Chapter Ninety-Four: The Wind Rises
Of course, a few mines and copycats of improvised barbed wire did not save the Japanese, and soon as more and more coalition troops rushed into position, the remnants of the Japanese soldiers began to flee to their last half.
"Bastards, you cowards, you deserve to die with the invaders!" Prince Komatsumiya brandished his saber and roared angrily, how can the soldiers who ran past him rarely take care of him, and you have the ability to die with the invaders.
This was the end of the first day of fighting in Tokyo, although the most important line of defense of the Japanese army was breached, but it also paid a lot of casualties, the German army suffered more than 800 casualties, and Yang Feng's troops suffered less than 200 casualties, mainly caused by mines and artillery shelling. Song Qingbu suffered less than two hundred casualties, and Moltke's losses were only a dozen, and his attack on Yika was more of a harassment, and he couldn't let him line up in the mountains. Tirpitz's naval fleet destroyed all the Japanese batteries on both sides of the exit of the Uraga waterway, at the cost of six warships, including two Russian cruisers, all of which were only wounded, of course, but only skin wounds did not affect their combat effectiveness, and more than 30 sailors were killed and wounded.
However, it is clear that the Japanese army's picric shells made a deep impression on Tirpitz.
"The Imperial Navy must replace this shell, the nitrocellulose shell is too weak compared to it." At a dinner party at a temple in Kamakura, he said as he ate a steak from the Marauder.
"No, no, I prefer to use antimony, now I am in the factory in Sweden, the mass production of this kind of thing has been solved, if your country is interested, we can cooperate, in addition I have a new type of piercing bomb technique here. This is also something that can be cooperated. Yang Feng said.
"And what about poison gas?" Waldzer said.
"Of course, this thing is mustard gas. The technique has been there for a long time, but we have perfected it and loaded it into the shells. Including gas masks, these can be cooperated. Yang Feng said that he wished to arm Germany now, so that they would have enough confidence to expand their territory as soon as possible, and if he did not light the fuse of the world war within ten years, he would consider his life a great failure.
"Cheers to our friendship then!" Waldzer said contentedly.
While a group of invaders were toasting their victory, Ito Hirobumi was begging the British minister at the British embassy to intercede, and Japan could agree to Germany's lease of Kagoshima, but Russia's lease of Sapporo would not work, and he could pay two million pounds in compensation for military expenses. He was really frightened, he worked hard to manage, and the Tama River defense line with high hopes was taken down by a charge, which almost pulled off his backbone, although there is still the last line of defense, but this line of defense is not even blocked by a river, whether it can block the invaders is only God knows.
"Rest assured, Prime Minister, that the British Far East Fleet is coming, and we will never see our friends treated unjustly. So be sure to hold on until tomorrow afternoon. The British minister said indignantly.
This made Ito Hirobumi stupid, he really didn't expect the British to be so righteous, you must know that before Lu Dao, the British would at most mediate, even he didn't expect these guys to send troops to help. But now it's so generous, it's like pie in the sky, but you can understand it when you think about it. Their expansion in the Far East, both Germans and Russians, was unacceptable to the British. In order to defend their interests in the East, the British deserved to demonstrate by force.
"Thank you very much for your help. Her Majesty's Friendship with Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty the Emperor, and the people of Japan will never forget. Prime Minister Ito said as he bowed and choked up, not noticing that the British minister was smiling a little strangely at this time.
The news of the British naval fleet going north was delivered to Yang Feng as quickly as possible, and Waldzer directly disdained this news, and it would be a joke to say that the British would start a war with Germany for Japan.
"Don't worry about the British, when they come, just let the fleet block the Uraga waterway, and how our battle in Tokyo should be carried out." The old guy said with a sneer.
Since this is the case, Yang Feng naturally has nothing to say, he is now eager to see the British and German fire, although this ideal is difficult to achieve in the near future, but if there is a confrontation between the fleets of the two countries at sea, it can be regarded as a consolation.
At the same time as the British Far East Fleet went north, the Beiyang Naval Division also set sail from Weihaiwei, their goal was very clear that it was the port of Busan, whether it was the Germans or Yang Feng, it had to be regarded as a friend of Li Er's devil, this was a good opportunity to show friendship, the Japanese 1st and 5th divisions were going south by boat along the Nakdong River, and it was estimated that they would be able to get to Pusan tomorrow, if they were blocked in Korea, it would be a great help to Yang Feng.
However, just when the fleet was about to set sail, Li Hongzhang suddenly received the holy order to withdraw the armies of Ashan, the reason is very simple, on this day Shan County Youpeng broke through the defense line of the Yalu River, following the death of Zuo Guigui, the Qing army lost another general, because the north of Iketang Abe and the south of Jiuliancheng Liu Shengxiu were defeated, Wei Rugui alone with his Sheng army was blocked in Hushan, desperately fought a bloody way out of the Japanese army, but he himself was seriously injured by a mortar shell captured by the Japanese army, and almost did not survive.
