Chapter 226: The Sarajevo Incident Breaks Out
When Fuso withdrew his troops from Korea, the Chinese army had already received relevant information, but under the orders of the military headquarters, they did not pursue the Fuso army, but slowly took over the area occupied by the original Fuso army, and the Fuso army made a great retreat without resistance.
In two days, only Pohang was left in the Fuso army, and the Fuso army from Gangneung was the last to retreat, and most of Oshima Yoshimasa's army had landed in Fukuoka and Kitakyushu, and launched a fierce coastal landing battle with the Red army blocking the shore.
With the full cooperation of the navy, a large number of armored cruisers shelled the Red Army on the shore, and the Red Army was simply unable to stop it, and groups of regular troops from Fuso successfully landed. Oshima Yoshimasa not only allowed the troops to land in these two places, but also boldly divided a group of troops to land in Hirado despite the threat of the Huaxia fleet, and all the Fuso troops in Hirado landed lightly, and when the Red Army received the news from Huaxia and urgently transferred troops, the Fuso army had already launched an offensive against Hirado City.
Most of the city of Hirado has been bombed into ruins, and there are potholes everywhere, and although it has been dealt with by the Red Army, it is still dead silent.
When the Fuso army stepped into Hirado City, they took a breath of cold air when they saw the ruins, the collapsed buildings, the cracked streets, the charred trees and buildings, the visual impact was much more violent than what they saw on the battlefield, after all, this was their more prosperous coastal city in Fuso, but they couldn't believe that it was now a pile of ruins.
Many soldiers from Hirado City knelt in the ruins and wept, their homes were destroyed, and the lives and deaths of their loved ones were unknown.
"Damn, all the people of China deserve to die, I'm going to kill them all!"
"Father and mother, don't let anything happen to you, your son will find you soon!"
"Bastard, what is the navy doing, it is unforgivable to let the people of China fight on the mainland of the empire!"
While resentful of Huaxia, these soldiers of the Fuso Army were also full of disappointment with the navy, and Kyushu Island was attacked but did not do anything at all, in vain they handed over the rear of the empire to the navy, but in exchange for this result, it is strange that they are not disappointed.
The Red Army did not have much time for them to be sad, and after arriving in Hirado City, they launched an attack on the Fuso army, but in the end, due to their weak military strength on Hirado Island, the improvised Red Army of more than 20,000 troops could not stop the attack of the Fuso army.
However, under the leadership of Tokuda Koichi, the Red Army implemented a strategy of all-in-one warfare, distributing the old guns and katanas confiscated from the nobles and landlords to the people who believed in them, and prepared to weaken the Fuso army as much as possible.
"For democracy, for a better future for future generations, fight!"
"These are the lackeys of the criminal Imperial Government, we must expel these lackeys, and our comrades to the north have been bloodily slaughtered by them, this must not be allowed!"
"Sacrifice yourself for the Red Doctrine, fight for the new country, don't bow to the evil government army, take all the weapons you can, and resist!"
The Fuso army, which had been defeated by the Hirado Red Army, rushed to the place where the citizens were temporarily gathered, and not many citizens came out to welcome them, but only looked at them with strange expressions, as if they were strangers.
"Bang Bang !!"
"Boom!"
When the Fuso army soldiers passed through the people, those who had retreated to the sides took out the weapons they had prepared and attacked the Fuso army at close range, and bullets and grenades kept beckoning the Fuso soldiers.
"Rush, kill all these government lackeys!"
Groups of samurai armed with katanas rushed into the Fusang team from both sides, and there was a burst of indiscriminate slashing, which caught the Fuso soldiers off guard, and one by one the Fuso soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the whole scene was mixed up.
A large number of citizens stormed the Fuso army, snatched the soldiers' guns and resisted the soldiers, and a small number of people were overwhelmed when this happened, and then fled in frenzy.
In this case, the Fuso army was divided into several teams, fighting on their own, and they were forced to resist and fight against the mob. After the overall military training, the soldiers who had been on the battlefield were far more physically than ordinary people, and soon gained an advantage.
The battle ended a few hours later, and the ground was covered with the corpses of the people, and there was blood all over the ground, and almost every Fuso soldier was covered in blood, and many soldiers were stunned when they looked at the scene in front of them.
It was really terrible that these usually docile people should attack without their lives under the arrangement of the Red Party, and the demagogy of the Red Party was really appalling, which was the unanimous idea of the officers after interrogating some of the captured people.
The next Fuso soldiers were even more miserable, they were suddenly shot at them by children, women, and old people on the side of the road, and a large number of soldiers were attacked in various ways, and those crying children and women would take the opportunity to draw their weapons and shoot when the soldiers went up to comfort them.
Under this attack, the Fuso army was struggling and had to treat the common people as enemies, shooting them if they noticed any bad behavior, and at the same time not allowing the soldiers to take off their orders to help the people and prevent them from being killed.
The situation in Fukuoka and Kyushu was slightly different from that of Hirado, where the Red Army had already deployed a large number of military defenses, and even though the Fuso army had landed, it was difficult for a while to advance, and Red Army soldiers from other places continued to rush to these places.
