Chapter 35: Pre-War Mobilization

On June 3, 1895, after the Japanese army handed over Taiwan, the Japanese Army Guards Division began to attack and land on Taiwan under the cover of naval artillery fire. Taiwan's Shiqiuling Fort and Keelung fell one after another, and more than 200 Taiwanese soldiers and civilians were killed or wounded. After the defeated army entered Taipei City, the governor of Taiwan, Tang Jingsong, disguised himself as an old woman and fled. Qiu Fengjia, the leader of the rebel army, also fled to Jiaying, Guangdong after hearing that Tang Jingsong had escaped. Next, the Japanese army, led by the local Taiwanese gentry Koo Hsien-rong, entered the city of Taipei.

"Hmph, Gu Xianrong, now you are the first person in Taiwan to be a traitor. And there is no justice in this world at all, you have been a traitor all your life, but in the end you became one of the five major families in Taiwan. In later life, your son became a tycoon in Taiwan's business circles and the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation. Decades later, the Japanese army was defeated, and the Gu family actually escaped the punishment of the traitors. Since you escaped a catastrophe in the original history, then this time I will punish you well on behalf of the Taiwanese people in the original history! Wang Guorui thought.

Taiwan has arrived in Taipei City, and it will not take a few days to arrive in Hsinchu County, and according to the original history, Hsinchu County was conquered on June 19, and this world has Wang Guorui, then history will inevitably change a lot. And Wang Guorui had to let the Japanese army stop at Hsinchu County and fiercely block this Japanese army.

Wang Guorui began to defend here with a position that had already been dug a long time ago, and Wang Guorui first had to do a pre-war mobilization this time to boost the morale of the soldiers, so that they could have the courage to fight the Japanese army.

"Soldiers, you are all good sons of our Taiwan, do you know how cruel the Japanese are? During the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaded the southeast coast of China, and every time they passed through a county seat, they would massacre the city. Millions of Chinese people died at the hands of the Japanese in those years. All the borders of the Japanese are barren. They killed all the way, never showed mercy to their subordinates, ** captivity, they didn't even let go of a seventy-year-old lady. ……”

Wang Guorui chattered endlessly and began to explain how the Japanese were fierce, and how the Chinese people were killed by the Japanese in the Ming Dynasty. And these words have aroused the hatred of many people, after all, "millions" of Chinese people have been killed by the Japanese, which can be said to be very shocking.

Millions of people, this was a terrible massacre in ancient times. Of course, those massacres when the Manchus entered the customs, this Manchu Qing themselves will not say. The Manchus also deliberately destroyed the materials of the Manchu massacre, so the vast majority of Chinese have forgotten how the Manchus were massacred. Even in later generations, the massacre of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when they entered the customs was not to be said, but the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese was hyped.

And after most Chinese forgot about the massacre of the Manchus, it was obviously very shocking that the Japanese slaughtered millions of people.

"Also, let's not talk about what is far away, but what is near. In Lushun, the Japanese slaughtered 200,000 Chinese people. This is only Lushun, and they Liaodong killed more than 800,000 Chinese people, and the situation is really tragic. The Japanese army is a complete beast army, they have never had any benevolence, righteousness and morality, once they occupy Taiwan, all of us in Taiwan will be slaughtered and treated as slaves. When the time comes, hundreds of our people in Taiwan will be worse off than dead! How many people are there in Taiwan, at most more than 2 million, and it is not enough for people to kill? ”

"And they also like to have a killing competition, in Lushun, there used to be two Japanese second lieutenants in a killing competition, the competition to see who killed enough 100 of our people first. Later, they were not able to compare the results, and they killed many of our people again. There are hundreds of people who died at the hands of these two beasts alone! They also boasted that they were a hundred people, which is really inferior to beasts! ”

Wang Guorui vigorously promoted the brutality of the Japanese army, but ......

"Hahahaha......" Tanya burst out laughing.

And Zheng Hong next to him took the initiative to ask: "Sister Tanya, what are you laughing at?" ”

"I'm laughing, this guy's ability to talk nonsense is amazing! Although Lushun was slaughtered, it was only 20,000 at most, but he actually added a zero directly to the back, so that it became 200,000. In this era, I really doubt that Lushun can live for 200,000 people. ”

"As for the 800,000 people in Liaodong, it is even more irrelevant. Although there was a massacre by the Japanese army in Liaodong, it was definitely no more than 100,000, and this guy actually directly increased tenfold, which is really bragging! ”

Tanya laughed, obviously very funny for Wang Guorui to help the Japanese army "brag" so much. And the example of that killing competition is actually the example of the Nanjing Massacre in the following decades, not the Lushun Massacre at this time, but it was also used by Wang Guorui to educate these soldiers.

