Chapter 33: The Osaka Winter War

In November of the 20th year of Guangxu, in January 1895, the Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Empire officially promulgated the "Imperial Land Acre Decree" and the "Six-year Plan for Land Reform" submitted by the cabinet, and the Imperial Advisory Council fell into chaos.

"The Cabinet's decision to carry out such a major reform without consultation with the Senate is a despicable act of deceiving the government and confusing the public. In particular, the members of the Kuomintang who led the cabinet left and right, hijacked the emperor with real power in their hands, excluded dissidents, and cleaned up foreign parties, which ran counter to what he claimed to be 'supporting the Son of Heaven and rejuvenating the people', and the intention of usurping rebellion can be seen! ”

Liang Qichao, vice president of the royalist party, who was wrapped in a robe and horse coat and covered with a melon skin hat, said.

Wang Yixi, vice president of the aristocratic association and Dejun Wang Yixi, who had a golden thread tied on his braids, also seized the opportunity to make a large number of special approvals: "The president of this party, Prince Wang Zhirui of Shunjun, is a member of the cabinet, but he doesn't know anything about this matter!" The top leaders of the party unanimously believed that the New Army headed by Liu Yun and the cabinet headed by Wen Yi had usurped power for a long time, and did not think of assisting the emperor and educating the people, but they did unrighteous things, arbitrarily dictatorial, and ignored thousands of good gentry and gentlemen, and only knew how to curry favor with the foolish and foolish people. The way of Confucius and Mencius is gone, and the national body can be preserved? If the national body of the Qing Dynasty is not guaranteed, even if the front line has frequent successes, it will be nothing more than the deeds of beasts and beasts, and the ugliness of Seoul is enough to learn from the words of this king! ”

Tan Sitong, a former non-party figure who had just become a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese People's Party three weeks ago, immediately stood up and retorted: "King Dejun's words are bad, King Shunjun is now the Minister of Culture and Education in the cabinet, but King Shunjun does not understand the mysteries of the new education system, and only learns Confucius and Mencius without asking about new learning, and is incompatible with most of his colleagues in the cabinet, so he often does not participate in cabinet meetings, nor does he serve on the board. The prince also said that the president of our party and the general of Wuwei Hou Liu did injustice, seized the land of the gentry and won the favor of the people, and first told the prince that the prince of Wuwei has never been military and does not care about political affairs, and what the prince said just now is unfounded and unfounded, and it seems that there is a suspicion of slander......"

"Fart! What is the identity of this king, you dare to say that I slander ......"

As soon as Yixi's words came out, he knew that he had violated the precepts of the Senior Council, so he hurriedly stopped, but he was heard clearly by the speaker, and immediately pronounced the verdict with a hammer: "His Royal Highness the noble councillor Dejun Wang Yixi, you have violated the eighth article of the precepts of the Senior Administrative Yuan - no foul words and defilements, according to the "Imperial Decree on the Management of the Senior Yuan" issued by the Emperor in the 19th year of Guangxu, please leave the meeting hall of the Senior Administrative Yuan now, and you will not return until dawn tomorrow." ”

"What, you're driving me away? I am the prince...... "Yi Xi is still playing tricks, two gendarmes have already run to him and stand still, if he does not get up from his seat within a minute after the gendarmes are established, the gendarmes have the right to use force to drag him away.

Even in order to preserve the dignity of the person, ordinary people will automatically leave the meeting hall, although Yixi is a prince, he had to get up obediently and walk away under the escort of two gendarmes.

"So, Speaker, can you continue what you just said?" Tan Sitong asked.

"Please continue." There was no emotion in the speaker's voice.

"Speaker Xie, then, I will continue the answer I just gave to His Royal Highness King Dejun. His Royal Highness the King of Dejun must have not carefully read the two documents of the "Imperial Decree on Acres of Land" and the "Six-Year Plan for Land Reform" to have such a big misunderstanding. The land reform plan was based on the emperor's consistent desire to enrich the country and strengthen the army, as well as the cabinet's general policy of realizing the industrialization of the empire, and did not intend to rob the rich to finance the people. The main points of the above two documents are briefly summarized below to set the record straight. ”

