Miserable!

Tokyo in October 1892 was completely enveloped in a dreary, more precisely, miserable atmosphere. As the capital of Japan, www.biquge.info is falling, or about to fall, and although the sound of cannons is not yet heard in the city, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time, and as the hands turn, every minute counts down to the city.

Japan is about to lose!

Just like the Japanese in other places, after the end of the "Kanto Campaign", in the face of the burning and looting of the Japanese territory by the Lu country and the army, the people of Tokyo transferred their family property to the countryside, and even many girls fled to the countryside, and the newspapers also published some self-seeking methods - to escape, to flee to the countryside.

The faces of the men facing defeat showed obvious sorrow and frustration, while the women were expressionlessly wrapped in fat kimonos, which looked extremely ill-fitting, and there was no feminine beauty at all, and even their hair was cut short, and the women disguised themselves as men to avoid the Lu Guo and the army chasing women in the city, which was completely according to the teachings of the newspapers.

For many years, the Japanese have been talking about the red-haired, blue-eyed "Yangyi", although they keep saying that they want to be civilized and reformed, they want to learn from the West, and even want to break away from Asia and join Europe and become a part of the "Yangyi", but in fact, those red-haired and blue-eyed "Yangyi" are still brutal bandits in their eyes, and they are still "ghost animals" who do not know civilization and only know barbarism. In the past, the threat of the "foreign ghost animal" was only pressure, but now this "ghost animal" has stepped on the land of Japan, and has even occupied most of the country's territory.

Most of the country was occupied. Tens of millions of people have fallen into the hands of the enemy, enslaved by red-haired, blue-eyed "foreign ghost animals", and not only that. These "ghost animals" are still heading towards Tokyo, how can ordinary Japanese people be afraid?

And in this panic, the news from all over the country also made them realize that the Lu people did live up to the name of "robbers", and those Lu soldiers would rush into the homes of the people at any time, snatch the Buddha statues, Bodhisattvas, and even the old woman's worthless jewelry, which would also become treasures in the eyes of the Lu soldiers. For those who show up their country, their impression of Japan is probably still Marco Polo's country of gold. Although this is fictional, this does not prevent them from collecting various loot on the battlefield.

Of course, in addition to the valuable and worthless things, in Japanese families, it is common to have a silk kimono that every woman should have. It is also the target of their robbery. What frightened the Japanese even more was the desire of the country and the army for women.

Perhaps in response to the phrase "the country is ruined and the people are cheap", wherever the country and the army go, they not only burn, kill and loot all kinds of evil, but also shout loudly: "fraukomm (women come)". Then collect women from house to house, from underage girls to middle-aged and above women, and carry out collective QJ and LJ. Many women have died tragically due to the atrocities, and many more have committed suicide because they could not bear the humiliation.

Some women committed suicide because they didn't want to fall into the hands of Lu Guo and Jun, and some killed their own daughters in humiliation. There are also school girls committing mass suicide. In the cities of the occupied zone, every night. There were scattered drunken soldiers who would block the road and rob pedestrians and chase women, and sometimes they would break into people's houses with guns and rob at will, robbing everything they thought was valuable.

When news of the "atrocities committed by the invading army" reached Tokyo, instead of making the citizens of Tokyo feel the same hatred, it made the people of Tokyo even more frightened, and in order to survive, people's brains began to faint, and they fled from the city in a frenzy, and many of them fled to the mountains to escape the brutal Lu Guo and the army, for whom fleeing may be the best option, and people are always selfish in the face of danger.

In the midst of this chaos and panic, Tokyo, a once prosperous city, was increasingly deserted by the flight of hundreds of thousands of people, and in this desertion, the last remaining Japanese armed forces, the Guards Division and six other temporarily conscripted divisions, were building defenses in Tokyo, and these Japanese soldiers from all over the world, despite the lack of guns and ammunition, and even many had to use primitive front-loading guns as weapons, they vowed to carry forward the spirit of "bushido" and defend the emperor to the death.

