In her sleep, Yoko Shimazu came to the villa she was familiar with.

The sunlight shines serenely on the yellow-brown trees and the quiet black fields, and it is very quiet, giving the people who live here a kind of tranquility that is not found in the noisy city. It is a quaint manor house located on the side of a hill and there is also a church near it.

This is a typical English manor. The British aristocracy longed for the clean air and freedom of life in the countryside, so they invested in the villages and towns near the cities to build their own little world.

The main building of the manor is a two-storey mansion, and once you enter the building, the entrance to the entrance is a study on the left, a dining room on the right, a spacious main hall, a large library on the left, a main staircase on the right, and a luxuriously decorated high-class living room, a concert hall and a sophisticated lounge, showing that the owner was a gentleman of great cultivation.

It's just that now the owner of this house is not British, but Japanese.

In this manor, a group of people are busy inside and out. From time to time, maids and servants carrying hot water towels came in and out of a gatehouse hung with bamboo curtains. In the courtyard, an old man in a kimono with a gray beard was standing motionless in the middle of the courtyard, but his sharp eyes never left the bamboo curtain that was frequently lifted. A middle-aged man in a kimono sits under a cherry blossom tree, his eyes closed.

The old man is his grandfather Shimazu Hisamitsu, and the middle-aged man is his father Shimazu Tadashi.

"Zhongyi, do you think this time it will be a boy. Or a girl? "Grandpa looked at my father. Shen Sheng asked.

"The cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Be a girl, right? My father opened his eyes, looked at the cherry blossom petals slowly falling beside him, and whispered.

At the same time, on the other side of the bamboo curtain, a young woman of about twenty-two or three years old was lying on her gum with a sweaty face and exerting her strength in pain, and a group of maids and servants were busy waiting around her. Obviously, a little life is about to come into this world.

"Madame, use your strength again. It's coming out! See the child's head! Use your strength again! Madam! ”

"Wow-wow-"

With the cry of a baby, the nerves of everyone in this house relaxed, and after giving birth, the already exhausted mother spread out on the gums and panted,

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Shimazu asked.

"It's a girl, my lord." A maid replied.

"Whether it's a boy or a girl, it's all from the Shimazu family." Shimazu Tadayoshi got up and said, "Everyone has worked hard! Wine appreciation! ”

"Thank you, sir!" At this time, the surrounding servants happily bowed to Shimazu Tadayoshi and watched their father and son enter the delivery room.

"It's a girl, but it's something to celebrate for the Shimazu family. I also asked my father to give me a name. Shimazu Tadayoshi looked at the panting mother and said to his father.

"You like Western learning. I also hope that there will be a proficient foreign scholar among the descendants, so let's call her Yoko! Shimazu Hisamitsu looked at the Western silver utensils placed in the room, thought for a moment, and replied.

Only then did Yoko Shimazu realize that the scene she saw in front of her was the scene when she was born.

Seeing her mother hugging her and her father looking at each other and smiling, her heart was full of warmth and happiness.

But the thought that she was now separated from her parents forever made her heart tighten again.

With her depressed mood, the people in front of her suddenly disappeared.

All the rooms were empty in an instant.

Yoko Shimazu came to the courtyard and looked at the cherry blossoms that were so beautiful that people were enchanted.

A breeze blew, rolling up the red petals in the sky, and fluttering down one after another.

Yoko Shimazu looked at the rain of petals falling from the sky, and somehow her heart was full of melancholy and uneasiness.

A bright red petal fell on Yoko Shimazu's shoulder, and she gently picked up the petal with her fingers, put it in the palm of her hand, and looked at it carefully.

Unlike the pink cherry blossoms that can often be seen all over Japan, the petals of the cherry blossoms in her hands are red in color.

It's as red as blood!

At this moment, Yoko Shimazu was holding the petals of the red cherry blossom in her hand, and an inexplicable fear suddenly grabbed her heart.

She quickly ran into the small building, and as soon as she entered the hall, she was shocked to find that on the railing of the corridor on the second floor, there was a female corpse in a kimono that had hanged herself!

Not far away, on the railing of another staircase, there are also a large number of female corpses wearing costumed kimonos!

These women were all wearing heavy makeup, white powder, and expressionless, as if they were female ghosts from the underworld.

Yoko Shimazu found the face of her mother Ninji among them, and for a moment her heart was terrified, and she let out a long and extremely miserable wail.

"Miss? Miss? A young woman's call sounded, and Yoko Shimazu woke up suddenly, only to realize that she had just had a nightmare.

This is a Qianguo woman who works as a waitress in the women's room of the inn, and she hears the screams coming from Yoko Shimazu's room, and the door is not locked, so she walks in quickly to check.

At this time, she thought that something had happened to Yoko Shimazu, and when she looked at Yoko Shimazu, who was pale, she also looked panicked.

"You...... It doesn't matter, right? She asked softly.

"I'm fine, thank you." Yoko Shimazu calmed down and said to the waiter.

The waiter withdrew, and Yoko Shimazu realized that her forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and she took out her handkerchief and wiped it, recalling the scene in her dream just now, and still felt flustered.

