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Chapter 125 - Rumors of Slaughtering Cities
That tyrannical night once again fell into a state of fear, the streets were filled with madly dashing messenger soldiers and squads of guards searching the streets. All of the Japanese's gathering areas were surrounded by soldiers. Their fearful gazes looked out from the gaps between the fences and the wooden walls. No one knew what these Chinese and Glazed sphere aboriginals were planning to do.
”What do these Chinese and Ryukyu people want to do without sleep? ”It can't be that they're taking advantage of the night to attack us, right? I heard that the Chinese love to massacre cities …”
”It's possible. For the past few years, Long Hair's rebellion has been going on in the south of China. The Manchu army and Long Hair have slaughtered their way to and fro. Every time they capture a city, they have killed off all the civilians … ”So many Chinese died this time. Are they going to kill us for revenge …”
Japanese gathered and discussed softly, many people even started to secretly search for some self-defense weapons. There were no iron grade equipment, at least there were sharpened bamboo rods and wooden planks, if there really was nothing wrong with it then there would be.
Amongst all the Japanese s, the most terrified were of course the thousands of soldiers. Although they were divided and guarded, there were at least two hundred soldiers living together in every concentration camp.
”Lord Hua Shan, what are these Qing people trying to do?” Why is it so chaotic, could it be that they are going to kill us? ” Kiyoshi Yamamoto asked suspiciously.
Ever since the Japanese had unconditionally surrendered, Huashan Liyuan and the other two high ranked military generals were locked in a gathering area closest to the pier. Due to their status, the three of them did not participate in the hard labor. However, they were given only preferential treatment. The daily food treatment was the same as that of the hard labourers. Two porridge would be served at the end of each meal.
Huashan Liyuan still had a bit of the calmness of a senior warrior, so he disdained Kiyoshi Yamamoto's worries. ”Don't worry, Xiao Letian is still a scholar to the bone, from his books, I can read his soul. ”Of course he'll be ruthless to us, but he definitely won't do something as heartless as slaughtering a city …”
As he spoke till here, Huashan Liyuan looked coldly at Kiyoshi Yamamoto, and spoke with incomparable ridicule: ”He's not you, he needs to slaughter the weak to obtain pleasure. What he hopes to achieve in his heart is to conquer the strong, and even conquer a nation, a race …”
Kiyoshi Yamamoto was not in the mood to listen to birch elder's eight articles, nor was he in the mood to respond to his ridicule. At this time, he could only stick to the cracks of the window and anxiously look out. Right at this moment, an evil wind suddenly blew towards Kiyoshi Yamamoto's eyes, causing him to unconsciously pull back, a sword in his hand wrapped in white cloth suddenly came into contact with the wooden board, it was only an inch away from Kiyoshi Yamamoto's eyes.
”Enemy attack, huh? ”This is a ninja's shuriken …” Fortunately, Kiyoshi Yamamoto had dodged quickly, otherwise his left eye would have been crippled. Just as he was about to curse, he discovered that there were words written on the cloth strip on his shuriken.
Kiyoshi Yamamoto opened the cloth and only swept it with his eyes, his entire body was trembling. He suddenly smashed the wooden door and grabbed onto the thickest pillar, and actually used the strength in his arms to break the pillar into two.
”Darn it, I've invited the people here to kill Lord Sakamoto. They're going to slaughter the entire city …” ”When the soldiers come together, we can't be killed like sheep...” After which, he rushed out like the wind.
Huashan Liyuan and Zhu Zhongjingshang were both dumbstruck. They watched as the berserk Kiyoshi Yamamoto brandished his three-meter-long spear and roared everywhere in the camp. Some of the soldiers had already started to gather around him.
Zhu Zhongjingshang crawled his way over using both hands and feet, picked up the cloth strip, and looked, sure enough, it was scrawled in Japanese, 'Xiao Letian assassinated Sakamoto Ryoma, about to slaughter all of Japanese'. Zhu Zhongjingshang's heart instantly plummeted into the abyss. He turned around and was just about to speak, but didn't expect that the roof, which had been removed from the pillar, would suddenly collapse at this moment. The broken wooden board directly buried him inside.
”Someone, hurry up and save them …” Huashan Liyuan didn't care about the left or right of him, and anxiously smacked his head straight away. Forget it, let's save Bamboo Lord first. I really can't control that bastard Kiyoshi Yamamoto.
A group of Japanese citizens helped the birch elder dig Zhu Zhongjingshang out. Fortunately, the Japanese houses were made of wooden planks, so the damage was not too great. After Zhu Zhongjingshang was dug out, he spat out two mouthfuls of water and woke up.
”Master, quickly stop Kiyoshi Yamamoto … ”This is a conspiracy, this is too unreasonable …” ”Xiao Letian is now the Prime Minister of the Ryukyu, and all of the troops on the island are his subordinates. He had achieved all of his goals, and even obtained more than he expected.
”Benefits, everything is benefits. If Xiao Letian were to massacre the entire city, there would be no benefits at all, and he might even lose his hard-earned good situation. He is the Unparalleled National Scholars, the Master of Western Studies, how can he do such an unwise thing … There must be someone secretly instigating us. There must be some unknown power interfering … ”
Hearing that, Huashan Liyuan understood what was going on. The sturdy old general jumped up in anger and shouted, ”I am Huashan Liyuan, all the soldiers and citizens loyal to me, quickly gather here for me!”
Kiyoshi Yamamoto was the model warrior with an irritable personality, he was straightforward and even thought that he was a wise general. When he saw the fake intelligence that Xiao Letian wanted to slaughter the whole city, he believed it completely without any doubts. He didn't want to be a fish on the chopping block. Killing him without any resistance was just a dream.