Section 180 Post-war Review of the Great Changes
After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan officially became a member of the imperialist club, and Japan officially embarked on the road of militarism that went crazy for the whole country. In the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's militarist-oriented propaganda shaped four military gods: Heihachiro Togo, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Sea of Japan; General Nogi Noshinori, commander of the Japanese Third Army at the Russo-Japanese Battle of Arthur; Two other mid-ranking officers were killed in the blockade of Port Arthur: Takeo Hirose and Shuta Tachibana. Through the establishment of a series of elevated and magnified images of typical military gods, the younger generation of Japan will be able to dedicate themselves to the military country and be loyal to the emperor as the supreme glory and the best way to be born. From the Meiji period, Taisho period, to the early Showa period, a social phenomenon was formed in Japan, where men grew up in the army or entered military schools, while women worked as medical nurses or telegraph operators. In a word: it is glorious to join the army.
Under the deliberate guidance of Wu Chenxuan's gang, the Japanese army's tactics only strengthened the firepower configuration of the squadron, and the Type 01 infantry guns and grenadiers proved to be cost-effective as the magic weapon of the imperial army. The Russian machine guns were suppressed by the grenadiers of the new army, and the Japanese army mistakenly thought that the machine guns had little tactical value, but only strengthened the firepower density of the defenders, so the importance of machine guns was far less than that of other powers. The Japanese army defeated Russia in terms of stabbing and thus became the king of white-knuckle warfare among the great powers, which greatly excited Japan, which had just become a great power, and won the white-knuckle battle, and the argument that "full of attacking spirit and superb white-knuckle combat technology can defeat the enemy's powerful weapons" and other arguments was enshrined by the Japanese army under the encouragement of the old-school generals who returned from the Russo-Japanese War. This is also Wu Chenxuan's biggest gain in this war, cutting off the tentacles of the Russians to the northeast and misleading the development direction of the Japanese army.
Wu Chenxuan sorted out the experience of the Northeast in the past six months and found a Russo-Japanese War that was far from the history books. First of all, after obtaining the consent of the Qing government, Japan sent troops to the northeast and launched the "Russo-Japanese War". And in addition to the new army of Wuyi, which came to fight monsters and earn extra money, some Qing troops also sent troops to support the Japanese army and jointly fight against the Russian army.
Secondly, after a year of fighting, after 100,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded, Japan defeated Russia. After the Japanese army drove the Russian troops out of Northeast China, according to the agreement, Japan returned 99% of the land it actually occupied in Northeast China to the Qing Dynasty.
These historical facts are contrary to the cognition that many young people of later generations have gained in textbooks, but they are historical facts and ironclad facts. So why is Japan doing this? Of course, the Japanese are not good birds, if there were only Japan, Russia, and China in the world, Northeast China in 1905 would have properly become a Japanese colony, and Taiwan and North Korea, which had been colonies for ten years, were no different. However, the demilitarized zone jointly managed by the eleven countries has made Japan sober up from its arrogance, not only owing a lot of debts to the British boss, but also facing the pressure of France, Germany, the United States, Italy and other first-class powers, the glamorous appearance of Japan is already exhausted, and if it does not negotiate peace to earn some benefits, I am afraid that Japan that wins the war will also lose its national fortunes.
After the defeat of the Russian army, in 1905, Japan made an appointment with the Qing government, and after more than a month of negotiations in Beijing, the Qing and Japan signed a "Conference on the Matters of the Three Eastern Provinces" and a supplementary treaty, in which the Qing government ceded the following major sovereignty to Japan as a condition for Japan's withdrawal from the Northeast. 2. Cedion the management rights of the South Manchurian Railway and the forest products and minerals along the line; 3. Japan was allowed to station troops on both sides of the South Manchurian Railway.
According to this treaty, Japan began to send personnel to take over the South Manchurian Railway, immigrate to Lushun and Dalian, and sent a force to be stationed on both sides of the South Manchurian Railway.
In other words, why did the Japanese Kwantung Army send troops from the suburbs of Shenyang to open the Beida Camp before the "918 Incident" in 1931, because they had been stationed in Northeast China for 26 years! Moreover, in the past 26 years, whether the Kwantung Army has had conflicts and contradictions with the Zhang family and his son, or with the Chinese residents in the northeast, of course, the two sides have maintained peace and harmony. This fact is probably not far from what we have learned from history books, but unfortunately, it is also a fact.
Although Japan made a lot of money this time, they formed a mortal enmity with the Russians, and they became the main threat to the interests of various countries in the East, and became one of the potential opponents of the great powers. In three large-scale round battles, with more than 30,000 people participating in the battle, almost half of the field troops and two-thirds of the heavy artillery units of the Wuyi New Army were quenched in the Russo-Japanese War. In particular, the last two Wuyi New Army deliberately took the lifeline of Gyeonggi in Tanggu, Shanhaiguan, and the neat military appearance, advanced equipment, high morale, and carts of loot opened the eyes of the officials of the Qing Dynasty. In addition to hiding in the distance and sneaking a second glance, the people boldly went up to help the cart pave the way, and earned a few coppers or a bag of pasta, but they were numb in their eyes and indifferent. However, through this parade-like march, the foreigners re-realized that there was a new force on the land of China that was no less than that of Beiyang, and everything about this force seemed to be closely integrated with the young Chinese businessman named Sean.
