This conspiracy was controlled by Gong Cheng from beginning to end. He used water dogs to establish contact with the Manchu and Qing spies, and then paid attention to the movements of people in the entire city every day. It can be said that Gong Cheng had a little bit of a sense of the morale of the people of Ryukyu. Perfected his plan.
Don't call Jin Changsen stupid. Gong Cheng has long understood that Jin Changsen is just a jester who worships strength and has no integrity. Jin Changsen is not a rebel. Jin Changsen's loyalty to the Ryukyu Kingdom is unquestionable, but he just wants to maintain it. The king of Ryukyu, Zuo, tried his best to prevent Ryukyu from being destroyed.
With King Shangtai above his head and the people of Ryukyu at his feet, he can maintain the wealthy life of the Jin family for hundreds of years. As for whether the Japanese or the French rule Ryukyu, even if it is occupied by Xiao Letian, it will not matter to him. It doesn't matter anymore.
In the eyes of these civil servants, cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world has become a hierarchy of interests. They must first satisfy their own and family interests before considering the country and the world. Once there is a conflict between patriotism and love for family, If there is a conflict, they will definitely abandon the country as soon as possible and protect their home.
People like Gong Cheng are even more extreme. He can even abandon the entire family for his own benefit. He throws away four and a half of the five ethics and only has a concubine who loves him. This kind of person knows Jin Changsen and others too well. It's easy to fool them.
The civil servants of Ryukyu have been captured, and the remaining generals represented by General Cai Hao are the generals. Gong Cheng admits that the new army of Ryukyu is very powerful, but this power is not without flaws. Classes are inherently contradictory.
These contradictions were suppressed when Xiao Letian was here, but when Xiao Letian left Ryukyu and the war broke out, no one could suppress these contradictions.
Coupled with the rumor that "Xiao Letian is dead" that Molière had spread before, this made countless people with ulterior motives ready to take action, and Shimazu Dairo was the most obvious one.
The generals were afraid of rebellion. Under Gong Cheng's instigation, first of all, there was a estrangement between the Yulin Army and the New Army. After all, Cai Mao was a military general who came from Shuri City. He still had to stand by King Shangtai's side at the critical moment.
It was not until the end, when Shimazu Dalang betrayed him at the scene of the assassination, that Gong Cheng realized that his plan was so perfect, and the Ryukyu army had already been torn apart.
All the civil servants and generals have fallen into the trap, and the only ones left are Shang Tai, the symbol of royal power, and Fan Lian, the business elite. Gong Cheng also has a way to win these two last fortresses.
When the two were most hesitant, Gong Cheng dropped the bombshell that Xiao Letian was still alive. This old traitor had a very good understanding of human nature. He knew that the young King Shangtai was at the age of worshiping heroes, so he charged at him. Just shouting to Shangfu can prove it.
There is also the old shopkeeper Fan Lian, who broke up his family just for his daughter's marriage. How can such a person not protect his calf? As long as he uses the lives of his daughter and son-in-law as bait, there is no way he will not fall for it.
When King Shang Tai and Fan Jian both nodded in agreement to the peace talks, Gong Cheng knew that his vicious plan was impeccable.
This conspiracy seemed simple, but after analyzing Gong Cheng's every step of the strategy, people realized that this conspiracy was actually not simple at all.
Now, everything has come to the moment of unveiling. There is a chaos on the auditorium. The table where the contract is placed is overturned by the soldiers in red. The unsigned agreements are flying in the sky like snowflakes.
Gong Cheng looked at the chaotic Ryukyu monarchs and ministers, and then looked at the useless peace agreement. He felt as if he had drunk three glasses of wine.
"Your Majesty, don't struggle any more. Now you are surrounded by both French troops and Shimadzu samurai. You have been surrounded. The Imperial Forest Army who threw the rat weapon did not dare to make trouble... As for the new troops, hahaha, they have been captured by you. I drove them into the mountains with my own hands, and the water far away cannot dissolve the fire close..."
King Shangtai was no longer in the mood to curse. He yelled at Lin Yuanmiao who was slapping his mouth, "That's enough. It's not embarrassing enough. No matter how stupid Jin Changsen is, he is still an important minister of our Ryukyu Kingdom. I will take the blame for the trouble he caused." .”
"Your Majesty." Countless veterans burst into tears. They had never thought that their king had such a heroic side.
Cai Hao covered his bleeding wrist and used his body to block the bayonet from the opposite side. The ferocious-looking French soldiers received orders to capture them alive, so they did not launch an attack.
On the front is a forest of French bayonets. General Bruce has already joined Molière. Behind the monarch and on the flanks are the samurai regiments led by Shimazu Dairo. The sharp swords are facing them, and each one has a terrifying face. After putting it down, no one could clearly see the expression behind the face pocket.
As the monarchs and ministers crowded together, the crowd became smaller and smaller. In the end, everyone was crowded together. For the first time in hundreds of years, the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers were so united. At that moment, no one had the slightest dissent.
