Chapter 183 Slaughter
"General, if the Japanese army does this, the Qing government will react fiercely. Once the Qing will be made public to the international community at this time, Japan will be in an international embarrassment!" Shenwei Mitsuson said.
Yaochi laughed: "Mr. Kamio, in your own words, you still don't know the national conditions of the Qing Dynasty."
"How do you say this?"
"The citizens of the Qing Dynasty do not respect their court. On the other hand, the court will not respect their own citizens. Don't worry, the court will not respond!"
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The Japanese attack on Lushun was surprisingly smooth. It was thought that the Qing army would adopt a joint defense by sea. While resisting on land, the Beiyang navy supported Lushun Fortress from the sea.
However, the actual situation is that the Beiyang navy was afraid of the enemy to avoid the battle. Ding Ruchang led two huge ships, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, wandering in the sea area of Shandong Gaojiao to watch the battle from afar. In order to induce the Beiyang navy to help Lushun, the Japanese army even sent a huge transport ship that was completely unarmed to lure the Beiyang navy, but Ding Ruchang did not Moved.
Seeing that the Beiyang navy sat by and couldn't help, the heart of the Lushun garrison completely collapsed. After a slight resistance in Baiyu Mountain, the whole line was defeated. The Qing army on the forts around Lushun abandoned their positions and scrambled to escape. The Qing soldiers who fled to Lushun abandoned their weapons and hurriedly put on the clothes of ordinary people in an attempt to save their lives.
The Song Qing troops responsible for defending the Yalu River defense line urgently rushed to Lushun, but were blocked by the Japanese army under Jinzhou City, which was difficult to walk.
Two days later, the Japanese attacked the Lushun Fortress.
The cruel slaughter has begun!
According to the order of the local governance, the Japanese army slaughtered all the Qing prisoners who laid down their weapons. Then, the Qing soldiers hidden in the homes of the people were searched and arrested. All the young and middle-aged people suspected of being Qing soldiers were killed on the spot!
The Qing army has a tradition that soldiers always wear civilian clothes. Once they are defeated, they immediately change into civilian clothes, which is mixed with the people.
In the world military history of the 19th century, this was regarded as a strange theory by Westerners, but in the Qing Dynasty, it was a rule that did not become.
Because of the rule of the Qing army, the people of Lushun were ruthlessly slaughtered by the Japanese army!
The search and arrest of the Qing army has been expanded endlessly. At first, the Japanese army only killed those with obvious military characteristics. Later, all young and middle-aged people were killed, and the situation was out of control. The red-eyed Japanese soldiers began to kill all the Lushun people. The elderly, women and children were not spared.
Man is an animal, and everyone is born with animal cruelty. The reason why human society is different from animals in nature is that every person in society is bound by social organizational structure and morality and ethics, and the cruel side of its animals is curbed.
However, once the ethical constraints that curb their animal nature are broken, people's animal nature will inevitably explode completely without restraint or even when encouraged, even more cruel than animals.
The massacre of the Japanese army in Lushun was a barbaric outbreak under the banner of "loyalty and patriotism", under the guise of civilized war, and under the banner of revenge for their companions!
When a person knows that his cruelty and barbarism will not be punished, on the contrary, he will be rewarded for it, then this person will unreservedly give full play to his animal nature.
In Lushun, the beast broke out not one person, but an army!
This army is known as the modern civilized army! They have modern equipment, systems, and supplies, and have also received a full westernized civilization education. The Meiji New Army proudly claimed that their soldiers knew how to obey the commander, knew how to be loyal to the emperor, knew how to respect women, knew how to understand modern international etiquette, and knew how to defecate...
Killing is no longer for the revenge of companions or for the interests of the country!
For the Japanese soldiers who rushed into Lushun City, killing is just a pleasure!
They laughed and waved bayonets, split the child's head, and cut off the woman's breasts. Room, cut open the old man's lower abdomen...
lv shun has become a hell on earth.
Three days later, the command of the First Army issued an order to stop the massacre. In fact, Lushun had no one to kill!
In order to cover up the violence. OK, on November 26, the Second Army Command issued an order to "clean up the battlefield as soon as possible and quickly dispose of the bodies of the Qing people".
However, the occupying forces were helpless about the mountains of corpses in Lushun City - there were so many bodies that the occupying forces could not bury them with enough manpower.
The Japanese army had to burn the body and burned for three days and nights.
There were only 36 survivors in Lushun, who were requisitioned by the Japanese army to carry their bodies, so they narrowly escaped.
