Chapter 515: Annihilation of the Japanese Crusade Army's Forward Troops
Afterwards, some people said that Suzuki Thirty-two was forced to surrender and save the lives of the teenagers, but some people also conspired to think that with Suzuki Thirty-two's intelligence, in fact, he had already calculated that the other party must capture him, and if he surrendered directly, he would be ordered by the military department to commit suicide, so Suzuki Thirty-two, who did not dare to commit suicide, first let go of more than 200 Japanese teenagers, and used this righteousness to make his surrender appear great and very decent. The two sides of the www.biquge.info of Bi, Fun, and Pavilion insisted on their own opinions, and Suzuki Sanji also became the focus of Japanese public opinion, and he later returned to the mountains of Hyogo Prefecture in the Chugoku region to live in seclusion, away from the hustle and bustle.
In any case, Suzuki Sanji and his subordinates, including Araki Samasa and others, eventually chose to surrender to the Chinese army, and they succeeded in saving everyone's lives. Li Zuzhi did not break his promise, he did not kill the Japanese prisoners, but put them together with the Taiwanese prisoners and brought all the prisoners back to Yangzhou.
A year after the end of the Battle of Langshan Port, in 1913, nearly 10,000 people, including Suzuki 32, were finally rescued by the Japanese government after several rounds of negotiations between China and Japan. As a defeated general, Suzuki Thirty-two himself was cut off from the army and expelled from the army, and after returning to Japan, his family was repeatedly harassed, and Suzuki Thirty-two finally decided to live in seclusion in the mountains. Ten years later, Suzuki began to write a memoir about his election as captain of the Chinese Brigade and his participation in the Battle of Langshan Port, one of the greatest defeats in the history of the Japanese army, and explained his choice.
Suzuki Thirty-two's book called "My Wolf Mountain Port Battle" was not read by many people, a hundred years later, a Chinese writer named Sasu found this book in the Japanese archives, only to know that as early as a hundred years ago, the Chinese soldiers actually hit the Japanese army so hard. But what is strange is why the later modern Chinese history not only did not mention this, but also erased all the information.
Suzuki's explanation was not understood by everyone, especially since Japan went further and further down the road of militarism, so more people chose not to forgive him. The militarist youth believed that Suzuki 32 had defiled the sanctity of the Japanese Imperial Army, and finally in 1941, when Suzuki 32, who was already a bad old man, was drunk in the countryside, he was attacked by five Japanese teenagers of 16 or 7 years old, and his head was smashed with a stone.
But a few years later, after the teenagers who were rescued by him in the Battle of Langshan Port gradually grew into the elite of Japanese society, they began to rehabilitate Suzuki Thirty-two, this is a very wise Japanese, unlike those fanatical militarists, he is a brave and resourceful soldier, if Suzuki Thirty-two did not offend the imperial family, but continued to stay in the General Staff Headquarters, perhaps the history of the defeat of the Japanese Empire would be rewritten. But history does not assume that when Suzuki Thirty-two held the white flag and handed over his saber to Li Zuzhi, his tragedy was doomed.
On April 17, the fog battle in Langshan Port basically stopped, and the occasional Japanese soldiers who were still resisting were insignificant, and at noon on April 18, the fog battle in Langshan Port ended. The Chinese army invested nearly 100,000 troops in this battle, and the total strength of the Japanese army was more than 11,000 people, and the two sides fought between April 6 and April 18, a total of 12 days.
The Japanese lost more than 7,000 men, lost a total of eight gunboats and speedboats, and took more than 4,200 prisoners, including more than 900 Japanese prisoners and more than 3,300 Taiwanese. The commander-in-chief of the forward unit of the Japanese Raiding Army, Yokota Hajiro, and the commander of the Wing Suzuki Thirty-two in China were captured, the flag of the Japanese Taiwan Wing was captured, and the Japanese Navy cruiser Takachiho ran aground, and in order to avoid being captured by the Chinese army, it actually sank itself on Chongming Island in China.
On the Chinese side, the Japanese navy's artillery attack on 6 April caused 4,000 casualties among the Chinese garrison and security forces, and the Chinese army lost more than 5,500 casualties and 9,500 casualties in the fog battle at Langshan Port.
Judging from the comparison of casualties between the two sides, the losses of the Chinese side were greater than those of the Japanese army, but judging from the results of the battle, the forward troops of the Japanese crusading army were completely annihilated, causing the largest losses of the Japanese army and the Chinese army in modern times, which caused a sensation in the whole of Japan and the whole world.
All of a sudden, the Yangzhou Jiangbei Governor's Mansion received a congratulatory telegram like snowflakes, Zhang Jian felt unprecedented pride and excitement, he held Wang Yongan's hand and said: "I owe you to you, I owe you to you." ”
Wang Yongan was finally able to rest and rest, he had only slept for two hours in the past two days, and his body was seriously tired, but now was not the time to be happy, but the most dangerous time, because he had received news that the Japanese 16th and 17th Divisions had arrived in the Yellow Sea, close to China, and were about to land in the near future. And this time, Feng Heng and others believed that the Japanese army would definitely land in Dongyu Town and Xining Town on the north side of Nantong County. He smiled wearily and said, "Lord Overseer, it's too early to rejoice, we're only fighting Japanese cats and dogs, and the real beasts of the Japanese army are about to arrive." ”
"A real beast?" Zhang Jian was taken aback.
Wang Yongan then told him the news that the Japanese 16th and 17th Divisions were about to land, and told him that he had ordered him and the army to rush to Xinyu Town, and this time the left commander Fang Xianwu was in command, and chose to continue to fight the Japanese army.
"Can't you negotiate?" Zhang Jian asked.
Wang Yongan said: "Japan has lost such a big face, how can it be embarrassed to negotiate, but if we defeat the 16th Division and the 17th Division, then the battle situation may be different." ”
Zhang Jian said: "So the war will continue? ”
"Since we have chosen to fight to the end, we must not give up halfway, the Japanese may delay through negotiations, but we must not be fooled, if the Japanese government does not make a decision for a day, we will not share the sky with it." Wang Yongan said.
Sure enough, Wang Yongan was right, and the Japanese representative immediately approached the Jiangbei government and asked to negotiate with it, but Zhang Jian, after receiving Wang Yongan's warning in advance, slyly dealt with him. At the same time that China and Japan were playing Taiji, the whole country set off a wave of support for Jiangbei, especially after the fog battle in Langshan Port, the whole of China was boiling. Indeed, in the 12 days of the Battle of Langshan Port, how many pairs of eyes were staring at the whole country, and everyone thought that the Japanese army was invincible, but they did not expect that this battle would end in such a way, let alone think about the total annihilation of the Japanese army, which eventually led to an avalanche of changes in the Japanese government.
Zhang Jian, the governor of the Jiangbei Military Government, suddenly became a celebrity, and the Qing Dynasty champion was once again famous in China, and more people did not forget the real behind-the-scenes heroes of the Battle of Langshan Port, Jiangbei Wang Yunshuai Wang Yongan.