Chapter 66: The Second Battle of Asan

There is nothing to say about the next battle, a small village with a total area of only tens of thousands of square meters, under the attack of more than a thousand mercenaries armed to the teeth, if there is any battle worth describing, it will be too ridiculous, but there are still about a thousand Japanese who ran away, and it is estimated that they went north into a ravine.

But to Yang Feng's surprise, his guide actually found him a prince, this young prince named Shang Yin is the second son of the Ryukyu king Shang Tai, after the Japanese occupied the Ryukyus, they got their family to Japan to circle, and then felt that the training had been relatively successful, so he and a younger brother were put back, so as to show the mercy of the emperor in front of the Ryukyuan people.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, now that the king and the prince of your country are in the hands of the Japanese people, it is estimated that it will be difficult to come back in a short time, but this country cannot be left without an owner for a day, since this official is ordered by the imperial court to help your country recover, then this matter is a master, by the prince, you will temporarily succeed to the king of the Ryukyus, Xiang Zhili Lord Nian Gao Dexin, and then the responsibility of assisting the king of Shangyin will be handed over to you, and when you welcome back the king of Shangtai, you will discuss the future matters yourself." Sitting in the royal palace of the Ryukyus, Yang Feng said to Shang Yin and Xiang Zhili.

This Xiang Zhili is the leader of the Ryukyu pro-Qing faction, and he is currently planning to go to China for help, but he didn't expect that before the people left, the army of the Celestial Empire would arrive, and the Japanese who were almost completely annihilated in the Ryukyus in World War I were now so generous and benevolent, not only to restore the Ryukyus, but also to hand over such an important position to himself, it was naturally very exciting.

Of course, he immediately knew that the general soldier of Taiwan Town, who did not look like a Qing official at all, had nothing to do with the word benevolence in any case.

"Ryukyu must be cleaned up thoroughly, there are too many Japanese here, this is very dangerous, starting from today, the two of you will help me find a group of local guides, lead my subordinate soldiers, start around Shuri, arrest all the Japanese, and then I will be responsible for sending them to Taiwan, gathering them and repatriating them to Japan, as for those Japanese officials and policemen, as invaders, they must all be brought to justice on the spot, only in this way can Japan never dare to invade your country again." Yang Feng said viciously.

Since he said so, Shang Yin and the others naturally did not dare to object, so the next day, under the leadership of the Ryukyu guide, Yang Feng's mercenaries began to cleanse the entire Ryukyu from south to north, grabbed the officials and policemen sent by Japan, and handed them over directly to the Ryukyuan people, who were responsible for killing.

And those Japanese immigrants were directly loaded and shipped to Taiwan, of course, he would not be so kind to send them back, these people were directly sent to China to sell to human traffickers, men were sold to coal kilns as slave laborers, women were sold to remote mountainous areas, and beautiful people could be sold in the courtyard.

To tell the truth, many Japanese immigrants in this place in the Ryukyus came before 1879, and even earlier, which brought a lot of difficulty to the cleaning work, so this goods made a pure Ryukyu, digging deep into the root movement, to put it bluntly, let the Ryukyu people report each other, and any report can get a reward of one or two silver, this move is very ruthless, and the whole Ryukyu is made a bloody storm, and they look at each other and are afraid, but there are two thousand troops and a fleet here, No one minds how he wants to play.

Besides, how can ordinary people think too much, Japanese immigrants have been arrogant in recent years, and there are people who look at them unpleasantly, and now they have the opportunity to retaliate and have money to take, why don't they do it, many of them have even picked up the eight generations of their ancestors. As for killing Japanese officials, although the Ryukyuan people with brains understand that Yang Feng is forcing them to become a feud with Japan, they don't have the courage to refuse, and second, they can't stop those ordinary people who are poor from losing their pants to earn that one or two pieces of silver.

In addition, in the name of protecting the Ryukyus and eliminating the remnants of Japanese armed men, Yang Feng also established a military base here, with 1,000 mercenaries stationed here, and then paid for the locals to expand the port for him, so that Naha Port could moor large warships like the Marauder.

At first, Xiang Zhili was worried that this goods would make a rampant expedition and something like that, he was mentally prepared for this, people helped him drive out the Japanese, no matter how he said it, he couldn't do it in vain, who knew that this general soldier not only didn't take anything, but all the construction was paid to the Ryukyu laborers who worked, and even his soldiers paid according to the price when they bought things on the street, and they didn't act as ** women on the street, which was simply weird for an occupation army, Soon, the Ryukyu warriors also fell in love with the strangely dressed general and his strangely dressed soldiers.

They don't know that these people are from Yang Feng to soldiers, just because they are too poor to be worth it at all, as for the question of women, these guys have a super large free courtyard of 500 people, who would be interested in those Ryukyu women who are as tanned as black carbon?

