502 Wake up!
Before the war, soldiers wrote suicide notes in advance, and it is impossible to test what era this became popular, but the authenticity of Xiao Letian's will is beyond doubt.
In the era of wooden sailboats, human journeys across the ocean were always full of dangers, and even in the era of pure steam engine ironclad ships, didn't the Titanic also sink.
What's more, Xiao Letian is not going to Europe to travel, but to participate in the Austro-Prussian War.
Xiao Letian is not alone now, his life and death are related to the well-being of hundreds of thousands of people, and he has such an important responsibility, so it is necessary for him to give an explanation to all those who follow him before he dies.
As the dawn of the morning began to reflect on the earth little by little, the war between Naha Castle and the Fortress Defense Line had intensified, and the French warships on the sea had begun to bombard frantically, and the day of killing slowly began with the sound of King Chantai reading a suicide note.
"I have a dream in which there will be no more wars in the skies of East Asia, and no more oppression and injustice in the lands of East Asia...... Maybe it's just a dream, but I, Xiao Letian, have indeed found the key to making it happen......"
"In 1864, I returned to the Qing Dynasty with this dream, returned to Asia with the same culture, and began my dream journey, and God will never fail to have a heart, and the god of fate has no words to ......express my love."
"I can convince the bandits in the Taihang Mountains, I can still write books and spread the enlightenment of the people in the Sijiu City, and in the city of Tanggu, the Lotte and the foreign company have sprung up and finally dominated the Northland business district, and the 100,000 people in the port of Naha have risen up because of me to overthrow the colonial rule of the Shimazu family in Japan...... Along the way, I, Xiao Lotian, have been invincible..."
On the long street of Naha, in the path of Kitayama, the fastest runner of the sword drawing team carried a copy of Xiao Letian's suicide note in their arms, and quickly passed on the last life of the prime minister.
All the heralds had a fire in their hearts, tears in their eyes, and the Prime Minister's voice still ringing in their ears, inspiring them to forge ahead and never get tired.
"Why am I Xiao Lotian invincible? It's not that I Xiao Lotian has much ability, I'm just a useless scholar, I can't shoot accurately, and I'm not the opponent of most people in hand-to-hand combat, but I'm such a weak person, but I can lead everyone to create so many miracles... That's why ......"
"Without him, only because my heart is right, but also because the road I pointed out is the only correct way for us... Those who love me, wake up quickly..."
"Whoever loves me, wake up quickly... The 19th century is really the last chance for us Han and Asians to catch up, we have already missed one industrial revolution, should we miss a second time?"
"The Western world is advancing day by day, and the tree of science and technology is constantly pulling out new branches, and he has become unattainable. Looking at their industrial prowess, the battleships drove into the sea like dumplings, and a national war even reached the scale of millions of people fighting each other......"
"While we are still sleeping, those new-type nationalist countries in the West, even at the cost of all the soldiers, launched a general war of millions of people, what do they want? It is nothing more than to give their nation a chance, in this jungle of beasts, even if you don't eat people, you always have to protect yourself, right?"
Xiao Letian's voice resounded on countless battlefields, and the members of the swordsmen who rushed to the soles of their feet and bled forwarded the 'wills' that were quickly copied by the officials on the city wall to every corner of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The miserable refugee camps, the busy arsenals, the battalions of the dead who were about to storm the French positions, and the reserves that were preparing for battle...... Including the fanatical and brave student corps, the popular organizations, and the national defense line, Xiao Letian's voice sounded.
It was the 'last' order of the Prime Minister of the Ryukyu Kingdom in his life.
"Those who love me... Wake up... The old road has been exhausted, surrender can only be a lingering breath, maybe in the Middle Ages, your groveling can still be exchanged for a nest of life, but now the times are different, great changes are just around the corner..."
"Remember what I said? The progress of science and technology will make the earth smaller and smaller, and the development of industrial power will make the hungry wolves and beasts put on the minions of steel...... My blood relatives... I beg you to wake up, the beasts of the future already have the strength to fight on a global scale, the era of deep colonization has come, and the destruction of the country and the annexation of the land is already an inevitable tide..."
"The medieval kind of combination and horizontal, the kind of cautious compromise, no longer works... Those who love me, wake up quickly..."
This is really blood, words and tears, thinking back to all the atrocities of the French after the war, countless people were really sublimated at that moment, they were like a Buddhist epiphany, and finally understood what the prime minister had been agitating.
"It's a big mistake, our judgment of the enemy from the beginning was wrong, the French nominally wanted revenge, but in fact they wanted to colonize deeply, that is, to destroy the country and annex the land, they wanted to completely annex the land of the Ryukyus..."
"Prime Minister... We are all your unfilial children, and we don't understand what we did wrong until now... Prime Minister, please come back..."
Countless soldiers fell to their knees and saluted to the west, begging for the return of the prime minister with wept of pain, but everyone knew that the moment the posthumous book kept by King Sangtai and Fan Yao was published, it proved that their beloved prime minister was indeed gone and would never return.
