The Asahi Islands are an island nation located at the easternmost tip of the Asian continent, and in the eyes of the Goliaths, they are a land of silver, a land of war and cherry blossoms, a land of samurai and loyalty, and a place where piracy is rife. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And Goliath's understanding of this country is only the "Chrysanthemum and the Knife" that deviates from the song:

"It's a strange country, they're timid, they're brave, they're polite, they're cruel, they're conservative, they're good at imitation, they're obedient, they're more unruly, you can't really know their hearts, they're like a mixture of the ancient Spartan warriors and the ancient Romans, but more needs to be learned about them.

At present, the Ryuzoji clan is ruling this isolated island, and the north is dominated by the tenacious Ainu, who are expanding into the north at the same time as the civil war, and at the same time there are many people and merchants from Seris who join forces to raid the coastal ports of Seris, and it is hard to believe that they always succeed, and Seris's army is exhausted by a small number of pirates, harassed by a guerrilla style.

And I think this is mainly because most of Seris's energy is held back by the Tatars and Tunguska people in the north, and he is unable to launch a strong and effective offensive against the pirates of the island nation who come and go quickly, and they never seem to think of using their vassal country, the country of the Smectas on the Jinchuan Peninsula, to attack the mainland of the Sakura Country, but adopt a passive resistance method, which undoubtedly makes the pirates more greedy. ”

"The Chrysanthemum and the Knife" not only describes some of the character of this eastern island nation, but also mentions some of their conflicts with the Celestian people, the old empire of the East, and the recent interest of the Goliaths in this eastern island nation is due to the fact that they have sent an envoy to visit.

During this time, they showed an idea much like introducing Goliath to their kingdom, and the councillor asked.

Their purpose was actually to ask the Republic to send an officer corps to train their soldiers at the request of the shogunate, because some time ago, a Goliath named Dun Nilon had trained a group of soldiers, and the general felt that it had worked well, but this military attache had already left, and after the introduction of other Goliath non-commissioned officers he left, the shogunate decided to send them this legation corps, the purpose was to recruit people who knew how to train Goliath, preferably officers.

Therefore, they wanted to invite more Goliaths to go and buy the artillery weapons of the Republic, and the military department of the Republic also valued the silver of the island country, and was dissatisfied with the Serisians, so they readily agreed, although they knew that the army faction was eager to conquer the entire Asahi Islands, but the naval faction would not care.

The military department of the republic is divided internally, and externally, the military department is still one, the army is called the army faction, and the navy is called the navy faction, but there is no air force faction.

The dragon knights have always been excluded from the circle of power.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Goliaths had plotted to co-opt them to contain the Seris in retaliation for their tactics in India.

The Admiralty sent Senior Colonel Long Dean to the East to sign some treaties of assistance with the island nations, and was tasked with inspecting the movements and armaments of the Seris.

In July of the year 203 of the Republican calendar, Long De'an, together with more than a dozen members of the officer corps, more than 20 soldiers, and the envoys of the shogunate, went to the most dynamic region in the distant country, where the Goliath merchants said the land of silver and cherry blossoms, the sunrise of the east, and the country of Sipaan, which means the sun in the Goliath language.

It is said that their ancestors were immigrants from Seris and the peoples of southern Asia, and their gods were Amaterasu and Hachiman Tenjin.

Long De'an and the officers only knew this, so they called the envoys to learn more about each other's culture, they liked civilization.

Most of the members of the officer corps, including Long De'an, and the envoys, were chatting happily in the cabin, and only one officer stayed with all the soldiers, on the one hand, to sail the ship, and on the other hand, to do a good job of defense, and the soldiers were not qualified to sit with the commanders, which was never allowed in the Goliath army, and the soldiers had to maintain respect for the commanders, and the premise was to put their positions at the bottom end.

According to the Sipaans themselves, they were in the same cultural circle as the Seris, both of whom were in the category of Confucian civilization, but they were more independent than the Smectanas, "and the Goryeo people, in addition to their boasted remnants of the Heavens, have been even more shocking in recent years, saying that our emperor had emigrated from them, and they have always been like this, which has made the court on the mainland very angry." This is their evaluation of the residents of the Jinchuan Peninsula, and Dazaochuan has a disdainful expression when he talks about those Smecta people.

