Kyoto was the capital of Japan from the time Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Heiankyo in 794 until the founding of Tokyo in 1868. Kyoto City is rich in historical sites and is one of the most important centers of traditional Japanese culture. Some of Kyoto's traditional folk customs, such as the Aoi Festival and the Gion Festival, have been held for more than 1,000 years, and have become unique to Kyoto.

It was precisely because of the importance of Kyoto to Japan that the Crusade Command formulated a battle plan to land in Osaka Bay and eventually capture Kyoto.

Major General Tong Liben, commander of the 10th Division, watched the last group of defeated soldiers flee into Kyoto City, and couldn't help but scold, "Damn! I didn't expect to let these dogs run away to Kyoto alive. ”

"There's an old saying! Those who chase their lives will never be able to escape. But it doesn't matter, these little devils who have been completely frightened out of their guts, even if they run into Kyoto City, what is the use, they can't do anything except affect the morale of the defenders of Kyoto. What's more, after all, most of the defeated troops have been annihilated by us, and only a small part of them have fled into Kyoto. The adjutant next to him couldn't help but comfort.

Tong Liben nodded noncommittally, "It's getting late now, order the troops to rest for one night and launch an attack early tomorrow morning." The Sixth Division should arrive in Kyoto tomorrow afternoon, and we will try to take Kyoto Castle before the Sixth Division arrives! ”

"Yes!" The adjutant replied respectfully.

In the reception hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, the capital of the Chinese Empire, the US minister to China said with a smile, "Your Excellency Foreign Secretary, I know that Japan and your country have enmity, but Japan has already paid the corresponding price for this. Besides, hasn't your country always advocated repaying grievances with virtue? In that case, wouldn't it be better to stop the war and reconcile the two sides and become good-neighborly and friendly again. ”

Liang Yan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire, said with a smile, "I can't think of Mr. Minister." There is still some research on my Chinese culture, but Mr. Minister's understanding of repaying grievances with virtue is inevitably taken out of context. ”

"Oh! Since Your Excellency thinks that what I said is wrong, then dare to ask what the true meaning of repaying grievances with virtue is? The American minister humbly pleaded for advice.

Liang Yan smiled and said, "The original sentence of 'repaying grievances with virtue' comes from the Analects? "Or say: 'How can you repay grievances with virtue?' The son said, "How can you repay virtue?" Repay grievances with directness, repay virtue with virtue'" The original meaning was: A student asked Confucius: Others beat me. I feel him with morality and upbringing, okay? Confucius said, if you repay your grievances with virtue, then "how can you repay virtue?" "When others treat you with virtue, you need to repay others with virtue. But now that someone has beaten you, you should "complain." It can be seen that Confucius was opposed to "repaying grievances with virtue", just like the Bible says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It's the same thing. That's why I said that Mr. Minister took it out of context. Our Chinese Empire is the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and it has always been based on leniency, in line with the principle that no one will offend me, and I will not offend others. But Japan is a small country. Repeatedly offended the majesty of my Celestial Empire, how could my Chinese Empire tolerate him! This time, our country raised troops to crusade against the Japanese barbarians, just to let these Japanese people understand a truth, that is. Those who commit Huaxia will be punished even if they are far away! ”

The American minister looked at Liang Yan's resolute expression, knowing that anything else would be useless. I couldn't help but shake my head and sigh.

On October 28, 1902, the rumbling artillery began the attack on Kyoto, and the artillery regiment of the 10th Division, as well as the artillery brigade directly under the army, concentrated all the artillery and bombarded the city of Kyoto. Soon the city of Kyoto was enveloped in gunsmoke.

"Boom!" The ancient city wall was bombarded by heavy artillery, and finally overwhelmed and collapsed.

"Kill!" Amid the earth-shattering shouts of killing, more than 10,000 infantry of the 10th Division, inspired by the horn of the charge, swept towards Kyoto City.

"Baga Ya Road! Shoot me! Block the attack of the Chinese! A Japanese soldier on the city wall shouted loudly waving a command knife.

The little devils who were shivering in various places came out of the corners one after another, and began to shoot at the Chinese soldiers outside the city with rifles in their hands. Attempts were made to block the offensive of the Chinese army, but it was in vain.

The mortars followed the attacking troops, pushed them down the city, set up mortars one after another, and began to bombard the city walls fiercely.

The cannonballs rained down on the city wall, setting off a wave of artillery fire, and the little devil was blown up and his flesh flew sideways, crying for his father and mother.

"Yaga! Resist! Resist me! The Japanese soldier Shaozo roared frantically.

"Boom!" A violent explosion came, and the Japanese soldier Shaozo suddenly felt that he was flying, and when he looked down, he saw in a trance that a pair of legs that had lost his upper body fell weakly on the city wall, and the legs looked so familiar, and soon the surroundings fell into darkness, and half of Shaozuo's body fell directly into the dirt under the city wall.

On the top of a hill dozens of miles northwest of Kyoto Castle, an officer dressed in the uniform of a Chinese military officer stood there, holding a telescope in one hand and looking at the smoke of Kyoto Castle in the distance. On his shoulder, a gold star sparkled in the sun. It shows his noble status as a major general of the empire, but surprisingly, the sleeve of one of the major general's arms is empty, pinned directly to his waist. Yes, this major general only has one arm, this one-armed major general is Shen Hongcai, the commander of the 6th Division of the First Army of the Chinese Empire's Eastern Expeditionary Army, he has not forgotten that after losing an arm in the war against Russia, Ren Chao encouraged him, and now after several years of tempering, Shen Hongcai finally became a general, and the only one-armed general in the country, but this qiē is not enough, because Shen Hongcai has not completed the task that Ren Chao gave him at the beginning, this task is to become a world-famous one-armed general. Shen Hongcai has been working towards this goal, although he has now become a general, but he is still a little far away from the goal of becoming famous in the world, and now the expedition to Japan is undoubtedly an opportunity to make a name for himself.

After the outbreak of the war, Shen Hongcai led the 6th Division to land in Nagasaki, and then was ordered to attack in the direction of Kagoshima, and occupied the entire Kagoshima in less than ten days, successfully annihilating more than 10,000 people of the main force of the Japanese army, and defeating and encircling as many as 50,000 or 60,000 Japanese militias. But these achievements are not enough to be famous in the world, so Shen Hong must work harder. (To be continued......)