Life is as brilliant as cherry blossoms, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves. This is the life creed that Meiji instilled in the people of Wakoku.

Of course, this kind of ideological indoctrination cannot be accomplished overnight. At least the current Wa Kingdom does not have the spirit of bushido, let alone the capital to compete with the Han people.

At the foot of Mt. Fuji, the Han army of more than 10,000 people occupies an area of several miles, centered on an earth-and-stone platform several zhang square, radiating to form a huge circle in all directions.

On the earth and stone platform, a thigh-thick flagpole flutters the Panlong Emperor Flag of the Han Empire!

Under the banner, Sun Liang, who had deep eyes and a long beard and a chest-length beard, stood with his sword, looking at the Han soldiers running back and forth under the platform, and shouted loudly.

"The baggage brigade must also find me water when digging three feet into the ground! Otherwise military law engages! ”

"This is the battlefield, let the Third Brigade put away the girl's anger for me, and we must block the attack of the Japanese army...... What the? Too many casualties? The company commander is dead, the battalion commander is dead, the commander is dead, and when they are all dead, I'll go! ”

"The scout cavalry does not need to go around to the left flank to support, so let it quickly intersperse, and strive to break through the rebel defense line when it is dark, even if only one person breaks through the siege, it is better than sitting here and waiting for death, their responsibility is to quickly inform the county lieutenant of Pingtung County that our army is surrounded, and ask him to send reinforcements quickly!"

"Gun array, how many times have I said it, you have to use a gun array!! Whoever rushes forward with shield soldiers, in a formation on the spot! ”

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Sun Liang's sometimes calm and sometimes irritable words made the soldiers around the platform a little nervous.

These pro-soldiers are all the children of his hometown personally recruited by Sun Liang from the Jiangdong region, and they have the highest loyalty, so they are called the pro-soldier brigade. Sun Cheng, the commander of the pro-soldier brigade, is Sun Liang's younger brother, and he knows his brother's temper very well.

When Sun Liang was calm and sometimes irritable at this time, it meant that his heart was in turmoil, although he still seemed to be standing steadily under the banner, but the auxiliary army became a rebel army, and the army was besieged, which had already made Sun Liang, who had never encountered this situation, a little overwhelmed!

That's more than 10,000 lives! It is the last fighting force of the Han Empire in Fusang Prefecture! If it is lost, the situation in the entire Fusang Prefecture will be irreversible, and he, Sun Liang, will bear the charge of losing his teacher and humiliating the country, and the Jiangdong Sun family will also be humiliated. If it really comes to that time, even if Sun Liang is martyred by himself, he may not be able to atone for his sins!

Sun Cheng looked around, the place where he was engaged with the enemy army was still billowing smoke and dust, and the sound of the army fighting was still blazing. However, looking at the situation, the enemy's offensive has weakened, and this stalemate is considered to be completed.

But at the foot of Mount Fuji, the enemy army was surrounded on all sides, and the military baggage had been burned down after the auxiliary army had defected, and if it had not been for the quick rescue of the scout army, the entire baggage brigade would have been annihilated. Relying only on the grain and grass carried by the warriors can only last for seven days at most, and they cannot be forced to march, otherwise the whole army will not need the enemy to attack, and the team will run away by itself!

"Sun Cheng? Where did Sun Cheng go? Sun Liang shouted under the banner.

Sun Cheng was thinking about it on the side, but he didn't hear it for a while, and he didn't wake up until the robe next to him pushed him, and hurriedly trotted to Sun Liang's side, and saluted: "General, my subordinates are here!" ”

Sun Liang didn't reply: "Sun Cheng, the speedy people are ready to prepare firewood under the banner, and when it happens, we can break the blood and bleed, but the imperial flag and the military flag cannot be lost!" ”

Sun Cheng was stunned for a moment, and said hurriedly: "General, the battle situation has not yet been decided, and the firewood is ...... at this moment."

"Don't say more, I've made up my mind. This platform is the last line of defense! Let's get ready! Sun Liang waved his hand and said categorically.

