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The 20,000 Japanese troops of Youpeng in Shanxian County were besieged by Song Xiaofei's 60,000 new troops for three months in the icy and snowy empty city of Shenyang, freezing to death and frostbitten more than 9,000, and more than 6,000 dead and wounded during the breakout, and the remaining more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers were hungry and barely drank porridge at first, then dug grass roots, gnawed tree bark, and finally began to kill war horses.

It's a pity that the Japanese waited and waited, and spring in the Northeast still didn't come. In the Northeast, it is generally summer after winter. In 1895, it was extremely cold, with a month of heavy snowfall, and in April, when the Songhua River had not yet been civilized, the new troops outside the city were wearing cotton jackets, completely dressed in winter.

When there was a tragedy of cannibalism in the Japanese army, the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese army, Kawakami Caoliu, went to the combat headquarters to find Youpeng in Yama County. On that day, the sun that had not been seen for a long time finally appeared in Shenyang, but the sun was also bleak and cold in the northeast, where the weather was freezing cold.

In the evening, Youpeng of Shan County sat in the conference room of the headquarters, sitting on a square tatami mat with white edges on all sides and a white cloth on it. Yama Prefecture had already bathed and changed his clothes, put on a pure white kimono, his beard had been shaved, his hair was coiled up, revealing his scarred neck, and a shiny sword was crossed by his knee, and the dim white candle light shone on his calm face.

Kawakami Caoliu just heard a desolate sound of flute outside the door, quickly opened the door of the conference room, and saw that Yama County Youpeng was about to commit suicide, ran over to stop him, and cried: "Commander, why are you doing this?" Where there is life, there is hope. ”

Youpeng of Shan County shook his head, sighed and said: "30,000 Japanese troops went out with me, and now there are only 5,000 left. I can't escape the blame, I don't have the face to live in this world anymore. Kawakami-kun. You came just in time, just in time to be my introducer, lift my head, open the city gate and surrender. It's just that if you can return to Japan alive. Don't forget to avenge me! ”

Kawakami Caorokumiyama Youtomo's will to cut his stomach has been decided, and he didn't dare to stop it anymore, so he had to tearfully agree to Yamaguchi Youtomo's request, "Don't worry, Commander, as long as I still have a breath, I will definitely avenge you and the dead Japanese soldiers." ”

Yama Prefecture Youpeng nodded with satisfaction and untied his kimono. Exposing his belly, he raised the shiny knife on his knee, and after making a horizontal cut in the abdomen, he immediately stabbed the knife into the heart socket, and then pulled it down hard to form a cross shape, and he fell to the ground in pain, and the knife fell to the ground. But there was no snort. Kawakami picked up the knife on the ground, took his head, and hung a white flag at the head of Shenyang City. Open the city gates and lead the more than 4,000 Japanese troops who laid down their arms to surrender. Those Japanese soldiers who were unwilling to surrender, there were seven or eight hundred people, and they all committed suicide by seppuku, just like Youpeng in Yama County!

Song Xiaofei saw the white flag hanging at the head of Shenyang City and the Japanese troops surrendering, and a pleased smile appeared on his face: "The first year of the Wu Dynasty." I finally defeated the Japanese! Although this is only a starting point, so many Japanese soldiers have finally surrendered! Song Xiaofei rode a high-headed horse, from the Great North Gate of Shenyang, that is, the "Fusheng Gate", slowly entered Shenyang City, he took 30,000 new troops to receive 4,000 Japanese prisoners of war, all handed over to Feng Guozhang to deal with.

When the Chinese people heard that Song Xiaofei had recovered the three northeastern provinces, they all clapped their hands and set off firecrackers to congratulate. Song Xiaofei also ordered the whole army to rest for three days and celebrate. After the celebration, Song Xiaofei commanded 20 warships of the Beiyang Fleet, transported 20,000 new troops, and returned to Nagasaki Port.

Japan sent more than 20 warships, including the "Akitsuzu," to meet the battle, but unfortunately, these warships were not at all in the same order of magnitude as the Beiyang Fleet, and the best "Akitsuzu" was only 4,000 tons, and it was sunk by the torpedo of the Dingyuan at the beginning. In two hours of fighting, the Beiyang Fleet launched a pursuit on the sea, captured eight thousand-ton Japanese warships, sank nine Japanese warships, and sank the remaining Japanese warships by themselves.

At this time, the Japanese emperor couldn't hold it anymore and hurriedly asked Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu to Nagasaki to negotiate with Song Xiaofei again. Mutsu Somitsu persuaded Britain to abandon its position of neutrality, and the United States did not want China to annex Japan, so Song Xiaofei again negotiated with Mutsu Somitsu's diplomatic mission at Yangfan Tower in Nagasaki.

This time, Song Xiaofei still put forward three conditions: first, Japan will compensate China with 30,000 taels of silver for the military treasury, and the Japanese will be limited to pay off it within ten years, and they will have to pay the interest for the delay; Article 2: The Japanese Navy is not allowed to possess warships of more than 1,000 tons; Third, the ports of Nagasaki and Shimonoseki were ceded to China.

Song Xiaofei's intentions are obvious, the first is to ask for 300 million taels of silver, the Japanese government has an average annual income of almost 70 million taels of silver, and pays China 30 million taels a year, plus the interest of about 3 million taels of silver per year, it is impossible for the Japanese economy to develop greatly within ten years. The second is to limit the development of the Japanese navy, Japan is an island country, without the navy, Japan can only be trapped on the island; The third is to use Nagasaki and Shimonoseki as bases to firmly choke Japan's neck.

Mutsu Somitsu knew that there might be no room for negotiation between the second and third articles, and wanted to pay a little less compensation, so he said: "Didn't you say that the compensation was 50 million taels of silver last time, why did it become 300 million taels of silver this time?" ”

Song Xiaofei sneered: "At this time and that time, you Japanese still have nearly 5,000 prisoners in our hands, each Japanese prisoner is counted as 10,000 taels of silver, if you are willing to redeem it, you can redeem it, if you don't want to, I can't afford it, you can do it." The other 200 million taels are the military expenses that China spent in this war, and since Japan was defeated in the war, it should compensate. ”

Mutsu said, "The amount of compensation is too large, and I have to send a telegram to the emperor." ”

Song Xiaofei said lukewarmly: "Don't worry, Lord Mutsu slowly asks for instructions." ”

At this time, the Japanese emperor only wanted to end the war as soon as possible, and lose half of the Japanese government's income a year, although he was distressed, but there was no other way, he thought to himself, the gentleman took revenge, ten years is not too late, as long as Japan's national strength develops every year, China stops, Japan will one day, will defeat China, so he agreed to Song Xiaofei's three major conditions, indemnity of 300 million taels of silver.

Song Xiaofei won the final great victory in the war against Japan, and sent a telegram back to Beijing to report the good news to his mentor Li Hongzhang. Not long after, news came from Beijing that Li Hongzhang was critically ill.

It turned out that after Li Hongzhang became emperor, Manchukuo became independent, Japan invaded Korea, and the domestic newspapers scolded him for "being crowned by a monkey", where did he suffer such a gas in his life, and he fell ill all of a sudden, only taking into account the overall situation, he concealed his illness, and then he still worked hard for state affairs every day, but after Song Xiaofei won a huge victory, Li Hongzhang's tense nerves were relaxed, and when he heard the good news of Japan's compensation of 300 million taels, he was very happy and sad, but he became seriously ill.

Song Xiaofei hurriedly arranged the affairs of the army, rushed back to Beijing by warship, and when he arrived at the presidential palace, Li Hongzhang was already bedridden!