Chapter 220: Peace and Childbirth

On the streets of Tokyo, Japan, almost all the shops are closed. In addition to the soldiers in military uniforms, most of the www.biquge.info people on the street are elderly, children, and women. There are hardly any adult males to be seen.

In Japan, men from the age of fifteen to fifty-five are all going to join the army, and men who are physically disabled or sick and cannot join the army to go to the front line also have to serve in the army, and now the people who died of the plague in Japan fill the streets and alleys of the cities, the ravines and rivers of the mountain villages.

Japanese men who did not go to the battlefield collected corpses in the corners of the city or in the countryside, and these corpses could not be simply buried, but had to be burned, otherwise the plague would continue to spread. Every time a corpse is burned, Shinto priests perform a ritual in the hope that these people will be happy in the afterlife!

In addition to Ito Hirobumi, the prime minister and president of the Privy Council, there are also foreign ministers Mutsu Munemitsu, interior minister Saigo Nomichi, and Japan's important minister of the Restoration, David Nakachinobu, and Shintodo Inadazo, these old guys.

Among them, the Minister of the Navy, Shikinori Kayama, and his adjutant Gonbei Yamamoto have arrived at the front line of the navy to form a new Royal Japanese Navy.

The current Japanese government has strictly blocked the news, and the Japanese people do not know that the combined naval fleet that they have carefully cared for, cultivated, and trained has been completely wiped out in the Yellow Sea of the Chinese Empire.

However, Japan, as an island nation, has no way to feel that it is not protected by the navy, so two important naval ministers have gone to the naval base, Sasebo and Tokyo Bay, and the new Japanese navy has been formed, although they no longer have warships.

The officers of the Japanese army have almost all gone to the front line, and on the whole, the results of the Japanese army have been very successful.

Because of the stalemate during the war and the Chinese Empire's refusal to negotiate peace, the military ministers of the Japanese cabinet could no longer sit still, and the three princes of the Japanese imperial family all went to three different theaters in person, and the original commanding officers also made adjustments to facilitate better operations.

Prince Akihito Komatsumiya became the commander-in-chief of the Korean Special Forces, Tomo Yamado was the deputy commander-in-chief, and Gentaro Kodama, a well-known Japanese general, was appointed chief of the General Staff. Motoharu Yamagi became the commander of the First Front of the Korean Dispatch Army.

On the Korean battlefield, Japan had sent a total of about 1.6 million troops, but the cost of the war had far exceeded the plan. The number of people killed in the war is simply too large.

The Japanese generals, who are now stable in the Korean theater, have a total of more than 1 million troops, with a total of 40 divisions and regiments in name. The remaining more than half a million Japanese soldiers, either on a wounded cargo ship or in an altar, set out on a journey that would probably have been dead.

Prince Nohisa of Kita-Shirakawa Miya was appointed commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Dispatch Army, Oyama Iwa was appointed deputy commander-in-chief, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, a famous cavalry general, was appointed chief of the General Staff, and Nogi Noshinori was appointed commander-in-chief of the First Army of the Far Eastern Dispatch Army.

Japan sent the largest number of troops in the Far East, with a total of 2 million troops in front and behind, because it seemed to be the easiest place to attack, and Japan was very keen to connect the two theaters.

In this way, the two theaters of operations could support each other, but in the Far East battlefield, the Japanese army encountered resolute resistance from Zhang Zhidong, and now the Japanese occupied a lot of territory, but paid a heavy price.

At present, Japan's combat-effective army in the Far East has a total of 1.1 million troops, a total of 43 divisions, and the rest of the soldiers have also returned to Japan, of course, most of them have returned to Japan in the state of ashes.

Prince Saikawanomiya Chihito was appointed commander-in-chief of the Ryukyu Dispatch Army, and Kawakami Koroku was appointed chief of the General Staff. The Japanese army did not realize that the loss of the Ryukyus would be so rapid, and at the same time, they did not expect that the Chinese Empire would adopt such tactics.

In the original military plan, the navy of the Chinese Empire would definitely protect the southeast coast, and even Vladivostok in the North Sea was the key object of protection of the Chinese Empire, but unexpectedly, the Chinese Empire actually sent almost half of the main warships to attack the Ryukyu Islands.

Now Japan has understood the strategy of the Chinese Empire, but it has no effect, and the Japanese Emperor Meiji knows that the goods arriving at the port now will not play a decisive role at all, not to mention that Japan really has no financial resources to support this war.

