In an instant, the Shiroyama position was shrouded in billowing smoke, and the government officers and soldiers remembered that there was still a gunboat of the Satsuma Army in Kinjiang Bay.

Rear Adjutant Mitsuri Inoue's lieutenant shouted his commander's name in the smoke of gunpowder, but there was no answer, and at this time, the Satsuma gunboat began firing again, and the Tokai samurai, who had been immersed in the joy of victory just a moment ago, immediately scattered and fled, looking for a place to hide.

Seeing that the Chengshan position was shelled, Shan County Youpeng immediately understood what was happening, and saw that there were constantly shells falling on the position, and the huge Japanese chapter flag that had just been raised was blown into pieces in an instant, Shan County Youpeng was furious and immediately ordered to shell the enemy ships, because there was no artillery on the Chengshan position, the government artillerymen who got the order risked being hit by the enemy's shells, and laboriously dragged one cannon after another to Chengshan, but when they waited until the enemy ship's shelling stopped, they pulled the cannon up to the gun position, When they were about to return fire on the Satsuma gunboats in the bay, they found that the enemy ships had become a small black spot smoking on the sea level.

When the dust had settled, the frightened government officers and men walked out of their hiding places, and they were surprised to find that Major General Hikaru Inoue, who had just been killed, had fallen in a pool of blood, and the reporters accompanying the army were also struggling in pain, and the guns of the Satsuma warship had accurately hit the place, and for the battle-hardened gunners on the "Mt. Fuji," it was easy to aim and attack such a fixed target. The officers and men on the mountain immediately carried Major General Hikaru Inoue and the reporters accompanying the army down the mountain on stretchers and rushed them to the nearest field hospital for treatment. The reporters with the army were killed on the spot because of the severe wounds caused by bullets in the abdomen, and Major General Hikaru Inoue was hit by shrapnel in the chest. Died on the way to the field hospital. Major General Hikaru Inoue, who was extremely happy and sad, became the last and shortest-lived major general to die on the side of the government army in the Southwest War.

After Yama Prefecture Yutomo learned of Hikaru Inoue's death. Annoyed, Hikaru Inoue's death undoubtedly cast a shadow over his victory, but he quickly calmed down and began to prepare a telegram to Tokyo to report the victory, and arranged for someone to go and recover the bodies of Saigo Takamori and his wife.

The end of the Battle of Shiroyama meant that the Southwest War of Japan, which lasted more than two years, came to an end. In this unprecedentedly fierce battle, the Japanese-Russian coalition forces totaling nearly 30,000 men paid a heavy price of nearly 2,000 casualties in the face of the remnants of the Satsuma Army, which had less than 1,000 men. In addition to Saigo Takamori and his wife who committed suicide by going to the sea, the Satsuma army generals Kirino Toshiaki, Beppu Shinsuke, Kijima Kiyoshi, Kono Kiboichiro, Sagara Sagashi Goemon, Hirano Masaosuke, Shinna Kiyoichiro and others all died in battle, which can be described as tragic and tragic.

On the "Mount Fuji", Lin Yiqing watched the distant coastline gradually disappear from view, silently got off the flybridge and entered the cabin.

He was led by the sailors to the cabin where Chiho Kirino lived.

Lin Yiqing stood at the door first, listened to the movement inside, and found that it was quiet inside. He knocked lightly on the door.

"Chiho?" Lin Yiqing called softly.

"The door is unlocked, come in." To Lin Yiqing's surprise. Chiho Kirino's voice was surprisingly calm.

Lin Yiqing pushed open the door and saw Chiho Kirino sitting on the edge of the bed, staring blankly at the two katana swords placed on the table.

Seeing the knife on the table, Lin Yiqing was startled, what he was most worried about now was that Chiho Kirino couldn't accept the fact that Saigo Takamori and Kirino Toshiaki died, and did something short-sighted.

"The bodies of uncle and aunt have not been found, have they?" Chiho Kirino asked softly, her eyes still fixed on the katana on the table.

These two are the two swords that Saigo Takamori handed over to Lin Yiqing on the city mountain, one of them has been broken, and the blade of the other has multiple injuries.