The battle situation, what Sun Cheng could think of, how could Sun Liang not think of it? And there are some things that Sun Cheng can't think of, and Sun Liang can also think of. The scout army is desperately trying to break through and want to go to Pingtung to ask for reinforcements, but this is just a gesture for Sun Liang to look at the whole army--- in the entire Fusang Prefecture, where are there any reinforcements to send?

But if we don't, the morale of the whole army will immediately plummet, and it may collapse in less than seven days. The Han army is not afraid of fighting and martyrdom, and what they are most afraid of is a hopeless battle. In order to boost the morale of the army, even the entire scout army will not hesitate to fight for the ......

Ci is not in charge of the soldiers! Your Royal Highness Hu Gong, this is what you want to tell your students, right?

Sun Liang looked into the distance and thought quietly.

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Edo Castle Castle Castle House.

Jingmei cried like a tearful person, nestled in the arms of her mother Shayein, and kept saying bad words about Meiji: "Mother, my brother is deceiving me, deceiving you, deceiving all the people, he is fighting with the Han people, and he is colluding with the Romans." Mother, he is leading the people of the Japanese Kingdom to a point of no return, you must dissuade my brother......"

Jingmei is still chattering, but that's all there is to it. Let Shayeyin listen to a burst of helplessness. In fact, she knew that the reason why Jingmei was so sad and found out that the Wa Kingdom was fighting with the Han people was the reason, but more importantly, she found that her brother had been deceiving herself. This is the last thing she can accept.

Next to him, the queen of the Japanese king, Masahide looked at her helpless mother, smiled gently, patted Jingmei's back and said, "Jingmei doesn't cry, the king didn't mean to lie to you, he just wants to give you a big surprise...... What's more, the Han people have been oppressing us for thousands of years, and they have never regarded our Japanese people as subjects of the country, but have bullied and oppressed them to the extreme. ”

"Well, that's good!" Meiji walked in from the door with a smile on his face.

Queen Ben Zhengxiu hurriedly saluted and stood aside respectfully. Meiji first saluted his mother Shayein, and then smiled at Shizumi, "Sister, what's the matter, are you still angry with your brother?" ”

Jingmei had a cold little face, she just didn't look at him, but the crying was not as loud as before.

Meiji took out something from his arms and shook it in front of Shizumi's eyes, and said with a smile: "Sister, don't be angry, my brother will give you this book!" ”

Jingmei snatched it angrily, and when she saw it, her eyes widened, and she exclaimed: "Wow, "The Latest Poetry Collection of the Great Han"? Brother, how did you get it? Jingmei raised her tear-stained face and asked with a grin.

Meiji scratched her nose and said with a smile, "I asked someone to bring it to you, how is it, are you happy?" Little Flower Cat! ”

Jingmei wrinkled her nose, "hummed" and turned to Shayeyin and said, "Mother, I don't want to pay attention to him for the time being, let's go, I'll accompany you to the back, I'll read Dahan poems to you!" ”

Shayein smiled helplessly, she really didn't have a problem with this still childish daughter, so she had to accompany her to the inner room.

After Saya and Shizumi left, Meiji put away his smile and turned to the queen and said, "Your brother Masao Moto is back, but what he brought back is not good news. The Han emperor did not agree to change the name of the country. You go and tell your brother that he can settle down a little more recently and help Gu do a good job of collecting grain and grass. ”

A trace of helplessness flashed on Ben Zhengxiu's face, and he said respectfully: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Meiji said again: "Don't be helpless, the Benzheng family is one of the Chinese clans, and your eldest brother Benzheng Shinichi is still very able to help Lonely." ”

"The king is wrong to love, and the concubine family has thanked the king!" Ben Zhengxiu still bowed his head and said respectfully.

