Seeing that Iwasaki Yujia quarreled with Lin Yiqing as soon as he woke up, the people in the house were taken aback.

"Then please bring me my knife, and I'll let you know my determination." Iwasaki Yujia listened to Lin Yiqing's snatching, glared at him angrily, and said in a dumb voice, "Since you said that it is easy to puncture the heart, I will do what you say." ”

Lin Yiqing stared at Iwasaki Yujia's eyes, the sharp light seemed to pierce her, Iwasaki Yujia met his gaze without fear and looked at him.

"Mr. Hiranuma, excuse me, bring me my knife." Iwasaki Yujia looked at Lin Yiqing and said loudly.

When Kazuo Hiranuma heard Yuka Iwasaki's order, his body trembled, "No...... Miss, I can't ......."

"Sanae, bring me a knife!" Iwasaki hissed.

"No...... Miss ......" Sanae wept and shook her head.

Seeing that everyone didn't listen to their orders, Lin Yiqing's eyes seemed to be mocking, Iwasaki Yujia was even more angry, she suddenly stretched out her hand and pulled out her hairpin made of shells, wanting to use it to cut her wrist, but as soon as she raised her wrist, Lin Yiqing took away the hairpin.

She saw Lin Yiqing's eyes flash with unprecedented rage, and her heart tightened, and she didn't say anything to scold him.

Lin Yiqing looked at her steadily, slowly raised the hand holding the hairpin, and pinched it hard in front of her, and the hairpin instantly turned into tiny pieces and scattered from his hand.

"I'm not going to let you die." Lin Yiqing said word by word.

Iwasaki Yujia saw that Lin Yiqing's hand was too hard, and blood seeped out of the bandaged cloth belt. Thinking of the moment when he snatched the knife from his hand, he couldn't help but apologize and lowered his head.

"Sanae, I want you to take all the metal and sharp and hard things from Miss Iwasaki to prevent her from hurting herself." Lin Yiqing turned his head and ordered Sanae.

Sanae was stunned at first, but almost immediately subconsciously nodded in agreement: "Yes!" ”

"I want you to watch your young lady all day long, if she dies, or if she hurts herself, you will all die, do you understand?!" Lin Yiqing looked around at the Iwasaki family in the house. Snapped.

Everyone was stunned by Lin Yiqing's awe-inspiring killing intent. For a while, I forgot to answer.

"My lord, they said, this is what you want." A Satsuma samurai walked into the room, holding a wooden box in his hand. It was sent to Lin Yiqing.

Lin Yiqing opened the lid of the box and took a look. I saw that it contained some scraps of paper. Nodding quietly, he re-cloned the box.

"Iwasaki-san, you didn't say who forced you to commit suicide. But I'll find out whose it is. Lin Yiqing glanced at Youjia Iwasaki, who was silent, slowed down his tone, and said, "You take care of your injuries, I will come to see you." ”

Lin Yiqing got up as he spoke, and said to Kazuo Hiranuma: "You have to take care of Miss Iwasaki, don't forget what I said, I always do what I say." ”

"Yes! Please rest assured, General! Kazuo Hiranuma quickly bowed.

Lin Yiqing nodded, and took all the samurai and Dr. Thomas and others out of the room, Hiranuma Kazuo came out to see him off, Lin Yiqing took a few steps forward, and suddenly saw Iwasaki Yujia's sword on the ground.

A samurai stepped forward and leaned over to pick up both the sword and the ivory sheath, came to Lin Yiqing, presented it with both hands, Lin Yiqing took the sword, and saw that the handle sheath and the knife were still stained with the blood of himself and Iwasaki Yujia, and couldn't help frowning.

"Take it back and clean it up and give it to me." Lin Yiqing put the sword back into the hands of the samurai, and the samurai answered, wiped the blood from the sword, inserted it into the sheath, and then wrapped it in a white towel and put it away.

Lin Yiqing returned to the staff base camp with the others, he first handed over the scraps of paper in the wooden box to one of his subordinates to fight correctly, and then untied the cloth belt on the injured hand, and asked Dr. Thomas to help him clean the wound again.

