There is nothing to say about the following battle. A small village with a total area of only tens of thousands of square meters was attacked by more than a thousand mercenaries armed to the teeth. If there is any battle worth describing, it would be too ridiculous.
Although there were still about a thousand Japanese who escaped, they probably went north into the ravine.
But what surprised Yang Feng was that his guide actually found him a prince. This young prince named Shang Yin was the second son of Ryukyu King Shang Tai. After the Japanese occupied Ryukyu, their family was brought to Japan.
After getting up, I felt that the training was quite successful, so I released him and a younger brother back to show His Majesty the Emperor's mercy in front of the Ryukyuan people.
"Your Highness, the king and crown prince of your country are now in the hands of the Japanese. It is estimated that it will be difficult to come back in a short time. However, this country cannot be left without an owner for a day. Since I am here under the orders of the court to help your country recover, then this
The first thing is to make the decision. The prince will temporarily succeed you as the King of Ryukyu. Xiang Zhili is now in high decency. From now on, the important task of assisting King Shang Yin will be left to you. When King Shang Tai is welcomed back, you can discuss your future plans.
Things." Sitting in the palace of Ryukyu, Yang Feng said to Shang Yin and Xiang Zhili.
Xiang Shili is the leader of the pro-Qing faction in Ryukyu. He is currently planning to go to China for help. Unexpectedly, before he left, the army of the Kingdom of Heaven arrived and almost wiped out all the Japanese in Ryukyu in the First World War. And now it is like this
He generously and kindly not only restored Ryukyu to his country, but also handed over such an important position to himself. Naturally, he was extremely excited.
Of course, he knew right away that the Taiwanese commander-in-chief, who looked nothing like a Qing official, had nothing to do with kindness.
"Ryukyu must be thoroughly cleaned up. There are too many Japanese here, which is very dangerous. Starting today, you two will help me find a group of local guides to lead my soldiers, starting from around Shuri.
Arrest all the Japanese, and then I will be responsible for sending them to Taiwan and repatriating them to Japan. As for the Japanese officials and police, as invaders, they must all be punished on the spot. Only in this way can Japan never dare to
I will invade your country again." Yang Feng said viciously.
Since he said so, Shang and Yin naturally did not dare to object, so the next day, under the leadership of the Ryukyu guide, Yang Feng's mercenaries began to cleanse the entire Ryukyu from south to north, seizing officials and officials sent by Japan.
The police were directly handed over to the Ryukyu people, who were responsible for killing them. At first, no one dared to kill them. Later, Yang Feng simply told them that they would be rewarded one or two pieces of silver for executing a Japanese official. Now they no longer had to worry about having no executioners. As for how they would kill them.
, I have no interest in taking care of this guy.
Those Japanese immigrants were shipped directly to Taiwan. Of course, he would not be so kind as to repatriate them. These people were directly sent to China and sold to human traffickers. The men were sold to coal mines as slave labor, and the women were sold to remote mountainous areas.
If they are beautiful, they can be sold to the brothels.
To be honest, many Japanese immigrants in Ryukyu came here before 1879, and even earlier. This made the cleaning work quite difficult, so this guy made another pure Ryukyu and dug deeper.
To put it bluntly, the root movement is to let Ryukyu people report each other. Anyone who reports and is verified will be rewarded with one or two pieces of silver. This move is quite cruel, causing the whole Ryukyu to become bloody. Everyone looks at each other in fear.
, but with two thousand troops and a fleet here, no one will mind how he wants to play.
Besides, how can ordinary people think too much? Japanese immigrants have become accustomed to being arrogant over the years. There are many people who are displeased with them. Now that they have a chance to retaliate and there is money to get, why not do it? Many of them have even killed eight generations of their ancestors.
Come out. As for killing Japanese officials, even though the savvy Ryukyu people understand that Yang Feng is forcing them to become a feud with Japan, they don't have the guts to refuse, and secondly they can't stop the ordinary people who have lost their pants.
Earn a few taels of silver, and after killing too many people, you will grit your teeth and fight.
In addition, Yang Feng also established a military base here in the name of protecting Ryukyu and eradicating the remaining Japanese armed personnel, with a thousand mercenaries stationed here, and then paid to hire locals to expand the port for him, so that Naha Port could
Mooring large battleships like the Predator.
At first, Xiang Zhili was worried that this guy would do things like extortionate taxes and expropriation. He was mentally prepared for this. If they help him drive away the Japanese, they can't do it in vain. Who knows that the commander-in-chief is not only
Instead of taking anything, all the construction work was paid to the Ryukyu workers. Even his soldiers paid the price when buying things on the street, and they did not rape women on the street. This is simply unreasonable for an occupying army.
It was strange, and soon these Ryukyu nobles also fell in love with this weirdly dressed general and his weirdly dressed soldiers.
They don't know that these people, from Yang Feng to soldiers, are doing this just because they are too poor and not worth attacking at all. As for the issue of women, these guys have a super large free brothel with 500 people. Who will do anything to those who expose themselves to the sun?
