"The news is true, because the stakes are very high, it was Iwakura Gushi who personally negotiated with the envoy sent by Emperor Lucia, and made a secret treaty, although Iwakura Gushi and the Lucia people kept the content of the secret agreement strictly secret, but our Zhishi risked their lives to investigate, and finally knew the main content of the secret agreement: First, the Lu army sent 100,000 to 200,000 troops to help the government quell the civil strife; Second, the government ceded the entire island of Hokkaido to Lucia as a reward; Third, after the deed was completed, Japan and Japan formed an alliance, and Lucia helped Japan seize Moss Bay, Korea, and Ryukyu. Lin Yiqing said.

Hearing Lin Yiqing say the contents of the secret agreement, Saigo Takamori's face became gloomy.

"At present, our people have not seen the text of the secret treaty, but it was obtained from the palace, so its authenticity cannot be doubted." Lin Yiqing said.

"It turned out to be the news I got from the palace, Han Peng really did his best for our great cause of King Qin!" Saigo Takamori sighed.

Lin Yiqing listened to Saigo Takamori's praise and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.

If Saigo Takamori knew who he got the information from, I'm afraid he would be so surprised that his eyes fell out, right?

"Such a harsh treaty, he Iwakura Gushi dares to accept." Saigo Takamori's voice was full of resentment, "Back then, I was hindered from my plan to conquer Korea, and now I have made such a secret agreement with Lucia, I really want to drive me to a dead end!" ”

"Iwakura traitors are like this, we should repay them." Lin Yiqing said.

"Is Han Peng going to Tokyo again, and take the thief's head for me as he did with Jiadong?" Saigo Takamori stared at Lin Yiqing and asked with some concern. "They're going to take precautions now. It's too risky. ”

"Huh. It is not difficult to cut off the head of this thief, but it is too cheap for him. Lin Yiqing said with a smile, "And as the general said, if I go now, it will be a bit risky, even if I am fine, the athletes under my command may be damaged." It's also not good, so the beheading is still exempted. ”

"So how is Hanpeng going to deal with it?" Saigo Takamori asked again.

"As long as the content of the secret agreement signed with Lu Ren is made public to the world, we will not do anything, and there will be people with lofty ideals who will go to take his life." Lin Yiqing gave the answer.

"Although the method is good, the text of the treaty has not been made public, and it is difficult for the people of the world to trust it." Saigo Takamori Road.

"Then we will think about making the text of the treaty public." Lin Yiqing said, "The day the secret agreement is made public, it is the day when the Iwakura rebel is beheaded. ”

"What method does Hanpeng want to use to make the secret agreement public?" Saigo Takamori asked.

"Reveal the news in a foreign newspaper first. Then the forces were forced to concentrate their forces. Hit the Lu army hard, so that the Lu army knew that it was difficult to retreat. Lin Yiqing said, "When the nations learn the news, they will inevitably ask the government and the Lu people, no matter how the government answers, it will always be difficult to justify itself, and if the Lu people want to make their teachers famous, they will also make public the contents of the secret agreement, so as to clear their own involvement, so that the treacherous plot will be exposed to the world, and the ambition of the people will also be revealed to the countries, and the countries must intervene, then the government will get rid of the predicament, and when the peace talks with us, the big thing will be done." ”

"This plan is very good, and it will be implemented as Hanpeng said." Saigo Takamori nodded and said, "This is in addition to military warfare, the method of verbal warfare, as long as you win the hearts of the world, even if the army is unfavorable, there is no need to be afraid." ”

Hearing Saigo Takamori say that "the strength of the army is unfavorable", Lin Yiqing knew that he was worried about the strength of the Russian army, and said: "Although the Lu army is large in number and menacing, its combat power is not strong, and it was defeated by our army in the first battle, with more than 3,000 casualties, and has now retreated and disengaged from our army. ”

"I regret not listening to Hanpeng's suggestion to attack Tokyo Bay that day, if it is from Hanpeng's strategy, there will be no disaster of the army coming north." Saigo Takamori sighed.

"I can't blame Mr. for this, I can only say that the traitor is cunning and vicious, and he can even think of borrowing the poison plan of the soldier Lucia." Lin Yiqing also sighed.

"It's hard for the Lu army to win by land, so I'm afraid that it will attack with a navy, right?" Saigo Takamori asked again.