Tan Sitong casually straightened the collar of his suit, pulled his shoulder-length hair back, and then took out a stack of small pieces of paper from the small leather bag under the seat, put it in the palm of his hand and said: "The preamble of the Imperial Decree on Acres of Land points out that in the territory of our Celestial Empire today, land is gathering more and more, and tens of thousands of landlords of all sizes control most of the world's acres of land, while tens of millions to tens of thousands of civilians have no place to stand on it, and have to rent tenant landlords' fields to make a living. The landlords often exploited the tenant peasants with 5 to 70 percent of the real estate harvest, and also took advantage of the tenant farmers' inability to pay the rent to lend usury to make huge profits, resulting in the vast number of peasants being unable to turn over from their hardships, resulting in the forced good to become cowards, bandits and bandits, and the Taiping cult between Xianfeng and Tongzhi swept through the south of the Yangtze River, which was a training for waking up the world! However, the ancestral land of the landlord was the result of the hard work of the past generations, and it was not allowed to be seized without compensation, and it was feared that the government would set a bad example of misappropriation of private property. For this reason, the first cabinet of the empire, after consulting with the Holy Lord, decided to solve the problem with a system of redemption and a system of state loans......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ According to the six-year plan of land reform, under the leadership of the Imperial Land Reform Committee appointed by the emperor, the empire implemented state redemption of landlords' land that still occupied more than 100 mu after Guangxu cleared the fields in the 20th year, and the redemption was limited to the part exceeding 100 mu, and the land within 100 mu could still be retained. In addition, in areas with less than three acres per capita, the redemption line is lowered to thirty acres...... The redemption price is assessed in accordance with the Regulations on the Assessment of Agricultural Land promulgated in the 19th year of Guangxu...... Upon completion of the settlement formalities, the landlord is provided with a passbook which can be exchanged and transferred at any branch of the Imperial Commercial Bank, containing the entire amount of land paid by the State to him...... This has the advantage of reducing the issuance of banknotes in case the market price skyrockets......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ A part of the land transferred to state ownership will be included in the state farm system, and the majority of it will be distributed to landless and landless peasants for compensation...... The specific form of compensatory distribution is that the state transfers the ownership of the land to the landless and landless peasants, and the landed peasants bear a corresponding debt equal to the price of the land, which does not count interest, and is repaid by the landed peasants in installments. After the loan is repaid, the state will issue a land ownership certificate, and the farmer may sublease or subcontract the land, but the sale must be approved by the land management bureau at or above the county level...... In order to prevent the landlords from taking advantage of the peasants' difficulties in repaying their loans by means of usury or repaying loans on their behalf, they have also made a stipulation that once the land is distributed, it shall not be bought or sold for 10 years......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The state farms are owned by the Imperial Reclamation Company, which employs a group of agricultural workers on a voluntary basis to carry out modern agricultural production, and after a certain scale, it will be opened to a full joint-stock system, realize marketization and privatization, recover the redemption funds, and free the state from the burden of direct operation......"

Tan Sitong was talking eloquently there, and most of the aristocratic councillors were shaking their heads across from each other - they were either against it, and more they didn't understand, and the commoner councillors around him were half positive and half negative. Liang Qichao, the new mouthpiece of the royalist party, who had just come back from the Chinese People's Party two months ago, could not tolerate the fact that the guy who had no party and no roots could use the rules of the Senate to keep speaking (the regulations of the Senate stipulate that a member of the Senate can speak until he sits down, and no one has the right to prevent him from continuing to speak unless he violates the precepts of the Senate), he slowly got up and said to Tan Sitong in a calm tone: "Mr. Zhuangfei, can you allow a contemptible person to ask a question?" ”

Tan Sitong had heard of Liang Zhi's name earlier, and originally had the intention of joining the Chinese People's Party through Liang Zhi's recommendation, but Liang actually quit the party halfway, and his colleagues in his wish became opponents. ”

Liang Qichao said first: "Xie Lu Xie", then cleared his throat, and said in a low voice: "Sir, you can know that the gentry rely on it, the heirloom of the field ear, now a large purchase of land, so that there are bank deposits, but the interest generated by the bank is not enough to maintain health, only to sit and eat the mountain, the court move, will not end the gentry's life?" ”

