At the same time that the Foreign Legion began to withdraw from Europe, the troops who had gathered in Europe because of the World War also began to return to their places of origin.
Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Indians, etc. all began to gradually withdraw their troops.
Of course, this also includes the Japanese Sixth Division.
The Sixth Division is still a reorganized division.
In the battle a few months ago, the Sixth Division suffered heavy casualties due to the arrogance of Genjiro Akashi, the commander of the Sixth Division.
Compared with European countries whose war potential has been drained, Japan's war potential is still sufficient.
As a result, the vacancies in the Sixth Division were quickly filled, and the scale was even greater than before.
In World War I, many new weapons were used on the battlefield for the first time, including poison gas aircraft, tanks, etc. Because of the emergence of these new weapons, the war was completely different from the past, and the Japanese could certainly feel it.
Japan is indeed a nation that is good at learning. In order to learn European advanced combat methods and concepts more quickly, a large part of the supplementary personnel sent by Japan to the Sixth Division are officers and senior non-commissioned officers. They want to take advantage of the world war.
opportunity to fully learn more and more advanced knowledge.
Of course, after these soldiers arrived in Europe, Akashi Genjiro did not participate in any small-scale wars on the pretext that they had not yet completed their training. They were just observing and learning, and they would no longer participate in it.
This has also caused many negative effects. For example, the Japanese now leave the impression on the British that they are greedy, cowardly, and extremely lustful.
It seems like the Japanese left the Foreign Legion just because they were lustful.
Because of the existence of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the British sheltered the Japanese and at the same time accepted the Japanese.
However, the Japanese did not show fear of death and continued to fight as they did during the Russo-Japanese War. Instead, they always used various reasons to shirk and refused to set foot on the battlefield until the end of the world war.
Of course, after the end of the world war, the Japanese also regarded themselves as victors. While they enjoyed all kinds of extraordinary treatment, the lust in their hearts began to stir again.
Just a few days ago, three Japanese soldiers broke into a Belgian home, robbed the family's belongings, and raped the hostess and her underage child.
Not even the children are spared
What a bunch of beasts
In Britain and Belgium, demonstrations against the Japanese began immediately.
The Belgians demanded that the Japanese be driven out of Belgium and that the parties involved must be punished.
The British demanded the dissolution of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and the expulsion of the Japanese from Europe.
Conservative British people have never been able to understand why Britain would form an alliance with such a despicable and shameless country, because that would affect Britain's reputation.
As for national interests, no one pays attention to this issue.
The British only noticed that the Japanese made mistakes, so they asked the British government to make changes to deal with these mistakes. They did not consider other more profound issues. That is the responsibility of the government, not the responsibility of ordinary British people.
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This is the evil consequence of democracy, and it is also the evil consequence of the British being too indulgent towards the Japanese.
Lloyd George agreed to consider dissolving the alliance between Britain and Japan, but at the same time, Lloyd George first wanted to send all Japanese safely back to the Far East.
The Japanese didn't seem to appreciate it. They took their own country's cruise ship to return to their own country and were not prepared to trouble the British.
The Japanese do have reason to be dissatisfied. They believe that they also made heavy sacrifices in the world war, but at the same time they did not achieve enough benefits, which can be seen from their equipment.
When the Japanese returned to the Far East, they only took five Japanese-borrowed cruise ships and no accompanying cargo ships.
That means that the Japanese don't have many heavy weapons to transport, and they even have a small number of artillery pieces.
Look at the Foreign Legion. When they withdrew to Lanfang, if there was a cruise ship used to transport soldiers, then there was almost a cargo ship used to transport equipment. There were not only artillery and tanks on the cargo ship, but also enough bullets. Cannonballs, fuel, spare parts, and enough food to last them for several months, this treatment is simply a world of difference.
What makes the Japanese even more dissatisfied is what lies behind.
Just as the fleet transporting Japanese people was traveling in the Mediterranean, it was suddenly attacked by a submarine of unknown nationality. All five Japanese freighters sank, and about 16,000 soldiers were killed.
The world war is over. Where did the submarines of unknown nationality come from?
This pained the Japanese government to the core, because just before the accident, the Sixth Division had already concentrated almost all the best of the Japanese Army. The proportion of officers in this unit was surprisingly high. They wanted to learn advanced European operations. Concept, of course, you must have a certain degree of military literacy to be fully trained.
It is precisely because of this that Akashi Genjiro was reluctant to send the men of the Sixth Division to the battlefield, because the loss of even one soldier would be worth an estimated five cents to the Japanese Army.
But here's the weird thing about it. Akashi Genjiro originally dreamed of making a name for the Japanese army with a great victory, but he was defeated and lost his troops. Later, Akashi Genjiro had fully realized the cruelty of the European War, so he was cautious and would rather I didn't want to take any risks even if I wanted to get a reputation, but I didn't expect that the entire army would be wiped out.
