Chapter 116 Seven Star Black Flag
"That's the reason!" Zhenfei laughed and said, "So, Zhou Charter must enter Taiwan before Liu Yongfu completely collapses. Otherwise, Zhou Charter has a good reason to stay on the mainland, which is what the Empress Dowager Buddha never wants to see! At this time, Zhou Charter swallowed the Dingwu army and went to Taiwan, and the Empress Dowager Buddha could only eat it in his front teeth! I think Liu Kunyi will also think of this, but Liu Kunyi, an old fox, doesn't want to say it himself.
"Then I'll play to the emperor." Zhirui said.
"You can't go either." Concubine Zhen said, "You are my brother. Go and tell me, the Empress Dowager will think of me immediately."
"Then who will say it?"
Concubine Zhen thought for a moment and said, "There are two people who can say it."
"Who?"
"Zhang Zhidong and Li Hongzhang."
"These two are even more old foxes. Aren't they afraid to offend the Empress Dowager?"
"Yesterday, the emperor ordered that all the equipment of Zhang Jun in this operation was provided by Zhang Zhidong! At the same time, Li Hongzhang was transferred as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi! Li Hongzhang is responsible for Zhang Jun's food and salary supply in Taiwan!"
Zhirui suddenly realized: "That is to say, the success or failure of Taiwan's war is related to these two people! Naturally, they have to do their best!"
Princess Zhen nodded with a smile.
Zhi Rui smiled and said, "The Empress Dowager made wedding clothes for Zhou Charter this time!"
Concubine Zhen took out the gold and jade pocket watch from her pocket and handed it to Zhi Rui: "Brother, please give this to Zhou Charter."
Zhirui took the pocket watch and sighed, "If it hadn't been for this pocket watch, no one would have known that he was still alive."
"The matter of Zhou Charter is already an open secret in the Qing Dynasty. He is the owner of this pocket watch!" Concubine Zhen said softly.
Zhirui nodded: "However, our Qing Dynasty has given up Taiwan, and Zhang Jun can only secretly enter Taiwan to fight. Li Hongzhang is responsible for the supply of Zhang Jun and can only carry out secretly. If the Japanese hold any handle, the court can only pretend to be deaf and dumb. As in North Korea, Zhang Jun can only fight alone. I'm worried that Zhang Jun can resist the Japanese?"
Zhenfei's eyes are firm: "Zhou Charter will definitely do it! I believe him!"
The trust placed by Zhenfei on the man she had never met exceeds that of anyone, including the emperor!
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August 29, 1895, Bagua Mountain, Changhua, Taiwan.
Bagua Mountain is located in the northeast of Changhua, formerly known as Liaowang Mountain. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Dingjun Mountain as a place for soldiers. Hu Yingkui of Changhua Zhixian County built the Taiji Pavilion after the county office. He felt that the peaks of Dingjun Mountain were beautiful and stood on its top overlooking the city. According to the classics of "Taiji gave birth to two rituals, two yi gave birth to four elephants, and four elephants gave birth to Bagua" Change to Bagua Mountain.
Bagua Mountain overlooks the whole city of Changhua and is the gateway to Changhua, while Changhua is the gateway to Taichung. Its strategic position is extremely important.
Bagua Mountain has beautiful scenery and lush vegetation. It is a famous scenic spot in Taichung. However, it should have been on a lush hillside, but now it is scorched earth, scattered with incomplete bodies, mostly black flag officers and soldiers in black uniforms, and a small number of Japanese officers and soldiers in dark blue military uniforms. .
On the top of the mountain full of gunpowder, a dilapidated seven-star black flag fluttered in the wind.
Under the banner of the seven-star black army, Wu Pengnian, the former enemy leader of the Black Flag Army, stood with his sword and stared angrily down the hillside. A piece of shrapnel penetrated into his left chest, and the blood soaked the corset, flowed along his arm to the sword, and then along the sword body, immersed in the scorched earth under his feet.