The emperor is still in Tokyo!

Perhaps for these "loyal" soldiers, this is the greatest comfort, and the only spiritual comfort that supports them. Although the emperor's position in the hearts of the people was not very important, at this time, a little comfort was at least better than no consolation.

The emperor did not escape from Tokyo, on the bank of the moat of the turquoise water circulation in Chuka Ward of Tokyo, the majestic Japanese Imperial Palace is covered by lush trees, which is the heart of the Japanese Empire, and the so-called "eternal lineage" of the emperor lives here, the lush cypress trees are exceptionally green, and the Japanese soldiers who are on guard can be seen on the moat under the double bridge outside the palace wall, but these soldiers in shabby clothes do not see much spirit on their faces, and they are also powerful and airless when they walk.

And whenever there are passers-by who leave in a hurry with a package on their backs, their eyes will reveal a trace of yearning, even longing, human nature is always selfish, at this time, even the will of these guards who had sworn to protect the emperor is also wavering and swaying.

Whether to flee or stay is a question for everyone who stays in Tokyo at this time. Again, for Japan's Emperor Meiji, it was a problem.

Within the palace walls, on the gravel road in the lush garden, Emperor Meiji was pacing slowly and distraughtly, at this time he had taken off his military uniform and changed into a Japanese-style black kimono, for Meiji, who advocated total Westernization and the restoration of civilization, in the past, even in private, he would wear a suit instead of a kimono, and it was through this behavior that he showed his attitude and determination to the courtiers around him, but now when Japan faced the invasion of the West, he wore a kimono, like many Japanese, He longed for the arrival of the "kamikaze" in his heart to help Japan defeat the terrible and brutal Lu Guo and the army, and he also prayed for the officers and soldiers in the army to be as loyal to him as the samurai in the novel. Use their bravery to defeat the Lukons.

But all this is just a desire, just a prayer, a failure!

Since the outbreak of the war. The people of Lu won victory after victory, and after the end of the "Kanto Campaign", although he was unwilling to face the reality, as the emperor, he also understood that defeat was inevitable, and it was because of this that his heart was very irritated, and the clouds in his heart would gather more and more.

It's leaving. Or stay here?

Meiji didn't think that he needed to think about this and leave. Where can you go? Maybe you can go to Kyushu, maybe ...... But what about Kyushu? Now Lucia is going to take over all of Japan!

It's all those ministers, if they had accepted the ultimatum in the first place, how could there be such a problem!

At the beginning on the question of whether to accept Lucia's ultimatum. Emperor Meiji had always wanted to accept an ultimatum. In exchange for Japan's survival, many ministers refused, hoping to maintain the national system, believing that Japan still had the strength to fight, and that through Japanese resistance, better conditions could be obtained.

After nearly 30 years of civilization and restoration, Japan's small body has grown a little muscle that has given people some courage. But in the end, it turned out that Japan was weak, although it had grown some muscles. But in the face of a Western power like Lucia, it is still vulnerable.

Now it looks. Everything is like a joke, and what is even more ridiculous is that Japan, which thinks it has some muscles, sent itself to the guillotine with its own hands when it tried to defend itself with that muscle.

"What a senseless resistance!"

After a sigh, Meiji silently closed his eyes, facing failure after failure, in a trance state of not thinking about tea and not wanting to eat, the appearance of Emperor Meiji, whose meal volume was less than one-third of the usual, looked a little bad, especially in the last half a month, after the Lu people resumed the offensive again, sometimes it was just a rough meal of a few bites of rice for a whole day.

"Hey, I knew I really shouldn't have resisted, everything is over......"

Meiji said to himself, although he had advocated an ultimatum, but there was still a hint of luck in his heart, as a ruler with ambition to bring Japan into the ranks of great powers, albeit only in name, so he did not want Japan to lose a large part of the country in his own hands.

