Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

"Blood edict: My ancestors were gods, Amaterasu, and enjoyed the emperor's grace. However, ghosts and demons were causing trouble, and the Tokugawa government was in chaos, with the sun and moon turned upside down... All my subjects, listen to my call, gather loyal and righteous warriors, restore peace to the country, and eliminate violence from the Tokugawa shogunate. This will be a blessing to our ancestors! I am so distressed that I am writing this edict to all the daimyo, to seize the opportunity to destroy the thieves and not let them fail! On the third day of the seventh month of the sixth year of Lingyuan, Shiren and the Empress Houxi jointly issued this edict."

When Wei Xiaobao finished reading the blood edict, Princess Zhaoling had already leaned on Wei Xiaobao's shoulder, crying loudly.

Both of them were unconscious, one wanted to rely on, the other was willing to borrow. Only Shuang'er felt a little dizzy.

……

Early the next morning, the advance troops of the three brigades arrived at the first line of defense in Naha at the same time.

Originally, the Tokugawa family built a fortress halfway from Shuri Castle to Naha. The fortress was built on a valley between two mountains and a gorge. Previously, the Tokugawa family had 5000 troops stationed there, but now no one is there and all of them have withdrawn.

That’s why the vanguard of the Tiandi Army reached the devil’s first line of defense so easily.

The commander of the Vanguard 1st Regiment was named Li Qiang. He was originally the third company commander of the old 1st Battalion. He was the same third company commander who chased and hacked the Japanese ronin when they recaptured Shuri Castle.

Each of the three brigades sent a regiment as the vanguard. The vanguard of the first brigade was the 4st Regiment, responsible for taking down the left camp of the Oda family. The vanguard of the second brigade was the 7th Regiment, responsible for taking down the right camp of the Takeda family. The vanguard of the third brigade was the th Regiment, responsible for taking down Naha Castle.

A regiment rushed to the gate of Zuoying and stopped 500 steps away. When they were about to use a loud speaker to shout "Surrender your weapons and you will not be killed", Zuoying hoisted the white flag.

Then, a team of about a hundred strong Japanese soldiers, led by two sergeants, came out with white flags.

If Wei Xiaobao was there, he would be able to recognize that the first officer was the drooling yellow chicken of the Oda family, and the second was Yamada of the Tokugawa family.

The two sergeants walked up to the regiment commander Li Qiang, handed the command knife symbolizing the left battalion to him with both hands, and then spoke a lot of Japanese language. Li Qiang found a subordinate who could speak Japanese language to translate it before he understood.

Koushui Huangji had already learned from Yamada that the princess had disappeared in the camp he was in charge of, so Koushui Huangji expressed at the time that the only way to survive was to surrender when the Ryukyu Kingdom attacked.

That’s why we have the white flag today.

The translator said that they were abandoned by their superiors and were meant to be cannon fodder, but they were very unfortunate and lost the princess. If their superiors found out, their entire clan would be exterminated.

Although they were not afraid of death, they were afraid of implicating their families, so they were willing to surrender collectively and hide in the Ryukyu Kingdom where the superiors could not find them. In this way, the superiors would not know that they had lost the princess, and their relatives would not be in danger.

The first regiment commander Li Qiang was so lucky that he ended the battle of a line of defense by capturing the entire left camp of the Oda clan without firing a single shot.

One platoon was left to guard the prisoners, and the rest marched towards Naha Castle to be an audience for the Seventh Regiment.

Now let’s look at the four regiments attacking the Takeda clan’s right camp.

More than 2 Japanese soldiers, shirtless, with white belts stained with chicken blood tied on their heads and samurai swords in their hands, stood at the entrance of the barracks. More than old, weak, sick and disabled people, a black mass, were forced by the group of Japanese soldiers to stand outside the barracks.

The commander of the 4th Regiment is Tang Li, who used to be the company commander of the nd Battalion. When he saw this formation, he felt that he was unlucky.

Just now the scout came over and said that the entire Zuoying camp facing the next-door regiment had surrendered, and everyone had gone into the city to watch the excitement, while he was still standing here being blocked by these Japanese civilians.

Before departure, our superiors told us that the Japanese who held knives were called devils, and those who did not were called civilians.

Civilians shall not be massacred unless they resist.

Fortunately, this scenario was included in the plan before departure.

If you have a plan, you will have a solution!

Then, dozens of Tiandi Army soldiers who could speak Japanese stood up and shouted through loud speakers:

"Civilians of Japan, you are not soldiers. You don't have to sacrifice yourself on the battlefield for the daimyo warlords. You should go home and reunite with your families..."

These loud speakers were talking till they were hoarse, but the more than 2 civilians didn't make a sound.

Captain Tang had no choice but to think:

"Go ahead and chop them up. How can you bring yourself to kill over 2 elderly, weak, sick and disabled civilians?

Let’s not cut it. It’s not a good idea to keep on being in this stalemate!

Captain Li of the First Brigade is probably watching me make a fool of myself in that Gala. It really makes me anxious."

Looking at the Seventh Regiment, there were only about 300 security troops in Naha City and 200 shore defense soldiers at Naha Port, but when these people heard that the Chinese army was coming early in the morning, they immediately fled to the Japanese mainland under the leadership of the city lord. Therefore, the Seventh Regiment also took over Naha City and Naha Alley very smoothly.

The commander of the Seventh Regiment was Zheng Bing, who was also the company commander of the Third Battalion. After entering Naha City, he heard that the Fourth Regiment was blocked in the right camp, so he brought along Commander Li, each with a battalion, saying they were reinforcements, but in fact they were there to watch the fun and laugh at the joke.

Because before setting off, the three brigade commanders had formulated a friendly joint combat plan, but there was an oath added to the plan: "No one should help anyone else. Whoever helps anyone else will be a coward."

"Captain Tang, you can't do it. It's already been an hour!" said Captain Li.

"Captain Tang, let me lend you a few grenades. Once you blow them up, they will all run away." said Captain Zheng.

"Captain Tang, why don't you retreat and I will lead the men?" Captain Li said again.

"Captain Li, why are you and your group going? Let's go with our group seven."

"roll roll roll"

Captain Tang yelled angrily.

……

Just as the three captains were talking nonsense, three fast horses came running over.

A sharp-eyed soldier of the Heaven and Earth Army shouted loudly:

"Commander-in-Chief"

"It's the commander-in-chief"

The soldiers cheered!

……

Wei Xiaobao brought Shuang'er and Princess Lingzhao to the three leaders and asked, "What's the situation now?"

The three regiment commanders each reported on the progress of their own attacks.

When Princess Zhaoling heard that Zuoying had surrendered, she immediately asked Captain Li if he had seen the four young Japanese maids.

When Princess Zhaoling heard Captain Li say that someone was detained in Zuoying, she was about to mount her horse and go to Zuoying, but Wei Xiaobao stopped her.

He asked Captain Li to bring the four maids and the two sergeants over.

Then Wei Xiaobao turned his attention to the large group of civilians at the gate of Youying.

Wei Xiaobao discovered that the number of civilians had decreased a lot.

Seeing that the civilians in front remained indifferent no matter how we persuaded them, we thought that the devils inside must have been determined to die and had kidnapped some civilians as hostages in the right camp, so the civilians in front did not dare to act on their own.

After a while, Captain Li came with his men.

When the four maids and two lieutenants saw Princess Lingzhao, they immediately knelt down and lay prostrate.

The four maids cried incessantly, and the two lieutenants were very excited. Finally, they didn't have to worry anymore and their entire clan would be exterminated.

"Please stand up." Princess Lingzhao said.

"Thank you, Princess." The six people replied.