Chapter 126: Heisei Tanuki Battle
Tanuki and fox, as two animal spirits who are proficient in illusion and good at confusing mortals, have a high status in Fuso. In the mythology of Fuso, the god Inari who is in charge of the harvest, his two entourages are white tanuki and fox, which is quite a bit of the meaning of the golden boy and jade girl under the seat of Guanyin.
On the one hand, under the influence of the Tang Dynasty culture, they are regarded as demons and monsters that cause trouble in the mortal world, and on the other hand, they are regarded as small gods with godheads, and there are Inari shrines all over the country to worship them. Moreover, the Fuso seem to prefer the cute tanuki to the fox fairy, who are famous in Middle-earth.
However, in this era of the end of the law when the aura of heaven and earth is thin and human faith is collapsing, it is not only the demons and monsters of Huaxia Shenzhou who are unlucky.
With the seriousness of industrial development, environmental pollution and other problems, the Fuso civet cats, whose living environment is becoming more and more bad, did not choose to integrate into human society like the foxes who knew the times, but chose to resist.
About twenty or thirty years ago, a tanuki uprising broke out in Fuso that swept the whole country, and the tanuki army led by dozens of demon king-level tanuki princes, dressed in antique swords and armor in the style of the Warring States period, brazenly attacked the branches and headquarters of the Kyoto Onmyoji Association and the Tokyo Psionic Metropolitan Police Department.
Oda papaya flag, Toyotomi golden gourd, Takeda quadrangular flag, Uesugi bisamon tenji, Hojo three-scale flag, Tokugawa sunflower flag, Mori Ichimon, Sanada Rokubunkan ...... Countless flags that have been thrown into the garbage heap of history have been re-erected, and an army of raccoon cats that have bred in Fuso for thousands of years and whose status is almost torn apart invaded the nest!
The horses' hooves are vertical and horizontal, the iron cannons are roaring, the spears are like forests, and the swords are shining! For a time, the four islands of Fuso were full of beacons, as if returning to the Warring States period hundreds of years ago.
However, despite being caught off guard in the early stage and causing heavy losses to the local branches, the Kyoto Onmyoji Association and the Tokyo Psionic Metropolitan Police Department quickly woke up and organized a group of elite forces to counterattack by means of various breakthroughs.
After a brief initial victory, the tanuki legions were soon lost in the world of flowers and flowers constructed by the steel jungle. Although they hate the overexploitation of mountains and forests by humans, it does not mean that they hate the achievements of civilization created by humans, in fact, the first to corrupt and degenerate into urban life is the group of demon king-level army commanders.
The tanuki legions in various places not only stopped attacking, but even the major tanuki princes were constantly fighting among themselves. In fact, for these tanuki whose brains are still stuck in the Warring States Period, it is common for various ethnic groups to break out in the nature of "raccoon wars" in the nature of village chiefs fighting because of reasons such as grabbing water and territory.
The more critical problem is that the tanuki themselves lack a clear goal of struggle, and they choose to fight, just to vent the evil breath of the continuous destruction of the habitat, and when this breath passes, they fall into a state of strategic confusion, and they don't know what to do.
Compared with the vicious fox demon, the tanuki is actually very close to humans, and in myths and legends, the tanuki will play some clever tricks at most, such as using leaves to buy things for money, or turning mud into food, and rarely hurt people's lives.
In fact, most mortals are not aware of the existence of this war, and those who are slightly more sensitive only wonder that during this time, there have been more Warring States style COS performances on the streets, and they don't know which film company has promoted it so hard; In addition, the Fuso government did not know what to smoke, and was particularly active in culling wild civet cats, and even caused protests from animal protection organizations at home and abroad.
In this thunderous and rainy tanuki uprising, the Tanuki Legion's methods were too weak, and although they destroyed many development sites, Onmyoji shrines, and psionic police stations, the casualties caused were minimal, and the actual blow to the Fuso officials was very weak.
Even, when Emperor Fuso sent people to negotiate with him to discuss the so-called establishment of a tanuki sanctuary, these tanuki who only had little intelligence but no great wisdom took it seriously, and released the batch of prisoners of war in their hands! Not only did it replenish the enemy with a new force, but it also made the last trace of concern of the Fuso court gone.
So, in front of the powerful state apparatus, the tanuki legions were tragic.
The high-ranking tanuki princes and generals were scattered all over the country, and as a result, they were besieged to death by onmyoji and psionic policemen who were clenched into fists. As soon as the leader of the upper class died, they immediately scattered as birds and beasts, but they were hunted and killed by modern guns and chemicals, and suffered heavy casualties.
The tanuki uprising, which swept across the country, broke out vigorously, but it lasted less than a month and ended with the death and injury of the tanuki spirits on the four islands of Fuso. Fuso officials eventually named it "Heisei Tanuki Battle".
Through this war, the Fuso Imperial Court completely cut off the Tanuki Legion that had been divided into various places, which greatly shocked the group of bull ghosts and snake gods who were ready to move. After this catastrophe, the Onmyoji Association and the Psionic Metropolitan Police Department have also greatly trained their teams, and received further support from the authorities, penetrating their tentacles into all aspects of the demon world, and establishing and implementing a supernatural supervision system like the Six Gates of Huaxia.
