Chapter 143 Yang Qingtian
After turning Kobe into ruins, the Russian army left 5,000 people to continue to sack Akashi and Himeji to the west, blocking the passage of the Japanese King in Hiroshima and other places in the west, and the other 5,000 went east to attack Osaka and Nara, where there are basically old and weak women and children left, and it would be cool to kill these hungry wolves, while the remaining 10,000 people went all the way to Kyoto.
At this time, Ito Hirobumi was going crazy, and he ran to the British and German legations eight times a day, and it was said that they all knelt down and pleaded, which made people feel sad for a while, but at this time to stop the Russians, that would drive Nikolai crazy, and no one could do this kind of adventure for Japan, especially now that the French have made it clear that they want to fight side by side with their allies to the end, the current peace in Europe is not easy to come by, and no one can engage in a world war for Japan, so they all blindly prevaricate and delay, Anyway, everyone was determined to sacrifice Kyoto.
In this way, the Russians marched towards their goal, but their footsteps were blocked in the island on the west bank of the Yodo River, and although the remaining 100,000 Qinwang troops of the Japanese army were unlikely to fight, they were good at digging the ground, taking advantage of the Russian army's looting along the way, they dug a tributary ditch here to make a magnificent wave, and formed the best defense line with a hundred meters wide river, and the water poured back from the Yodo River made the Russian strikers dumbfounded, and there was no choice but to stop and chop wood to prepare to cross the river.
At the same time, the Russian army attacking Osaka was also blocked by the Yodogawa, and the Japanese were very clever enough to withdraw all the ships, knowing that the Yodogawa River was a canal, and the wide river could not be crossed without boats, so now they could only wait for the Russian army in the direction of Kameoka to break through the Japanese defense line.
Fortunately, this did not wait too long, and soon the 30,000 Russian troops who landed in Maizuru had already been killed, this Russian army was originally in Hokkaido, but now the Japanese there are almost killed by them, and only a small part of the aftermath needs to be left to clean up, and the rest of the main force is all transported by sea.
After receiving reinforcements, the Russians left the trenches and launched an attack on the Japanese troops opposite. This time it wasn't just the infantry, because considering that the next battle would be on the Kansai Plain, there was a Cossack cavalry division in it, and when the countless cavalry with spears and heavy machine guns charged, the cobbled together army of King Qin finally collapsed.
Anyway, they have never seen this, the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves, the tall Don hippopotamus, and the spears that shimmer with cold light, these are simply nightmares for infantry without machine guns, not to mention that these Japanese don't even have many rifles in their hands. Under the onslaught of the Cossack cavalry, the Japanese, who had come from all over the mountains, began to flee in the same way. It's just that how could their speed be comparable to that of the cavalry, and soon the torrent of high hats and black scabs crashed into the middle of the Japanese, spears and sabers began to harvest life without stopping, and behind them, huge infantry legions followed the footsteps of the killing and rushed into the Kansai Plain.
A feast of Russian plunder has finally begun.
At this time, another battle also started in Fuzhou City, Li Yuncong and Jiang Guidi, who had joined forces, arrived in Fuzhou, and their opponent Deshou also transferred all the troops that could be mobilized to Fuzhou, including the two battalions of Anhui Lianjun that Furun supported him, adding up to a total of about 10,000 people. Deshou didn't pass at this time, so he took out all the money he could get from the domain, and then went to Zhang Zhidong to buy arms, but Zhang Zhidong didn't sell it to him on the pretext that the production was not enough and there was no inventory. This old guy didn't want to offend Yang Feng. His son Zhang Quan is still the governor of Taiwan, and he has not cooperated with Yang Feng in general over the years, to be honest, Yang Feng is ready to watch from the wall when he hits Beijing again. What's more, Yang Feng is fighting Nanchang City.
But this didn't bother Deshou, he didn't know how to hook up, and got a batch of black huoyao Bodan rifles eliminated by the Russian army from a Russian arms dealer. In addition, he bought some rifles from other arms dealers through different channels, and actually made up more than 7,000 rifles, and his army defending the city was also well-equipped, plus the resistance was relatively resolute, so it caused a little trouble to Li Yuncong.
But it's just a small trouble, those foreign arms dealers dare to sell guns secretly, but no one dares to sell cannons, to put it bluntly, these guys are slaughtering fat sheep, everyone understands that Yang Feng is sure to defeat Fuzhou, a little loss Governor Yang will not care too much, if he is damaged and starts a fire to find revenge on the person who caused him trouble, it is very terrifying.