"The Dew Navy doesn't." Lin Yiqing said, "Now the people are sending troops under the banner of 'Volunteer Army', that is, they will volunteer to form an army with retired personnel of the army and come to Japan to fight. However, the navy does not have the word "volunteers," and the personnel of the navy can be decommissioned, but the ships they are on are public instruments of the state and cannot be used for private purposes; once they attack our army, it will show that their so-called "volunteers" are regular troops, and their plans will be broken without being revealed, and when they invite the intervention of other countries, it will be because the Far East Navy is strong, but it cannot fight against our army. As long as our navy does not take the initiative to attack the Dew Navy, the Dew will have no way to take us. At most, its navy will be used to escort land forces in various parts of northeastern Japan, and it will be difficult for our navy to go forward to stop them. ”

"If the Lu people are like the people of the United States, depreciate and retire their ships, and lease them to the government navy, just like the lightning strike ships of the United States that attacked before, what can they do?" Saigo Takamori listened to Lin Yiqing's explanation, but he was not at ease, and asked.

"The lightning strike ships sold to the government by the United States are all old and dilapidated small ships, which are leased out after being decommissioned, while the naval ships of the Lu people in the Far East are mostly large ships, and many of them are cutting-edge, and they have not yet reached the retirement period. Lin Yiqing said, "If the Lu people want to carry out their plans, the navy must not be used, and they must fight with our army on land." ”

"I see." Saigo Takamori nodded, "However, in order to prevent the Dew Army from continuing to increase its troops, this time, I will also follow the example of the Iwakura traitor." ”

Hearing Saigo Takamori say that he wanted to emulate Iwakura Gushi, Lin Yiqing couldn't help but be stunned.

"Since Iwakura dares to act like this, it is obvious that His Majesty the Emperor is under his control and is not allowed to issue a holy word." Saigo Takamori looked at Lin Yiqing and said seriously, "As the general of the Guards and the governor of the new policy, I should be under the secret edict of His Majesty the Emperor and raise the king's army to please the ministers." ”

"Secret edict?" Lin Yiqing was stunned when he heard it.

"His Majesty the Emperor was held hostage by the traitorous ministers, and as a last resort, he sent someone to send a secret edict, ordering me to lead troops into Beijing and kill the traitorous ministers. Expelled the Lu Army. Saigo Takamori looked at Lin Yiqing. The contents of this edict. In the near future, I will make it public to the world, and I will know the merits at a glance. ”

Lin Yiqing only then understood what Saigo Takamori was going to do, and remembered that he wanted to send an envoy to North Korea back then, provoking the Koreans to kill himself so that he could give Japan an excuse to send troops, and he couldn't help but be secretly amused.

At that time, Itagaki retreated and others were moved to tears by Saigo Takamori's "magnificence", and Saigo Takamori was also self-absorbed and couldn't help himself. This time, Saigo Takamori probably wanted to emulate Liu Bei and Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and get something similar to the "Edict of the Cloth and Belt".

A person with such a great reputation as Saigo Takamori did such a thing, and he was as familiar with the road as Iwakura Gushi, which couldn't help but make Lin Yiqing sigh, Japan in this era. Indeed, there is a lot of talent.

The two discussed for a while, and then Lin Yiqing went to summon the generals of the Satsuma army. Inform everyone of the latest strategy he and Saigo Takamori have set, while Saigo Takamori closes his house and begins to draft the emperor's secret edict that he intends to make public.

Three days later, Saigo Takamori's Emperor's secret edict was freshly released:

“…… The traitorous ministers Iwakura and others, from the royal court, as the minister, should have fulfilled the duty of assistance, but for their own selfishness, they deceived the monarch, linked up with the party, corrupted the court discipline, forced the rebellion against loyalty, and ceded the rights and interests of the country, vainly borrowed the army of Lucia tiger and wolf to enter the country, and brutalized the people, all of which were not unintentional. I have been worrying all night, and I am afraid that the world will be in danger. Qingxi Xiang Yoshinosuke Longsheng is the elder of the country, the important minister of me, can remember the difficulties of the great cause of the Restoration, entangled the world's loyal and righteous people, annihilated the traitorous party, restored the society, eliminated violence and peace, the world is very fortunate! The edict Fu Qing, be cautious again, don't let it be negative! Written by me. ”

On December 10, Saigo Takamori issued a "Secret Edict on Rebellion" sent to him by Emperor Meiji in Osaka, and attached the main contents of the "Secret Treaty of Borrowing Troops" and Saigo Takamori's "Calling on the Men of the World to Rise Together to Seek Revenge and Expel the Prisoners", and about 100,000 copies of the notice were printed and distributed in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and other prefectures, and were also published in foreign newspapers. This further aroused the public's admiration for Saigo Takamori and dissatisfaction with the government, and the number of people joining the Satsuma Army increased dramatically. On the 13th, Saigo Takamori also sent a notice with the same content to the Minister of Imperial Affairs, Minoru Sanjo, Tohoku Prefectures, and Nagoya Town.

