Chapter 300 Chapter 22 The Air Force Strikes
If you want to deter a nation by killing people, only the Manchus have done it in the entire history of the world. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:strawberry,.cmxsw]The Manchu Qing clan represented by the three massacres of Jiading and Yangzhou began to massacre a large number of Han people before entering the customs, and after entering the customs, with the Manchu iron hooves going south, countless Han people fell under the Manchu slaughter knife in the entire land of China from the northeast to Jiangnan to Xichuan. The reason why Liangguang filled Sichuan was because the Manchu Qing Dynasty had almost killed all the Sichuan people who resisted the most, and they had no choice but to let the more docile people of Liangguang enter Sichuan.
It is precisely because of this history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that Guangxu, in order to achieve the ambition of completely deterring the Japanese, secretly convened a Manchu minister in the Summer Palace. Listening to the Empress Dowager's ministers tell the emperor about the history and means of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, Guangxu Khan couldn't come out. Could it be that later generations were dissatisfied with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and these things were made public once they were ......
Guangxu thought about it all night and still couldn't make up his mind, so he could only send a message to the resisting Japanese without leaving a living mouth. At the same time, a proclamation was issued in the name of the imperial court, urging Japan to surrender and allowing the Japanese emperor to go to Beijing to dance.
All the countries of the world believe that Japan will refuse, and Japan does the same. On November 1, the 3rd Division of the Qing Army, under the cover of the 1st Artillery Division, launched an attack on Yokohama. On the same day, the Eastern Route Army of the Qing Dynasty, which had received supplies, launched a heavy artillery bombardment on Edo. However, Matsudo, which was located on the north side, crossed the river twice under the strong attack of the Korean 1st Division and the Ryukyu Division, but was defeated by the desperate counterattack of the 2nd Division.
Nohara Konosuke's desperate blow finally did not activate Japan's wildness, and the defeat of the Qing Eastern Route Army was only because they were all the troops of the Qing vassal states, while the Western Route Army, the main force of the Qing army, sang all the way and took all the peripheral positions of Yokohama within two days, and the Qing army had begun to directly bombard Yokohama Castle with artillery. The division commander, Hasegawa Yoshimichi, sent a direct telegram to the base camp to abandon Yokohama.
The Fifth Division, which had blocked the attack of the Eighth Division of the Qing Dynasty, had been in a hurry to return to Yokohama, but he never thought that the Fifth Division would leave the position, but the Third Division of the Qing Dynasty suddenly turned around and attacked the Fifth Division with the Eighth Division that was following. The Qing army concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces of various calibers to attack the Fifth Division, but the Fifth Division, which had no advantage in firepower or terrain, and was even weaker in strength, was annihilated. The commander of the division, Yamaguchi Susen, committed suicide by seppuku before the Qing army stormed his headquarters. Because the Qing army did not encircle and suppress the stragglers, there were still many Japanese soldiers who escaped from the encirclement of the Qing army. The 3rd Division, which was trying to reinforce, was firmly blocked by the 11th Division and did nothing. In three days, the Qing army projected nearly 10,000 artillery shells and nearly 30,000 mortar shells at the Fifth Division, and directly used artillery to knock out the Japanese Fifth Division's formation, so that the intensity of the Qing army's artillery fire dropped greatly after the war.
After annihilating the 5th Division, the Qing army prepared to launch an attack on Yokohama. However, on November 8, just before the attack began, more than 1,800 wounded soldiers of the captured Fifth Division were densely gathered under the supervision of guns and artillery under the siege of Yokohama. Then, the Qing army raised the butcher's knife, and the sound of guns rang out in all directions. All 1,800 wounded soldiers were killed, and the Japanese soldiers in Yokohama Castle were inflamed by the bushido spirit of the officers and vowed to take revenge.
"Dare to resist the Heavenly Army, this is the end." Feng Guozhang pointed to the corpses all over the ground and shouted loudly with a loudspeaker: "I am not a murderer of China, but Japan has repeatedly provoked China. Now you can't be overpowered, how can you serve the people, so those who dare to resist the heavenly army of the kingdom will not leave a living mouth. For those who do not resist, our emperor recites that God has the virtue of a good life, and he waits for a way to live. ”
In order to be able to read Japanese fluently. Feng Guozhang, who had never studied Japanese again, memorized this passage stiffly. Although he didn't know what he said, the Japanese on the other side understood, but the Japanese then saw countless Japanese civilians walking out of the Qing army's position. These were all Japanese strong men who were captured by the Qing army to transport weapons and supplies, and there were also a large number of men, women, and children who dragged their families near Yokohama. It is not clear how many Qing troops there are, but in short, all the Japanese in the vicinity have been captured in the past few days.