Seeing Lin Yiqing injured, the people in the staff camp were very surprised, Lin Yiqing noticed everyone's surprised eyes, smiled and shook his head, meaning that it was not in the way, and everyone was relieved.

"I played the piano in vain and donated 500CC of blood, it's really fucking Lao Tzu's natural enemy!" Lin Yiqing remembered what happened just now, and secretly scolded in his heart, "I also injured my hand, if I use a gun, it will definitely affect the accuracy, what a loss!" Grandma's! ”

"Lord, are you injured?" Shiori Rutsuki, who had just returned from completing the task, heard that Lin Yiqing had injured her hand, so she hurried to check, "What's the matter?" Who got it? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, I was careless, I was cut by a knife." Lin Yiqing didn't want her to know about the embarrassing thing that had just happened, and said vaguely, "The wound has already been treated by Dr. Thomas, it doesn't matter." ”

"Who hurt the lord? Is it a tough enemy? Do I need to deal with it? Shiori Kisaragi asked eagerly.

"No, no, it's okay, it's already done." Lin Yiqing was startled when she heard Shiori Ruzuki's words, for fear that she would cut off Youjia Iwasaki's head, so she hurriedly said, "You have worked hard this time, take a rest!" Just sit with me. ”

Ruyue Shiori glanced at Lin Yiqing a little strangely, and sat down beside him according to Yan.

"It's been a hard journey, isn't it? Hurt? Lin Yiqing noticed that there were also blood stains on her body, and asked with concern.

"This time, a total of 22 enemy officers were sniped, including five major generals, which caused a great panic among the enemy troops. The morale of the enemy troops was extremely low. Shiori Kisaragi said, "Only three of us were killed and five were wounded. ”

"It's a shame to lose three more good friends!" Lin Yiqing couldn't help but sigh when he heard that three more ninja troops had been killed.

"Casualties in battle are common, and the lord doesn't need to worry too much." Ruyue Shiori was moved in her heart, but she still replied calmly, and her eyes fell on Lin Yiqing's injured hand again, "But the lord must take care of himself, and he can't take risks easily, if the lord makes a mistake, it will have a great impact on everyone." ”

"Yes, I assure you. Not an example! Lin Yiqing smiled, raised his hand to her, and made a gesture of assurance, and Shiori Rutsuki couldn't help but smile when she saw his appearance.

"Where's Kaori? Why didn't you see her with you? Lin Yiqing asked.

"She heard that the lord was wounded by a knife and had shed a lot of blood, and she is preparing ginseng and chicken soup that can replenish the blood of the lord, and it will be delivered in a while." Shiori Rutsuki replied with a smile.

Hearing the news of his injury became known to everyone so quickly, which made the Ruyue sisters so concerned, and secretly regretted this trip to Mitsubishi again.

This piano is played. What a loss!

At this time. A clerk walked in and handed in a note that had been dipped in glue. Just now, Lin Yiqing ordered him and a few clerks to spell together the confetti that were found in the garden of the Iwasaki family, and the work efficiency of these people was obviously very fast, and it would be completed in a while. and sent it to Lin Yiqing as soon as possible.

Lin Yiqing read the contents of this note. The brow furrowed again.

"Rather for the jade to be broken. Not for the tile? Who the hell is this? Forcing her to want to kill herself? Lin Yiqing muttered to himself with some annoyance.

"What does the lord say? But what does it have to do with today's hand injury? Ruyue Shiori stared at Lin Yiqing and asked.

Lin Yiqing couldn't stand her torch-like gaze, smiled bitterly, and told her what happened today. And he showed her the note in his hand.

He now realizes that having a subordinate who is too smart and capable, especially a woman, is also a very troublesome thing!

"It's obvious, it's a father's words to teach his daughter." Shiori Rutsuki finished reading the note and smiled coldly, "This father doesn't seem to have deep feelings for his daughter!" ”

Hearing Shiori Ruzuki's words, Lin Yiqing immediately understood who was going to force Iwasaki Yuka to commit suicide.

