Li Shirui's idea was supported by all the officers, and he should beat and beat the little Japan, give them a little color, and in the morning I heard that there was a sharpshooter in the Nantong garrison who killed eighteen devils, so let our first division give the devils a greeting gift. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first division of the Jiangbei Army was expanded on the basis of the Jiangbei Garrison Brigade, and the soldiers were all the elite of the Jiangbei Army, and it was too easy to select sharpshooters from them, and the first division used German Mauser rifles, although they were imitations, but they were much better than the Manlisha and fast guns.

Li Shirui selected thirty-six sharpshooters, led by a commander, and drove to the Japanese army garrison at night to start harassing and waiting for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements.

These 36 men actually had little experience in fighting the Japanese, but with their accurate marksmanship, they thought that the Japanese were vulnerable, so they went to snipe with high morale. However, before leaving, Qiao Zhen, the former commander of the Nantong garrison, recommended two veteran guides to them, one is called Meng Qingfu from Qidong, and the other is Ma Chang'an, a native of Nantong, and everyone calls him Lao Ma. Lao Ma was a local fisherman in Nantong before joining the army, so he is very familiar with Nantong's water and land routes. And this Meng Qingfu is interesting, he is the warrior who single-handedly killed eighteen Japanese soldiers in Jiangbei this morning.

The 36 sharpshooters of the 1st Division refused to believe it when they learned that he had killed 18 Japanese soldiers, and said that if the two of them could kill 18, we would be able to kill 360.

Meng Qingfu originally wanted to warn them something, but seeing that this group of "uncles" were so proud, he couldn't help but get angry in his heart, and his troops were going to Rugao County to rest, so he turned around and left with his gun.

"What's bullish, do you really think you've killed eighteen devils?" The thirty-six elite shooters were not convinced, and cheered each other up, and they must give the main force a long face and the second-line troops a long look.

When night fell, the thirty-six men quietly lurked over, and when they approached the Japanese position, the thirty-six men divided into twelve firing groups, cooperating with each other, and they were full of confidence, thinking that they would be able to snipe the Japanese defenders with ease. However, they did not expect that Meng Qingfu's sniping in the morning made Suzuki Thirty-two have a strong alarm, and he was afraid that this sharpshooter would snipe his soldiers, so he ordered some secret posts to be arranged outside the position, and these secret posts were all responsible for Japanese veterans.

When the 36 soldiers of the 1st Division entered the range of the secret outpost, they were immediately discovered by the Japanese, and then a hunt and counter-hunting operation began, and the Chinese soldiers did not expect that the Japanese had already laid down the "heaven and earth net", and it happened that they scattered in groups of three, knowing that at the beginning, these Chinese soldiers were attacked by the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers knew that in this dark environment, there was nothing more suitable for combat than cold weapons, so the Japanese veterans rushed at the Chinese sharpshooters with daggers or long knives, and these inexperienced sharpshooters were immediately caught off guard by the Japanese attack, and many of them had their throats cut with knives before they even had time to speak.

Of the thirty-six sharpshooters, only six came back alive, and these six were either physically or psychologically wounded, and returned to the base camp with their heads bowed.

Li Shirui was shocked and hurriedly inquired about the battle situation, only to learn that the opponent was cunning and ferocious, and he couldn't help but regret that he had underestimated the Japanese. Li Shirui, who was furious, immediately ordered the artillery to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese barracks, and ordered the Fifth Regiment of the Second Brigade to attack the Japanese.

Suzuki Thirty-two immediately ordered to abandon the position and return to the shore after being shelled, for him, losing the position is not a big deal, as soon as the morning dawn the naval guns can recapture the position, why bother with it.

With Suzuki Thirty-two, the old fox, it seemed that the Chinese army had recaptured its position, but the Japanese had nothing to lose, and when the sky was slightly brighter, the 5th Regiment had to abandon its position and return to the city of Nantong, so as not to be attacked by Japanese naval guns.

