Like most conspiracies in history, the Liaoyang Incident took place at night.

The darkness of the environment, the shadowy firelight, the occasional crow chirping, the sound of footsteps in the street. Everyone who walks in the dark will subconsciously wonder if there is some ill-intentioned creature hiding in the corner and watching him.

"Ready."

Kiyoizumi Kobayashi (Note 1) looked up and nodded to the captain who reminded him. When the captain walked away, he stroked the barrel of the gun with his gauze-wrapped hand, feeling the coolness of the steel barrel.

The coldness in his palms calmed him down a little. Licking his lips, he adjusted his position and switched to one leg to support his body. The sound of Jurchen language came from the hall separated by a wall, and Kobayashi Qingquan could not understand this strange language. But this did not prevent him from gradually getting excited, and the taste that lurked in the heart of the enemy made his heart even hotter, as if he had been roasted by a charcoal fire.

The captain waved his hand slightly at Kobayashi Qingquan, signaling him to stay calm. So he had to sit lightly on the ground with the barrel of the gun in his hand. The comrades on both sides remained silent, and the only sound in the corridor was faint breathing.

There was a noisy sound of talking in the octagonal hall, and the sound of continuous footsteps sounded, and Kobayashi Kiyoizumi judged that about thirty or forty people had walked in.

The sound of walking, talking, the sound of drinking tea from a tea bowl, one crunch of the lid on the cup, another crunch of the cup on the wooden table, the muffled sound of a chair dragging on the floor; Flat talking, harsh talking, loud talking, scolding and apologies, laughter and scolding. Kobayashi Kiyoizumi kept thinking about the activities of the people in the hall in his mind, and tried to construct the position of the people on the other side of the wall.

In the voices of dozens of people, Kobayashi Qingquan could only distinguish the timbre of Huang Taiji and the other Goshha. If he didn't guess wrong, Huang Taiji was calmly recounting the situation in southern Liaoning at this time, and perhaps he had already explained his surrender to Ao Song.

Oh no, he couldn't have said that. Kobayashi Qingquan suddenly thought of this.

If Huang Taiji really said the bad thing about his surrender, Dai Shan and the other Houjin nobles would definitely guess that Huang Taiji borrowed the power of Ao Song to return to Liaoyang alone. So, what Huang Taiji wants to do after that, the daishan people can also guess eight or nine.

So Kobayashi Kiyoizumi finally gave up his efforts to restore the plot of the hall by imagination. He turned his head sideways to look at the captain, and the other party had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and he seemed to be quite happy to listen.

Kobayashi Kiyoizumi turned his head to look at his fellow Kagoshima again, and the other party glanced at him, took out a pocket watch from his pocket and handed it over.

Taking the pocket watch, Kobayashi Qingquan quickly glanced at it and returned the watch. It's just over 10 p.m., July 21. After landing from Gaizhou, they followed Huang Taiji's army and hurried day and night on the land of Liaozhong. Starting from Gaizhou, one person and three horses, passing through Yaozhou Station, Tashanpu, Haizhou, Anshan Station, all the way to Liaoyang. The hundreds of kilometers of running had worn down the skin of his thighs, and now he could feel the pain coming from his crotch even when he squatted.

In the early hours of this morning, Xiaolin Qingquan finally entered Liaoyang City. Huang Taiji secretly arranged them in the octagonal hall, he was so tired that he hastily ate the meal arranged by the two yellow flags and lay down on the ground to sleep, and only barely got up in the evening.

When he woke up, the captain threw a few beef rice balls to himself, telling him to finish them as soon as possible and get ready for battle. This afternoon, Dai Shan and Yue Tuo, who had rushed back from Liaodong, also arrived in Liaoyang. Baylor, the father and son of the two red flags, did not immediately come to see Huang Taiji, but led the army back to his station. This is a very dangerous signal, which means that Dai Shan is likely to know or guess the situation in southern Liaoning.

Kobayashi Qingquan is very confident that his unit must not be discovered by those with ulterior motives. His army of more than 100 people is the killer left by Huang Taiji, and he may have to show his cold fangs after a while.

Huang Taiji set up a banquet in the octagonal hall to invite Dai Shan and Yue Tuo, and now the banquet has been held. The captain had already told himself that Huang Taiji would send out a message at the banquet. As soon as they receive the signal, they will immediately go into action.

This is the first time that Kobayashi Kiyoizumi has been so close to the big shots. Oh, what an admirable title for the nobles who were in charge of half of the land of Liaodong (Note 2), a daimyo who stood above hundreds of thousands of people, and a general who swept through the Kwantung army of the Ming Kingdom. Such a person must be shining, exuding the coercion of the commoners to their knees.

As soon as he thought that such a noble person was next door to him, still being pointed at by himself with a firecracker, Kobayashi Qingquan couldn't help but lower his head, afraid that the captain would find out that his face was flushed.

Tianjie stepped on the bones of the minister, and the inner library was burned into splendid ash. Hey, as a civilian, I'm going to kill more than 10,000 people.

Just thinking about it, the fellow villagers around him suddenly pulled him. Kobayashi Qingquan raised his head suddenly, and the other party nodded at him with a stern expression. So Kobayashi Qingquan put away the excitement in his heart, held the fire gun tightly with both hands, and put the butt of the gun against the shoulder socket of his right shoulder.

