Inoue Yu looked relaxed and at ease, and Sasaki saw it and felt anxious.
"Marshal, you said you can only stay here, but how can you stay here? The Ming army has broken into Dongchuan City, but there are still tens of thousands of my soldiers in the city. You should go out with me now, give orders to the soldiers, and let the soldiers work with you and me to drive out the Ming army."
After hearing this, Inoue Yu sneered and said, "Sasa-kun, you are a smart man, but unfortunately you can't see the big picture. In fact, it has been difficult for us in Japan to turn things around since the defeat of Yamamoto Neiji."
Sasaki was speechless: "Marshal, it's already this time, why are you still putting the blame on Yamamoto Neiji?"
Inoue Yu smiled bitterly: "Sasa-kun, I'm not trying to shirk responsibility, but the general situation is really like this. In the battle at sea, we have the absolute advantage. If Yamamoto Ningji had been a little tougher, the series of events that followed would definitely not have been triggered."
"As for me, I admit that I am also an incompetent person, but what can an incompetent person do? When has the Japanese officialdom ever valued ability? In the final analysis, I am just going with the flow."
Sasaki gritted his teeth and said, "Marshal, the Ming army has already broken in, why are you still saying this? After all, there are tens of thousands of our soldiers in the city. Are you really going to sit here and wait to die?"
Inoue Yu smiled bitterly; "Sasa-kun, if Dongchuan City could be saved, how could you have time to come to me? If my guess is correct, you must have returned from the front line. You must have witnessed the Ming army breaking into the city with your own eyes, and you must have seen the scene of our own soldiers fleeing in all directions. Tens of thousands of soldiers? The Ming army has tens of thousands of soldiers, and we are just a pile of loose sand."
"The morale of the army was already unstable, and they fled in all directions. From the moment the shouts of killing rang out, you and I were already dead."
After hearing this, Sasaki felt a chill in his heart: "Marshal, I am not a fool. Under the general trend, I can still see some things clearly. Even if you and I are doomed to die, we can always do something before we die."
"Think about it, our country of Japan has been established for hundreds of years. Although there have been wars between each other, in the final analysis, this land under our feet has always been ours, and the throne of the emperor has always been in the Hirohito family. Now it is not a civil war, it is the Ming Dynasty that is invading us. You and I are a general and a marshal, and we always have to do something when foreign invades."
"Marshal, please follow me to reorganize the troops. Let's try to see if we can drive the Ming army out of Dongchuan. If it doesn't work, we can just hide in those well-built bunkers. As long as we hide in there, we can always make a contribution to Japan. The Ming army has come from afar, and it is extremely inconvenient to transport troops. If you and I kill one more person now, the emperor will have a better chance of winning when he fights Zhang Wuji in the future. If it doesn't work, we can just withdraw from Dongchuan. This place is still thousands of miles away from Tokyo City. Along the way, we fight and retreat, and resist layer by layer. After all, we can do something for our country."
Sasaki's words were spoken with great sincerity, and such sincerity clearly reflected his true inner thoughts.
But after hearing this, Inoue Yu sneered: "Listen, Sasa-kun, it's too late for anything. But you are still a general with a conscience. Just because of your conscience and loyalty to Japan, this general will give you another piece of advice."
"You must leave my room now, take your personal guards with you, and take the beauties I gave you as a reward. Leave immediately. After escaping from Dongchuan City, do not return to Tokyo, and do not fight the Ming army again. Just find a secluded place to live."
After hearing this, Sasaki was completely speechless.
He drank the cup of sake in front of him and then smashed it to pieces. "General, you are open-minded. You can watch the whole country fall so calmly. Then you just sit there as steady as a rock. I will let Zhang Wuji see the bloodiness of my Japanese men."
Sasaki left angrily, but after taking only a dozen steps, he heard shouts and screams getting closer and closer. The Ming army's advance in the city was so fast that it really surprised Sasaki.
Moreover, it was not only the shouting and killing that surprised Sasaki. There were already seven or eight places not far away where flames were shooting up into the sky. Sasaki was stunned for a moment, and after a calculation in his mind, he realized that those seven or eight places were all the locations of his blockhouses. When those blockhouses were built, they were prepared to block the Ming army layer by layer when the Ming army broke into the city. However, at this moment, flames were already shooting up into the sky, and those blockhouses were almost all made of wood. Sasaki felt a little scalp tingling without even thinking about the next scene.
They were burned alive, probably hundreds of people, even hundreds of people were burned to death together. The cruelty of the scene was probably far beyond hell.
After taking a deep breath, Sasaki looked at the guards beside him and said: "My brothers, no one can escape unharmed when the nest is overturned. Today the city has been breached and it looks like Dongchuan is beyond saving. But the things hanging around your waists are not branches. Pick up your swords and follow me to do your part for Japan."
"Our great Japan has been established for hundreds of years, so there must be some explanation. Could it be that everyone is just sitting there like Inoue Takeshi and watching the country fall?"
"Come on, follow me and kill. If you kill one, you won't lose anything. If you kill two, you'll still make a profit."
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Sasaki, his personal guards, and some courageous Japanese soldiers gathered along the way, all together, numbered in the hundreds. In Dongchuan City, two or three out of ten Japanese soldiers who dared to fight had gathered around Sasaki at this moment.
With these hundreds of people, Sasaki ran into the Ming army on a wide street. With a bit of bravery, he really beat the Ming army back. Only a quarter of an hour later, Yin Yewang personally led hundreds of Ming soldiers in heavy armor holding long-handled axes and arrived here.
At first glance, King Yin Ye was in disbelief. He was so unstoppable, yet he encountered someone who dared to fight to the death. How could this be possible?
I can’t tolerate it. I really can’t tolerate it.
King Yin Ye acted decisively and personally led hundreds of heavily armored soldiers to stand together with Sasaki and his group of Japanese. The heavily armored Ming soldiers might not be injured even if they were hit twice, but if the long-handled axes in their hands hit the Japanese, then the Japanese would be either dead or injured. Even Sasaki himself was hit on the chest by a long-handled axe by a Ming soldier.
The winner was immediately decided. After another half a quarter of an hour, most of the hundreds of Japanese soldiers under Sasaki who dared to fight were killed or wounded. Under the general trend of the times, Sasaki had to retreat.
However, looking around at this moment, all he saw seemed to be the Ming army slaughtering people wantonly. Sasaki felt cold in his heart. Looking at the personal guards around him, there were only a dozen people left.
Sasaki knew that he could not do anything today, but he found himself back where he was just now. Inoue Yu's residence was right in front of him. In desperation, Sasaki actually walked in again.
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