Kunigami is located at the northernmost tip of the main island of the Ryukyus, which is an economically underdeveloped region of the Ryukyus in today's terms, with many mountains and reefs in the sea, and nothing but a few fishing villages and limited arable land.

The beach outside Kunigami is a limited area of water in the Kitayama area that can dock large ships, and if the French rush to land on the beach from the Kitayama area, then the 500-meter-long beach is their only target.

Now the regular army stationed in Guotou Village has only one company of troops, and the rest are all young and strong people gathered from the surrounding fishing villages, and there are only more than 1,000 people together, but seeing their chaos like ducks fighting, the new army soldiers present all shook their heads and sighed.

The company commander's surname is Chu Mingzhao, the origin of this company commander is not simple, he is also a musketeer who was trained by Xiao Letian himself in Taihang Mountain, and they are all together with Luo Huo. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't pass the English test in this selection, maybe he would have been in the bloody battle of Shiqiao Heights.

"Luo Monkey...... I took a few people to inspect the village, how did I get it? Someone's stove in the west of the village is on fire? Damn, the smell of grilled fish wafted to me......"

"The order goes down...... Let these ordinary people be quiet, since they have come together to defend our homeland, since they have entered the army system, they must know to obey military orders..."

"Damn, if you can listen to orders, stay, and if you can't listen to orders, get out of here......"

Chu Zhao's temper on weekdays is not like this, he is a well-known soldier in the new army, but today Rao is good temper can't hold back, this group of improvised young people is too unorganized.

The people of the Ryukyu Kingdom were the first to receive nationalist education in East Asia, and Xiao Lotian Tongguò fought a brutal bloody battle with the Japanese, so that the natives, Han Chinese, and even some Japanese ronin of the Ryukyus understood what a country is and what a nation is.

Under the cruel law of the jungle, if each ethnic group wants to survive, want to survive better, or just want to protect themselves, then huddling together for warmth is the only option.

The Japanese Shimazu family enslaved the Ryukyus for 300 years, and in the end what did they rely on to drive them out? Of course, there is Xiao Letian and his merits in this, but can it be done by relying on the hundreds of people under Xiao Letian's command alone? In the end, the victory depended on the people of the same language and species, who shared the same values, walked together, gathered under the banner of Xiao Zizhi, and paved a road to rejuvenation with their lives.

It was from that day that people understood that whether you were a native of the Ryukyus, a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, or simply a newcomer who had just crossed the sea from the Qing Dynasty, as long as everyone could speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, have common festivals and customs, and abide by the same values, they were actually the same people.

Even a small number of Japanese, they are willing to accept the transformation of Han culture, they are willing to accept the values of the Chinese, then under the sky of the Ryukyu Kingdom, everyone is also a nation, and Ryukyu is the country of everyone.

A bloody war gave hundreds of thousands of Jamahiriyas and nations the concept, and then Xiao Letian's crazy brainwashing made this concept even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

A devil who is good at manipulating people's hearts, he is very good at using advanced methods to indoctrinate the people.

The ten universities are now desperately instilling the concept of nationalism and the state, and the blackboard is hung with a picture of Xiao Lotian in addition to the portrait of King Shang Tai, and many people say that Xiao Lotian's photo is hung higher than that of King Shang Tai. Many old ministers were even worried that Xiao Lotian would replace him.

In the streets and alleys of Naha, you can often see all kinds of small Japanese shrines for sacrifices, which are not dedicated to the strange gods of the Japanese archipelago, half of them are martyrs' shrines of soldiers who died in battle, and the remaining half are shrines for Xiao Lotian to pray for blessings.

A large number of offerings are all photos of Xiao Lotian using blood to treat Sakamoto Ryoma. In the curling smoke of blessings, Xiao Letian's image has been mythical step by step.

The Ryukyuan people are truly grateful to Prime Minister Xiao for bringing them a qiē, not only for overthrowing the tyrannical rule of the Shimazu family, not only for the commercial prosperity brought about by a large amount of investment, but most importantly, for Xiao Lotian to make everyone understand a truth, a way to survive in the cruel competition of nations in the 19th century.

In 19th century Asia, the prelude to the second industrial revolution, in this great era, Asian countries who first started the trend of nationalism, who first figured out what is going on with the country and the nation, who can become the locomotive of Asia, who can lead the world.

Fortunately, the people of the Ryukyus were able to wake up first, just looking at the invasion of the French fleet, donations from the private sector reached millions of silver dollars, and the number of young people who took the initiative to join the militia reached a terrifying 70,000.

Of course, Cai Mao and Liang Kun will not accept all the more than 70,000 young and strong, on the one hand, they do not have so many weapons and equipment for them, and on the other hand, they do not have so many officers to command them.

The difference between the army and the common people lies in its discipline and organization, discipline requires a long period of military training, while organization requires a large number of basic officers.

Unfortunately, the Ryukyu Kingdom does not have either of these things now.

