"China must be torn open a bleeding wound, constantly depleting their rapidly accumulating national strength, so that they cannot complete the action of unifying the domestic territory, and must not allow it to obtain a steady process of developing industrialization!"

This was the conclusion reached by Saudian after synthesizing all kinds of intelligence information and thinking deeply, and he presented it to the members of the British Parliament and the members of the Legion Suspension respectively, and soon received a swift and clear reply and support.

As a true Asian expert, Sa Daoyi clearly knows that China is by no means the so-called ignorant, primitive and uncivilized nation that Western society vigorously promotes. On the contrary, their inner civilization is much higher than that of the West, which has just emerged from the Middle Ages! The reason for such propaganda is only to find a pretext for the West's aggressive colonial behavior, and at the same time, it is also to belittle the confidence of the opponent to shape its own people.

China's unbroken cultural heritage for thousands of years has made this huge ethnic group with Han culture as the core and a population of more than 400 million people form a solid and terrifying centripetal cohesion. The state power that has achieved great unification has become the common sense and collective unconscious cognition of almost every citizen.

This is just like the understanding of religion in Western countries, they feel very strange about the existence of non-religious pagans, how can people live without the guidance of religion?

With a unified internal cause, no matter how chaotic the external struggle may appear, there will be no change in its outcome. Even if it's been a hundred years or two? In a hundred years, even if more than ninety percent of the population of Han culture dies, as long as there is a little spark left, they can set the prairie on fire in this land!

Once China has completed its rebirth, the civilization that has accumulated for thousands of years will immediately bloom with dazzling brilliance! The hard-working, simple, and intelligent Chinese have a unified organization. can create countless miracles. Show awesome power!

For thousands of years. Every dynasty in China can have a prosperous era of at least a few decades or at most a hundred years, which is not a fluke, but inevitable!

Nowadays, the whole world has to come out of the darkness of feudal and imperial rule with strict hierarchies and disregard for life, and establish a civilized era that truly attaches importance to the existence of human beings.

In the West. The first stage of the country's efforts to achieve industrialization has only completed the primitive accumulation of national and financial resources. Within the country, the responsibilities and obligations of the ruling class to the broad masses of the people are not clear, and brutal and bottomless exploitation and oppression are still the mainstream. Anyone who tries to rebel against this ruling order will be ruthlessly and bloodily suppressed!

However, people did not always swallow their anger, and the outbreak of the Paris Commune in 1871 can be seen as the precursor of the awakening of the people. Subsequently, the influence of the maxists increased rapidly, and Das Kapital's detailed analysis of the Western political economy led to considerable panic and vigilance among the upper echelons of the rulers.

The brightest minds have realized that new changes are inevitable. The opportunities for workers and the underprivileged to enjoy the benefits of a strong country on an equal footing will continue to increase. Those who can take this opportunity to unite the centripetal force of the people will become political heroes, and the country that can unite the thoughts and forces of all the people will become extremely powerful!

It's one thing to know. It's hard to do!

Regardless of whether it will succeed in the end, it is difficult for the broad bourgeois upper strata to accept the mere dispersion of the wealth that has been acquired to the weak untouchables. So the possibility of such a change was always very slow until the first socialist-state appeared. The magnitude is negligible.

It is no accident that Sadoyoshi is highly knowledgeable and superhuman, and is advertised as "one of the three masterminds behind the creation of modern Japan". He was the first to truly see the Chinese revolutionary method promoted by Yang Hao, and the first to seriously analyze and make astonishing conclusions. From this, it is profoundly realized that once China is allowed to complete the revolution, not only will Britain's hegemony in the Far East be lost, but it is even possible that on this side of the Pacific, there will be a powerful challenger that threatens the authority of the Western world!

The revolution carried out by Yang Hao not only changed the rigid social system formed for thousands of years, but also greatly promoted the process of modern civilization beyond the great powers. He regulated the relationship between the state-owned economy and the private economy in the form of laws and policies, clarified the rights and obligations enjoyed by the people equally and the legal constraints, stipulated the social responsibilities that the owners of capital must bear, and clarified that the producers must receive due remuneration and welfare benefits, and so on.

