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On September 18, 1904, the waters of the Yellow Sea near Japan were calm, and the Chinese fleet composed of seven ironclad giant ships sailed to Kyushu, Japan. The 15,000-ton high-speed and fearless flagship "Huaxia" is like a huge steel monster, riding the wind and waves on the vast sea. The five-color flag of the Republic of China on the mast hunts in the whistling sea breeze. Deng Shichang, who looked serious, stood under the national flag, his eyes shining, looking at the turbid and undulating waves of the Yellow Sea. The vast sea makes people feel in a trance, looking forward to seeing the land as soon as possible. Deng Shichang was very happy in his heart. He was ordered by Song Xiaofei to lead the fleet to occupy Kyushu, facing the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force with only 1,000-ton ships, this battle is basically no suspense, and it is estimated that it will end soon.

Kyushu Island, is the third largest island in Japan, located in the southwest tip of Japan, southeast of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and China, the old Chikuzen, Chikugo, Bunzen, Bungo, Hizen, Higo, Hyuga, Satsuma, Osumi nine countries, then called Kyushu, the main island area of 36,500 square kilometers, the area is about the same as Taiwan Island, together with the area of the small island, but only 43,400 square kilometers, at this time the population is only three or four million. Song Xiaofei's idea was to occupy Kyushu first, establish a state of Kyushu similar to the puppet state of Manchukuo, and let him and Prince Tonomiya Shokonai's two-year-old son be kings, just as Japan occupied the three northeastern provinces in history. Moreover, Kyushu is rich in coal resources, which can provide raw materials for China's industrialization.

At this time, thousands of workers in the steel, chemical, and shipbuilding industries in Kyushu were instigated by the Japanese Social Democratic Party. Strikes and armed riots were carried out, police stations and city halls were occupied.

And since 1848, the specter of xxism has roamed Europe. All the forces of old Europe. The Pope, the Tsar, the French radicals and the German police, all joined forces to encircle and suppress this spectre. Before Deng Shichang's fleet departed, Song Xiaofei asked Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang to send a note to various countries that Japan is China's sphere of influence, just as North America is now the sphere of influence of the United States. No country, except China, has the right to act in Japan. At this time, it was either a constitutional monarchy in Britain or a republican United States. Tsarist Russia, which was still a monarch, as well as Germany and France, avoided this nationwide riot in Japan like a plague. Acquiesced in the actions of the squadron. Except for the fleet. Song Xiaofei let Xu Shichang be the commander, Wu Peifu and Jiang Baili led 30,000 Northeast New Army landing operations, for this battle, Shenyang Arsenal produced 168 Krupp cannons, 724 machine guns, more than 10,000 Tianlong rifles, and countless ammunition.

Deng Shichang's fleet first sailed to Fukuoka, which was very close to the Korean Peninsula and Chinese mainland, and Fukuoka was surrounded by sea on three sides. It is also the largest prefecture on the island of Kyushu and the center of politics and industry. Known as the "Gateway to Kyushu", its geographical location is equivalent to Shenyang in the northeast. In the evening, the red sunset burned the sky, and the Chinese fleet reached the waters of Fukuoka, Deng Shichang ordered the armored ships of the fleet to raise their heavy guns, and the black muzzles were aimed at the coastal defense plug on the shore of Fukuoka.

"Shoot me!" Deng Shichang waved his big hand and shouted in the direction of Fukuoka Port. He felt very happy about attacking the Japanese mainland.

The 8 305-mm main guns and 24 76-mm secondary guns installed in the four turrets of the "Huaxia" opened fire first, and the angry shells roared and smashed into the coastal defense plug in Fukuoka and the fishery administration ship of the Japanese Self-Defense Force in a parabola, and the huge explosion sound was like thunder, stirring up a lot of white waves in the port of Fukuoka, and the artillery on the fortress was blown up at the waist, and the SPD radicals inside did not understand military affairs at all, and they flew into the sky in a blur of flesh and blood, and the ports on three sides of Fukuoka were caught in a sea of fire. Some Fukuoka citizens had not had time to eat dinner before they felt like a mountain was shaking, as if there had been a major earthquake, and they hurried into their burrows.

On the night of 18 September, the 7th Brigade of the New Army led by Wu Peifu occupied Fukuoka Castle overnight and blew up a section of the railway in Fukuoka, which was the famous "September 18 Incident" in Japanese history.

Xu Shichang rode a tall horse and led 30,000 new troops from the Northeast into Fukuoka Castle. At that time, some houses were also on fire due to shelling, and the flames were in full swing. Some Japanese ronin and extremist Social Democrats organized a large-scale revolt, but Wu Peifu's machine-gun battalion and Jiang Baili's infantry regiment resolutely fought back, and the streets of Fukuoka were immediately bloodied, and in the following three days, more than 20,000 young people died in Fukuoka, Japan.