A shell exploded not far away, and the soldiers of the seven-star team were torn apart. The air waves made Wu Pengnian stagger. Wu Pengnian roared, supported the ground with his sword, stood firm, and spit out a mouthful of blood.
The flag bearer in charge of the seven-star black flag finally couldn't stand it. Several shrapnel inserted into the flag bearer's chest and back. The flag bearer slowly fell down and stopped breathing. However, the seven-star black flag was still flying in the sky, and the dead flag bearer still firmly protected the broken seven-star black flag with his hands - that was the flag of the Black Flag Army!
The most elite seven-star team of the Black Flag Army has been killed and killed. The Black Flag Army, which once frightened the French, will complete the final song in Bagua Mountain!
The Japanese army has entered Changhua City and controlled the whole city of Changhua. The Eight Diagram Mountain, which was originally the gateway of Changhua City, completely lost its shielding effect on Changhua. On the contrary, it became the Jedi of the defenders. The Japanese army surrounded Bagua Mountain on all sides, and the remaining Black Flag Army fell into the Jedi.
On the hillside, the sound of gunfire is sparse, the living black flag army is getting fewer and less, and the resistance is getting weaker and weaker. The Japanese army is calmly gathering at the foot of the mountain, preparing to launch a final and deadly blow to the resisters on Bagua Mountain.
In the face of death, Wu Pengnian is not afraid. The old brothers of the Black Flag Army have gone before him. For Wu Pengnian, death is a kind of reunion.
He just doesn't feel reconciled!
Taiwan's Anti-Japanese War lasted only two months. For a war, this is only the beginning, but the war situation is so chilling!
On June 2, Li Jingfang and Japan's Penghu Governor-General Yidong Youheng completed the Taiwan ferry ceremony at sea. Legally, Taiwan was incorporated into Japan.
However, on this day, Taiwan's military and civilians "do not resist the imperial edict"! Taiwan's democratic country announced its establishment in Taipei, flying a yellow tiger flag on a blue background, and does not recognize any agreement between the Qing Dynasty and Japan!
Tang Jingsung, President of Taiwan's democratic country, issued a letter to the whole people of Taiwan: "Japan bullied China and demanded that in addition to compensate for military expenses, it reclaimed an island in Taiwan. The Taiwanese people were loyal and refused to bend down for revenge, and repeatedly begged for exemption, but China wanted to show great faith and did not agree to change the contract... Taiwan's territory, Zheng and the Qing Dynasty operated and built 200 In the year, I am grateful for the salvation of the Holy Lord. Now I must stand on my own as a country. I still respect Zheng Shuo, and I am a vassal from afar. My qi and veins are connected, and I am no different from the Middle-earth..."
The letter to the whole people of Taiwan clearly expresses two layers of meaning. First, the Qing Dynasty ignored the will of the Taiwanese people and insisted on ceding Taiwan to Japan. It was the Qing Dynasty that abandoned Taiwan. Second, Taiwan was abandoned by the Qing court and had no choice but to establish itself as a country. However, Taiwan still regarded China as the right thing. The people of Taiwan are still the people of the Qing Dynasty, and Taiwan is willing to be the overseas barrier of the Qing Dynasty!
An abandoned orphan wants to tenaciously protect the person who abandoned him. There is nothing more sad than this!
The founding of Taiwan not only did not dispel Japan's ambition to occupy Taiwan, but also stimulated the belligerent nerves of the Japanese. The Japanese base camp immediately ordered that the domestic well-equipped Guards Division set out for Taiwan and teamed up with the Bizhi Island Mixed Brigade that captured Penghu to seize Taiwan by force.
On May 29, before the arrival of the Guards Division, the eager Bizhi Island Mixed Brigade brazenly landed at the Three Minable Corners in the northeast corner of Taiwan, marking the prelude to the military attack on Taiwan.
This is the famous Bwei War in history!
