Chapter 910: Taiwan's Revolt
The humiliating modern history has brought China a series of reparations, but more importantly, it is the damage to interests, starting from the Aihui Treaty, more than 600,000 square kilometers of land, successively in the treaties, 1.5 million square kilometers of land have been ceded, and then to various concessions, it is in this war, again and again in the reparations, the status of foreigners has finally been established, and the title of foreign uncle has been established.
Crossing into this world, the ideal of unifying China, from the very beginning, was in Yang Yuanzhao's plan, the 1.5 million square kilometers of land forcibly ceded by Russia is one, Taiwan and the Ryukyus taken by Japan, and it is also one, originally, it should be the first to strike at Russia, because those places are relatively easy to take back, Russia borders the northwest, thousands of kilometers of national borders, plus the Far East is not the direction of Russia's development, if it really hits is like a sieve, the only more difficult thing is the Far East fortress, Vladivostok, where the Far Eastern Naval Command and the Far Eastern Command are located, is also located.
The reason why it is not against Russia is because the plan in the northwest is very large, either do not do it, or simply target the whole of Siberia, otherwise it is to startle the snake, let Russia protect to the Far East, the harsh environmental and climatic conditions will become a nightmare, we must be quick and accurate, and complete the plan in a short time, so as to create a fait accompli, and fortify in key places step by step, not only reduce the losses of a protracted war, but also reduce the places bordering the national border a lot.
After all, if it becomes vertical, especially the further north it is, near the Arctic Circle, it is hardly suitable for large corps operations. The area that needs to be defended, relatively speaking. Much less, and this is the key to the northwestern ambition to control all of Siberia. At some point, Yang Yuanzhao even thought that if he could control the entire Asian part of Russia, with the Ural Mountains as the boundary, it would be easier to control.
For the sake of greater gains, Russia can let go, then Japan appears in the field of vision, whether it once belonged to China or is China's fence against North Korea. Whether it is the Ryukyu Taiwan that has been forcibly ceded must be taken back, and this is a matter of sovereignty.
In the Battle of Qingdao, a surprise attack on the sea suddenly inflicted huge losses on the Japanese Combined Fleet, and as long as we went one step further and cleared up Japan's water power, it was imperative to liberate Taiwan. Although the northwest did not have any doubts about sending the army to Taiwan to defeat the Japanese, at present in Taiwan there is only one first-class division and some local armed forces. Then there are some armed expatriates, who are not very combative.
However, the northwest is confused about Taiwan, and it is definitely necessary to contact Taiwan's local snakes. By the way, let Taiwan mess up. In this way, Japan's forces in Taiwan will be dragged down and a good opportunity will be created for landing on Taiwan. In this way, the Lin family entered the field of vision of the intelligence department.
The Northwest's plan for Taiwan can be traced back to 1911, but there was no way to communicate, and later through the Southeast Asian Chinese and wealthy businessmen in Fujian and Zhejiang, an incoherent liaison system was established, which has always been exported from the Northwest to provide direct support to Taiwan's anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.
Since 1895, to now, it has not been more than 18 years, Taiwan has been occupied by Japan, but the resistance movement has not stopped, Japan once had in 1897, Taiwan sold Taiwan to France for 100 million, this is not groundless, because of the continuous struggle, Taiwan has not become a stable base for the Japanese, the annual investment in it, so that the small and weak Japan can not support some of them.
However, the confrontation between Japan and Russia in the northeast gave Japan a chance, and the support from Britain directly relieved the Japanese from the most difficult time, plus France has a colony in the Indochina Peninsula and does not value Taiwan, which does not have much output, and this matter is over.
During the Russo-Japanese War, because of the war, Japan's administration of Taiwan declined, and uprisings and armed conflicts almost broke out one after another, with the largest uprisings, one before 1900 and the other during the Russo-Japanese War.
However, the continuous struggle, in exchange for the Japanese massacre, the weakness of the Qing Dynasty, the laissez-faire of Britain and France, made Japan's rule in Taiwan full of blood, at most some even slaughtered 40,000 people, even if it was the smallest resistance, it would massacre a village of people, bloody and suppressed, so that the Taiwan struggle without a cause, gradually ended, according to history, by 1915, the Taiwan uprising will fall into a trough.
Twenty years is enough time for a generation to grow, the old people are dying day by day, the spirit of resistance is gradually decreasing, the bloody suppression of popular resistance, and new resistance, mainly non-violent, is the most distinctive feature of the post-1915 period.
Of course, this is also a kind of sadness, and the people who are far away from the motherland, after 20 years of struggle, are still fighting endlessly, or in a state of isolation and helplessness, the blood has been shed enough, and there is no need to continue.