In addition, under Yang Feng's operation, a pilgrimage group led by Prince Shangshun, the younger brother of King Shang Yin, took a destroyer and went straight to Beijing to thank the old lady Cixi.

Just when this goods were in the Ryukyus over MacArthur's addiction, a big battle was kicking off in Korea, the Fifth Division led by Nozu Michikan and the Tachimi Shangwen Brigade arrived in Daejeon, and then the troops were divided into two routes, a wing to Gongju to attack Ye Zhichao, Ye Da nerd now only has his own two battalions in the hands of Zhengding training army, a wing is enough to deal with, and the main force of the Japanese army is attacking Cheonan, here is stationed Zhang Gao Yuan Department and Gao Sheng's Renzi battalion that did not die.

In fact, up to now, Li Er's devil has arranged the same people in Ashan, the reason is very simple, he has no soldiers to adjust, and it is said that the Great Qing Kingdom also has an army of one million, but after deducting the Eight Banners that smoke big cigarettes and birds play, when the police envoy may not be able to beat the bandits' green battalion, there is still a maximum of 200,000 who can make do with the war.

Of course, this is only on the establishment, considering the problem of empty salaries, how much can actually be estimated even the court itself does not know, and now that the war is over, he quickly remembered to recruit troops temporarily, and issued a Mauser repeating rifle to a group of old peasants who had just put down their hoes, and he never imagined the Krupp 75 Elements Battalion Cannon, he just didn't even know how to load the shells, this was the First Sino-Japanese Land War.

Now Li Er's devil is in a hurry to find troops to reinforce Asan! There are only a few of the 200,000 troops left above who have his turn, and there are still Beiyang Protector Army in Shandong, half of the Songwu Army, and the Suigong Army, adding up to only a few thousand people, which cannot be moved, because you still have to look at Weihaiwei.

There is still the Ming Army in the Northeast, half of Song Qing's Yi Army, and the other half has already entered the DPRK and arrived in Pyongyang, he and Liu Shengxiu are preparing for the second batch of North Korea, and there are still the Qinqing Army, the third battalion of the Ming Army Zhao Huaiye, and the fourth battalion of the Sheng Army Wei Rucheng, these are also absolutely immovable! The only mobile force with combat effectiveness is the Gong Guard Army of the Fourth Battalion of Xu Bangdao, in fact, at this time, Li Er's devil is worried about letting his third battalion and one battalion urgently recruited go to Lushun? Or go to North Korea?

There is still an army in Shandong, and Governor Furun previously organized the Fuzi Army and the Dongzi Army, which have just been formed for less than a month, and to be honest, it is a little cruel to send such an army, whether it is to Nie Shicheng or to them.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that later generations described the First Sino-Japanese War as a war between Li Hongzhang and a country of Japan, at least before the Yalu River was lost, this war was indeed supported by him alone, although the battle of Pyongyang still had Zuo Precious Fengjun and Feng Sheng's training army, but Zuo Precious himself was also mixed with Li Hongzhang, as for Feng Sheng'a, there is no need to mention, this goods' experience in participating in the First Sino-Japanese War is basically running.

In this case, the only thing Li Er can do is to write a letter to ask for help, of course, with the current traffic situation, reinforcements are coming from all over the world, and it will take a little time, not to mention the protracted bureaucratic system of the Qing Dynasty, and the indifference of many people, including the supreme ruler, anyway, the battle has not yet reached the Yalu River? Besides, isn't the Huai army very capable of fighting? Then let them keep fighting.

So the second Battle of Asan began, the Qing army of 7,000 against the Japanese army a not very complete integrated division, fortunately the sixth brigade was abolished, the only thing that could make him a little more relieved was that the newly bought 20 Makqin and 1 million rounds of ammunition were all sent to the front line, and more than 20 Green guns were also collected, and Hannagan also went to North Korea, these days under the leadership of him and several employees of the Bofors company, a perfect defense system with machine guns as the core was built on the front line, and there was sufficient logistics supply.

This point is Li Hongzhang's most reassuring point, the victory of the Battle of Inchon ensured the smooth flow of the transportation line, although the Yoshino repaired, but the Songdo entered the dock again, and was extremely injured, it was impossible to get out in two months, but although all the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division were damaged, they were only skin wounds, even if they were not repaired, they could continue to fight, although the bitter acid was ruthless, it was still very difficult for the six-inch grenade to really hurt the ironclad ship.

As for the issue of material reserves, he can be said to be completely proud of Dongying, originally after the Japanese army occupied Lushun in history, millions of shells were captured, and tens of millions of bullets were captured, if there were no these captures, they were afraid that the war would not be able to continue, and now these can be made by a few Nie Shicheng in Asan.