In this way, the Jieke Group took over Kyoto City without a scratch. Hmm, it was only the Imperial Army that died. In the eyes of the Jieke Group, these guys weren't considered human, just expendables.

Araki Kenichi fulfilled his promise. It took him only a week, not even ten days, to capture Kyoto City.

Kyoto City was occupied, but the city's ravaging had only just begun.

Because Araki Kenichi promised, after taking Kyoto City, not to sheathe the swords for three days. Those Imperial Army soldiers, under the threat of life and death and mental fatigue during the siege, transformed directly into beasts, starting their brutal acts with grim smiles.

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There were still a large number of civilians in Kyoto City. After the Self-defense Team collapsed and surrendered, they could only resign themselves to fate. Many thought that since the Imperial Army were also Japanese, their lives and property would be safeguarded.

But the opposite happened. When those Imperial Army soldiers started posting notices announcing that civilians who voluntarily came out could get preferential treatment, many Japanese civilians hiding in their homes stepped out.

Xiao Ye Pingjing was one of them. He, along with his wife and two children, followed the Imperial Army with dozens of other civilians.

As the road they traveled grew more remote, Xiao Ye Pingjing, puzzled, asked, "Brothers, where are you taking us?"

The Imperial Army soldiers, whom Xiao Ye Pingjing referred to as brothers, exchanged glances, nodded, and then pulled the trigger.

"Wait, what are you doing? We're on the same side."

Xiao Ye Pingjing's eyes filled with terror. Realizing the actions of these Imperial Army soldiers, his heart was filled with Dead Souls.

"Hah, same side, hand over all your money to me."

An Imperial Army soldier sneered, stepping forward to kick Xiao Ye Pingjing down and reached out to grab the gold watch on his wrist.

"Don't hit my husband, you brute! I'm going to report you to the government."

Seeing this, Xiao Ye Pingjing's wife, somehow summoning the courage, brutally pushed that Imperial Army soldier from behind.

"Baka!"

The soldier, enraged, pulled the trigger directly, the bullet piercing through her skull, spraying out yellowish-white matter.

"No!"

Xiao Ye Pingjing's eyes were splitting with desperation, but his rage didn't last long.

Seeing that a murder had been committed, the Imperial Army soldier, deciding not to stop halfway, raised his gun and started firing indiscriminately, killing everyone.

Bullets cut down one Japanese civilian after another, Xiao Ye Pingjing's two children also fell in a pool of blood. When Xiao Ye Pingjing tried to get up and fight, it was useless; bare hands could not compete with the armed Imperial Army.

After the murder, several Imperial Army soldiers began rifling the corpses, scavenging the bodies for wealth.

Scenes like this played out throughout Kyoto City.

When they emerged, they were quickly herded into dead-end lanes by the Imperial Army, like cattle and sheep.

As they stood perplexed, dense gunfire erupted, bullets piercing their flesh. These Japanese civilians died with their eyes open wide in disbelief, having never expected to be killed by their compatriots.

More often, these Imperial Army soldiers would directly kill their way through the doors. They would storm into homes, particularly in the affluent areas, which saw heavy visitation by the Imperial Army.

The Imperial Army soldiers would shoot anyone they encountered. Even those injured and fallen couldn't escape. Imperial Army soldiers would stab each with bayonets to ensure death.

Then these soldiers would smirk, looking at the terrified women, pouncing forward, or confiscating valuables, stuffing precious items into their chests with deadly greed.

Many Imperial Army soldiers with criminal backgrounds, now unchecked, could unleash their evil deeds, people's desires amplified to the extreme as unimaginable atrocities erupted in Kyoto City.

Kyoto City instantly turned into a slaughterhouse, dismembered corpses scattered everywhere. Along the roadside, the canals were piled high with bodies, limbs intertwined, blood flowing into water, turning every hue, the pond filled with corpses.

The streets were littered with bodies, crammed together like fish scales, blood and stench filled the air.

The marauding Imperial Army, after entering the city, began to ravage one affluent household after another, robbing money first, then women, and finally, unleashing their animalistic cruelty, committing indiscriminate killings, setting the city ablaze, the flames illuminating the soldiers' ferocious grins and the Japanese civilians' expressions of fear and despair.

At this moment in Kyoto City, all social norms vanished; only violence and terror remained. A true Hell, nothing more, nothing less.

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