More than ten miles west of Akashigawa Port, shells are splashing countless sand around the beachhead, the smoke of gunpowder is blending with the dry air, and the blood is adding color and atmosphere to the winter earth—the atmosphere of hell.

Major Li Wei, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment, led two signal soldiers to drill around the positions of the 1st and 2nd companies to cheer up the officers and men. From time to time, enemy shells exploded not far from him, and the shock wave robbed him of his military cap, and the sand covered his skin and hair, but he was so lucky that he was only slashed in his left ear by a shrapnel, and two of his communications soldiers were patronized by death and fell between the craters of different shades.

"Fuck! We've been tricked, and we're leaving the mountain! Li Wei shouted as hard as he could against the ear of Zhong Tian, the commander of the company, and the Makqin machine gun roared three steps away from them, and Li Wei felt his eardrums swell in a panic.

Zhong Tian responded in a similar voice: "Maybe the regiment leader, they are already trapped in the city!" Our losses are getting bigger and bigger, and I am afraid that we will not be able to withstand it without reinforcements! ”

"What's going on with you!"

"Thirteen killed, twenty-one wounded, there are not enough machine gun bullets!"

"One more top, I just saw a ship docked!"

"They should have arrived!"

"We're here!" A Janissary lieutenant colonel in black clothes and black hat grabbed the shoulders of the two and shook them.

"Captain Lei! You've finally arrived! Li Wei recognized the person who came as Lei Yuming, the commander of the First Regiment of the Praetorian Guard, and stretched out his hand to greet him—of course, he was still half-crouching in the narrow improvised trench at this time.

Lei Yuming shook hands with Li Wei: "You have worked hard, by the way, why are there so few of you, where did Captain Shen go?" How can I not find his regimental headquarters on the beachhead? ”

Li Wei glanced at Zhong Tian, bowed his head and said, "Commander Shen listened to the advice of several of our battalion commanders and led the main force to attack Akashigawa Port. Less than an hour after he left, the enemy launched a fierce attack on us, fortunately supported by three new mortars and three mountain guns left by Regiment Commander Shen, plus the naval artillery bombardment was called by signal flares, and the position was finally held, but the losses were also very large. The position of the third company was concentrated by the enemy because it was located on the main road leading to Akashigawa Port, and now it has lost contact with signal flares, and it is impossible to see from the telescope that there are any living ...... on the position."

Lei Yuming immediately raised his binoculars to look at the position of the three companies pointed out by Li Wei, and sure enough, no one was moving, and a group of enemy infantry was crossing the artillery blockade line and rushing towards the position.

"Not good! The triple position is dangerous! Don't move, I'll send two companies right now to keep the enemy at bay, communicator! ”

Lei Yu called the correspondent, briefly explained, and then turned to Li Wei: "You wait for a while, my people will come up - hey, how did you regiment commander do it, in order to grab the credit, Commander Ding doesn't care about the tasks assigned by him, I think this time he is going to eat the big guy!" ”

Li Wei's head hung even more: "It's all because we are too simple-minded and haven't seen through the enemy's schemes...... Whether our regiment leader's life can be saved this time is a problem, let alone what kind of guy he will suffer when he goes back. ”

Lei Yuming snorted: "What kind of mind is too simple, you don't take Commander Ding in your eyes at all, this Shen Xingyi is also really, how do you usually teach your subordinates ......?"

Suddenly, "Boom! After the smoke faded, Lei Yuming dusted off the newly changed tweed military uniform before boarding the ship, and looked up to see the Makqin machine gun, some fluid mixed with white brain pulp and bright red blood was slowly flowing down the back of the machine gunner's head.

"Bad luck!" Lei Yuming frowned, jumped up and ran down the position, staggering shoulder-to-shoulder with the infantry who were climbing up the position.

"Captain!" Liu Xuedong, a staff officer of the regiment headquarters, came to the regiment commander's side, "The first and second companies of the first battalion are heading to the positions of the third company of the marines, the fourth and fifth companies of the second battalion are taking over the positions of the first and second companies of the marines, the artillery company and the machine gun company are being deployed, one machine gun of the machine gun company has fallen into the sea, and the remaining two machine guns are deployed around the temporary regimental headquarters......