She thought that she had just been frightened by the execution of the female pirates, and she couldn't help but regret a little in her heart, and became a visitor with the ignorant people of Qianguo.

After noon, after lunch, when it was time to leave the ship, Yoko Shimazu came to the dock and waited to board the ship, when some newsboys gathered and sold newspapers to the passengers who were about to board the ship.

After arriving at her cabin, Yoko Shimazu settled in. I opened the newspaper and read it. In the newspapers of the Qianguo. She prefers the illustrated "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial". It was because she first read the "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial".

And when her eyes fell on the front page of the "Dianshizhai Pictorial", her complexion changed suddenly.

It depicts a group of women who hanged themselves in the room! It's just her dream!

She hurriedly looked at the explanatory text in the blank space above the picture, and only understood the title of the text, and the words "Shimazu Clan Extermination" were written!

“…… The Shimazu family, the oldest samurai family in Japan, was beheaded in Tokyo because of the rebellion of Saigo Takamori, and the Japanese lord was merciful and specially ordered to pardon all his daughters, but the Shimazu daughters were unwilling to live and steal their lives. When he heard that his father and brother were beheaded, he hanged himself in his residence on the same day, and his fierceness and determination were sad and lamentable......"

After reading the text on this painting, Yoko Shimazu felt the world spin for a while, and she almost fainted.

I don't know how long it took for her to come back to her senses, flipping through the pictorial with trembling hands, and saw a second picture of her father Shimazu Tadayoshi and grandfather Shimazu Hisamitsu, as well as Prince Asugawa Miyashihito, being beheaded. Although the painting is made in the style of Western copper engraving, the painting is somewhat distorted. But Yoko Shimazu can still clearly see the heads of her father and grandfather.

Yoko Shimazu took a deep breath and silently closed the newspaper and placed it on the table. She got up and went to the bed, took off her coat, opened the quilt, and lay down on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

After a long while, she suddenly covered her face with the quilt, turned and fell into the quilt, and whimpered lowly.

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"Yaga! A few of you! Hurry up! Army Captain Katsura Taro saw several government soldiers staggering as if they were drunk, and couldn't help but come forward and scold.

The Japanese soldiers staggered to keep up with the group, and the German military adviser Philicus, who was on horseback, noticed that these men did not look like they had eaten stale food and had a bad stomach, and could not help but feel a little strange.

The Japanese brigade walked forward for a while, and Philix smelled a rancid smell in the mountain air, and he looked at the misty woodland in the distance, and immediately remembered something, and his face could not help but change greatly.

Philix pulled a towel out of his backpack, wet it with water from a kettle, and put it over his mouth.

"Mr. Philix, what are you? ......" Katsura Taro suddenly remembered something, and his face changed. He hurriedly beat his horse and came to Dashan Yan's side, reminding him, "General, look ahead! ”

Oyama stopped his horse, raised his binoculars, and looked in the direction of Katsura Taro's finger, and saw that the rocks and trees in the distance were all shrouded in a layer of mist.

"That's ...... Poisonous mist from the decomposition of corpses! Katsura Taro pointed at some of the soldiers in the team and said, "They must have accidentally inhaled the poisonous mist, so they ......."

Without waiting for Katsura Taro to finish speaking, Oyama Iwa understood what was going on, and like Philix, he took out a handkerchief, wet it with water, and covered it on his mouth, then he turned his head and waved his hand to Miura Oden, who was in charge of specific command.

Miura Wuden immediately issued an order for all personnel to guard against the poisonous fog, and soon, the Japanese soldiers began to wet their towels and then march with their mouths covered.

After walking for a while, the wind became stronger, and gradually blew away the poisonous mist, and the scene covered by the fog gradually revealed, and two huge and steep peaks appeared in front of the Japanese.

Sensing that the poisonous fog had dissipated, Philix took off the towel covering his mouth, took out the map and opened it, looked at it, and said to Dashan Yan.

Da Shanyan raised his binoculars, and he saw that between the two peaks, there was a path that winded forward, and his brows gradually tightened.

The trail was so narrow that it could only accommodate three or four people walking side by side, making it very difficult for an army of several thousand to pass.

Miura Wuden and other generals gathered on horseback, and everyone's eyes were focused on Oyama Rock.

Da Shanyan noticed the look of surprise in everyone's eyes, and was annoyed in his heart, and said categorically: "Forward!" Get through here quickly! ”

Miura Wuden hesitated, but gave the order to continue the march. This time, the samurai of the East China Sea took the lead, and the soldiers from civilian backgrounds lined up in two columns and walked up the mountain road.

The road was relatively flat at first, but Oyamayan noticed that many of the rocks seemed to have been specially leveled, so he boldly rode over on horseback, and saw that Oyamayan was going to ride over. Miura Wuden thought for a moment. Or stepped forward to stop him.

"Wait a minute, come over!" Miura Wuden said. "It's too dangerous to ride a horse on such a narrow road!"

Da Shan Yan nodded, and turned over and dismounted unwillingly, at this time he didn't know that just now, Miura Wudian was actually equivalent to saving his life.

