On July 28, 1884, in Kyushu, Japan, two divisions of the Japanese government army and the main force of the rebel "Restoration Army" fought a decisive battle here, with a total strength of more than 60,000 on both sides, in a slippery and muddy hilly area, frantically fighting each other.

A few days ago, Kodama Gentaro concentrated three divisions and regiments to encircle and suppress the "Restoration Army" on Kyushu Island, and the rebel leaders such as Kataoka Kenyoshi, Eto Shinpei, and Shima Yoshiyoshi had no choice but to abandon the Saga base area and attempt to withdraw the entire army to the mountainous areas in southern Kyushu to hold on.

However, Gentaro Kodama judged his intentions and led the 12th and 14th Divisions to intercept the rebels at Kurume, and the two sides engaged in a duel to the death.

The mountain spring flows, the stream is rugged, the bamboo forest is verdant, it was a quiet and beautiful scenery, but now it is a hellish killing battlefield like a nose, the stumps and dead bodies are all over the mountains and forests, and the bubbling down is no longer a clear spring, but endless blood water!

The fierce battle lasted for a long time, no one surrendered, no one begged for mercy, until Kataoka Kenyoshi died in a hard battle, and Shima Yoshiyong was seriously wounded, telling Eto Shinpei to stop resisting, "The blood of the Japanese has been shed enough."

The battle was over, and the people who were alive, whether rebels or government troops, laid down their arms and embraced. They are all compatriots of the Yamato nation, in the end, weishenme wants to kill each other like this?

In the Battle of Kurume, after paying the price of more than 2,000 deaths, the government army finally completely defeated the "Restoration Army", thus basically quelling the rebellion in southern Japan.

On August 1, Gentaro Kodama led the main force of 50,000 government troops and began to sail north, preparing to attack the "Heavenly Way Army" near Tokyo.

At this time, there was a rebellion within the Japanese Self-Defense Fleet.

First of all, due to the long-term shortage of material supplies, the food standards of the Japanese Navy have also been greatly affected, and the officers and men have not eaten white rice for a long time, and they eat either wheat rice or small rice every day, and from three meals a day, to two meals a day, zuihou has become only one meal at dusk. You must know that many children from poor peasant families came to serve in the army because they could eat white rice, so dissatisfaction continued to accumulate.

But the Japanese military is also very helpless, Japan's main rice-producing areas of Fukushima, Kesennuma, Akita, Sendai and other places are in the northeast, because Kodama Gentaro's strategy is to abandon the northeast, resulting in all the rice-producing areas are controlled by the "free army". Naturally, the Japanese government could not supply enough rice, and the main force of the current civil war was the Japanese army, and the navy was only auxiliary liliang, so a small amount of rice was also given priority to the army, which made the army and navy, which were already full of contradictions, even more resentful.

Second, some naval officers and men were also influenced by liberal or constitutional ideas, believing that it was necessary to overthrow the emperor's centralized power in order to save the country, and they also took advantage of everyone's discontent to fan the flames and fuel the flames.

Finally, various contradictions erupted on August 2.

On this day, the battleships Kotetsu and Ryusho departed from Osaka to escort the transport ship "Toyo Maru" to the port of Shinagawa in Tokyo. No sooner had the fleet sailed out of the Kii Waterway in the Seto Inland Sea than news spread aboard the Kotetsu that the Toyo Maru was loaded with rice and various spices and was ready to supply the 12th Division guarding Tokyo.

For a while, the hungry soldiers, full of thirst for food and jealousy of the army, rushed to tell each other: "Why can the army eat rice, but we can't!?" "The liberals took the opportunity to stir up a stir and the situation spread rapidly.

When the fleet sailed to Ise Bay, the Kotetsu finally got out of control, and the officers and men tied up the captain Shigeo Kakuha, who was trying to stop him, and pushed the first mate Shibaya Hachi to stop the Toyo Maru. And after the Longxiang understood what had happened, the officers and soldiers actually felt the same way and joined the ranks of the rebellion.

At first, the second ship only asked for a few buckets of rice, but Gongchai Yahachi thought about it carefully, and the robbery of military rice was a rebellion, and he was the leader of the rebellion, and he would definitely die afterwards, so he desperately encouraged everyone to simply hijack Toyomaru and defect directly to Southeast Asia.

At this time, four ships, including Chiyodagata, Fengxiang, Manzhu, and Chizu, completed their mission and returned home, and accidentally bumped into this rebellion, and an artillery battle immediately broke out between the two sides.

In the fierce battle, Chiyoda also underwent drastic changes, suddenly turned the muzzle of the gun, and joined the ranks of the rebellion. After a confrontation, the gunboat Manzhu was sunk.

Seeing that something was wrong, it happened that Heihachiro Togo commanded the Naniwa to rush to hear the news. With the super strength of the Naniwa, Togo quickly took control of the situation and sank Chiyo Tangata in a matter of moments. The Ryuchō and the Kotetsu had no choice but to flee to the southeast and southwest respectively, and Heihachiro Togo ordered to split up in pursuit.

As a wooden battleship, the Kotetsu was covered with wrought iron armor 90 to 140 mm thick, which can be said to be the first ironclad ship in the history of the Asian navy, but this kind of battleship from decades ago, how is it the opponent of the Naniwa, its wrought iron armor was quickly penetrated by the Naniwa's 260mm heavy gun.

