Chapter 778: Japan (22)
The native cavalry of the Outer Northeast behind Hikten also followed at this time. Just as the Japanese who had been knocked away by Hickton was desperately struggling to get up, he urged the horse to rush over, and with a sharp pull on the reins, the two front hooves of the war horse were raised high, and then fell down heavily.
The Japanese civilian, who struggled to stand up, was instantly smashed by the two front hooves, and screamed miserably, with a heart-rending voice that made people panic when they heard it.
However, the cavalryman was not satisfied, and urged the horse to run back and forth on the Japanese civilian several times, trampling the Japanese civilian to death.
The two successfully intercepted and killed three Japanese civilians, and then continued to urge the horses to run through the alleys of the castle town, and saw several more corpses along the way. Finally, they came to the door of a shop, where the squad leader was gathering with several comrades.
Hickten jumped off his horse and ran over, and the squad leader had already smashed open the door and rushed into the store with a shout. There was chaos inside, and there was a burst of cries and screams.
When he rushed into the shop, he found that more than a dozen Japanese civilians in the shop had been killed, including several women. The deaths were extremely miserable, a middle-aged woman was almost cut in half, her intestines dragged out for a long time, and the ground was a mess.
Hickten's stomach churned a few times, he turned around and ran out of the shop in a few steps, and took a few breaths in the yard, which was considered more comfortable. More than a dozen Japanese civilians who tried to escape were killed. Two families were also implicated, and they were also wiped out because they were taken in.
At this time, a bloody and brutal scene was being staged in the castle of Kochi Castle, and the death army, with the support of the field regiment, quickly defeated the resistance in the castle and began to slaughter the castle that they were best at. Ning Jun and the heads of various ministries stood at the head of Kochi Castle. Enjoying the tragic scene under the city with great interest.
The commander of the field regiment behind him frowned and said: "Commander, we received an order to leave the women and craftsmen, but we killed them all, it's not good......"
The other also said with a sad face: "Yes, if the commander-in-chief knew." It's time for you to be disciplined again. And also...... The Death Army, these guys, it's too cruel to kill people, and they kill in a different way, we ......"
Ning Jun was furious when he heard this, he turned his head and scolded: "What's wrong, the order I received is that the feudal cities that dare to resist must be dealt with with iron and blood. There are so many women and craftsmen in the castle town, but there is not a single person in the castle. Something happened to me and I was going around. Do what you command. ”
After Ning Jun finished speaking, he turned his head again, and looked at the city with a gloomy face, this is so cruel, it is far from Nanjing back then, little Japan, since your grandfather Ning is here, then even the one with interest will be returned.
The civilians in the castle town were terrified when they heard the screams inside the castle. When it gets dark in the evening. The number of people who fled began to increase, and the two cavalrymen were slightly wounded by a sneak attack by several wild warriors.
Ning Jun, who was sitting at the head of the city watching the play, was suddenly furious. He ordered all the overseas brigades and daredevils in the castle to leave the castle, and the indigenous cavalry brigades outside the castle to begin to clear the castle towns from house to house, and as long as they found suspicious elements, they were killed on the spot to completely eradicate the suspicious elements there.
His order was very vague. All the troops were a little confused when they received the order, what is considered a suspicious element. Later, as soon as everyone summed it up, they directly blocked the castle town, simply closed the door and let the dogs go, and let those daredevils and samurai identify it.
At this time, the samurai of the daredevils in the city. The task has been basically completed, and a strict search is being carried out everywhere to prevent those who have escaped by chance. The samurai of the Death Army, who had been killed for a day, were extremely tired. But they received the order of the Ning army, and they were full of blood in an instant, leaving two squadrons to finish in the city, and the remaining few wings all rushed out of Kochi City.
The troops cordoned off the castle town, allowing several wings of death army units to break into the house in small teams, searching for suspicious elements. Because of the flexibility of Ningjun's orders, these daredevils almost killed people on sight, leaving only women and craftsmen, which caused the castle town to also fall into a bloody storm.
Two days later, the Tosa detachment rested, loaded the assembled craftsmen and Japanese women near Kochi Castle and sent them away, and then began to organize troops to sweep all parts of Tosa Province in parts.
With the exception of Kochi Castle in Tosa Province, which was easily breached by the Tosa detachment, the fighting in other areas was also very smooth. Because the castles and jinya in various parts of Shikoku Island were located in the coastal areas, this also brought great convenience to the attack of the Far Eastern Army.
Before the daimyo lords of Shikoku Island could react, the castle was breached by the fierce Far Eastern Army. Within a few days, Tokushima Castle, Takamatsu Castle, Kukame Castle, Tadotsu Castle, Imai Castle, Matsuyama Castle, Oshu Castle, Shinya Castle, Yoshijo Castle and other feudal castles and jinya were slaughtered by the Far Eastern Army.
Moreover, the lords of each daimyo domain have deployed most of their elites to various feudal castles. As a result, a spoonful of stew was brought, and they were all wiped out by the Far Eastern Army, and the remaining small fish and shrimp were all unable to jump.
The entire island of Shikoku was filled with a faint layer of blood, and the Wasuka clan, Ikoma clan, and the Yamauchi family, as well as the daimyo of several small feudal lords such as Matsuyama, Uwajima, Ozu, and Imabari were all slaughtered by the Far Eastern Army.
The commanders of the other detachments, like Ning Jun, also came from modern society, and they also hated Little Japan to the core. So the movements of the detachments are large. The orders they issued were relatively flexible, and no matter how many of the death soldiers who carried out the massacre mission, they carried out the orders thoroughly, and they would definitely not discount them at all.
No one knows how many people were killed in the end, anyway, most of the task of slaughtering the city was handed over to those Japanese daredevils. As long as these beasts received the order to slaughter the city, they became more and more excited one by one.
With the fall of the various feudal castles and jinyas, the entire island of Shikoku had largely lost its organized resistance, and although many of the samurai and ashigaru scattered around the country had fled to the mountains and hidden, they were swept away by airships and mountain troops in the Far East.
The speed with which the Far Eastern Army moved on the island of Shikoku was beyond everyone's expectations, and it also gave the troops a few days to recuperate. Gao Jianguo ordered all ministries to rest on the spot, and then notified the Ethnic Affairs Committee to send a working group to take over the civil affairs work on Shikoku Island.
At this time, Shikoku Island was not as good as Kyushu Island, the area was not large, and 80% of the area was mountainous, the population was not large, and the arable land was even more pitiful. However, there were also a lot of seized materials, after all, there were not many daimyo lords here. (To be continued......)
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