Part 1 Chapter 156: Tokyo Falls
"Okay, did you hear the order? You gather your group first and continue to move forward, Lao Tzu has to slow down" Xu Bangdao said as he bent over
"Got it, brigade commander, you rest more, I'll go first" Chen Shanyuan was the most excited when he heard this
"Rabbit cub, don't think that you can mess around and tell you that the emperor of Japan is going to be captured alive, understand?" Xu Bangdao hurriedly reminded
"Don't worry, brigade commander, the emperor's guard combat effectiveness must be a little bit I will understand as soon as I fight, I must catch a living emperor back and give our brigade commander a long face" Chen Shanyuan shouted as he walked
"Stinky boy, get out, don't let me see you" Xu Bangdao scolded with a smile
The 12th Regiment continued its advance to the northwest after assembling ......
"Your Majesty, you must leave," said a soldier with a blank face
"No, what about General Inoue? Where is he? Let him come to me," Emperor Meiji shouted
"Your Majesty, the general is no longer able to come to see you, he has already sacrificed his life for Great Japan," the soldier said with a blank face, as if none of this had much to do with him
"What? He's dead? Didn't he say that the people were mobilized to fight against the Qing soldiers? Aren't there 100,000 people lying in ambush there? How long has it been? How is it all over? Emperor Meiji had a skeptical expression
"Yes, Your Majesty, General Ito, let us take you away, you are the hope of Great Japan, Tokyo can do without, you can't do without," the soldier said indifferently
"No...... I vow to live and die with Tokyo, and I will not leave Tokyo," Emperor Meiji continued to scratch like a madman
"Your Majesty, if you don't leave, the Qing army will come up, and their vanguard has already attacked less than 10 kilometers from here," the soldier exuded a little nervousness
"Then, I will have to die to apologize," Emperor Meiji said, picking up the dagger in his hand and stabbing himself in the abdomen
"Your Majesty......"
The soldier had already grabbed Emperor Meiji's wrist, after all, it was a soldier who had undergone strict training, and with a slight increase in his palm, Emperor Meiji's wrist was painful, and with a "bang", the dagger fell to the ground
"Your Majesty, come with me, General Ito has already arranged his troops to break through to the north to attract the firepower of the Qing army, let's go west" The soldier pulled Emperor Meiji and left
"No...... I don't...... I'm not leaving, I'm going to defeat the Qing army, I'm going to kill the Qing people, all the Qing people" Emperor Meiji may have been greatly stimulated and was already a little demented
"Click, click, click......" The sound of machine gun fire made the 12th Regiment of the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division, which was on the march, suddenly in a tense state of combat readiness
"Where to shoot? Where to shoot? Chen Shanyuan asked hurriedly
"Report to the regiment commander, there are a large number of Japanese troops in the north of the city, preparing to break through to the outside of the city, and the 136th Regiment of the 45th Brigade of the 15th Division is blocking it," a signal soldier reported
"Damn, it's not good, the little devil wants to run fast, target the north of the city, run forward" Chen Shanyuan ordered
"Yes," the signal corps immediately transmitted the order to the battalions
The entire 12th Regiment hurriedly ran towards the north of the city, and the 15th Division, 137th Regiment and 138th Regiment outside the city also quickly approached the north of the city
The Japanese breakthrough troops were quite numerous, with a whole brigade of 7,000 people, but under the suppression of the powerful artillery and machine gun fire of the Qing soldiers, the Japanese troops who rushed out simply became live targets, and they had no chance to get out alive, and fell to the ground one by one with hideous faces
The breakout lasted for 2 hours, and the north of the city was already full of corpses, the difference was that most of them were soldiers, but in these 2 hours, Emperor Meiji had quietly left Tokyo under the escort of his guards......
Maybe his departure will make the Qing army in the city Jiasu unscrupulously slaughtered, because with his brains before killing, will this person be the emperor of Japan?
