If you want to control a country, even a small country like the Ryukyus, it will not work to pin your hopes on one person.
Another task of Bai Qi to go to Ryukyu was to find a new agent, so that he could form some kind of checks and balances with Pan Tingzhen, and finally achieve the goal of controlling Ryukyu.
Lin Shigong was another target chosen by Bai Qi.
In fact, objectively speaking, Lin Shigong has a greater advantage than Pan Tingzhen, after all, Lin Shigong is an official official of the Ryukyus, and he is from an orthodox background, so such a person is more easily accepted by other Ryukyuan people.
Relatively speaking, Pan Tingzhen's identity is a bit embarrassing, after all, Putian has been relatively closed for so many years, and there is little communication with other regions of the Ryukyus, if Pan Tingzhen comes to power through a coup d'état, then the Ryukyuan people will not necessarily accept it.
Now with Lin Shigong, it is equivalent to giving the Ryukyuan people one more choice, no matter which of them the Ryukyuan people will choose in the end, it will be Li Mu and the Junma Group who will eventually lead the scenes.
Bai Qi didn't want to waste too much time at a small checkpoint, and Bai Qi didn't even have time to listen to Kuroda's defense, and after going out, Bai Qi turned around and made a gesture to Hunter.
With a sinister smile on his face, Hunter pulled out the dagger from his waist and pushed the door in, only to hear a few terrible howls, but there was no sound in the room.
Holding the golden pocket watch, Lin Shigong's expression was extremely solemn.
No matter how stupid Lin Shigong is, he has already guessed the intention of Bai Qi's trip to Shuli at this time, so Lin Shigong's mood at this time is very complicated.
From the bottom of his heart, Lin Shigong really can't sit back and watch Japan annex Ryukyu, if the Ryukyu Kingdom must perish, Lin Shigong would rather die at the hands of the Qing Empire.
Now this result can also be reluctantly accepted by Lin Shigong, although Bai Qi is an American, but Bai Qi is also Chinese, and this bottom-up form is indeed easier for Lin Shigong to accept.
However, as long as he thought that he was going to bury the Ryukyu Kingdom with his own hands, Lin Shigong felt heavy, which made Lin Shigong unhappy no matter what, even in the foreseeable future, his status would rise steadily.
Bai Qi didn't have so many thoughts in his heart, rebellion was already familiar to Bai Qi, and now he just needs to move forward step by step.
Near noon, Shuri was in sight, and Bai Qi did not deliberately hide his tracks along the way, so when Bai Qi arrived at Shuri, the four gates of Shuri Castle were closed, and the city was full of musketeers, as if he was already in a tight battle.
"Sir, you're ready, and you're asking for an attack."
Yang Wei and his men were the main force besieging the city.
Although Shuri Castle is not large and the walls are not high, after all, it also has a certain defensive ability, so this battle still has to be fought.
Bai Qi hoped to exercise the combat effectiveness of the militia through real battles, so he arranged for Yang Wei and his men to take the lead.
This or the casualties will be greater, but this is unavoidable, if the Chinese want to become the masters of the country, they must rely on bloodshed and sacrifice to strive for it, and the happiness that is easily obtained will not be cherished after all.
"Let's start" Bai Qi gestured to Hunter from afar, and then ordered the siege to begin.
Click, click, click The first to fire was the machine gunners led by Hunter, these machine gun shooters were all Americans, but their deputies were all members of the Putian militia, and they also wanted to help Putian train more machine gunners as much as possible to deal with larger battles in the future.
The machine gun emplacements were very close to the city walls, only about 200 meters, which was a great distance for the maximum power of the Rainstorm light machine guns.
Comparatively, the breech-loading flintlock pistols of the Wangcheng Guards had a range of far less than 200 meters, so they could not pose any threat to the machine-gun position, allowing the machine gunners to shoot calmly.
It was true that the training of the royal city guards was not good, although the range was insufficient, but after the light machine gun fire, the soldiers on the city wall returned fire.
The return fire of the royal city guards cannot be said to be useless, after all, the gunpowder used by the royal city guards is still black powder, and after the salvo, the black smoke above the city head is filled, which can cause a lot of trouble to the machine gunners when they fall.
Relying on the cover of the machine-gun position, Yang Wei pulled out the command knife on his waist, blew the copper whistle in his mouth vigorously, and led the troops to attack the Shuri city wall at a uniform speed.
