Chapter 222: The Frightened Bird

Bloody! Cruel!

The marching cities were brutally suppressed by the Fuso government, where the police and army carried out horrific massacres in the streets, where workers, peasants, and citizens became mobs and rebels.

When there is oppression, there will be resistance, and many urban workers and people have fought back with the guns and ammunition they have 'grabbed', and Kyushu has undoubtedly become a paradise for these people. The red elements everywhere constantly preach that Kyushu Island is living a happy life under their leadership, there is no need for high prices, there is no need to nod to the aristocracy, and the people are the masters of Kyushu Island, and there is no longer a distinction between high and low.

The government's crackdown did not stop the rice rush as expected, but only temporarily suppressed the people who marched, and the rice rush continued to spread in those small and medium-sized cities and rural areas, and it also evolved from rice grabbing to all the food grabbing. The grain merchants were in danger, and many of them could not resist the pressure and began to sell grain at low prices, but most of the grain merchants, who were the nobles and the state, still carried out the strategy of selling at high prices in their own way, and in their opinion, the government was resisting them, and they did not have to worry about it.

The rice rush began on Kyushu Island, and then spread from south to north to the northernmost island of Huatai, where rice was grabbed all over the country, especially in rural areas. Because the police and soldiers were mostly concentrated in the cities, the rice grabbing in the countryside was very smooth, and the peasants attacked the local landlords and nobles in order to get food to survive the winter, and looted farms one by one.

"Things have exceeded our expectations, especially when His Majesty the Emperor ordered the suppression of the people who marched, and the people began to turn from demonstrations to fights against the police and soldiers, and the food grabbing in the rural areas became more and more intense, and the people wavered against the government!"

Okuma was very worried that this kind of thing would be very unfavorable for both the negotiation and the battle with Huaxia, and no one could have imagined that the Red Party would take most of the southern part of Kyushu Island without saying a word, and then quickly occupy Kyushu Island.

"The army at the Sasebo base is a bunch of waste, and it was taken down by others without bloodshed, and it was brazen to publish a telegram in support of the Red Party elements, which is a shame for the imperial army!"

"This can't be a conspiracy of the Chinese people, Tsarist Russia was crippled by them like this. The Chinese fleet started to act before the red elements left, and they also specifically looked for cities that had been attacked by the Chinese fleet, which was definitely a conspiracy of the Chinese people! ”

Not only people in the Fuso government speculated that this was done by the Chinese Empire, but even Yingfa Mi and other countries also guessed that the red forces on Kyushu Island were supported by China, after all, they knew more or less about the relationship between Huaxia and the Red Party in Tsarist Russia, and the actions of the red elements on Kyushu Island and the attack of the Huaxia fleet were too coincidental.

At this time, Shigenobu Okuma said to everyone: "We also have an inseparable relationship when we push the responsibility to Shina. The main reason for this was the lack and tension of the empire, the reluctance of the nobility and merchants to lower their prices, and the repeated defeats in wars, which caused the people to lose trust in the government. At this juncture of national crisis, there are still countless businessmen who want to get rich, regardless of the life and death of the people, and it is difficult to make a fortune! ”

The superstructure of the empire is the aristocracy and merchants, one controls the military and political power of the empire, and the other controls the economy of the empire.

"The damn thing is that the people of China don't know what excessive demands they will take the opportunity to make, this rice rush is still continuing, yes, the horror will shake the foundation of the country, and it is estimated that it will not be able to recover in seven or eight years!"

"Who said no, I thought that there would be a good hope for peace talks, but now that I look at the situation, even if the peace talks are successful, there will be no return to life!"

"His Majesty the Emperor has sent an army to prepare to land on Kyushu Island, once the red forces on Kyushu Island are annihilated, the others will not be able to jump for long, we are not cowardly Tsarist Russia!"

A lot of people in the Prime Minister's Office are all having a headache over the rice rush, and of course there are also secretly excited, because these of them who stayed in the country and became moldy finally have something to do, and they can also take the opportunity to make a big windfall.

The Okuma cabinet was worried that things would turn out to be like Tsarist Russia, so that they would fight internally without the attack of Shina, and Shina would be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman, so they were very dissatisfied with the emperor's order.

Emperor Taisho personally appointed Marshal Okuhoko, a 67-year-old native of Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, as commander-in-chief to pacify the island of Kyushu and prepare to put down the rebellion on the island of Kyushu.

In 1911, Okuhoko was awarded the title of Field Marshal, and at this time he was appointed as a councilor, and because he was a native of Kyushu, he was sent by Emperor Taisho to pacify Kyushu Island.

Amid the shouts of "Long live the Emperor's Majesty" by a group of generals and high-ranking officials, Okubo Gong set off from Dongjing Station with the purpose of quelling the rebellion.

But everywhere the marshal passed along the way, he was greeted not by the "loyal subjects" waving the sun flag, but by the hungry masses "asking for rice!" Lower the price of rice! The cry of the voice.

The counterinsurgents were stopped by the masses along the way, and the army, under the orders of the marshal, massacred the intercepted masses, and all the people who stood in their way were dead.

The massacre in Obaogong infuriated the populace, and the people who had been suppressed took to the streets again with weapons in hand to rebel against the brutal government.

