After turning Kobe into ruins, the Russian army left 5,000 people to continue to loot Akashi and Himeji to the west, blocking the passage of the Japanese Jinwang in Hiroshima and other places in the west. The other 5,000 people went east to attack Osaka and Nara. Now there are basically
Only the old, weak, women and children were left. It would be great to kill these hungry wolves, while the remaining 10,000 people would kill them all the way towards Kyoto.
At this time, Hirobumi Ito was going crazy. He went to the British and German embassies eight times a day. It is said that he knelt down and begged, which made people feel sad. But if he wanted to stop the Russians at this time, it would force Nikolai
Crazy, no one can take such a risk for Japan, especially now that the French have made it clear that they will fight side by side with their allies to the end. The current peace in Europe is hard-won, and no one can start a world war for Japan.
, so they all just prevaricated and delayed. Anyway, everyone was determined to sacrifice Kyoto.
In this way, the Russians marched toward their goal, but their steps were blocked by Shimamoto on the west bank of the Yodo River. Although it was impossible for the remaining Japanese army of hundreds of thousands of soldiers to fight, they were good at digging, and took advantage of the Russian army along the way.
During the looting, a small tributary river here was dug into a magnificent ditch, and the river surface hundreds of meters wide was used to form the best defense line. The water from the Yodo River poured back made the Russian forwards dumbfounded, and they had no choice but to stop.
We came down to chop wood and prepare to cross the river.
At the same time, the Russian army attacking Osaka was also blocked by the Yodogawa River. The Japanese were very smart and evacuated all the ships. You must know that the Yodogawa River is a canal. It is impossible to cross the wide river without boats, so now they can only wait.
The Russian army in the direction of Guigang broke through the Japanese defense line.
Fortunately, this did not take too long. The 30,000 Russian troops who landed in Maizuru soon arrived. This Russian army was originally in Hokkaido, but now they have almost killed all the Japanese there.
, you only need to leave a small part to clean up the aftermath, and the rest of the main force will be shipped over by sea.
After receiving reinforcements, the Russian army left the trenches and launched an attack on the Japanese army on the opposite side. This time it was not just infantry, because considering that the next battle would be on the Kansai Plain, there was a Cossack cavalry division. When that
When countless cavalrymen carried spears and charged under the cover of heavy machine guns, the assembled Qinwang army finally collapsed.
By the way, they have never seen this before. The earth-shattering sound of horse hooves, the tall Don hippopotamus, and the shimmering spears are a nightmare for infantry without machine guns. What's more, these Japanese don't even have many rifles in their hands. In the Cossacks
Under the impact of the cavalry, the Japanese who came from all over the mountains and plains began to flee in the same way. But how could their speed be compared with the cavalry? Soon the torrent wearing tall hats and black cloaks crashed into the middle of the Japanese
, spears and sabers began to harvest lives non-stop. Behind them, a huge infantry regiment followed the footsteps of 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 Guiti, who had joined forces, arrived in Fuzhou. Their opponent Deshou also transferred all available troops to Fuzhou, including Furun for support.
His two Anhui training camps totaled about 10,000 people. Deshou couldn't help it at this time, so he just took out all the money he could get from the feudal lord, and then went to Zhang Zhidong to buy arms.
However, Zhang Zhidong did not sell it to him on the excuse of insufficient production and lack of inventory. This old guy didn't want to offend Yang Feng. His son Zhang Quan is still a governor in Taiwan, and his cooperation with Yang Feng has not been a happy one over the years. To be honest,
Even if Yang Feng attacked the city of Beijing again, he would be prepared to stand by and watch. What's more, Yang Feng was attacking the city of Nanchang.
But this didn't bother Desu. He didn't know how he hooked up. He got a batch of Black Betrayal Bodan rifles that had been eliminated by the Russian army from a Russian lust dealer. In addition, he obtained it from other arms dealers through different channels.
One family bought some and managed to collect more than 7,000 rifles. His city-defending army was considered well-equipped, and the resistance was relatively determined, so it caused Li Yuncong a little trouble.
But it's just a minor trouble. Foreign fire dealers dare to sell guns secretly, but no one dares to sell cannons. To put it bluntly, these guys are just slaughtering sheep. Everyone knows that Yang Feng's capture of Fuzhou is a sure thing, which will be a bit of a loss to Governor Yang.
I won't pay too much attention to it. If he gets seriously injured and gets angry and seeks revenge on the person who caused him trouble, that would be very scary.
Not to mention his terrible connections, even JY Company can smash these small businessmen to death in Europe by wielding pounds. In recent years, most of the European companies that have offended Yang Feng were killed in a short time.
Those who hang out in the stock market are maliciously sniped, and those who play with technology are violently beaten by newer technologies. Boss Yang's reputation as a tyrant has quietly risen in Europe. No one who doesn't want to die dares to offend him.
