Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 594 The Battle of Vengeance
"Yesterday, Chinese soldiers have been busy trucking away stock from store warehouses and burning empty houses. We are very disturbed to learn that we only have enough rice and flour to sustain [-] refugees A week's worth of food is eaten. The coal can only last for another ten days. Besides, even if we have enough food for three months, what will we eat after three months?"

"For the past two days, the planes have been circling almost constantly above our heads, and the artillery fire has been very heavy, but they are ignored now because people have become desensitized to facing death for so long. No one can be sure. We do not know the number of casualties in the army, but this number is undoubtedly huge. The army has already started a general retreat as early as the afternoon of the 24th. The commander of Yamane Nobushin once asked us for help and negotiated an armistice with the Chinese side. Mr. Sperling is willing to shake The flag acted as a messenger, but this action was too late. Yamane Nobuyuki fled Nagasaki Castle with the main force that night. Once the news came out, the whole city fell into chaos. All the citizens of Nagasaki thought they were Our army betrayed its own people at critical moments."

"People flocked towards the sea and the Nagasaki River in panic. Miles of roads were piled with all kinds of equipment abandoned by the army. Rifles, bullets, belts, uniforms, cars, trucks, etc. Many trucks and cars crowded In a ball, with all four wheels turned towards the sky, a raging fire was burning. More cars blocked the gate of the city, burning into a terrible sea of ​​flames. The corpses of the dead were piled up several feet high, and the scene by the river was perhaps even more tragic, with a row of The sailing boat was moored on the shore, but it couldn't bear the frenzied flow of people trying to cross to the north bank of the Yangtze River. So the overloaded sailing boat capsized and sank, drowning thousands of people, and thousands more trying to build rafts. Jiang, also met the same fate. Of course, thousands of people managed to escape to the other side. But a day or two later, many of them may encounter indiscriminate bombing by Chinese planes, waiting for their future It is a merciless hunt by the Chinese."

"We used to enjoy a happy, peaceful, orderly and progressive life in Nagasaki, and hoped for better days. But now, it is over. The Chinese army has begun to land, and this time they bring terror , destruction and death. I remember that they invaded Nagasaki at eleven o'clock in the morning on the 25th."

"The soldiers who had no time to escape from Nagasaki used various buildings to fight the Chinese army, but after a while, the gunshots became smaller and smaller. I saw many soldiers in military uniforms were taken out by the Chinese, and they were all shot and hacked. , Assassinated to death."

"On the 26th, Chinese tanks, artillery, infantry, and trucks poured into the city like a tide, and the terror that enveloped everything began. They were proud and did whatever they wanted. They unscrupulously raped women, robbed property, and massacred innocent people. One with his entourage The Chinese colonel visited my office. He spent an entire hour trying to find out the whereabouts of [-] soldiers. They also came to us four times in one day, but still could not get the answers they wanted. Some In order to vent their anger, the Chinese soldiers tore down the Belgian flag hanging from my house and threw it on the ground. Facing these Chinese, what can we unarmed foreign staff do? Hitler is trampling Belgium in Europe, and now the Chinese Nagasaki is also being trampled upon, and in the space of a few months I have witnessed the doom of two nations."

After three days of slaughtering the city, Lin Tai gave an order to send out the third team and the fourth team with a total of 1000 people, divided into two groups, and led by the commander to the north of Sasebo City where Nagasaki Castle is located.Due to the report from the reconnaissance plane, the terrain in Hasami Town in the south is complex, and there are soldiers passing by, so there may be an ambush, so Lin Taizeng chose the north of Sasebo City, planning to intersperse from Sasebo City and Matsuura City, and directly enter the adjacent area. Saga Prefecture, then ordered the fleet to stop the shelling, and the large force went directly to Nagasaki to search for the hidden Japanese forces that he thought were hidden but did not actually exist.And there are reconnaissance planes watching from the sky, so you are not afraid of any accidents. Even if 3 people attack the marines together, under the protection of naval guns and the dozen or so Maxims left behind, there will be no major troubles.

At 28 o'clock in the afternoon on the [-]th, the Marine Corps began to move to the rear of Nagasaki Castle.At the same time, Zhang Zuolin's main force arrived in Kumamoto under the transport of the Nanyang Fleet, and easily occupied the empty city.

As for the Japanese army, 1 people from Yamane Nobushin's department have retreated to the front line of the Arita River for defense. This place is far away from the range of the Chinese navy's naval guns and the field of vision of the reconnaissance aircraft. Yamane Nobushin's goal is to teach the Chinese people here .For this goal, he even gave up Nagasaki.

