Wait for Wei Ze to temporarily persuade the guys who want resources in the provinces to go back to the provinces to work hard first. Zuo Zhidan, who had been waiting for Wei Ze for several days, immediately reported the matter of the British to Wei Ze. Wei Ze was also puzzled by the British jumping up and down like this. Isn't it just a bullshit Japan that can make the British so excited?

Intelligence is never isolated, Wei Ze quickly read the intelligence of the Japanese side, and read the latest battle report of the Battle of Toba Fushimi, Wei Ze was a little confused.

First of all, the battle damage of both sides, in this era, the Guangfu Army developed a large number of treatment measures for field warfare, and the theory of the military medical system originally created by Wei Ze was very advanced, so there is a distinction between "casualties" in the military statistics of the Guangfu Army. The battle report in my hand now is a quote from the shogunate's war report, so there is only the number of battle dead, not the number of wounded.

In the Battle of Toba Fushimi, 223 Shogunate troops were killed and 1,388 were beheaded. In the war report, it was specifically emphasized that the shogunate beheaded all the dead and captured by the fallen shogunate. The loss of the victor is nothing special, and the Liberation Army has only lost so much after a big battle. The problem is that the number of troops is three to one, and the fallen army actually only 1,388 people died, which is really a ridiculous result for the recovery army. If 5,000 enemies are attacked by 15,000 Guangfu troops, and the Guangfu army is determined to execute even the prisoners, the enemy can escape 388 people, which is considered to be a great virtue for the ancestors.

After all, the troops fighting in Japan were joint forces with the "Chinese embassy guards" as the core, and the Japanese were still quite afraid of this army, and of course many news would not be known to the Chinese side.

According to the report of the "Chinese Embassy Guard", in the face of 800 Satsuma Domain troops, the Liberation Army first launched a surprise attack with artillery rapid fire, and then a platoon of the Liberation Army launched a surprise attack from a distance of less than 100 meters from the Satsuma Domain's position. The army of the Satsuma Domain never expected the enemy to appear so suddenly, and the battle report recorded the appearance of the Satsuma Domain with the phrase "the enemy was stunned".

To Wei Ze's great pride, with the advent of single-to-one metal-shell bullets, the Liberation Army has eliminated all tactics of lining up to shoot, and instead adopted the traditional PLA's three-three system and sports warfare. New smokeless gunpowder had been developed, and 8 mm "small caliber" rifles were already being developed, waiting until 1875 to replace the 11 mm rifles now in vogue throughout the world. The prototype of the Type 1875 rifle is commonly known as the old sleeve made in Hanyang, with an 8-round magazine design and 8*50 mm all-metal bullets.

In response to this change, the Liberation Army's three-three combat group has also become the latest military combat mode. The elite PLA is able to move up to a distance of 50 meters from the enemy before the battle, and if it is combined with natural conditions such as night, it can even reach a distance of about 20 meters in front of the enemy's position.

Of course, there are corresponding defensive measures in the training of the Liberation Army, but for the Satsuma Domain's troops who have just learned the Western style of queuing and shooting, this kind of distance charge can indeed frighten them.

When the "Chinese embassy guards" who participated in the battle reached a distance of less than 10 meters from the enemy, they immediately prostrate themselves on the ground and opened heavy fire on the enemy. The army of the Satsuma Domain, which had just seen the divine soldiers descend from heaven, saw the enemy suddenly disappear, and then received continuous fierce blows, and the entire army fell into chaos.

At that time, there was also a fierce attack from 24 guns operated by 300 artillerymen, and 500 Chinese and Japanese troops rushed to the position of the Satsuma domain by road, and fired a platoon of guns on the chaotic Satsuma Domain's troops, and then a fierce bayonet battle ensued. After melee combat began to enter full-scale melee, Shinsengumi, who were proficient in white-knuckle combat, finally joined the warband after some running.

The Shinsengumi were indeed proficient in hand-to-hand combat, and the soldiers they slashed the Satsuma clan on the battlefield one by one, using Japanese swords made of steel donated by China, and even stabbing the enemy at both ends. Seeing the ferocity of these evil gods, the army of the Satsuma Domain, which was known as resolute and resolute, completely collapsed. But they had nowhere to run, and the Chinese soldiers kept a clear head during the battle, and the fleeing enemy was shot from behind by a platoon of guns, like beaten rabbits.

In one fell swoop, the main force of the 800 Satsuma Domains was annihilated, and the positions of the Choshu Domain, which was close to the Satsuma Domain, in the Fushimi area, were immediately attacked in a chain of attacks, and the mixed forces slaughtered the overthrown army of more than 1,000 men in total. In the final battlefield retrieval and questioning, the Liberation Army probably killed more than 200 fallen soldiers, and the Japanese infantry killed nearly 400 fallen soldiers. The Shinsengumi didn't even spare the wounded, but only killed 300 fallen soldiers. Not to mention the bloody Cheng dù of the battle, judging from the results of the battle, these samurai are no longer beautiful on the battlefield.

The most important thing is that only 1,000 of these 1,388 people are the results of the combined forces led by the Liberation Army. The 15,000 shogunate army faced less than 4,000 shogunate troops, and fought for three days, resulting in only about 300 deaths in total. This inefficient combat is scary.

Wei Ze's brows furrowed, and he looked at the evaluation of the Chinese commander of the leading team on the battle: the shogunate army was weak in battle, slow in action, and poor in tactical arrangement. As long as the enemy can be tougher, there is no possibility that the shogunate will be able to win in any case.

The Shogunate was an army that could not afford to lose, and any defeat could lead to the collapse of the Shogunate. This is the initial evaluation of Wei Ze and the Liberation Army. At that time, such an evaluation was made entirely on the basis of the situation in Japan and the characteristics of the shogunate, and now it is made again on the basis of the combat effectiveness of the shogunate army. Judging from the report, commander Zhou Xinhua was not optimistic about the future of the shogunate army at all.

After reading the report, Weeser asked Foreign Minister Zuo Zhidan, "What is the attitude of the British?" ”

Zuo Zhidan immediately introduced, and the British ambassador found Chinese Foreign Minister Zuo Zhidan and asked straight to the point, "It is said that China has entered the war." ”

"Who made up this rumor?" Zuo Zhidan asked rhetorically without hesitation.

Unlike the small countries and various relatively independent forces in Europe, there are only a few countries in the Far East, and there are only so many countries and forces involved in the Far East. Zuo Zhidan made such a clear denial, and the British side was also very unhappy. But from another point of view, this kind of unhappiness is really very puzzling to the Chinese side. Britain is indeed strong, but Britain is a guest in Asia. Even if Britain got the Mughal dynasty and the British queen served as the emperor of India, the Chinese still regarded the British as outsiders.

So for such a tough attitude of the British, Zuo Zhidan was quite dissatisfied. However, the attitude of the British surprised Zuo Zhidan, and the British ambassador said with a stern expression: "We, the British Empire, have formally made a request to your country, and we ask you to be consistent with our British position in the matter of Japan!" ”

Although he couldn't help but say it, Zuo Zhidan scolded in his heart: "FuckYouMother! ”