Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Bloody Battle in Tokyo

Yang Feng's poisonous plan was quickly implemented, because the Germans did not want to be this role that was vulnerable to public opinion, and the real culprit also wanted to maintain his series of positive images, so the job was left to Min Yongjun and his Korean revenge army. Anyway, given the hurt of the Japanese to their national feelings, it is understandable that these people have committed some heinous acts, of course, the most important thing is that if they are really loyal to the country, they will be troublesome even if they are carrying out the task.

Yang Feng and Waldze hid on the top of a mountain nine kilometers away, looked at the direction of the Guanyinqi Fort with binoculars, and at the foot of the mountain below them, more than 200 bound Japanese knelt on the ground, and a Korean soldier stood behind him, holding a rifle with a bayonet ready to move at any time, and a Japanese traitor who had been called was walking towards the fort with a white flag.

And on the sea in the distance, the huge fleet is waiting, and in the distance is still thick smoke billowing Tokyo, this picture makes Yang Feng very emotional, and he actually has the taste of what to ask for.

The Japanese traitor walked forward for two hours in fear and trembling, waiting for the big boss Yang behind him to sit down and play mahjong with Waldze, Min Yongjun, and Ma Yukun.

Just when Waldzer lost the eighth lap and was about to work the ninth lap, the observer next to him reported that the Japanese traitor had been put into the battery, and after another half an hour, when Waldzer was trying to lose ten laps in a row, the observer reported that the Japanese traitor had come out, and after another two hours, Yang Feng and Ma Yukun were embarrassed to win him again, and the Japanese traitor was finally brought back to the four people.

Yang Feng's poison plan succeeded, and the Japanese troops on the Guanyinqi Fort, after receiving a guarantee that they and their families would not be killed, finally raised a white flag on the fort. This is not surprising, no one can watch their relatives being put in front of them waiting to be stabbed to death with bayonets, at this time what country and nation can be considered, there really must be such a person except a madman is biantai.

With their example, the defenders of Chiyozaki Fort also surrendered one after another, but the defenders of Kanaya, Motosan, and the three sea forts on the opposite side had a lot of trouble, mainly because the defenders here were not in Tokyo, until Yang Feng threatened them to land on the Boso Peninsula if they did not surrender again. They started from the seashore and did not get honest until they had killed all the Japanese there, and in this way Tirpitz's naval fleet finally sailed into Tokyo Bay.

Immediately after that, the Eight-Nation Coalition began to deploy defense, first of all, the advance base in Kamakura was withdrawn, all the remaining personnel and supplies were withdrawn to Tokyo, all the batteries on both sides of the Uraga waterway were blasted, and the Japanese in the whole of Tokyo were used bayonets, except for 5,000 girls who were kept in the imperial palace as comfort women, and all the others went to the periphery of Tokyo to dig trenches for them. The trenches on the original Tama River Line and the trenches on the south bank of the Arakawa River were also deepened, creating a closed defense system based on the port.

The route of the Japanese 6th Division was supposed to be to move north along the coast, that is, to take the main line of Tokaido, which had been shattered by shelling, and then attack from the southwest. And the first, five or two divisions are most likely to land in Niigata and then attack from the northwest. The division of troops occupied various communication points and sealed the Japanese army outside the Kanto Plain. This is indeed a good approach, but for coalition forces fighting in occupied lands full of hatred, such a textbook defense is still a provincial defense.

An army of thirty or forty thousand is not going anywhere. Just nest in Tokyo, and then frame yourself with trenches, there is a fleet to protect the sea, what kind of material supplies can be sent in a steady stream, Yang Feng's six landing ships to and from Taiwan even loaded ships for a week at a time, plus four high-speed cargo ships of the same tonnage, can transport tens of thousands of tons of materials at a time, enough to maintain all the consumption here, as for the problem of money, needless to say, this time in Tokyo to take out one-third of the Japanese army to consume to death.

As for the question of whether or not they can hold the defensive line, there is no need to consider this, there are no machine guns, only 100 70 guns of 50,000 or 60,000 Japanese troops, if they can break through more than 300 Makqin machine guns, close to 200 army guns of various types, and there are also hundreds of naval guns of the entire large fleet, including four battleships, the defense line formed by it will be simply a fantasy, not to mention that the main force of this army is still the most powerful army of this era.

Just when the Eight-Nation Coalition was in full swing to arrange defenses, Li Hongzhang was also struggling, whether to send troops or not? Yuan Shikai said that his 5,000 new army had just been trained for less than two months, and no one in the imperial court had paid attention to it at all, even if it was sent to Yang Feng, it would not be a big deal, the key was the troops in Asan, if they were sent to Japan, it seemed a little inappropriate.

