"yes...... Why do you want to fight......" Thinking that Yoshio Yamaguchi and Kenzo Kuroda, who had almost done great harm to themselves, were both officers of the Japanese Army, Yuki Saionji felt so hated and disgusted with war for the first time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two walked over to a bench and sat down, quietly looking at the battleship anchored in the sea.

I don't know how long it took, but Yuki Saionji saw that there were suddenly a lot of people wearing red clothes on the battleship.

A sense of foreboding suddenly rose in Yuki Saionji's heart.

The ironclad ship "Dingyuan" quickly lowered the dinghy, and the men in red sailed ashore in the dinghy, the bayonets on their rifles glittering in the sunlight.

And Yuki Saionji also saw that the people on the ship began to remove the cannons, revealing the muzzles of black holes.

"What's going on? Is there going to be a war? Zhizi also saw it and couldn't help but scream.

"Let's go back." The feeling of uneasiness in Yuki Saionji's heart became stronger and stronger, and he immediately pulled Tomoko to stand up.

At 8:30 p.m. on August 13, 9091 (the 17th year of the Great Qianguang Xu, the 24th year of the Meiji era of Japan), some sailors of the Qianguo Fleet landed on the shore for shopping and leisure. The store immediately notified the Maruyama Yukonai Police Station and requested the patrol to come to maintain law and order, and the two patrol officers immediately rushed to the scene after receiving the complaint.

"Loan" was a system implemented by the Meiji government to enforce the emancipation decree for prostitutes. This system allows advocates to rent a tenant building, and pay the rent of the landlord to open the business. Far from reducing the number of prostitutes, the implementation of the system has led to the legalization of the government's prostitution, which has flourished.

When the patrol officers who came to listen to the statements of the host and the guest, they were unable to grasp the main points because of the language barrier between the two sides. The sailors of Qianguo insisted on their own views and refused to give in, and the patrol officers protected the shopkeepers, and the two sides spoke in an impassioned tone, and then a scuffle ensued. The enraged patrol arrested two Qianguo sailors for interfering with their official duties, and the rest of the sailors fled in the chaos, and the two sailors were taken back to the police station for questioning. After a while, more than a dozen Qianguo sailors rushed in front of the police station, and one of them was a sailor who participated in the rough escape in the loan seat. The sailor looked agitated and pointed his finger at the patrolman and told the other sailors something. The sailor was recognized by those present as one of those involved in the move, and the patrol was about to arrest him. At this time, the sailor suddenly pulled out the Japanese sword he had bought and slashed at the patrolman, who was injured in the hand and head when he stepped forward to grab the knife. The other patrolmen worked together to knock the sailor down and snatch the Japanese sword, and the sailor was also wounded in the head during the fight. The arrested sailors were taken to the police station and handed over to the Qianguo Legation in Tokyo the next day. After the incident, it aroused strong dissatisfaction among the sailors of Qianguo, and finally caused a major riot.

At 5 p.m. on 15 August, about 300 sailors from Qianguo went ashore for leisure and shopping, and because of the friction that had occurred in the previous two days, the standing patrol police officers on the streets temporarily mobilized two patrol officers from various police stations to increase the number of police officers to three and strengthen patrols on the busy streets. The sailors were looking for fun in the wine houses, snack bars, and loan houses until the night, and many still did not have the intention of returning to the docks, which was normal for them to have fun all night in Youkuo Happy Street. A Qianguo sailor was forcibly searched by two Japanese patrol officers under the pretext of arresting and stealing, and the two sides had a physical collision with each other, which then escalated into a fight, and in an instant more than 20 Qianguo sailors surrounded the general to participate in the brawl, and the Japanese patrol suddenly appeared, totaling more than 200 people, and more than 100 people with knives ronin, so more than 200 Qianguo sailors and Japanese patrol police, with knives ronin and surrounding residents had a scuffle.

Among the Japanese residents, the wandering ronin samurai took out swords and sticks to besiege the sailors in the street, and some residents poured boiling water or threw tiles and bricks at the sailors of the Qianguo on the upper floors, and the number of people on both sides of the scuffle increased sharply to nearly 1,000 for a while. The brawl caused panic among local residents, and many fled the town with their belongings or the elderly. The patrol officers who rushed to hear the news immediately participated in the melee and fought with swords and batons against the Qianguo sailors. During the fight, the patrol officers rushed to the outer station one after another, and the number of Japanese police increased to more than 300.