In this way, China and Japan seemed to have reached a tacit understanding, the positions were taken by the Japanese during the day, and the positions were recaptured by Chinese soldiers at night, and the positions changed hands as soon as the day and night changed. After three days of this state, the Taiwan Wing finally arrived at the port of Langshan.

The Taiwan Wing is a force composed of Taiwan's aborigines, Japanese, Hokkien, Japanese and indigenous descendants, this unit speaks southern Japanese, with a total number of more than 6,000 people, and the wing commander Yokota Hajiro Osa, it can be seen from the military rank that the Taiwan Wing is such an elite unit.

Born in Tokyo, Yokota Hajiro Osa is a samurai descendant whose ancestors were one of the samurai warriors of the Sakai Incident that caused a global sensation.

The so-called Sakai Incident was on March 8, 1868, when dozens of French soldiers arrived in Sakai City, adjacent to Osaka City, from the French warship Dubre parked in Osaka, in small boats. The defenders of Sakai City were Tosa Domain soldiers led by Mioura Inoyukichi and Nishimura Sahei, and the two demanded that the French sailors return to the ship, but due to the language barrier and the discrimination of the French against the Japanese, the two sides clashed, and because the Tosa Domain soldiers were enraged by the French snatching the wing flag, the Tosa Domain soldiers drew their swords and rushed at the French, killing nine on the spot, and two others died after fleeing back to the ship.

France was furious, and then forced the Japanese Emperor Meiji under the pretext of threatening to occupy Japan, and France put forward five conditions: "The Meiji government apologizes, compensate 150,000 eagles, execute the murderer in front of the French, open the port in the Osaka area, and withdraw the Tosa feudal soldiers stationed there".

On March 16, 1868, 20 feudal soldiers involved in the killing of the French soldiers were executed by seppuku in the main hall of Myokokuji Temple, Nichiren Monastery, Sakai City, in the presence of Thomas and the officers and men of the French warship Duprix, as well as diplomats from the French and Japanese governments. However, the French understood seppuku execution, which is considered a dignified and dignified way to die in the Japanese tradition, and these 20 people considered themselves to be heroes of the country, so the 20 men entered the execution ground majestically in black kimonos and looked down on the French officers and officials with awe-inspiring eyes.

The first to be killed was the captain of the feudal army, Mioura Inoyuki Motosho, according to the etiquette of seppuku, he first wrote a poem on a blank piece of paper, and then shouted angrily to the French officers and soldiers present: "Listen, today is not for the sake of the Yi people, but for the death of the imperial country, let you see the soul of the Japanese man"! After that, he first stabbed into the left side of the abdomen, then pulled it horizontally to the right, then drew the knife and stabbed it again, pulling it from top to bottom, forming a cross-shaped wound, and then suddenly stretched his hand from the wound into the abdomen, pulled out his intestines, and prepared to throw it at the Frenchman, who was shocked at this terrible sight.

Seeing this, the wrong person was afraid that he would cause greater trouble, so he immediately cut it down, but failed to cut off the cervical vertebrae, Mioura shouted: Not dead, come again! It took the third knife to completely cut off his head, and the French looked at each other in shock. These samurai used the execution meeting as a stage to express their patriotic pride, and they vied with each other to show their heroic and fearless feelings to die, and the scene became more and more bloody and cruel. All the Japanese who were in charge of the execution shed tears and looked at the French with resentment.

The French also felt more and more uncomfortable with these scenes, and gradually couldn't sit still, until the 12th person was about to cut his stomach, the French finally couldn't bear the tragic and bloody scene, and the pale French captain Thomas led his entourage away from the execution scene filled with a strange and terrifying atmosphere without saying a word.

And Yokota Hajiro is the descendant of these twenty warriors, at this moment he is ambitious, vowing to fight and go down to Nantong to live up to the glory of his ancestors.