Chapter 1043: Different 'Conquests', Different Results
In the era before Chen Ming's time-travel, in the 21st century, war was still the most reliable means to safeguard a country's interests and dignity. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Although the real war has been away from the world for decades, the local wars on the earth are still uninterrupted. The belief that the dignity of a nation is created by military prowess and victory in war is still held true by hundreds of millions of people.
At present, China has changed its old image in the eyes of Westerners precisely because of war, and Japan has also changed its image as a dwarf in the eyes of Western powers through war.
It is no longer a big but not strong China, but a strong national power that allows it to single-handedly compete with the whole of Europe. However, China's military cannot be said to have made its motherland more dazzling because of its strong combat effectiveness. The first point that Westerners pay attention to China is always China's incomparable national strength, not the combat effectiveness of Chinese soldiers. Although the Chinese National Defense Forces performed brilliantly in the war against Russia, their strong national strength has always overshadowed the light of the army. But this is not the case with Japan, which is small enough to make Westerners really realize their awesomeness with its 'strong army'.
As a small country, Japan is insignificant in front of China, but Japan's size and population are definitely a powerful country in the European world.
The territory is only larger than that of the United Kingdom, and the population is not inferior to that of France. God doesn't like Japan, and if He sends Japan to Europe, Japan will be considered a great power in terms of its current size.
And now? As a result of staying in the East, Japan has been China's little brother for 2,000 years.
These guys, who were very short in height -- compared to the Europeans -- stood like children with European soldiers, but they were brave by nature, fierce in battle, and could even be called death-oriented, not afraid of death.
It took only 20 years for Japan to go from not being taken seriously by Europeans to now being regarded as an elite soldier.
From the Dutch to the Spaniards, to the Russians and the Americans, who in the whole European world would dare to despise it now? The Japanese made a name for themselves on the battlefield, especially in the wars with Russia and several times in the Americas. The Japanese soldiers showed a first-class standard.
There is even a voice circulating in the European borders that when Japan and China have a slight contradiction, Western countries should immediately intervene -- Britain and the Netherlands -- to give Japan support. Judging from the performance of Japanese soldiers today, Japan is qualified to become a hidden security danger in China's immediate vicinity, just like the Wo Kou Rebellion in Chinese history, which will inevitably drag down the Chinese to a great extent. But it's too late to say anything now. Japan has long been completely on the Chinese warship! And more importantly, they can't afford to make any waves in Japan.
Goro Tanaka, who was lying in the General Hospital of the Tokyo Garrison, did not have the slightest superfluous feeling about this. What are the benefits of Japan's hostility to China? I can't see that half-point. This mentality of the Europeans is, in essence, using the Japanese as a sword.
The 22-year-old Tanaka Goro is the third soldier of the Tanaka family to go to the Americas battlefield, his eldest brother and second brother once landed in the Americas as a security army, but never entered Mexico and other guerrilla areas, only in Tokyo and Hanjin in charge of port security, and finally quit the security team and only obtained a long-term residence in China. Following in the footsteps of his two older brothers, Goro Tanaka landed in the Americas as a soldier again, but his identity was no longer Chen Han's security force, but Japan's shogunate army.
As a new generation of Japanese who grew up bathed in the light of 'Chinese hegemony', he did not have the slightest intention of challenging China in his heart, and he thought more that the tragedy of the Satsuma Domain, when Japan was in conflict with China, was the stupidity of the Shimazu family, which was in charge of the Satsuma Domain at that time, and he did not measure himself. What's more, he has already received the red book of his dreams.
Goro Tanaka was an excellent gunner, and in the battle in which he was wounded, his artillery crew destroyed four American gun emplacements. He's a sharpshooter who has been tested in battle!
"Hi. Tanaka remembered your teachings...... "Goro Tanaka turned down the opportunity to become an officer in the shogunate army and chose this red book instead.
"Hehe, Goro, you will be Chinese from now on. To be Chinese, you have to get rid of those Japanese habits, which will make you better integrate into Chinese society. "The person who came was a right lieutenant officer of the Japanese Soldier Management Office of the garrison army, and his tone was very gentle, but his style of words was sharp and unbearable." You wouldn't be a Japanese who wanted to be in China for the rest of your life, would you? “
"Yes. Your Excellency, I will make changes. Swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor of China! “
Digging out the grassroots backbone of the armies of Japan, Siam and other subject countries during the war was a long-term strategy of the Chen Han military. It's not an officer who digs them, at most a non-commissioned officer, and his status is not high. So, these people have to be really good too.
Goro Tanaka's reputation as a 'sharpshooter' was not started in one battle, but accumulated in one battle after another.
Mustafa Ataturk, who was in the same ward as Goro Tanaka, was part of an Ottoman field observation mission to the Americas and was wounded by a stray bullet in a previous battle and taken to the General Hospital of the Garrison in Tokyo.