Oyama Iwa, Miura Wuden and others stayed in the woodland at the stone gate, watching the troops pass through.

At this time, on the opposite hillside. Rifles were creeping out of the woods and crevices of the rocks.

"There is no one here to defend, they probably know that our large army is coming, and they are already fleeing in fear." Seeing that the troops passed smoothly, Da Shanyan turned his head and said, without anyone stopping him.

But just as he finished speaking, a series of crisp gunshots suddenly rang out!

Dashanyan hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked ahead, only to see a large field of white smoke rising from the opposite hillside, bullets raining down, and a large number of government troops immediately fell. Accompanied by hoarse screams, many people fell off the cliffs.

"Quick! Shoot! Dashan Yan lowered the telescope. He stomped his feet and screamed in frustration.

Without waiting for the officers to give the order, the Japanese soldiers had already begun firing at the opposite cliff. The Japanese soldiers, who had not yet advanced on the woodland, also raised their guns and shot at the opposite side.

To Oyama Yan's great surprise, compared to the fierce counterattack of the government army, the firepower of the Satsuma army was not weak at all, and at this particular moment, it was even stronger!

In his impression, the Mufu army in the War of the Fall did not have such firepower!

And sure enough, as reported by the government officers and soldiers who survived many previous battles, the marksmanship of the Satsuma army was very accurate!

In the course of these firefights just now, the government army fell like rice cut by a sickle, and only a few people fell in the Satsuma army position on the opposite side!

Even with the full fire support of the government forces that failed to advance between the woods, the situation of the battle did not change much. Seeing more and more downed government soldiers, Dashan Yan was depressed to death for a while.

Now he somewhat regretted that he had advanced too fast and had not brought with him the mountain and machine guns he was equipped with.

Now even with just one cannon, he can wipe out the ambushed Satsuma samurai!

Just when the platoon of guns on both sides was still in full swing, Oyama suddenly discovered that on the cliff above the heads of the government troops on the stone path, a large number of Satsuma samurai appeared!

These Satsuma samurai were small in number, and although they carried rifles in their hands, they had no intention of shooting at the government army!

Oyama raised the telescope again in some confusion, and when he saw a black cannon at the feet of the Satsuma samurai, his heart instantly turned cold.

As if he saw Oyama Iwa looking at them, a young man who was obviously the leader of the Satsuma samurai smiled coldly at Oyama in the telescope, and suddenly pulled out the samurai long sword at his waist, aimed it in the direction of Oyama Iwa, and swung it down fiercely.

Seeing the leader's movements, the other Satsuma samurai also drew their samurai swords one after another and slashed them down in this direction.

"Boom!" "Boom!" With a loud bang, shells fell from the sky and flew straight towards the government troops on the mountain road.

Oyama watched as a shell landed in the ranks of the government troops and exploded, lifting three government soldiers into the air at once, and then another shell flew overhead, and smashed at the following Japanese soldiers, several Japanese soldiers could not dodge, and all of them were hit by the shrapnel of the shell explosion, some of them flew into the air with broken limbs, and some of them let out a miserable cry.

"Quick! Fall back! Fall back! A Japanese officer shouted loudly and ran backwards first, and then the government soldiers turned around and ran backwards, but the speed of the people could not match the speed of the shells! More shells flew down like meteors, and for a moment the screams of government soldiers were everywhere.

The Japanese soldiers, who had easily escaped the range of the Satsuma artillery and returned to the woodland, had no fighting spirit at this time, and ran to the rear without their lives, and actually disrupted the government army column behind.

"Yaga!" Seeing this, Oyama Iwa was furious, and suddenly pulled out the saber given by the emperor, and slashed a Japanese peasant soldier who fled to him in a daze.

"Don't run away! Give me back! Keep fighting! Oyama angrily brandished his katana and shouted loudly, but no one listened to him, and more and more government troops began to turn around and run backwards.

The mountain is extremely angry, and he was about to swing his knife to continue to cut people, but he was caught off guard and didn't know where to go, "Bang!" A shot knocked one of the guards beside him to the ground in an instant.

Dashan Yan was stunned for a moment, the hand waving the knife stopped, he couldn't help but turn his head, and suddenly saw the figure of the Satsuma samurai rushing out of the forest!

These Satsuma samurai, numbering hundreds, all of them with rifles in their hands and a bullet in their hands, they ran and opened fire, and pressed the bullets into the chambers with great skill and speed, and suddenly countless bullets rained down, and a large number of government troops were knocked to the ground before they could shoot!

Suddenly hit by this sudden violent blow, the government army was in a mess for a while, under the command of Miura Wuden, some government soldiers easily gathered and began to return fire with platoon guns, but the government army's shooting accuracy under the panic was greatly reduced, several rows of guns shot out one after another, only a dozen Satsuma samurai were knocked down, and the shooting of the Satsuma samurai became more and more ferocious, and soon, the ground was full of dead and wounded Japanese soldiers!

"General! Let's go! ”

Philix led a few Germans to the side of the Great Mountain Rock, and Philix raised the Mauser rifle in his hand, "Bang! "Knock out a Satsuma samurai with a single shot. (To be continued......)

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