"Report, the 15th Division reported that 3 hours ago, the defensive position of the 136th Regiment in the north of the city was attacked by the Japanese breakthrough army, and the Japanese army had a brigade formation without heavy weapons, and successfully annihilated the Japanese army with the assistance of friendly and neighboring troops, but during this period, a small Japanese unit broke through the defense in the west of the city and fled to Hokkaido," a signal soldier truthfully reported to Feng Xianghua
"Hehe, the sound of the east and the west is the strategy in my Chinese grandson's art of war, and the little devil will actually make it, but the little devil must not know that I have a proverb in the Qing Dynasty - the monk who runs can't run the temple, pass my order, don't shrink back anymore, raze Tokyo to the ground for me, and leave no grass" Feng Xianghua said viciously
"Yes," the communications soldier hurried away again
Another whole day of slaughter, the Qing army killed people when they saw them, and the people's houses were bombed for three days and three nights, and the huge city of Tokyo could not get a minute of silence, and the sound of gunfire, artillery, screams, and groans was intertwined into a miserable human tragedy
It has now been five days since the Fourth Brigade of the Second Division, the first unit to enter the city, and in these five days, corpses have been collectively burned no less than 10 times
It cannot be said that they are cruel, it can only be said that the execution of this force is quite strong
"Brigade Commander, when are we leaving?" Chen Shanyuan couldn't stand the slaughter every day, and mechanically pulled the trigger
"Damn, why are you asking Lao Tzu? When you want to fight, you screamed more fiercely than anyone else, and now you want to leave when you've killed enough? Go, you go and ask General Feng to go," Xu Bangdao scolded
"Brigade commander, General Feng is so determined to avenge his old man, is it not appropriate for me to ask now? But if you kill like this, what day will it be a head? Are you really going to kill everyone in Tokyo? Chen Shanyuan asked suspiciously
"Alas, looking at the posture, even if you don't kill it, you won't be able to leave much, have you calculated, how many Japanese have the troops killed in total after entering the city?" Xu Bangdao took a sip of water and asked
"I haven't calculated it carefully, but there must be more than 200,000, 50,000 on the first day, 70,000 on the second day, 20,000 on the third day, 40,000 on the fourth day, and 30,000 just burned today, a total of 210,000 people" Chen Shanyuan counted with his fingers
Xu Bangdao was also taken aback, "So many people? Come here today, let the troops rest in place, and see what General Feng has to say tomorrow."
"Okay, I can't kill it either" Chen Shanyuan sat on the ground and said to the communication soldiers beside him: "Let the troops in front stop, and all return to the camp and end here today."
"Yes," the communications officer turned to leave
After Tokyo was breached, all the embassy personnel of various countries, including Zhao Bingjun, had already been notified to leave Tokyo, and the Qing army specially gave them an opening to let them go, so the whole world did not know what was going on in Tokyo
I just heard the continuous sound of artillery and gunfire for five whole days, and of course these voices were accompanied by painful shouts to accompany the whole world uproar, what did Qing Guo do in Tokyo?
The French felt a little afraid after learning all this, if tens of thousands of French ** troops in Vietnam were also taken by the Qing army, then it would be a devastating blow to France's national defense forces, especially the army, you must know that the French standing army has a total of only 200,000, and the 40,000 besieged army is one-fifth of France's national defense force
Germany was equally astonished at what they learned, and was so strong and vicious in its tactics that it was so shocked that Wilhelm II was glad that he had not offended the lion of the East
After knowing this, Britain has stopped economic aid to Japan, in their opinion, the war is over, Japan has obviously lost the rate, although the British do not want to believe, but this is a fact, now the Qing Dynasty has become completely strong, not a random reinforcement of Japanese armaments can form an army to compete with the Qing Dynasty
The next time, Feng Xianghua also received a telegram from Guan Xuqing that the massacre of the city must be stopped, and all countries, including Germany, expressed their dissatisfaction or raised questions about the massacre of the city by the Qing Dynasty
"Tell Cai Ning to bomb the bungalows in the north and west of the city for another two hours, let the Fourth Brigade escort the artillery battalion, and after two hours of the rest of the troops withdrawing, all the troops will withdraw from Tokyo" Although Feng Xianghua still obeyed Guan Xuqing's orders, his hatred for Japan did not weaken in the slightest, and he still hoped to destroy as much as possible
"Yes......" the signal soldier turned and left