The Kotetsu Zuihou refused to surrender and was sunk, while the gunboat Longxiang on the other side managed to escape the pursuit of Fengxiang and Qianzhu and threw themselves into the vast sea. This rebel ship, which narrowly escaped by chance, has become a new focal point in Sino-Japanese relations in the future.

The naval civil unrest was called the "Rice Rebellion", which led to the sinking of three ships and the defection of one, which made the already thin Japanese navy even worse.

At the beginning of August, Kodama Gentaro concentrated the strength of four divisions and began to suppress and appease the "Heavenly Way Army" around Tokyo.

The Heavenly Dao Army was huge, numbering hundreds of thousands, and the government army had limited strength and could not blindly attack, so Kodama Yuan could only use his idea of "Qingjun side" to constantly divide and disintegrate.

At the same time, Ito Hirobumi also formally implemented political reforms to ease the contradictions between the government and the people.

On August 5, the Japanese government promulgated the Imperial Constitution, defined the government structure, and formally implemented the responsible cabinet system, with Ito Hirobumi as the first prime minister, and convened the Diet at the same time to elect members. This shows the checks and balances between the executive and legislative powers.

In particular, the Basic Law stipulates that the Emperor is the absolute leader, with complete control over the executive, foreign policy, church affairs, and military force, and defines the political hierarchy of the Diet, with half of the members of the Diet elected and the other half appointed by the Cabinet.

The introduction of political reforms caused a great deal of repercussions in Japan, with intellectuals such as Yukichi Fukuzawa and the relatively moderate "Heavenly Way Army" believing that the emperor's government had shown goodwill and that there was hope for the country.

However, the "Free Army" of the North, which was more determined to fight, considered the so-called reforms to be outright deception. Because the Diet was elected, it was impossible for the Diet to check the power of the emperor, and the judiciary was not independent, proving that the emperor was not prepared to be supervised. In the words of Uda Seiichi, "The emperor legitimized the illegal dictatorship." ＂

In any case, the constitutional reform had already affected the war situation, some units under the "Tiandao Army" surrendered to the government army one after another, and some hardliners had to flee to the north, and it was only a matter of time before the "Tiandao Army" was annihilated.

At this time, the Tibetan campaign had also reached a critical moment.

The British consul in Lhasa reported to the country: "The people of Lhasa are panicked and frightened. People fled in all directions, some carrying their belongings and others dragging useful items...... The cattle pens and stables on the street are no longer cared for...... ＂

The Kashag regime had no choice but to order Rawang Dorjee to defend Qamdo while asking Tashi Daji to tell Zhang Yinheng that the Kashag would accept all conditions, as long as there was a temporary ceasefire first, and Zhang Yinheng quickly made a report to Beijing.

At first, Ding Yuntong only asked for military and diplomatic takeover and "peaceful occupation", but now that the situation has changed, the conditions will naturally change, not only foreign affairs, but also internal affairs, and even more so to completely eradicate the Tibetan armed forces, he issued an order to the front:

"Continue the offensive until Lhasa is captured by force!"

On August 6, the Three Guards launched a general assault on Qamdo, and under the cover of artillery, the soldiers rushed into the city. The shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth, echoing on the snow-capped mountains and rivers. The Tibetan army, which had already lost its fighting spirit, was crushed and rushed into a wolf.

In less than three hours, thousands of Tibetan troops were annihilated, and Rawang Dorjee retreated with 2,000 remnants to Qiangbaling Monastery, a stronghold in Zuihou.

Nie Shicheng sent the officer Ye Chenglin as an envoy to persuade him to surrender, but the stubborn Lawang Dorjee actually dismembered Ye Chenglin and hung his head on the flagpole! Poor Ye Chenglin was born in the Black Flag Army, but today he died in Tibet.

In anger, Nie Shicheng ordered all the cannons to be concentrated and bombarded the Qiangbalin Temple fiercely, almost flattening the entire temple.

Qiangbalin Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty, is the first holy temple of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, there are hundreds of various kinds of Buddha statues and monk statues in the scripture hall, thousands of square meters of murals and numerous thangka paintings, condensed the brainchild of countless artists in the past dynasties, it can be said that it is a priceless religious cultural relics and monuments, zuihou was destroyed in the war.

The heavy artillery fire killed more than 300 people, and Rawang Dorjee really couldn't hold on, so he ordered someone to hang out the white flag, but Nie Shicheng ignored it and ordered to continue the shelling.

Ravan Dorjee sent officers to beg for mercy, and Nie Shicheng demanded that the person who ordered the killing of the messenger must be handed over. This request caused internal strife in the Tibetan army, and after a period of chaos, Kalun Rawang Dorjee and several officers were kidnapped and sent out, and Nie Shicheng ordered all these people to be cut on the spot.

After avenging Ye Chenglin, Nie Shicheng accepted the surrender of the Tibetan army. In the entire Qamdo campaign, a total of 3,300 Tibetan troops were killed and more than 7,000 were captured, and the main force of the Dalai clique's armed Liliang was completely annihilated.

As soon as Qamdo was down, the three-way guards immediately drove straight into Lhasa, the center of Tibet.

Seeing that the general trend had turned, the regent Dacha and Kalun Lalu Ishirob Wangqu and others took out a large gold brick, 50 gold coins, two gold crabs, a golden bell, and a large number of gold coins from the vault of the Potala Palace, and took the young 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso hostage, and fled to the Yadong Port on the southern border of Tibet.

Another Kalun Lobsang Yundan, however, refused to flee his homeland and stayed in Lhasa.

In the first battle of Qamdo, Tibet is in full swing!