The first charge at the foot of Fuzhou City was blocked. After discovering that the firepower on the city wall was relatively fierce, Li Yuncong, who originally thought of taking down Fuzhou with one charge like before, immediately ordered a suspension of the attack. Although the gunmanship of the defenders on the city was extremely poor, they opened fire after several miles.
gun, so it only caused slight damage to the attacking troops, but once you get close, this firepower density will definitely cause a lot of casualties. In this case, let's just use the big artillery to bombard it first. At this time, the Green Battalion can withstand the bombardment.
I guess there aren't many of them. As for poison gas bombs, there's no need to use them.
Now he no longer needs to worry about logistics and transportation problems. Because he has made another windfall, Governor Yang ordered to popularize compulsory education in Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan. Anyway, it is easy to build thousands of rural primary schools with two million taels of silver.
Yes, although there is a shortage of teachers, it is just to make use of those caterpillars, so that they do not have to rebel and play. If nothing else, they are still capable of teaching children to read. As for other subjects, they can only be opened slowly after someone has them.
, this can be easily solved by just opening a few more normal schools.
So after announcing the establishment of rural primary schools to provide free education to all school-age children, and even providing a lunch every day, they also announced that they would recruit those who had not rebelled as teachers, with a fixed monthly salary, and more importantly, they were civil servants
Prepare it, dear.
As soon as this order came out, the people in the three provinces were all grateful. Yang Feng's compulsory education is really compulsory education. All fees are free, including book fees, desk and chair fees, and extracurricular activity fees. In a word, as long as the students go home and tell the teacher what they charge
money, or what the teacher asked you to buy, especially if you specify the purchase of something from a certain family, you can go directly to the Yamen to report it. And the lunch meal at noon is unheard of, and more importantly, Governor Yang
The standards were also set, and each student must have one egg and two taels of meat a day. If he couldn't eat these, he could take them home. As for the rice and steamed buns, whoever dared to fool the children with inferior meat and expired eggs would be directly punished with murder.
This benevolent policy completely won him the support of the people in the three provinces, and even some green insects began to stand up and praise Yang Ni. Not to mention this civil servant, or in today's terms, the imperial staff, although the grade was not determined, still made the green insects
Their hearts were filled with excitement and they regarded him as their reborn parent. As for transporting arms to the frontline troops, it goes without saying that many ordinary people wanted to help Yang Qingtian even if they didn't work in the fields. The emergence of these frontline troops completely solved the problem.
Li Yuncong's ammunition supply problem, his position was full of artillery shells.
Except for one regiment of the First Division, almost all of them are now gathered at the foot of Fuzhou City. Hundreds of cannons are lined up in a row. Countless shells are roaring from the muzzle and hitting the city of Fuzhou with a roar that breaks through the air. The explosion of fire is all over the city.
The small town was flooded, and the siege troops under the cover of artillery fire launched another charge. At this time, the general soldiers guarding the city could not care less about their promise to De Shou that the city would be destroyed and everyone would die. He was frightened.
You have to hide in the soldier cave under the city wall and you won't be able to survive.
However, the Anhui military training general who came to help was quite calm. While shouting to prevent the Green Camp soldiers from escaping, he directed those who did not run to shoot outside the city. Unfortunately, he looked too high on those Green Camp soldiers who had not fought in many years.
Many of these guys who are often beaten back by bandits when fighting bandits don't even know how to use the new rifles in their hands. Who have ever seen the power of new artillery, let alone high-explosive artillery shells loaded with antimony or antimony?
You must know the amount of firepower projected by Li Yuncong now. During World War II, he could make do with it. Even the number of artillery was not inferior to that of the great powers. What's more, in this era, the siege troops were still more than a mile away from the city wall. Those green battalions
Almost all of them were gone, leaving only more than 500 soldiers from Anhui Lianjun and Deshou Fubiao. Even they were beaten by the cannonballs and bullets from the opposite side and could not even raise their heads.
But this time Li Yuncong didn't pile up the medicine. It was a rare opportunity to train troops like this, and he couldn't let them always fight the kind of easy battles, so this time he asked his subordinates to carry ladders to climb the city, and tens of thousands of soldiers carried a hundred
Many ladders quickly rushed to the moat. In late autumn, the river water was not up to waist level. However, they encountered some resistance at this time. Because they were afraid of accidental damage, the density of shelling began to weaken. The remaining thousands of people on the city wall who had recovered their senses
Many of the defenders began to cautiously poke their heads out and shoot downwards. Even at such a close distance, no matter how bad their marksmanship was, they would inevitably miss.
However, those who dared to show their heads were immediately sieved by the soldiers under the city with machine guns and rifles. The soldiers who crossed the moat quickly put the ladder on the city wall, and then started to climb up like ants who found a candy bar.