Chapter 249: Heavenly Punishment (6)

However, Miyamoto Naoto still underestimated the determination of the riot team, they were not simply brave and not afraid of life and death, but also full of determination to be martyred, so they did not hesitate to do so, and did not retreat from the casualties. Moreover, the patrol team is mostly equipped with pistols, and the range is only about 30 meters, if you are really not afraid of death, there is indeed a great chance that you can rush to the front of the patrol. However, once it comes to hand-to-hand combat, the advantage of the patrol team is not great, first, the number of people is small; second, the patrol is equipped with a fighting weapon of about 60 centimeters, and most of the riot teams are equipped with spears and clubs, and even the samurai * sabber is about one meter, so it naturally has a great advantage in fighting.

The two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 minutes, although the riot team had suffered 6 or 70 casualties, and the patrol team also suffered more than 20 casualties, and it was already somewhat defeated, and the riot team rushed to the front, and the fight was repeatedly retreated by more than 3 or 20 meters. At this time, Miyamoto Naoto was in a hurry, and it was useless, although he shot and killed 6 or 7 thugs, but he was also alone.

Fortunately, at this moment, two more patrols arrived and joined the battle group, which can be regarded as turning the situation around, after all, although the number of riot teams is large, and everyone is not afraid of life and death, but flesh and blood cannot compete with modern weapons. However, the riot team still resisted for more than 20 minutes before finally being defeated by the patrol and fleeing in all directions. Of course, there are still many injured people left.

The patrol is chasing and arresting the rioters, but Naoto Miyamoto has no intention of other things, and rushes into Ito's mansion to find Ito Hirobumi, still praying in his heart, hoping that a miracle will occur, and Ito Hirobumi is safe.

But miracles are not so easy to appear, as soon as he rushed into the courtyard of the mansion, Miyamoto Naoto saw Ito Hirofumi lying in a pool of blood, and his body and side were sprinkled with white paper with the words "Heavenly Punishment" written on it. At this time, Miyamoto's mind suddenly went blank, and for the first time, he had a wavering idea about the future of Japan.

At the same time that Hirobumi Ito's mansion was attacked by riot teams, Aritomo's mansion in Yamagumi was also attacked.

However, this time the luck of the riot team was much worse, first, there was a banquet in the mansion of Youpeng in Shan County, and basically everyone in the family did not sleep, although it was not considered to be prepared in advance, but it was impossible for the riot team to take them by surprise; second, there was Peng Bijing in Shan County who was born in the military, and many of his servants were retired soldiers, and there were still a few guns in his house, and the people who came to the banquet in Youpeng's house in Shan County were basically important figures in the army, even if they came to Youpeng's house in Shan County as a guest, they would bring a few guards, adding up to 2, 30 guns, and all of them are active soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than Ito Hirobumi's mansion.

At that moment, relying on the buildings, walls, rockeries and other bunkers of the mansion to resist immediately, the riot team was caught off guard, and 10 people were killed at once, and they didn't even touch the door of Youpeng's house in Shanxian County.

However, there were also more than 300 rioters attacking Youpeng's mansion in Shanxian County, including 3 or 40 soldiers. Although many people fell on the way to attack, they continued to follow one after another.

Although the mansion of Youpeng in Shan County tried its best to resist, after all, the number of people was very different, and whether it was the guns hidden in Youpeng's house in Shan County, or the guns carried by the guards, it was impossible to be equipped with too many bullets, so the two sides fought for less than 10 minutes, and the resistance forces of Youpeng's mansion in Shan County ran out of bullets, although they also killed and injured 7 or 80 rioters, but they still could not resist the attack of the riot team, and finally were attacked into the mansion by the riot team.

But after all, at this time, Youpeng and others in Shan County were already prepared, and there were people to defend them, so they also fought and retreated, and gradually withdrew from the back door of the mansion. However, there are also people with flexible minds in the riot team, and they have already assigned people to block the other exits of Youpeng's mansion in Shan County, and as a result, Youpeng and others in Shan County opened the back door only to find that there were already people guarding here, although the back door was closed at the very time, and the rioters did not take advantage of the situation to break through the back door, but they were blocked in the house and could not get out, and they were still trapped by the riot team. And at this time, most of the servants and guards were also injured and killed, and Yama Prefecture Yutomo, Terauchi Masatake, Katsura Taro and others were also injured one after another.

Seeing that Yama Prefecture Youpeng and others were about to follow in the footsteps of Ito Hirobumi, fortunately, at this moment, the patrol team arrived, after all, there was such a big movement, and it was impossible for the patrol team in the vicinity not to be alarmed, so they also rushed to relieve the siege immediately. Although only one patrol came, the casualties of the riot team were close to half at this time, and the resistance of Youpeng's mansion in Bijing County was also quite tenacious, otherwise it would not have been possible to hold out until the patrol arrived.

When the patrol joined, the situation was immediately reversed, and the rioting team could not resist and fled one after another. After driving away the rioters, the patrol team hurriedly sent Youpeng and others to the hospital for treatment.

