Chapter Eighty-Nine: Chaos in Seoul (4) Fire
Yang Hao and Ding Weifen stood side by side in front of an ordinary Chinese shop, both of them changing their clothes. Ding Weifen and others, including the North Korean civilians and Confucian scholars who were mixed with the demonstrations, all broke their braids, tied them into buns, changed into long shirts on their right sides, and restored their Han family attire.
Those peasants-born GIs didn't feel anything, but only the need to carry out their tasks. But Ding Weifen, these scholars, burst into tears one by one. They all have Han orthodoxy hidden in their blood and bones, but now they have been resurrected in a foreign land.
Ding Weifen refused to take it off when he put it on, he vowed that he would rather not return to his homeland, but also keep this outfit. For two hundred and fifty years, the Han family was not dressed in the eastern land, and this humiliation and helplessness were buried in their flesh and spirit like a pile of fire, and once ignited, they could not be extinguished.
Yang Hao had difficulty understanding their emotions. In his opinion, as long as the cultural spirit in his heart is not extinguished, it is really not particularly important what head shape he maintains and what clothes he wears. In today's world, which is moving towards the rules of matter and machinery, if you want to maintain your own civilization, you must first resist the invasion and crushing of foreign invasions, distinguish priorities, and not fall behind.
The crowd of people waving white flags shouted slogans in front of them, and in the drizzle, the reception to the Japanese Legation and the Joint Marine Corps Brigade Headquarters was jammed. The corners of Yang Hao's lips smiled, and he said happily: "I didn't expect the North Koreans to be so easy to agitate, I thought I would have to pay a few more lives." ”
Ding Weifen couldn't hide the excitement on his face, stared at the front with burning eyes and said: "The spirit of resistance in Confucian culture has never disappeared. Those who do not understand this thoroughly will inevitably be counterattacked with unprecedented fierceness once they touch their bottom line. North Koreans have a strong sense of self-esteem, but their tolerance and endurance are too poor, and they have not started to smash and rob, which can be regarded as very restrained. ”
Yang Hao agreed. In the history he knew, in the black-and-white world formed by the Confucian culture and the traditional civilization composed of hundreds of schools of thought as the "four olds" were broken, an unprecedented paranoid and impatient mentality spread throughout the entire nation, throughout the spiritual world of several generations, and countless people lived in misery in the repeated tossing and turning after the guide.
He couldn't understand it before, but now he sees from the North Koreans that under the painful torture of falling into the bottomless abyss and not finding a way out, people will become hysterical, crazy and impulsive.
This kind of affection can be fully utilized. Yang Hao said coldly: "Next, we must ensure that they maintain this fanaticism and irrationality, and we must completely tear off the hypocritical mask of the Japanese, and force out the brutality and bestiality in their bones!" To warn a nation, there must be sacrifices, and I am more willing to shed blood than our own compatriots! ”
Ding Weifen has no objection to this. Revolution will inevitably come at a price, and awakening a sleeping nation is an incomparably arduous task. In the process, with every step forward, there are thousands of bones to pave the way, and now, at least those who died are not their own family members.
He nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, we will ensure that the situation is getting more and more urgent, and it will continue until it completely erupts!" ”
Disguise the ronin, buy the dead, drum up the populace, distribute leaflets, create rumors, and provide equipment. The action team headed by Ding Weifen and Xu Yanzhuo, under the convenient conditions provided by Yang Hao, operated smoothly and naturally, and there were no obstacles at all.
Outside the Japanese legation, the Confucian youths who carried the corpse of An Zhenjie around the main streets of Seoul returned to the door, and the crowd following behind them changed from thousands to more than 10,000.
Countless angry people held umbrellas to shield them from the wind and rain, and a large number of benches came out of the shops and lined up on the streets, forming a dozen layers of encirclement inside and outside, and the water around the legation was impassable!
I don't know which old man donated his best coffin, sorted out the appearance of An Zhenjie's corpse and placed it in, and then erected a huge funeral shed, which was blocked at the door of the legation. Want to get in and out? Unless you step over a corpse!
On the periphery of the Ichikawa Hotel, the crowd is surrounded by a resurgence of people, and it is extremely difficult not to say who it is, even if a fly wants to fly out!
Keisuke Otori was furious in his heart, even if he knew that there were too many cats in this matter, he was helpless for a while if he wanted to break the game. He grabbed the phone, and the signal was cut off. He was going to send a telegram, and the line was pinched! He was going to send someone out to deliver the letter, but he couldn't even get past the door! Even if you want to climb over the wall, you will see that on the adjacent roof, there are people staring at them with round eyes, and even more, the angry people start to tear down the wall! I'm going to take a brick and trap them alive in the middle!
Keisuke Otori is really scared!
In half a day, the main force of the second army will arrive. The 11th Wing of the Prefecture led by Yoshimasa Oshima, with more than 1,000 troops, set out from Incheon at 3 a.m. and arrived by 3 p.m. According to the plan, he himself had to go out to meet and settle down. Now they're cut off, and with the behavior of those guys in the Army, God knows what stupid things they can do!
He could be sure that it was a conspiracy, but it was hard to tell who was behind it and where their goal was!