The Japanese soldiers on Yokohama Castle looked at the civilians under the city, who numbered at least 5,000 people, and they dragged their families and their mouths all the way to Yokohama with their mouths crying and howling, and did not panic, but dragged the corpses of the soldiers of the Fifth Division who had just been shot and carried them towards Yokohama Castle under the command of the Qing army.
Hasegawa looked at the dense crowd tremblingly, this is the Qing army is going to fight psychological warfare. As soon as these men enter the city, rumors will spread in the city. Once the soldiers who had just been puffed up collapsed, there was no more chance. But for now, it is impossible to stop the civilians from entering the city, because they are all carrying the corpses of the Imperial warriors.
Imperial warriors need a thick burial, and Hasegawa Yoshimi asked the soldiers to arrange the sacrificed warriors. I never thought that as soon as these civilians entered the city, they would throw the corpses of the imperial warriors on the side of the road, and rush to the north gate with their families in a hurry. The soldiers who went to find out the situation came back and reported to him: the Qing army told these civilians very clearly. The aim of the Qing army was to occupy Tokyo, and as long as these civilians were ten miles north of Tokyo, they would be safe. So these civilians are in a hurry to flee for their lives.
"Give you twenty-four hours to escape, and there will be no chickens and dogs left after the city is broken." The words from the Qing army outside the city caused riots among the Japanese civilians who had not yet entered the city, and these civilians began to fight for the road, even against the soldiers.
Hasegawa Yoshimichi worked hard to keep the soldiers in order. But it never worked. Until he stumbled upon a soldier who took off his military uniform to reveal the civilian clothes he was wearing, blending in with the fleeing civilians. Rumors have been spreading, and Yokohama can't hold on. Hasegawa immediately informed the base camp of the situation and asked Tokyo to strengthen its defenses and request an evacuation.
Early the next morning, the Qing infantry marched into Yokohama, and the old people in the city, who could not bear to abandon their homeland, begged the Qing army not to destroy their homes. This is not good, you have to be true to your word, and you must do what you say. Besides, if you are not slaughtered, how can you openly collect "loot". Out of the virtue of the Celestial Empire, the Qing army did not slaughter these old guys, but gave them carriages for them to leave north in the carriage.
When several old men in Yokohama sat in the carriage of the Qing army to convey that the Qing Kingdom was going to slaughter the city after the city was broken, various rumors spread in Kawasaki Castle. Looking at the Kawasaki people who fled for their lives in a panic, the morale of the 3rd Division, which had just retreated to Kawasaki, collapsed again.
On November 15, the Qing army marched into Kawasaki, and on November 16, the Qing army crossed the river and entered Daejeon. On November 18, an unmanned carriage drove in front of the position of the Japanese Guards Division in Shinagawa, loaded with Japanese heads from Kawasaki and Ota Futajo, who had not left. This time, the Qing army did not show the virtue of a good life, and the flag hanging on the carriage was written in Japanese: When Lao Tzu speaks and farts, the next one is Tokyo.
With the news of the Shinagawa front, the refugees who fled into Tokyo began to flee in large numbers, and the locals in Tokyo began to panic. Regardless of the government's explanations, Japan's emperor and cabinet are helpless to deal with the rumors brought by the fleeing outsiders. However, the Qing army's attack seemed to have stopped at Daejeon, and it did not attack for three days.
"The Qing army is waiting for war supplies. They used too much ammunition in order to annihilate the 6th Division. The Qing were unwilling to sacrifice their soldiers in exchange for victory. "There are friends in Shan County who are extremely decadent and talking. Today's Japan wants to hold Tokyo, but they can only rely on people to defend it, and they have even begun to learn the Qing Emperor's method in Tianzhuangtai and distribute explosives to wounded soldiers. The least valuable thing in Japan right now is human life.
Right now. Heaven seems to be trying to comfort the Japanese. The 6th Division, which was confronting the Germans on Kyushu Island, launched a surprise attack on the Germans, and the Germans, who had only one regiment of strength, were almost driven overboard, even with the support of the naval fleet. Now the Germans could only hold on to a three-kilometer perimeter of the Zoseberg pier. However, the Germans were not willing to lose face, and Germany asked for support from the Qing State. The Japanese Minister to China sent a message. Clearly told the cabinet: Germany agreed to pay the military salary and related expenses of the Qing Sixth Division in Korea according to the Qing standard, and the Qing State temporarily handed over the command of the Sixth Division to Germany, and now the Qing Sixth Division is assembling at Inchon to wait for loading and transportation.
"In my opinion, we should call this opportunity to propose peace talks to the Qing State." Matsukata said helplessly: "Even if the Qing State does not ask for compensation, the imperial finances will not be able to support it." ”
As the foreign minister, Mutsu Munemitsu shook his head: "The conditions of the Qing Kingdom are very clear. The first was to surrender publicly, the second was to ask the emperor to go to Beijing to bow to the Qing emperor with a vassal salute, and the third was to hand over all naval ships and port equipment. Negotiations can only begin if they are agreed to these three articles. ”
"Except for the third one, which can be promised, nothing else is possible. The Qing State deceived people too much. "There are friends in the county who are angry.
