[Chapter 82: The Seoul Disaster, Painful Memory]

Seoul has become a sea of fire.

There are hundreds of thousands of permanent residents here, and the total floating population is close to one million, so it is obviously unrealistic to rely on more than 6,000 people to build such a huge city.

What's more, the Han people are all bloody people, and if they are anxious, it is not impossible to pick up the bricks and work hard with you.

Therefore, the only way to achieve their goal is to completely disrupt the city. In addition to killing people everywhere to create panic, arson is also inseparable! As long as the fire spreads, it can not only block the spontaneous rescue between the Han people, but also disrupt the line of sight and take advantage of the chaos to achieve their goals!

There are only two purposes for their trip: to destroy the Shen family and rob the Imperial Bank!

Of course, it would be best if you could take Seoul by the way. But they soon realized that this was not realistic.

The bravery of the Han people is really not covered. In just one hour, nearly one or two thousand Han people have gathered together, either occupying the high-rise compound, or building a barrier on the spot, copying rudimentary tools to fight against the Japanese invaders.

Most of these Han men have military experience, and they are still decent when they set up obstacles and barriers, although they are not as solid as the regular army, but they are still not a small obstacle for the Japanese who have no offensive weapons and no strict discipline!

Of course, if it was really a large army attacking, with sharp weapons, whistling cavalry, and a mountain of discipline, then these spontaneous resistance of the people would not pose a threat at all. An army that relies on collective strength to advance is definitely not comparable to stragglers.

However, these Japanese were not regular troops themselves, but were just people who had been improvised from the Japanese state. Some tribes have no sharp weapons--- their weapons are even slightly insufficient compared with the Han people, if it weren't for the fact that some tribes have always been brave and murderous, tall and tall, and there is already a bit of military atmosphere between advance and retreat, I am afraid that even the same number of Han people will not be able to defeat them.

After encountering a few obstacles, the team began to move forward purposefully. It's faster.

The Han people are a very strange people, when they are invaded and oppressed, they can quickly unite, but once they are not squeezed by external factors, they will start to take care of their own small interests. And if there is no leader who is enough to convince the public, the Han people will soon become a plate of scattered sand in this state.

For example, both the north and south of Seoul were attacked, and the fires continued to spread. At this time, if someone stepped forward and led the people who had already gathered to kill the Japanese invaders first, the subsequent losses might not be so great, but after discovering that the Japanese were only moving towards their respective goals, the people gathered by those hedgehogs quickly scattered to all corners of the city, shouting "Go to the water, go to the water, come and help!" ”

Walking water, that is, fire.

At this time, the people were concerned about whether their homes were destroyed by the fire, and they tried to extinguish the fire as soon as possible and reduce losses, rather than suppressing bandits and killing the enemy.

As the people of Seoul are looking forward to the Bohai Mansion?

I'm sorry, until the moment when the Japanese retreated, the Bohai Prefecture did not issue the slightest order, and everything was the spontaneous action of the Han people.

It's easy to set fires, but it's hard to put out fires. Where can the speed of the people put out fires match the speed of arson by the pirates? Often, the fire has just been extinguished here, but the fire over there has become more intense. There is an endless water source of the Han River, but you can only watch your home being burned down by fire, which really doesn't know whether it is the misfortune of the Han people or the happiness of the Japanese people!

All this stems from one reason, that is, the Bohai Mansion has done nothing at this critical moment! Even if you send one or two teams of officials to maintain order, or mobilize manpower to extinguish fires! But it didn't do anything!

It's an outrageous thing!

What's even more outrageous is that the Bohai Hou family suffered the greatest slaughter on this night! A huge family of tens of thousands of people was left with less than 2,000 people after tonight!

And the most massacre did not take place in the Bohai Hou Mansion, but the Shen clan people who lived around the Milan Farm.

It is said that the fire at Millan Farm burned for a whole day and night. The unyielding roar of men and the desperate screams of women and children resounded throughout the night!

It was a premeditated, organized and well-organized looting massacre. No one can deny this.

The property and personnel losses of Seoul that night were not completely sorted out until three months later: in addition to the Bohai Hou Mansion, more than 600 people were directly killed by the Japanese pirates, more than 3,000 people were burned to death, and more than 60,000 houses were burned, and nearly 200,000 people were homeless at this moment when winter was about to begin, so they could only live in the open air, and the people's winter food was also burned in the fire.

The Imperial Bank was ransacked, all forty-six guards guarding the bank were killed, and 160 million gold coins were looted in the vault. The money robbed by the people is innumerable, and it is conservatively estimated to be about 100 million gold coins.

In the looting operation that lasted all night, the most tragic and tenacious fight did not take place in the Bohai Mansion, but in the Bohai Hou Mansion!