What kind of hundred ghosts nocturnal slave group, what Kurama Mountain big tengu...... Whether it is a talented monster gang or a famous celebrity emperor, they all have to be like the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Black Dragon Society in the human world, obey the law and kneel down as dogs.
(Note: The Nuliang group is from "The Grandson of the Slippery Ghost".) Kuramayama Orotengu is the teacher of the art of war of the Japanese tragic hero Minamoto Yoshitsune, in historical legends. In addition, Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Heisei Tanuki Battle" is also a masterpiece, and it is recommended that readers take a look, although the original version is not as dark as the author. )
Of course, the earth has become a "village" these days, and it is not difficult to go abroad or something. Fusang's capital, enterprises, and even immigrants can come to China, and Fusang's demons and eccentricities can naturally come to China. And among the Fuso demons who moved to China, there were many defeated exiles in the Heisei Tanuki War, that is, the tanuki spirit.
After most of the tanuki spirits came to China, they were greedy and playful by nature, and they could easily forget the shame of defeat, quickly integrate into the good life of my big foodie empire, and survive this seemingly endless era of the end of the law by eating and waiting for death.
However, just as people have good and evil, good and bad, and tanuki also have a variety of thoughts, there are always some tanuki warriors who are unwilling to admit defeat, and are full of hatred in a vain attempt to counterattack Fuso.
There are two types of samurai bravery. One is the bravery of the Kai samurai, who is brave in battle. One is the loyalty and courage of the Samurai of the Three Rivers, and the courage in the fighting spirit. The courage of combat power, although like a fierce wind and fire, is difficult to last. The courage of the fighting spirit is better than loyalty and patience, and despite all kinds of setbacks, it is still tenacious.
The courage of the former made Takeda Shingen dominate for a while. The latter's courage allowed Tokugawa Ieyasu to seize the world.
The last legion commander of the Three Rivers Legion, Prison Taijun, is a typical Three Rivers samurai. He's not smart, he's even a little silly, but he's resilient — in Huaxia parlance, he's a dumb guy who doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back.
Originally, Prison Taijun was not called Prison Taijun, but "Yutai", and acquaintances generally called him Yutai "Jun".
He was originally a civet cat spirit in his early 100s, although his talent was good, but when the Heisei Tanuki War broke out, he was only above the level of demon soldiers and demon generals.
It has a longing female civet cat, called "Hanako", is the youngest granddaughter of the old man "Qingkang", the captain of the Three Beaver Cat Corps, Yuta has dreamed countless times that she can make enough feats to climb to the top of the legion, marry Princess Hanako, become the grandson-in-law of the old man Qingkang, and then give birth to litters of civet cats in the green Sanhe countryside, enjoy the joy of family!
However, this dream was shattered.
Princess Hanako is dead, Old Man Ieyasu is dead, and everyone is dead.
Compared to other tanuki legions that were about to collapse at the touch of a button, the simple, robust and tenacious Three Rivers Tanuki Legion was the last tanuki rebel to be exterminated. The tanuki Mikawa samurai fought and retreated, and finally fought fiercely in the Toshogu Shrine, which is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu!
Kiyoyasu, an old tanuki who lived for more than a thousand years, died with Shinjiu Abe, the vice president of the Onmyoji Association and the contemporary successor of Abe Harumi, who was also the official victim of Fuso in the Heisei Tanuki War. Princess Hanako, who Yuta has been in love with for a long time, also wore plain clothes and held a naginata in the final battle, fought hard and died of all her strength.
Although the Three Beaver Legions worked hard as one, they still couldn't change the outcome of their demise. Perhaps, in this era of the end of the law when the aura is exhausted, the demise of the tanuki monsters has become doomed, and instead of dying of obscurity and old age, they have chosen a very Fuso-style way of death: a blockbuster, and disappear like a cherry blossom - in layman's terms, it is to die if you are addicted.
But Yuta is still alive.
It's not that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, but before the final battle, the old man Qingkang dismissed all the tanuki soldiers under the age of 100, so that most of these juniors who have not even learned to transform and are more like beasts than monsters will return to the countryside, reproduce, and continue the bloodline of the three river civet cat clan.
At that time, most of the high-level generals in the army had been lost, and Yutai, a small ashigaru, had already been promoted to a general, and the old man Qingkang regretted Yutai's talent and youth, so he appointed him to be responsible for dismissing the soldiers to return to his hometown, and even used some means to give birth to Yutai's cultivation to the level of a demon handsome.
Yuta wanted to fight to the death, but because the old man Qingkang deliberately told the wrong time and place of the decisive battle, when Yuta returned to Toshogu Shrine, the battle was already over.
Rivers of blood flowed, corpses were strewn all over the field, and countless tattered raccoon cat corpses were piled up like garbage by humans, and then poured on gasoline and burned to the ground. Flames rose and charred ashes fell like snow, creating a hellish scene.
"Revenge! I will definitely get my revenge! One day, I will lead the Three Rivers Legion back to drive out the dead enemies and establish the Tanuki Heaven! ”
From this day on, the Yutai, who had a simple temperament and always thought about his wife and children, died, and this "prison" Taijun, who was full of hatred and was bent on counterattacking Fusang and reviving the prestige of the Three Rivers Army, was born.
(Note: The Chinese word "Taijun" is derived from the Japanese word "Maharaja", which originally referred to the shogun, and was carried forward by the puppet army translators who were slapped in the Sino-Japanese War.) The English word for "tycoon" is also derived from this. )