In 1911, the Taiwanese people still had the spirit of resistance, and they are still thinking about returning to the mainland, and they have no weapons and no command in their hands, and Japan cannot let them get what they get, unless it is a seizure of the uprising, but it will not last long, and it cannot be formed on a large scale, at most it is a small scale, and some are even only individuals.
With the support of the Northwest, it is different, they have the support of external forces. At a huge cost, a big detour, the northwest in three years, a total of 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 1 million rounds of bullets to Taiwan, later statistics, remove the loss of channels, the final island is almost one-tenth, the rest, maybe misappropriated, or sold by intermediaries.
One-tenth, this proportion is very small, but the support for Taiwan itself is huge, it is these weapons, and finally let Taiwan break out in 1911 Luo Fuxing Uprising, the original scale was small, or a year later, it was an attempt by the League, with the support of Nanyang, they have enough weapons to uproot the Japanese stronghold, so that the spark can be fired.
The Japanese police are present in all corners of Taiwanese society, and Taiwan has become a veritable police society. Taking 1902 as an example, there were 10 police sections, 97 branch offices, and 992 police stations in Taiwan, and at the most in the future, there were more than 1,500 police agencies of various types and more than 18,000 policemen. In Taiwan's economically developed areas, there is a police presence every 2 or 3 kilometers; There is one police officer for every 300 people. Taiwan under Japanese occupation can be said to be the world of Japanese police, and under the fascist control of the police, the basic rights of Chinese are deprived.
With sufficient guns, ammunition and manpower, the Luo Fuxing uprising began with great momentum, starting with 500 weapons, divided into 10 squads, and successively attacked 147 police agencies, killing and wounding more than 8,000 Japanese policemen and Japanese, seizing more than 3,000 guns, and developing into a huge force of armed men in more than 5,000 people, and the momentum swept the entire southern Taiwan at once.
However, the Japanese attach great importance to Taiwan, Taiwan's highest administrator, but also the highest military commander, the division stationed in Taiwan quickly mobilized, began to suppress bandits, the rebel army's large force, encountered the siege of the Japanese army's superior forces, the core of more than 1,000 people were gathered and annihilated, and the rest also fled into the mountains and forests in all directions, continuing to resist.
Originally, this resistance force would develop into a guerrilla force, in the vast mountainous area of central Taiwan, continue to resist the Japanese and liberate the people, but the Japanese intelligence agency, from Luo Fuxing's identity, found the connection between him and the League, and immediately protested against the Revolutionary Party through official channels, and finally the Revolutionary Party compromised, Luo Fuxing refused the request of the League and continued to stay in Taiwan, but most of the members of the other League withdrew from Taiwan, and the reduction of the core backbone greatly reduced the strength of the rebel army. At this time, Japan's encirclement and suppression became more and more tragic, and they were finally extinguished one by one, leaving only Luo Fuxing and a few backbones, who fled to the depths of the mountains.
From 1911 to 1913, for two whole years, the Japanese suffered heavy losses, but the retaliation was also several tragic, according to incomplete statistics, the Japanese massacred more than 50,000 people, the entire central part can be said to be a bloody storm, high pressure and massacre, and can not make the people succumb, soon, central Hsinchu, Tainan, Kaohsiung, there have been sporadic uprisings, especially in the central part, the leader of the rebel army is Lin Zumi, a long follower, and many people in the rebel army are servants of the Lin family for generations.
To put it bluntly, it is the power of the Lin family's secret organization, using the method of uprising, to resist the tyranny of Japan, highlighting the existence of the Lin family, the Lin family finally made a move, although Lin Zumi and Luo Fuxing are both members of the alliance, and they are also secretly active in Taiwan, but there is no contact between the two sides, and the uprising in the central part is also single, at the beginning, there were only more than 30 guns, and the Lin family was originally going to get some weapons from the new army of the revolutionary party, but Luo Fuxing's matter has been protested by Japan, The inexplicable connection between the revolutionary party and Japan made them dare not confront Japan at all, so the constraints on the following are also very strong, Lin Zumi got 200 guns through his own channels, and he was discovered by the revolutionary party, not only Lin Zumi himself was warned, 200 guns went through various channels, and only 30 entered Taiwan, and the others were confiscated or transferred.
What can 30 guns do, it is enough to concentrate troops to kill a police station, of course Lin Zumi knows, this will not work, but he has contacted many colleagues through his channels, and no one is willing to help him, so he has to turn to underground channels, otherwise the central war situation that has just started will completely collapse. (To be continued......)