This is tantamount to reducing the government and the bureaucracy to the manager of the state, changing authoritarian rule into a service-oriented society, and reaping the benefits of increased productivity for all. This is the wonderful world of maxist discourse!

From the situation in the regions where this series of policies has been successfully implemented, Sa Daoyi knows that this series of revolutionary methods is very effective. Yang Hao continues to gain the unwavering support of more and more Chinese, and countless families worship his photo as a god and Buddha, and set up a tablet for him to worship in the morning and evening. By now, more than 100 million people have become his loyal followers, and this influence is forming a hurricane tsunami that continues to sweep farther and farther away, unstoppable!

Sa Daoyi was shocked by the completeness and vastness of this series of guiding ideas that Yang Hao had come up with, and was shocked by the speed with which the Chinese had accepted the change and the terrible power that had erupted after its success. Just the support of a few provinces can free Yang Hao's hands to expand to the open sea, so what about after the whole of China completes the revolution? Are they going to push along the continent to the west, like the Han and Tang empires that extended their influence to Europe more than a thousand years ago?

Don't forget, Yang Hao also has an advanced navy with extremely strong combat effectiveness!

Sa shuddered at the thought of the disastrous consequences of a million-strong Chinese army marching by land and sea across Asia across the Pacific and across borders to Europe. That will be another westward advance of the Xiongnu and Turks, and it is very likely to bring another devastating blow to Western civilization!

This kind of thing must not happen!

As a staunch supremacist of Western civilization and a pioneer of the British Empire's global hegemony, he has an obligation and responsibility to ensure the stability of the world order. The majesty of the British Empire. Do everything in one's power. Play hard.

He did not hesitate to spread the warning to everyone, and quickly developed a strategy to deal with it. In addition to the confrontation of forces in the south, which had already been promoted, the main focus was on the Sino-Japanese war.

From last year to the present, the battlefields with Shimonoseki and Kitakyushu as the core have gradually shifted from a one-sided defeat in the early stage to a stage of continuous counterattacks by the Japanese Army.

The Kanmon Strait is the gateway to the heart of Japan, and it can be called the small Malacca. The loss of this place. The island of Kyushu has completely lost its connection with Honshu, and the defense of the Seto Inland Sea is empty, so that most coastal cities are threatened with attack at any time.

After receiving a steady stream of weapons and materials from the United States, Britain and other places, Japan quickly completed the reorganization of the army, and the combat force with the Fifth Division as the spearhead was pushed to the forefront, and the Sino-Korean coalition forces fought to the death on the narrow Shimonoseki Peninsula!

This was to protect the fate of the entire Yamato nation, to safeguard the achievements of the Meiji Restoration, and to ensure Japan's independence from Asia and its entry into Europe. For the sake of that glorious future, how many people will be sacrificed!

The Japanese army, who had eaten the scales and had an iron heart, fought continuously day and night at the expense of casualties. forced China to successively transfer troops and materials from the country to this square inch, and fought with the Japanese army to attrition. Not only was the army dragged down. In order to prevent them from reinforcing Kyushu Island from the sea, they had to contain half of their naval forces in the Seto Inland Sea, so that they could not bother to join the Spanish in the Philippines to quell the rebellion.

It's a good move! After calculating the monthly consumption, Column emphasized that the suspension of the group was all admired. They don't need to kill a single person, they only need to pull some surplus domestic products over, and they can easily push tens of thousands of Japanese relatives to rush into the battlefield. With the huge productivity of the great powers, this little price is simply insignificant, but it has had the effect that they have failed to do three times before and twice with a huge navy.

Sa Daoyi's report was unanimously supported, and the great powers decided to work together to create a death vortex that would continue to devour China's military and economic power with the Xiaguan battlefield as the core, and constantly consume the dividends of the revolution that Yang Hao had tried his best to promote, so that he would have no more strength to quickly complete the reunification of the country.

Sa Daoyi snorted very unhappily in his heart: "Don't think that with a little insignificant technical means, you can extort huge wealth from us, that money is not so easy to take." As much as we eat, we will spit it out with interest! Want to use the wealth of nations to support your own strength? Dream! ”

In April 1897, the Great Powers secretly concluded an agreement to divide labor in support of Japan's war with China, formalizing the strategy formulated the previous year.