"The currents were too strong and there were many whirlpools, so I couldn't find them." Lin Yiqing sighed, pulled over a chair, and sat down beside Chiho Kirino.

While the "Mt. Fuji" was shelling the cliff, the captain of the ship, Shichiro Kataoka, sent sailors on a sampan to search for the bodies of Saigo Takamori and his wife, but due to the strong currents there, the whirlpools, and the tight time, the bodies of Saigo Takamori and his wife could not be found.

"Father...... I guess I've already sacrificed it now......" Chiho Kirino asked softly as she looked at the broken knife.

"I think so." Lin Yiqing stared at Chiho Kirino, for fear that she wouldn't be able to think about it for a while, so she was preoccupied with guard, as long as she made any moves, she immediately took action to restrain her.

Chiho Kirino stared at the broken knife for a while, then turned her gaze to Lin Yiqing, and when she saw Lin Yiqing's nervous appearance, she sighed lightly.

"Don't worry, I won't kill myself." She looked at him and smiled, "You don't have to...... This way. ”

"Qiansui ......" Lin Yiqing knew that she must be extremely sad in her heart at this moment, but because she didn't want to worry about herself, she forced a smile, he wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know what to say.

"Uncle gave you his knife......" Chiho Kirino's gaze turned to the broken knife again.

"Yes." Lin Yiqing nodded.

"I see what Uncle means...... "Chiho Kirino muttered, "he wants you to carry on his legacy......"

She raised her head again, and the anger in her eyes made Lin Yiqing feel terrified.

"I will avenge my uncle and father...... "Chiho Kirino swore word by word, "In my lifetime, I will destroy this evil government!" ”

At this time, Lin Yiqing couldn't imagine that Chiho Kirino had been reborn from the moment she made her vow, and she was completely different from before.

He also didn't know how she would change his future and Japan's future.

When the "Mt. Fuji" returned to Nagasaki, it was already late, He Yunqing and Iwasaki Youjia were anxiously waiting for Lin Yiqing's return, and when they saw Lin Yiqing and Chiho Kirino appear in front of them, they couldn't help but cry with joy.

Lin Yiqing comforted them, and after handing over Chiho Kirino to He Yunqing to take care of, he hurried to find Tsunara Oyama to discuss the retreat from Nagasaki.

Tsunayoshi Oyama had just returned from the foreign consulate district and talked to Hayashi about the current situation of the Satsuma military and civilian retreat from Nagasaki to Amami Oshima and the Ryukyus. In fact, Oyama Tsunara has been presiding over the retreat these days. He was one of the few Satsuma samurai who were good at both domestic and foreign affairs. Everything was arranged in an orderly manner, and all matters of the retreat were carried out in an orderly manner, and Lin Yiqing was relieved to hear the report of Oyama Gangliang.

The continuous battles alone were already exhausting him these days, and if it weren't for the support of Tsunashi Oyama in the rear, he would have fallen long ago.

From crossing over to Japan to the present, Lin Yiqing has a feeling of powerlessness for the first time, and he also understands it deeply. How difficult it is to change the direction of history with one's own strength.

Despite his extraordinary abilities, Oyama was tired enough from the hard work of these days, and at the age of 56, his hair was already gray.

Lin Yiqing told Oyama Tsunashi about the martyrdom of Saigo Takamori and his wife, and Oyama Tsunashi cried bitterly after hearing this, he was one of the first people to oppose Saigo Takamori's troops, and he actually expected such an ending as Saigo Takamori. It's just that when this day really came, as a subordinate and close friend of Saigo Takamori. He still finds it hard to accept.

In addition to grief, Oyama Tsunara knew in his heart that now was not the time to grieve for Saigo Takamori, and he reported to Hayashi Yiqing about the current situation in Nagasaki and his worries.

In order to ensure a smooth retreat, there are still a few sporadic units of the Satsuma army, under the leadership of Murata Shinhachi, Nakajima Kenhiko, and Hemi Jurota, desperately trying to block the advance of the government army and the Russian army, but these rearguard troops cannot support it for too long, they also have to get on the ship and evacuate Nagasaki, if they retreat to Nagasaki and the government army and the Russian army attack Nagasaki with superior forces, it is likely that the retreat will die in the middle of the retreat, and Nagasaki will become the final death place of the Satsuma people.

