It has indeed been more than a month since Mr. Long arrived in Hakodate. During this month, he has truly seen what the fanaticism of Japanese samurai is. These warriors who are extremely eager for military glory have crowded the small Hakodate city.
Hakodate was the later city of Hakodate, Hokkaido. It was not a large city. It was just a small town with a few thousand people during the Tokugawa period, and the defensive castle was low and dilapidated.
Long Ye was holding a telescope to watch the cargo ships that were gradually gathering in Hakodate Bay. In order to avoid irritating the Russians, no Western-style cargo ships were used this time, let alone battleships. More than a thousand Japanese samurai were to board them separately. Ten large Japanese Kansai ships crossed the Sea of Japan.
Looking at the dilapidated Guanzhou ships on the sea, Long Ye was worried, "Is this possible? Is it too dangerous to cross a distance of more than 400 nautical miles and have to cross the sea under the cover of night?"
Sister Kiri on the side put down the map and comforted her, "There will be no problem. The fishermen here in Ezo often go deep into the sea to fish, and there are even many hunters who follow the fishing boats across the sea to hunt. Just kidding, there is no country in Ezo. Concept, they will go wherever there is prey..."
"Every year, Ezo pays tribute to the shogunate with a lot of bear skins, tiger skins, wolf skins, ginseng and other specialties. Do you really think there are tigers here in Ezo?"
Mr. Long was so angry that he said, "So you have been stealing our things?"
"That's wrong, we are not stealing from you, we are stealing from the Manchus. Even in this expedition, aren't we working together to steal the land that belongs to the Manchus?"
Master Long and Sister Wu smiled at each other. It seemed that both parties had deeply understood the ultimate purpose of this mission.
At this moment, a report suddenly sounded at the door, "Report! There is a wild samurai named Inoyama Chou outside asking for an audience!"
"Oh? Zhu Shanchi's two-legged ones have finally caught up with our four-legged ones. It's not easy!"
Inoyama Chou was the wild samurai who spread the order to him in the Echu Plains. In order to prevent more wild samurai from being killed, Lord Ryu had no choice but to issue an order to stop recruiting wild samurai, and only asked him to spread the news that he would leave Japan at Ezo Hakodate.
This is a cruel knockout match. There is no so-called fairness in Japanese society. The news that Lord Long came to Japan to recruit a thousand samurai made the samurai who longed for war and military glory became crazy and restless.
There are too many people but not enough food to share. What should we do? It turned into a massacre in the end. In order to prevent the wild warriors from competing for the limited quota, the daimyo family warriors started massacring the wild warriors one after another even before the Dragon Lord arrived.
Long Ye personally dug out a burial place in the Yuezhong Plain, and he still remembered the tragic massacre.
The sound of thumping footsteps sounded, and the dusty Zhushan Chou knelt on the tatami and saluted Lord Long, "My subordinate has completed the task of delivering the order. All the vassals in the Northeast have received the military order from your lord, and I am here to deliver the order!" "
Master Long glanced at him and suddenly snorted, "Humph...are you dissatisfied with my order? You don't need to make excuses, it's already written on your face!"
Inoyama hesitated for a moment, and finally gave a heavy slap on his head: "Hai... please forgive me! I think your order is unfair. Prime Minister Donghai Xiao relies on fairness to win people's hearts. Noheita and Hyoutarou's The deeds have inspired countless desperate wild warriors, but today, my lord, you have closed the door to meritocracy, which chills our hearts..."
"Hanxin? You also saw the scene of the massacre. Without my order, how many wild warriors do you think would have been massacred? Do you know that I am protecting you?"
Inoyama Achiu looked sad and angry, "Sir... we wild warriors are as humble as weeds. What we need is not protection, what we need is an opportunity, an opportunity to strive upward!"
"We are not afraid of death. We are willing to fight those famous warriors. The fittest will survive. Isn't this what the Prime Minister often said? Many people will die, but don't forget, sir. Just because they will die, Many people, those who survive can be considered the elite of the elite, don’t you want the best warriors, sir?”
oops! Lord Long was deeply shocked. Why was this nation so cruel to him? Their spiritual world is completely different from that of the Central Plains people. Not only can they push others to the place of sacrifice, they can even die themselves.
Since life is humble, then death must be more glorious! This is the core spirit of Bushido, the religious devotion to death.
"Want to die? Haha, there are plenty of opportunities. When you fight in the white mountains and black waters, you will taste the pain like hell...I admit that if I don't give this order, a group of brave warriors will indeed break out of the siege and escape. The claws of the predator become my warriors..."
"However, you don't know what kind of place you will fight in the future. The bitter cold there is many times worse than in Ezo. What I need are soldiers with determination and endurance..."
"Now look out the window and see the wild samurai crowding on Hakodate Street. Those are the soldiers who are truly tenacious. Even though they know that I have issued an order to stop recruiting wild samurai, they have not given up yet and are still pursuing them. , rushed all over north and south Japan, just for a false possibility, you said they are not excellent samurai?"
"This is the kind of soldier I want, the king of soldiers who will work hard and never give up even for a vain dream! Only they can endure the cold winter snow day and night, and only they can There is a silent ambush in the lonely primeval forest, and only they can endure a long and hard battle..."
"Inoyama Chip! Go tell those wild warriors that once they get on the ship, they may not come back for ten years. They will have to go through a long and protracted war... Once they get on the ship, there will be no way out!"
Inoyama Acho had tears in his eyes. He knew that the thousands of wild samurai warriors in Hakodate had finally made it through. After kowtowing heavily, Inoyama Aoka turned around and ran out.
Sister Wu looked at Mr. Long's silence for a long time and suddenly said, "How do I find that you are becoming more and more like the Prime Minister? Your tone is full of inflammatory... Do you know that we Kirigakure ninjas have a legend that Xiao Letian's The tongue is actually refined by the karmic fire in hell, so it is full of bewitching power. I didn’t expect that you would also be infected..."
Long Ye rolled his eyes at him, "Bewitched? If they don't have that dream in their hearts and are just walking corpses, I'm afraid no one in the world can bewitch them... It's precisely because the devil of war lives in their hearts that they say what they said to me. Everything resonates with you, don’t forget your identity, you can say this to me, but you must not mess with my military morale!”
Sister Wu shrugged, "As you wish, General Xiang!"
