Toyo Hiroshima base camp, Ujina military port.

From the beginning of the Qing-Japanese War, the Japanese army first invested the 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Army in Korea, and then opened up a second battlefield at Huayuankou in southern Liaoning, and invested the 1st Division and the 12th Brigade of the 6th Division.

After that, the 1st Army of Youpeng in Shan County captured Yingkou Port, and the Japanese military headquarters landed the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division in Yingkou and assigned it to the 1st Army to assist in the attack on the Qing Army in Liaodong.

Then when Youpeng in Shanxian County decided to fight south, capture Shanhaiguan, and conduct a decisive battle of Zhili.

The Toyo Hiroshima Base Camp took the 6th Brigade of the 11th Division to sea again and tried to leapfrog and land at Shanhaiguan.

Because of the obstruction of the British fleet, the Japanese army had no choice but to order the formation of ships to change direction and attack the Weihaiwei port on the Ludong Peninsula.

It was precisely because of this that the Shanhaiguan Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army was spared a catastrophe, and successfully annihilated the Japanese 3rd Brigade, the 19th Wing of the 6th Brigade, the 1st and 3rd Brigades, and the 5th Cavalry Brigade.

So far in the war, the Japanese army has invested 9 army brigades and regiments in Daqing and Korea, with more than 74,000 army troops.

In the country, only the 1st Army Guards Division, the 4th Army Division, and the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division remained, with a total of 5 standing brigades and nearly 40,000 troops.

As early as when Youpeng in Shanxian County captured Yingkou and Liaoyang, and the soldiers pointed to Mukden, the Japanese army base camp in Hiroshima already felt that the strength of the troops had been dwarfed.

As a result, a new round of mobilization orders began to be issued, and the army was expanded again, and a large number of reserve troops were incorporated into the remaining troops of the Zhengqing brigade.

In the design of the Japanese military headquarters before the war, the army could mobilize a total of 240,000 soldiers with certain training.

With a huge population base of more than 4,000,000, Dongyang had the confidence to win the Qing-Japanese War.

In these years of frantic military competition with the Qing Dynasty, the people of the East were brutally exploited and oppressed by the domestic people, and hundreds of thousands of people did not freeze to death and starve to death in the winter and spring?

For Meiji and his group of inhumane militarists, as long as they can achieve the goal of dominating East Asia and then participating in the world competition, the death of these hundreds of thousands of people is not a big deal at all.

As long as there is a fleet that can assist in transporting the landing, as long as the infantry has guns and ammunition in their hands, logistics can be provided, or the soldiers themselves can grab food.

This Qing-Japanese war will eventually continue to be fought until the Qing surrenders.

"Woo-"

March 2 in the Western calendar, on the third day of the return of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The 1st Infantry Wing and the 12th Reserve Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army led an artillery squadron carrying six 70mm bronze guns with a bronze bore and steel bore frame, and sailed from Ujina Port to Sasebo Military Port on seven troop carriers.

There, the troop carriers will join the Combined Fleet and sail in the East China Sea toward the Taiwan Strait, more than 2,500 miles to the southwest, to attack the Penghu Islands of the Qing Dynasty.

In this operation, the commander of the 1st Reserve Infantry Wing, Yoshiki Hishijima Infantry Osa, was the leader of the detachment, and 5,000 troops were mobilized, with the cooperation of the Oriental Combined Fleet, in order to capture it in one fell swoop.

One of the purposes of this military action of the Oriental Military Department is to lay out the first step in the next step of the peace talks to seize the island of Taiwan.

Another purpose is to force the Qing Dynasty to admit it completely!

The Penghu Islands are located in the Taiwan Strait in the western part of the island, and their geographical location is particularly important.

Once captured, the Japanese army would not only be able to isolate Taiwan from the Qing mainland, but would also be able to cut off the sea routes from Guangzhou, Fujian, Suzhou, and Zhejiang to the north for rapid reinforcements.

Moreover, all the purchased Western arms could only be unloaded in Liangguang, and then transported by land for 3,000 miles north to Zhili.

Arriving in Guangzhou in the spring, it is estimated that it will be transported to Zhili, and it will be in the summer.