Meiji glanced at her in disgust and said, "There are no outsiders now, you don't have to pretend to be docile and humble, when you first entered Edo Castle, I heard that you arrested more than a dozen Han men, where are you now?" ”

"Oh, they're all dead!" Ben Zhengxiu smiled, but there was a hint of cruelty in his smile, "I didn't expect that the things that the king taught his concubine could really kill people!" It's just that the concubine still doesn't quite understand the 'germ warfare' that the king is talking about, whether to throw these corpses with plague into the Han Kingdom, or to extract vaccines from them......"

Meiji said coldly: "Draw vaccines? Is it just the level of the three-legged cat in your family? Hmph, don't be delusional! Handed over the corpse to Ben Zhengming, he wanted to try the power of this new vaccine in Bohai County. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Ben Zhengxiu bowed down. Meiji never looked at her again and left.

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Hokkaido, which is about to enter winter, has already snowed, and the ground is covered with a layer of white.

Nearly two million Japanese people have lived on this land for nearly 500 years, and have long since transformed this place into a farm. However, due to the low farming technology, one acre of fertile land can only produce a few stones of grain at most.

Now the autumn harvest has ended, but except for a small part of the grain that can be kept for self-consumption, the rest has been booked by the government. If they want not to starve to death this winter, they must go out to sea again to fish before the heavens and the earth freeze, and save enough food for the winter.

As a result, fishing ports throughout Hokkaido are lined with narrow fishing boats unique to the Japanese people. Float like an ant in this blue and white world.

Rumoe Port is probably one of the largest ports in western Hokkaido. However, there is still an incomparable gap compared with the large ports of the Han Empire such as Busan.

Standing on the pier of Liumeng Port, looking at the fishing boats in the distance, he couldn't tell what it was like.

He had already returned to the Wa Kingdom, but due to the mess up of the matter, he had no face to move to Edo with his family, so he could only continue to collect taxes for the Wa King in this bitter cold land. Although there is a lot of oil and water, this cold place is really not as warm and comfortable as the south!

Speaking of this tributary mission, Ben Zhengxiong was angry. Originally, it was quite smooth, but since he met Shen Yun, the prince of Bohai in Mengjin, he had bad luck all the way. They couldn't find a boat from Mengjin to enter Luoyang, so they took a detour by land, and it took more than ten days not to say anything, and when they arrived in Luoyang, they just handed over the national credentials, and as a result, they received a severe reprimand from the officials of the Ministry of Rites. Masao had no choice but to prepare to return to China. But at this time, the government of Luoyang sent people to take them away and confiscate all their property in the name of extortion.

There was an inspector named Tang Mo who warned him that if he dared to do evil in the land of the Han Dynasty, even if the prince of Bohai did not embarrass you, we would not be able to let you go!

At this time, Ben Zhengxiong knew that it was Shen Yun who did it. But hate to hate, but Masao Moto is helpless about it. When he returned to Wakoku, he wanted to complain to his sister, but he didn't expect them all to move to Edo. And he has to stay here and be responsible for collecting taxes.

It's really burning when I think about it.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a noise rolling up from the sea, and then I saw the fishing boat that was fishing on the surface of the sea rowing frantically towards the shore like a ghost.

Ben Zhengxiong was already in a bad mood, so he jumped to his feet and scolded: "You pigs, what are you running?" The sun hasn't set yet, and you don't want to eat when you come back so soon? ”

Before he could scold, a piercing copper sound suddenly sounded from the lookout tower of Liumeng Harbor, and a terrible cry sounded: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" ”

Before Masao could react, Yuzheng Nakajima had already run closer, grabbed his arm and ran back, saying as he ran: "My lord, go quickly!" The Han people are calling! ”

Ben Zhengxiong struggled to look back, only to see that dozens of ships with the banner of the Han Dynasty had rushed into Liumeng Harbor, and some flat-bottomed sand boats had been attached to the shore, and a large number of Han people with weapons with weapons poured down from the sand boats, and they were frantically chasing and killing the fleeing Japanese people!

And at sea, those tall Han ships kept ramming into those narrow fishing boats with ramming angles, and a ship almost the size of a second-class warship of the Han Empire continued to spew fire dragons and burn the watchtowers on the shore!