Keisuke Otori pinned his hopes on the self-consciousness of the Joseon royal court, but King Yi Hee was a good person, and Concubine Min, who really had the final say, was tripped up by a mysterious letter. She, who has always had a bad impression of the Japanese, felt creepy about what the letter said that the Japanese wanted to kill her, elect Dayuanjun to the throne as a puppet, and control the future of Korea as a Japanese vassal state! For the sake of her own power and her own life, she would rather continue to insist on cooperating with the Qing State than see the Japanese army invade!
Until the afternoon, the Japanese who had entered the city were unable to deliver a single message. The Combined Army team stationed at Mt. Mumi noticed that something was wrong and sent people to plan to communicate, but the North Korean people blocked the way. It was delayed until the main force of the 11th Wing reached the left bank of the Han River, and the helpless officials of the Korean Foreign Affairs Department went to stop them, telling them that because the previous Japanese troops had caused great trouble, they could not come again!
The troops led by Major General Yoshimasa Oshima were tired and thirsty, and none of the planned responders appeared, but when he saw the North Korean officials with sad faces, when he heard that the legation was besieged, he immediately became furious and shouted: "Baga! It must be you arrogant Koreans who have brutally hijacked the envoys of the Great Japanese Empire! This kind of thing will never be tolerated! ”
He immediately ordered the vanguard of more than 1,000 men to force their way into Seoul, brandishing their spears and shouting loudly, believing that they would scare off the cowardly Koreans. Unexpectedly, at this time, the people of Seoul had been infected by the fanatical atmosphere, and when they saw the cowardice of the Japanese in the city, they felt that they actually did not dare to do anything.
Oshima Yoshimasa's face was hideous, and the soldiers rushed inside. In the midst of the chaos, suddenly a few crisp gunshots rang out, and several North Korean civilians fell to the ground in response!
"Ahh The Japanese army shot and killed! ”
"Damn bastards, they're going to kill us all!"
"The Japanese are going to forcibly occupy Seoul! They want to exterminate North Korea, and we must not agree to it! ”
Dozens of angry young men pounced with their bare hands and fought with the Japanese soldiers! Some of them were obviously professionally trained, and they called a black shot, and they didn't say anything about their fists, and they coldly showed a two-foot-long short stick from their sleeves, and they smashed the heads and blood of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers on the heads and covered their faces!
At this time, the Japanese soldiers, full of enthusiasm for opening up the territory and expanding the territory, they didn't care whether their actions would bring serious consequences, after seeing the blood, they saw countless fanatical people rolling up their sleeves and rushing up one after another, and finally someone couldn't hold it back and shouted: "Let's all die!" "With a wave of the handle, fire brazenly!
"Bang bang! Smack! ”
Crisp gunshots erupted from Asan Pier and spread quickly all the way to the city! Once the Japanese soldiers with evil fire got out of control, they were like crazy wild horses unrestrained, easily killing the civilians at the door, and more than 1,000 people swept away along the streets like a tide!
"The Japanese devils have come in!"
The cry of terror spread all the way from the city gate and spread throughout the city in the blink of an eye. The Confucian youths who were besieging and meditating were incredulous at first, but soon they found that the crowd behind them was in a mess like a pot, and gunshots like popping beans rose one after another from all directions, and miserable howls rushed into the sky!
"They...... How dare you do this! ”
An Chengyu's eyes widened, and he stood on a high stool to look at this spectacular scene, stunned!
That's not right! The script in his mind shouldn't have turned out to be like this! The purpose of the Japanese is to control Korea, and before that, they have to occupy the moral high ground, and they must tolerate the resistance of themselves and others, how can it be that in less than a day, they began to fight each other!
The situation could not be thought about carefully, and the citizens of Hancheng, who seemed to be full of righteous indignation, were actually weaker than sheep, and in the face of bayonets and muzzles, they did not need to threaten much, and they scattered in a hurry!
Keisuke Otori was on the second floor of the legation when he saw a group of soldiers raising their bayonets and stabbing an angry citizen fiercely, so he covered his face helplessly and sighed loudly: "It's not easy to do anything now!" Bastard's army, can't you restrain some? Now there is no more reason to say! ”
In the plan, the Qing people were fooled to delay time, until the deployment of troops was completely completed, and now it is completely unbeatable! As long as the news reaches the Qing Dynasty, no matter how much Li Hongzhang hesitates, he can only quickly send a large number of troops! This is much earlier than expected!
Yang Hao was also taken aback! He hadn't expected the change to be so drastic. The mania of the Japanese is even more excessive than he imagined, this is clearly the rhythm of breaking the jar and breaking it!
He hurriedly withdrew with a group of backbones to the courtyard of the secret stronghold in the city, and more than 100 soldiers who entered the city changed into the black uniforms of the Japanese army, and most of them carried imitation Murata 18-year-old 11mm caliber single-shot rifles in their hands.
Their target is the Yunhyeon Palace, where the father of the king of the dynasty, Li Xi, lives!
PS: The ball was really bad, but the atmosphere was good. At the end of the drink, Nima experienced drinking beer in a soup pot for the first time! Comrades, Shandong will have to be careful in the future!