638 Samurai melee
Japan is a hierarchical society, the feudal feudal system has been played to the limit, the shogunate is the ruler of the country, and under him there are daimyos, daimyos, lords, samurai, and so on. Even the most basic samurai class is divided into three, six, nine and so on, those who do not have a lord are called wild samurai, and those who have a lord are also divided into sergeants and corporals.
In Japanese tradition, the corporal, that is, the lowest level of samurai, can kill the untouchables at will, and the sergeant can kill the corporal at will, and the elders and generals under the daimyo can kill the sergeant at will.
The whole of Japan is so tightly ruled that anyone is a link in the barbaric ecological chain. When Ryoma Sakamoto was a child, he once collided with a sergeant, and according to the system at that time, a sergeant could kill the corporal's son at will.
Ryoma Sakamoto's mother took him to his knees in the rain and begged for the sergeant's forgiveness, but Ryoma's mother also died of a serious illness due to the rain.
Later, one of Ryoma's friends was killed in the street because he was too late to avoid a drunken sergeant, which also led to a major conflict between the samurai of the Tosa Domain, and a war almost broke out between the sergeant and the corporal.
Not only in the Tosa Domain, but also in the Satsuma Domain, the hierarchy between the samurai separated the crowd like a chasm, and the sergeant was as domineering as a king in front of the corporal and the wild samurai.
Today, Toranosuke met a group of sergeants, the proud sergeants of the Shimazu family, this group of samurai who secretly participated in the Battle of Choshu, all of them had proud nostrils facing the sky, how could they not be angry when they saw this group of wild samurai.
What are you, how can you be richer than us? What are your identities that you dare to wear silk kimonos? Look at the coarse cloth kimonos on your bodies, these sergeants have crooked noses.
What's even more infuriating is that the sergeant only drank Japanese sake, and this group of bald wild samurai actually drank the golden Qingguo Jiangnan Huadiao, which is an unbearable sin.
"Baga...... You are the samurai of that daimyo family, why are you so arrogant in Kagoshima!" The sergeant slammed the sake cup on the tatami mats.
Toranosuke squinted at him, and the corporal on the opposite side with a tangible murderous aura shuddered, "You call us the samurai of that family, can't we be wild samurai?"
In Japan, samurai don't dare to joke about their lord, Toranosuke said that he was a wild samurai, and the people on the other side all believed it.
"The lowly wild samurai must be the money earned by being a pirate, and the brothers drew their swords and killed them...... "The fierce samurai left without saying a word, but as soon as they fought, they were dumbfounded, and the four or five wild samurai on the opposite side were actually sharper than them.
"You are so bold that you dare to fight back at the sergeant!" A group ......of people fought from the tavern to the street, and then the sergeant's reinforcements increased and grew, forming the appearance of Noheita's eyes.
Twenty high-ranking samurai of the Shimazu family surrounded Toranosuke and them, and they were like a forest. And Toranosuke was not afraid, he yelled "Draw the sword...... Formation ......"
With a loud roar, the six or seven meter brothers immediately formed a defensive circle with each other's shoulders and backs, and the swords were set on top of the enemy's swords, followed by chaos on the long street, from the brothels, wine shops, and casinos, and suddenly rushed out one after another with swords.
"Toranosuke is besieged...... Fight in a team! The swordsman team must not be humiliated......" There was a sound of swords coming out of the sheath on the long street of Cangchangchang, and this group of Japanese samurai who had passed through the Western procession drill formed two phalanxes at a very fast speed, and shouted slogans from the east and west long streets and pressed up.
"Roar...... Hah!roar...... Ha!" the phalanx had already shouted rhythmic offensive slogans, and the Taidao formation had been formed. These brave warriors, who had resisted the French cavalry on the Franco-Swiss border, and killed the Austrian noble legions in the Austro-Prussian War, pressed the murderous aura on those sergeants like a wall.
"Who are you, tell me, who are you...... Ask for help, ask for help immediately!" Faced with the pressure of nearly a hundred or so sword-drawing teams coming from the east, this group of sergeants finally knew that they were scared, and hurriedly shouted loudly for help.
The news that Xiao Lotian secretly came to Kagoshima was only focused on the senior officers of the Shimazu family, and the samurai below did not know at all, if there was a trace of information leakage, this group of sergeants would not dare to be so arrogant, they really didn't know that a big man had landed on Kyushu Island.
At this time, Japan had not yet been fully Westernized, and they also celebrated the Spring Festival of the Chinese, and the Japanese samurai also took a holiday to recuperate, eating, drinking and having fun every day. There were a large number of Shimazu samurai concentrated in Kagoshima's castle town and port, and when they heard the sergeant's request for help, the group of samurai all went crazy.
The drunken samurai was not afraid of the cold, took off his shirt and tucked it around his waist, showing off his muscles on a cold day, and shouted wildly, "The wild samurai actually dare to challenge the glory of the Shimazu family...... Kill them, Brother Duck!" and after a while, more than 300 fanatical thugs rushed out of the kung fu street, shouting hysterically.
A bloody clash is inevitable, and both sides have already poured too much alcohol, and reason is useless at this point.
At this moment, there were suddenly three crisp gunshots, and the three knives that rushed to the front fell to the ground, and people fixed their eyes on a man who was not angry but was looking at them coldly with a Colt revolver, and the muzzle of the gun was still smoking.