For a time, Xiong Bingsan and Zhang Nanjiang, who were in charge of government affairs and diplomacy, had their apartments and yamen all in full swing, and waves of foreign adults came one after another. Foreign banks from various countries, which have always been sensitive, have also discussed business with Miao Hainan and Meng Luochuan, and the overseas trading volume of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce has soared. Domestic businessmen also feel that the Shandong Chamber of Commerce of the collusion model of officials and businessmen is more suitable for their appetite, Shanxi ticket number, two Huai salt merchants, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai free shipping, oh, is Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai industrial and commercial tycoons have come to the Shandong Chamber of Commerce to set friendship, Shandong Chamber of Commerce has become a golden sign in various places, the strict membership director system of the Chamber of Commerce, so that Shandong businessmen are proud to be members of the Chamber of Commerce. As for the director of the business, it is a well-known big business, and the central enterprises and blue chips of later generations, if a director of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce says that the capital turnover is not effective, the next day there will be a ticket number bank with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to ask you for a loan, the agreement is directly ignored, the interest rate is even lower and scary, I hate that as long as you use his family's money, it will give him a great face. Naturally, the dry ticket number and the bank are not stupid, but if you can have a relationship with the director of the Chamber of Commerce, you will have the capital to gain a foothold in the financial world in the future, otherwise you will say that few peers dare to believe in your strength.
In a thriving situation, Wu Chenxuan thought behind closed doors in the long-lost feudal yamen, and the few generals who came to report on the work were confused. Finally, when Boss Wu's cultivation was completed and he broke through, all the true disciples, oh, it was all the generals of the Wuyi New Army who surrounded him, but they were stopped by Wu Chenxuan with a wave of his hand. Everyone sat down in the conference room together, and Wu Chenxuan's first sentence made the hearts of several generals tremble.
"Brethren, we are in debt. It is a blood debt, a blood debt for the vain death of his brothers. ”
The generals were silent, and they somewhat understood what Boss Wu meant, and the purpose of retreating as soon as Wu Chenxuan came back was really thinking about the mistakes of participating in the war this time.
"According to the summary of the General Staff Office, our army participated in the battle with 34,318 people, went through 177 battles of all sizes, killed and wounded 14,385 Russian troops, 97 Japanese troops, captured 18,043 Russian soldiers and 4 Japanese soldiers, in addition to annihilating more than 40 stubborn bandits and eliminating more than 10,000 bandits. But we have three thousand and forty-seven brothers who have fallen forever, and eight hundred and seventy-five have been disabled and discharged from the army, and many more have suffered minor wounds, that is to say, we have killed thirty or forty thousand, and we have lost no less than three or four thousand. But what we are fighting here is a skillful battle that chooses the battlefield and determines the timing, and there is no hard battle like the Japanese army on the 203 heights, nor is there a tragic battle faced by the Russian army on the eastern front of Heigou Tai."
No one responded, and all the generals who just now felt that they were brilliant in battle were thinking about whether their subordinates could still win the battle if they were put in the position of the Japanese army and the Russian army. For a while, the atmosphere was eager, and the air pressure in the conference room was instantly reduced.
"Of course, you are also experienced in a hundred battles, and it is no longer Beiyang that ridicules us as a "tweed army". However, there is still a gap between the battlefield and the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, and only at the end of each war, constantly summing up their own shortcomings, finding out the gaps, and catching up with the army is an army that keeps pace with the times, an army that is not left behind by the enemy, and an army that maintains the vitality of change and enterprising passion. Wu Chenxuan spread out the notebook in his hand, "I have summarized a few lessons below, which can be regarded as throwing bricks and leading the way, this afternoon we all have to speak, not to apply grease and powder, and to promote the ugliness of the family." First, the troops relied excessively on orders from their superiors and lacked autonomy; in particular, the lieutenants and noncommissioned officers did not give full play to their own subjective initiative, and some company posts only knew how to work hard when they were acting independently, and did not know how to think of their own methods, resulting in unnecessary casualties. I have some examples, and I will analyze them with you in a moment. Second, the troops are bloated, the equipment is small and complete, and the excessive equipment and direct organization slow down the speed of the march, reduce the suddenness of the action, and thus increase the casualties. For example, the firepower of the company level is insufficient, but the firepower of the battalion level is excessive, and the enemy is not familiar with the technique of laying mines and obstacles, so the sappers often have nothing to do except build bridges and pave roads. The battalion-level infantry guns, although lightweight, slowed down the troops' marching speed during mountain operations. Third, the command level of the unit is stacked on top of each other, like the battalion level, the company lacks qualified officers, and the pipe band, the assistant band, and even the marching staff officer all act as team officers, and the battalion is not like a battalion, the team is not a team, and there are not many officers and many ranks. Fourth 、......"
The staff officers outside are all tiptoeing to act, who would have thought that the general seat would return home after a big victory, first think about it behind closed doors, and then call the generals together for training, and really can't see that the general seat of the amiable group on weekdays actually has such a strict side. In the venue, Wu Ziyu, Du Zicheng, Wu Luzhen, Xiao Mingfeng, Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng, He Laoba, Wei Yu, Wu Shouben all lowered their heads, recorded on the paper, and constantly added their own reflections. Since then, the New Army of the Armed Wing and the later Wehrmacht have maintained the tradition of post-war reflection and summarization, and will not allow mistakes to continue into the next battle.