Goro Tanaka was a hero in the eyes of Mustafa Atatürk, he was admitted to the General Hospital because of his status, and Goro Tanaka was sent to the General Hospital of the Garrison Army with the best conditions because of his outstanding military exploits.
On the battlefield, Goro Tanaka destroyed more than 20 artillery positions of the Spanish and American armies, and was a first-class meritorious hero of both the Chinese and Japanese armies, and the title of "sharpshooter" appeared in the "Tokyo Shimbun" twice.
If such a person is not called a hero, who can be called a hero? Even if Goro Tanaka is not of high origin, he is not an officer.
The soldiers admired the heroes who had made great achievements, and although Mustafa Atatürk was a major in the Ottoman army, his status was far higher than that of Goro Tanaka, he also admired him very much. If he had been a high-ranking member of the Japanese army, he would have promoted Goro Tanaka to the position of an officer long ago. Goro Tanaka rose to the position of commander of at least one artillery company.
is such a hero with great achievements, but for the sake of a piece of Chinese nationality, he humbly almost lost his personality.
Mustafa Ataturk is an Ottoman, he has never been to China to study military affairs, but he has always heard about the difficulty of foreigners becoming Chinese nationals, and he has also heard that Japan and other East Asian nationals are all extremely eager to become Chinese nationality and become Chinese. Mustafa Ataturk was a little unimpressed, because of the disparity in culture and civilization, there was almost no such thing as the Ottomans taking the initiative to become Chinese nationals. But now that he saw this scene of Goro Tanaka with his own eyes, the shock in his heart was extremely great.
What kind of country can make a combat hero like Goro Tanaka abandon all past honors to pursue and devote himself to it?
Mustafa Ataturk had known about China only as much as he had known about the European powers. But if China is simply powerful, he doesn't think that a hero like Goro Tanaka can be worshiped here.
The Ottomans were also powerful back then, and from hundreds of years ago to the present, naturalized Europeans have often appeared in the Ottoman military hierarchy. But every Ottoman understood that the reason why these Europeans were willing to naturalize the Ottomans was only because they were oppressed, suppressed, and even persecuted in their original countries. The reason why they joined the Ottoman was because they were able to obtain higher status and power in the Ottomans and realize their own values, not because they identified with the Ottoman country from the heart.
This is not the same as the phenomenon in China.
Naturalized foreigners in China are not officers and generals, many of them are only soldiers, but many of them are heroes in their field.
China seems to have a strong attraction, and this 'strong' is not strong in strength, but strong in charm. In addition to China's unrivaled power, it also needs to have an element that attracts heroes like Goro Tanaka. Mustafa Ataturk understands that it is the combined influence of culture, civilization, social development and so on.
Mustafa Atatürk's military rank is not high, but he was born in a famous family in Istanbul, and he still has basic knowledge.
Looking at Goro Tanaka in front of him, he felt that China's influence on Japan was definitely an unconventional conquest, so that a hero on the battlefield could kneel in front of it without resistance, just like he himself knelt down to worship the true god.
The Ottomans have also conquered countless countries and nations in the past years, but looking at the Ottoman conquest and China's conquest, it is also a 'conquest', but the gap is not ordinarily huge.
The Ottoman conquest was exchanged for repeated rebellions and civil strife, while the Chinese conquest was exchanged for incomparable reverence and adherence.
Mustafa Atatürk's knowledge of China is too lacking in depth, and if he knew the great influence of China in the history of the East, the great influence in the history of Japan, he would understand why Japan, which has now weakened its feet on China, would bow down to China with such reverence.
The original Tang Dynasty completely broke Japan's nerves in the battle at the mouth of the Baijiang River, but now Chen Han relies on the upgrading of weapons at the national level and his own powerful desperate national strength to directly trap Japan. The real battle did not start at all, and Japan chose to give in.
Moreover, with the increase of Sino-Japanese exchanges, with the success of Hokkaido, and the moths made by Japan itself, Japan is becoming more and more inseparable from China, and it is also following China more and more from the heart.
Because there are benefits to following China.
Not to mention the labor aspect, even the issue of mercenaries brought a lot of help to the Tokugawa shogunate. In the face of real benefits, the Japanese have changed from being unconvinced by the mouth to being convinced by the mouth quietly.
The culture of the Japanese determines the fate of this country and this nation.
Worshipping the strong, and even showing a strong servility in front of the strong, made the Japanese defenseless in the face of today's China, and they fell to their knees again at the feet of China just like Japan 1,200 years ago.
In the original time and space, whether it was before the Restoration or after World War II, the idea of 'breaking away from Asia and joining Europe' has always been very popular in its country, when their servility made them kneel at the feet of the Western world, and now they are completely bowing down to the feet of China.
Thousands of Japanese are eager to become Chinese, and Goro Tanaka is just one of them, and he is lucky to have obtained the red book, but more Japanese are still fighting desperately on the battlefield for that small opportunity, and have no regrets.