Chapter 18: The End of the Town
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It didn't take long for Yusuke Shimazu to feel that he had suddenly become an invincible god of war. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As they broke into one village after another, they were happy to find a pattern, those villagers were all first fangs and claws, the crowd was violent, eager to eat these people in one bite, but as long as a few people were cut down, those men who farmed the land were all dumbfounded, and immediately turned around and fled, and the rest was easy to do, he took his brothers to loot, rape, burn, as long as he was happy, he could come as he wanted, the world seemed to open a door to himself, the desire that had been suppressed for decades, Everything can be realized in this gate, and there are gold and silver, beautiful women, presumptuousness, and the frightened eyes of the enemy, and Shimazu enjoys this feeling.
Shimazu felt that the world was wonderful, and his brothers told Shimazu more than once that the decision to come to Daming was extremely wise, and the brothers were very grateful.
They had come ashore twenty days earlier, and had met no decent resistance for six days, but on the seventh day they were blocked by a group of officers and men, numbering about thirty or forty, dressed very mightily, and the leading general riding on a tall horse, with great imposing force. When the officers and soldiers appeared, Shimazu was taken aback, and everyone's first thought was to flee quickly, after all, these officers and soldiers were not farmers with farm tools, but regular troops, especially the number of people was far more numerous than themselves.
Shimazu could see the frightened expressions of his subordinates, but in front of his subordinates, Shimazu did not want to lose his face as a big brother, so he forced himself to calmly meet the officers and soldiers, and he made up his mind that as long as he saw something bad, he would pull his legs and run.
To his surprise, however, before he could get near, the leading general pulled out his horse's head, as if he had seen an evil spirit, and fled, so that the soldiers who followed his ass became headless flies, and fled in all directions.
Shimazu was puzzled as to why these people were fleeing, but he also saw that now was a godsend, so he raised his sword to the sky, shouted loudly, and rushed towards those officers and soldiers.
Then there was a strange scene on the plain, more than a dozen Japanese robbers dressed in colorful and strange costumes, drove the thirty or forty neatly dressed officers and soldiers into a panic, panicked, many officers and soldiers were so frightened that they directly threw away their knives and guns, jumped into the river, and swam desperately into the distance, a few people ran and ran, fell to the ground, and were hacked to death by the Japanese bandits, so those officers and soldiers ran faster, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Shimazu really didn't understand why these officers and soldiers had the advantage, but they didn't even have the courage to fight.
Since victory is so within reach, should you have a bigger goal?
The small village can't satisfy its desires, why not try the town?
After resting for a while, Shimazu decided to attack the town called Zhelin not far from here.
Zhelin town is not big, because of the prolific variety of miscellaneous trees and get the name, the whole town has only one street, running through the north and south, so the houses in the town are standing in the east and west, thousands of permanent residents in the town, set up a post station, by the chief is responsible for the affairs of the town, because the Japanese are in turmoil, the world is not very peaceful, so the military stationed a team of soldiers in the town, about 50 people, and some people are strong, in case of emergency to assist in the battle.
In the past few days, the rumors of the Japanese have spread in the town, and everyone is worried, not knowing whether the Japanese will attack the town, and many people in the nearby villages have also hid in this town, they feel that since it is a town, the defense must be much stronger than the village, and the Japanese will not dare to attack, so in recent days, the population of the town has become more and more, and the public security has become worse and worse.
Zhou Qiang, as Lizheng, is helpless about this situation, people come to vote for relatives, they can't drive them back, the only thing he can do is to strengthen patrols and train the people, in order to be able to resist when the Japanese invade.
In the past few days, the rumors in the town are full of legends about how brave the Japanese are and how invincible they are, which makes many people and officers and soldiers feel cowardly, which makes Zhou Qiang very angry, cowardly before fighting, and hurts morale, although he has not read a few years of books, but he has also watched some plays, and knows what morale is all about, so he taught a few rumor-mongers a hard lesson, and told everyone that the Japanese are actually people, not so terrible, if they are cut down, they will die, but Zhou Qiang preached, no one seems to believe it, The effect is not great.
At noon that day, Zhou Qiang was eating at home, when he suddenly heard a commotion outside, and then someone ran to him in a panic to tell him that the Japanese were calling. When Zhou Qiang heard this, he hurriedly threw down his job, rushed out of the house, quickly gathered the team, and greeted the Japanese Kou head-on.
Shimazu, who is used to being arrogant, is also nervous when he attacks such a town for the first time, although the town in front of him is not big, but there are thousands of people in size, far from being able to deal with a dozen people by himself, and there is also an army stationed in it, when he walked outside the town, he even wanted to give up for a while, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and persevered, and walked forward calmly, and the brothers behind him were also vigilant.
Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of gongs in the town, and one hundred and ten people rushed out of the town, including officers and soldiers, as well as people, all of whom raised swords and guns, followed by many people holding sticks and shovels, and the momentum was violent.
"Wakou, you dare to attack my Zhelin, why don't you come and die quickly!" Zhou Qiang pointed a little at Shimazu and shouted.
Shimazu tilted his head and looked left and right, he didn't understand Zhou Qiang's words, he didn't know what he said, but he guessed the meaning, and he didn't answer, he slowly pulled out the long knife from his waist, held it in both hands, smiled at Zhou Qiang, and put on a posture.
Swish...... Swish...... The people behind him also drew their long knives and put on an offensive formation.
"Buzzing ......" Many officers and soldiers and residents were startled when they saw this situation and began to talk in low voices.
Zhou Qiang felt that the formation behind him was a little chaotic, and he shouted: "Everyone calm down." Then he waved his hand to the officers and soldiers, and asked them to come forward to meet the enemy, who knew that these officers and soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, but they didn't move.
Zhou Qiang's eyes were dark, and he was so angry that he almost fainted, although these officers and soldiers themselves can be mobilized, they are not under their own jurisdiction, they belong to the military, and they are to assist the local bandits, but they are not local officials, and they have no binding force on them.
Zhou Qiang is just a lizheng, he doesn't know the art of war, and he doesn't know martial arts, now if these soldiers don't listen to themselves, they can only rely on those people behind him, but looking at the various strange weapons in the hands of those people, Zhou Qiang really has no confidence to win this battle.
A sneer appeared on Shimazu's face, in this world, sheep are sheep, even if it is a group of sheep, it is no match for a wolf after all, and Shimazu seems to have seen the dawn of victory again.
"Brothers, rush ...... me" Zhou Qiang, the lieutenant commander, raised his waist knife and yelled behind him, and rushed towards the enemy group, he had to rush, because he knew that if he escaped, the people in this town would definitely suffer, and the court would definitely not let him go.
The brothers of Zhou Qiang's clan also rushed up with sticks.
More than a dozen officers and soldiers saw someone rushing forward and rushed out as well.
Looking at the rushing crowd, Shimazu did not panic, after all, there were not many people rushing over, based on experience, as long as he quickly cut down a few people, the confidence of those people would collapse, and fear would point to all of them, and then it would be a natural rout.
Shimazu let out a loud shout and fought with the rushing crowd.
Just a few faces, there were more than ten people lying on the ground, how these people who worked all day long with hoes were the opponents of the samurai who had survived the war for several years, although in this battle, they also injured two or three Japanese invaders, but their side suffered heavy losses, only three or four died directly, and the rest were seriously injured on the ground, letting out a miserable cry.
Shimazu wiped the blood from his knife from a dead man, squinted at the trembling crowd, and did not speak, he knew that those people would not last long.
"I'm at odds with you, I'm at odds with you." Zhou Qiang, who had a hand cut off, stood up tenaciously from the ground, picked up a knife with his left hand, and just now he was slashing like crazy, although there was no trace of discipline, but he also cut the body of a widow, but unfortunately the person quickly avoided it and did not cause a bigger wound, but after all, he also injured the widow, Zhou Qiang felt that he was worth it.
Now my right hand is gone, and I still have my left hand.
Zhou Qiang raised his knife and rushed towards the enemy, picked up the knife and cut it down, this left hand is really not smooth, not only can he not exert his strength, but the speed is also much slower, Zhou Qiang thought regretfully.
Before the knife could be cut, Zhou Qiang felt that his vest was cold, and a knife was inserted into his body from the back of his heart.
With unwillingness, Zhou Qiang slowly fell, at this moment, time seemed to stand still, he saw a lot of things, there were childhood friends, there was an old father at home, and his son was just born, he was so ugly at that time, Zhou Qiang wanted to laugh and cry, but in the end, he yelled at the fathers, brothers, and officers and soldiers in front of him: "You are all cowards, cowards......"
Then, with a tilt of his head, he died.
The standing crowd was silent, many people had a look of shame on their faces, and some wanted to rush out, but they were desperately stopped by the people next to them, and a strange emotion filled the air.
"Run, ......" I don't know who shouted, everyone woke up like a dream, turned around and ran, and disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.
"Haha~~Haha~~" Shimazu looked up to the sky and smiled, this ending had long been expected by him, although the process was a little tortuous, but the result did not change.
What kind of crowd is this? Why so cowardly?
Shimazu thought it was strange.