In response to this situation, Oyama Tsunashi thought about it for a long time and came up with a solution that would leave Nagasaki under the "condominium management" of other countries and prevent government and Russian troops from entering Nagasaki so that the Satsuma army could evacuate smoothly.

The reason why Oyama Tsunashi came up with such a method is because Nagasaki is a famous treaty port, and there are many foreign nationals, such as the Qianguo in Nagasaki, there are more than 20,000 merchants, which is the largest among other countries, and there are thousands of merchants and civilians from Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, and other countries, and after the outbreak of the Southwest War, the Western powers have sent troops to Nagasaki in order to protect their own nationals, and although the government army knows that Nagasaki is occupied by the Satsuma army, they are afraid that accidentally injuring foreign nationals will cause interference by the Western powers, so they have never launched an attack on Nagasaki, and Oyama Tsunayo's hands over to the other countriesThe purpose of the "joint management" method is to use the strength of the great powers to make the Japanese Government fearful and gain time to complete the retreat.

Lin Yiqing deeply agreed with Oyama Tsunaliang's suggestion, and he told Oyama Tsunaliang that he was going to ask his brother-in-law He Ruzhang, the minister of the Qianguo State in Japan, to take the lead in promoting this matter in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, and Oyama Tsunaliang was overjoyed.

After finishing his work, it was already late at night, Lin Yiqing returned to his residence, He Yunqing and Chiho Kirino had already slept, and he also felt very sleepy, so he slept with his clothes.

This time, he could finally get a good night's sleep.

In the dream, Lin Yiqing felt as if he had come to a certain place in Qianguo......

He saw several women working in a porridge factory to help the victims.

At this time, the porridge factory has begun to give porridge, and the victims have crowded forward, and the workers of the porridge factory shouted loudly, while trying to maintain order as much as possible, scooping the thick porridge that had been boiled in the big pot into the bowl in the hands of the victims with a large wooden spoon.

A middle-aged woman with a kind face but quite a dignified face came to a cauldron to check on the cooking of porridge, and the steward of the porridge factory saw her arrival and hurriedly ran over.

"Madame, please see, today's porridge is cooked thickly." The steward smiled and inserted a chopstick into the porridge in the cauldron and said.

"That's very good." The middle-aged woman nodded with satisfaction when she saw the chopsticks standing proudly in the porridge.

Lin Yiqing looked around and saw that although the order of the victims receiving the porridge seemed a little chaotic, the competition was not too strong, and the people who received the porridge were either squatting or sitting, and they were all drinking sweetly there. He noticed that the women's eyes were mainly focused on the homeless children, because the children were too weak to rob the adults.

Among these women, except for the middle-aged woman, the others were all young women, very beautiful, and Lin Yiqing recognized one of them, it was Lin Yizhe's wife Chen Wan.

"The children are all over there, and a special stove is set up to receive porridge to prevent adults from competing for it." The steward seemed to understand the middle-aged woman's thoughts, smiled and pointed to a porridge shed not far away and said, "Madame, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

The middle-aged woman nodded. and Chen Wan and others walked to the porridge shed dedicated to distributing porridge to children.

As soon as they entered the porridge shed. The children, who were waiting to receive the porridge, suddenly gathered around. Stretching out their hands, Chen Wan and a maid were already prepared, and took out the rice cakes they brought and distributed them to the children one by one.

"Don't rob, don't rob! Everyone has a share! The maid divided the rice cakes and stopped the children from fighting.

Lin Yiqing watched the distribution of rice crackers and tried his best to let all the children receive them, when he noticed that in a corner not far away, a girl in ragged clothes was sitting there quietly, looking at the blue sky in the distance.

Lin Yiqing looked at the girl curiously. It was a girl of about six or seven years of age, thin and shabby, and she never was, like other children who received porridge, who flocked to the people who came to share the porridge and other foodstuffs, and always stayed quietly until there was no one to fight, and then went to get her share.

And when she saw that some of the young children did not get it, she would give them the food she had already received.

The girl seemed to sense that someone was staring at her, and she turned her head. I just met the eyes of the middle-aged woman.