"Lord Zhongtang, what should I do?" Ding Ruchang asked cautiously.
"Who is going to clean up such a mess for them? Hurry away with the sailor, don't say anything about this telegram, and turn off the wireless telegraph. Li Er said with a gloomy face.
Ding Ruchang immediately understood what he meant, the whole team of the Beiyang Naval Division left Weihaiwei as quickly as possible, as for the holy decree, Nima, how to withdraw the army without a fleet, as for what is better to explain why the fleet cannot be contacted, the radio signal is not very stable, and it is not that there has never been a situation where it has not been uncontacted.
Besides, didn't the Japanese army just hit the Yalu River, Phoenix, Lianshan Pass, Motianling, how many days of danger along the way from Andong to Shengjing, how many days did the Japanese army have to fight for several months, as long as they did not attack Lushun in the south, the men and horses of Asan would not need to move.
Then Li Hongzhang replayed, Balabala's tirade of Asan troops can not be withdrawn lightly, once the withdrawal of the army is equivalent to giving Korea to Japan, although the captivity is arrogant, but Yi Shuai is the general of the territory, and all parts of Fengcheng are mainly banner people, the people are fierce, brave and good at fighting, and the Japanese army invades the homeland, must resist to the death, and there is a natural danger of Motianling, the Japanese people will not be able to peep into Shengjing, and wait until the army from all walks of life gathers, the mountain mountain is lonely, and it will not be sacrificed in the future.
This recital almost made Cixi's nose crooked, she found that this old thing was becoming more and more disobedient, if Iktanga could stop Youpeng in Shanxian County, would I still need to go to you? Motianling is a natural danger, so the defenders have to not run, and besides, the Japanese army needs to go to Motianling? Can't they go to Xiuyan and go to Sea City? There are a lot of flag people in that place, but it is also the root of the Manchurian hometown, do you mean that they don't have to feel sorry for how many people die?
These Han slaves are becoming more and more arrogant, and they can't even adjust the holy decree, and the Beiyang Navy Division has become his own private army Li Hongzhang? There is also that Yang Feng, the court thinks that he treats him well, and he has been promoted from a white Ding to the governor in more than half a year, and now he actually dares to privately detain the imperial court's arms, which is simply a king's law.
Although from her heart, she did think that it should be said that it was a good thing that the batch of munitions was not delivered to the front line, if those machine guns and cannons fell into the hands of the Japanese again, I am afraid it would not be as simple as killing a Zuo Guigui and injuring a Wei Rugui.
But the nature of this matter is different, and the issue of the majesty of the imperial court related to this is not messed up.
But now she has no other way, the banner people don't fight for the country, and they have to rely on the Han people to protect it, and they still have to coax these people, even if they want to deal with them, they have to finish the war.
Besides, the world is not only the Huai army can fight, you Li Hongzhang does not do it, there are people who do it, the Huai army is not good, there is also the Hunan army, Li Hongzhang does not do it, there is Liu Kunyi, and Zhang Zhidong, this old lady sent a report to Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, overnight, ordering him to go north to replace Yiketanga as the minister of the Qin mission, and at the same time transfer the main force of the Hunan army to the north for reinforcements, in addition to them, there is also the Gan army Dong Fuxiang department, this bandit is still very obedient to give some benefits......
This night can be said that the whole of East Asia is surging, with the appearance of a piece of fat, all the forces of all sides have emerged, and even an Italian cruiser that had originally come to watch the battle in the Yellow Sea announced that it would join in the punishment of Japan, and then rushed to Tokyo with black smoke all the way. The French Far East Fleet also set sail from Saigon, and it is difficult to say the purpose, because with the feelings of France and Germany, it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to come and help the Germans.
However, these are all small miscellaneous fish, and they can't decide the situation in Japan, as long as the British don't give up on the Japanese people, at this time Ito Hirobumi can't help but sigh that the British are still righteous.
Of course, he is not idle here, the Sixth Division has arrived at Shimonoseki, and is going north to King Qin day and night, but at this time the main line of Tokaido was once again bombarded, they have to go to Kyoto first and then walk north, so it will take a little time, this night is from the counties near Tokyo to run a lot of King Qin, although these army with bows, arrows and shotguns will definitely not be of any use, but it is enough to prove the courage of the Japanese people to resist the invaders, as the saying goes, farting also adds to the wind, there are these warriors wielding swords, At least the people in Tokyo are not so panicked anymore.
In this way, after a chaotic night, at dawn the next day, more than 20,000 well-rested allied troops launched an attack on the rearmost line of defense of the Japanese army. (To be continued......)