Chapter 117 Black Peer
If the Japanese army wants to capture Taiwan, they must first take Penghu and then Keelung. Northeast Taiwan is the main target of the Japanese army, so if you want to defend Taiwan, you should set up heavy troops on the front line of Keelung Taipei.
However, Tang Jingsong deployed Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army in Tainan. Keelung Taipei's front line is defended by Tang Jingsong's own 5,000 Qing troops. Liu Yongfu repeatedly proposed that the two armies join forces to defend Keelung, but Tang Jingsong refused.
Northeast Taiwan has always been a rich place in Taiwan. It has been developed earlier and developed mining and fisheries, while the south is a wild place with high mountains and dense forests and sparsely populated. Tang Jingsong put the Black Flag Army in the Tainan area for fear that the Black Flag Army would grab the territory with him!
It was precisely because of Tang Jingsong's selfishness that the situation in Taiwan turned sharply after the start of the Second World War.
On May 29, the Bizhi Island mixed brigade successfully landed in Cape Three Minable, and the Japanese army captured the highlands and dignified highlands of Australia and gained a firm foothold.
On June 3, the main force of the Guards Division arrived and launched a strong attack on Keelung, capturing the Lion Ridge Fort in one fell swoop. As soon as the army rushed in, Keelung fell.
On June 6, the Guards Division launched the Taipei Campaign. The 5,000 Taiwanese troops stationed in Taipei collapsed in the face of 20,000 well-equipped Japanese troops with low morale and almost no decent resistance. The Taipei Campaign lasted only one day, and Taipei fell.
On June 11, Prince Jiuneng of Beibaichuan Palace, the head of the Guards Division, led a large force into Taipei. Subsequently, Yuheng Ito, the governor of Taiwan appointed by Japan, entered the city grandly.
Tang Jingsung, the president of Taiwan's democratic country, fled to the mainland, and the government collapsed. From the establishment to the collapse of Taiwan's democratic country, it was only 11 days.
Subsequently, the Japanese army invaded the Taichung region. In the northeast of Taiwan, mainly plains and Taiwan, the Taiwanese army had no danger to defend. The Japanese army** and the Taiwanese army fought bloody battles, but the Japanese army had an absolute advantage in terms of number and equipment. From June 19 to August 8, Lianke Hsinchu, Taoyuan and Miaoli. Jiang Shaozu, the leader of the Democratic Army, was killed and thousands of soldiers were killed in battle. The Japanese army wiped out northern Taiwan, and the resistance of the Democratic National Army in the north completely failed. The rich northern part of Taiwan fell into the hands of the Japanese.
The fall of northern Taiwan put the Black Flag Army stationed in Tainan in an extremely passive situation. Tainan is remote and economically extremely backward. The relatively rich northern region is completely barbaric. The Black Flag Army seriously lacks the materials and salaries to support the war, while the northern Japanese army can rely on the wealth of Taipei to obtain a large number of war resources. To this end the war, the Japanese army has firmly controlled the initiative of the war. It can even be said that the Japanese army has won an overwhelming victory, because the barren Tainan, in any case It can't support Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army. The Qing Dynasty has abandoned Taiwan, and it is impossible for Liu Yongfu to obtain war resources from the Qing Dynasty.
Under this*, Taiwan Governor-General Yidong Youheng held Taiwan's "Initial Ceremony" at the Governor's Office of the former "Government Envoy" of the Qing Dynasty in Taipei, announcing that Japan officially exercised its administrative jurisdiction over Taiwan and opened Taiwan's colonial history.
In the view of the Japanese, occupying northern Taiwan is to complete the comprehensive occupation of Taiwan. The Black Flag Army in Tainan is just a group of bandits who occupy the mountains. The next step is the Japanese army to do is to suppress bandits by the local regime. According to the idea of Governor Ito, it will only take at most a month to eliminate the Black Flag Army and pact down Tainan.
Liu Yongfu knew that he had fallen into the Jedi.
Changhua is the only stronghold of the Black Flag Army in Taichung. Once Changhua is lost, the Black Flag Army will no longer have a foothold.
Liu Yongfu, who was forced into a desperate situation, had no choice but to decide to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Changhua!
The Black Flag Army has only 3300 people in total, and only 300 people are equipped with the new Type 88 rifle of the Hanyang Arsenal. The remaining five battalions are basically old single-fire rifles manufactured by the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau due to the rush of recruitment. Even the Qing army has long been eliminated. . The whole Black Flag Army didn't even have a cannon. To make matters worse, most of the soldiers are newly recruited farmers with extremely low tactical literacy.
The Japanese Guards Division is a standard modern army and the most well-equipped division in Japan. 20,000 in the division are all equipped with the most advanced Murata-style continuous-fire rifles. This kind of continuous-fire rifle has not been fully assigned to the Japanese army in the just-concluded Sino-Japanese War. Most of the Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield are equipped with single-fire rifles. In addition, the Guards Division is equipped with two artillery brigades, equipped with 50 wild guns and 80 mountain guns. It can be said that it is armed to the teeth.
The Japanese Bizhi Island Mixed Brigade was put into Changhua, with a total strength of 8,000, while Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army was 35,000.
The Battle of Changhua is a battle destined to fight the fire!
However, Liu Yongfu has no choice, and the Black Flag Army has no choice!
Liu Yongfu sent almost all the troops, including the Seven Stars, the backbone of the Black Flag Army, which once frightened the French! Because of them, France suffered a defeat comparable to Waterloo in Zhennanguan! That defeat led to the fall of the French cabinet!