"Well, very good, you go to the beach with me and see how the third battalion is so grinding."

On the position of the third company of the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant Jiang Zhi was squatting in a half-man-deep trench with more than 70 soldiers who could still aim and discharge their guns, burying their heads under their arms and their ears close to the walls of the trenches, listening to the ever-increasing shouts and footsteps.

"Prepare ......"

As a veteran of more than a dozen vicious battles, Jiang Zhi has his own understanding of positional warfare, and in the face of the enemy's frantic artillery bombardment, he intends to solve the problem by going beyond the norms of infantry discipline and tactics.

"Upper bayonet ......"

Everyone put the bayonet into the groove under the muzzle, and a private who had just thickened the fluff on his mouth trembled a little, and he didn't load the bayonet well after several strokes, Jiang Zhi grabbed his rifle and bayonet, and loaded the bayonet in only two movements.

"Your name is Chu Tianshu, right?" Eji handed the gun back to him.

"Yes...... Company commander, I'm useless......" the private muttered.

"It's okay, the newcomers are like this, after this battle, you are like me, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"Yes......"

"Don't talk nonsense, listen to my orders, you're going to fight with the little devils......" Eji clenched the Mauser rifle in his hand - as a company commander, he still preferred to use rifles.

"Stand up and fire!"

More than seventy soldiers heard the order of the company commander, stood up almost at the same time, picked up their loaded rifles and pointed at a clear target ten paces away, quickly aimed and fired, and after a crisp and dense volley of guns, forty or fifty enemies fell to the ground in unison like leeks being scythe-cut, including a young officer armed with a saber.

Before the enemy behind him woke up, Jiang Zhi said "hidden", and the soldiers immediately squatted in the trench, and at the same time pulled the bolt, withdrew the shell, loaded the live ammunition, and completed the preparation for the second shot.

Before Jiang Zhi and his soldiers jumped up again, the officers and soldiers of the rebel follow-up troops finally woke up, and they screamed and launched a charge, this time they encountered not only the ultra-close salvo of the Mauser rifle, but also a sudden Makqin machine gun that fired wildly twenty or thirty meters away, and in the blink of an eye, another seventy or eighty people fell, and the remaining more than three hundred people did not flinch, still desperately rushed forward to kill.

Jiang Zhi used the blocking fire of the machine gun to make the troops complete the preparation for the third salvo, and when the third platoon of gun fire was over, he issued the order to "charge" at the right time.

At this time, someone on the other side had already stepped on the edge of the trench.

Eji always rushed to the front line - in fact, there was only one battle line in the entire position, and in the scuffle, his bayonet pierced into the chest of an enemy soldier and could not be pulled out, seeing that the other two enemy soldiers quickly surrounded him, he cleverly abandoned his rifle, pulled out his revolver and fired three shots in a row, knocking down the two idiots who wanted to take advantage of the chaos.

Jiang Zhi pulled out a rifle from the hand of a fallen soldier and continued to fight, in front of him was the enemy whose formation was constantly thinning, and in front of him was the flash of his own shell explosion and flying smoke clouds, and he couldn't see it in front of him, what color the sky was, he didn't have time to pay attention to it, the Grim Reaper wandering nearby was all he cared about.

"Wow!" A voice that he had heard only a few minutes ago attracted Jiang Zhi's attention, he smashed down an enemy soldier with his backhand with the butt of his gun, burst over, and knocked down a Japanese soldier who was pulling a bayonet from his own soldier's body, and quickly pulled the collar of his own soldier and dragged him into the trench, and a faint meteor trajectory crossed his consciousness: The little guy's name is Chu Tianshu, as long as he survives this time, the possibility of dying in the next battle will be much smaller......

"Rush!"

Jiang Zhi heard the shouts of his own people behind him, he saw the black-clothed Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers, saw the familiar red gold dragon battle flag and the unique Qinglong Tengyun regimental flag of the First Janissary Regiment, as well as the Makqin machine gun on the soldier's shoulder, and the Wuqi Mountain Cannon behind the buttocks of the war horse, all coming in his direction.

"Chu Tianshu, you won't die, we are all saved."

After Jiang Zhi finished speaking, he picked up his rifle and rushed into the enemy formation again, and in the distance, there was a low cry of 305 mm heavy artillery shells ravaging the ground.

