called urgent message was sent back by her personal maid Sakura.
But logically speaking, this is not a big deal, and there is no need to mobilize the power of Sakura Pavilion to send it to Qianye Kong in such a dangerous way.
However, at the end of this urgent message, Sakura said another piece of news uncertainly.
Chiba Sora felt that the message at the end was what Sakura really wanted to say to her.
The news was that two veiled women often appeared beside Zhang Wuji.
Sakura felt that the two women were a bit like Ryuze and Aoi, who had disappeared many years ago.
However, Xiaoying is not the kind of person who can always get close to Zhang Wuji, so she just felt that it was similar, but she was not sure.
Qianye Kong stared at the urgent message for a long time.
Although she had not seen all the women around Zhang Wuji, she had seen a few of them.
In Qianye Kong's impression, Zhang Wuji was very good to his women, and even women could work in the military.
Like Gong Yu, Zhao Min, and Zhou Zhiruo, they are all rare beauties in the world. But even such beauties always show their true faces, so there is no need to wear a veil.
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