Without waiting for Mutsu Munemitsu to speak, the Minister of the Navy, Saigo, spoke: "The Qing army has occupied the batteries on both sides of the Puga waterway, and the Qing army, which is no longer threatened by the batteries, has begun demining operations. Once the Qing army completed demining. The Qing navy could directly shell Tokyo. Please pay attention to this. ”
Youpeng in Shanxian sighed: "Please ask Britain and the United States and other countries to mediate." As long as the Qing State does not demand public surrender and asks the Emperor to go in person, as Prime Minister, I can go to Beijing to kowtow to the Qing Emperor and even apologize for his sins......"
"The Qing Dynasty will not garrison troops in Japan, as long as Japan surrenders and the Japanese emperor enters Beijing to dance, the Qing Dynasty will immediately withdraw its troops from Japan." In response to Ou Gne's questioning, Guangxu said impatiently: "The Qing Dynasty has no money, and you don't want to take out loans, and we can't even afford to raise warships now." The poor Japanese can't even scavenge the hairs, and even if they buy Meiji, they can't make up for the cost of sending troops to the Qing Dynasty. If it were possible, even we wouldn't want to fight this battle. ”
"But Your Majesty. Japan is willing to pay reparations and Prime Minister Yama is willing to apologize before you, hoping that the Great Qing will save some face for their Emperor Majesty. Although Ogna has been in the East for a long time, one thing he has never understood is why East Asians are so good-looking. Japan has been beaten to the point where it is powerless. I have to hold on to it for the sake of face. If it were a European country, if you could be exempted from compensation with a dance, it is estimated that the dance would have been completed long ago.
"Yes, it's not that Your Excellency almost forgot about me. I don't need Meiji to dance, and I don't need Yamaguchi Aritomo to come to seppuku, Japan must publicly declare that he will be demoted to the king of Japan. At the same time, it is forbidden to use the emperor's technical terms such as me, system, edict, etc. The above table asks for surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Minister Ogne, if Japan does not even agree to this condition, I think that there is really no need for Your Excellency to bother with Japan, and it is better for us to discuss the division of Japan after the war with the United States and Germany. ”
Eugene was keen to tell these countries that Japan was British territory, that the rise of the Qing Dynasty and the penetration of the United States and Germany into the Far East meant that the British Empire had a smaller and smaller say in East Asia. Ogner could only say that he would tell the Japanese government, and then hurriedly left.
Hopes of supporting Japan to control the situation in the Far East were dashed, Qingde and other countries continued to provoke the majesty of the British Empire in the Far East, and the United States continued to encroach on the British market in the Far East, but the British Empire had not even picked up a single Boer. The Transvaal government in South Africa did not know where to buy a large number of firearms, and when more and more Boers were armed, they no longer feared the British, who could do nothing about it. The British Empire was strong with the navy, and as for the army, Eugene shook his head.
For Japan, it is the same humiliation to go to the emperor and become the king of Japan as the emperor to go to Beijing to dance, and the meaning of public surrender is the same as that of the surrender table, and the Japanese government will of course refuse. The Japanese government recruited a large number of soldiers into the army, and also took advantage of this rare period of calm to dig trenches and bunkers. Although the Japanese were not good at inventing and creating, they were very capable of imitation and improvement, and countless trenches were being formed between Tokyo and the positions against the Qing army. Barbed wire, bunkers and other facilities were readily available, and the Japanese also took advantage of the dense rivers around Tokyo to dig countless trenches to the river, and as soon as the frontline positions were lost, they immediately dug up the river and used the river water to block the advance of the Qing army. However, the Qing army on the opposite side was unmoved, and there was no sign of an attack. The Japanese sent countless scouts to the Qing garrison, but they did not understand why.
Leishima, the first island occupied by the Qing Dynasty in its attack on the Japanese mainland. For reasons of secrecy, all the Japanese on the island were "disappeared". There are airships neatly arranged on the leveled land.
"My lord, the General Staff Headquarters has sent a telegram to the Air Force to attack." At five o'clock in the morning, Ren Pengfei, who was sleeping next to the pod, was woken up by the signal soldier.
"All board, ready to take off." Ren Pengfei, the first air force commander of the Qing Dynasty, boarded the No. 1 airship and went to the gondola door. When the cable was untied, a green quasi-running light was displayed on the No. 1 boat.
When the last airship rose off the ground, the recorder wrote down a sentence: At 5:25 a.m. on November 22, 1897, the entire Qing Air Force took off. (To be continued.) )xh118