Chapter 167 Military Elders

Kamei subconsciously raised his camera. As a photographer, he felt obliged to show the unknown side of a general to the Japanese people.

A staff officer secretly pulled Tsuaki Kamei's arm and motioned him to put down the camera with his eyes.

Zuaki Kamui shook his head. Obviously, Apeng from Yamagata did not want his image to appear in the public eye.

In fact, some friends in Shanxian County are so gaffet, and Tsuaki Kamei also understands it.

Just now, news came from the base camp that the Japanese Second Army, led by Army General Dashanyan, would land in Incheon.

The arrival of the Second Army means that the plan of Shan County to attack Manchuria will be completely ruined.

The Second Army is under the jurisdiction of the First Division, the Second Division and the Sixth Division into the 12th Brigade. The training order given by the base camp to the Second Army is to cooperate closely with the First Army and the Joint Fleet, and the First Army will contain the main force of the enemy in the north, and the Second Army will wait for the opportunity to occupy the Lushun Peninsula.

This order clearly told friends in Shan County that his first army was a partial division, and its task was to "contrain" rather than the main attack. The second army of Dashanyan was responsible for the assault on the mainland of the Qing Dynasty!

What's more annoying is that the attack direction of the Second Army is not Yalu River, but Lushun.

At this time, Yamagata realized that he had been fooled by politicians in Tokyo!

At the beginning of the war, the base camp did not regard North Korea as the main battlefield, nor did it regard Manchuria as the main direction of the Japanese army.

The military action of the First Army in North Korea turned out to be only to contain the main force of the Qing army on the front line of the Yalu River, thus causing the emptiness of the Liaodong Peninsula and creating conditions for the Second Army to directly attack the heart of the Qing Dynasty.

The base camp has never considered entering Manchuria. Attacking from Manchuria to Shanhaiguan, along the line of Dorpon, entering the station* and moving into the Central Plains, this great idea seems to have never entered the consideration of the military department. That's just the wishful thinking of friends in Shan County.

Landing from the Liaodong Peninsula, and then seizing the Shandong Peninsula and directly attacking the capital of the Qing Dynasty, this is the real purpose of the base camp!

Once upon a time, some friends in Shan County thought that his will was the will of the military department, and the will of the military department was the will of the country!

However, it turned out that the generals and politicians respected Yamagata on the surface, but in fact, their hearts did not care about the soul of the Meiji army.

They actually took a military soul-level marshal as a bait!

The Qing Dynasty was indeed fooled. With the power of friends in Shan County, the Qing Dynasty had to believe that the main attack direction of the Japanese army was in the Yalu River. Almost all the main forces of the Qing army were deployed from the west bank of the Yalu River to Fengtian to meet the attack of Youpeng in Shan County. The Liaodong Peninsula is empty!

However, a friend in Shan County was also fooled, and he was fooled by the base camp!

Since the beginning of the war, Yamagata has been immersed in the dream of the first Japanese general to enter Chinese territory and the dream of the war leader. Now it seems that he is just a pawn in the hands of the military department!

How can an arrogant mountain county be someone else's pawn! What's more, the base camp dares to use such a despicable deception against a veteran!

What made friends in Shanxian even more furious was that the commander of the Second Army turned out to be his old rival Dashanyan!

Before the outbreak of the war, Army General Oyamaiwa served as the Japanese Army Secretary.

In the Japanese military, there are three people known as elders, including Peng, Dashanyan and Huashan Ziji in Shanxian County. Among them, Huashan Ziji is the Minister of the Navy, while Shanxian Youpeng and Dashanyan are the elders in the army. This has the taste of one mountain and two tigers.

What is more profound is that the two army elders stood against each other in the civil war in the early Meiji period.

Meiji Restoration has gone through an extremely painful process. The most important content of the Meiji Restoration is to strengthen centralization, weaken the local division of the samurai family, and complete the real unification of Japan. Everyone knows that a disintegrative Japan cannot complete the modernization process.

In the early days of the Meiji Restoration, the struggle between the central government and the local separatist forces was extremely fierce, and the war continued for years. Finally, marked by the Southwest War, it reached the peak of the civil war. In cruel wars, there are often human tragedies of brothers and sisters. After the end of the Southwest War, the authority of the central government with the emperor as the core was finally established, and the national reconciliation was established in Japan. The original enemy lay down their weapons and joined hands under the emperor's banner to form a new backbone of the Japanese government.

However, the pain and estrangement brought by war will not be so easily forgotten.

People who work under the same government often have psychological estrangement because of their positions in the recent civil war, which has contributed to a very delicate political pattern.

Yamagata Aritomo is the founder of the modern Japanese New Army and used to be a loyal supporter of the downfall activities. However, he is also inextricably linked to the separatist forces of the Japanese samurai group. In fact, Yamagata Aritomo is a person who has a strong habit of warlords. In a series of wars in which the central government suppressed the separatist forces, Shan A friend in the county is a sympathizer of the separatist forces, or he himself is a prince!

And Dashanyan, who was born in the enlightened family, has been a loyal defender of centralization from the beginning!

Dashanyan is the second son of Dashan Yanchang, a famous Japanese artillery expert. As an emerging enlightened family, the Dashan family has been influenced by Western civilization for a long time. Like his father, Dashanyan is extremely interested in Western artillery, and further admires the political framework of the West.

In previous wars, Dashanyan stood firmly on the side of the central government and launched ruthless strikes against the separatists. Dashanyan in the civil war was bloodthirsty and cruel, and was not soft on the enemy. However, after the war, he kept silent about the civil war. He put aside all the medals he had received in the civil war and never showed it.

He told others that it was painful to recall the civil war. A real general should not cast his own star with the blood of his compatriots!

Because of the civil war, Yamagata Youpeng and Dashanyan, two popular figures in the Japanese military, have a deep gap in their hearts! Politically, we should beware of each other and compete militarily.

In the early stage of the war, Shanxian Youpeng was appointed as the commander of the First Army and was fully responsible for the Korean battlefield. In the eyes of many people, this appointment is a victory for friends in Shan County. As the commander of the first overseas dispatch army in modern Japan, Aritomo Yamagata has won the limelight in North Korea, and even the base camp seems to be led by his nose.

The first army swept the Korean Peninsula and won the greatest foreign war since the founding of Japan. The light of friends in Shanxian County completely covers the mountain rock. For a long time, the mountain rock disappeared from the public view. Some friends in Shan County are very proud of this.

However, as the Second Army landed in Incheon, Dashanyan gradually returned to people's view.

Yan Youpeng suddenly found that everything he did in North Korea turned out to be a wedding dress for Dashanyan!

The Second Army will become the first Japanese army to set foot on Chinese territory, not the First Army! Dashanyan quietly stole the fruit of his victory!