Cities of all sizes across the country were caught up in the whirlpool of fierce riots from the northeast to the southwest, from the region (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Wakayama, etc.), the Sanyo region (Okayama, Hiroshima, Kure, etc.), the Shikoku region (Takamatsu, Matsuyama, Kochi, etc.), the Kyushu region (Moji, etc.), the Hokuriku region (Kanazawa, Fukui, Maizuru, etc.), the Tokai region (Shizuoka, Kofu, etc.), the Kanto region (Tokyo, Yokohama, etc.), the Tohoku region (Fukushima, Sendai, etc.), and the Tohoku region (Fukushima, Sendai, etc.). In these places, tens of thousands of people often gather, demonstrate, destroy shops, especially rice shops, and fight with the military and police. The movement developed from an economic struggle for rice to a political struggle against the imperial government.

"Down with the emperor, down with the government!"

"Down with the damned nobles and profiteers!"

“……”

The chaotic situation kept the Fuso government busy, but the 150,000 troops who had gone south to quell the rebellion were orderly boarded from the port of Yokosuka on ships bound for Kyushu.

In Wonju, Korea, General Oshima Yoshimasa was hesitating to retreat, he didn't know whether his more than 300,000 troops affected by the gas war could withstand the attack of the Shina army, and the army of Cheonwon in China merged with the main army of Seoul, and it was not inferior to them at all in terms of strength.

Oshima Yoshimasa had received news that the Chinese army had set out from Seoul, and that the Chinese had built a rudimentary airfield in Seoul, and that the people of the Special High-Tech Department had seen a large number of poison gas canisters being transported into the airfield, which was what he was most worried about.

In such a short period of time, Fuso will develop effective gas masks there, let alone mass production, so the Fuso army is at a loss for poison gas.

At this time, the Fusang position was full of Koreans, yes, the indigenous people of Korea, the Fusang army captured all the tens of thousands of natives in the city to the position, and wanted to use these natives to threaten the Chinese army, and the Chinese army was not allowed to use poison gas.

"Your Excellency Commander, the Empire is negotiating peace with China, and China will not use poison gas at this juncture, which is not conducive to negotiations!"

"Alas, even if the Chinese army does not use poison gas, we are not opponents, aircraft and tanks, land and air cooperation, coupled with the strength of individual soldiers and team combat capabilities that are not weaker than ours, our chances of winning are very low with the same strength!"

Oshima Yoshimasa shook his head and sighed, now he no longer calls Huaxia Zhina, but treats the Huaxia army with an equal status, and the same is true. He always felt that it was not effective to use these natives to threaten the Chinese army, and he wanted to retreat, but he couldn't do it without a fight.

"Remember, if the Huaxia army launches a poison gas war, you must organize the soldiers to withdraw from here as soon as possible, and those natives will also let them go when the time comes."

"Yes!"

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The Chinese army rushed all the way from Seoul to Wonju, and all the indigenous regimental training soldiers surrendered everywhere they passed, and the local Fusang garrison and government personnel had long since run out.

"Commander-in-chief, the Fusang army in Wonju has tied up all the natives there to their positions, in order not to want us to use poison gas!"

"Sure enough, he is worthy of being a Fuso person, vicious enough! But I'm not as you like, you go and ask the fire dragon team to mix the remaining poison gas with some empty canisters and throw them into the Fusang position, and we'll hurry over and get ready to take it there!" ”

"Receiving? Commander-in-Chief, this ......"

"It's okay, I'm in my own measure!"

"Boom ......"

More than 20 fire dragon bombers roared over the Huaxia army and flew in the direction of Yuanzhou.

In order to prevent the situation of not having time to transport weapons and supplies like Panmunjom, most of the trenches were sparsely placed with medium artillery that was easy to transfer, and more artillery was still in the rear, and only in the event of a major battle would they be put at the forefront.

"Commander, look, it's the Chi Na man's plane, they're coming!" An officer shuddered and lowered his binoculars and pointed to the sky ahead.

Oshima Yoshimasa saw that it was indeed a Huaxia plane, and shouted to the officer next to him: "Let the soldiers prepare to avoid the bombing, and retreat immediately once they find out that it is poison gas to maintain good order!" ”

"Yes......"

The roar of engines came from the sky, and the Fuso soldiers crouched in the trenches and stared blankly at the dragon bombers.

The expected explosion did not sound, only to see the Huaxia plane drop one by one iron cans, and after the iron cans hit the ground, they burst open with a bang, and streams of green or pale yellow gas began to diffuse from an instant.

"Poison gas, it's poison gas, run!"

"The people really used poison gas, Mom!"

"Don't panic, take your weapon and run backwards, run!"

"Give me calm, don't panic! Don't run around! ”

When the poisonous gas was revealed, the Fusang soldiers were not calm, and they ran around like crazy, trying to stay away from these poisonous gases, no matter how the Fuso officers scolded, they couldn't stop the soldiers from running around.

More than 300,000 people in the main force were almost wiped out because of the poison gas, and the poison gas has always haunted the hearts of the Fusang soldiers, and the shadow of the poison gas has always been in their hearts.