Seeing that their comrades were besieged and in a disadvantageous situation, some of the Qianguo sailors fled to the shore and reported to the warship, but at that time Admiral Ding Yuting was not on the ship, Deng Zhengqing, the captain of the "Dingyuan" ship who acted on the admiral's order, was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered 500 marines from the two ships to go ashore with arms to rescue the besieged sailors, and at the same time ordered all ships to take off their gun jackets and aim their cannons at the shore to prepare for war.

After the landing of the Qianguo marines, the situation was immediately brought under control, the besieged sailors were rescued, and 122 armed ronins and patrol officers were arrested and escorted back to the Qianguo warship. As a result of the fierce fighting that day, 8 sailors were killed, 36 were wounded, and 9 marines were wounded; The Japanese ronin killed 17 people and wounded 20 people, and the Japanese patrol officers killed 18 people and wounded 24 people

The Qianguo fleet was anchored in Tokyo Bay, and Li Shaoquan, the minister of the navy and the governor of Naoli, originally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to show off the strength of the Qianguo fleet in front of the Japanese people. According to a telegram from Admiral Ding Yuting, several sailors were killed or wounded, and Li Shaoquan was furious when he heard the news. On August 20, he summoned the Japanese consul in Tianjin, Shogoro Hatano, to question the circumstances of the incident.

Li: "The day before yesterday, a Chinese warship was in your country, and a military officer called to report that there was a fight between Chinese sailors and your country's patrol police, and that many Chinese sailors were killed or injured. ”

Hatano: "When did this happen?" What caused the fight? How many people were killed or wounded? ”

Lee: "The details and reasons are not clear. It was probably on the 16th of this month (dry lunar calendar), when a small number of sailors of our ship went ashore to shop and bathe. In the commotion, 8 Chinese sailors were killed and 45 wounded, for a total of 53 dead and wounded. It is an abomination that the patrols of your country are so violent that there is no one around. ”

Hatano: "Do the sailors who go to land carry weapons?" The rope-cutting knife that sailors usually carry with them should be carried with them during riots, right? ”

Lee: "According to the telegram, when the sailors went ashore, the officer with the command ordered that they were not allowed to bring knives ashore. If my sailors had carried equipment, there would have been no more than 40 casualties. The patrol officers of your country used Japanese knives to slash and kill our unarmed sailors, which made our great country extremely angry. Why do the police in your country hate me so much when they see me? Three or four years ago, the patrol police of your country killed a Chinese Qianguo (in October of the 16th year of the Meiji era, the Qianguo was killed in the Japanese opium smoking incident). A few days ago, the captain of the fleet called and asked for an immediate war, but he was stopped by this officer. Of course, it is not difficult to start a war, and the huge guns of our ships are in a state of combat readiness, and there is no problem in starting a war at any time. ”

Hatano: "Our police may be scum, but our government and people are friendly to your country and have absolutely no hostile intentions. ”

Li: "Generally speaking, it is common for warships to be stationed in Hong Kong, and it is common for sailors to go ashore to shop, but the patrol police of your country are rude and obstruct the passage of our sailors. If we incite the cadres to obstruct the people of your country in Tianjin, how will your country feel? At present, the relations between the two countries are at their best, but such unexpected and unpleasant things are often heard. To be sure, the people of your country are friendly, but the police are too deceitful and abhorrent. ”

Hatano: "Actually, our country's patrol officers are all reasonable, and they don't do anything to hurt people for no reason. Our country has a very strict police law, and even those who subdue rioters cannot use rioters at will. ”

Li: "If it was true that our sailors had committed acts of rebellion in your country, if your country had handed over the sailors to my officers for disposal, there would have been no such fights, but on the contrary, most of the patrolmen in your country besieged our sailors and caused casualties among our sailors. In the final analysis, this incident was an incident provoked by the police of your country who hated our countrymen. ”

Hatano: "Unlike the United States, Japan and Japan have no competition in terms of occupation, and our people have no reason to hate your people at all. ”

Li: "This is a wrong statement, the events that are happening here are the affairs of the people and the people, and the affairs of the officers and soldiers and the officers and soldiers. The United States cannot be compared. ”

Hatano: "Did Your Excellency say officers and soldiers?" There is a strict distinction between patrolmen and soldiers in our country. Those who engage in acts of war are called soldiers, and those who are controlled and arrested by rioters in civilian areas are called patrol police, and the distinction between them must be noted. ”

