Section 358 The next pass is not a pass
The southeast army chased the dead north all the way, shot and killed the Japanese along the way, did not capture prisoners, and shot when they saw the Japanese people, and the Japanese people had no intention of fighting at all, and completely collapsed!
More than 4,000 of the 6,000 Japanese were killed or wounded, and the fields were littered with corpses.
However, they also achieved their goal, and the Southeast Army retreated!
Yan Dian only captured more than 300 prisoners, grabbed goods worth 10,000 silver dollars, and retreated to the warship.
The charred corpses in Hagi City and the corpses outside the city made him lose his appetite, and Yan Dian ran away!
Losses in this battle are less
More than 300 captives, including 100 old and young, will be sent to Edo to accuse the Choshu Domain of its abominable act of burning the city without regard for the lives of the people.
Accusing the Choshu clan can also have the advantage of confusing right and wrong, and when we set the fire, we can say that they did it, right?
I think that our old friend, Comrade Tokugawa Iemitsu, will gladly adopt our statement, yes, that the Choshu domain burned it itself.
Then the southeast fleet went along the coast of the ChΕshΕ« domain, shelling villages and towns along the way, and plundering them with troops.
"The Ming people plundered the Nagato country!" (Nagato Province was a local unit under the Choshu Domain, and the other was Zhou Defense Province, and Hagi Castle was located in Abu Prefecture of Nagato Province.)
The Southeast Marine Corps went ashore, and this time Yan Changwu personally dispatched, and 8,000 male soldiers were his eagle dogs!
They focused on attacking "Shimonoseki Castle"!
This city is just a place of the Japanese country for the armies of the southeast province, but for Yan Changwu, there are unforgettable memories.
In the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" signed by Li Hongzhang and Ito Hirobumi on April 17, 1895 (March 23, 21st year of Guangxu), Japan, according to the provisions of the treaty, China ceded the Liaodong Peninsula (which was later failed due to the intervention of the three countries to return Liao), Taiwan Island and its affiliated islands, and the Penghu Islands to Japan, and compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver. China also added Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou as commercial ports, and allowed Japan to invest and set up factories in China's treaty ports.
The Treaty of Shimonoseki brought Japan enormous benefits and stimulated its aggressive ambitions; Make the Chinese national crisis unprecedentedly serious!
It was during that period that Taiwan, Penghu, and Diaoyu Dao were cut off, causing a profound disaster for the Chinese nation!
Li Hongzhang, who was negotiating at the time, begged Ito's men to show mercy, saying, "Please allow me to express my views briefly." First of all, the compensation of 20,000 taels is too huge to be borne by our country today. Can it be mitigated again? β
How does Hirobumi Ito answer? He said coldly: "As has already been stated, this memorandum was drawn up after trying to reduce it as much as possible, and there is no room for further reduction. In the future, if the war continues, the amount of reparations will be more than that. β
The incompetent Qing State, if it uses 200 million taels of silver to build 64 Zhenyuan giant ships (the unit price is 3.1 million taels of silver), or even 10 Zhenyuan ships, it can completely defeat the Japanese fleet, and force it to sign an alliance under the city, instead of us giving silver to the Japanese people!
And the tragic Ming Dynasty, the battle to the glory of the silver treasury, the emperor wants to beg his subjects for silver for the last battle!
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The southeast army surrounded Xiaguan City, the city defense city of the Japanese Kingdom was narrow and low compared to the Chinese city, in addition to nearly 10,000 samurai and ashigaru in the small Xiaguan City, there were tens of thousands of people who had fled, crowded to the brim, the southeast army artillery bombarded, the city was full of dead and wounded, and when the hearts of the army and the people were shaken, the southeast army immediately attacked the city.
They opened the way with artillery, full of shotguns, and under the volley of muskets, even those who had the intention to block it, with their equipment and force, were no opponent at all, and the battle was not worth mentioning!
There is no need to erect ladders in the city defense, and the walls are washed directly with shotguns and bombs, and the marines hook up to the city, and then go down to the inner city, open the city gates, and welcome the army to enter!
The troops advanced deep into the city, and all the unconvinced Japanese were killed!
Thousands of Japanese people were killed and wounded, but there were no bravers.
Yan Changwu took the black warrior Siresma, entered Xiaguan in the posture of a villain, and immediately ordered the armies to carry out the Chidi Thousand Miles Plan.
Search your belongings meticulously and take everything you can with you!
He picked out the young men and young girls among the Japanese people, and took them all away.
Drive out the rest of the people and burn Xiaguan!
Shimonoseki is still a bit expected, Shimonoseki is the most important strategic base from Honshu to Kyushu, whether it is an attack on Honshu from Kyushu or an attack on Kyushu, it must pass through here.
Its water transportation is developed, and domestic and foreign trade is prosperous, so the harvest reaches 500,000 taels of silver!
In order to get the goods, they even robbed the Buddha statues!
Shimonoseki's famous "Jealousy Palace Garden" has a history of thousands of years and was used to worship the Emperor of Wakoku, but it was looted and set on fire!
Grab it, burn it, when countless people who were driven out saw their city on fire, they all cried bitterly!
But they also have to thank Yan Dashao, wherever he went, he did not carry out massacres, those who resisted were killed, and those who obeyed were spared.
Captured 12,000 young men of the Japanese people, and 6,000 beautiful Japanese girls, the transport ships of the Southeast Army were fully loaded and returned to the Southeast Mansion!
From now on, the next pass is not a pass!
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Nagato Province fell into a miserable situation, and the prefectures of Atsusa, Toyoura, Miyu, Otsu, Abu, and Mijima were invaded by the Southeastern Army, and everywhere the Southeast Army went, they looted things and burned villages and cities, and transported away young men and maidens of the Wakoku Kingdom!
Yan Dashao invented a sentence: "Let the Japanese people go back to the Stone Age!" "It was carried out to the letter by the officers and soldiers of the southeast who believed in him.
They even grabbed kitchen knives, took away all metal utensils, and poured salt into the water if they didn't need it!
They were also thieves, and the valuable cultural relics of the Wa Kingdom and the Chinese cultural relics that were passed down to the Wa Kingdom were carefully selected and brought back to the Southeast Province.
The grain ---- was mercifully left behind by them, and only those who were not picked up were able to live.
The Japanese really went back to the Stone Age, the production tool was wood, the cities were destroyed, and the civilization that was painstakingly built for decades and hundreds of years.
The Southeastern Army grabbed so much that there were not enough transport ships.
So the clipper sent a message back to Kaohsiung from Yan Dashao: "There is a lot of money here, people are stupid, come quickly!" β
Yang Ying'er, the housewife, looked at the handwritten letter, a little unable to understand her husband's nonsense, and the CEO Chen Xinji still said: "Please give an order to Madame, immediately mobilize all available ships to the Japanese country, the logistics department will make a good guarantee along the way, and Taipei will be ready to receive the Japanese slaves!" β
The entire southeastern province was urgently mobilized, all the big ships that could be used were collected, and 100,000 rushed to the Wa kingdom in a hurry.
Soon, the endless stream of cargo ships and slave ships returned to Taipei, and the dazzling array of goods made Yang Ying'er, who came to Taipei to greet her, stunned: Don't be her husband who moved the Japanese country!