Ben Zhengxiong was shocked and frightened, staggered under his feet, and suddenly sat on the ground, muttering in his mouth: "It's over, it's over, the revenge of the Han people is coming!" ”

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"Those who dare to offend strong men and heavenly might, although they are far away, will be punished!"

"If you dare to kill the Han people, pour their nests, cover their holes, search the world, chase and kill for thousands of miles, and swear to behead the enemy's captives to respect the martial soul of the Han Dynasty!"

These two lines of characters are written in a huge Lishu font on the wall of Fuliang City!

Liu Zhen rode his horse and galloped through Fuliang City, followed by two hundred cadet soldiers roaring. Beside the narrow road, countless pirates under the command of Hou Kan came in and out, and the fire filled the entire city!

"Kill! Kill them all! Chickens and dogs don't leave !! Hou Kan stood on the southern wall of Fuliang City, waving his sword and shouting.

Liu Zhen and his cadet soldiers did not participate in the massacre of the city, but drove directly to the palace in the center of the city!

It is said to be a royal palace, but in fact, it is just three relatively large courtyards. Liu Zhen had already learned through several Japanese officials who had been captured in Liumeng that there were more than a dozen wounded soldiers of the human tribe recuperating here.

Kicking open the door that took four people to open and close, it was already empty--- Meiji did it very simply, he didn't even think about coming back after he moved out of Fuliang Castle, so there were only a dozen old and weak people left in the huge palace to clean in the complicated way. The wounded soldiers of the human tribe had already gathered together, looking at the Han cavalry that rushed in with fear in their eyes!

Outside the palace, fires and smoke billowed to the sky. With this as the background, Liu Zhen rode his horse up the jade steps of the palace, broke into the palace hall, and looked down on the group of wild people with tribes in the palace!

"Where's the arc?" Liu Zhen said coldly.

One of the savages, who could understand Chinese, screamed when he saw this: "Why, why have you been chasing us?" ”

Seeing that no one answered, Liu Zhen raised his hand and drew his bow and arrow from the horse, pointed it at them, and said, "Let me ask again, where is the oblique arc?" ”

The savage who knew Chinese shouted, "The Arc Patriarch has gone to Edo Castle...... General, I'm going to duel with you...... Belch! ”

Before he could finish his words, a vulture-shaking arrow was stuck in his throat.

Liu Zhen said with a cold look in his eyes: "You are not qualified to duel with me!" I'm not going to give you any fair chance! Because when you tortured and killed my Han people, you also didn't give them any fair chance! ”

After that, he said to the knight behind him: "Shoot them all, not one will be left!" ”

"Whoa!" The knight replied with a bang, and the arrows were even colder than the weather outside.

The wild men of the human tribe died with despair and fear, but compared to the Japanese people in Fuliang City, they died too easily.

Hou Kan's command are all pirates, and in addition to fighting at sea, they are no strangers to slaughtering and looting cities.

However, Hou Kan's order is "no chickens and dogs will be kept", which is a bit difficult. You must know that although Meiji moved the capital to Edo and most of the people in Fuliang Castle moved away, there were still tens of thousands of empty people. If you want to keep the chicken and dog, this is really not easy.

But pirates are pirates, and their minds are almost as vast as the sea. Hou Kan first sealed the city gates, and then dragged people out from house to house, all stripped naked and stood on the street, and then strung them one by one with ropes, and escorted them all to the palace. Then a fire burned them all to death.

The next step is to search for possible remnants of the living, and most of the houses in the Wa Kingdom are made of wood, which can be done by burning them in a large fire.

Afterwards, according to the statistics of the Wa Kingdom itself, the death toll of Fuliang City exceeded 70,000 this time! Except for four children who hid in a well and escaped, none of them survived!

However, for the Wa Kingdom, the Fuliangcheng Massacre was just beginning, and even more harsh things awaited them.

This year's cold winter came earlier than usual...... Winter is coming, but what about spring? Far, far away......