"Everyone, stop, if there is any problem, find the old man of the Kayama Kurigen family to solve it fairly......" It was Noheita who shot him, he knew that it would not work if he didn't do it, if there was really a bloody conflict, the prime minister's whereabouts would be completely revealed.
"Musket, the most high-end Western revolver, Baga...... They must be pirates, don't listen to them, keep attacking...... "Otherwise, people who drink too much will not be rational, their heads have already been overwhelmed with blood.
Yeping was so anxious that he broke out in a cold sweat, how could he meet such a group of drunks today, but it was impossible to stop so many crazy people by himself.
At this time, he turned his head and glanced around him, and suddenly found that the stinky boy Hyotaro was gone, and he actually became a deserter at this critical moment?
"Baga, you wait for me to settle accounts with you......" After speaking, the revolver in Nohei's hand snapped with a crisp sound, and a knife was knocked to the ground.
At this time, the gunfire could no longer suppress the two groups of madmen, and the knives had already collided together, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering.
The castle town has been completely fried, the shops along the street pΓΉ opened the back door, the merchants and people hugged their heads and scurried, and there were cries everywhere, and even the foreigners on the port were alarmed, staring at the streets where the battle broke out one by one.
At that moment, there was a sudden sound of large leather boots hitting stone slabs from the docks, and a rushing tide swept over.
"Draw the Sword...... Bullet loading...... We are the blade in the hands of the Prime Minister, our noblest East Asian new army......"
"Now the stale samurai dare to challenge the dignity of the arrogant new army, do you say yes or not!"
With the mobilization of Hyotaro for war, a thunderous roar erupted from the long street, "No answer!" This roar frightened the attacking Shimazu samurai, and Toranosuke and they took the opportunity to launch a small counterattack, and immediately cut down six or seven samurai.
Nohei yelled, "Stop it all...... Don't kill each other! The swordsmen took three steps back and defended in place...... Damn it, today is a violation of military discipline!"
It was Hyotaro who rushed up.,This guy, the last hundred sword drawing teams stationed on the Rome have all been called out.,This is a hundred sword drawing team members who haven't changed their clothes.,The light blue military uniform is very eye-catching in the castle town.γ
High-legged military boots, woolen military uniforms, patent leather large-brimmed hats, and thick cowhide belts...... Of course, there was also a Mauser rifle with bayonets on it, and this torrent caused a sensation throughout the port of Kagoshima as soon as it appeared.
Countless foreign businessmen pointed to their military uniforms and shouted, "Xiao Letian's new army...... It was the Eastern Army that swept through Europa...... The New Army has landed in Japan!"
And the open-minded merchants, who had all been to Naha and the Ryukyus, knew too well what the new army was like.
"Oh no...... The new army of the Ryukyus has attacked, and they want to take revenge, revenge for two hundred years of humiliation...... Run!"
Xiao Letian's new army, not only the new army of the Ryukyus, but also the new army of the whole of Asia, is the first top-level armed force trained in a purely Western-style manner, and their victories are dazzling even to the Europeans.
In the eyes of these Japanese, if the Shimazu family is a daimyo, then Prime Minister Xiao Cheng of the Ryukyus should be a super-daimyo second only to the emperor, and his influence in East Asia even exceeds that of the shogunate. Xiao Letian's soldiers were actually scolded as wild samurai? Where did the sergeant of the Shimazu family get the confidence to challenge the dignity of the sword drawing team?
The sergeant of the Shimazu family actually dared to put an adult's score in front of Prime Minister Xiao Cheng's new army, isn't this looking for death? Look, people are bringing new foreign guns to take revenge!"
At this time, a hundred heavily armed swordsmen had rushed to the edge of the battlefield, and when Hyotaro saw the puddle of blood on the ground, he was furious, and he yelled, "Prepare to shoot...... Kill these bastards!"
At the moment when the Mauser of the sword drawing team was already aiming at the samurai group and was about to shoot, Noheita suddenly yelled "Stop...... The muzzle of the gun was raised forty-five degrees...... Shoot!"
Nohei knows too well that when a hundred Mausers are aimed at the crowd, you must not give the order to stop shooting, because it is very likely that the unstable mentality will subconsciously pull the trigger, and one person's shooting is easy to have a chain reaction.
In the era of front-loading smoothbore guns, such accidents often occurred, and there were always nervous soldiers in the firing array who pulled the trigger in advance, and the recklessness of one person would soon cause a collective misfire of a firing array.
The new army has now reached the bottom of the subconscious execution of the commander's orders, and Noheita's orders have been strictly enforced, and the muzzles of a hundred guns have been raised by forty-five degrees, snapping, snapping...... After a deafening burst of gunfire, there was a dead silence on the long street.
Suddenly, when the sound of a long voice pierced the silence, he looked at the sword in the hand of a samurai of the Shimazu family, and he was frightened. What they are afraid of is not foreign guns, what they are afraid of is the military uniform, and the young faces that are extremely proud.
"It's the new army of the Ryukyus...... They defeated the elders of the Huashan family before they formed an army, and after they formed an army, they were able to defeat the Qing army and even defeat the Westerners......"
Countless samurai looked like dirt, and they knew that they had fallen into a catastrophe.