The battle on the coast of Dasui ended with three consecutive battalion-level counterattacks of the First Janissary Regiment, the Japanese army did not even have a chance to turn into the defense, it was easily crushed like mung beans in a stone mill, and there were more than 2,000 Japanese corpses on the battlefield, of which only half were fully equipped regular troops, and most of the six old 57-7-mm mountain guns and four 75-mm mountain guns were destroyed, and the remaining two relatively intact 75-mm mountain guns were captured by the Qing army.

The 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment of the Qing Army suffered 72 killed and 136 wounded, while the 1st Janissary Regiment ordered his subordinates to immediately switch to the attack on Akaishigawa Port because of the regimental commander Lei Yuming, and did not have time to count the casualties.

"Praetorian Guard! Advance! Lei Yuming shouted such a slogan on horseback, his original intention was just to boost the morale of the little decline due to exhaustion, of course, he did not expect that this casual slogan would become one of the symbols of the Praetorian Guard on a par with the black military uniform and the red background gold dragon battle flag.

Led by the regimental detachment and the 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions, Lei Yuming spent about an hour rushing through the streets full of rebel soldiers and militia regiments, and joined the main force of the 1st Marine Regiment, which was almost depleted of ammunition.

"Thank you, Brother Lei, you are really in time for the rain!" Shen Xingyi, who had a bandage and a sling on his left arm, excitedly hugged Lei Yuming with one hand, and Lei Yuming said politely: "It's just a trivial matter, it's not enough to worry about", while scanning the city hall where Shen Xingyi was the regiment headquarters.

Less than three hours of fighting turned the European-style building almost into a haunted house: bullet holes in the walls were stained with blood, bullet casings coexisted with dead bodies on the floor, strange screams in the basement were intermittent, and most of the living were bloodstained and their faces were filthy, like zombies......

"Brother Shen, you have nothing to do, your arm ......" Lei Yuming put away his gaze and hurriedly greeted Shen Xingyi.

Shen Xingyi sighed: "I'm nothing, it's just one of my battalion commanders, and four company commanders died one after another, and I'm unwilling...... In addition, the enemy besieged us for nearly three hours, during which many group charges were repulsed, and I looked at the dead bodies piled up in front of the position, and knew that the other side would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and if my brother immediately urged the troops to drive us, he could win a great victory. ”

Lei Yuming said: "I don't need to be reminded by my brother, I will do the same, the mission of our regiment was originally to seize the Akashigawa Port with the 10th Regiment of the Praetorian Guard, please rest assured, I will definitely avenge the blood hatred of the heroic spirits under my brother!" ”

After a heavy artillery fire, the Janissaries climbed over the mountain of corpses and flowed across the sea of blood, slaughtering the wounded and remnants of the rebels who had the heart to resist but were unable to fight again, rushed to the port, and shot a long line of bullets from a two-story building, and in an instant twenty or thirty soldiers, including a company commander, were shot and fell to the ground.

"Fuck, pull the cannon over!" Thunderstorm roared angrily and shouted at the commander of the artillery company.

Six gunners stepped back and came up with a five-seven mountain gun.

"How can one door be enough! Pull everything you can find! ”

The nine mountain guns of the entire artillery company were concentrated, and there was also one captured earthen cannon.

"Put!" Lei Yuming waved his saber and gave the order himself.

A few seconds after the neat and shocking platoon bombardment, the earthen cannon, which was probably made in Japan's Warring States period, spat out a thick ball of eyes, and before its shells could be effective, the small wooden building had been completely shattered, and it was clear that no one had survived.

"Speed up the attack, and the resisters will kill them, no! Kill with weapons around you! ”

Thunderstorm's blood began to burn, and all the words that described horror could not describe his state, he blurred the location he was in, and he forgot the real time, he thought he was back two months ago, back to Seoul. Slaughter is due, cruelty is necessary, there is no need to think about anything else, killing is the only subject, let the flames of revenge burn reason, when a commander in command of more than a thousand people repeatedly indulges in it, the danger is getting closer and closer to him. Lei Yuming didn't notice this at all, his sanity was already glued to the heel of the cowhide boot, and he couldn't get it back for a while.

