In order to become a Heroic Spirit, I had no choice but to cause trouble in history.

However, Zuocun himself went a bit too far.

He chose a battle location that tightly restricted his Hundred Birds Style, and then successfully inflicted serious injuries.

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Chapter 393: Kyoto Fire

The first year of Yuanzhi, the end of June (the end of July 1864).

Choshu Domain.

"No, we absolutely cannot swallow this!" A burly man slammed his fist on the table in front of him, furious. "Almost all of our men have been eaten by those Mibu wolves! We absolutely cannot swallow this!"

Following the Ikedaya Incident on June 5th, while the radical anti-foreign forces of the Choshu Domain were almost completely wiped out, the Shinsengumi, as a violent organization directly under the shogunate, became famous throughout the country.

People called the Shinsengumi "Mibu Wolves" or "Man-eating Mibu Wolves".

However, this was an absolute disgrace to the last remaining leaders of the expulsion of foreigners in the Choshu Domain.

Sitting in the room, Shinsaku Takasugi and Kogoro Katsura exchanged a cryptic glance and simultaneously revealed a smile.

The man who slammed his fist on the table was named Kurishima Matabei, one of the few remaining leaders of the anti-foreign movement.

“We have no choice but to swallow this insult!” A seemingly composed man exchanged glances with Kijima Matabei and said, “We’re already in the wrong, are we really going to go to the capital to demand an explanation?”

This man is named Shubu Seinosuke, and he is considered a fellow traveler of Takasugi Shinsaku and Katsura Kogoro.

Kijima Matabei gritted his teeth: "We can't just admit defeat like this!"

After saying that, Kijima Matabei angrily left his seat.

Shinsaku Takasugi sighed.

He felt that things wouldn't end so easily.

......

three days later.

These days, the conservative faction, led by Takasugi Shinsaku, Katsura Kogoro, and Shubu Seinosuke, has tried their best to calm the emotions within the domain, but they are no match for the powerful.

The Choshu Domain was never a stable and powerful domain.

Just like when they bombarded foreign merchant ships in Shimonoseki, the Choshu Domain is now determined to raise an army.

Led by three chief retainers, several retainers of the Choshu Domain, under the pretext of "pleading with His Majesty the Emperor about the lord's grievances," launched a massive uprising and marched toward Kyoto.

Takasugi Shinsaku was dumbfounded. "You're just going to take the army I built up and send it to your death?"

However, because these remaining radicals had been planning for a long time, they directly sent people to keep an eye on several steady and important officials, and resolutely led their troops toward the capital.

Takasugi Shinsaku managed to escape from the watchful eyes of his spies, preparing to catch up with the marching troops and thwart their plans.

However, the radicals had already colluded with the feudal lord. Before Takasugi Shinsaku could catch up with the marching troops, he was arrested and thrown into prison, and they even fabricated a charge of "deserting from the domain" against him.

Katsura Kogoro was also extremely anxious.

Although rebellion and overthrowing the shogunate are necessary steps in the process of splitting and establishing a new government, it is clear that now is not the time. Moreover, he had also collected intelligence in Kyoto when he was in Kyoto recently. At present, there are more than 10,000 people in Kyoto, including the domain soldiers of various domains, the Shinsengumi, and the army brought by Tokugawa Iemochi.

Maki Izumi, Kusaka Genzui, and the more than one thousand soldiers brought by Kurushima Matabei will definitely suffer a crushing defeat.

Katsura Kogoro secretly wrote a letter to Ryoma, hoping that Ryoma could ask Samura, who was still in Kyoto, to come up with a solution.

But before the letter could be sent from Choshu to Nagasaki, Maki and Izumi had already reached Kyoto.

In mid-July, the Choshu Domain troops launched a direct attack on the Hagami Gate, one of the main gates of Kyoto.

However, the Choshu Domain was a place of great turmoil, and it was impossible for the Imperial Court and the Shogunate not to have spies planted in it. As early as when Maki Izumi and Kusaka Genzui raised their troops, the Shogunate had already issued orders to fight.

When the Choshu Domain troops attacked Kamimon, the Aizu Domain and Kuwana Domain troops came out directly from Kyoto.

However, the Choshu Domain, relying on a large number of firearms purchased through the Kameyama Shrine, managed to suppress the troops of both domains.

However, the Aizu Domain soldiers, who were guarding another gate of Kyoto, arrived and launched a surprise attack on the Choshu Domain from the side, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

The Choshu Domain, caught between the three domains, was in dire straits.