Just after the accident to the Japanese fleet, the British immediately stated that all German submarines were in the military port and there were no signs of dispatch, so the attack had nothing to do with the Germans.
Then only the French fleet and the Italian fleet were left. These two countries immediately stated that all our submarines were in the port and had not been dispatched, so this had nothing to do with us.
So all eyes were focused on the Corsica fleet.
The Corsican fleet's statement was even more straightforward: we have no submarines at all.
It seems that this has become a dead end case.
On the second day after the incident, many news media reported on the incident, most of them expressed regret and condemned the murderer, and only a small number of them gloated.
The Lanfang Daily News is the one that takes the most schadenfreude.
In the Mainichi Shimbun reports, this incident became synonymous with bureaucracy, because the Japanese refused the British government's help and organized their own retreat because of their illusory and strange pride, which led to the disaster.
At the same time, in the daily news report, this shipwreck was linked to the tragedy that happened at the Tianjin Pier a while ago, because the Foreign Legion has never given up on tracing the person behind the Tianjin Pier incident.
This is very intriguing. Just when the investigation of the Foreign Legion was gradually unfolding, such a tragedy happened in the Sixth Division. It is difficult not to connect the two.
But so what if we are connected together?
There is no evidence that it was the Foreign Legion that attacked the Japanese fleet.
Not to mention that the Foreign Legion does not have submarines, even if the Foreign Legion has submarines, they only need to issue a statement and kill our fleet in the port. What can the Japanese do?
Go directly to the logbook in the submarine
Don't be ridiculous, the Foreign Legion will not pay attention to their request.
No sovereign country in the world will heed this request.
As a result, the subsequent development of this incident was very strange. The Japanese vowed to take revenge and make certain people pay the price.
The threat of the Foreign Legion has never stopped. As long as they are behind the scenes of the Tianjin Pier Incident, the Foreign Legion will definitely make them pay the price.
In just this month, nearly a hundred people died in various accidents in the Republic of China, including hanging, electrocution, car accidents, accidental fights, improper food intake, various heart diseases, high blood pressure, etc.
These people all have one thing in common: they all participated in the national carnival that discredited the Foreign Legion.
But at the same time, the deaths of these people did not cause any waves, because the domestic media remained silent on the matter and they did not dare to make any noise.
Any voice that is unfavorable to the Foreign Legion.
When the foreign legionnaires are our own people, they are the protectors of interests and pursuers of rights.
But when the foreign legions become enemies, they are ruthless executioners, decisive avengers, and unscrupulous foreigners.
It was only then that some people felt regretful, and voices of dissatisfaction with the Foreign Legion began to appear in the media of the Republic of China.
But so what
Some injuries cannot be resolved by saying sorry.
Some mistakes cannot be forgiven with a bow.
Some people forgive because they are unable to fight.
Some people don't forgive because they don't need worship or charity. They are self-reliant and will neither ask for mercy nor compromise.
Maybe many people will say: You can't just because your mother beats you, and then you don't want your mother.
This is actually a fallacy. Of course, one cannot live without his mother, but there is no need to live with his unsatisfactory brother because of his mother. He can take his mother out and start a new one.
As a result, things gradually evolved into a confrontation between Japan and Lanfang.
Don't think that this kind of scolding won't happen. In fact, it happens every day in real society. It's just that they don't scold women directly, but use another more tactful way.
In mid-February, the latest news suddenly broke.
The sea area where the incident occurred was actually public waters, an extremely busy waterway. A Corsican-affiliated destroyer was nearby at the time of the incident, but the destroyer did not rescue the people who fell into the water.
This immediately became an excuse for the Japanese to criticize Corsica for not abiding by the basic principles of maritime navigation, showing no compassion and no humanitarian spirit.
Corsica's response was even more bizarre: In view of Japan's consistent performance, we are worried about the safety of the ladies on board, so we are unable to carry out rescue.
This is simply ridiculous. This is a warship. Where did the woman come from?
Corsica immediately responded that we in Corsica attach great importance to women’s rights and there are indeed women serving on the ship.
Even if it is true, this is still a quibble.
But the Japanese were helpless, because everyone knew the relationship between Qin Zhiyuan, Lanfang, Corsica, and the other parties. To entangle on this issue was also to bring humiliation to oneself.
As a result, things gradually became clearer. Even if the attack on the Japanese fleet was not related to Qin Zhiyuan, Qin Zhiyuan certainly was not.
Qin Zhiyuan did not deny it, because in everyone's eyes, even if the Tianjin Wharf incident was not driven by the Japanese, it certainly had something to do with the Japanese.