But now the Japanese army has no way to stop!

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The counteroffensive was very smooth, and it had already attacked the three provinces of the Chinese Empire, and a little further forward could lay down the headquarters of Zhang Zhidong, and at that time, one of the front armies of the Chinese Empire was completely annihilated by the Japanese army.

It would be good if they could catch this marshal of the Huaxia Empire by chance, or even force the marshal of the Huaxia Empire to commit suicide, as long as Huaxia's confidence was shaken, they knew that it was useless to resist, and the Huaxia Empire would definitely return to negotiation at that time.

Emperor Meiji of Japan asked in a very weak voice; "Is our negotiating envoy back?"

Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu replied; "Your Majesty! The envoy has sent back a message, but the conditions of the Huaxia Empire are too harsh! ”

Meiji said; "Bring it up, I'll take a look!"

Mutsu Zongguang presented, the reply of the Chinese Empire!

The first of these is: Japan cancels the imperial title!

This one was like a knife, stabbing him in the heart that was already very weak!

Meiji asked; "With this one, can't the Huaxia Empire really give in?"

Mutsu Munemitsu said; "We have contacted Li Hongzhang, the naval marshal of the Chinese Empire, and he said that this article was proposed by the emperor of the Chinese Empire, and if you want to negotiate peace, Japan must first announce the cancellation of the emperor's title, otherwise any Chinese who negotiate peace with Japan will be traitors!"

Meiji slammed the offer document for the peace talks on the table!

Bow your head, close your eyes, ponder, and be silent!

At this time, the Minister of the Interior, Saigo, spoke from the Tao; "Your Majesty the Emperor! Let's go on the attack! If the Korean Front and the Far Eastern Front can converge in the territory of the Chinese Empire, this will definitely be a very big blow to him, and at that time the Emperor Guangguang will even lose the capital of Mukden, and then he will have to negotiate peace with us! ”

Emperor Meiji heard this suggestion, then raised his head and asked Hirobumi Ito; "Prime Minister! Do you think this method is okay? ”

Hirofumi Ito said; "Your Majesty! What I'm worried about now is not the sincerity of the Chinese Empire's negotiations, but whether we still have a chance to negotiate? ”

All eyes were on Japan's legendary prime minister!

Hirofumi Ito said; "Now in our country, the plague is rampant, and our population has died from the plague more than 10 million, and now we have evidence that the plague came from Korea,

And the initiator is likely to be the army of the Chinese Empire, which has made the soldiers of the army on the front line very angry, and now that so many soldiers have died on the front line, it is impossible for those generals to surrender.

We're spending so much more than we budget, we're 130 times more inflationary, and we're not going to be able to raise any money in the world anymore, and there's really no way to sustain this war.

Emperor Meiji of Japan said; "Let's take out another 500,000 yen from the inner treasury, and take all the gold and silver items in the palace at the same time." You can't starve the soldiers on the front line anymore!

Send this peace negotiation treaty from the Chinese Empire to the division commanders and above on the front line to know, let them express their opinions, and at the same time let them know that the current situation of the empire, our navy is gone! ”

Ito Hirobumi and the members of the cabinet went out of the Emperor's palace to the government office, and the streets of Tokyo were very clean because there were few pedestrians and people were cleaning all the time, so they were really spotless.

Now because the war horses have been sent to the battlefield, these ministers can only sit in the carts pulled by mules, although there is not the same scenery as before, but it is better than no vehicles to travel.

Nowadays, there is no business problem in Japan, and labor is very precious. Japan's military-industrial complex was operating 24 hours a day, producing guns and ammunition for Japanese soldiers on the front lines.

Just as busy as the military factory was the crematorium, and the chimney of the crematorium in the distance never stopped smoking, and the corpses of the whole car were pulled into the crematorium. Many people fell directly on the road, and no one came to claim the bodies at all.

Even the cleaners were still working hard to collect the corpses on the street on the first day, and the next day, their own corpses were collected by other corpse collectors who collected the corpses. Such a brutal scene took place in Japan, which has not been disturbed for almost thousands of years!

After the Meiji Restoration, many Japanese people could have their own surnames, and many Japanese civilians created their own surnames, so Japan suddenly became the country with the most original surnames in the world, and there were originally 270,000 surnames after the Meiji Restoration.

However, under the blow of this great plague and war, one-third of the surnames in Japan completely disappeared. Japan's population has dropped from 50 million to more than 20 million.