Once the contents of the Emperor's "secret edict" were made public, it also caused a great reaction among the government army, and many government soldiers hated the atrocities of the Russian army, so they defected and joined the Satsuma army, and the government troops who were the guides in the Russian army also fled, making the southwest war finally evolved into a duel between the Satsuma army and the Russian army.

After the battle on November 22, the Russian army retreated and occupied the Nagoya area. On the Nagoya side, the Satsuma army was commanded by Toshiaki Kirino, with a maximum strength of 23,000 men. The Satsuma army was deployed in the area from Huanyue Mountain in the north to Guotian in the south. After that, the Russian army interspersed the flank and rear of the Satsuma army, but was stopped by the Satsuma army. At about the same time as the government forces mutinied, the Russian forces on the Nagoya side also began to engage the government forces who had defected to their faces. On December 13, Toshiaki Kirino decided to attack Nagoya, and the Russian army also decided to attack. At 8 o'clock in the afternoon, the Russian army in Nagoya marched from Nagoya. The troops under the command of Captain Breoning of the avant-garde drove out the government forces in the area around Kadasaka and pursued them all the way to the vicinity of Shiomura. In addition, the Russian army also sent a unit to advance from the small road through the scale mountain to the vicinity of Bannan. In the battle that day, the commander of the Russian army, Captain Broning, was killed. At this time, the Russian army is not far from Nanguan, if it can occupy Nanguan, then it will cut off the connection between Daku and Fugang and the area around Gaolai and Takayazaka, and the rear road of the Satsuma army fighting in Takasaka will be cut off, which will inevitably have a great impact on the war situation. However, at dawn on the 14th, just as the Russian army was advancing towards Nanguan, news of the defeat of Takanozaka came. The Russian army was afraid that its own rear route would be cut off first if it did not cut off the rear route of the Satsuma army, so it ordered the entire army to withdraw to Nagoya. Later, it turned out that the news just now was a false positive, and the commander of the Russian army, Major General Goslov, was extremely annoyed, and the Russian army lost an excellent combat opportunity.

After this, the 3rd Brigade of the Russian Volunteer Army, led by Major General Kazakovich, rushed to the front line and confronted the Satsuma Army in Nagoya. The 3rd Brigade consisted mainly of Cossack units stationed in Siberia, and was ineffective and, in the words of the Russian military observer, "lacked the courage and morality of a soldier to flee at the sound of gunfire and the light of the sword, fleeing without forgetting to loot the belongings of the local people." or abandon their guns and ammunition in a battle with the enemy and flee". This gave Major General Kazakovich a big headache. Therefore. It was not until the 20th that Major General Kazakovich personally led three troops to Yancun, and the strength of the Russian army reached 8,000 people, that he was ready to start the offensive. At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the fruit field, and the battle lasted for a day, with no victory or defeat, nearly 2,000 Russian casualties, and Major General Kazakovich was killed in a medium shot. The brave general of the Satsuma army, Murata Sansuke, was also killed in this battle. -- Misuke Murata was extremely active in the previous Battle of Ise and captured the flag of Nogi Noshinori's unit.

Beginning at 5 a.m. on the 25th, fighting broke out again in the area of Guotian and Lishan, and the two sides fought until 2 p.m., and the battle line of the Satsuma Army was still unshakable. Major General Goslov asked the command for reinforcements, asking him to send a brigade of troops to reinforce them. However, the fierce battle at Takanozaka was in full swing, and the 25th was the day of fierce competition between the two sides at Hengli Mountain, and the headquarters naturally had no troops to send to Goslov. Lieutenant General Onegin had also heard of the combat effectiveness of the 3rd Brigade and had no hope at all for it, hoping that it would protect the flanks of the whole army. Therefore, he gave an order to Major General Goslov. The 3rd Brigade moved to the defensive, building a double breastwall. Defend against the attack of the Satsuma Army's sword drawing team and the odd soldiers. It was not until the 30th, when the Satsuma Army won the Battle of Takayazaka and the Russian troops on the Nagoya front line were isolated, that Onegin ordered the 3rd Brigade to attack the Nagoya area and relieve the besieged Russian army. Major General Goslov decided to attack the next day, and at 7 p.m. that day, he led his own detachment from Yancun to Furuno in a detour, built a bridge, and prepared for the attack. The official offensive began at 10 a.m. on January 1, when the Russians, in addition to losing Takayazaka, learned that the Satsuma Army's Einsatzgruppen had landed on the Ba Tin side behind them, so they sent troops from all walks of life to reinforce the rear, and the defenders of Nagoya were weakened. As a last resort, on the 2nd, the Russian army retreated, and the Satsuma army connected Nankan-Nagoya-Kashiwagi in a line, not only eliminating the threat of the flanks, but also occupying Nagoya.