Perhaps it was the girl's sparkling eyes that attracted her as clear as a stream of autumn water, and the middle-aged woman parted from the crowd. I came to the girl's side.

"Good boy, where's your father?" She crouched down beside the girl, gently took her little hand, and asked.

"Mrs. Hui, my father is dead." The girl replied softly, "My mother...... I...... I don't know who my mother is......"

"Poor boy, what's your name?" The middle-aged woman asked again with a look of compassion on her face.

"My name is Li Sizhu, the thought of the quiet night, the bamboo of pine, bamboo and plum." The girl replied.

"Sizhu, if I were to be your mother, would you be willing?"

"Sizhu - willing to ......"

"Sizhu is good, I'll go home with my mother."

Lin Yiqing couldn't help but be surprised when she saw the middle-aged woman holding the girl's hand, as if she was holding her daughter's hand.

But when he saw the girl's eyes, he couldn't help but like her a little.

This is...... Wait, what's her name? Li Sizhu?

Why is the name so familiar?

Why did the girl in front of him give him a sense of déjà vu?

In an instant, the original scenery disappeared, and what reappeared around Lin Yiqing was the garden of a rich family's house.

Lin Yiqing saw Lin Yizhe.

"Sizhu, this is my uncle." Chen Wan's maid saw Lin Yizhe's surprised appearance, and introduced them with a smile, "Uncle, this is the goddaughter that the old lady just received, Li Sizhu." ”

"Hello uncle." The girl named Li Sizhu saw Lin Yizhe looking at her directly, she looked a little flustered, lowered her head and said softly.

Lin Yizhe amused her greeting and said; "In that case, then you shouldn't call me uncle, right?"

Li Sizhu made his face blush, and his head hung lower.

"Yes! That's a brother and sister. The maid on the side also laughed and teased her.

"Brother......" Li Sizhu looked up at Lin Yizhe, and really called it that.

"Hehe, did my uncle hear that? changed his words, but ah, didn't my uncle say anything? The joking maid laughed and teased Lin Yizhe.

"Of course it has to be expressed." Lin Yizhe raised his eyebrows, took out a small jade pendant from his sleeve, leaned over, and put it on his chest for Li Sizhu, "This piece of jade will be given to my sister as a meeting gift." ”

Lin Yiqing noticed that this is an ancient jade dragon pendant of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the jade dragon curls up without claws, and the appearance is similar to the Hongshan jade pig dragon, which can be said to be deeply influenced by the Hongshan jade culture, but the difference is that this kind of Shang and Zhou ancient jade is made into sheets, which is lighter and thinner than the Hongshan jade pig dragon, and the surface is also engraved with hook back lines, and the workmanship is more exquisite and detailed.

This piece of jade dragon is made of Hetian green and white jade, with yellow-brown Tuqin on it, because it is a heirloom, after years of cherishing and playing, the surface of the jade treasure has been generated, at this time hanging on the girl's chest, the jade reflects each other, and it is more warm and subtle.

"It's so pretty." The maid praised.

Lin Yiqing looked at Li Sizhu of Peiyu, and was also a little surprised that this piece of jade matched this girl so well, as if it was prepared for her.

"Thank you, brother......"

Li Sizhu stroked the jade dragon pendant with her hand, the corners of her eyes flashed, she didn't seem to want people to see the tears in the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly lowered her head again. But Lin Yiqing still saw her strangeness.

Lin Yiqing keenly felt that this girl, who was already Lin Yizhe's "sister", might have an unusual background.

"Uncle, this piece of jade was just received from an antique dealership?" The maid felt strange that Lin Yizhe had made such a piece of jade as if he had done a trick, but she knew Lin Yizhe's preferences and immediately guessed the answer.

"No, it was given to me by Mr. Riyige." Lin Yizhe shook his head and said with a smile, "It is said that this was given to him by a local retired official when he suppressed the Changmao Sect bandits in Ningbo. ”

Hearing Lin Yizhe's explanation, the maid pursed her lips and laughed, but she didn't notice that Li Sizhu's face turned slightly pale when she heard the word "long hair".

Lin Yiqing couldn't help but move when she saw the girl's expression.

The Long-Haired Bandits...... She is also surnamed Li......

Could it be that she is...... (To be continued......)

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