Are you interested in Ryukyu women like Black Carbon?
In addition, under the operation of Yang Feng, a pilgrimage group led by Prince Shangshun, the younger brother of King Shangyin, took a destroyer and went straight to Beijing to express gratitude to the old lady Cixi. At any rate, Yang Feng also did this in the name of the court.
There are still some necessary procedures to go through.
Just as this guy was getting drunk on MacArthur in Ryukyu, a war was beginning in Korea. The 5th Division Headquarters and the Tachimi Naobumi Brigade led by Nozu Michinuki arrived in Ota, and then divided into two groups, and a regiment headed towards Ota.
When Gongzhou attacked Ye Zhichao, Ye Dadai only had his own two battalions of Zhengding training troops in hand. One regiment was enough to deal with it, while the main force of the Japanese army attacked Tianan. The ones stationed here were Zhang Gaoyuan's troops and those who were not dead on the Gaosheng.
Ziying.
In fact, the people that Li Erjie has deployed in Yashan so far are still the same people. The reason is very simple. He has no troops to mobilize. The Qing Dynasty also has an army of one million, but after excluding those who smoke and wander around,
In the Eight Banners, even if you are a policeman, you may not be able to defeat the green camp of bandits. There are only a few who can make do with fighting with at most 200,000.
Of course, this is only in terms of staffing. Taking into account the problem of empty pay, the actual number is estimated to be even the court itself does not know. Now that the war has begun, it has quickly thought of recruiting troops temporarily and giving them to a group of old farmers who have just put down their hoes.
He had never seen a Mauser repeating rifle, he had never imagined a Krupp 75-row battalion cannon, and he didn't even know how to load the shells. This was the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
Now Li Erjiap is getting angry because he can't find any troops to reinforce Yashan! There are only a few of the 200,000 troops left in Shandong, and there are still Beiyang guards and half a Songwu army left in Shandong.
The Suigong Army only has a few thousand people in total. They cannot move because they still have to watch Weihaiwei.
There is still Ming Army in the northeast. Half of Song Qing's Yi Army has entered the DPRK and the other half has arrived in Pyongyang. He and Liu Shengxiu are preparing the second batch to enter the DPRK. The remaining ones are Qin Qing Army, Ming Army Zhao Huaiye's 3rd Battalion, and Sheng Junwei.
Rucheng's Fourth Battalion, these must not be moved! The only mobile force with combat effectiveness is the Xu Bangdao Fourth Battalion Arch Guards. In fact, at this time, Li Erjie was worried about asking his third battalion to recruit one more urgently.
Should the camp go to Port Arthur? Or to North Korea?
Shandong does still have an army. Governor Furun had previously organized the Fu Zi Army and the Dong Zi Army. They had just been established less than a month ago. To be honest, it would be a bit cruel to send such an army, whether it was for Nie Shicheng or Nie Shicheng.
They are all cruel.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable for later generations to describe the Sino-Japanese War as a war fought by Li Hongzhang alone against Japan and a country. At least before the fall of the Yalu River, he was indeed holding on to this war alone. Although the Battle of Pyongyang still had
Zuo Baogui's Fengjun and Feng Sheng'a's army training, but Zuo Baogui himself also mixed with Li Hongzhang. As for Feng Sheng'a, there is no need to mention it. His experience in participating in the Sino-Japanese War was basically running away.
In this case, the only thing Li Erjie could do was to write to ask for help. Of course, given the current traffic conditions, it would take a long time for reinforcements to come from all over the world, not to mention the procrastinating bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty.
With the indifference of many people, including the supreme ruler, the war has not yet reached the Yalu River anyway? Besides, isn’t the Huai Army capable of fighting? Then let them continue to fight.
So the second battle of Yashan began. The Qing army faced an incomplete reorganization of the Japanese army with 7,000 troops. Fortunately, the sixth brigade was abolished. The only thing that could make him feel a little more at ease was the newly purchased one.
Twenty Maxims and one million rounds of ammunition were all sent to the front line. In addition, more than twenty Gatling guns were collected. Hannagan also went to North Korea. These days, under the leadership of him and several Bofors employees,
A complete defense system with machine guns as the core was built on the front line, and the logistics supply was sufficient.
This is the most reassuring point for Li Hongzhang. The victory in the Inchon Naval Battle ensured the smooth flow of transportation lines. Although the Yoshino was repaired, the Songdao entered the dock again and was extremely injured. It was impossible to get out for two months.
Yes, but although all the ships of the Beiyang Navy were damaged, they were only superficial injuries. Even if they were not repaired, they could continue to fight. Although picric acid is cruel, it is still very difficult for six-inch grenades to really damage an ironclad.
As for the issue of material reserves, he can be said to be completely proud of Japan. Historically, after the Japanese army occupied Lushun, they seized millions of rounds of light artillery shells and tens of millions of rounds of light bullets. Without these seizures, they might have been connected.
The war cannot be sustained, and now all these can be done by just a few of Nie Shicheng's envoys in Yashan.