Tan Sitong felt funny in his heart - how could this Mr. Liang spit out such unreasonable words - and said: "The way to get rich today is industrial and commercial shipping. The state buys the land of the gentry, just to give the gentry capital and opportunity, so that they can invest in the industrial and commercial industry, become rich, the country's income can also be greatly increased, the treasury is sufficient, you can raise elite soldiers, resist foreign captives, and protect the safety of the people, which is in line with the emperor's long-cherished wish of 'enriching the country and strengthening the army'. ”

Liang Qichao retorted: "The gentry have relied on the fields for a long time to make a living, and now they have collected the land and forced them to do another business. ”

According to the "Guangxu 20th Year Incentive Industrial and Commercial Regulations" promulgated in the middle of this year, those who invest in new light industrial factories will be exempted from half of the tax for the first year, and heavy industrial factories will be exempted from the first year's tax, and the export of industrial goods can be subsidized by the state tax rebate. In addition, in today's empire, there are many business schools, engineering colleges, foreign trade universities, and Jiaotong universities, and there is a steady stream of talents who are good at management, understand technology, and can be flexible. Even if there is an occasional deficit, the situation in the shopping mall is like a flood and insect pest, the rise and fall of the industry, the way of heaven, how strange! ”

Tan Sitong paused, and saw that Liang Qichao was still frowning and thinking, so he didn't wait for him to respond, and began to attack: "Ren Gong is so worried about the livelihood of the rich gentry, why doesn't he think about the livelihood of the hungry and cold tenant farmers? The gentry are only tens of thousands, but the tenant farmers are treated by tens of thousands, there is a saying in ancient times, the king is light and the people are important, and the general trend of the country today, which is more important, it can be seen with the clear eye, Mr. is so favoritism, is it because Mr. is the landlord of the gentry? ”

Liang Qichao was affected by this moment, but his face still did not change, and said slowly: "This is not true, the gentry are full of poetry and books, and they are well versed in the principles of governing the country, they are the pillars of the country and the model of the people, how can the country not think carefully for the gentry?" If the country has no good people, it is not a superior country, if the people have no Confucianism, they are not good citizens, if Confucianism does not have a gentry, it cannot survive forever, and if the gentry have no land, it is not easy to live. Moreover, if the small peasants are not educated, it will be difficult to repay the loans on time, and then the labor will become a disaster, the people of the world will eat the state treasury, and the country will bear thousands of debts to the gentry. ”

Before the words fell, some gentry and aristocratic parliamentarians hurriedly took the opportunity to coax.

"Well said!"

"What Ren Gong said is really what we say from the bottom of our hearts!"

"The cabinet usurped power, blackmailed the emperor, did not care about public opinion, acted arbitrarily, and integrated the military and the government, which is really rebellious!"

"Your Excellency!"

"Liu Yun is leaving!"

"The emperor is in power!"

"The collusion between the military and the government to imprison the emperor is really a great rebellion, we are willing to stand up and move forward, and the Qing monarch will tell the spirit of the first emperor to solve the country's difficulties!"

After a brief hesitation, most of the Chinese Democratic Party legislators began to fight back, and the meeting room immediately shouted loudly, pointing fingers at each other, spitting and spitting, and the battle of words became fierce.

"Quiet! Be quiet! The Speaker struck the hammer with his chin in his hand, and after the hundredth blow, he decided to let the gendarmes solve the problem.

Fifty gendarmes on duty rushed in with black and white wooden sticks, and dragged away a dozen deputies after a burst of head-and-face kicks, and the remaining deputies hurriedly ran back to their seats and sat down, and order was restored to the meeting.

In the auditorium above the side of the venue, a middle-aged man in a straight suit and short hair watched the live drama with relish, then turned to the two young people behind him and said, "Democracy takes time to cultivate, I'm right." ”

The young man with a mid-parted hair and a suit and tie and a dashing demeanor smiled: "Mr. Doctor, this is more enjoyable than watching a movie." ”

Another handsome young man with short hair and ears, a black coat and a breeches vest shook his head with a wry smile: "How long will our Ministry of Culture and Education have to work hard to prevent today's events from repeating itself......

