Not only does a good commander not need genius or any special qualities, he should be restrained and firmly believe that what he is doing is important. Only at this time can he be a brave commander. God forbids that he has human nature.
Who does he love, whom does he sympathize with, what is right and what is wrong in his mind.
Zhao Xin is not that philosophical.
Because war is the most barbaric act that dehumanizes, there is no point in thinking about philosophical issues.
He didn't care at all whether Wang Yuanfang was entangled or not. He ordered Liu Sheng to open fire, and roared at Wang Yuan to aim at the gate of the town hall. He just wanted to teach those ignorant warriors of the feudal lord not to stand in his way of rescuing the victims. Behind his back
There are thousands or even more refugees struggling on the verge of death, and he just wants to lead these people to survive.
Zhao Xin informed Liu Sheng on the walkie-talkie that they should return immediately, turned around, pulled Wang Yuanfang and a few sailors, and together they pointed the muzzles of the two D30 guns on the ship at the harbor of Songdao Town.
When Liu Sheng returned to the Thor, his ears were still buzzing. He didn't care whether others heard it or not. He shouted loudly and asked Deng Fei and Zhao Liang to prepare and remove the eight M2HBs on the side of the ship.
Wearing a gun jacket, he took out boxes of bullets from the cabin.
"What should we do next?" Liu Sheng asked Zhao Xin beside him in a loud voice on the deck.
"I'll go! Brother, can you put on earmuffs before shooting next time? I'm really afraid that you will become deaf in the future." Zhao Xin, who was startled by Liu Sheng, said while picking his ears with his fingers.
"Hey, my ears are still buzzing."
The two of them were busy loading the machine gun. Over there, Wang Yuanfang and the three others came over after finishing their work.
"Mr. Zhao, do you think we have gone too far?" Wang Yuanfang asked tentatively. Deng Fei and Zhao Liang on the side also nodded hesitantly.
Zhao Xin finished loading the machine gun first, and then said calmly: "Brother Wang, you are all thinking too much. Fortunately, you have been a soldier."
Wang Yuanfang and the other three looked at Zhao Xin without saying anything, but the expressions on each of their faces were full of doubts and a hint of anger.
Zhao Xin raised his hand and pointed at the mainland opposite: "Thousands of hungry people are starving to death every day. Do you know what those warrior masters call these people? "Inhuman", that means they are not human, they are not even dogs.
Not as good as that!”
Zhao Xin said, pointing to the refugees in the warehouse below the deck, and to the island sailors and Li Ji standing on the deck: "They, they, are all inhumans. I know you are kind-hearted, otherwise you would not stay."
Help me and Liu Sheng. But what about these people? We took them thousands of miles to the North Sea to farm and survive. What are those warriors doing? It has become like this, and we continue to exploit them.
If you pity the dead and wounded warriors, who will pity these people?! Two million!"
Sheng Haizhou, Li Ji, Hu Ji, Lu Shoushan, and the thirty island sailors were silent under Zhao Xin's roar. Sheng Haizhou, who occasionally understood something, showed an excited look on his face; Lu Shoushan stood silently.
Behind Zhao Xin.
In fact, Zhao Xin's purpose was not that noble. He just wanted to give alms to the victims and take them to the outer northeast to dig gold mines for him. After two years, he would go back with a lot of money and enjoy the modern luxurious life with peace of mind.
Anti-Qing? Fight for world hegemony? Too tiring!
Being an emperor? You can't even sleep with a concubine next to you for the night, and you have a high-walled compound, which is too intrusive.
However, the tragic situation of the homeless people on the beach yesterday really stimulated him. As a modern person with many years of education, Zhao Xin still has sympathy although he is shameless and his purpose is not simple.
Mencius said that benevolence, justice, propriety, and wisdom are not imposed on me from outside, but are inherent in me. If you have no compassion, you are not a human being.
Those who are cynical can say that compassion is the morality of slaves, the conspiracy of the weak, the fable of the farmer and the snake.
