The young and vigorous Okamura Ninji decided to single-handedly change the unfavorable situation of the Qing army on the Chinese battlefield, and the Qing army next moved south to capture Huai'an, and then approached Yangzhou. www.biquge.info Huai'an is a fortress of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, only 180 kilometers away from Yangzhou, and if the Qing army continues to move south to Yangzhou, it will deal a fatal blow to the Jiangbei army.

However, Okamura Ningji's wish was beautiful, but the reality was cruel, because the Eight Banners and the Forbidden Army of the Qing Army's Fourth Route were unwilling to go south, and war meant death for them. It's not that these bannermen are unwilling to eliminate the rebels, but many of them clearly realize that today's imperial court is no longer the imperial court of the bannermen, and the Great Qing Kingdom is only the honorary banner people who are in charge, in fact, since Yuan Shikai entered Beijing, this Great Qing State is the Great Qing Kingdom of the Han people, and they are unwilling to give their lives to the Great Qing Kingdom of the Han people.

Interestingly, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the banner people were the masters of the house, countless Han people threw their heads and shed blood for it, but when the Han people were in charge, these flag people were unwilling. Perhaps the more than 200 years of life in Beijing have already corrupted these Jurchen descendants who are "Jurchen dissatisfied with ten thousand, and invincible in ten thousand", making them give up their bravery and enterprising, but like to compete for the wind, jealousy, poetry, opera, cockfighting, and dog walking, they are more eager for peace than the Han people, so the order to go south from Yangzhou has just been issued, and almost all of them refuse to go south.

This made Wang Tingzhen cry and laugh, in order to set an example, Wang Tingzhen personally led the pro-military battalion to walk at the forefront of the team, but the forbidden army and the Eight Banners Army were still grinding. Wang Tingzhen could only sigh helplessly, he was not willing to fight a civil war, he was unwilling to fight with the Jiangbei Army, but his responsibility had to follow, so he handed over the task of supervising the war to Okamura Ningji's Japanese instructor.

The Japanese instructors did not care about that, and ordered that they must march 30 kilometers in one day, and those who did less than 30 kilometers were directly executed.

The fourth road of the Qing army knew that these little Japan did not have any good intentions, and they would definitely not be soft when they killed people, so they no longer dared to slack off, and the speed gradually increased.

All the way south, first take Muyang County, then take Huaiyin County, seeing that Huai'an County is not far away, but at this time there was a civil strife. It turned out that a banner officer was not used to eating the water in the Jianghuai area, and he was sick to the water and soil, but he vomited and diarrhea from Haizhou. When he arrived in Huaiyin County, this banner officer named Wu Ershan could no longer get on the horse, so he followed in a sedan chair behind.

One of the Japanese instructors, a Suzuki longbow instructor, mistakenly thought that this person deliberately sat in a sedan chair and was unwilling to go into battle, and the Japanese officers disliked and despised the most this kind of soldier who was left behind when he met the enemy, so he arbitrarily executed Urshan on the grounds that the march was unfavorable. In the past few days, more than 30 banner officers have been executed because they are unwilling to fight in the south, and the fourth road of the Qing army has long been dissatisfied with the Japanese instructors, and the death of Wu Ershan has caused a conflict between the flag officers and the Japanese instructors.

A banner officer named Dai Chi gathered some other officers and said to everyone: "We didn't die a few people in the battle with the Jiangbei Army, but they executed more than 50 people along the way. Today they killed Urshan, and tomorrow it will be us, so I decided to attack the Japanese devils in disguise at night, do you dare? ”

"! Done! The officers responded.

So that night, Dai Chi and all the Manchu, Mongolian and Han officers and sergeants secretly lurked close to the Japanese instructors' station, and then began to fire torches at the Japanese instructors' station, and when the Japanese ran out of the tent, they opened fire and fled. The fourth road of the Qing army exploded at once, because more than 40 Japanese instructors died that night, more than a dozen were killed, and more than 20 were choked to death by smoke because they slept too hard.

Okamura Ninji was extremely angry and had to execute the flag officer who assassinated the Japanese instructor, but he couldn't find the murderer, and he was about to go south. And the Japanese instructors were also anxious, threatening to find out the murderer first, otherwise they would not leave.

The Japanese instructors did not go, and the Qing army was naturally reluctant to take the fourth road, so the two sides were deadlocked, and Dai Chi and others did not expect that the Japanese had died more than 40 times, he thought that he would shoot and kill three or four, but this matter caused too much trouble, and he could not bear the consequences.

So Dai Chi thought of a way to escape.

The murderer must have been Daichi, Okamura Ninji immediately reported the situation to Tachibana Koichiro, Tachibana Koichiro first reported to the base camp in Tokyo, and then communicated with Yuan Shikai, the death of these 40 Japanese instructors can be said to be the largest casualty of Japanese officers after the Russo-Japanese War - especially they were killed by their own students, which angered the Japanese military department.

In the middle of last year, due to a big fight between the Japanese army and navy over military spending, Katsura Taro was forced to resign, and Ito Hirobumi's disciple Saionji became prime minister.

Although Katsura Taro resigned as prime minister, he still firmly controlled the military department, and his position changed from prime minister to interior minister (equivalent to the eunuch in charge of the seal of the celebrant who wrote the memo for the Japanese emperor, announced the holy decree, and managed the palace, but there was no eunuch system in Japan, and the minister of the interior was generally held by a Japanese veteran), and continued to override the prime minister Saionji Gongwang. After the assassination of Ito Hirobumi, Saionji Gongwang, as his closed disciple, is known as the last guardian of Japanese democracy, and it was during his tenure that Japan decided to carry out major disarmament after the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

Due to the disarmament plan of Saionji Gongwang, many officers who had just been promoted in the Russo-Japanese battlefield were dismissed from the army and returned home soon after, resulting in Saionji Gongwang becoming the biggest enemy of the Japanese military, and the military forces were always thinking of driving Saionji Gongwang away. After Katsura Taro was forced to resign from the position of prime minister, the military approached Katsura Taro and discussed supporting Katsura Taro to return to power as prime minister. (Katsura Taro said in his heart: Bage Yalu, your military fought a big battle between land and sea, which led to my forced resignation and resignation, and now that I see Katsura Taro coming to power, I miss me coming, why did you go earlier...... ）

When the news of the killing of more than 40 Japanese instructors of Okamura Ninji in China reached Japan, it immediately attracted the attention of the whole country, and many military radicals immediately flocked to Katsura Taro, demanding that the Qing Dynasty be severely punished!

"I want to see how the Prime Minister of Xiyuan Temple handles." Katsura Taro touched his white beard and sneered and said to his officers, "If he can't calm the anger of the people, then he will be the one who will step down, and I hope you will be able to appear on the battlefield in China soon and make contributions!" ”

"Make a difference!" The generals shouted excitedly, and their eyes couldn't hide the taste of the conspiracy's success.