Chapter 192 Taiwan Jade

The Japanese army has broken through the walls of Tainan and launched a street-by-street battle with Zhangjun's brigade in the city.

However, the Great East Gate and Xunfang Fort are still in the hands of Zhang Jun. The first division, which was responsible for the perimeter defense of Tainan, was isolated outside Tainan by the Japanese army. Part of it was guarded in the position with the Great East Gate as the core, and some retreated to Kuidou Mountain to continue fighting. The sporadic troops of the first division scattered around Tainan did not stop fighting. They continued to attack the Japanese army. The Zhangjun artillery on Kuidou Mountain can still provide strong artillery support for the city. Outside Tainan City, Zhang Jun also has at least ten strongholds.

However, Nomu Hidian turned a blind eye to all these and urged the troops to attack the city with all their strength, regardless of the Zhangjun troops outside Tainan City. The disappearance of Prince Fujian Gong Zhenai made him unable to retreat!

Only by occupying Tainan as soon as possible and capturing Zhou Charter alive can he maintain his position. Moreover, if Tainan is occupied, the Zhang army outside the city will also collapse without a fight.

On October 20, after paying a huge price, the Japanese army occupied the Yanping County Temple in Tainan City, and the spire of the Red Tower can be seen from afar.

Zhang Xun's direct brigade launched a tenacious street battle with the Japanese army, with cruel short soldiers. In every house and street, the Japanese army had to pay dozens of lives for every step forward. The brigade opened all the houses and streets and attacked the streets. In many cases, the Japanese army finally occupied a building, but it was surrounded by Zhang Jun's circuitous troops and finally besieged and annihilated.

Many people in Zhang Xun's army have braids. In the First Sino-Japanese War, as long as the Japanese army saw the braided army, it was psychologically in an absolute advantage, because it represented the braids of the Qing army and also represented the weakness and timidity of the Qing Dynasty. However, the braided army in Tainan City has made the Japanese suffer a lot. These braided soldiers have dual loyalty to the Qing Dynasty and Zhang Jun. They are more fierce and more desperate than others! As long as they are in one breath, they will die with the Japanese.

Now, those braided troops have become a nightmare for the Japanese, and many Japanese soldiers will even deliberately avoid the braided troops. Under the entanglement of the braided army, they feel completely cold. Just like when Li Zicheng's troops saw Dorcon's braided army for the first time in Shanhaiguan, hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed in an instant.

The souls of the Eight Banners that once swept the land of the Central Plains seem to have been resurrected from these braided armies!

In fact, the cause of a nation's weakness is not a braid! The braid is just an external manifestation. When Westerners laugh at the pig tail of the Qing Dynasty, they laugh not at the braids, but at the enslaved ideas and imprisoned pioneering spirit of the nation!

Once their minds are liberated and their spirits are awakened, then the soldiers with braids can still play the prestige that frightens their opponents!

The Japanese army rushed into Tainan City and fell into a huge quagmire. Although the spire of the Red Tower was in front of us, it was out of reach!

More and more Japanese soldiers died in this hopeless attack.

However, Nogi Hori is still urging the army to rush into Tainan City.

On October 22, all the main forces of the Japanese army entered the city. The Zhang army in the city was compressed into a narrow area of less than two square kilometers. The Japanese army captured the Tianhou Palace and the Wu Temple, only one street away from the Red Tower.

Nomu Xidian can't wait to send a good news to the base camp - the Japanese army has captured Tainan, and Zhou Charter, the commander-in-chief of the Zhang army, is missing and is searching and arresting. According to the situation on the battlefield, Zhou Charter should have died in the chaos.

Nogishiki can't wait to send a good news to China, in order to report the news before the disappearance of Prince Fujian Gongzhen. The news of Fushimi's disappearance has been quietly circulating in the army. The officers and soldiers said that Fushimi's palace was captured by the Zhang army. Nokiori was afraid that the paper could not wrap the fire, and the base camp was likely to quickly withdraw him.

At the same time, the Southern Fleet and the Fourth Mixed Brigade have set out from Penghu for the West Port, the last stronghold of the Zhang army. Intelligence shows that less than 500 defenders of West Port are all remnants of Liu Yongfu's Taiwan Democratic National Army, and the Japanese army is at their fingertips. In fact, Westport has nothing to do with the overall situation.

Westport is just a land of bullets. It also has a name, Dagou, which is really unconform. Nomu Xidian has come up with a new name for this port - Kaohsiung.

The report of the Southern Army's capture of Tainan spread to the base camp, and there was a lot of joy in the camp. Zhou Charter, who was like a demon in the eyes of the Japanese people, finally died, and the Taiwan War was finally over! Immediately, the Asahi Shimbun issued a news account to the Japanese people under the title of "The Great Achievements of Meiji Restoration", claiming that the Japanese army had completed the full occupation of Taiwan (Westport can be ignored). After Ryukyu, Taiwan became the sacred and inviolable land of the Japanese Empire. This is the result of the Meiji Restoration and the Japanese people The results of people's humiliation and continuous progress.