And on this night, in addition to Ito Hirobumi and Yama Prefecture Aritomo, there were also Yamamoto Gonbei, Komura Shoutaro, Kayama Shoki, Takahashi Kiyoshi and other administrative officials, as well as several chaebols were attacked by the riot team, some were a little luckier, took advantage of the chaos to escape, escaped, and escaped, but some were unlucky and were killed by the riot team.

It was not until about 6 o'clock in the morning that the Tokyo Garrison Command received an imperial decree from the emperor and mobilized troops into the city of Tokyo to suppress the riots and maintain order in Tokyo.

Under normal circumstances, the Emperor of Japan would not personally give orders to other institutions, but would give orders to the Cabinet, and the Cabinet would do all the gymnastics.1 But today's situation is special, the palace received the news of the riot team at about 3 o'clock in the morning, and the Meiji Emperor was also frightened after waking up from his sleep, and the Meiji Emperor's health during this time was not very good, one is that the Meiji Emperor is now almost 60 years old, and his body is naturally not as good as the prime of life during the First Sino-Japanese War; the other is that after the end of the Far Eastern War, the Meiji Emperor was worried about state affairs, and his mood was naturally not good, and his mood was not good, and his health was of course poor. So Emperor Meiji immediately got up and dressed, because he couldn't sleep anymore, and at the same time as changing clothes, Emperor Meiji ordered the cabinet to mobilize troops to suppress the riots in Tokyo.

But when the order was issued, Emperor Meiji remembered that Yamamoto Gonbei had resigned, the cabinet had been dissolved, and the new prime minister and cabinet had not yet been formed.

This time the Meiji Emperor also made a difficulty, but now the news of the riot is still coming, and now the scale of the riot team is getting bigger and bigger, in addition to attacking officials and chaebols, there are also a considerable number of attacks on shops, banks and other institutions, if you let it go like this, I don't know what the consequences will be, and now there is no one around the Meiji Emperor to discuss, and the Meiji Emperor is depressed in his heart.

By 5 o'clock in the morning, according to reports, the size of the riot team had expanded to tens of thousands, and the evil deeds had spread to most of the Tokyo area, and fires broke out in many places, and some riot teams were even attacking foreign embassies. Emperor Meiji also knew that he could not hesitate any longer, otherwise the consequences would be difficult to control, so he had to personally order the Tokyo Garrison Command, ordering them to dispatch troops to suppress the riots in Tokyo, and at the same time ordered the Army Staff and the Navy Command to immediately mobilize their respective armies and prepare to support the troops of the Tokyo Garrison Command.

However, the Tokyo Garrison Headquarters had never received an imperial order from the Emperor, so after receiving the order, it could not believe it, and sent people to the Imperial Palace to confirm it, and when it was confirmed that the imperial order was true, it recruited troops and arranged the defense areas of each army, and so on, and by the time the troops were dispatched, it was almost 7 o'clock in the morning.

However, dawn also has the advantage of dawn, that is, everything can be seen clearly, and it is also convenient for the army to suppress. Although the number of rioters had reached more than 100,000 at this time, they were incomparable to the army, and by the second day, the army and navy had also marched into Tokyo, bringing the number of Japanese troops involved in suppressing the riot to more than 70,000. However, it took three days for the riots to be quelled and peace was largely restored to Tokyo.

According to the investigation, a total of 6,673 people were killed, 10,964 were injured, 812 rooms were burned, more than 1,000 shops and more than 20 banks were robbed, and the initial economic damage was estimated to be millions of yen. Of course, the economic losses are secondary, and the most serious losses are people, a total of 4 important ministers such as Ito Hirobumi, Komura Shoutaro, Oshi Shigenobu, and Inoue Shin died in the riot, and Yamaguchi Aritomo died after 3 days due to his injuries, and 3 chaebols were killed at the same time, and officials such as Terauchi Masatsu, Katsura Taro, Yamamoto Gonbei, and Takahashi Kiyoshi were also injured in the riots, so it can be said that the Japanese losses this time were extremely huge. Fortunately, before the riots, Japan deployed a large number of police forces in various embassies, and it was fortunate that the mobs did not break through the embassies.

Although the riots were quelled, the follow-up liquidation work lasted for nearly a month, and more than 45,000 people were arrested, almost as many as anyone involved in the atrocities were arrested. 17 were identified as the main offenders, 41 as principal and accessory offenders, and as many as 500 as many as 500 secondary accomplices.

The Meiji Emperor was so annoyed by the revolt that he punished them severely, with the main offender and the principal accessory sentenced to death, the secondary accomplice sentenced to life in Hokkaido, and the rest of the participants were sentenced to 10 years.

In terms of the establishment of a new prime minister, Terauchi Masatsuki was seriously injured and would not be able to recover for a while, and a total of 417 army soldiers participated in this riot, which also made the army department very embarrassed, and it was obvious that it would be difficult for the army department to become the prime minister. In the end, it was decided through consultation that the Saiyuan Temple Gongwang would be the prime minister and the cabinet would be reorganized.

Saionji Gongwang is one of the veterans of the Meiji Restoration and one of the founders of the Political Friendship Association, both in terms of personal prestige and qualifications, he is currently the best candidate for the prime minister of Japan, and he is also a candidate that can be recognized by all forces.