It is difficult to improve morale on the battlefield, which requires rigorous training, iron-like discipline and the motivation of commanders and artists, plus glory and rewards after victory, so that the army can be as strong as a rainbow of morale due to multiple reasons.

But morale collapse is a matter of a moment. As long as the first deserter appears in the army, the number of deserters behind will rise geometrically.

The reason is very simple. Human desire to survive is biological instinct. Wanting to live is brought from the nature of animals. What are the victory, glory, samurai spirit, etc., which are all social consciousness cultivated acquired.

If you run away, I won’t run away. You think we are stupid. They are all born by our parents. Why do we have to die in vain?

At this moment, human survival instinct exceeded everything, and the Southwest Alliance completely collapsed.

There were soldiers running away everywhere on the earth. Although some samurai were still insisting on a stable formation, the musketeers and samurai were not samurai. They did not have so many samurai spirits in their hearts.

When the warriors cut over dozens of deserters, the remaining soldiers actually attacked in groups. "The princes have fled, why can't we escape? We are serving the emperor, but the commander-in-chief who accepted his fate has fled. Why are we still going to die stupidly?"

"Honor, have you forgotten what honor is?" The hysterical warrior chopped down another deserter, and blood squirted his face.

"You are a warrior, we are not, we are peasant soldiers, we are going to live." As he spoke, the spear in his hand pierced into the warrior's waist, and he screamed in pain.

Resistance is like a virus. There is the first one and the second one. Soon the warriors who supervised the war could no longer stop the crowd, and they soon disappeared into the ocean.

"Press firepower... stick to them... let the fleeing defeated soldiers attack their own formation..." Under the command of French officers, the new army of Tokugawa family became more and more convenient. On one side, the formation was not chaotic and steadily advanced, while on the other side, they had to load and shoot continuously.

At this time, there is no need to collect fire and shoot. Everyone can fire at will, just keep the enemy's fear.

Tokugawa Kei, the Tensori Pavilion in Osaka Castle, was so happy that he was about to have a stroke. "Hahaha... wine, the wine that celebrated me, finally won. It was too difficult. The martial arts fortune of the shogunate for 200 years has been continued."

The sake bottle is drunk to the mouth, and the neck is filled with flowing. The one-sided massacre on the big plain in front of me is the best dish in the world.

The 30,000 Southwest Alliance has reduced its personnel by more than 7,000 in the battles these days. Now the 10,000 troops from the Satsuma, Tosa and Himemae have become stray dogs again. The remaining more than 10,000 people from the Choshu Division have completely failed to cause trouble, and victory is already within reach.

The Osaka Castle was filled with cheers of victory. At that moment, without the command of the commander, the Osaka Castle defenders launched a large counterattack, and everyone was involved in the battle.

The army of the Changzhou clan was almost pushed out of Nino City alive. When the enemy and us were at their craziest, they were already facing each other. Face to face, their teeth and nails became weapons of attack.

Yuto Yama County was at a loss at this time. Now he does not have the style of a famous general in later generations, and his grasp of the timing of the battlefield is still very immature. If it were the Japanese Prime Minister who fought the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War in real history, and the warlord leader came here, he would definitely cut off his arm and choose to preserve his strength immediately.

Although the Changshu family has been fighting very badly now, their enemy is the defenders in Osaka Castle, which means that the opponent is of equal strength. Although the Changshu army is a bit miserable, its morale has not collapsed.

If you are a mature and experienced politician, you should retreat and preserve your strength even though you know that you cannot win. After leaving the battlefield, the other three feudal troops were even lost. Then the only person who can control the situation is that you have friends in the Shan County.

This is the same joke Xiao Letian heard in his previous life. Four friends met a bear in the mountains, and the other three were running for their lives, while the fourth was tied with shoelaces.

"I don't want to be able to run past the bears, I just want to run past you..." This joke is funny, but the ruthless iron blood contained in it is a motto that politicians must learn.

Sometimes, when a huge failure comes, many losers do not choose to work together, and intend to make a comeback by slept with firewood and tasting gall, but instead fight each other and stab each other in the back.

This is not to say that they are stupid, but on the contrary, this is a very clever political means. Although we collectively lose, I cannot lose. This sounds a bit contradictory, but you can understand it by understanding it from a different perspective.

Even if we all gather together, we can't beat the enemy, so I might as well maintain my strength in the war and stab myself twice. In that way, even though I lost to the enemy, I won my comrades.

So in the later period of cultivating the truce, should I, a half-pull winner who preserved most of my strength, be the biggest profit cake? Look, although I lost to the enemy, my losses can be obtained from my comrades.

The most obvious example is the War of Resistance. The Kuomintang has many factions and retreated step by step with the Japanese, but the internal struggle and struggle did not stop until the end of World War II.

Nowadays, Yutoshi Yama Prefecture is still young. He has already lost the situation and has not ordered a retreat. He has issued another charge order. "Charge, we still have a chance. As long as we fight to the death and rush into Tianshou Pavilion to capture Tokugawa Keiki alive, we can negotiate, and we will still be the winner at that time."