The middle-aged man said: "There are people on the front line who shed blood for the country, and there are people in the Senior Council who shed blood for personal gain, which is good, because only a few people have been damaged, and the most terrible thing is that the heroes with huge energy have pushed the whole country into the Shura hell of killing each other in order to compete for more power and interests, and once a strong enemy invades, the people will suffer more, and the country is more likely to fall apart or become vassals." We are here precisely to prevent similar disasters from happening, to save our motherland from the predicament created by our predecessors, and to build a new country that is free, democratic, and strong. ”

Professor Wen ...... It's both of our dreams. The young man with short hair with his ears, the 26-year-old Vice-Minister of Culture and Education of the Empire, Luo Sulan, said softly.

The middle-aged man, Wen Yi, the Vice Minister of the Imperial Prime Minister, suddenly showed a sinister smile: "It's become the two of you, the first time...... It's been going fast lately. ”

"What do you say......" The faces of the two young men flushed at the same time.

Wen Yi smiled and shook his head: "I didn't say anything, what about the facts...... Zhigao, Xiao Luo, in the past four years, I have treated you like slaves, almost depriving you of all your personal space, you must have a lot of resentment against me in your hearts, say it, it doesn't matter, in fact, I also have a sense of guilt in my heart, you said, I am more relaxed. ”

Zhang Zhigao, the 27-year-old Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Imperial Empire, shook his head slightly: "Professor Wen, when we swore allegiance to Captain Liu, we were ready to give up everything and die for our ideals, so that we have a job to do, which is the greatest care for us, you don't have to worry about us, we are still young, and there is still time to ......"

"Haven't you decided when you're going to get married?"

Wen Yi suddenly came out with this sentence, which caught Zhang Zhigao off guard, and blurted out: "I will ...... after the war is over."

Luo Sulan pulled him the side.

"While you're still young, enjoy a little life, age is not forgiving, and the missed time will never come back."

Wen Yi's face flashed with a sweet smile that made Zhang Zhigao feel familiar.

"It's been more than a year since Xiao Luo recovered his identity, and he's still playing with men and women, when will I change my girl's clothes and adjust the atmosphere of the cabinet."

Luo Sulan stuck out her tongue: "I'm used to it, I don't want to change it, and I don't have time to go shopping now, I don't know where to wear clothes suitable for me - you can't let me wear a cheongsam or a Western dress to a cabinet meeting, Premier Weng may have a heart attack when he sees it......"

This time, Zhang Zhigao talked about her: "What do you mean, curse people for heart disease for no reason......"

"Won't I just use an analogy, so excited...... It's like he's someone you......"

"I'm reminding you to be careful when you speak......"

"I don't want you to take care of it, remember, we are equal, we are both cabinet ministers and deputy ministers, OK?"

β€œEmbrasemoi。”

"I don't understand what bird language is!"

Wen Yi probed over: "Zhigao speaks French, let you kisshim." ”

"Nasty, dead cockroach, kill you......"

"Hey, there's a lot of people here......"

"Please be quiet, the meeting is resumed." A gendarme walked up to the trio.

"I'm sorry to ......" Wen Yi nodded at the gendarmes, turned around and said, "Do you still want to listen?" Our new council fighter, Mr. Tan, has begun to fight again. ”

Luo Sulan replied in a low voice: "No need, you also saw it just now, even if there is a fight, it is our Chinese Nationalists who have the upper hand, Sun Yat-sen's Liberal Party has been hiding, and those nobles are not enough to fight ...... at all."

Zhang Zhigao turned his head to the side: "Idiot logic." ”

A second later, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire was violently beaten for three seconds by the Vice-Minister of Culture and Education of the Empire with the strength of an undead ant.

While the members of the Imperial Council of Ministers were speaking fast and showing off the mysteries of Chinese martial arts in the warm chamber, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Imperial Janissaries were braving the bitter cold wind to dance with death for a city on the Japanese island of Honshu.

"General, the small river in front is the Kanzaki River, and the one that is wider to the south is the Yodo River, and after crossing the Yodo River, Osaka is basically no danger to defend, but you still have to be prepared for fierce street fighting......"

Major General Ding Jieyun, commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces and commander of the Japanese Dispatch Force of the Qing Empire, pointed out the terrain of northern Osaka, where they were located on the top of Mt. Chiriyama, ten miles northeast of the Yodo River, where the high-rise wooden houses and factory docks in Osaka Castle could be seen, and the 10th Praetorian Regiment had seized this important vantage point two days earlier at the cost of 63 dead and 98 wounded.