And Long De'an's adjutant said a word, but he just shrugged his shoulders and was speechless.

"There were five epochs in the world, the Cambrian (Hongmeng), the Ordovician (Chaos), the New Age (Taichu), the Solar Age (Proterozoic), and the Ice Age (Flood Age), which was recognized by all the strong men on the entire continent, including the eastern and western continents, and now it is the Sixth Age.

And the Smecta boasted that there were six epochs in the world, and there was a Falling Moon Era before the Cambrian Era, which was the era of the Great War of Gods and Demons, and they were the remnants of the Great Cold Underworld of the Falling Moon Era, the remnants of the Hades God, and they were locked in this world by the Demon God and all the living beings, they called this world a shackled world, imprisoned by demons, and they were the saviors. ”

"Second Lieutenant, you are wrong, they don't have an era, it should not be the Falling Moon Period, but the so-called Pre-Hongmeng Period, I have heard their historians boast with the Seris in their Gangneung Road Flower Garden Lecture Hall. "A Goliath humane who knows the Orient well.

Long Dean just shook his head slightly, indicating that he was sleepy and needed to rest.

Lying on the bed, Long Dean's brows furrowed more and more, he knew something about the ignorant arrogance of the Smectarians, but was it really a kind of arrogance? Maybe they really prospered, but it was the Seris who really made him feel uneasy in his heart.

The Smectis are indeed funny, but in fact, their arrogance is better than some of the Seris, the Confucian Seris are extremely stubborn in believing that they are the center of the universe, the descendants of the so-called Pangu Divine Race, the Kyushu Heavenly Divine Kingdom, and the leaders of all nations, and are extremely disgusted with any trade and academic progress, but extremely praised for their self-proclaimed behavior, just like the mage interest groups of the Republic, they have the right to speak, and naturally do not want others to become wise, so that they can always control everything。

Knowing these doesn't give him anything.

But these things taught Long Dean how to deal with people like mages, to show more ignorance in the face of ignorant people, and not to try to say anything, just like he did with arrogant army commanders, not to speak, just to do things, to ignore some people.

This trip is really quite fruitful, before he arrived in the East, he knew a lot of things that he didn't know, he learned from the brains of some intellectuals in the East, and learned the way of thinking of the mages of his country, but the intellectuals of the East and the mages of their country are the same kind of people, so are the intellectuals of their country the same as the warlocks of the East?

Well, as far as he knew, alchemists were indeed very similar to the warlocks of the East for a period of time, both of them were alchemists.

Because of a feeling of pity for civilized people, he was very worried about the future of the Seris, because pride is dangerous not because of strength but because of ignorance, he was a civilizationist supremacist, and he greatly admired the civilization of the Seris, and was once dissatisfied with the destruction of the Roman buildings by the military headquarters, and he hated the Barbarians when he had recruited men in the country to go to the border areas of the Seris to help them defend against the invasion of the Tatar peoples.

Naturally, a man like him, to all what he considered civilized people, was pathologically loving, and could not stand what he considered to be a barbarian, and he could not stand the existence of so many fools in a country of civilized people.

And there are many people like him, Goliath, all of whom have a sense of mission to spread civilization to the world, of course, all of them are cruel and abnormal colonizers, and the reason why they praise civilization is more of a cover for the guilt hidden in their hearts, a kind of self-paralysis, so that they can slaughter the vanquished without obstacles.

The Goliaths have always been fooled by themselves, and now they really regard the maintenance of civilization as a big thing, it seems that if they do not maintain civilization, the world will be finished, which is also another trick of the military department to deceive the lower-level soldiers to die for them, to fight for civilization, not to do evil, but to dedicate themselves to the cause of justice, and if they die, they will go to heaven.

Because of this, the soldiers were brutal and unafraid of death.

He laughed on the bed, in fact, many things, the soldiers themselves understand, how can anyone really be brainwashed by others, more brainwashed by themselves, or lose their reason and judgment due to greed, or paralyze themselves because of guilt, or abandon their conscience in order to enjoy the pleasure of killing.