The port is in front of him, there is no more obstacles, Lei Yuming's brain has just cooled down a little from the excitement, and self-appreciation has come out again, he thinks of the merits of the war, and also thinks of the promotion and knighthood, and the future, as well as the fortune and rewards, but he didn't expect what kind of danger might be hidden in front of him.

A group of cavalry suddenly rushed out from the corner of the street, trampled on the horses, and the sabers flew, which suddenly dispersed the vanguard company of Lei Yuming's troops, killing dozens of officers and soldiers, provoking Lei Yuming's anger to rise again, and immediately ordered the heavy machine guns around him to fire at the enemy cavalry.

"But there are still people there......" the Heavy hesitated.

Thunderstorm scolded "Incompetent!" The enemy cavalry fell off their horses, but no one could guarantee that an amateur machine gunner could not only hit the enemy without accidentally injuring his own people when he was mixed with the enemy and the enemy, and Lei Yuming inevitably killed and injured more than a dozen of his own fighters.

"Regiment commander, you have hit your own people......" Li Xuedong, a staff officer of the regiment headquarters, reminded tremblingly, he felt the abnormality of the thunderstorm, but he didn't dare to say too much, he was afraid that the extra words would cause unnecessary trouble.

"Your own people? Damn, who told them not to get out of the way! Thunderstorm shouted hysterically, drew his saber and pointed forward: "Forward!" Rush forward for me, whoever is left behind will settle accounts with him! ”

The troops continued to move forward, and finally rushed to the dock, slaughtered the remaining enemies like animals, and then threw them into the sea, Lei Yuming looked at his battle results, and smiled, and that smile made Li Xuedong's heart tingle.

"Quick! Clear the port, the Allied ships have already departed and can no longer be delayed! ”

Lei Yuming shouted at his subordinates, his self-feeling was too good to be better, even more wonderful than after the victory in the second battle of neutralization, and even more excited than during the battle of Sui'an-Pingkang, he was ambitious and ambitious, as if fate had predestined his achievements, as if the world had recognized his greatness, although he was now only a regimental commander, although he was now on the battlefield, although a rifle was aimed at his head.

After a crisp sound, the thunderstorm shook its head and feet, and fell into the sea water by the pier, and the white water splashed off and landed, disappearing in an instant, leaving a small blister, and a gradually spreading red.

"The regimental commander has fallen into the water!"

"There are enemies shooting!"

"Over there, the second class will come with me!"

"Go and save the captain!"

"Xu Soul, you have a good water nature, you go down!"

"Yes!"

There was a lot of noise and chaos on the shore, the thunderstorm was still sinking, his consciousness was gone, only a lifeless body remained, his death did not bring much damage to the talented Imperial Army, however, he was indeed the first and last regimental commander to die in this war.

The phrase he had uttered about an hour or two before his death, "Janissaries, advance!" Although it was not very remarkable, because of his death itself, it radiated a unique brilliance, and was first appreciated by the commander of the Japanese Dispatch Army, Major General Ding Jieyun, and made into a banner that was often hung at the headquarters, and then was quoted by Chief of General Staff Liu Yun when he inspected the headquarters of the Fifth Janissary Division stationed in Korea, and finally became the iconic slogan of the Praetorian Guard's brave and good fighting - although this may not be the case.

No matter what kind of mentality Lei Yuming's subordinates held to give the funeral of the former regimental commander lying in the coffin, their First Janissary Regiment finally became famous all over the world, and Lei Yuming achieved his own honor and his troops.

In the Battle of Akaishigawa, 629 imperial officers and soldiers under Lieutenant Colonel Lei Yuming, commander of the 1st Janissary Regiment, and Major Liu Haiwen, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment, were laid to rest in a foreign land.

Of course, the significance of this battle was not only that, according to Ding Jieyun, starting with the Battle of Akaishishi, "we gained a foothold to attack the port of Kobe, which is the gateway to Osaka Castle, and Osaka Castle is the key point to control the Plain, and the Kanto Plain, where Tokyo is located, is not far from us." ”

On December 25, 1895, the allied forces attacked Kobe with an army of 48,000 men from the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Brigades of the Qing Army and the 4th, 5th, and 6th Detachments of the Rebel Army. The fierce battle lasted for three days, and the commander of the rebel Second Army, the commander of the Osaka Prefecture, the commander of the Osaka Prefecture, and the commander of the Second Division, Lieutenant General Kunimasa Yamaguchi, fearing that the coalition forces would land behind the Osaka flank, refused to send reinforcements to the Kobe defenders, and the final outcome of the Battle of Kobe was no longer in doubt.

