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In 1874, Saigo Congdao took two wooden merchant ships with 3,000 Japanese students and dared to attack Taiwan, and Song Xiaofei knew that it was difficult to find a second one in Japan for such a crazy Japanese soldier. At present, there are 300,000 Japanese soldiers under Saigo Congdao, and although most of them have just been conscripted, the strength of this opponent should not be underestimated. Moreover, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely defeat Japan, so Song Xiaofei issued a presidential decree and sent Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang to lead 100,000 recruits, including 50,000 recruits trained by Xu Shichang in the northeast, in addition, ordered Lang Weili, deputy commander of the Beiyang Fleet, and Deng Shichang, chief soldier of the right wing of the Beiyang Fleet, to take ten Western warships such as "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan", as well as ten domestic battleships such as "Huanglong", to Nagasaki Port to join forces with the Seven-Nation Alliance, and told them not to underestimate the enemy!

At the beginning, the countries agreed to serve as the commander of the coalition army, which was the first battle after Nicholas II ascended the throne, and Russia attached great importance to it, dispatching more than 98,000 regular army troops in the Far East, equipped with 148 artillery pieces and 8 machine guns, and also mobilized 10,000 Cossack cavalry known for their bravery and good fighting. At the same time, Admiral Rozhdestwinsky led more than 60 combat ships of the Pacific Fleet to the port of Nagasaki. As a result, the number of Russian troops and warships exceeded that of China. General Kuropatkin insisted that the Russians be the marshals of the Eight-Nation Alliance, giving a façade to Tsar Nicholas II, who had just succeeded to the throne.

Kuropatkin said arrogantly: "Our Russian soldiers are tall and mighty, and one Russian soldier can deal with three Japanese soldiers. We dispatched 100,000 troops, enough to deal with the 300,000 troops of the Japanese. As long as the Russians take the lead, it will not be so much war for you that will happen in the future. It's more appropriate to say it's a military walk, and you'll just wait and see. ”

Wang Shizhen sent a telegram to ask Song Xiaofei, and Song Xiaofei thought to himself, defeating the Japanese. Next, Russia will be China's biggest enemy, so he sent a telegram to Wang Shizhen, asking him and Feng Guozhang to support the Russian Minister of War Alexei. General Kuropatkin was the marshal of the coalition forces, and the Russian army was the vanguard. Countries saw that Russia had the largest number of soldiers, and China also agreed that the Russians should be the marshals, so they elected General Kuropatkin as the marshal of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

General Kuropatkin couldn't wait to give the Japanese some color, and he took 100,000 troops as the vanguard and led the attack on Hiroshima.

Hiroshima was the main supply and logistics base of the Japanese army at that time, on the alluvial delta formed by the mouth of the Ota River. This delta center became the Hiroshima Plain. Forming the urban area of Hiroshima. The eastern part is hilly, and the south, north, and west are plains. The 60,000 men of Kawakami's First Army were stationed here, of which 20,000 were stationed in the eastern hilly areas.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Saigo Tomichi, heard that the commander of the Russian army was Kuropatkin. Daiki sent a telegram to Kawakami Koroku, who was stationed in Hiroshima, saying, "I know this Kuropatkin. He is a typical bureaucrat with little practical experience, indecisive, resolute, and arrogant, you can lure the enemy deep first, and then take advantage of the Russians to gain a foothold and lead an attack on his troops. ”

Therefore, Kawakami Cao Rokushi sent a small force of only one regiment to exchange fire with the Russians, and found out the old bottom of Kuropatkin: The Russians were only equipped with cable telegraphs to the army and group armies, and all communications below the division level were carried out on foot or on horseback, and the confusion in the logistical support situation was astonishing.

After finding out the details of the Russians, Kawakami Caoliu was happy, the Russian soldiers began to land and attack from the south and west of Hiroshima under the cover of the superior firepower of the warships, Kawakami Caoliu held on for a long time, abandoned the plain position, and retreated all the 60,000 Japanese troops to the hilly areas in the east, Kuropatkin's Russian army easily occupied the western and southern positions of Hiroshima, and soon controlled the city of Hiroshima, thinking that "the Japanese soldiers are really vulnerable!" ”

At midnight the next day, the Japanese Togo fleet headed for Hiroshima: three groups of destroyers attacked the Russian fleet in Hiroshima, and under the light of the coastal lighthouse and the searchlight of the Russian ships, the Japanese ships stared at the Russian fleet and fired sixteen torpedoes at close range, three of which hit the target, and severely damaged three of the best Russian ships.

The sound of huge explosions and artillery shook the entire city of Hiroshima, but the Russian officers were holding a dinner party in the city at that time, under the leadership of the commander-in-chief of the Russian army Kuropatkin, they captured more than 100 Japanese women from Hiroshima City as comfort women, asked them to strip naked, and drink and dance with the Russian ** officers. When the fortress outside the port of Hiroshima sounded the sound of "booming" artillery, the Russian army did not know what was happening in the harbor, the Russian command inquired, and the following answer was that it was live fire, and it was not until dawn that the wreckage of the ship that was hit near the port was discovered.

That night, Kawakami Caoliu led 40,000 Japanese troops to counterattack from the east of Hiroshima, and the Russian general Zasulich's division headquarters stationed at that time had nearly 20,000 troops and 62 artillery pieces, and had occupied the position for a long time, but did not strengthen the fortifications, and the troops were scattered on a wide front, and there were countless chests in the direction of the Japanese attack, only a long trench was built, and almost no camouflage, and the reserves, which accounted for about half of the total strength, were deployed ten kilometers away, and the artillery positions were completely exposed.

During the night, the Japanese launched an attack, detoured the left flank of the Russian army, and launched a fierce battle, and the Russian army resisted the Japanese attack with artillery fire and counter-assault. However, the Japanese army had the advantage in strength, and its artillery was fired from a concealed position, suppressing the Russian artillery fire, Zasulich was afraid of being surrounded, and ordered a retreat, and the 11th Infantry Regiment of East Siberia was caught in the encirclement of the superior Japanese army, and after a replacement battle, it broke through the siege, and suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the Russian army realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly asked for support.

The naval commander who led the fleet reinforcements, Rozhdestvinsky, only had combat experience in the era of sailing ships, and did not understand the naval tactics of the era of steel-armored warships, and the main force of the Russian fleet did not move, and only five ships were dispatched to strengthen the right flank of the Russian army, which was intercepted by Japanese warships, and all of them were sunk by the Japanese in the battle of being outnumbered.

Kawakami did not give the Russian army a chance to breathe, and seized the time to attack the last line of positions on the periphery of Hiroshima, the Russian army's Fokker division of more than 8,000 people, only held on for a total of half a day, suffered heavy casualties, broke out, and even the Japanese did not estimate that the Russian army retreated so quickly.

The 10,000 Cossack cavalry who then attacked tried to recapture this position, but were bombarded by the powerful fire of the Japanese artillery regiment, the war horses and cavalry were blown up into the sky, became cannon fodder, more than half of the casualties, and lost more than 6,000 people.