According to the survivors' later recollections, fireworks were lit in the Bohai Hou Mansion at that time, and tens of thousands of people flocked here to seek refuge in the Bohai Hou family. Shen Xiao, the eldest lady of the Marquis of Bohai, disappeared, and only Shen Yuan, the second lady of the Marquis of Bohai, stood up, contained everyone in the mansion, and then ......

There is no then.

Although the second lady ordered the gate to be locked and as many men as possible to resist, the Japanese still rushed into the Bohai Hou Mansion like crazy!

This luxurious mansion, which was built for nearly 600 years and has been inhabited by 30 generations of Bohai Marquis, was reduced to ashes overnight! Tens of thousands of people who had taken refuge here were brutally slaughtered!

At this time, the fleeing people knew that the Japanese were targeting the Shen family of the Marquis of Bohai. Escaping here is tantamount to sending a sheep into the mouth of a tiger.

Those would-be robbers shouted one after another: "Don't kill people who are not from the Shen clan!" "Many people were bewitched by this slogan and gave up resistance, but as a result, the Japanese invaders rushed forward with a knife, without asking if you were from the Shen clan.

Ten years later, when someone asked Shen Yan, who was already the wife of the Marquis of Bohai, about the scene that night, Shen Yan, who was dignified and graceful, and was canonized as Mrs. Zhaohua by the emperor, would burst into tears and couldn't cry.

“…… Mother is one of the greatest women I have ever met! It is not an exaggeration to use all the gorgeous and noble words of ancient and modern times on her.

If it weren't for her, more people would have died that night!

If it weren't for her, we wouldn't have been able to bring the reinforcements back!!

If it weren't for her, the Shen family might not really exist!! ”

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Yan Ruyue will never forget that night, and so will Shen Yun.

However, compared to Yan Ruyue's sad memories, Shen Yun had more hatred!

This hatred is not only against the Japanese Kou, but also for the Xiao family!

The specific situation is that when Shen Yun arrived in Pingshan County from Qingchuan County with two hundred flying cavalry troops, the Japanese invaders here had been completely withdrawn. But the direction of their retreat was not to the nearest seaport to the east, but to the west, to cross the entire Korean Peninsula, and then to find a port in the east.

This strange behavior immediately caught Shen Yun's attention.

At that time, Shen Yun and Liu Zhen were in the chaotic camp of the former division of the Second Class Army in Fusang Prefecture. Although from the outside, this military camp is still quite neatly arranged, in Liu Zhen's words, "quite legal".

Shen Yun couldn't see anything, but he felt that the soldiers here all seemed a little unrelenting, there were more than a dozen people standing in some posts, but there was no one in some places. It took almost a mile for their group to jump out of the camp to intercept them, and if the enemy stole the camp, they would not even be able to gather the infantry, let alone the cavalry, at this distance...... Hmm, it seems that the Fusang Prefecture Second Class Regiment does not have cavalry troops!

Liu Zhen said that this military camp could accommodate at least one brigade of people stationed, so it should be a colonel or colonel who was in charge here, but it turned out that it was a captain battalion commander who came out to greet them!

"In Xia Qin Ming, may I ask which unit you are from?" Qin Ming had a rough face, did not wear a helmet, and his long hair looked very capable, but from his frowning brows from time to time, it could be seen that he was in great trouble.

Liu Zhen stepped forward and gave a military salute, reported his identity, and then said: "Captain Qin, I see that there are at least a few thousand people here, at least a brigade, what about the brigade commander?" ”

Liu Zhen is just a cadet who has not graduated, and can only be counted as a second lieutenant in the military rank, or even lower. But because he is a member of the royal family and a cavalry scientist of Zhaowu University, he doesn't pay so much attention to the tone of his words.

Qin Ming didn't care about these either, he sighed and said with a wry smile: "I also want to know where the brigade commander is, but now the entire former division is in a mess, the soldiers don't know the generals, the generals don't know the soldiers, these manpower is still the ...... I went to the vicinity of the mountains to collect."

Shen Yun immediately exclaimed: "The sneak attack of the Japanese is successful, how is General Xi?" ”

Qin Ming glanced at him, he had just introduced that he already knew Shen Yun's identity, but it was a little indecent for him to be a marquis prince without armor and follow the soldiers, so his tone was also quite unhappy: "How do you know?" ”

Damn, even the general died after losing the battle, and he still rushed like this? If it weren't for the estimation that he couldn't beat him, Shen Yun would even have the mind to smoke him.

Later, Shen Yun still learned that Xi Lu, the commander of the former division, had been martyred, and now there were two voices in the troops of the former division, one was to avenge General Xi and encircle and suppress the nearby Japanese invaders, while the other thought that he should stick to it and wait for the rear division General Tan to preside over the overall situation.