However, the defenders of Kobe are still fighting, almost no one has surrendered, and these remnants of the old samurai, who have been poisoned too deeply, are destined to have no more than the beautiful death of their dreams like the withering of cherry blossoms.

On the Mt. Hafu position, which was holding the western gate of Kobe, Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Lie-ri, commander of the 10th Praetorian Guard, led his troops full of recruits, trying to create opportunities for his opponents to be honorable and loyal.

More than three months ago, Xiao Lieri's "Lion's Roar Regiment" was reduced by more than 80 percent in the "meat bomb offensive" launched by Major General Nogi Noshinori of the Japanese Army, and was forced to return to China to rest and recuperate, and a large number of reserve soldiers and a small number of military academy interns were replenished.

"Brethren! Conquer Tokyo for the Spring Festival! Rush me! ”

Xiao Lieri has a Qinglong Yanyue knife in his hand, and the tip of the knife is pointed directly at the enemy formation, if he adds a red rabbit BMW to his crotch, and a beautiful beard is born on his chin, it will really become the reincarnation of Guan Gong, and he will be angry with Qin Qiong.

If it weren't for the fact that the battle wounds he suffered in Zhonghe had not completely healed, Xiao Lieri really wanted to move forward with his sword and kill a few. At this time, an officer beside him who was also immortal, Major Su Sanling, the commander of the first battalion, also failed to personally lead the troops to rush and kill for the same reason, Su Sanling was wounded by swords and bullets on the battlefield, and returned to the army after only a month of recuperation after surgery, and began to train those recruits, he was also one of the four officers above the company who survived the bloody battle of Zhongzhong and the "Lion's Roar Regiment" (in addition to Xiao Lieri, one was the commander of Xiao Lieri's guard company, and the other was the commander of the baggage company).

"Battalion Commander Su, we two wounded soldiers can only spin around behind the buttocks of the brothers, it's really unpleasant!"

"Commander, there's still a chance, maybe our injuries will be almost healed when we fight Tokyo......"

"I hope so!"

Looking at his subordinates who were charging bravely, Xiao Lieri couldn't help but think of his friend Lei Yuming, who died in Akaishikawa ten days ago. The two had already made an appointment after the Battle of Akaishikawa to sail together in the Seto Inland Sea and have a heavy drink, but when Xiao Lieri arrived at the port, they saw that his friend's body had not dried up, and there was a bullet hole in his skull. In grief, Xiao Lieri picked up a can of soju and got drunk, and when he woke up, he was full of fighting spirit, and his mind was full of thoughts of killing the enemy.

"Brother Lei, Lao Tzu will no longer cut off a few heads with his own hands and put them on your grave, my surname Xiao is not a master!"

Xiao Lieri shouted in his heart, dragging his long knife and striding towards the enemy formation, the sparse shells fell within hundreds of meters around him, raising a few puffs of smoke and dust, blowing down several soldiers, and occasionally a few bullets flew in, hitting pine trees, mounds or human bodies, for him and Su Sanling, such a scene was pediatric at all.

"Xiao Lieri, stop!"

Someone was shouting from behind, Xiao Lieri knew that it was the brigade commander Colonel He Pengcheng who had come to interfere with him and was charging with injuries, so he pretended not to hear it and continued to move forward.

Next to him, Su Sanling reminded: "The brigade commander is calling you." ”

"Really? You heard me wrong. ”

Xiao Lieri didn't look back, he raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife above his head with one hand, and shouted: "Rush! Run fast! Whoever is left behind, Lao Tzu chops to death! ”

"Xiao Lieri, I'm He Pengcheng, you come back for me!" This time, the brigade commander's voice was very clear, and the guards around Xiao Lieri heard it.

"Regiment Commander, Brigade Commander He told you to go back," Captain Luo Kun, the commander ......of the guard company, leaned over to Xiao Lieri and whispered.

"I can't hear you!"