The suicide note also reached the cell of Shuri Castle, where Jin Changsen and his most hardcore descendants had been imprisoned, and in the dim oil light, they also saw Xiao Letian's suicide note.
Jin Changsen unconsciously read the old tears, "I don't know what was happening in the Ryukyus when this suicide note was opened, and I don't have a trick like Prime Minister Zhuge to leave you, in fact, what I want to say has been said a lot in "Westward Journey" and countless small classes......"
"The smaller the nation, the weaker the state, the more dangerous it will be in the future era, and the more ferocious beasts that have evolved in the jungle have gradually lost interest in colonization, and a small country like the Ryukyus must end up being chewed up by the beasts and swallowed completely......"
"At that time, there are destined to be unspeakable things, and the relocation of the people is considered light, and perhaps what awaits the Ryukyus is a genocide...... Because it is weak, the world will not listen to you, even if hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Ryukyu Kingdom are massacred, for the whole earth, it is not enough for the headlines of the last Times......"
"Fight, my blood kindreds, don't leave anything to chance, don't get caught up in the past and be overwhelmed, even if you are the weakest in the jungle of beasts, you will show your fangs..."
"Is it humiliating to be slaughtered as a slave, or is it to die bravely on the way to the charge, to fight for that one in ten thousand hope of survival?
Jin Changsen was completely broken when he read this, he grabbed the railing with both hands and wept bitterly, howling like a wolf: "Am I wrong? How could I be wrong? What am I wrong?"
Jin Changsen didn't know where he was wrong, but Xiao Letian knew very well that this kind of traditional Confucian minister actually didn't know what scientific and technological progress was all his life, even if Xiao Letian had been instilling, they couldn't understand it.
The tiny Ryukyus could hold out for days under the bombardment of the sail battleships, but how many hours could he resist when the oceanic steel monsters of World War I and World War II appeared?
Now the weaker nations can still rely on their unyielding will, rely on their own chests to block the enemy's bullets, and exchange their lives for victory, but when the king of land warfare tanks are rampant on the land, and the sky is the scream of heavy bombers dropping bombs, how can such combat power resist?
Jin Changsen may not have imagined such a terrifying picture until he died, but he doesn't need to fantasize, this massacre of the French expeditionary force has already shattered all his extravagant hopes, and these dregs of history will eventually be swept into the dust.
"Those who love me... Wake up... It is precisely because we are weak that we should unite the soul of the nation, let all our hearts be united, wave your iron fist to smash an aggressor, tighten our belts and exchange the last copper plate for the industrialization and military modernization of our nation......"
"This is the only way out for the disadvantaged, the last chance, and if we miss this train, we will sink forever..."
"It doesn't matter if I, Xiao Letian, live or die, what matters is whether you firmly believe in the right path I pointed out, as long as what I do will not be ruined, then under the nine springs, I Xiao Lotian can also be blind..."
"Goodbye, my relatives, goodbye my brothers, goodbye, my beautiful dreams..."
At this point, the last word of Xiao Letian's suicide note to Ryukyu was read, and the prime minister's last life smashed into everyone's heart.
On the streets and alleys of Naha, people no longer cried, and when the most terrible thing was finally confirmed, people became stronger, since the prime minister let us fight, then continue to fight, anyway, the French devils did not want to let us go, fighting is death, not fighting is death.
"Cheer up, the prime minister said, fight bravely, and strive for even one in 10,000 victory possible... This killing is to be remembered by Europeans for a hundred years...... The New Army charges..."
The streets and alleys were crowded with soldiers and civilians with weapons, and they did not run quickly, but pushed forward arm in arm like an iron wall.
The footsteps were incomparably firm at that moment, and the standard unison walked neither fast nor slow, revealing disdain for the enemy and death. The French troops on the opposite side finally panicked, and expressions of fear appeared on the faces of more people.
The pace of their shots grew more chaotic, their commanding voices sharper and sharper, and when they realized that killing was no longer able to conquer the city, they suddenly found themselves at the end of their skills.
The iron wall was brutally crushed, and the people put one on the ground lightly holding hands and sacrificing one, and the warriors behind them immediately filled in, and the people rushed to the first row, no matter how dense the bullet rain was, they could not stop the advance of the iron wall.
"Press it up...... When the iron wall rushed to ten meters from the position, the soldiers and civilians who swarmed up under the order of the officers in the crowd instantly swallowed up the resisting French army.
One defensive position after another has been lost, the warships on the sea have gone crazy, the whole city is full of urgent fireworks, and now these warships on the sea have no time to adjust their attitude.
If you want to carry out large-angle fire support in the whole city, you must cooperate with the sailor and the helmsman, and the battleship must move.
But there were too many, and the signal for help was transmitted from all angles throughout the city, and the sky was full of fireworks.
"What's wrong? what's going on?' who can tell me what's going on?" General Bruce's roar changed.
"Those who love me... Wake up quickly..."In the mouths of the soldiers and civilians of the entire city, there is only this one roar now, which is the last life given to them by their beloved Prime Minister Xiao Cheng at the last moment of their lives, and that blood is destined not to flow in vain, and the people of the Ryukyus have awakened at that moment.
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