After the coalition forces captured the port of Kobe, the gateway to Osaka Bay, at the end of 1894, they attacked Osaka non-stop, and the rebel commander of Osaka Prefecture, Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Kunimasa, failed to ask for help from Tokyo, so he led his main force, the Second Division, to withdraw to Gifu, more than 300 miles northwest of Osaka, on the one hand, to avoid the battle and protect himself, and on the other hand, to force the military government to send troops to support.

As a result, the defenders of Osaka were left with only more than 20,000 militia groups organized by the militia organization Kamikaze and a provisional 70th Wing composed of local reserves in Osakaβ€”a miscellaneous force of less than 30,000 men in total, with more than 60 large and small artillery pieces, including native artillery from the Warring States period, and thousands of foreign guns and earthen muskets. By contrast, by January 10, 1895, the Allied forces had only used 73,000 troops for the siege of Osaka Castle in two Praetorian Divisions and four rebel detachments, with 280 cannons of 75 mm or more, and the infantry cavalry all used modern firearms. In addition, a Praetorian Brigade and three rebel detachments totaling 34,000 men were deployed on the Nara and Kyoto lines west and north of Osaka to monitor enemy forces in the direction of Gifu.

"In today's Osaka, there are actually cities but no cities." Qingtian said to Ding Jieyun.

"Oh?"

"Does the general know about the Osaka Winter War?"

"Please."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Three hundred and eighty years ago, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general of the expedition, raised 200,000 troops to attack the castle of Hideyoshi in order to completely eradicate Toyotomi Hideyoshi's widow Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At that time, Taiko had been dead for 16 years, and the daimyo of the powerful feudal clans saw that Ieyasu was powerful, and no one sent troops to Osaka to help in the war. A group of loyal and righteous wanderers came from all over the world, led by strong heroes such as Sanada Yukimura and Goto Matabei, and gathered 100,000 people in a few months to guard the castle for Hideyori......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ In December of that year, Ieyasu led his army to approach Osaka Castle, but he was not in a hurry to attack the fortification, but ordered his subordinates to build more than ten earthen castles around Osaka Castle to show their determination to fight for a long time; He also ordered Ina Tadamasa, who was good at civil engineering, to lead his troops to block the water of the Yodo River and the Tenman River with earthen bags and thatch, so that they could divert the flow of water and cut off the water source of the moat outside Osaka Castle; He also ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels and deliberately pile up the newly dug earth into a hill for the people of the city to see. These sieges but not attacks terrified the defenders, and they had to accept the terms of peace: tear down the outer walls, fill in the moats, and swear allegiance to Ieyasu and Hidetada. In exchange, Ieyasu withdrew the besieging forces. After that, Ieyasu's army demolished the wall and filled in the trenches, and in two nights turned Osaka Castle into a naked city without cover, and Ieyasu led the army back. The siege of Osaka Castle was in the same winter as it is today, and it was known as the 'Osaka Winter Array'. ”

Ding Jieyun listened carefully to what Qing Tian said, as if he had thought of something, and while sorting out his thoughts, he asked Qing Tian again: "What happened later?" Ieyasu won't let go of the enemy who will be destroyed. ”

Kiyota nodded: "Exactly, after Ieyasu achieved the goal of weakening the defense of Osaka City, he recuperated the army and waited for the opportunity. The following year, a detailed report was made that the ronin in Osaka Castle refused to accept the terms and conditions and restored the moat on their own, and Ieyasu used this as an excuse to reinstate the armies of all walks of life to attack Osaka again. Osaka Castle lost its barrier, Ieyasu's army was progressing smoothly, and Sanada and the others fought to the death to no avail. After three days of fierce fighting, Hideyori lost his troops and fled to the castle tower of the inner castle, where he set fire to his mother and young son. The defenders of the city scattered and fled, most of them were captured, and all of them were beheaded for public display. Ieyasu ordered people to build 18 pergolas from Kyoto to Fushimi, and more than 1,000 pergolas were placed in each shed...... This is the 'Osaka Summer Array.' Since then, the Tokugawa family has no rival and has ruled the world for more than 300 years. ”

After Qingtian's Osaka story was told, Ding Jieyun's idea had also taken shape, and he decided to discuss it with Wu Beinian, the chief of staff, so he said to Qingtian: "Osaka still has such a history, you have worked hard, go back and rest first." ”

Qing Tian bowed and put on a white-edged black military hat: "Then, Your Excellency General, retire below." ”

Ding Jieyun walked to Qingtian, and hurriedly found Wu Beinian lying in front of the map in a daze at the other end of the mountain.

