Chapter 180: Ominous Events in Kyoto
The signing of the "Protocol of Tomorrow" soon spread outside the city through the secret channels of the Ju Agency, and the first to learn of it was Chen Guangrui, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Wing, who was attacking the Japanese army in Songping Dingsheng.
Chen Guangrui, who was born in the general banner of the right guard of the Imperial Horse Supervisor Tengxiang, was very dissatisfied with the so-called "Tomorrow's Protocol", thinking that this was the unauthorized claim of the deputy envoy who had no bird.
Because, according to the content of the protocol, the emperor's pro-army soldiers went on a brave expedition, in exchange for only helping Japan's bird king to restore the government, what is this?
"Lao Tzu doesn't understand politics, Lao Tzu only knows that the capital of the Japanese people is in front of him, and the silver and women are waiting for the brothers to get them, so why do you want the brothers to protect this fart city!"
Chen Guangrui "snorted" a mouthful of the messenger of the chrysanthemum organ, and hated to whip the other party. Watanabe, the staff adjutant on the side, hurriedly stopped him and whispered to persuade His Excellency the Wing Commander to report the matter quickly.
"Mom, you can find two people to send this guy to the back."
Chen Guangrui came to the front line angrily, and saw through the clairvoyant mirror that several Japanese generals wearing masks were pointing something to the imperial army, and he didn't pay attention to the previous attack of the Second Infantry Wing.
Chen Guangrui was annoyed, and immediately ordered the first brigade to organize a second attack, and it was necessary to pull out the last bone stuck in front of the Japanese capital.
Since entering Taiwan with the division, Chen Guangrui has not returned to his homeland for more than a year, and since the war against Japan, his wing has suffered heavy losses, and many of his subordinates who have been following him have been killed, so he is very angry in his heart.
"Who can give Lao Tzu the head of Songping Dingsheng, and Lao Tzu will promote him to the third level!"
After the heavy reward was given, Chen Guangrui actually issued an order after him, and he said to the officers: "Tell the brothers, when they enter the capital of the Japanese, Lao Tzu will give them ten days off!" ”
"Your Excellency, that doesn't seem right, does it?"
Staff Officer Watanabe is responsible for the liaison between the wing and the division, as well as military orders, and there has been no indication that Kyoto can be destroyed by either the army or the division, so he would like to remind His Excellency the wing commander not to do anything that is not allowed above.
"There's nothing wrong with it, the brothers are hungry and hit here, don't let them go in and live happily once, Lao Tzu can't stand them!"
Chen Guangrui is stubborn.
After the order of the wing commander was given, the officers and men of the entire wing became excited, and even those Japanese officers and men danced with joy.
With the permission of the officer, in the face of the stimulation of interests, military discipline will naturally deteriorate.
In front of you is the capital of Japan!
How many dignitaries and nobles are there, and how much wealth are there!
Watanabe saw that he couldn't dissuade the co-captain, so he could only sigh secretly and quickly report the matter.
At the same time, the officers and men of the 1st and 5th Wings, who were engaged in the battle with the Japanese army, received orders from the headquarters of the wing, and although these orders differed in wording, they were generally the same as those of the 2nd Infantry Wing.
The aftermath of the Tsuneishi Killing Incident appeared.
The large-scale massacre of the Japanese troops who laid down their arms undoubtedly stimulated the entire emperor's army, and under the instigation and deliberate organization of some extremist officers, the situation slipped towards the side of the base camp that could not be prevented at all, or even unforeseen.
A squadron of the 5th Infantry Wing, after capturing hundreds of Japanese soldiers, killed all of them without asking for instructions.
"Due to the rapid collapse of the Japanese army, the brave and rapid advance of all units of our imperial army, about 10,000 Japanese soldiers were cut off from retreat. They dropped their weapons and surrendered to our troops. However, our army has limited strength, and to deal with such a large number of prisoners, it is simply impossible to guarantee food. Therefore, I took the liberty of issuing an order to all my units to execute all these prisoners, following the example of the Tsuneshi Incident. ”
Anguosi, the commander of the engineer wing, who was supposed to be in charge of sheltering the prisoners, executed more than 10,000 prisoners overnight. Before the Tsuneishi incident, Ankokuji had made a statement to the base camp that he would treat the captives well.
A brigade of the 3rd Infantry Wing, which had captured more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, did not know what to do, and when they heard about the Tsuneishi incident in the rear, this brigade immediately executed all the prisoners.
Wei Guangsheng, commander of the 1st Infantry Wing of the Taiwan Garrison Division, who was temporarily transferred to Japan, was the ninth grandfather of Wei Gonggong, and after arriving in Japan and being incorporated into the First Army, Wei Guangsheng often liaise with the commanders of the 1st Army.
Before the Tsuneishi Incident happened, Wei Guangsheng often said why he had to accept the surrender of those Japanese soldiers, and it was not easy to kill them all. At the Jiajing Lord's meeting a few decades ago, I didn't see the Japanese Kou treating my emperor's people kindly. The elders have said that the people of the southeast coast have caused the scourge of the pirates.
Such strong revenge remarks naturally aroused the disgust of Jiang Xifeng, the chief of staff of the base camp, and he suggested to Gonggong Wei that he be transferred, but the suggestion was repeatedly failed to be agreed.
This incident caused Wei Guangsheng to have the illusion that his great-great-grandson was acquiescing to his actions. As a result, Wei Bu can be described as burning, killing and looting all the way, and the places he passed were almost terracotta.