But is it right to suppress your good nature, hate the ignorance and stupidity of others, hate the hatefulness of poor people, and finally despise and look down on everything?
Only when a person is strong can he take care of others. The so-called Clay Bodhisattva crosses the river and cannot protect himself; the Golden Bodhisattva crosses the river and saves all living beings. In other words, sympathy is the morality of the strong, and Zhao Xin is a strong man now.
"Zhao Xin, stop talking, I understand." Wang Yuanfang's eyes were red and he looked directly at Zhao Xin.
"Yes. We also know that Mr. Zhao is not a bad person, so we decided to help you." Deng Fei patted Wang Yuanfang on the shoulder and said to Zhao Xin.
"It's just that the incident happened suddenly and everyone was caught off guard. That's almost enough." Liu Sheng patted Zhao Xin on the back and helped to persuade him.
"Mr. Zhao, tell us what we should do next." Zhao Liang asked.
"Katsu Kaishu." Zhao Xin looked at Katsu Kaishu and the others. "You guys go ashore at night and go to the town to find Katayama Kanbei for information. Ask him why so many samurai suddenly appeared?"
"Haha!" Sheng Haizhou and the others leaned over and saluted.
"Are you ready to land?" Liu Sheng's voice finally became less loud.
"Let's go on a fucking land! It's just a few of us. If we encounter an ambush when we go up there, we'll be shot into hedgehogs by random arrows." Zhao Xin shook his head and continued: "It seems like nothing can be done today. Strengthen your vigilance.
Everyone must be careful at night!”
Matsushima Town, which was full of crying, finally fell silent late at night.
The lights that were supposed to illuminate various parts of the town at nightfall did not move at all, and it was still pitch black. Only when the doors of each courtyard were gently pushed open, a faint light could be seen from inside.
The mayor had already run away with his men at noon. The result of the thunderous gunfire in the morning left him shaken. His subordinates had the courage to slap him several times in a row, and then he gradually came back to his senses.
After regaining consciousness, Machimaki asked a few of his men to take Katayama Kanbei, who was being held in the cell, and then seven or eight people led the horses together and quietly walked up the path from the back door of the official hall.
More than 200 samurai and his subordinates are of the same mind, and all the feudal lords are gone, leaving only him as a bare follower. How can this be a joke?
He could only report to Qingye City quickly.
After Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang sent Sheng Haizhou and the others ashore, they waited for about two hours when they heard the footsteps of several people on the beach in the distance coming towards them in a hurry.
"Who!" Liu Sheng turned on the safety of his pistol and pointed the tactical flashlight in his left hand at the incoming person; Wang Yuanfang also raised the assault rifle in his hand.
"Master Liu, I am Sheng Haizhou." Sheng Haizhou spoke broken Mandarin and blocked the flashlight shining on him with his hand.
Liu Sheng shined his flashlight behind Sheng Haizhou and saw Liji and Huji each holding a little girl, a woman behind them, and finally a young island native.
Wang Yuanfang quickly asked: "What happened?"
"Kanbei Katayama was captured! These are his wife and two daughters. The one behind is Katayama's subordinate, named Yoichiro." Katsu Kaishu hurriedly explained to Liu Sheng.
"We'll talk about it later. Let's get on the boat first."
"There are too many people to sit in one trip. You go first. Torogyoshi, I, and Ichiro will stay behind."
After Katsu Kaishu finished speaking, he, Torayoshi, and Ichiro worked together to push the small boat into the sea.
"Okay. Wait until I come back to pick you up." After Liu Sheng said that, he started the motor, and the assault boat quickly disappeared into the night.
The news of Li Ji's return alarmed Zhao Xin. When he rushed to the deck, he saw Li Ji pulling a woman, and behind him Liu Sheng and Wang Yuanfang walked onto the deck each holding a child.
After he asked about the situation, he quickly took them to the restaurant in the cabin. Liu Sheng turned around and went back to pick up Sheng Haizhou and the others.
"What? You said Katayama Kanbei was arrested?!" Zhao Xin asked Li Ji in front of him in the restaurant on the Thor.
