Original sentence: Altogether 15,000 troops were moving forward.At around 1700, the Shogunal vanguard, made up largely of the men of the Mimawarigumi under Sasaki Tadasaburo, approached a Satsuma-manned barrier post at the Koeda brige (小枝橋), Toba (located in what is now part of Minami-ku, Kyoto)
Edited sentence: Altogether about 13,000 troops were moving forward, although they were widely spread out, leaving about 8,500 for the action at Toba-Fushimi.At around 1700, the Shogunal vanguard, made up largely of about 400 men of the Mimawarigumi under Sasaki Tadasaburo, approached a Satsuma-manned barrier post at the Koeda brige (小枝橋), Toba (located in what is now part of Minami-ku, Kyoto).In front of them were entrenched about 900 troops from Satsuma, with four cannons.Some Matsuyama and Takamatsu and others were also participating, by Bakufu cavalry and artillery seem to have been absent.The Satsuma attack was forceful and quickly sent the Shogunal troops in disaray and retreat.The Shogunal forces move in the direction of Toba under the command of vice-commander Ōkubo Tadayuki, making a total of about 2,000 to 2,500 troops.The Shogunal troops set fire to various houses as they retreated, but this only facilated the aiming of Satsuma snipers.The overall commander (Rikugun Bugyō) of the operation was Takenaka Shigemoto.The situation stabilized during the night, as troops from Kuwana arrived in reinforcement.They were followed by two infantry batallion, rifles empty as they did not really expect a fight, under Tokuyama Kōtarō, and further south by eight companies from Kuwana with four cannons