Chapter 459 Purgatory on Earth is on the Island of the East China Sea
The peninsula at the front of the East China Sea Islands is called Shikoku.
The smell of sea breeze blows the palms and wild grasses.
The humid air has the smell of burning corpses. Located in Nagahama Village, southwest of Shikoku Kushiro Town, you can see more than a dozen Japanese people in coarse linen and sackcloth throwing corpses into thatched buildings on the road and in the mountains. In the village, they covered their faces, held up torches, and looked at the burning thatched cottages.
Soldiers from Jiubai Town have already arrived, bringing the city lord's order to burn all those infected with the plague, dead or alive.
However, such control has still not been effectively solved. One Japanese village after another was ravaged by the plague, so that all roads in the second half of Shikoku were blocked off.
Across the sea, several villages, towns, and small towns in the first half of Shikoku were under complete martial law. The Japanese people and samurai who had to leave the villages were wandering around, and various fights and fights for food occurred frequently.
After the blockade, the government has evacuated behind the blockade and continues to command, but this also means that the first half of the Shikoku area has fallen into huge chaos.
In the wilderness, you can see people killing people and taking food from time to time. However, what is really frightening is that once a disease breaks out in a certain village, a large number of soldiers will rush over and force the people in the village who are not sick to fight. Throw all the corpses and patients into the sea of fire. Even at night, you can see burning villages in the darkness, mixed with countless cries and chaos.
A night passed.
One by one, the old men were dressed in samurai attire, wearing bamboo hats, and carrying wooden boxes on their backs, mingling among a group of Japanese people with pale faces and numb expressions. On the rugged roads in the foothills, the Japanese language was sobbing and cursing.
The old man was relatively silent. Occasionally, a few male Japanese people would look at the wooden box behind him. He would raise his face slightly, with a fierce look in his eyes under his white eyebrows, so that the other party would not dare to move easily.
Moving forward, we passed a village. The smell of burnt corpses was still in the air. The charred houses were already destroyed in the fire, with collapsed walls and charred and unburnt corpses. Shockingly, the burned skeleton appeared in front of him, with empty eye holes and open mouths looking at a group of people passing by outside the village.
There is no living person in the entire village. Even if there are people outside, they have to stay away from the village and go to towns, cities and other places, maybe they can have a chance to survive.
Wow——
The footsteps startled a crowd of black crows, which flew to nearby branches and stood on the blackened branches, tearing away pieces of cooked meat or staring at the passing crowd below with red eyes.
Walking through a place called Nagano Town, a small town that once prospered due to plundering, is now dead inside and outside. Corpses in ragged clothes are rotting in the sun, and flies are crawling all over the place. The flesh and blood covered in pus, occasionally a staggering and shaking figure walked over, causing a large dense black shadow to fly in the air.
The plague was spread too quickly by the sea breeze.
While passing by here, the old man covered his face with a black scarf and looked at the black masses of flying flies. His ears were full of buzzing, buzzing, buzzing... sounds.
The old man discovered that this place was not burned because the Japanese soldiers and the people who came here were already suffering from the plague. There were fallen corpses covered with maggots everywhere on the roads and fields. They were carried by the wind and spread. The smell of corpses is everywhere.
As a martial arts master, the old man's body and bones are old, but he is supported by pure and majestic internal strength. The disease will not infect him, but the smell of corpses that can be smelled everywhere in the air is disgusting.
He knew how these epidemics occurred. Ever since he heard about the forty-two cattle sent, he sneaked in at night to take a peek. He originally planned to kill all the cattle and not leave them to the Japanese, but he could sneak in In the cowshed where he was imprisoned, he found that these were all sick cows.
I suddenly understood what was going on.
It is rare to plunder farm cattle at sea. The only possibility is that someone else did it deliberately. He lived to be more than ninety years old and came to the Japanese country for three years. He traveled to many places. This insight There are still some.
Leaving this ruined village, I continued to follow the group of Japanese people on the path at the foot of the mountain. The speed was not slow. Occasionally I looked at the scenery outside the mountain. The villages passing by were in Under the raging epidemic, hundreds of people died, including many warriors.
The old man never showed mercy to these people. He knew very well about the Japanese attack on the Linjun coastline before. For this reason, he went deep into other parts of the island and killed a group of Japanese soldiers as revenge. Then he was led by a Japanese general. He was hunted down and killed, so much so that he fled to the Four Kingdoms side and wanted to take a boat back to his hometown of Wuzhou to have a look.
In the past three years, he felt that his body was getting weaker day by day, and he might be approaching his end.
Back to Wuzhou, look at my hometown again, and then return to my roots.