While the Battle of Takayazaka was underway, the Satsuma Army general Nomura Shinosuke proposed such a plan: send a force to land at Ba Tak behind the Russian army, so as to cut off the connection between the Russian army and the coast. This plan immediately aroused great interest in the Satsuma Army Staff Headquarters, and both Saigo Takamori and Hayashi Yiqing praised it, saying that he had "learned the key to military aircraft" and approved the plan on January 4. With Hachiro Miyazaki as the commander, he gave him 2,000 troops and 800 "sword drawing teams" to form a "special team", and with the support of the Satsuma navy, landed in the area of Tsukinogaoka. In addition, under the command of Yuanbian Gaozhao, who joined the army, he also gave 2,000 people and 500 people of the "Odd Soldiers" to land in the county of Yutu County and attack Ba Tak. Then these two forces flanked the Russian army together.

On January 8, Hachiro Miyazaki departed from Osaka on the warship "Mt. Fuji", and on the way he joined the two ironclad ships "Hiei" and "Kongo", and landed on Tsukinogaoka on the 9th. The Russian army also prepared for the landing of the Satsuma army in the area of Ba Jie and Wolnoqiu, but due to the lack of troops, only 3 battalions of troops were deployed, so the Satsuma army landed smoothly without losses. At that time, the Russian army was deployed to the west of Yuenaiqiu, and the Satsuma army was divided into two teams to attack, and the Russian army was defeated and fled to Ba Tak, and then the Satsuma army occupied Ba Taking. On the same day, this news reached the headquarters of the Russian army, which had a great impact on the top of the Russian army. Upon learning of the landing of the Satsuma Army, the Russian army, under the command of the commander of the 5th Brigade, Senior Colonel Rubitsev, reinforced by 10 guns, reinforced with 10 guns, reinforced the Barto. From the 10th to the 11th, the two sides fought in the area of Gongyuan and Jingyi. On the 12th, the troops led by Fuchibe Takateru also reached Ba Taking. After that, another group of Satsuma troops arrived around the 15th, where they were reorganized and the troops brought by Hachiro Miyazaki were organized into the 4th Special Brigade. At this time, the Satsuma army had reached the scale of 5,000 warriors and 1,500 sword-drawing teams. On the 16th, the reorganized Satsuma Army launched an attack on Yoyoden, and the commander-in-chief was Fuchibe Takasho. The 1,000 Kagoshima Private School Sniper Unit, which was part of the 3rd Einsatzgruppen, was active, and the two 120-mm Armstrong guns removed from the warship also played a big role. The Russian army in front of him was less than 3,000 people, which was far from a disadvantage. Therefore, they constantly asked for help from the Russian army in Tokyo. On the 18th, in the area of Songqiao, the two sides engaged in fierce battles.

On the 19th, the newly recruited units of the "Volunteer Army" in Russia arrived at Renji, south of Badi, under the escort of the Russian Far East Navy. On the 20th, the Satsuma army of Ba Tak learned of this. On February 1, Renji's Russian troops dispatched from Renji through the Qiumo River and spent the night in Shenglai. On the 23rd, it was divided into two routes, one from the river and the other from the mountain road, and finally reached Hangami, which was about eight kilometers south of Bagui. I really don't understand why the Russian army is progressing so slowly on this road. On February 28, Yoiden and Songqiao had been lost, and the Russian army began to withdraw to Kawajiri, and the northern and southern Russian forces were cut off.

On March 1, the Satsuma army on the side of Tamada and Mikonono also defeated the Russian army and occupied Takuda. Miyazaki Hachiro climbed Mount Megen in the northeast of Tamama, and he could already see the Russian army fortress in the north. (To be continued......)

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