And his task is to convey the emotions of the Goliath army to the island countries far to the east, and to transmit the arrogance and brutality of Goliath to all nations.

Thinking of this, he was almost intoxicated, it was very interesting, he really wanted to see how heroic the warriors he trained in the future were.

There is nothing wrong with civilized people being brutal, there is nothing wrong with barbarian cruelty, barbarians should not kill civilized people, and barbarians should be slaughtered by civilized people, this is the will of the Supreme.

And civilized people are not guilty of killing civilized people, that is to promote the progress of both sides, eliminate those shameless cowards and lowly incompetent bloodlines hidden in the nation, pure nation, evolve the nation, killing the weak is sacred, killing the strong is great, killing oneself is the key to transcending human nature and becoming a god.

This was his thinking, the usual thinking of an Admiralty officer.

At this time, the ship had an accident, violently shaking, Long De'an was thrown out of bed heavily because he was unprepared at first, and then he walked easily on the unstable surface with a cold face, showing the quality of a naval officer and sailor.

He pulled them apart and slapped them in the face at a few officers, who just kept apologizing, and were still furious, and even wanted to vent their anger on more officers, until the envoys of the Asahi Islands dissuaded them and did it.

"What the hell is going on, why does the boat shake, incompetence is stupid pig waste, can't even drive the boat?" he asked loudly.

And several naval officers and sailors who were driving the ship only promised, "It's pirates, Your Excellency, it's those pirates on the Asahi Islands." ”

"Pirates, Asahi Islands!" he turned to look at the envoys.

The envoys repeatedly said that it was a rabble organized by a group of scum and untouchables who betrayed the bushido faith, and that killing them had nothing to do with the shogun.

"In that case, then fight back. As soon as he mentioned the battle, he quickly became calm and elegant, and the officers and soldiers instantly became extremely cold, no longer having the feeling of being submissive to the commander just now, but having a cold temperament.

The battle was one-sided, and in just two hours, hundreds of pirates were routed, and none of Goliath's officers were killed, and only two soldiers were wounded, and these two were caused by Longdean's telling them to stop the shelling and capture alive the remaining twenty or so pirates.

Most of those pirates were samurai ronin, and they were extremely strong in single-edged combat, but they did not have any advantage in the Goliath naval officers and sailors, and were quickly defeated, but only three people were captured, and the rest preferred to jump into the sea, probably because after seeing those envoys, they felt that they had no way to live, because the Goliaths might still let them go, and those envoys of the shogunate have always been a blow to pirates.

And the Goliath soldiers gouged out the intestines of a captive, but there was no death, watching him cry in pain and want to roll, let out a hearty laugh, they used it to vent the violence of the commanders against them, which is almost the tradition of the Goliath army, killing people on the battlefield to vent their own repression, and just now Long Dean angered the officers, and the officers kicked them to the ground, constantly beating and scolding and humiliating, and now looking at the painful appearance of the captured enemy, they suddenly felt that the bravery of their great Goliaths had returned, and they did not even dare to refuse their own officers softly, but they treated the enemy bravely and brutally。

Pathetic man, Long De'an somehow saw the appearance of the soldiers, and suddenly thought.

He dispersed the soldiers, tied up the two remaining captives, and asked them in the Silk Paan, "How are you feeling, gentlemen?" ”

In exchange for nothing more than a scolding from the other party, he felt that there was nothing to say, and said, "Then go to death." Then he swung his knife and split them into four pieces.

The celebrity then threw the body into the sea.

And several envoys looked at it, they all felt a little disgusted, but they didn't dare to say anything, they were not samurai royal families, but civil officials of the shogunate, where they could stand this kind of scene, and at the same time they also felt very disdainful of Goliath's killing of prisoners, but because they killed pirates, and because they would deal with them in the future, they did not stop it.

In fact, they themselves are no better at treating the serfs in the fields than this, except that the feeling of watching others kill is different from that of their own people.

In mid-August, after a month-and-a-half-long journey, they arrived at the ports of Bengal, Manila, and Lyman, which were under the control of the Republic, and finally moved to the port of Nagasaki, which was under the control of the shogunate.