You must know that the court of Ludao has urged him many times, asking him to withdraw the troops of Asan and then send them to Liaodong to block the Japanese, but he is confronting the British army at sea with a naval division, and the current situation is tense and he does not dare to withdraw lightly to block back.

But if you don't agree to Yang Feng, it will affect the relationship between the two parties, especially if there is a German mixed in, and more importantly, this offer is really impossible to refuse.

"I wish the third brother, you and I have been friends for many years, you can tell your brother the truth, how much Yang Feng has made in Japan." He gritted his teeth and asked Song Qing who was drinking tea next to him.

"Lord Zhongtang, why don't you believe the words of the lower officials? Do you have to go to Taipei and show you the part I have been allotted? The things that Yang Feng caught in Osaka were discounted by at least 10 million silver, and the things he caught in Sendai were discounted by 3 million silver, which I know well. It is impossible to estimate the exact amount of money that can be caught in Tokyo, after all, many of these things have no price in the market, but it is absolutely impossible to be less than 20 million taels, and you will get 4 million for 2 taels. But don't forget that there will be reparations in the future, the Germans asked for 205 million pounds, and this money was given to Russia and the United States in fraction, and the remaining half was given to themselves, and the other half was divided between Yang Feng and us. If you send troops, then you will still be given 20% of the total, you calculate how much we have to make if we send troops this time, and I now understand what the British are so rich, and they have destroyed countless countries, and that family can't make millions of dollars in silver. Song Qing said with emotion.

This number made Li Hongzhang's eyes blood-red, there are tens of millions of taels of silver to earn, and the court is still a fart, and besides, this siege of Wei to save Zhao is also a good strategy in the art of war.

"Okay, that's it for now." He gritted his teeth and said, as for how to transfer troops, it is very simple, Yuan Shikai's new army will be trained in Weihai, and it is enough to directly load them on the six landing ships, as for the Ashan side, remove Jiang Zikang and Xu Bangdao, and the six landing ships can be picked up by the way.

Just when the Second Army of the Korean Expedition led by Oyama Yan returned to Niigata and began to march towards Tokyo, Li Hongzhang's army also set sail, and at this time, after completing the deployment of the Tokyo defensive circle, the Eight-Nation Coalition immediately drove all the Japanese who worked for them out of the city, and no one cared about the life or death of these hundreds of thousands of people, so they couldn't stay in the city and cause chaos, so that there would be no other Japanese in Tokyo except those comfort women.

After another two days, the vanguard of the 6th Division, which was the fastest part, had already appeared on the periphery of the defensive circle, and the black and thin Kumamoto soldiers, when they saw the devastated capital in the distance, and the Japanese who had been driven out to beg for food, the hatred for the invaders in their hearts was not to mention how strong it was. The 11th Brigade, which was the first to arrive, did not hesitate to attack the German line on the north bank of the Tama River, but was bombarded by naval guns from the sea before they could even reach the range of their rifles.

The easternmost part of the Tokyo defensive circle designed by Yang Feng himself is only seven kilometers away from the coast, and anyway, as long as it can accommodate 40,000 or 50,000 horses, what can you do in such a large place, so that no matter where the Japanese army attacks, it will have to face those fearful naval guns while bearing the attack of army artillery.

When the main guns of the battleship Brandenburg fired a salvo and a whole squadron of Japanese soldiers disappeared, the brigade commander was directly dumbfounded.

"Retreat, retreat east!" Looking at the huge fleet lined up in the sea in the distance, he brandished his saber and shouted with fear, the Japanese troops who were charging were so frightened that they quickly turned around and ran eastward, at this time not only the naval guns at sea fired, but also the army field artillery in the defensive circle opened fire at the same time, and the dense shells blew them up on their backs, and when they retreated to a safe area, they were counted, and the entire brigade was gone.

The commander of this brigade was honest all of a sudden, what took the initiative to attack this for the time being, let's wait for the main force to arrive, the commander of the sixth division, Lieutenant General Kuroki Weizhen, arrived later, and after learning of the enemy's strong firepower, it was also quite a headache, the Japanese Army at this time was not World War II, in fact, they were more rational at this time, it was obvious that it was unrealistic to attack alone, Kuroki Weizhen decided to wait for the arrival of the Second Army, and then launch an attack together.

The speed of Dashan Rock was very fast, and almost at the same time as Yang Feng's reinforcements arrived in Tokyo, and a mixed brigade composed of other defenders of the fortress also arrived, plus the 9th Division, which was enlisted as a reserve, the total strength of the Japanese army had reached 70,000.

And their opponents, after receiving reinforcements from the Huai army, had a total strength of more than 35,000 men and more than 100,000 horses, and launched a bloody battle in the capital of Japan, of course, it was the flesh of the Japanese. (To be continued......)