From the point of view of Bai Qi, such a way of fighting is indeed a bit silly, if the Shuri defenders were also equipped with light and heavy machine guns, it would really be more and more dead, this situation has been verified in Cuba and Montana.
However, this method is precisely the most popular combat method in the world at this time, and in these years, the war does not pay attention to what is interspersed with detours, nor does it pay attention to what is right and strange to complement each other, what is fought is will and determination, and whoever can't withstand it first collapses.
The training for half a year has still yielded results, at least on the battlefield filled with gunpowder, the front of the Putian militia has not collapsed, although some of them are trembling and short of breath, but the rhythm of stepping on the whistle can still barely keep the straggler line parallel, which is already quite good.
This way of fighting is indeed a test of will and courage, Yang Wei has almost not appeared on the Internet, and the royal city guards on the city wall collapsed first.
In fact, as soon as the light machine gun was fired, the collapse had already begun to appear.
According to the experience of the royal city guards, at a distance of 200 meters, the bullets could not penetrate the battlements in the city wall at all, so the royal city guards did not react at all in the face of the cover fire of light machine guns, and still went their own way and counterattacked according to the inherent rhythm.
As a result, the power of the light machine gun was beyond the expectations of the royal city guards, and even at a distance of 200 meters, the bullets fired by the light machine gun still smashed the battlements into a staggering force.
The collapse began immediately after one of the local defenders was hit by a bullet and fell from the wall screaming.
First of all, the sporadic soldiers abandoned their guns and fled, and then the small-scale escape turned into a large-scale rout, and there were still individual officers who tried their best to maintain the front, but in the face of death threats, few people could remain calm, so Yang Wei and they almost did not encounter any resistance, and they came to the city wall smoothly.
The two-meter-high city wall is indeed not high, and with the cooperation of two people, it is easy to climb up, from the beginning of the cover shooting of light machine guns to the first soldier to ascend to the top of the city, the whole process takes less than 20 minutes.
"With your combat effectiveness, it's no wonder that the Japanese are worried about you."
Bai Qi really didn't expect the Wang Cheng Guards to be so vulnerable.
Although Bai Qi had carefully assessed the strength of the Wangcheng Guards before, he didn't expect that there were still a lot of overestimated ingredients, and now it seems that this is a group of rabble, in order to deal with such a group of people, Bai Qi actually gathered the Putian militia to train for half a year, so Bai Qi felt like a waste of time.
"The edifice is about to fall, people's hearts are moving, and the officers are all starting to take Japanese names, how can they be expected to be born and die for the kingdom" Lin Shigong had to admit that Bai Qi was right.
"Start all over again, you still have a chance" Bai Qi's words were not to comfort Lin Shigong, but to state the facts.
If Lin Shigong can't even stand this pressure, then Bai Qi has to think about whether it is appropriate to choose Lin Shigong.
"It's not easy to start all over again," Lin Shigong shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"What's so difficult about this, we will guarantee the independence of your Ryukyu Kingdom and will not be threatened by anyone, but at the same time, you must also cooperate with our Shoma Group, and you can't hold us back from behind, if you can do it, believe me, you will have a very bright future."
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Bai Qi didn't want to be the king either, so he gave Lin Shigong a high degree of freedom.
Lin Shigong finally remembered to determine the purpose of the Junma Group, so the question came quickly: "What do you want to do?"
The so-called butt determines the head, Lin Shigong does not have Li Mu's pattern, so he can't understand Li Mu's purpose.
This is also normal, now few people can guess Li Mu's thoughts, Rockefeller is the one who knows Li Mu best, and can only roughly infer Li Mu's purpose from Li Mu's character, but it will not be completely correct, so Rockefeller often falls into the ditch dug by Li Mu.
"We have two purposes, one is to immigrate to the United States as much as possible from the Qing Empire to enrich the power of the Chinese in the United States, and the second purpose is to contain Japan, although our chairman has little interest in Japan, but as long as Japan rises, the first unlucky will be the Qing State, in the final analysis, the unlucky ones are the Chinese of the Qing Dynasty, this is our purpose."
Bai Qi said it very bluntly, and he almost didn't say that helping you was just piggybacking.
"So, what can we do for you?"
Although Lin Shigong was reluctant to admit it, the facts now became clear that in this cooperation, Ryukyu could only be in a subordinate position.