However, Wang Guorui also knows that it is impossible to talk to soldiers about national righteousness and patriotism in this era. If you want a soldier to die, you have to have money. And if you want the soldiers to fight hard, you have to make them feel the danger. Money alone is not enough to make soldiers desperate, but when it comes to the safety of their own lives, then they really have to fight hard. Don't you see that many of the armies during the civil war surrendered when they lost, and then helped the new lord to fight the old lord? This kind of mentality is mixed rice and eating, and they will not work too hard during the war. But if it's about your own danger, it's very desperate.

Wang Guorui deliberately proposed that the Japanese army had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people, and then increased the number of massacres to one million, which was enough to make these Taiwanese feel fearful. Because Taiwan currently has only more than 2 million people, I am afraid it is not enough for the Japanese army to let go and kill! No one can be confident that they can escape the massacre of the Japanese army, so Wang Guorui hopes to inspire those soldiers to fight hard. After all, resisting the Japanese army is not only about their lives, but also about the safety of their families.

Of course, if it were the later generations when communication was very sensitive, then these lies would not be enough to deceive others. But in this era, not only is the ability to communicate information very poor, but even ordinary soldiers have no culture, and they believe what their superiors say. Therefore, Wang Guorui tried his best to help the Japanese army "brag", so that the soldiers believed that the Japanese army was so cruel to the massacre, so that the soldiers could really have a bitter hatred for the Japanese army.

"Soldiers, can you tolerate the Japanese to come and kill you, take away your families, and insult your wives and daughters, and then be their slaves for all generations? And then wait for their lives at any time, and kill them for fun when they are bored and hurt, can you accept it? Wang Guorui asked.

"Can't!" Everyone shouted.

"Well, everyone is a hot-blooded and bloody man, and we Chinese are not so cheap. Our lives are very noble, and we cannot allow them to be bullied or killed for fun. They want to kill us, and we're going to kill them! Today, everyone picked up their guns and killed all these people who dared to invade Taiwan. They come one to kill one, come two to kill a pair. We just want to let the Japanese invaders fall in our Taiwan, and then we will see how many lives they can fill in! We would rather be ghosts who die in war than slaves who die in the country! Wang Guorui shouted.

"I'd rather be a ghost who died in battle than a slave who died in the country!" "I'd rather be a ghost who died in battle than a slave who died in the country!" ……

Wang Guorui exaggerated the ferocity and cruelty of the Japanese army by more than ten times, which made many Taiwanese feel the cruelty of the Japanese army. In fact, this is also a common method used in war, anyway, it is to exaggerate the brutality of the enemy as much as possible, and then fool hundreds of people in, so that they can resist the enemy with one heart. As for whether the enemy is really brutal, this one may not be known. Some are true, others are braggadocio by those in power. Wang Guorui also took advantage of the poor communication of ancient information, and there was also a low cultural level of soldiers, so it was easy to listen to and trust the government, so they also believed in the cruelty of the Japanese.

"Everyone will enter the position for me immediately, the Japanese are coming, and we will also fight hard, you are welcome! Show your strength, you should know that our weapons are much more powerful than theirs. I'm not afraid to tell you that the weapons you have in your hands are some of the most advanced in the world. Even the weapons of the German Army, the world's first army, are not as powerful as yours. So, you can rest assured. I spent a lot of money to buy this back, so you don't have to save it for me, and you have to fight those devils. Wang Guorui said.

The soldiers heard that the Japanese weapons were inferior to theirs, and this made their morale come back a lot. Because the Chinese have a habitual thinking, that is, they think that not being able to defeat foreigners is a matter of weapons. Of course, there is a bias here, but this is enough to show the stubbornness of this kind of thinking. Now that they heard that their weapons were the best in the world, they all thought that they should be able to defeat the Japanese army. Because as long as you have the most powerful weapon in the world, what can't you defeat the enemy? Wang Guorui said that the weapons in their hands were not even opponents of the German Army, the world's largest army, and of course they had regained a lot of self-confidence.

Wang Guorui saw that the morale of the soldiers had recovered a lot, and he knew that these soldiers had also been fooled by the advantage of weapons. However, the firepower density that the weapons in their hands can produce is indeed very high, which can give them the confidence to resist the Japanese army.