On November 29, Thomas Kewin, a special reporter of the British Times, returned to Hiroshima from Lushun to meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munanitsu and severely accusing the Japanese army of violence in Lushun. OK, Lu Ao Zongguang tried his best to prevaricate on the grounds that he had not been reported by the front headquarters. Subsequently, Kewin telegraphed back to Britain and his conversation with Lu Ao Zongguang. The full text of The Times was published. In this article, Kewen pointed out with righteously: "The Japanese army killed all the Qing prisoners and civilians who laid down their weapons. After the incident, a large number of military and civilian bodies were burned..."
On December 1, Creman, a reporter of New York World, sent a telegram to the U.S. headquarters in Yokohama, pointing out: "The Japanese army's indiscriminate killing of unarmed residents, including old, young, women and children, and the slaughter scenes and corpses are unspeakable... The Japanese army's trembling behavior contrary to civilized society has stained Japan. The self-apported civilization returned to the barbaric era. Foreign military reporters were unsighted in the terrorist killing and collectively angrily left the scene of the Japanese killing..."
On January 4, 1895, Willias, an American flag reporter, published The Truth of Lushun, describing his personal experience of the massacre of Lushun, which caused a sensation in North America.
The violence of the Japanese army in Lushun. The line gradually became public, triggering a strong response from Western countries. The Western people's favorable impression of Japanese civilization collapsed overnight, and Japan faced the advice of thousands of the world. As Keman said, "Japan took sudden intervention for the liberation of North Korea and then developed into a barbaric war. The nature of the matter is no longer the entanglement between civilization and barbarism. Japan finally unveiled its mask and completely ** civilization!"
And Elent, a famous professor of international law at Oxford University, pointed out: "Japan is a monster with beast muscles and bones in the cloak of civilization. Lushun's abuse and killing exposed the true face of the Japanese's barbaric nature. Such a self-respecting civilization still needs a world. The evolution of civilization above the discipline!"
However, it is sad that, as the culprit of the Lushun massacre predicted, the Qing Dynasty, as the victim, was responsible for the violence of the Japanese army in Lushun. OK, never say a word!
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When the innocent Qing people were slaughtered by foreign invaders, the emperors, empress dowager and princes and ministers they relied on were indifferent! No one stood up and shouted grievances and humiliated for the people of the country!
But those foreign devils who are regarded as barbarians send out a cry of justice and mercy to the helpless Qing people on the far side!
Not only that, the Qing army was greedy and afraid of death. A large number of soldiers fled after the defeat, transferring the danger to the innocent people. This kind of bad behavior of transferring the life-and-death crisis is as barbaric as the Japanese army's tragic killing of the people!
The Qing court against Japanese military violence. The indifference of the line is the inevitable result of its barbaric culture! In the historical view of the Qing Dynasty, and even in the 5,000-year-old Chinese cultural view, it is reasonable and legal for the victor to kill the losers! The Japanese army's slaughter of Lushun is actually in line with China's thousands of years of slaughter culture. In China, the city was slaughtered during the change of dynasty, more than a Lushun! It's not just Yangzhou Santu and Jiading for 10 days!
The court of the Qing Dynasty actually recognized the legitimacy of the Japanese army against Lushun City from the bottom of its heart! For the humanitarian appeal of the Western world, those princes, ministers and empresses will only feel strange and even disgusted that they are nosy!
In this sense, the Japanese army brutally slaughtered Lushun precisely because she inherited and carried forward the war culture of the "Heavenly Kingdom". It is also a great victory for the Qing Dynasty to "Huairou far away" and "promote the holy religion"!
As historians said, the massacre in Lushun is a historical tragedy caused by the inherent barbaric culture of the two countries in the Qing Dynasty. It is not only Japan that needs to evolve, but also the Qing Dynasty needs it!
However, this culture will certainly be rejected by the civilized world! Along with the spitting, there are a series of brutality hidden under the cloak of Confucian morality, such as women's foot wraps, chastity archways, Ling Chi torture, castration of eunuchs, emperors' insults and death!
The Qing Dynasty court was indifferent to the tragedy of Lushun, while the Japanese government tried every means to destroy the criminal evidence and influence public opinion. The Japanese government launched a powerful public opinion war through diplomacy, news and civil society, and tried its best to defend the massacre in Lushun. To this end, the Japanese government did not hesitate to pay a lot of money to buy Western newspapers and publish articles defending Japan.
The Qing Dynasty was defeated militarily by Japan, but it still played against the Japanese. In the war of public opinion, he took the initiative to give up resistance!
The Japanese won the war of public opinion, and Western public opinion collectively silenced after a month of public opinion. The Qing Dynasty itself doesn't take this matter seriously, so why do foreign devils mind their own business?