After the Japanese army generals on the front line received that the main fleet of the navy had been completely wiped out, they knew what kind of difficulties the army would encounter without the cooperation of the navy, so these Japanese generals took the lead and scolded the navy for its incompetence.

Even these generals have already expressed their attitude that the naval chief Shikinori Kayama and the adjutant Yamamoto Gonbei should commit suicide by seppuku, so as to be worthy of the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor, and the defeat of the navy, the two supreme commanders should be fully responsible.

At the same time, they also knew their passivity, so they began to attack more fiercely, trying to win back a game on the land battlefield, so the Japanese army began to attack more fiercely on the three defense lines, in their minds, the emperor's position is sacred, and it is absolutely impossible to let the emperor abdicate.

On April 20, 1895, at about 10 o'clock in the morning, the sky of today's Kaicheng is very blue, but you must have a good eye to see it, because the current Kaicheng has been covered by gunsmoke.

On the Korean front, Yuan Shikai's eyes were bloodshot, his throat was hoarse, his hair was completely messy, and he held a telescope in the observation hole of the fortifications, watching the Japanese attack frantically.

In the direction of Seoul in the distance, Yuan Shikai seemed to be able to hear the gunshots, but there seemed to be no resistance to the gunshots, and Min Yongyu's resistance in Seoul provided cover and time for Yuan Shikai to lead the troops to retreat.

But it seems that Yuan Shikai can't sit for this very good general!

The light and heavy machine guns, infantry guns, and heavy artillery units in the rear of the Chinese Imperial defense line are all frantically tilting this bullet, looking down from the air, it is like a number of flying silver shuttles, weaving a fire net on the position near the 38th parallel.

The nets of fire were repeatedly slapped and lifted on the ground, leaving no living organism alive to come to the weavers of the nets.

Yuan Shikai, who was in the fortifications, is now on the verge of collapse, if this continues, the soldiers of the Huaxia Empire will definitely go crazy, is it human beings who rush up in front? Don't these Japanese know that they are stepping on the corpses of their comrades?

Don't they know that such a charge will surely die under the bullets?

All this is happening under Yuan Shikai's eyelids, the Japanese soldiers in front of him are not people, they are ghosts, they are a group of evil ghosts, and they are a group of evil ghosts who are in a hurry to be reincarnated!

Yuan Shikai came to his chief of staff Wang Shizhen's side and made a smoking posture, now Yuan Shikai's throat has been inflamed and the pain is abnormal, but he still can't help but want to smoke two cigarettes.

All this time, he never resisted the chief of staff, and looked at a cigarette butt that had overflowed from a plate; "O my marshal! Don't smoke it! Then he looked at all the staff officers and officers in the command and said that no one should give the marshal cigarettes! ”

All the officers did not dare to get involved in such a conflict, and they were all busy with their own affairs with their heads down!

This is Yuan Shikai took out the pen on his body and wrote on a piece of paper; "What to do!"

Wang Shizhen said; "The order of the General Staff! It is very clear that if you can't resist, you can retreat, and Mukden and Changchun, the air base in Pyongyang has been repaired, and the air force will soon be put into service!

The armies of Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Lu Yongxi, and Lu Yongbao have already gathered in Beijing, and if you take the train, you will soon be able to support the battlefields in Korea and the Far East, we just have to wait! ”

At this time, Wang Shizhen's eyes were also red, but he still maintained the majesty of a senior officer, and his makeup was very neat. "The emperor expected before the war that these Japanese soldiers were very brave, but we still didn't fully understand the emperor's meaning!"

At this time, Wang Shizhen turned around and asked; "Marshal! Did you find out! These Japanese soldiers are very abnormal! ”

At this time, Yuan Shikai, seeing that Yuan Shikai didn't know where to get the cigarettes, had already begun to smoke, accompanied by a small dry cough, trying not to arouse Wang Shizhen's anger!

Wang Shizhen really had no choice, pointing to the outside of the command room, Yuan Shikai understood what Wang Shizhen meant, and came to the outside of the command room with a cigarette!

Just after taking two puffs, he heard a huge roar in the sky, which completely suppressed the sound of cannonballs flying above the 38th parallel!

When Yuan Shikai looked up, there were more than 30 three-winged fixed-wing planes in the sky, streaked across the sky, and at the same time, behind the planes were more airships, these airships were huge airbags, and there were small control rooms hanging underneath.