"Report to the Captain! Brigadier He, order you to go back! Luo Kun had no choice but to pull up his throat and scream wildly - who told him to stay in the "lion roar group".

"Oh, you run back and tell Brigadier He, my retreat now will affect the morale of the troops, and I'll see him when the battle is over."

"But ......"

"Go, do you want me to force you with a knife before you want to move?" Xiao Lieri shook the big knife in his hand, Luo Kun didn't dare to talk any more nonsense, and ran back alone.

In less than an hour, Xiao Lieri's troops captured the main position of Bofu Mountain, and most of the defending officers and soldiers were in different places, and hundreds of heads were piled up on the top of the mountain, stacked into a small tower, but it was more than terrifying, and the beauty was insufficient.

Brigadier He climbed to the top of the mountain angrily and called Xiao Lieri: "Commander Xiao, you can do it, you can not listen to the orders of your boss!" ”

"Brigade commander, don't worry, I couldn't get out just now...... Xiao Lieri greeted him honestly.

As soon as He Pengcheng saw the small tower made of skulls, he suddenly interrupted Xiao Lieri: "Commander Xiao, how many times has Commander Ding said that a soldier must have the cultivation of a soldier, and you can't do anything about beasts, where are your ears!" ”

Xiao Lieri was speechless for a while, and He Pengcheng snatched the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand and fell to the ground: "What era, you are still using this kind of big drama, you are an officer of the Praetorian Guard, not a bandit leader, Commander Zhong was transferred back to China to reflect because of this problem, do you also want to go back now?" If you want to, speak quickly, I guarantee that you will be able to leave by boat tonight, and you can still fight without the Second Janissary Brigade! ”

"Brigadier He, I'm impulsive......" Xiao Lieri tried to explain, but was gagged by his majestic boss: "Impulsive? How old are you? Am you as old as me? You stayed at Lu University for a short period of time, and you learned to come out on impulse? Fighting a war requires brains, and a commander who acts only by feeling will not have a future! Think about it! Before thinking clearly, your position was temporarily represented by Su Sanling, the commander of the first battalion! ”

"Sir, head Xiao, he ......" Su Sanling was about to defend Xiao Lieri, He Pengcheng had already turned around and left, and shook a sentence with his back to them: "Execute it immediately!" ”

Xiao Lieri watched He Pengcheng go down the mountain, and said to himself: "What can I do about this, suspension, is it that serious......

Luo Kun, the commander of the guard company, said: "Regiment commander, it seems that you have to write a letter of confession." ”

Xiao Lieri looked dazed: "Write a book? How do you write it? ”

"It's to make it clear to the brigade commander that I know what the mistake is, and promise not to make it next time, basically, that's it."

Su Sanling also came in: "Regiment commander, you hand in the confession letter, and I will intercede with you in front of the brigade commander, and the matter seems to be almost over." ”

Xiao Lieri thought for a while, climbed on Su Sanling's shoulder and said, "Battalion Commander Su, you can help me write, Lao Tzu hates writing the most." ”

Su Sanling's face was embarrassed: "Regiment commander, if the brigade commander sees that it is not your handwriting, it will be troublesome." ”

Xiao Lieri said: "You help me write it, I'll copy another copy, isn't that okay?" ”

"It's a good idea." Luo Kun echoed.

Su Sanling pondered for a few seconds before he reluctantly nodded: "Yes, I'll try......"

"Okay, it's okay, the people in the back have brought the food and eaten it with the brothers!" Xiao Lieri grabbed the two right-hand men and walked towards the trench with a big grin.

Two days later, Xiao Lieri still led his troops into Kobe City as the head of the regiment, and at the celebration banquet the next night, Xiao Lieri gathered the two brothers who were in trouble together and poured Brigade Commander He into the dark.

Xiao Lieri ...... You...... You take the opportunity to take revenge...... I...... I will not let it go...... Let you go......" He Pengcheng stammered out the last sentence, and finally plunged down according to the table.

Xiao Lieri held the wine jug and smiled: "Victory...... Victory is ours! Long live the Praetorian Guard! ”

"Long live the Praetorian Guard!" The Praetorian Guards, who were still awake, shouted in unison, and several officers of the rebel army who could speak Chinese also joined in.

History staggered into 1895 in the air of alcohol.