"Report, news from Nagasaki that the Chinese launched a massacre in Nagasaki. According to investigations, almost all hidden troops and civilians in the city were massacred by the Chinese. The total number may reach 11." Sincere report.

"What! What! This bunch of barbaric Chinese" Yamane Nobuyuki yelled frantically, his anger was not enough to describe his mood at this time, he picked up the Tojo Hideki from the table with red eyes The saber was slashing and stabbing aimlessly in the room, it seemed that this was the only way to vent out the extreme resentment at this time.

"Assembly, order all troops to assemble immediately!"

Twenty or ten minutes later, all the officers and soldiers gathered in the open space in front of the command department. Yamane Nobuyuki hunched his back, his expression extremely painful, and shouted: "Today I want to tell you the most tragic news in the history of a great empire. Qi was massacred by the Chinese, 10 people! All 11 people were brutally killed by the Chinese.” Speaking of this, Yamane Nobuma couldn’t bear it anymore, knelt on the ground and burst into tears.

The officers and soldiers were silently stunned at first, and then shouts of curses and bitter cries resounded through the valley, "Kill the Chinese and avenge our compatriots!" "The Chinese are beasts!" "We must not let them go!"

Most people lost their minds, crying and rushing to Nagasaki to fight with the Chinese army.

"Everyone be quiet, everyone be quiet!" Yamane Nobushin seemed to have regained some sanity, waving his command knife and shouting.

Only then did the people become a little quieter, and those who were about to seek revenge privately also stopped in place and looked at their chief.

"We will definitely not let the Chinese go, but it takes time. Now we have rushed back to Nagasaki, and their bombers and naval guns can send us to the sky without being fired. Now I order everyone to get ready, according to According to our intelligence reports, the Chinese Marine Corps has searched in our direction, and we are here to fight the Chinese to the death and fulfill the sacred mission of a soldier!"

"Yes"

The foolish attack occurred when an infantry brigade of the Yamane Nobushin Division spotted the Chinese search force across the Arita River.The reason is simple, because they must be responsible for the division headquarters behind them and other brother troops who are crossing the river or have already crossed the river but have not yet set up a line of defense.

This was the first plain field battle on the country's land, and the total number of troops participating in the battle exceeded 2. According to human standards, this is enough to be called a joint battle.

Matsuda Saburo, who was stationed secretly on the front line of Mount Iimori and Fanshenshan in the south of Nagasaki, is also closely watching the changes in Nagasaki. He had a panoramic view of the deployment of the fleet.

"Your Excellency Matsuda." His deputy was called Takahashi Shinnosuke, noticing the seriousness of his chief's face, he deliberately said some other topics to dissipate the tense atmosphere in front of him: "After this battle is won, what is your wish?" ?”

Saburo Matsuda put down the binoculars, turned his head, smiled shyly and said, "Victory? No matter what kind of victory, the destruction of Nagasaki cannot be avoided." He sighed and said, "Maybe the only thing we can do is to do our best." Ability to kill more Chinese people on land. As for their navy, there is nothing they can do. As for me, as long as I can leave here alive, I will go to Izu with my wife to live a farming life, which is my life. Dreams and pursuits. What about you, Takahashi?"

"Me?" Speaking of himself, Takahashi puffed up his chest and said with high spirits: "As an imperial soldier, Takahashi never thought of a way to die other than dying for the country on the battlefield! Let Takahashi defend Nagasaki And die!"

Matsuda Saburo looked at Takahashi Shinnosuke for a while, nodded, and said with a little sadness: "Yes, the imperial soldiers have received the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor. How can they have any selfishness besides pledging their country? Today, I made an oath in front of you, Takahashi, that if Shinnosuke Takahashi died for the country in the Nagasaki Battle, Matsuda would not dare to die afterwards, as that would be a disservice to His Majesty the Emperor. However, Matsuda has put this My life is in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor! The day His Majesty dies is the day when I, Saburo Matsuda dies!"

"Your Excellency!" Takahashi suddenly realized that the atmosphere was becoming more and more sad as he spoke. "Is the situation really that pessimistic?"

boom!The roar of the cannon suddenly sounded, shaking everyone's heart.

When the gunfire sounded in the east, it was not very dense. When I looked at the high reed beach, I didn't see any signs of large-scale military presence. Although the turbulence at the tip of the reed was very suspicious, the sea breeze was strong , No one expected that an army of nearly ten thousand people was ambushing here.Moreover, the distance is still very far. From the visual inspection, the shortest distance from the reed beach to the front line of his troops also exceeds the effective shooting distance of the rifle.Therefore, it is judged as harassment by small-scale armed forces.Therefore, just order the troops to lean west as much as possible, and pay attention to the reed beach in the east.

(End of this chapter)