There are only 300 people in the Seven Stars, all of whom are the brothers of the Black Flag Army.
They know that the Battle of Changhua will be the finale of the Black Flag Army!
However, in the face of the powerful Japanese army, no officers and soldiers of the Black Flag Army retreated. Whether it's a veteran of the Seven Star Team or a newly recruited recruit!
People are always going to die!
With the belief of death, the Black Flag Army rushed to Dajiaxi, north of Changhua, to stop the Japanese army.
Liu Yongfu stayed alone in Tainan, which is already an empty city. He is waiting for the news of the martyrdom of all the Black Flag Army. Once the news comes, he will wear the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, commit suicide facing the north and follow the old brothers of the Black Flag Army.
Liu Yongfu once opposed the Qing Dynasty, but at the last moment of his life, he chose to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty!
In fact, he is not loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but to the great China!
Because of this, when Tang Jingsong fled the mainland, the Taiwanese gentry sent the president's seal to him and asked him three times to be the president of Taiwan's democratic country. Liu Yongfu refused! In his new mind, there is no Taiwan democracy, and Taiwan is the territory of China!
On August 23, the Black Flag Army, led by the former enemy general Wu Pengnian, launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army in Dajiaxi. The generals of the Black Flag Army who regarded death showed amazing combat effectiveness, especially the veterans of the Seven Star Team, who showed skilled tactical movements and bravery. The five of them were in one group, facing each other, responding back and forth, rushing back and forth, staggering, and staggered. The Japanese army had never seen such a tactic, and immediately messed up.
The arrogant Japanese army never thought that the war in Taiwan, which had come to an end, suddenly became so tragic. A Japanese unit that attacked Dajiaxi was defeated by the Black Flag Army and suffered more than 300 casualties. A Japanese grain ship transporting grain and grass was intercepted by the Black Flag Army. More than 200 people from a squadron escorted grain and grass were destroyed and died!
More than 2,000 defeated Japanese troops panicked and strayed into the valley. Wu Pengnian led the army to seal down the mountain pass and prepared to completely annihilate the unit.
However, the strength of the Black Flag Army is limited. In order to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army, the Black Flag Army had to go out, and Changhua County was empty.
Yihui Bizhidao, the commander of the mixed brigade, ordered the besieged Japanese army to resist on the spot and attract the main force of the Black Flag Army. On the other hand, he sent a regiment and an artillery squadron to raid Changhua City.
On August 27, the Japanese army captured Taichung, and the striker approached Bagua Mountain, the gateway of Changhua. Wu Pengnian had no choice but to withdraw from the siege and retreat to Bagushan Mountain.
The two regiments of the mixed brigade surrounded Bagua Mountain like an iron barrel. Under the cover of the cannon, the infantry attacked all over the mountain. The black flag army did not retreat and fought hand-to-hand. They fought fiercely for two days, and the commanders Wu Tangxing, Xu Yang, Wu Pengnian and Yan Yunlong were killed in battle. There are 3300 Black Flag soldiers, and there are only more than 100 soldiers left on the top of the mountain.
The elite seven-star team of the Black Flag Army no longer exists! They did not die at the hands of the French, but at the hands of the Japanese!
However, the seven-star black flag is still fluttering in the west wind!
At sunset, the evening glow dyed the Bagua Mountain blood red.
The gunfire in Changhua City has gradually subsided, and the resistance in the city has been eliminated by the Japanese army.
In all Taichung areas, there are only more than 100 remnants left on Bagua Mountain. This means that as long as the seven-star black flag falls, the Japanese army will complete the entire occupation of Taichung!
As for the Nantai area, there is only Liu Yongfu, which symbolically represents the existence of the Black Flag Army.
After the Battle of Bagua Mountain, in fact, there was no organized resistance in Taiwan.
Taipei, the Governor's Palace, Yidong Youheng is having a banquet for guests. He is waiting for the news of Yoshihide Bizhidao. Once the seven-star black flag on Bagua Mountain falls, he will announce to the participants that Japan has completed its complete occupation of Taiwan!
At the foot of Bagua Mountain, a Japanese army of 2,000 troops is gathering. Prepare to launch the last blow to Bagua Mountain.
According to Yoshihide Bizhidao's order, this unit all dressed up to fight. Each soldier's military uniform is straight and spotless, the barrel of the gun is dark, and the bayonet is bright. Because Yoshiaki Bizhijima believes that this is not a battle, but a ceremony. The enemy on the mountain has run out of food. The Japanese only need to take neat steps and line up to the top of the mountain, and the battle will be over.
In this ceremony, Yoshiaki Bizhidao will not only dedicate this ceremony to Yidong Youheng, the governor of Taiwan, but also to the remnants of the Black Flag Army on the mountain. Half an hour ago, Yoshihide Bizhidao sent a messenger to persuade Wu Pengnian to put down his weapon, which was rejected by Wu Pengnian.
Under the banner of the seven-star black, Wu Pengnian stood up stubbornly and looked at the Japanese army at the foot of the mountain with a burst of sneer.
More than 100 Black Flag Army soldiers spontaneously surrounded him. Most of them were seriously injured. There were already no bullets in their guns, bayonets were broken, and some people's rifles were even broken into two pieces.
The Japanese army was stunned by the enemy on the mountain, and they stopped shelling. After a day of fierce battle, there was a suffocating silence!