The Japanese military also responded, declaring that the victory of the Japanese army in Taiwan is the victory of Japan's strong military route in recent years and the victory of the samurai spirit of Japanese soldiers. The Japanese army will be loyal to the emperor and play an irreplaceable role for Japan's prosperity.

Unlike the high-profile statement of the military, the civilian cabinet led by Hirofumi Ito kept a low profile. The cabinet only issued a brief statement, congratulating Nogi Yoshinori, and did not say too much.

In fact, Nogi's victory has made the authority of the military department surpass that of the cabinet, and the cabinet has to act on the face of the military department. This made Hirofumi Ito extremely embarrassed and worried.

Nogi's good news has fueled the long-silent belligerent voice in Japan. The originally low national morale has swelled again. The news media repeatedly issued a series of appeals for North Korean governor Nozu Michi to follow Taiwan's Nogi no Kisuke, cross the Linjin River, go straight to Pyongyang, and push the Japanese border to By the Yalu River. Some people even claim that Yamagishi is the border of Japan, and the Manchuria region on the west bank of the Yalu River will be the best immigration target for Japanese people.

In order to cooperate with the Shouting of the people and the military, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan sent a note to Russia, hoping to negotiate the South Manchurian Railway issue with Russia. This note surprised the Russians, but the arrogance of the Japanese made the Russians laugh even more.

The South Manchurian Railway, located in Manchuria, from Har and to Dalian Port, was built by the Russians. However, even Russians have never thought about what too much indisputable thoughts about the vast Manchurian region passed by the South Manchurian Railway. The reason is very simple. Manchuria is really It is too vast. It is already a huge benefit for Russians to use the Nanman Railway to control some areas along the route and control Lushun Port. The Japanese were defeated in Lushun and expelled from northern North Korea by Zhangjun. There was no bargaining chip to negotiate with the Russians at all!

The Russians were silent about the Japanese's note and said that they would seriously consider the Japanese proposal, and then shelved the Japanese's note. They know that at this time, they can't reason with the dizzy Japanese.

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October 22, Beijing Forbidden City, Yihexuan.

Zhenfei still sat by her favorite octagonal glazed well and looked at the blue well in a daze.

Beijing in autumn is pleasant, with light clouds and light wind, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance.

The delicate jade finger of Zhenfei gently stroked an emerald green bracelet, which is warm and soft, shiny and delicate, crystal clear, like the skin of a beauty, which makes people's eyes dazzling.

It is a Taiwan jade bracelet. Whether it is a sculptor or jade, it is the best.

In the eyes of dignitaries, Taiwan is not a place that produces jade. Officials in Beijing like to play with jade, but they all play with Xinjiang Hetan jade, Xiushan jade, Nanyang jade, Lantian jade, Mixian jade and Beijing white jade. No one has ever heard of any good jade in Taiwan.

Therefore, Zhenfei was surprised when she saw this jade bracelet from Taiwan. She thought that Zhou Charter had made a mistake and regarded a first-class jade bracelet from the mainland as something produced in Taiwan. Zhenfei also knew that Zhou Charter didn't know anything about antique jade. This guy knew how to fight and kill all day long. Although he learned a few heavenly studies from Jin, it didn't come in handy.

However, the imperial concubine who was proficient in jade soon found that this jade bracelet was different from the superior jade from all over the country in the palace. Could it be that this is really a piece of beautiful jade from Taiwan?

Later, as soon as she inquired, she learned that the Hualien area in Taiwan really produced jade, but the locals did not recognize it.

It seems that Zhou Charter, a stunned guy, is really attentive. Thinking of this, Zhenfei's heart was itchy for a while.

This jade bracelet was brought by Zhirui. Zhirui went to Tianjin and saw Zhang Peilun, Li Hongzhang's son-in-law. Zhang Peilun quietly gave Zhirui a jade bracelet and a letter for him to transfer to Concubine Zhen.

Concubine Zhen has burned the letter, but the words in the letter have been firmly engraved in her mind:

"The Empress Dajian: The minister Zhou Charter was favored by the Empress Zhenfei, and was able to build Lushun, get rid of the difficulties of Shanghai, rebuild the Zhangjun, promote overseas prestige, and be protected by the Empress from many ways to avoid the harm of treacherous villains in the court. The Charter is a martial artist, which can be today, all thanks to the favor of the Empress Zhenfei and the protection of the country and the master. Last time I gave the Empress Meng Zhen's pocket watch, I was very frightened. Only the minister fought all year round and had nothing to repay the Empress, but his strength was insufficient. Today, it was too late to carve two bracelets. I ordered people to carry the money to Beijing. One was sent to the Empress Zhenfei to talk about the gratitude of my cousin, and the other was sent to the protection of the country and Shuo Gege. At the beginning, the minister was in Lushun, and the protection of the country and Shuo Gege personally led a large army to save them. I was very grateful. Although the minister's charter is a martial artist, he is taught by his teacher, and he dares not forget the word loyalty and righteousness. It is also a helpless move for the minister to gain a foothold in Taiwan. In the future, the Empress Zhen will drive her to go through fire and water.

Concubine touched the jade bracelet, like touching a man's skin, and her heart suddenly jumped.