At that time, Fukuoka was already very inflationary, and after the squadron entered the city, there was a shortage of food. So after entering the city, Xu Shichang took over all the factories in Fukuoka, implemented military control, divided the population of Fukuoka into three classes, the first class was Chinese, the second class was Ainu, and the third class was Japanese, stipulating that rice and white noodles could only be eaten by first-class people, and the Japanese would be killed if they were found eating it.

The main major prefectures on the main island of Kyushu are Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture (including Goto Islands and Tsushima Island), Kumamoto Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture (including Osumi Islands and Amami Islands) and other seven prefectures, occupied Fukuoka, with the cooperation of the Nagasaki garrison, the squadron was like a bamboo, in ten days, occupied Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture six prefectures. But Xu Shichang's army encountered the most stubborn resistance of the Japanese in Kagoshima.

Kagoshima Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture in Kyushu, Japan, is one of the birthplaces of ancient Japanese culture with various characteristic islands including the Amami Islands and Okinawa Prefecture in the southwest, including the World Heritage Site of Yakushima, and as early as the end of the 12th century, the samurai Shimazu clan of Minamoto Yoritomo established a political power, so that the Japanese aristocracy became dominated by the samurai. In the second half of the 19th century, when Japan's system of seclusion collapsed, Kagoshima actively absorbed Western culture under the guidance of the feudal lords, built reverberatory furnaces and various machine workshops, and sent students to the United Kingdom.

China and Japan fought a large-scale battle in Kagoshima, which was also the largest and most tragic battle in the entire war to occupy Kyushu, which Xu Shichang did not expect.

Wu Peifu's army landed under the cover of Deng Shichang's fleet heavy artillery fire, and more than 3,000 Japanese samurai in Kagoshima, under the leadership of Shimazu Jitaro, swore to defend Kagoshima to the death, and fought a week of street fighting with the squadron. Shimazu Jitaro led the Japanese samurai, with the Japanese flag wrapped around their heads, wearing kimonos and clogs, and carrying sharp katana to rush to the squadron.

Many soldiers of Wu Peifu's infantry brigade raised their guns and fired, thumping bullets flying in the streets, killing and wounding countless samurai, many Chinese soldiers had red rifle barrels, and the Japanese samurai were still red with bloodshot eyes, and rushed forward with their knives desperately. The hands of the Chinese soldiers, who had killed too many devils, trembled a little. Wu Peifu, a talented brigade commander, couldn't help but burst into foul language: "Damn Japanese devil, it's really dead!" ”

In the end, Wu Peifu had to order the heavy machine gun battalion to open the way in front, and the sudden and powerful firepower suppressed the momentum of the Japanese samurai's attack.

After a bloody battle, Wu Peifu's infantry brigade occupied Kagoshima, where more than 2,000 of the 3,000 Japanese samurai were killed, and hundreds of samurai committed suicide. As they fought, they set fire to their houses, and the entire Kagoshima Island was filled with smoke and flames, and the inhabitants of the island cried when they saw their homes scorched.

Shimazu Futaro knew that he was powerless to return to heaven, so he kicked open his house with a katana, and his wife Hoino Zyko with two children came up to meet him, and he slashed to the ground, and the red blood flowed all over the ground. Shimazu Jitaro's six-year-old daughter and three-year-old son were so frightened that they hugged each other and cried when they saw their mother killed. Shimazu Futaro walked over, took his son and daughter in his arms, and said, "Don't cry, we people of the Shimazu family, it is a great honor to die for the emperor." Don't be afraid, follow your mother. ”

Shimazu Futaro's family, except for those who died in battle, did commit suicide. In the end, Shimazu Jitaro tied his hair, and under a thick hibiscus tree, he gently hummed the Japanese national anthem of "Kimi-no-Dai", and committed suicide by seppuku. When Xu Shichang heard about this, he sighed softly: "This monster of war! In the end, he ordered Shimazu Futaro and the samurai who committed suicide in Kagoshima to be buried with Saigo Takamori.

918 in 1904 became one of the most humiliating moments in Japanese history, when many Japanese residents of Kyushu fled with their families to Honshu, Shikoku and other places to wander, and Kyushu became a "fallen" area of Japan.

After the squadron occupied Kyushu, it announced the establishment of the Kyushu State, and the two-year-old son of him and Prince Tonomiya Shokonai became kings, and in fact Kyushu was owned by China. Because there are many hot springs in Kyushu, which are suitable for the development of tourism, and there are too many young Japanese men who died in the war, some Japanese women have no husbands, and the Central ** Management Committee will incorporate them to develop special service industries. Song designated Kyushu as a special zone for leisure and vacation, a place for Chinese soldiers and high-performing government officials to go on vacation.

Emperor Taisho heard that after the squadron occupied Kyushu, he had a cerebral thrombosis attack and his hands trembled, but because the SPD in Hokkaido and northeastern Honshu also needed the help of the squadron, he had to bow to the Chinese. Feng Guozhang's 100,000-strong garrison kept the SPD radicals out of the northeastern part of Japan, and in this way, Japan was divided into three and entered the "Three Kingdoms Era". (To be continued......)