"Yes, my lord. I heard that Yoichiro, oh, Katayama's subordinate, was arrested on his way home after helping us yesterday evening."
"Then what happened to those warriors this morning?"
Liji said with a frown on his face: "I only heard a general idea about this matter. Let Katsu-sama and Yoichiro talk about it later."
Zhao Xin thought for a while, turned around and asked Katayama Kanbei's wife and two daughters with a smile: "Are you hungry?"
Duohe looked at Zhao Xin in surprise. She didn't expect that the big man in front of her could speak fluently in the island's dialect. She was frightened by this giant boat from the moment she got on the boat. It was too big.
Dare to imagine!
The room she was in was also extremely spacious. Although there were many tables and chairs, she didn't dare to sit down at all. She just squatted on the ground with her two daughters in her arms.
Zhao Xin saw that the mother and daughter did not dare to speak, so he asked a sailor to get some food and water.
More than half an hour later, Katsu Kaishu, who was sweating profusely, ran into the restaurant with a young man.
After hearing Zhao Xin's question, Sheng Haizhou quickly pulled Yoichiro behind him to explain to Zhao Xin.
Yoichiro sat cross-legged on the ground, took a glass of water from Lu Shoushan, leaned over and saluted, and said: "Sir, after Katayama took us to separate from you on the beach yesterday, we planned to return to the town together.
At home, when I was a little kid, I went to relieve myself because I had a stomachache, so I fell behind."
Yoichiro spoke very eloquently, and after chatting for more than forty minutes, Zhao Xin finally understood what was going on.
The samurai who were ambushing on the beach during the day came from Sendai Castle last night. Ichiro just peeked through the wall for a while and did not count the exact number of people, but it was probably more than two hundred people.
These warriors, together with the Tongxin and feudal warriors in this town, participated in this morning's ambush. Except for a small half of them who were wiped out by Liu Sheng on the beach, the others were blown into pieces by Zhao Xina's cannon.
If someone hadn't gone to the government office in the afternoon and found that all the mayors had run away, Yuichiro would have been hiding at home without even daring to show his face.
After everything quieted down at night, Yoichiro ran to Katayama's house to report the news and told Tahe the news that Lord Katayama was taken away by the town official. After hearing this, Tahe was about to go to Sendai Castle overnight. Yoichiro was persuading Katsu Kaishu
Here they come.
When Zhao Xin heard this, he couldn't help but open his mouth and widened his eyes and turned to look at Wang Yuanfang and Liu Sheng who were sitting next to him.
I am too blind a cat to kill a mouse, so I must have been too accurate. All three hundred people were wiped out!
Wang Yuanfang and Liu Sheng had no idea what Yuichiro and Zhao Xin were talking about, so they waited patiently for Zhao Xin to translate for them. As a result, they saw Zhao Xin looking at them in confusion, and they became even more confused.
"What did I say?! You don't agree to let you log in." After listening to Zhao Xin's translation, Liu Sheng slapped the table and shouted.
"The refugees have all been driven away, and Katayama has been arrested. Who are you going to land on to find?"
"Then what do you think we should do?" Liu Sheng said unhappily.
"Let me think about it." Zhao Xin tapped his fingers on the table for a long time, then he got up and walked back and forth a few times.
"I'll go! Mr. Zhao, Uncle Zhao, have you thought about it?" Liu Sheng urged impatiently.
Zhao Xin stopped, looked at Dohe and his daughter who were eating carefully, and slapped his thigh: "Yes! Tomorrow morning, we will go north to Ishinomaki Port and force the Sendai clan to release them."
Liu Sheng said disdainfully: "Is the Sendai clan a relative of yours? We have killed so many of their warriors, and they will let you go if you tell them to?"
Zhao Xin smiled coldly: "No? Then we will bombard Ishinomaki Port, let alone the refugees, I will even snatch all the abalone for him!"
Wang Yuanfang looked at Liu Sheng in confusion, what does this have to do with abalone?