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On March 3, 1914, the peace talks between Fuso and China and even the civil strife in Fusang were not the focus of European attention, but the Crown Prince Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary visited Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which they had annexed.
After Tsarist Russia arbitrarily mobilized the garrisons stationed on the Austro-Hungarian border and in West Asia to return home, the power of the Allies in the Balkans was severely weakened, so that tens of thousands of troops were secretly stationed in Serbia despite the opposition of the British and the Allies, and the atmosphere in the Balkans was tense for a time.
Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity to capture the power that had previously been created by Tsarist Russia in the Balkans, and the northern part of Albania was under its covert control.
After Tsarist Russia withdrew from the Balkan Peninsula, Austria-Hungary became the largest force here, and even the Entente could not compare, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had always wanted to include the Balkan Peninsula into its territory, did not dare to act rashly due to the intervention of the Entente, but it did not prevent them from demonstrating their authority here.
Crown Prince Ferdinand's visit to Sarajevo was a reminder to the Entente that the Balkans were theirs, all of which demonstrated Austro-Hungarian ambitions for the Balkans.
On March 4, 1914, Crown Prince Ferdinand and his wife traveled all the way south to Sarajevo to inspect the visit before Ferdinand had already met with Kaiser Wilhelm II, who supported the Austro-Hungarian military campaign against Albania and Serbia, and promised to assist Austria-Hungary if the Allies such as Tsarist Russia dared to intervene in Germany.
The Austrians, who had received German assurances, were ready to attack Albania first, so that they could cut off the British support for Serbia and then continue to occupy Serbia. Of course, before this qiē, Austria-Hungary was preparing to hold military exercises in Sarajevo, and the original date of June 28 was brought forward to March 8, which was the advance planning of Austria-Hungary caused by the withdrawal of Tsarist Russia from the Balkans and the civil strife of Tsarist Russia and the British garrison in Serbia.
This provocative action by Austria-Hungary greatly angered the Serbian patriots, and the "Black Hand" and the local Bosnian secret nationalist group "Young Bosnia" drew up a plan to assassinate Ferdinand.
The Serbian government was aware of the assassination of Ferdinand and opposed it, fearing that the incident might lead to terrible consequences, since Serbia could not resist the Austro-Hungarian attack, and Russia was in civil strife at this time, and it was impossible to give Serbia strong assistance. They tried to prevent the Black Hand from leaving the country, but border guards linked to the Black Hand allowed them to cross the border into Bosnia. They also sent a message to the Austro-Hungarian Minister to remind the Austro-Hungarian Government that Crown Prince Ferdinand should stop visiting Sarajevo or risk his life, but the Austro-Hungarian Government ignored this warning.
After receiving the news from Serbia, the Austro-Hungarian government believed that it had deliberately fabricated it in order to prevent military exercises, and they believed that Crown Prince Ferdinand would return safely under the protection of the army.
In the early morning of 7 March, the Young Bosnian Order placed seven Assassins on the street through which Ferdinand was passing. At around 10 a.m., Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand proudly entered the city of Sarajevo in an open-top car. A long line of royal cars drove slowly through the crowded streets, where a large number of gendarmes and police officers lined the streets, and an army guarded Ferdinand's car.
Ferdinand sat in the second car, and Madame Sofia sat to his right. The head of the Bosnian military junta, General Oskar Potiorek, sat on the left, and next to the chauffeur was the attendant, Count Harahi.
The well-protected Ferdinand made it impossible for the Assassins to do anything, and as the convoy passed the Chumurja Bridge over the Milyatska River in the center of the city and entered the Appel Pier, another assassin not far away, Tzabrinovic, suddenly burst out of the crowd and threw a bomb at the car in which the Ferdinands were riding, but it was bounced to the ground by the canopy and exploded in front of the third car, injuring General Portiokere's deputy and Sophie's maid.
The explosion of the bomb caused chaos on both sides of the population, the people ran in all directions, and the other Assassins who had been in ambush also began to move, but they were all arrested by the gendarmes and police, including Zabrinovich.
When Ferdinand saw that the assassins had been arrested, he pretended to be calm and got out of the car to inspect the scene, when a gunshot rang out, and Archduke Ferdinand, who was standing in front of the car, had a bloody hole in his forehead, and Ferdinand fell down unwillingly with wide eyes.
"Your Highness!!"
"Assassin, Your Highness is injured, go to the hospital!"
"Your Highness......"
Ferdinand's guards quickly picked Ferdinand into the car and drove like crazy towards the hospital.
"Sniper, it's a sniper, in that building!"
The gendarmerie, police and army all rushed towards the building, which was less than 500 meters away from them, and soon surrounded the five-story floor.
On the rooftop, a white man was lying there, with a sniper rifle in front of him, and the sniper rifle was pointed in the same direction as Ferdinand. The white man also had a pistol in his hand and a bullet hole in his head, which looked like he had committed suicide. The white man's other index finger was cut open by a knife, and a knife was thrown on the ground, next to which was written in blood: "Stand up or die or unified!" ".