It turned out to be the famous Yataro Iwasaki!

Lin Yiqing thought of the human-powered submarine that Yataro Iwasaki wanted to dedicate to the Meiji government, and somehow, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What are you laughing at?" Shiori Kisaragi asked with a smile.

"I'm wondering what this Iwasaki-san will be like when he cries." Lin Yiqing said with a smile.

Just then, a samurai hurriedly walked in.

"Report to the general, there are enemy troops landing in the rear of Osaka, in the direction of Matsusaka, and there are a lot of soldiers." The warrior said and presented a battle report to Lin Yiqing.

Lin Yiqing's face turned pale, and he immediately took the battle report and read it.

Lin Yiqing quickly finished reading the battle report, he closed the battle report, got up and came to the map to watch it for a while, his expression returned to peace, and said to the warrior: "Tell everyone to come over." ”

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Ise Bay, Kumoidegawa Mountains, Satsuma Army Camp.

It is a small village close to the mountains of Tsumatsusaka Port, and the people who lived here were trying to inherit the traditional way of life of their parents and even their ancestors: working at sunrise, resting at sun, having children, dying and living, living a leisurely life, until one day, the arrival of war broke the peace.

In the first few days of fighting between the Satsuma army and the government army, the fishermen here were terrified, but there was nowhere to go, and the village chief had already led people to the county seat to ask for help, but they had not returned, and since then the place has been occupied by a small group of Satsuma samurai, who have not forcibly recruited the villagers to work for them, but have asked them to provide them with food and fresh water.

The Satsuma people took the trouble to survey the terrain, mark the location of the high ground of the river, forcibly recruit the local people's boats to the sea to measure the depth of the water, and later a detachment of Satsuma troops came in, and they built fortifications on the high ground behind the fishing village, and forbade the local residents to move around here for no reason. They also built grass huts on the wasteland, and soon many sick and wounded government soldiers were sent here, and some doctors treated them here, gave them some strange medicines, and cut off many people's hands, feet, arms and legs. The severed arms and stumps were piled up on top of each other, making them more than a person tall, much to the horror of the locals.

In short, this ancient and desolate little village suddenly became more lively than ever.

As soon as it was light, Captain Kihachi Kono, who was resting in his private room, was awakened by the sound of a sentry knocking on the door.

The sentries were two young soldiers from a low-ranking samurai family, their faces were already blue, their lips trembled with nervousness, and they stammered to report to the commander: "...... The enemy is coming, coming, the sea and the sea are in a situation, and the situation is ......"

"Do not be afraid. Come on, come into the house and tell me what is happening at sea? Seeing their frightened and cowardly looks, Kihachi Kono didn't get angry, but asked with a pleasant face.

The two soldiers trembled and spoke, and it took a while for Kono Kihachi to figure out the situation. It turned out that the two soldiers who were on duty at the observation post at night accidentally fell asleep, and in the second half of the night they were suddenly awakened by a noise, and they listened attentively, in addition to the sound of wind and rain and the waves crashing on the shore, there was also a faint sound of sudden and clattering of mechanical ships on the sea. Due to the dark sky and heavy rain. I can't figure out exactly how many enemies are coming from the sea. They rushed back in a panic to report.

After listening to the report of the two, Kihachi Kono frowned.

The commanders did not specify that they were to defend the coastline and resist enemy landings, and their task was to rescue the wounded and transform them into personnel capable of fighting again as soon as possible. Then send them back to the troops. There are already 200 Satsuma soldiers at this recuperation base. Or two hundred soldiers recuperating from their wounds. They had just undergone initial treatment and had not yet had time to re-prepare for battle. In addition, there were about a hundred seriously wounded government troops here.

Kihachi Kono paced back and forth in the room a few times, and the two soldiers stared nervously at their commander.

The problem is that now the enemy situation is detected at sea. He couldn't sit idly by. From the point of view of the military situation, this is considered the rear of the Satsuma Army, and there is a squadron of Satsuma Army guarding the coastal heights on the side of the base, equipped with artillery. A brigade was stationed in a village more than a dozen kilometers away on the right flank, and Iga Castle and Najang Castle were the main forces. It is far from the location of the main force of the Satsuma Army, and it is not suitable for landing on the sea, but if the government army chooses to venture deeper here, even if their strength is only a few hundred people, it will pose a great threat to the Satsuma Army.