Chu Zhao was already mad, his company and more than a thousand young men had been stationed in Guotou Village for three days, and Chu Zhao didn't know how he got over these three days.

You say that six o'clock in the morning is the time for breakfast, but it is guaranteed that some people are hungry at five o'clock, and that some people do not wake up at seven o'clock.

You said that it is a time of war, try to eat the dry food sent from the rear and fire less? But there are always people who secretly go to the beach to catch two delicious groupers, and when they find a stove and steam it, a group of people will gather at the *** tooth sacrifice.

You can't beat or scold, as long as they see the soldier, they promise to hand you the most delicious one, and you can't eat it.

The most angry thing is not only these, many young people also have the problem of secretly drinking and gambling money, if you catch it right, they are not afraid of you, but point to the sea and rap with you, "There is no enemy either, don't worry, when the enemy appears, if we drink and gamble again, you will shoot us..."

Can Chu Zhao shoot these ordinary people? These people have no military training at all, and even how to shoot is a surprise study in the past three days, and there has been no misfire accident during this time, even if his Chu Zhao ancestor has appeared.

The chaos didn't subside until this morning, when the harsh war horn sounded in Naha Harbor, and when the shore defense artillery began to roar, these young men really realized that war was coming, and one by one they hid in the hideaway with pale faces, and no longer dared to mess around.

But Chu Zhao's ease did not last long at all, when the needle pointed to eleven o'clock in the morning, the young people of the militia who had listened to the roar of artillery all morning were a little unable to sit still.

"Hey, fellow...... It's been a whole morning of artillery fighting, and the boom has not stopped, but the enemy has not been found to have landed on the island?

"That's right, I just went to Naha a few days ago, and the San'in near the left of the good guy has been converted into a shelter, and there are tents and straw huts everywhere in the mountains, and it is said that once the war starts, the people of the whole city can be evacuated......"

"Yes, I've seen that vault too...... How much do you think it costs to fire the cannon back and forth? I've heard people say that the largest fort under Shuri Castle costs 1,000 taels of silver for just one cannonball..."

"Oh, Mommy... You can't make a silver mountain out of this half a day......? That's all the big guy's worries, let's think about today's lunch, as soon as I fired in the morning, my breakfast was mixed, and the damn starved me......"

As soon as they said they were hungry, a group of people began to rub their stomachs, and a few of them were bold enough to lie on the window and look at the sea, "There is nothing, there is nothing on this sea... Why don't we get some dried fish to eat? I remember there's still some in the wing......"

After a while, smoke rose from the grass house where they were hiding, and the brothers actually began to grill the fish and eat it.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? don't die......" A scoop of cold water was splashed over, and the fire that had just been lit was extinguished, and the angry Luo Monkey pointed at their noses and started scolding.

"It's you guys again, you secretly drank last night, and today you actually steal grilled fish... Are you fools? The French have already attacked, and you are lighting fire and smoking, aren't you aiming at the enemy's artillery? You don't want to live, don't drag ......everyone down."

Luo Monkey is Chu Zhao's deputy, and the deputy company-level cadres scolded a few militia people, of course they didn't dare to talk back, but muttering a few times was inevitable.

"It's been all morning, and I haven't seen any shadow of a big-nosed foreigner? We are the head of the country, a poor place where birds don't, and this village is not worth a shell......

"That's it, you Luo Monkey is the godson of Boss Mi, you are tired of polishing rice and white noodles, and you have a lot of oil and water in your stomach...... We can't do it, three meals of sweet potato rice a day, you can try it if you have the ability?"

Luo Monkey's nose is about to be crooked, he annoys others to mention the word godson, in his ideal, even if he wants to be a godson, he must learn from the other people's Bingtaro, a Japanese gambler has become the prime minister's godson because of the credit of reporting a letter, which makes Luo Monkey extremely jealous.

The godfather of Luo Monkey who was ridiculed was the rice boss who was personally saved by Xiao Lotian during the bloody war of Naha, the No. 1 grain merchant in the Ryukyus from the Qing Kingdom, who was almost killed by the Japanese ronin with his wife and daughter, but fortunately met Xiao Letian and saved his life.

Later, their family and the little guy followed Xiao Lotian all night long, and they all experienced the process of quelling the chaos in Naha, which of course included the scene where Xiao Lotian recognized Bingtaro as his son and gave him his surname. That is, from that moment on, the weeds in Luo Monkey's heart grew wildly, and he never thought that the bad gambler Hyotaro could become Mr. Xiao's son, what is he less than Hyotaro? Why can't he get ahead.

It is precisely because of this that Luo Monkey refused Boss Mi's request to recognize his son after the end of the war, resolutely joined the new army, and relied on his efforts for more than a year to become the deputy company commander.

Luo Monkey has a high status, and what he hates the most is that people laugh at him for things in the past, and the people in front of him today actually dare to mention this matter, which makes him extremely angry.

"What do you say? kind of you say it again..."

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