Chapter 281: Powerless

The telegram said that the Taiwan army suffered a fierce attack by the enemy outside the city of Taipei, and after the first round of attacks by the enemy, the position was lost, and the whole army was lost, and a small number of remnants of the army retreated to the city of Taipei, and the city gate was directly blown up by the enemy's artillery fire, and the remnants of the soldiers were eliminated after the street fighting, and the governor-general Anton Zhenmei sent a report, ashamed of the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, and prepared to die. ¤Top Novel, www.

There is also an introduction to the combat effectiveness of the Huafu Army later, but it is not much, just at the beginning, there is no follow-up, and it is obviously artificially interrupted to send the report.

Terauchi Masatsuki knows that the Japanese defenders on the island of Taiwan are finished, there is no organization of defense, in the face of the more powerful Huafu army, those scattered defenders scattered throughout Taiwan, it is good not to break up directly, don't think that the Japanese soldiers are really heroic and not afraid of death, the current Japanese soldiers, although they have been cultivating the spirit of bushido loyal to the emperor, but they are definitely much worse than the Japanese soldiers during World War II in later generations, after all, it has been brainwashed by militarism for decades, only the result.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, South China has no sincerity in holding peace talks with us at all, and it is shameless to sit here to negotiate on the one hand, and send troops to Taiwan on the other, and we must lodge a protest with the mediation team, and let Britain, France, and the United States intervene in this matter, and until the results of the negotiations are reached, Taiwan will still be the territory of our Great Japanese Empire." Cabinet Secretary Hideo Kodama said angrily.

As politicians and cabinet members, Terauchi Masayi and Ichiro Motono have seen too much deceit, and it is not incomprehensible that Nanhua is playing tricks during negotiations, but when this kind of means are used by others, they are so uncomfortable.

Before starting the talks, the Cabinet members had analysed and predicted the outcome of the talks. Although the Japanese fleet has been wiped out, the Japanese army has not lost its combat effectiveness, and Japan is not afraid of an attack by Nanhua on the main island of Japan if it has the potential to launch a war.

If the army of Nanhua dares to go ashore, then the Japanese army will kill the enemy several times or even dozens of times more than the enemy.

Of course. Japan was still a little afraid that the South China Fleet could fire such ultra-long-range shells, but such an attack would not make the Japanese surrender.

And Nanhua has just been established, both in terms of population and national strength, it is much worse than Japan, and it cannot support a long war at all, and it is estimated that more than three months, the war of Nanhua will be consumed. will drag down this emerging country.

Therefore, they feel that delaying time is a good choice, and the second is to try to protect Japan's interests in China, because the Japanese fleet is completely annihilated, and it is basically impossible for Japan to develop an invincible fleet by relying on its own capabilities, so Japan needs to absorb nutrients from the Republic of China to support itself.

The third is to try to hug the thighs of several European countries. Let several European countries be hostile to South China, so that South China will be isolated. weakened the development of South China, so that he did not dare to fight himself again, and then Japan buried its head in development, in order to take revenge in the future.

"Now we are too passive, completely pressed by Nanhuaguo, the conditions put forward by Nanhuaguo. It's so harsh, it's definitely not something we can promise, so we have to think of a way to try to suppress the arrogance of Nanhuaguo. Foreign Minister Ichiro Motono said.

"What is the best way, our fleet is no longer left. The empire lost the ability to attack, and even troop carriers could not leave Japanese ports. ”

"We still have troops stationed in Korea and Manchuria, that is more than 60,000 people, plus the garrisons in Qingdao and other places, the total number should be able to reach 70,000, whether the empire can let these troops move, even if it is to make an offensive posture on the border line, it will make the people of the Republic of China nervous, they are not soldiers of South China, but they do not have such a strong combat effectiveness." Ichiro Honno said.

"And then?"

"Then threaten the security of the mainland and demand that South China withdraw its troops."

Terauchi Masashi silently thought about it for a while, every decision he made now had the potential to determine the future of the empire.

"Well, send a telegram to the Governor of Korea and the Manchurian Garrison Army Command, ordering them to approach in the direction of Jilin, and force the Republic of China government to talk, and then use war as a threat to let the Republic of China government demand that Guo Yu withdraw his troops, approaching Guo Yu is a Chinese, it is impossible for him not to care about Huaguo's request, this is also our opportunity." Terauchi Masatsuki finally made up his mind and gave the order.

"Hayi, I'll go and inform the military department."

The Japanese delegation directly proposed to the mediation team to suspend the talks, and lodged a stern protest against the behavior of Britain, France, and the United States against South China, demanding that it push out Taiwan.

Of course, the Japanese are only putting on a show, and everyone knows that this has no effect at all, and it is just a show.

In Zhang Zuolin's marshal's mansion in the northeast of the Republic of China, a staff officer ran quickly to Zhang Zuolin's office with a telegram and knocked on the door of the office of the king of the northeast.

"Didn't Lao Tzu sue you, can't you be disturbed during the meeting, if you don't say that you are ugly, Lao Tzu will have to punish you today." Zhang Zuolin said loudly to the staff officer who rashly disturbed the meeting.