Several generals in charge of the troops immediately ordered a retreat.

However, with Aizu and Kuwana ahead and Satsuma behind, it was impossible to withdraw completely.

Ultimately, the generals decided to abandon a portion of the army, allowing the majority to escape.

Meanwhile, the Choshu Domain soldiers who were left behind in Kyoto and abandoned were put into immediate use as a backup plan.

Everyone pulled out the gunpowder and tinder they had packed on their person and started setting fires wildly in Kyoto.

Because of the gunpowder, the fire spread extremely quickly, and because the main army wanted to try to catch up with the Choshu Domain, they did not extinguish the flames in Kyoto in time.

The result is—

The entire city of Kyoto was engulfed in a raging inferno.

From outside the city, the entire city of Kyoto looked like a giant brazier, with thick smoke billowing from it.

Extinguishing this fire is extremely difficult.

The next morning, after learning the news, Samura rushed from Mibu Village to Kyoto. When he arrived in Kyoto, the fire was still raging.

"How...could this be?" His pupils reflected the towering flames, incredulous.

Without hesitation, Zuo Cun went directly into the city and joined the firefighting team.

Three days later, Zuocun, whose body was charred black, whose face was also blackened by soot, and whose hair was burned down to the length of his shoulder blades, sat on the ground in a corner of Kyoto, panting heavily.

Over the past three days, ordinary people, soldiers from various domains, ronin stranded in Kyoto, and retainers and servants of nobles and officials have all participated in extinguishing the fire.

The fire in Kyoto has finally been extinguished.

However, the fire was extinguished not because of active firefighting, but because there was simply nothing left to burn.

"Cough, cough!" He coughed twice from the smoke. "I wonder how things are going with Ruslan..."

The fire started in the west, but it mainly burned the north-south streets.

Ruslan's clinic, located on a street to the south, was one of the sites most severely affected by the fire.

Zuo Cun's face was blackened, blackened by soot.

He walked down the street with a heavy heart.

The houses on both sides of the road have all disappeared, leaving only collapsed ruins.

Everywhere you look, there are charred corpses, unrecognizable as human beings, and it's impossible to tell who they are.

The bustling city of Kyoto was transformed into a scorching hell in just three days.

Conservative estimates suggest that 30,000 homes were destroyed by fire, and at least 50,000 people died in the fire and smoke. The number of missing persons is incalculable, not to mention the economic losses.

Following his memory, Zuo Cun finally found the familiar location.

But what Zuocun saw was nothing but ruins.

His heart sank.

"...No, it can't be." He knelt beside the ruins, tears dripping onto the ground, leaving a small pit in the black earth.

"You're a capable person, you won't die..."

Zuocun stood up.

He began to rummage through the ruins.

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Chapter 394 Ruslan's Amputation

After moving aside a charred wooden post, Zuocun discovered a leg.

"Ruslan!"

Zuo Cun's spirits immediately tightened.

After clearing away all the debris from the ruins, Luslan was finally dug out by Zuocun.

Zuo Cun brought his ear close to Ruslan's chest and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There's still a heartbeat.

Ruslan was very lucky; the two collapsed sections of the wall happened to overlap, covering Ruslan's upper body and saving his life.

However, the situation was not optimistic. Luslan's legs were twisted in an extremely unnatural way, and the bloodstains below were black.

Zuo Cun frowned as he looked at Lu Silan's obviously broken leg.

While learning English with Ruslan, he also read some medical books, and Ruslan's leg was clearly ruined.

If this useless leg is allowed to remain on Ruslan's body, Ruslan will likely be in big trouble.

After thinking for a moment, Zuocun picked up Luslan and carried him quickly towards the outskirts of Kyoto.

......

More than ten minutes later.

Zuocun carried Luslan back to the hut in Mibu Village.

"Mr. Samurai!?" Kanna was startled when she saw the almost entirely black figure in front of her, and it took her a few more glances to confirm that it was Samurai.

"Kanna, go and clean my room," Samura said to Kanna.

"Ah, yes!"

After Kanna laid out a simple bed in Samura's room, Samura placed Ruslan on it.

Zuocun pulled out the crane wings and looked at Luslan's broken leg.

"Sorry, bro... this is so you can survive."

Zuo Cun gritted his teeth.

Zheng—

Luslan's left leg was severed at the knee by Zuocun.