"The Ryukyus will become a transit point for our immigrants, and at the same time will become a logistics base for us to contain Japan, what you have to do is to provide us with enough human resources and raw materials and equipment, and in the process, your economic base will also be greatly improved, and I believe you can see the benefits in this."
Bai Qi replied as he raised his binoculars and looked near the city gate.
The Wangcheng guards were indeed lazy to the extreme, and in the face of the pressure of the army, they didn't even do the most basic defensive measures, and they didn't even block the city gate, they really deserved it.
Yang Bangfei, who hadn't yet gotten the chance to shoot, ran back to report, and couldn't help the joy on his face: "Report to the sir, the royal city guards have collapsed, His Majesty's whereabouts are unknown, we are chasing down the remnants of the enemy, please instruct" That's a win Thinking of the hard work of this little half a year, Bai Qi felt unable to cry or laugh, and had a sense of loss that he threw a punch with all his strength, but hit the empty sandbag.
"Continue to pursue the remnants of the enemy, while paying attention to maintaining order, and send someone back to report the good news to Lord Pan" Bai Qi shook his head slightly, and decided to set up a tent outside the city and not enter the city tonight.
The battle just now seems to be lively, in fact, the royal city guards did not kill a few people, most of the soldiers just fled, and the vast majority of people are estimated to be still hiding in Shuri Castle, so it is not a good choice to enter the city now, after all, the streets in Shuri Castle are narrow and the terrain is complex, which is very suitable for breech flintlock pistols to exert their power, and Bai Qi does not want to enter the city to be sent to the door to be shot with black guns.
"Yes" Yang Bangli saluted, turned around and went happily.
This action made Bai Qi very angry, saluting on the battlefield is a taboo, it seems that Yang Bang, this kid, must not have studied hard when he trained.
"How to clean up this mess now" Lin Shigong finally came back to his senses from the soul wandering void and focused on the mess in front of him.
"It's simple, you go and find a random child, and then say that he is a descendant of the royal family, let him be the king, and then you and Lord Tingzhen will discuss your own position."
Bai Qi doesn't get involved in this kind of thing, as long as he can cooperate with himself to carry out the task, even if the Ryukyuan people get a dog to be the king, Bai Qi has no opinion.
"My position with Lord Tingzhen", hearing that Bai Qi did not interfere, Lin Shigong was suddenly fascinated.
"Yes, your own position, you decide for yourselves, if you want to, even if you take turns to be king."
Bai Qi delegated power very thoroughly, which is similar to Li Mu.
"If you can't be a king, maybe there shouldn't be a king in the whole country."
Lin Shigong shook his head again and again, people like him are more aware of death, once they drill the tip of the horns, eight horses can't pull it back.
"Then you are casual, I just made a suggestion, and I didn't ask you to do it, I don't want you to keep the king, then you can run for president, but no matter how you toss, you can't miss the matter of our horse group."
Bai Qi is also consequentialism, and it doesn't matter what the form is.
"The king should still be retained at this stage" Lin Shigong thought a lot, considering the acceptance of the Ryukyu people, it is still necessary to keep the king.
Of course, this reservation is only a reservation, and in fact there is no right, and when the time comes, the king can be demoted to a commoner at any time, and then it will be a model of the victory of democracy.
"Let's discuss it" Bai Qi was a little impatient, and got up to go to the cooking class for a spin.
This cooking class has just been established, and half of its members are women, which can be regarded as a precedent for the Putian militia group.
It is also necessary for a troop of six or seven hundred people to be equipped with a cooking class, according to Bai Qi's requirements, in addition to the food they carry with them, the soldiers can only go to the cooking class to find something to eat, once they enter Shuri Castle, even if there are delicacies from the mountains and seas in front of them, no one is allowed to touch them.
This is the stupidest way to protect yourself, but it is also the most effective way, and no one knows how the residents of Shuri Castle will treat the Chinese of Putian.
"Sir, Mr.
Wellington is visiting."
A guard hurried to report.
Wellington is the U.S. ambassador to the Ryukyus, and it seems that the news from the embassy is a bit slow, and it is only now that he has reacted.
Bai Qi didn't have to go back, he knew what the purpose of Wellington's visit was, it was nothing more than to determine the purpose of Bai Qi and the others, and maybe he wanted to act as a peacemaker and get some benefits from it.
"Let's go, let's go back and see what Mr.
Wellington is up to."
Bai Qi didn't dare to slack off after all.
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