"What are you busy with?" Ding Jieyun asked.

"Nothing." Wu Beinian said.

"I have an idea."

"Oh?" Wu Beinian's reaction was relatively cold - this was not unexpected by Ding Jieyun.

"Osaka now has a city but no city, and the outer defense is not strong, but the defenders can completely rely on street fighting to consume our army's strength, and the results of the battle of Akaishi River show that our army is not well prepared for street fighting, which can easily lead to heavy casualties......"

Wu Beinian interjected: "In war, people will always die." ”

"If one less Chinese can die, then it's worth the effort." Ding Jieyun said.

"I know it, go on." Wu Beinian said.

Ding Jieyun clicked on the map: "The second division of the rebel army went to Gifu, and the distance between it and Tokyo was shortened to 250 kilometers, as long as Dashanyan is willing, it is completely possible to send a regular division and at least 30,000 militia regiments to Gifu by rail within three days, and a decisive battle of the large army will be inevitable." I feared that in the course of the attack on Osaka, our Praetorian Guard headquarters would suffer many unnecessary losses, and the results achieved would be no more than 30,000 militias. It is better for the rebel army to undertake this task, and liberate the elite Janissaries as the main force of the field corps......"

Wu Beinian immediately raised a question: "If the rebel army is allowed to attack the cities of their own country alone, I am afraid that they will delay for time." We urgently need to acquire Osaka, a key point of communication, as a forward base, and any delay will put pressure on logistics and affect future operations. ”

"Don't worry, civil wars are always the most tragic, and Japanese people will not be more rational in killing Japanese than killing each other in other countries." Ding Jieyun smiled slightly, picked up the pencil on the table and compared it on the map: "You see, I plan to transfer the two divisions of the Praetorian Guard around Osaka and the Central Army to the north of Kyoto, go north along the north of the Biwa Lake, enter the Mino Plain to find and destroy the enemy's second division, or fight a decisive battle with the enemy's main army, and solve the problem in one battle!" ”

"What about Osaka?"

"Mobilize the mobile corps of the rebel army and the Kyushu and Shikoku armies, totaling about 60,000 people, to besiege Osaka, and transfer another Praetorian Division to Kyoto as the general reserve of the whole army, and the other troops are stationed in Shikoku and Kyushu to prevent the foreign powers from taking advantage of the fire to loot."

Wu Beinian thought carefully for a few seconds and asked a new question: "The commanders of the Kyushu and Shiguo Legions have just surrendered to them, and I don't think it's appropriate to hand over the rear of our army's main force to them. ”

Ding Jieyun's answer was very simple: "If they are willing to surrender at the beginning of the war, they will never betray when the general trend is about to occur." ”

"It's still going to take a risk."

"There's a danger of choking to death when eating."

Wu Beinian pondered for a few seconds: "You plan to complete the new deployment in a few days." ”

"Three days," Ding Jieyun raised the pencil in his hand, "within three days, a cluster directly under the command under my direct control will be formed, under the jurisdiction of the first and second divisions of the Praetorian Guard and the Central Army of the Rebellion, about 86,000 people; The Osaka Cluster headed by Lieutenant General Fukuguchi Senta, commander of the Kyushu Army of the Rebel Army, was formed, and the Mobile Corps of the Rebel Army, the Kyushu Army and the Shikoku Army were under its jurisdiction, with 60,000 people; The 3rd Praetorian Division strengthened the 3rd Reserve Brigade with a total of 35,000 men to move to the Kyoto area, maintained the connection between the Osaka cluster and the cluster directly under the headquarters, and stood by as the general reserve of the whole army; The 1st Infantry Division and the 1st and 2nd Brigades were stationed in Shikoku to support the Osaka cluster at any time; The 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division and other units of the Rebel Army were stationed in various important places in Kyushu, and that's all. ”

"Three days? It's hard to do it all. ”

"So I'm looking for you to be my chief of staff, go and get the staff officers, and we'll do it together."

"Good!" Wu Beinian never doubted his ability.