It took longer than expected, as the Rondean had to bypass Stiranka, which was controlled by the Indians hostile to the Goliaths, and make a detour to Bengal for supplies, and then to the Manilan emirate to buy fruit and fresh water, and then make a final replenishment on the island of Lyman before driving straight to the port of Nagasaki.

The Goliaths who came were welcomed by the general, and of course by the fishermen, but the general's warriors drove the fishermen aside, so they were not harassed by the people, much to the displeasure of the Goliath sailors, because there were many young girls in the crowd, who were very short, but not very bad-looking, at least much better than the Lyman women who were compared to monkeys.

However, they did not see the cherry blossoms, because the season had passed, and some of the soldiers who wanted to see the legendary cherry blossoms were disappointed, but then they trained the soldiers of the shogunate with a very high spirit, and finally began their first mission.

And the soldiers of the shogunate will also feel the terrible habits from the Goliath army, the cruel attitude of the commanders towards the soldiers, the training is the most cruel and strict, the eating posture is not right, they will be beaten by those commanders, and the mastery of various weapons is the most relaxed, because at that time, the commanders are the only ones who do not beat people, they all become very polite, but when one other training is cruel, like to torture the soldiers.

And the most despicable thing is that they have to pull their separately trained soldiers together for actual combat training, often the casualties of the soldiers have already begun at this time, and the daily long-distance running and endurance training are not so terrifying.

The samurai of the shogunate, apparently turning a blind eye to the suffering of the lower ranks, found it amusing, and ran over to direct the training of the soldiers after the Goliaths stopped training, resulting in a mass death of the soldiers.

This caught the attention of the Goliaths, who began to wonder if the training was cruel, but it was just the limit that would not make most soldiers unbearable, and then they learned that it was the private training of the shogunate personnel that caused the soldiers to endure double torture and die.

The matter was over after they had sternly warned the samurai and seriously wounded several of the samurai who had continued to come, and in order to protect the soldiers from other harm, Goliath had built a separate barracks in a place on the outskirts to better train the soldiers and protect them.

At the same time, they expressed their disdain for the samurai who challenged them afterwards, and after refusing again and again, Goliath gradually became angry, they killed hundreds of samurai in a firefight, and there were no casualties, and what did all this was the soldiers they had trained for six months, and they fought with the cooperation of 100 people, and easily defeated the samurai, of course, if it was a real high-level samurai, they naturally couldn't resist, but according to the observation of the Goliaths, the number of high-level samurai in the entire Asahi Islands did not exceed 100 people, which was very small, and naturally could not be used for foreign wars, so they had nothing to fear。

The soldiers defeated the samurai for the first time, which was also a great change in confidence, and at the same time, the inherent sense of respect and fear for the samurai was removed, and more civilians enthusiastically joined the new army, and to the surprise of the Goliaths, the Spian people showed unparalleled obedience, and after defeating the samurai, they completely obeyed the Goliaths, and they did not complain about the cruel training, which made the Goliths feel admired.

"There is a group of warriors who can endure hardships and obey, they will have the spirit of not resisting death, and they will also have weapons that are superior to their opponents, and that is the best weapon of war. "Goliath proverb.

However, Long De'an's days in Spaan were coming to an end, and he was involved when an airship fell in 205 of the Republican calendar, and was immediately summoned back by the court of the Republic for trial.

Although some soldiers advised him not to go back altogether, he still resolutely returned to China.

He returned home on the merchant ship 'Athletic' that had come to Osaka to transport goods, and the captain welcomed him warmly, but he had no intention of being happy, and the shadow of unknown fate hung over his heart.

"The road ahead is misty, the fate of the warriors is bumpy, I will be defeated and ruined, and I am not afraid of its raging waves. Looking at the raging waves and the raging sea breeze, Long De'an's heart was bumpy and excited, and he couldn't help but chant a poem by Sura Abi.

And the dictator who invented the military rank has long been ruined by his defeat, and he will also suffer unjustified disasters, and the road ahead is really long, and the future is bleak.

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