If you bet, there is at least a glimmer of hope, if you don't bet, then Japan will be all over, Lucia is a big country in the West, but it is a weak country in the West, they don't have a strong navy, even if they have the world's most powerful army called the steamroller, but what can they do? How did they get their troops to Japan?

Once upon a time, in the eyes of the generals, this was Japan's greatest dependence. And whenever they thought of the defeat of the Mongols in Kamakura across the continent under the kamikaze, the generals even felt that Japan was blessed by the kamikaze.

But the Lu people did it, they transported hundreds of thousands of troops to the Far East and to the land of Japan, and everything was already doomed! Since the landing of the Lu people in Japan, in fact, the fate of Japan has been sealed. As for the kamikaze that the people were expecting, it never showed its existence.

So much so that now Meiji even vaguely feels that it is because of the blind westernization of more than 20 years that Japan is no longer blessed by the gods, after all, the gods are Eastern, not Western, of course, such voices were originally only circulated among the people, but now Meiji has even accepted this view to some extent, which may be a manifestation of despair - after the hope is completely shattered, one can only hope for those illusory things.

After ...... the "Battle of Kwantung", although we gritted our teeth and expanded our armaments, it was easy to form 20 divisions, and these divisions and regiments were invariably short of weapons, and due to the blockade of the Lu Navy, we even had to rely on smuggling weapons to arm these divisions...... And compared to Lucia's 40 divisions in our country, Lucia's army is more than twice that of Japan, you must know Lucia's ......"

"Let's negotiate! While there is still a little opportunity! ”

Meiji, who was caught up in the quarrel in the Imperial Council, was distraught by the endless quarrel when a soft sound of footsteps came from behind him, and he turned to look, and a military attache bowed to him.

"Prime Minister Ito asks to see His Majesty!"

Hirobumi Ito is here, what else does he want to say? At the end of last year, in the face of the reality of continuous losses on the front, Ito Hirobumi, who was reappointed as prime minister, has always advocated negotiations compared to the agitation of others, but the negotiations he advocated were not accepted by Lucia.

But in the face of the refusal of the Lu people, Ito was not discouraged, and in the end it was he who single-handedly contributed to the "Battle of Kanto". His attempt to win diplomatic mediation through a military victory proved his judgment that at least there was a glimmer of hope for a diplomatic solution in Japan, but this hope was dashed by the defeat of the battle.

Well, that battle exhausted the last bit of Japanese vitality, and since then, Japan has no strength to stop the attack of the Lu country and the army, although it is superficial, and now it has twenty divisions, but these divisions that do not even have rifles are completely meaningless, or useless at all.

Do you want the soldiers to use their swords to stop the attack of the Lu people?

Even so, Aritomo and others in Yamayama County still stubbornly believe that they must continue to fight, even if they are all killed in battle, they must let the world see the pride of the Japanese, but what about after the pride?

There is no more Japan! Who will remember Japan then?

Compared with the stubbornness of Aritomo and others in Yamaguchi, Ito is undoubtedly extremely realistic, and he advocates immediate surrender, taking advantage of the fact that Japan still has a little capital, and surrender may be able to fight for better conditions. But as the king of a country, how can he surrender? But is there any other option than surrender?

"Oh, I got it!"

Nodding, Emperor Meiji walked in the direction of the Audience Hall, the so-called Audience Hall is where the Emperor receives foreign ministers in private, unlike the Minister in the Palace, in the Audience Hall, he can ask some questions more directly. As he walked, Meiji couldn't help but think of another question.

What kind of news will Ito bring this time?

Wouldn't it be good news? For example, the British are determined to intervene in this matter? For example, the people of the United States, in short, although they have despaired of the war, it does not mean that Meiji will completely give up hope, at least in his heart, there is still that glimmer of hope, perhaps, all this hope is the fundamental reason why he persevered.

Thinking of this, Meiji couldn't help but speed up his pace, so that the whole person seemed a little anxious, it must be some good news...... (To be continued.) )