In Zhang Zuolin's office, several family members of the Northeast Army were here, looking at the reckless staff officer, and cold sweat came out of the other staff officer's face.

"Marshal, there is urgent military affairs, the Japanese have mobilized troops on a large scale to suppress the defense line of the Fourth Division, and the Fourth Division has sent an urgent telegram asking how to deal with it." The staff officer hurriedly reported.

"What, hurry up and get the telegram." Zhang Zuolin was also anxious when he heard this, and quickly took the telegram and read it.

"Fuck, how did you transfer troops, didn't the Japanese reach an agreement with the government to end the confrontation, what kind of trouble is this?" Zhang Zuolin scolded after reading the telegram.

At about 3 o'clock this afternoon, the Japanese garrison suddenly mobilized its troops and advanced to the Tonghua defense line defended by the Fourth Division of the Northeast Army, which already threatened the safety of the Fourth Division.

The telegram circled in the hands of Zhang Zuoxiang, Tang Yulin, Sun Liechen and others, and they all knew that something big had happened.

"Overseer, we have to guard against it, who knows what tricks the Japanese have played, there are rumors that the Japanese were beaten by Guo Yu, the overseer of Jiangsu, and have reached the main island of Japan, this Japanese don't jump over the wall in a hurry, let's do it."

"Well, it's not that this is not impossible, damn it, let's not count this as harming the pond fish, notify the Fourth Division, take precautions, don't let the Japanese sneak attack, let them cheer up."

"By the way, send a telegram to the government of the Republic of China and the Ministry of War, let them know the situation on our side, don't fight when the time comes, and they are all confused."

"If we really do it, the Fourth Division may not be able to block the Japanese attack, and we have to prepare for the next step."

"Damn, today's meeting will be changed directly to a combat meeting, and the original topic will be discussed next time." After speaking, Zhang Zuolin took his team of subordinates and began to study the Japanese army's intentions.

To say that the current Northeast Army, although the strength of the army has reached more than 100,000 people, but against the tens of thousands of Japanese troops, there is really no chance of victory, the Japanese army has recently mobilized most of the troops in Korea here at this time, just to put military pressure on the Republic of China.

The Northeast Army urgently transferred troops to assist the Fourth Division in deploying the defensive line, and the Republic of China government was also confused, why the Japanese army once again transferred troops to threaten the Republic of China, and without any warning, Duan Qirui urgently summoned the Japanese minister to ask the reason for the Japanese to advance into the Northeast.

After the Japanese minister explained the reason, a group of officials and gentlemen of the Republic of China government were so angry that their faces turned blue and they had the urge to hit the wall.

Japan has made it clear that Nanhua and Guo Yu went out of the Republic of China, and now they are attacking Japan and causing severe losses to the Japanese mainland, and the Japanese army wants to retaliate against Guo Yu, so they ordered the Korean garrison and the Manchurian garrison to jointly send troops to attack the inland of the Republic of China.

The Japanese also said that the Japanese army was ready to fight all the way to Jiangsu and fight to the death with the Huafu army.

It's really wretched, it's so aggrieved, and there's nowhere to reason.

You Japanese were beaten badly by Guo Yu, so you took out your anger at the government of the Republic of China, is this how the government of the Republic of China is wantonly kneaded?

"The Republic of China is a sovereign country, and your actions in Japan have violated international norms, and we demand that your military withdraw immediately." Duan Qirui said sharply.

"Premier Duan, a telegram has been sent from China, the content of which is to convey to the government of the Republic of China, asking you to urge Nanhua to withdraw its troops from Japan as soon as possible, otherwise, the troops of our Great Japanese Empire will directly enter the Republic of China, and the safety of civilians will not be guaranteed." Japanese Minister Hayashi said.

threatened, using the personal safety of ordinary people in the Republic of China, threatening Guo Yu to withdraw his troops.

"You, your behavior is so shameless and inferior." Duan Qirui couldn't help but scold.

"Guo Yu's inhumane massacre in Tokyo set fire to half of Tokyo, killing and injuring nearly 100,000 civilians in Tokyo, and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Lin Quanzhu said-for-tat.

"But Guo Yu is now the king of Nanhua, and has nothing to do with the Republic of China, you Japanese can go to them Nanhuaguo, you are now declaring war, this is understandable, but what does this have to do with our Republic of China, why do you want to enter the Republic of China, it is simply unreasonable." Duan Qirui shouted loudly.

"There is no need to explain this problem to the Japanese Empire, if Guo Yu does not withdraw his troops, our army will go to war, the notice is so, and I will leave." Lin Quanzhu left directly after speaking.

Duan Qirui looked at Lin Quanzhu's disappearing back, trembling with anger, several generals from the War Department came up to persuade them, Duan Qirui waved his hand and let them out.

Sitting on the chair, Duan Qirui felt a deep sense of powerlessness, this is what Guo Yu said at the beginning, if you fall behind, you will be beaten, and you will be bullied, this feeling is really uncomfortable.

For the Japanese, Duan Qirui always had the idea that he could use it, hoping to get funding from the Japanese government, unify the country, and then develop in the future.

But now it seems that I was wrong, the Japanese are just a wolf, and a filthy nation without any norms of behavior must not be in the company of them. (To be continued......) R527