Time was pressing, and Kihachi Kono had to make a decision in time. On the basis of his previous experience in fighting with government troops, he was determined to take the initiative and strike a preemptive strike on the premise of ruling out the possibility of a large-scale landing by the enemy. While sending a message to the main force, he urgently assembled the troops, and after a brief mobilization, the morale of the more than 100 Satsuma troops who had recovered their physical strength and were able to fight was high, and they were determined to deal a severe blow to the enemy who landed with excellent fighting.

The team runs and sets off towards the sea.

As the sky began to lighten, the light rain that had been falling at night stopped, and the fields outside the village began to appear hazy lumps. The sky was covered with thick clouds, the sea breeze was still blowing violently, and a flock of black seabirds were startled, and flew into the depths of the dense forest with a croaking and wailing.

When the calm and composed Kihachi Kono led the team to the beach in concealment, carefully crawling in front of a rocky slope and raising the binoculars to observe the enemy's situation, he was suddenly stunned and shocked by an unexpected spectacular scene in front of him.

A group of Japanese government warships and transports anchored in the sea, among which was a large ironclad ship with three huge turrets stood out.

On the nearby sea, small boats with Japanese flags were like busy fishing boats during the fishing flood, carrying the enemy's infantry and weapons up the narrow shore in a steady stream.

The black-pressed government soldiers are landing in an orderly manner!

Unfortunately, the worst-case scenario was faced with more than 100 wounded soldiers armed with rifles: not a contingent of several hundred men, but a huge landing army.

The cunning enemy chose a bad weather and suddenly made a big landing in the bay in an attempt to disintegrate the rear positions of the Satsuma army in one fell swoop!

Looking at the landing procession, which was full of thousands of people, Kihachi Kono gasped.

At the moment of the great enemy, as a Satsuma samurai and the captain of the fifth squad of the fourth brigade, he had no reason to retreat quietly, not to mention that the main force needed time to prepare for battle. Kihachi Kono sighed heavily, and he divided the wounded into two teams, assault and cover, and sent someone to report to the commander, and he led this small force quietly to move into the woods on the coast, where he was ready to stop the enemy.

Soon, gunshots rang out.

After several hours of heroic fighting, in which pebbles hit stones or moths to the fire, the landing of government troops was interrupted and temporarily interrupted, and the Satsuma officers, who were mainly wounded, bought precious time for the main Satsuma army to enter the battle. By noon, the gunfire had subsided, and the small unit had been wiped out, and Kihachi Kono, who had not recovered from a wound in his right arm, was forced into a muddy pond by government soldiers and killed himself with a knife.

On this day, the powerful advance of the government army swept the entire bay, razing the small villages, bases, and small strongholds of the Satsuma Army, and began to march into the hinterland.

"The landing force was coming ashore and was attacked only by a small force of the enemy. The enemy's offensive was thwarted, and all were annihilated. ”

On the ironclad ship "Fuso," Second Lieutenant Eiya Iwasaki, who is in charge of liaison and coordination between the Navy and the Army, reported to Rear Admiral Yoshishin Inoue.

"Good." Inoue Ryoshin nodded, looked at the army soldiers who were wading ashore one after another, and said, "You urge, you want the army to go ashore as soon as possible." We need to hurry, otherwise, once we are attacked by enemy ships, we will be in trouble. ”

"Yes! If the Hiei and the Kongo come together, our ship will have a hard battle! Captain Tsuboi said worriedly.

"It doesn't matter, if they come together, it gives us a good chance to eliminate them in one fell swoop." Inoue Yoshishin said confidently and looked at several warships on the sea not far away.

"Do you think these mine-striking ships will be an important force for sinking enemy ironclads?" Tsuboi followed his gaze and saw the three "underwater pole mineboats" bought from the United States, and asked. (To be continued......)

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