According to the agreement, the United States, which is most convenient, will provide Japan with food, guns and ammunition, as well as some artillery to strengthen the defense of its coastal cities. Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries have come up with varying amounts of funds to pay for Japan in the form of loans, and have agreed to build a series of advanced warships for Japan in the next few years to rebuild its navy.

Britain, France, Germany, and Russia did not have their own industrial products to dump, but the cost of transporting them was too high, and they were worried that when they came from the South China Sea, they would be intercepted and attacked by the Chinese navy, which was not as convenient as the Americans coming directly from the west coast.

The Japanese side proposed that all countries take the ships in service to cobble together a navy for them, and even sent a fleet to help Japan recapture the Seto Inland Sea, but the countries strongly refused.

What are you kidding, I'll get you a navy now, you can't get strong quickly? It's not so cheap to take our money to build a big navy. It is even more impossible to block the guns of Japan, and the countries really cannot afford to lose that inexplicably.

So, not surprisingly, Japan was completely tied to the chariot of the great powers. After getting a clear statement from Britain, France, Germany, and the United States that it would defeat China in the future and allow Japan to have huge colonies such as Korea, Taiwan, and Northeast China, the Japanese government went out and desperately organized into a new army unit and put it into the battlefield!

On April 26, 1897, the 3rd Division, led by Lieutenant General Hasegawa Yoshimichi, marched from Hiroshima into Yamaguchi Prefecture to replace the 5th Division, which had been fighting for three months. When he proposed to completely remove the incomplete unit, he was sternly rejected by the division commander Yamaguchi Sokoto.

"The Fifth Division can rest for a while, but it will never quit. This is where we are stationed, and there is no room for error! Please be considerate of Hasegawa-kun! ”

Hasegawa Yoshimichi saluted solemnly as if he was empathetic: "Okay, then follow Yamaguchi-kun's wishes." But in any case, the next battle is better to let the division play a role first. ”

This. Sukoto Yamaguchi did not refuse. It was really his 5th Division that was exhausted. Heavy casualties, to be exact!

The 5th Division was based in Hiroshima and Yamaguchi, and its soldiers were born in these mountainous areas, and they were a hardcore army force of the Choshu Domain. In the face of China's brazen invasion, they have the unshirkable duty to resist to the death, even if they all die in battle, they must not back down.

In addition, they still have a grudge with Yang Hao, in the Korean war in the first year of the first year. It was the 21st Wing of the division that was stripped of the wing flag. This became an unprecedented shame in the history of the Japanese Army, and it also led to the death of almost all senior officers, including division commanders, in the ensuing battle. The 5th Division was almost removed!

The division led by Yamaguchi Sukoto was re-recruited, and there were only a few veterans left in it. The most unbearable thing is that they lost the 21st Wing, which made this dignified permanent division of Class A a crippled, and everyone had to bear the shame from the beginning.

Only by mercilessly killing more Chinese can we take revenge!

When the war broke out last year, the Fifth Division did not hesitate to devote itself to it, but the battlefield in Shimonoseki was narrow and rugged. Not even a single wing could be deployed. On the sea, Chinese naval vessels patrol day and night. Artillery support was provided at all times, so that they did not make the slightest progress in the battle for three months.

Up to now, the forward of the Fifth Division is still blocked in front of the Kiya River, and it is extremely difficult to go further.

The Kiya River flows south into the sea from Mt. Kasan, where Emperor Nakaai's funeral site is located. Upstream there are Huashan Hot Springs and a rare piece of flat land. The defense line of the Sino-Korean coalition army was deployed along the left bank of the river, deliberately ceding the valley by the river, occupying the hill and condescending. The core of its defense is in the inverted triangular positions of Liubu Mountain, Baishan Mountain, and Liuwanfang Mountain, which are less than 10 kilometers apart. It is very difficult to cross the estuary of the Kiya River in the south, and there is a threat of naval guns at sea, so it is very difficult to get close to it.

Yamaguchi Sokoto dutifully described the situation in detail, and made a deduction for Hasegawa Yoshido on the sand table, and finally concluded: "In the case of the failure to solve the threat at sea, we can only break through this line of defense to capture Shimonoseki and regain the fortress of Guanmen." ”

Before setting out, Hasegawa had studied all the battle reports as much as he could, and after trying to squeeze out the water in them, he was sure that the difficulties faced by this trip were unprecedentedly huge, and he was by no means optimistic.

