Chapter 47: Tribute to the Dead
"Why did he flee? This is our land!"
After reading the remarks in the newspaper, a reporter expressed his opinion in the newspaper: "The most important question now is not whether he can escape or not, but why do you want to arrest him! Japan is our hostile country, so why do you listen to the enemy's words and arrest our heroes?"
In this era, there is no shortage of traitors, lackeys and traitors, but there is also no shortage of patriots who are passionate about seeking the prosperity and strength of the country. Even the revolutionary army in the south expressed strong support for Li Xiake, and the two groups of men attacked each other with pens and guns.
But no matter how fierce their attack was, Li Xiake, as the protagonist, didn't know that he had already embarked on the road to the northeast outside the Guanwai at this time, and now after a long journey, he had arrived near Lushun City.
Since the First Sino-Japanese War, Lushun was captured by the Japanese army, after the city was broken, the Japanese army carried out a massacre of the people of Lushun for four days and three nights, killing more than 20,000 people, and the dead were unbearable.
Not only that, but these Japanese soldiers also bought foreign newspapers to cover up the Lushun Massacre internationally, and once someone told the truth about the massacre, these people in the bought newspapers would refute it internationally, resulting in the massacre becoming known to the public many years later.
This was the first large-scale massacre done by the Japanese army on Chinese soil, and after the Lushun Massacre, there would be a series of subsequent massacres until the Nanjing Massacre reached its climax.
Li Xiake beheaded Nogi Noshinori and his wife and several subordinates in Taiwan in order to come to Lushun to pay tribute to these dead souls.
It's a pity that when he broke into the Tokyo Imperial Palace, he didn't expect to take off the emperor's head, otherwise it would be the best tribute to put the head of Emperor Meiji here.
This Lushun is the base of the Beiyang Navy, which was destroyed by many years of hard work after being captured by the Japanese army.
At this time, the Japanese army had just fought with Tsarist Russia in Lushun, and after the defeat of Russia, the city was completely controlled by the Japanese army, and Dalian also fell into the hands of the Japanese army and became the Kwantung Province of the Japanese army!
There are a large number of Japanese garrisons here, and the gate of the city is very strict, Li Xiake covered the red line on his forehead, disguised as a seller selling salted fish during the day and mixed into the city, wandered around to familiarize himself with the location, and only walked out of the hotel at night, took out the head buried in the salted fish, and the katana hidden in the bamboo tube was also re-carried on his body, and then quietly walked to the white jade mountain in Lushun City.
After the Japanese army defeated Russia, they built a "Omotachi Tower" on top of the white jade to store the ashes of Japanese officers and soldiers killed in the war, which was built on the site of the Japanese Combined Fleet Commander Togo Heihachiro and the Commander of the Third Army.
But on this white jade mountain, there are not only the ashes of Japanese soldiers, but also thousands of innocent people who were slaughtered buried at the bottom of the mountain.
At this time, the Japanese army was under martial law in the city, especially at night, and when they found something wrong, they shot and killed people directly.
Li Xiake shouldered the sack, walked along the root of the wall, dodged left and right, walked for more than an hour, and then walked to the burial post at the eastern foot of Baiyu Mountain, Li Xiake took advantage of the moonlight, looked here for a while, and finally found a wooden stake in front of a grave, with the words "the place where the Qing soldiers died in battle" were written.
Li Xiake stood in front of the wooden stake and let out a long breath, put the sack in his hand in front of the wooden stake, and slowly untied it.
Although it is written on this wooden stake that the Qing soldiers died in battle, it is actually a work of the Japanese army to cover up the crime of massacring and burning civilians and prisoners, including women and children.
In this tomb, there are not only Qing soldiers, but also innocent people killed in Lushun.
After the sack was opened, Li Xiake took out the heads that were pickled in lime one by one, and among these heads, there were Nogi Noshinori's, Nogi Noshinori's wife, and some Japanese officers and traitors, a total of seven heads were stacked together by Li Xiake like steamed buns and placed in front of the stake.
The "Omotachi Tower" on the mountain was proposed by Nogi Noshinori and Togo Heihachiro, and now Li Xiake used his head to pay tribute to these dead souls, which is the most appropriate.
"Shang Fang!"
Li Xiake untied the wine gourd on his waist, squatted in front of the wooden stake and sprinkled a drink, slowly got up, turned to look at the "Biaozhong Tower" not far away, and sneered: "Biaozhong Tower, Biaozhong Tower, Cousin Your Mother! Isn't it all ashes here, Lao Tzu will crush your bones and scatter ashes today!"
After leaving the cemetery, he strode towards the candle-shaped white tower, and as he walked, he tossed the wine gourd aside and the katana in his hand.
Next to this "Pyochung Tower", the Japanese army also built a shrine to summon the spirits of the Japanese army, and at this time, the shrine and the Pyochung Pagoda were patrolled and guarded by Japanese soldiers.
Li Xiake watched not far from this shrine for a while, took advantage of the dark clouds to cover the moon, flashed into the shrine, and then quietly cut down the cloth and silk and other things together in it, took out the fire fold and shook it in the wind, the fire head has been ignited, and quickly swam away, all the curtains and yellow cloth in the shrine were lit, when the fire just lit, Li Xiake rushed out of the house, jumped several times in succession, the person had disappeared in the night, and quietly approached the Biaozhong Tower not far away in the dark.
The shrine was on fire, and the Japanese soldiers guarding the shrine were taken aback, and in an instant they became a mess, and even the guards under the white pagoda were alarmed, hooking their necks to look at the shrine, and some were even ready to move, wanting to help put out the fire.
At this time, the mountain wind was strong, and the wind helped the fire, and in just a moment, these shrines had become fire cages, and several Japanese soldiers who were fighting the fire were also burned to death inside.
When a few Japanese soldiers guarding the White Pagoda tiptoed to the shrine to take a look, Li Xiake rolled a few times, and he had already arrived behind them, raised his legs and landed lightly, and quietly ran into the White Tower.
After he entered the White Tower, he slowly ascended the spiral staircase, and the candles in the tower were not extinguished all day long, although it was late at night, but it was as bright as day.
This white tower is more than sixty meters high, Li Xiake climbed to the top floor in one breath, and then began to set fire to the top floor, lit layer by layer, and when he walked to the first floor, the mountain wind blew, and the whole white tower really became a huge candle with a raging flame.
"Yaga!"
By this time, the Japanese soldiers guarding the White Tower had already understood that someone had deliberately set fire to the scene, and just when they rushed to the White Tower with their guns, Li Xiake let out a long laugh and had already rushed out of the White Tower, and the cold light flashed, and a guard at the door had been beheaded by him.
"A Japanese dog that can't be killed!"
After Li Xiake slashed out, his body did not stop, and he rushed forward, and the soldiers he encountered along the way were all cut down with one knife, no matter whether he was killed or not, he would never make a second knife.
He was so quick to kill people that the whole person was like a leopard, and after a few slashes, the person had disappeared into the darkness, and when the remaining officers and soldiers raised their guns to shoot, Li Xiake had already disappeared.