Li: "After the incident, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already dispatched an investigation committee and your own minister has also sent a counselor, so I also ask your consul to send a telegram to your country to properly handle and resolve this incident." ”

Hatano: "I am committed to your entrustment, and I believe that our government will be able to achieve a satisfactory result for your country. ”

In fact, Li Shaoquan's questioning to Shogoro Hatano was mainly to express the indignant attitude of the Qianguo side, and he was convinced that the matter was wrong in Japan, and after learning that many Japanese police and civilians had seized the notice, he first said, "There is no excuse for fighting and killing the cause of the brothel, and the restraint is lax." However, he had a tolerant attitude towards the sailors, "However, the landing of the soldiers is a matter of narrow-mindedness, and it is also a matter of perseverance." That is, the general is not strictly restrained, and it is not impossible to blame, and there is no need to be too hasty. Martial artists are good, it is their heaven, but if they can be greedy for fame, they can naturally be rope rulers. He then instructed Ding Yuting to make tough negotiations with Japan: "The coaxing of Japan and Beijing has very little origin. At the beginning, because of a small dispute, and the Japanese conspired to retaliate, our soldiers were unprepared, resulting in a trap. Seeing that the market is not closed late, the coastal boats are hidden, and the patrol is not owned by the sun, which is called a suspicion of provocation, how dare he resign? Obviously, the merits of the Qianguo "absolutely do not fail to adhere to the principle of the end," while "the Japanese people know that they are short of reason, and they will never dare to repeat the incident, and they will not be able to tell the truth."

In fact, he was able to guess that events would eventually develop in favor of the country.

After the "Qianguo Sailors Incident," relations between the two countries suddenly became tense, and Xu Chengzu, the minister of the Qianguo State in Japan, sent a telegram to the imperial court, demanding that diplomatic relations be severed and the envoys should be withdrawn and a war should be waged against Japan. However, because the Qianguo Imperial Court had just put down the rebellion in Xinjiang and signed a peace treaty with Russia, it did not want to be involved in the whirlpool of war again, so it did not approve Xu Chengzu's request, but ordered a newly formed fleet of cruisers and mine-striking ships to go to Japan to reinforce the ironclad fleet in Tokyo Bay.

The increase in the number of troops of the Qianguo Navy plunged the whole country into a panic.

Attached: Xu Hanguang, director of the Firearms Bureau of the Ministry of Military Industry of the Great Qian Empire, "The History of Guns in the Great Qian Empire" rifle chapter:

"Unlike pistols, the models of rifles used in the Daqian Empire are so chaotic that even a voluminous monograph is difficult to explain, and during the fourteen-year-long 'Shengping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion', the rebels and the generals and local officials of the imperial army purchased tens of thousands of rifles from Western arms dealers. In the arsenal of the Reich government more than a decade after the end of the Civil War, a large number of obsolete smoothbore flintlock pistols such as Brown Bess and Charlville Model 8077 were even found. Except for some of the old goods that were truncated and the breech-loading firing device was added to transform into shotguns, the only remaining place to go was to disassemble and return to the furnace. ”

Fortunately, the efforts of Yoshizhe Hayashi, the founder of the empire's new navy, reduced the confusion. From the outset, the construction of the Reich's steam fleet was officially supported by the French government, and the fleet sailors and marines were equipped with French Chasebo breech-loading rifles. The use of this army rifle in the maritime environment exposed a number of problems, especially the difficulty of paper ammunition packs to prevent moisture penetration, resulting in frequent dumb fire when firing. In 9074, the Marines participated in a series of battles against Japanese forces at Moss Bay and Ryukyu, and they believed that the Winchester repeating rifle, with its copper-cased cartridge, was superior in firing reliability. ”

"After the signing of the peace treaty with Japan in the same year, the Imperial Navy received a large part of Japan's war reparations. The artillery factory belonging to the Fuzhou Shipyard Company was expanded, and under the orders of Lin, it began to follow the requirements of Basilai. Colonel Glass's design made the Glass-style rifle, the Type 9074 naval rifle, which fires 11×59 mm R brass fixed load. Existing Chasebo rifles were also modified to fire the same cartridges. More than 300,000 Type 9074 naval rifles have been produced by the Gun Factory and the Jinan Arsenal, which are not only equipped with the Navy and Marine Corps, but also exported to many countries, including the Republic of the Philippines, which is under the protection of the Dry State. The Imperial Marines used it until the 9120s, when it had been converted into a grenade launcher that fired small grenades to provide support to the infantry. ”

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