"No, sir, please retreat quickly, leave some seeds for our Changzhou clan." Takasugi Shinsaku beside him was much more brain-minded than him.

"Baga, Takasugi Jin is a useless person, you are a warrior. If you dare not rush up, then I will come..." As he said that, Yuto Yama County drew his sword and rushed forward.

Takasugi Shinsaku grabbed his sleeve, "You are the general appointed by the vassal director. You are responsible for the lives of more than 10,000 brothers in the vassal family. Since you are going to charge, I will..." After saying that, he raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers of the surprise troops, dare you fight with me again."

"Kill." The remaining two hundred scoundrels who could fight dragged their tired bodies and launched another attack on Osaka Castle.

Unfortunately, the situation is over. No matter how hard Shinzuo Takasugi tried, it would not be able to adapt the fate of failure. The surprise soldiers around him fell one by one, and the dying roar was like a wild beast. The loyal warriors he brought out with his own hands protected Shinzuo Takasugi with his body, like a dagger rushing forward against the flow of people.

More and more people were killed in battle. When the surprise troops rushed to the gate of Ninoy City, there were only ten warriors left by Takasugi Shinsaku, and each of them became a blood gourd.

"I'm sorry, I brought you out of my hometown, but I didn't expect to be on the way to death. I owe each of you a life."

"Why did you say this? It is the supreme glory that warriors can break their jade on the battlefield, and our family will be proud of me."

"We still remember the poem that the Lord chanted during the Battle of Occarnation, "The 80,000 soldiers from the East Fence came to Langhua City. When will I die in my Cao? I laughed at the neighbors and heard the sound of cannons. How proud I was at that time, but why did I become weak now?"

Takasugi Jinzu laughed loudly, "Hahaha... That's right, I'm weak. Since you like that poem, then treat it as our passing poem. Brothers, let's go forward."

As the songs were singing, the last essence of the surprise troops was filled into the furnace of war. Takasugi Shin died under the rifle of guns and was only 28 years old.

Yama Prefecture Aritoto watched Takasugi Shinsaku and countless warriors buried under Osaka Castle. At this moment, he was filled with regret, not only because of Takasugi Shinsaku's death, but also because he had missed the best opportunity to retreat.

Now the new army of the Tokugawa family has approached the castle wall on the west side of Osaka Castle, and the soldiers of the Nagashu family have entered the range of the enemy's rifle, and casualties are inevitable.

The defenders in Osaka Castle and the reinforcements outside the castle have formed crossfire, and they have surrounded them from two aspects. Let’s look at the Shimazu family and the other two armies. Now they have retreated like a tide, and even the flag of Saigo Takamori began to move to the west.

"Xixiang Takaho, why did you escape? Is our anti-straight career terminated?" Yuto Yama County closed his eyes in pain and said, "Retreat, our Changzhou vassal also retreat..."

Listening to the rumbling artillery fire outside, Yuto Yama Prefecture suddenly opened his eyes and scolded, "Damn Xiao Letian, if you hadn't embargo on weapons, how could we lose to the shogunate, artillery, grenade, I want explosives..."

Yupeng of Shanxian County has fallen into a madman thinking and cannot extricate himself. He did not know how to reflect on him and actually shirked the reason for his failure to Xiao Letian. He is truly a good reputation as a perverted nation.

"Ah Yeh...Ah Yeh... who is scolding me?" Xiao Letian stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the thick smoke rising from afar. He listened to the shouts of killing like a tide, and sneezed several times in a row.

"How is the situation? Observation Post if there is any new news."

"Report to the Prime Minister, the land observation post sent a light signal, the Tokugawa New Army has broken through the defense line of the Southwest Alliance, the troops of the Satsumatsu family, Tosa, and Himematsu family have collapsed..."

"Report... The Changzhou vassal state has collapsed, Yama Prefecture Atsuto's flag retreated to the west, and Saigo Takaho also retreated... All the generals of the Southwest Alliance began to move to the west..."

"Okay, it's finally our turn to attack Osaka Bay and eat the Tokugawa family's navy first..."

The Ryukyu fleet set sail with full sails. After fifteen minutes, it finally bypassed the cornering cape. The chaotic Osaka Bay appeared in front of Xiao Lotte.

The Tokugawa Fleet anchored in the Osaka Bay has more than 70 warships, but unfortunately they are all the oldest Japanese ships, and many of the artillery are bronze cannons cast during the Warring States Period. Such warships have some deterrent effect on pirates.

"Nani." A sharp-eyed sailor turned around accidentally, but found a huge fleet of ships around behind the protruding cape. The huge soft sails swayed the wind, the bow of the ship pierced the waves, and countless figures in light blue military uniforms were shaking on the deck.

"Ah... it's the army of Ryukyu... My Buddha, the navy of Ryukyu is here... Xiao Letian is here."

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