"Surrender, you have no chance..." Molière yelled at King Shangtai and pointed outside the viewing platform. It was only now that King Shangtai and the others realized that the storm outside was getting stronger.
"Line up... thrust..." The second French army formation strictly followed the general's order. They turned around and stabbed in like a forest of bayonets. Behind them was originally the French third formation, but at this time The one hundred French troops had long since turned into a torrent, rushing against the Royal Guards' military formation and heading straight towards the dock pier where they had just landed.
Originally, the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers did not care much about this military parade. The peace agreement they were forced to sign was not a military parade after a wild victory. The imperial army just sent out more than 200 people for a formality. No one thought about giving France What a nice background for a photo of a person.
It was precisely under the influence of this lazy mentality that the Guardsmen who followed the French army were not only small in number, but also did not tighten the fighting string in their hearts. Under the sudden attack of the French army, no one had time. reaction.
The French Third Army Corps cut a thick blunt angle from the Guards formation behind them with one thrust. The long bayonets stabbed their bodies with blood splattering everywhere. The strongest French veterans harvested their lives like a herd of strong buffaloes.
"Breakthrough...the entire army broke through...crash over..." The arrogant force knocked dozens of corpses of the Royal Forest Army into the sea.
The Third Army had already broken through, and at this time, the bayonet formations of the Second Army were chasing after them. Rows of sharp bayonets began to thrust under the unified command of the officers. The Ryukyu Guardsmen were like peeling onions, layer by layer. Go to death.
"Beasts...you bunch of liars..." The Guardsman soldier with a bayonet in his heart grasped the bayonet pierced into his body with both hands. He pressed down with all his strength. He just wanted to break it with his own body.
Blood spattered out from between his fingers, and his life and strength gradually disappeared with the splattered blood. The curses became weaker and weaker. The French soldier on the opposite side didn't know what mercy was at all. He twisted his wrist hard and raised his feet. He kicked the body to the ground.
"Bah... you vile Asian monkey, die."
"Everyone has... thrust..." The proud officer was too lazy to do it himself. He just gave orders in the military formation, and saw dozens of bayonets rushing in again. The Imperial Guard's military formation felt like it was being shocked by electricity, and was peeled off alive. A layer of flesh and blood.
All of this was too sudden. From the time General Bruce issued the charge order with a sword to the time when the Third Army broke through the Imperial Guard formation and the Second Army began to massacre the Ryukyu soldiers, it actually only took three or four minutes.
For the Ryukyu people who were watching the ceremony not far away, these three minutes were like a nightmare from which they could never wake up. Time seemed to have stopped at that moment.
"No..." It wasn't until the roar of mountains and tsunamis sounded that everyone woke up from a dream. Only then did they realize that the so-called peace agreement was just a big scam.
"Beasts... liars... fight with them." The crowd rushed forward with one heart. At this time, the soldiers who were blocking the people also went crazy. They turned around and charged at the French army with their rifles in hand.
"Kill them... these liars... Heaven, earth, how can such beasts live in heaven and earth..." People's hearts were full of hatred, and even more filled with the sense of shame after being deceived.
"We, lard, have been deceived, so why did we believe these foreign devils... The Prime Minister has long told us that weak countries have no diplomacy, and all the hypocrisy of the Western pirate civilization cannot be believed, unless you can fight with him Form a community of interests.”
"I hate it so much. Why am I so confused? The Prime Minister has told us a long time ago. He has educated us a long time ago, but..."
Everyone felt the same self-blame, especially those officials, students and soldiers who had accepted Xiao Letian's thoughts. At that moment, they even wanted to slap themselves hard.
Thousands of people poured toward the pier from the streets not far away. From a distance, it looked like the tide of the Pacific Ocean at the time of the full moon. The angry people were filled with tears and the faces of the people were deformed with anger.
The French army only has three hundred, and we in Ryukyu have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. We will definitely win.
But is this really the case? Just when the crowd started to get restless, the French Third Army Corps had already killed the last guard guarding the trestle. The more than thirty sampans were being tied to the wood with ropes.
"Turn over." The officer yelled, and the red-clothed lobster soldiers collectively used their strength to pull the sampans one after another from the sea into the air. Then the hulls of the boats flipped over and landed upside down on the pier.
"Shameless, these French people are so shameless." Cai Hao looked at the six routes and saw something strange at the trestle. There were private goods under those sampans.
One after another, wooden boxes only one fist thick, wrapped in oil paper, were packed at the bottom of every sampan. These French people were actually so despicable.
Molière lamented, "Poor barbarians, this game has come to an end. Your flesh and blood cannot defeat the flames of technology after all. In the face of Western civilization, you should not have any rebellious heart except surrender..."
At this moment, the gun doors of the battleship Glorious on the sea suddenly opened, and cannons were pushed out one after another.
"Artilleryman...extended fire...cover the dock...release."