Port of Nagasaki.

At this time, the first group of beggars and envoys of the Qing Dynasty expelled by the Oriental government were also boarding a French merchant ship in the port of Nagasaki.

"The pigs of the Qing Dynasty! Look at the pig with the pig's tail in the back! ”

"Haha, come to our Great Oriental and kneel and beg for peace, but was directly driven away by His Majesty the Wise Emperor; To look at it is to relieve anger! ”

"Aren't they powerful, didn't they want to bomb our Nagasaki before? It's kind of fried! ”

I saw Zhang Yinhuan and Shao Youlian, leading a large group of Qing officials to board the boat under the vigilance of the Nagasaki police.

The docks of Nagasaki Port were crowded with people and curses and ridicule everywhere.

In 1886, Li Hongzhang received a report from Yuan Shikai that some people in Korea were plotting to unite with Russia to defend Britain, and Russia was coveting Woody Bay outside Wonshan Pass.

The Qing government ordered Ding Ruchang and Wu Ankang to lead the North and South Sea naval divisions respectively to patrol the area around Woody Bay in Korea, so as to demonstrate the Qing government's strong naval strength and stop the enemy's possible invasion attempts.

After receiving the order, Ding Ruchang and Lang Weili immediately led six warships, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, Weiyuan, Chaoyong, and Yangwei, to conduct exercises on the waters off the east coast of Korea to demonstrate their strength.

After that, the Beiyang Navy Division was ordered to go to Vladivostok to pick up Wu Dacheng, a Qing government official who participated in the negotiations on the "Sino-Russian Survey of the Eastern Boundary of Jilin".

The Beiyang Naval Division sent Wu Dacheng to Mokowei, leaving two ships, Chaoyong and Yangwei, to stand by in Vladivostok.

Ding Ruchang then led four ships, Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, Weiyuan, and Jiyuan, to the Mitsubishi Shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan, for overhaul and to carry out the first "goodwill visit" to the East.

Then, because the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division went ashore to buy prostitution, they drank and brawled, and there were serious conflicts with the Oriental ronin and the police, resulting in the 'Nagasaki Incident'.

Later statistics showed that 5 sailors were killed, 44 wounded, and 5 missing (10 killed). Toyo police were killed and 30 wounded, while Nagasaki Ronin was also injured.

After the incident, Dingyuan and the other four ships quickly entered a state of imminent battle, took off their gun coats, and aimed their guns at the city of Nagasaki.

The chief instructor, Xi Lang Weili, even advocated a war against Japan,—— "act on the same day, and put the Japanese navy in a place where it is sluggish." ”

At that time, the Oriental Navy had just started, and if Li Hongzhang had the courage and responsibility, and Wu Tingfang, who considered himself a 'good friend' of the Orientals and liked to 'put his heart to heart' with the Orientals, would have shown a little more of the blood and appearance of a Chinese man when mediating this incident.

Then it is completely possible to use this incident as an excuse to bombard the Japanese port of Nagasaki, Ujina Port, Sasebo Port, Tokyo Port-

Defeat all the naval forces of the Japanese army and the military industry of the harbor.

The Oriental Navy was completely strangled in the cradle.

Then there will be no aftermath of the rise of the East, and there will be no current Korea falling into the hands of the East, not to mention, Liaodong, Liaonan, Ludong, and Zhili of the Qing Dynasty will not be beaten by the Japanese army.

There is no need for Li Hongzhang to go to Maguan to beg for peace this time.

"Woo-"

The French merchant ship sounded its whistle and began to slowly sail out of the port of Nagasaki.

And Zhang Yinhuan and Shao Youlian, a group of officials of the Qing Dynasty, did not show their faces on the side of the ship, they all sat in their respective cabins, looking at each other dejectedly.

What a shame on an ancestor!

Toyo, Sasebo Military Port.

Sunset.

Ito sat in a teahouse on the pier, listening to the singing of geisha, and looking out the window at the warships in the military port, his heart was full of pride.

Yesterday, he sent a telegram to Senior General Shikiri Kayama, the minister of military command, suggesting that the fleet go to Xiamen and Mawei casually after assisting the army in completing the capture of the Penghu Islands.