Out of the corner of his eye, the captain had slowly stood up, holding the saber in his right hand and raising his handcuff in his left hand.

More than 100 Japanese soldiers all pointed their guns at the wooden wall in front of them. A few minutes later, a loud shout came from the other side of the wall, and the captain let out a roar as he pulled the trigger of the handcuff.

The narrow aisle was instantly filled with loud noises, and the thick white smoke made it almost impossible for everyone to breathe. Dense holes appeared in the wall in front of them, and the soldiers rushed forward at the same time after firing a volley, breaking through the wooden wall and rushing into the temple.

Huang Taiji slowly stood up from the ground and looked at Dai Shan, who was lying a few feet away from him, with no expression on his face. From Dai Shan's point of view, he would see Huang Taiji slam to the ground, Goshha let out a loud scream, and then a hole in the wall directly opposite him appeared in a line.

In the next moment, he was pushed up by an irresistible force, and his body was blown up like straw in the autumn wind, flying backwards for a few meters before falling to the ground, knocking down a series of tables and chairs. While he was still rolling in mid-air, he would hear a thunderous sound in his ears, the sound of gunpowder bursting in the chamber of a gun. By the time he lay on the ground, in the last seconds of his life, he might have seen more than a hundred short soldiers in yellow flag armor rushing out of the side of the wall, covered in white smoke and holding bayonet muskets.

Kobayashi Qingquan shouted and rushed out of the aisle, but his ears were shaken by the gunshot, and he couldn't hear the sound for the time being. He rushed straight past Huang Taiji's side, fiercely piercing the bayonet through a Jiannu who was staring at him blankly, knocking the man to the ground.

With his foot on the man's abdomen, Kobayashi Kiyoizumi pulled the bayonet out of his chest, bringing out a trace of warm blood. There was also a man lying next to him, who looked to be in his forties, with two shots in the chest, one in the abdomen, and one in the arm, and his entire left hand was broken, and he was still bleeding out.

Xiao Lin grabbed the fire gun and stabbed the man in the neck to make sure that the guy was dead. He looked at the man's wide eyes, full of incredulity.

Outside the main hall, shouts of killing had already sounded, and the elites of the two yellow flags, who had long been ready to attack, fiercely slashed and killed their own kind. Accompanying Dai Shan to the banquet was his second son, Shuo Zhen, who survived the first volley of Japanese soldiers, his shoulder grazed by a stray bullet, and his left arm was completely powerless.

As early as after Huang Taiji suddenly fell to the ground, Shuo Xuan suddenly felt bad. After being shot, he drew his saber and slashed out, ignoring Amma, who had been knocked to the ground. The two Japanese soldiers who rushed towards him were killed by him one after another, and they actually rushed out of the crowd and broke through the gate of the main hall.

Outside the hall, there was already a fight, and dozens of people rushed towards the hall to kill the two yellow flags and white armor against Shangshuo. The rain of arrows was as dense as a curtain of rain, and Shuo's armor was full of swaying arrows, and there was an arrow tail stuck in his face. He screamed and swung his sword, and was killed by the white armor.

The coup lasted only a little more than twenty minutes, starting with Dai Shan being killed by a salvo and ending with the surrender of the remnants of the two red flags outside the octagonal hall. More than 500 Lianghongqi Yiding were killed outside the palace, and a total of thousands of people were killed and wounded in Jianzhou, and there was a river of blood in Liaoyang and Tokyo.

The only drawback is probably that Daishan did not come with Yue Tuo. Yue Tuo, the lord of the red flag, led more than 1,000 cavalry to rush out of the garrison and fled all the way north at the first time of the octagonal hall.

Huang Taiji did not order the pursuit, he had to seize the time to stabilize the situation in Liaoyang. The Eight Banners have maintained the habit of acting separately since the time of the old slaves, and the power of the Later Jin Khan has not been high. At this time, Dai Shan, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, was killed, Yue Tuo, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, fled, and the other five banner owners and the elites of each flag were trapped in southern Liaoning, and only Huang Taiji held power in the entire hinterland of central Liao. Now that the Two Yellow Banners have taken control of Liaoyang, and the Ao Song Navy has borrowed a batch of grain and grass to transport it from the Sancha River to Haizhou, Huang Taiji has had the opportunity to integrate the Eight Banners.

With the Liaoyang coup d'état coming to an end, Houjin is completing the transition from tribal alliance to centralized power as quickly as possible. When autumn came, the Houjin troops in the encirclement of southern Liaoning were put back into Liaozhong in turn, and the Houjin already had the atmosphere of being a country. The wheel of history drove to an unenvisioned road under the influence of the Australian Song Dynasty, and the situation in eastern Liaodong evolved in an unpredictable direction. Little by little, the plans of the Senate were realized, and the General Staff devoted itself to writing the script for the chaotic Far East. Each of us knows that a grain of sand of the times falling on an individual is a mountain. A word from generals and governors has the potential to change the fate of hundreds of thousands of people.

We are doing our best, and we are willing to be worthy of the interests of the Great Song Dynasty and the interests of the people. As for whether or not we are worthy of our conscience, this is not something that we should consider as a national defense soldier.

Note 1: During the Liaoyang Incident, our army sent the Imperial Army of Japan to help Huang Taiji, and they played an important role in the coup.

Note 2: Refers to the Japanese archipelago excluding Hokkaido Island.