Not to mention his terrible connections, that is, JY company can smash these small businessmen to death by wielding the pound in Europe, and all the European companies that have offended Yang Feng over the years, most of them have been played to death in a short time, and they have been viciously sniped in the stock market, and those who play tricks have been beaten violently by updated techniques, and the name of Yang Boss Tyrant has quietly risen in Europe, and those who don't want to die dare to offend him.
The first charge under the city of Fuzhou was blocked, and after finding that the firepower on the city wall was relatively hot, Li Yuncong, who originally wanted to charge to take Fuzhou as before, immediately ordered to suspend the attack, although the defenders of the city had extremely bad marksmanship, and they shot after several miles, so they only caused slight damage to the attacking troops, but after getting closer, this kind of firepower density will definitely cause a lot of casualties.
He now does not need to worry about logistics and transportation problems at all, because he has made a windfall, so Governor Yang ordered to popularize compulsory education in the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan, anyway, it is very easy to build thousands of rural primary schools for two million taels of silver, although there is a lack of teachers, but it is nothing more than to make use of those green worms, saving them from idle rebellion and play, not to mention doing anything else to teach children to read and write, they can still be competent. As for other homework, it can only be opened slowly after someone has done it, and this is easy to solve, it is nothing more than a few more normal schools.
So after announcing the construction of rural primary schools, providing free education for all school-age children, and even providing one lunch a day, it was also announced that those green worms who had not rebelled would be recruited as teachers, with a fixed monthly salary, and more importantly, this was the civil service establishment.
As soon as this order came out, the people of the three provinces were all grateful, Yang Feng's compulsory education is really compulsory education, all fees are free, what books, desks and chairs, extracurricular activities are all in a word, as long as the students go home and say what money the teacher charges, or what the teacher asks to buy, especially the kind of behavior that also specifies the purchase of a certain family, you can go directly to the yamen to report. And the lunch at noon is even more unheard of, and more importantly, Governor Yang also set the standard, each student must have one egg a day, two taels of meat, these can be taken home if you can't eat, as for the rice steamed buns, who dares to take inferior meat expired eggs to fool children directly for murder.
This benevolent government completely won him the support of the people of the three provinces, and even some green worms began to stand up and praise Yang Shun, not to mention this civil servant or the establishment of court officials in the current term, although the grade is not determined, but it still makes the green worms excited, and regards him as a reborn parent. As for the need to say that there is no need to say much about transporting arms to the front-line army, many ordinary people have to help Yang Qingtian first if they don't do work in the fields, and the appearance of these front-line armies has completely solved the problem of Li Yuncong's ammunition supply, and his position is full of shells.
Except for one regiment of the first division, almost all of them are now gathered under the city of Fuzhou, hundreds of cannons are lined up, countless shells in the roar of the muzzle of the cannon smashed into the head of Fuzhou with a roar that broke through the air, the fire of the explosion completely flooded the small city, and the troops attacking the city under the cover of artillery fire launched a charge again, and the general soldiers who defended the city at this time still had the heart to give Deshou a promise that the city was in the city, and the city was dead.
However, the general of the Anhui training army who came to help was quite calm, while drinking to prevent the escape of those green battalion soldiers, while directing those who did not run to shoot outside the city, but unfortunately he also looked too highly at those green battalions who had not fought for many years, these guys who were often beaten back by bandits on weekdays, many of them didn't even know how to use the new rifles in their hands, how could they have seen the power of the new artillery, not to mention the high-explosive shells loaded with antimony and antimony?
You must know that Li Yuncong's current firepower projection can be mixed up when he got World War II, and even the number of artillery is not inferior to that of the great powers, not to mention that in this era, the siege troops are still more than a mile away from the city wall, and those green battalions are almost gone, leaving more than 500 people from the 1,000 Anhui Lianjun and Deshou Fubiao, even if they are hit by the cannonballs and bullets on the opposite side, they can't raise their heads at all.
However, this time Li Yuncong didn't pile up zha medicine, it was rare to have such an opportunity to train troops, and he couldn't let them always fight that kind of battle without difficulty, so this time he asked his subordinates to climb the city with ladders, and tens of thousands of soldiers carried more than 100 ladders to the moat quickly, and the river could not flow past the waist in the late autumn season, but at this time they encountered a certain amount of resistance, because they were afraid of accidental injury, so the density of the shelling began to weaken, and the remnants of more than 1,000 defenders on the city wall began to tremble and poke their heads out and began to shoot below, at such a close distance, even if their marksmanship is poor, it is inevitable that they will be hit.
But immediately after that, the brawklusters were beaten into a sieve with machine guns and rifles by the soldiers under the city, and the soldiers who had crossed the moat soon set up the ladder on the wall, and then began to climb up like ants that had found sugar cubes. (To be continued......)