The Second Sino-Japanese War is the remnant of the Sino-Japanese War, which is only limited to a corner of Taiwan. However, the tragedy of this war is no less than the First Sino-Japanese War, and the bravery, tenaciousness and blood shown by Taiwan's military and civilians made the Qing Dynasty even more ashamed. In the Second World War, Taiwan's military and civilians were poorly equipped and there was no food and salary in foreign rescuers. However, they used cold weapons such as knives, spears, bamboo sticks and piles to destroy tens of thousands of Japanese troops. At the same time, they also paid the cost of more than 100,000 lives. In the First Sino-Japanese War, hundreds of thousands of well-equipped troops in the Qing Dynasty only killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers!
Before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, in the late Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan governor Tang Jingsong realized the Japanese army's ambition for Taiwan and began to strengthen Taiwan's defense. While rectifying Taiwan's Qing army, Tang Jingsong wrote to the court, asking the court to send more troops to Taiwan. However, at that time, almost all the troops of the Qing Dynasty were transferred to the north to fight against the Japanese army, and there were almost no troops in China.
In desperation, Tang Jingsong remembered Liu Yongfu.
Liu Yongfu is from Guangxi. In the 1850s, when the politics of the Qing Dynasty were rotten and people changed everywhere. When Hong Xiuquan launched the anti-Qing uprising in Jintian, Guangxi, Liu Yongfu himself also led a team of more than 2,000 people and occupied the mountain as the king. After the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing Dynasty gradually restored order. Liu Yongfu could not establish himself in the Qing Dynasty, so he led his followers to flee to Vietnam and reclaim in the mountainous area northwest of the Sino-Vietnamese border.
Liu Yongfu, a group of green forest heroes of about 2,000 people, used black flags embroidered with the Big Dipper Seven Stars. People used to call them the Black Flag Army. At that time, France was trying to penetrate Vietnam. King Nguyen Hongren of Vietnam was unable to stop it and had to rely on Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and appointed Liu Yongfu as Deputy Admiral of Sanxuan, hoping that he would lead the Black Flag Army to help Vietnam resist the French invasion.
In 1884, the Sino-French War broke out. Feng Zicai led the army to confront the French at Zhennanguan, and the war was imminent. At this time, Tang Jingsong was only the alternate chief of the Ministry of Li. He suggested to the court to recruit the Black Flag Army, assist the Qing army to fight against the French army, and volunteered to go to Vietnam to lobby Liu Yongfu. The court granted Tang Jingsong's memorial. Soon Tang Jingsong came to Vietnam and saw Liu Yongfu. Liu Yongfu really agreed, leading the Black Flag army to attach and assisting Feng Zicai to fight against the French army.
Under the response of the Black Flag Army, Feng Zicai won the Zhennan Pass victory and recovered Langshan, Changqing and other places, and won a complete victory on the eastern front battlefield.
After the end of the Sino-French War, Liu Yongfu led 3,000 black flag troops back to China and served as the generals of South Australia and Shishan for nearly ten years.
Now, Taiwan is in danger, and the court can't send rescuers, and Tang Jingsong thinks of Liu Yongfu again. The court reported to the imperial court and transferred the black flag army into Taiwan, and the court immediately approved it.
However, at this time, the Black Flag Army is no longer what it used to be. Liu Yongfu was born in the green forest. The Black Flag Army was originally an out-of-system army. The court was extremely afraid of the Black Flag Army. After the Black Flag Army returned to China, the court tried to reduce it. For more than ten years, the Black Flag Army only had three or 400 veterans, and many famous generals left.
However, Liu Yongfu, who was old and strong, was ordered in the face of the crisis in Taiwan. He organized 300 Black Flag Army veterans into a seven-star team as the backbone of the Black Flag Army. At the same time, he recruited 3,000 new recruits from six battalions in Guangxi and joined Taiwan in September 1894.
However, after entering Taiwan, Liu Yongfu's life was not easy.