In addition, due to the large number of Suning children in the Wei Department, in the following months and even for two years, the officers and soldiers of the Suning Imperial Army continued to ship the looted goods from Japan to their hometowns, making the former poor county famous in Beizhili into a rich county with the name of the whole province.
No matter how far away the girl has to marry Suning, it unexpectedly solved Suning's notorious reputation as a eunuch for two hundred years, resulting in a great shortage of eunuchs in the palace during the Apocalypse.
Nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian sighed to his nephew: "Let's do it for the emperor for a lifetime, but we haven't been able to let the people in my hometown live a good life, and your kid has become a living bodhisattva in his hometown when he goes to the sea." Hurry up and let them stop serving our lives, and they will all be yours and yours. ”
The one who angered the base camp the most was not the ninth prince of Wei's father-in-law, but the captain of the 1st Infantry Wing and the main person responsible for the Tsuneishi incident, Ichiro Sanada.
In the speeches of the officers and men of the 1st Infantry Wing, he openly declared that everything in the shogunate was our enemy, even the mountains, rivers and plants!
After the Tsuneishi Incident, Sanada issued a secret order: "All the battlefields in Kyoto and near Kyoto, ordinary Japanese people, even if they are old people, women, or children, must be strictly guarded by the troops." Recently, there have been frequent incidents of officers and men of our wing being attacked and killed by the Japanese army alone, so we must not be careless and bold, and we need to pay special attention, especially to the rear troops. If these acts are discovered, they will not be condoned and must be dealt with resolutely. ”
Li Yanzhao, commander of the 6th Infantry Wing, declared: "Kyoto is the Kyoto of Japan, and it is also the Kyoto of the Emperor. The Imperial Army's occupation of Kyoto was the implementation of the will of the Empire, so no Shogunate poison was allowed to exist in Kyoto! ”
The various remarks of these generals undoubtedly deepened the bad nature of the Imperial Army's actions in Kyoto, and caused the Imperial Army's military discipline to deteriorate for a long time.
What is incomprehensible is that Gonggong Wei, as the supreme commander, did not do anything to stop the misdeeds of the troops on the front line.
Even years later, in an interview, Gonggong Wei said that he had an old wound when he was pacifying the barbarians in Taiwan at that time, so he could not effectively command the troops. Therefore, the father-in-law himself is not clear about the events that occurred in Kyoto, the former state of Japan.
In the incident, there may have been civilians killed by mistake, for which the father-in-law himself has always been guilty, so he later asked the emperor to serve as the Japanese eunuch, just to make some contributions to the development of Japan, in order to heal the wounds left by the war on the Japanese people.
After the interview, my father-in-law kindly reminded the reporter of the "Huangming Daily" who interviewed him: "Don't turn over the past, the Kyoto incident has already been determined by the empire, and some well-fed literati want to overturn the case through this matter, on the surface, they want to dig deep into the historical truth, but in fact, the spearhead is aimed at our family." We must be vigilant against these people, they dare not make trouble when I am alive, I am going to die, and I may have to be whipped by them. I think it's not okay not to beat these people, it is necessary to hold a few more study classes in the early years, and the brains are always unrealistic. ”
This report and subsequent related measures have had a good effect, but there is one thing that Wei Gonggong did not tell the truth.
He has always been on the front line.
On the second day after the imperial army captured Kyoto, Gonggong Wei led Lu Bo to participate in the entrance ceremony, and personally sounded the old music soul drum in the Han and Tang dynasties for the soldiers who had fallen in the war against Japan, in order to ask the imperial soldiers to return and forever shock the Japanese country.
At the entrance ceremony, gray snow fell from the sky.
The remains of the dead are being burned outside the city, and the number is too numerous to count, and pedestrians look like snow two or three miles away.
The next day, Gonggong Wei personally summoned Cao Wenyao, Wu Fuming, Sanada Ichiro, Yamamoto Koji, Li Yanzhao, Wang Dahai and other senior generals of the First Army, commended them for conquering Kyoto, and gave them treasure swords.
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The events of Tsuneishi were quickly spread by the local Japanese villagers, and the killing of thousands of Japanese soldiers and the shogun's eldest son left the shogunate in disarray.
The Ming army officially claimed that Tokugawa Iemitsu had surrendered by fraud, so the emperor's pro-army took the necessary measures to prevent the situation from worsening.
Privately, however, the Imperial Army commanders, who were carrying out the attack on Kyoto, told their subordinates that they should be cruel to the enemy and that the shogunate army must be effectively eliminated in future battles.
The propaganda of the Kikubu Agency and the Renaissance Society was surprisingly unanimous, that is, the Empire had never targeted the Tokugawa Shogunate, so there was no need to give the Tokugawa Shogunate troops special humanitarian care.
Affected by the Tsuneishi Incident, the morale of the officers and men of the troops involved in the suppression of the Japanese was even more high, and the officers and men overcame various difficulties and effectively killed and wounded the Japanese troops in front of them, forcing the Japanese chief Tokugawa Hidetada to abandon his army and retreat eastward.
Just when Tokugawa Hidetada, who was suffering from the loss of his son, had no choice but to retreat eastward, out of some way, an imperial decree was circulated from His Majesty the Emperor, saying that all those who worked for the Tokugawa family in the shogunate and helped the Tokugawa family were "non-nationals", and once the shogunate fell, the imperial court would liquidate these "non-nationals".
At the same time, the emperor's new letter to the Japanese people was quickly transmitted throughout Japan, "to the Japanese gentry, military and civilians...... If you resist and disobey, as soon as the soldiers arrive, the jade will be burned and slaughtered! ”
The good news to His Majesty the Emperor coincided with the good news to His Majesty the Pope.