In fact, the military rank system of the Han Empire was very similar to the modern system, in which the deputy division commander took over the command after the division commander was killed, or the person with the highest rank temporarily led the whole army. But the problem is that Xi Lu was served by someone, and the deputy division commander was also killed. And now there are three people with the highest rank in the whole army, namely the commanders of the first, second, and third brigades. This creates a conflict of orders and a lack of complete integration of wills.

So now, even if Shen Yun finds the brigade commanders of the former division and tells them that the direction of the Japanese is different, it is estimated that no one will listen to him.

Shen Yun discussed with Pan Shi and Bai Xiaosheng, who followed up, and decided to follow the former division troops, so that there would be some protection. What's more, the county government of Pingshan County has been completely destroyed, the three giants have all died, and Pan Shi stayed to temporarily take over the mess here.

But Liu Zhen insisted on pursuing the Japanese invaders. Shen Yun took the opportunity to ask him why he was so persistently chasing after the Japanese Kou, but he refused to say more.

At this moment, the appearance of a person changed Shen Yun's mind.

It was the afternoon when they arrived in Pingshan County, and Shen Yun followed Pan Shi, ready to go to see this county town that no longer had much population. Shi Laosan also followed behind with Bai Xiaosheng's support.

Compared to Qingchuan County, which was bombed by a nuclear bomb, Pingshan County is much better. The occupation of this place by the Japanese was only a pretense to lure the Han army to attack. Now that the goal has been achieved, they naturally retreat. However, they retreated in a hurry, and did not even do the most basic looting work--- of course, this is also related to the fact that most of the Han people left the city.

After inspecting this small county town without walls, Shen Yun was about to go back when he suddenly saw a group of Han soldiers escorting a string of prisoners from the west through the woods, ready to be escorted to the barracks.

These prisoners were all criminals who committed crimes in chaos, and some were even fanatics who attacked the Han army, and for these people, they could not be tried one by one in wartime, and the only thing they could do was to be locked up in the barracks and finally taken to Bohai Mansion for trial.

Of course, getting beaten up before going in is an essential appetizer. The prisoners were beaten with bruised noses and swollen faces, and some even had their hands and feet broken, but they all used thick ropes to help their hands and feet, and drove them to the barracks in order.

This is already the fourth batch that Shen Yun has seen today, so after watching it for a while, he felt bored, and was about to turn around and go back, when suddenly one of the prisoners in the team rushed out of the queue and rushed towards Shen Yun. With thick ropes still tied to their hands, this rush dragged the other prisoners. The whole team burst into an uproar!

Pan Shi was startled, and immediately drew his knife to block in front of Shen Yun, and the prisoner who rushed over was disheveled, extremely embarrassed, struggling desperately, his strength was not small, and he immediately tore everyone else down. The escorted Han soldiers were immediately furious, and they all drew their knives and wanted to kill them on the spot!

Then I heard the prisoner shouting, "The son of the world save me, the son of the world save me!" ”

The prisoner's voice was very hoarse, and he was disheveled and ragged, and Shen Yun didn't know who he was. But Shi Laosan, who had sharp ears, suddenly said: "Shizi, it seems to be Shen San!" ”

Shen San?

Shen Yun was stunned for a moment, Shen San was the one who went to Hongqing Tower to report Shen Mu's bad news before, he later followed Shen Wu all the way to escort Shen Yun back, but when he was about to approach the outlying island, Shen Yun sent him to follow Hou Kan, and now he should still be by Hou Kan's side, how could he suddenly become a prisoner?

"Wait!" Shen Yun hurriedly rushed forward to stop the Han army who wanted to kill people, and Pan Shi hurriedly stepped forward to pull the soldiers apart and explained the situation to them.

Shen Yun picked up the prisoner and ruffled his messy hair, sure enough, it was Shen San! It's just that his face was bruised, and there were even blood stains on his hands and feet with thick ropes.

"Shen San, is it really you? You, how did you become like this? Shen Yun said hurriedly.

Shen San immediately cried when he saw Shen Yun, holding him to death and refusing to let go, crying and saying, "Shen San thought that he would never see the son of the world in this life!" Woooooooooooo ”

"How did you get here? What about Boss Hou? Shen Yun asked urgently.

Shen San wiped his tears and snot with his tattered sleeves, and hurriedly said, "Shizi, I was ordered by Boss Hou to tell Shizi a big thing. It's just that I met a Japanese coward on the road, and several brothers who came with me died, and I desperately escaped, and I couldn't help but snatch a few pieces of dry food from a passer-by when I was hungry, and I was caught by the military master......"

"Wolver? Where are you from? Shen Yun suddenly wondered.

"From the east...... Shizi, Boss Hou asked you to hurry back to Seoul, it's too late! The Japanese plan to use the Xiao family's merchant ships to attack Seoul! Shen San pounded his chest and said urgently.

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