However, no matter how difficult it is to fight at home, he has to hold on, and in front of his colleagues, he must not show weakness.

He nodded solemnly: "I understand." Yamaguchi-kun and the gentlemen of the 5th Division have worked hard. This time, we have the unified support of the nations, and we believe that we will surely achieve satisfactory results. Not only the Shimonoseki battlefield, but also the newly recruited 18th Division from Kyushu, as well as the troops of the 12th Division, will also cooperate with us in launching an attack. ”

He did not mention the Sixth Division because it was wiped out by the Eight-Nation Alliance in the battle of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of northern Jiangsu. Because the losses were too heavy, Rao is Japanese is super thick-skinned, and he really doesn't have the confidence to replenish the establishment immediately.

Yamaguchi Suqin's cheeks twitched, and he said with a smile: "Then I'll wait for the good news from you!" ”

He didn't believe that the great powers would be so kind to greatly increase the strength of the Japanese Army, and he didn't believe that those Yaga fools on Kyushu Island could organize any effective attack. Even the communication is intermittent, and they are facing the crazy North Korean soldiers at any time, how can they reorganize the army? And where did the weapons and equipment come from?

That's right, now the Japanese also know that a considerable part of the troops that are invading Kitakyushu and Shimonoseki are stick minions from Korea!

That despicable and weak country didn't dare to let go of a fart in the face of a powerful Japan, and let it be bullied and cleaned up. With the support of China, he immediately became a fox and a tiger, not only resisting, but also daring to act as a thug to kill Japan. In the past few months, I have heard many times that they have committed all kinds of atrocities in the war zone, but the Chinese troops have not stopped their reckless practices.

The Japanese army was even more angry because of this. They had suffered defeat before, and that was against the powerful Chinese forces, and even if they failed, there were historical reasons. Little North Korea is mixed in, what is going on? Where did they come from!

Discrimination is everywhere, and Korea, which has been bullied by Japan for many years as a vassal of China, has never been taken seriously by the Japanese. Now a minion dares to be transferred to the head of an adult, showing his teeth and claws, it is simply lawless!

As a result, on the battlefield of both sides, once the Korean soldiers are discovered, the Japanese army will burst out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, no matter how heavy the casualties are. On the other hand, the Korean army, which had a blood feud, entered the battle and screamed at Japan. In the past few months, the proportion of casualties between the two sides has not been as disparity as expected, and the vast majority of the thousands of casualties on the side of the Sino-North Korean coalition have been ...... sticks.

Besides, Hasegawa is a good way, he has personally experienced the tragic battle of the First Sino-Japanese War, and he has a very intuitive understanding of the powerful force of Yang Hao's soldiers. I think that at the beginning, he and Nogi Noshinori were chased for hundreds of miles, and that was not a joke.

This time, thanks to the support of all countries, the 3rd Division was not only fully reorganized, but also used the most advanced weapons of the day. The infantry was a powerful American Springfield 7.62mm rifle, the elite units were armed with British 10-round Lee Enfield rifles, and each squadron was armed with at least two water-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns, and each squad was armed with a Madsen light machine gun—a lightweight weapon with a 30-round upper magazine—a genius invention!

In addition to this, each brigade constantly has at least four 75mm Krupp mountain guns, and the artillery wing is equipped with large-caliber field guns from the highest achievement in Europe! Krupp generously took out its state-of-the-art 105mm heavy gun, giving the Japanese Army mobile heavy support firepower for the first time in its life!

This is a big guy with a range of more than 10,000 meters and can threaten light ships at sea! I only saw the Japanese Army, which had seen the 70mm bronze cannon, and I felt as if I had a big killer all of a sudden, and I was full of energy!

In addition, they were given a peculiar warp weapon "mortar" from Tsarist Russia. This kind of guy who can advance lightly with the troops, and can covertly attack the enemy in the vicinity from behind the mountain in a large curve, is so powerful and skillful that Lieutenant General Hasegawa tasted it many times during the Sino-Japanese War, and he was extremely impressed.

This time, they want to be ashamed and return all their suffering to the Chinese! (To be continued......) R1292