But now he has encountered such a thing. The port has been completely closed. Even the Japanese who run the black ship dare not help people sneak across at this time, no matter how much money they have.
The morning sun rose to the top of the clouds, and the sunlight became dazzling.
After walking for a long distance, ahead was Hirono Castle, the largest city on the Shikoku Peninsula.
In addition to the Japanese people who came here at this time, there were also a large number of Japanese people from other directions who wanted to escape the spread of the disease. Looking down from the sky, the crowds extended in all directions, and the cries made The huge migration became chaotic and noisy...
It seemed that the sick person had respiratory failure. The woman who was sitting on the roadside stone, gasping for breath, feverish and shivering, was left by her husband and sat down. He beat the ground and cried hoarsely. A child sitting on the roadside holding a swaddling baby looked at his parents with dull eyes. In the swaddling clothes in his arms, the little life had no breath, and the dead gray baby's face was covered with dense blisters...
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Soon, a terrifying crowd gathered under the rammed earth city wall of Guangye.
The old man dressed as a warrior raised his face slightly, looked away from his bamboo hat, and snorted silently. He glanced indifferently at the fallen figure beside him, stepped over the body that gradually became motionless, and headed for the city gate. .
The crowd here is crowded, with faces looking up at the city wall with expressions of panic, fear, and numbness. The woman holding her child is shouting in Japanese to the people above to open the city gate, and some people are kneeling. He came down and cried for mercy from the people in the city.
"Don't panic, everyone is waiting outside the city. Sakyo's doctor, Date, is already here. He will quell this disaster!"
The soldiers and guards on the city wall naturally did not dare. Those who opened the city gates to let people in did not need to think about it to know that there must be people infected with the plague among the crowd. Once they entered the city, Nagano Castle would soon be overrun by the plague.
The old man in the crowd did not care about what the Japanese soldiers above said, but the words "Date-sama" made him narrow his eyes. This man was the Japanese general who led the army to chase him.
Thinking of this, he pulled down his bamboo hat, hid his face, turned around and blended into the crowd.
It was getting dark.
The bright moon rises over the sea, and in the burning wilderness, the Japanese people gather together. Some are sobbing, some are cheering enthusiastically, and some are hungry in groups, staring at the crowd. There was a dispute with the children, and chaos ensued. The woman cried and went to snatch the child back, but was knocked to the ground again.
After a while, a child screamed "Ah!" and soon after, the mouth-watering aroma of barbecue wafted out.
The old man looked at this scene indifferently, then stood up and left. When he passed by a Japanese man holding a barbecue, he patted his head lightly, and then walked straight past.
The Japanese man had meat in his mouth and stared blankly at the bonfire. A trace of blood oozed from his mouth, nose, ears, and eye sockets. Then he threw himself on the ground with a bang, and the barbecue in his hand rolled to the ground, and was snatched away by his companions.
The old man walked half a circle around the city wall and glanced at the city wall, which was low for him. After a group of Japanese soldiers passed by carrying bamboo spears, he stepped on it and jumped up. The top of the wall was a little above the wall stacks, and I plunged into the darkness of the city.
The speed was astonishing. Even the Japanese soldiers who were aware of it looked back and thought it was just the cool breeze blowing, so they didn't pay attention.
The figure that descended into the city silently passed over the roofs of thatched houses with the effort of making light weight. After falling to the ground, it knocked on a house with lights on.
After a while, footsteps were heard inside, and a Japanese opened the door.
The next second.
There was a red mark on his neck. Before his body fell down, he was grabbed by the old man and dragged in. The door was then closed. There was a Japanese girl in the room, who was also killed by the old man's palm.
The two corpses were thrown into the woodshed behind the house. The old man sat down under the oil lamp, took out the interference bun from his sleeve, broke it off and ate it in small bites.
He was not a kind person to begin with. When he was young, he was brave and fierce and killed many people. In middle age, his mood gradually settled and he began to study sword skills. In his later years, his mood was able to break through, but he also After seeing through the world, he chose to retreat to the mountains and forests.
After he came out of the mountain, he heard that his family and country were destroyed, so he went to Luyang in the Central Plains with the intention of saving his country, thinking that he could assassinate the Emperor of Xia by himself, but in the end he miscalculated and saw what he said. Tyrant is not what people say.
After a period of confusion, he finished reading the book in his hand that the other party had given him, and then decided to come to Japan to have a look.
This has been three years.
"Du Yichu...you should follow your original intention!"
He stroked the wooden box, chewed the dry steamed buns in his mouth, and murmured softly.
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March twenty-eight.
Date Masamune entered Nagano Castle.
(End of this chapter)