Chapter 202 Desperate

Zhang Xun's direct battalion were all veterans who followed Zhang Xun to fight from North Korea to Taiwan. They were well-equipped and experienced, and their combat effectiveness was equivalent to a regiment. They lived in Tainan City for five days. Seeing that other troops fought lively, they had been grinding their skin and itching for a long time. This suddenly broke out, just like the following mountain tigers, chasing after them all the way. The Japanese army had already been exhausted to the extreme, and its morale had fallen to the extreme. They had never expected that Zhang Junhui launched such a fierce counterattack and suddenly messed up. From the Tianfei Palace to the Little West Gate, the direct battalion was devastated and rotten all the way, like entering no man's territory.

The Alishan column outside the city fought with the Japanese army for the first time. They all wanted to show their faces in front of Zhou Charter and Merixi, and the officers and soldiers fought extremely resolutely. Zhang Jun attacked inside and outside, and soon recaptured the small west gate and blocked the way for the Japanese army to flee west in the city.

At the same time, Luo Mingfang led a regiment and troops directly under the First Division of the Zhang Army on Kandou Mountain, and launched a counterattack on the Danan Gate under the cover of the powerful artillery of the artillery brigade. Kandou Mountain is the commanding height on the south side of Tainan. The Japanese army rushed into the city without taking this commanding height, committing a great taboo. The artillery fire on Kandou Mountain accurately and fiercely shelled the Japanese position at the Great South Gate, and the infantry were condescending and launched a charge. By 5 p.m., the South Gate changed hands. On the gate, the wolf flag of Zhang Jun was raised. Zhang Jun blocked the road to the south of the city.

Two days ago, Wu Peifu gave up the Great East Gate, gave way to the Japanese army a way into the city, and led the division headquarters to the Xunfang Fort. The Xunfang Fort is the core position of the entire Tainan defense, second only to the Chikan Tower, which is extremely strong. Although it was surrounded by the Japanese army, it stood still. The troops stationed at the Xunfang Fort are Wu Peifu's guard battalion and the most elite 101st Regiment. They are Zhou Charter's old troops, and the backbones are the original "footmen" and have strong combat effectiveness. During the two-day battle, at least 3,000 Japanese corpses were scattered in front of the Xunfang Fort.

Now, the situation of the Xunfang Fort has undergone fundamental changes. The independent brigade that has captured Jianshan and launched an attack on the Dadong Gate, which soon opened the traffic line with the Xunfang Fort. The First Division and the Independent Brigade met at the Xunfang Fort and surrounded the Dadong Gate, and the Tainan East Gate was blocked.

The second division of Nahawu crossed Zeng Wenxi and squeezed it from Tainan City in the north. The second division only suffered a slight loss in Chiayi, but only hurt a little fur. Now the officers and soldiers are holding a breath and rushing all the way from Zeng Wenxi, eliminating the remnants of the enemy in the north of Tainan city and going straight to the city.

The Japanese army in Tainan City immediately fell into a dangerous situation. Their ammunition and food supply had been exhausted. Many troops had already run out of bullets and could only face Zhang Jun's muzzle with bayonets. Forward, they can no longer capture any of the fortress guarded by Zhang. Backward, they can no longer get out of Tainan City.

Hiden Nomu finally found that he was in a desperate situation.

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Hiroshima, the battlefield base camp of the Japanese army.

In the conference room, it was silent.

From Jiawu to Yiwei, this conference room welcomed countless of the highest-ranking officials in Japanese political and military circles. At the beginning of the war, the person who was lucky enough to enter this conference room represented the highest honor and power in Japan. When he left the conference room, he was immediately praised as Japan's national hero by Japanese newspapers. Because everyone believes that the person who enters this conference room is the hero who led Japan to defeat the great powers.

However, a year later, in the eyes of the Japanese, the person who walked into this conference room was the sinner who dragged Japan into the abyss of disaster!

The war began with the First Sino-Japanese War, which did not bring any benefits to the Japanese people. The lower-class people living in the slums did not get the promise of the government to leave the slums and become superiors; the middle class went bankrupt because of the war, and even the chaebols lost hundreds of millions of daily necessities orders because of the war, while the arms orders they received from the government took Less than cash.

Even the prostitutes went bankrupt! They donated blood money for the war, and then Japan, whose economy collapsed, could not provide them with more prostitutes.

What's worse, Japan's only dividend in the First Sino-Japanese War, half of North Korea, also went to nothing.

ye jin dao guan, who was besieged in Seoul, sent countless telegrams for assistance to the base camp. His 5,000 people were surrounded by 15,000 Zhang army, and it was difficult to walk, and Seoul was out of food!

In other parts of southern Korea, the North Korean people launched uprisings and intercepted Japanese consuls stationed in various places. Almost overnight, the local regimes supported by the Japanese changed color.

In order to save Nozu Daoguan, the base camp sent two troop transport ships to North Korea. However, because almost all the warships in the Japanese army were sent to Taiwan, only small-displacement offshore frigates could escort the troop convoys, and the number was extremely limited. The 5,000 soldiers carried by the first fleet were intercepted by the Zhang army navy in the Yellow Sea. Three of the five troop carriers were sunk, the remaining two escaped, and 3,000 soldiers were buried in the sea.

The second troop transport fleet carried 4,000 officers and soldiers and ventured around the eastern part of the Korean Peninsula in an attempt to land in Yuanshan. It was also intercepted by the Zhangjun Navy. The whole fleet was destroyed and 4,000 officers and soldiers sank into the sea.

Without the escort of warships, transporting troops to North Korea is equivalent to death!

The base camp no longer dared to throw Japanese soldiers into the sea, so it had to order the Southern Fleet to send some warships back to escort. However, Zhang Jun captured Penghu, and the Southern Fleet and the fourth mixed brigade were besieged by Zhang Jun in the West Port and lost contact with Japan.

The base camp can no longer transport troops to North Korea! I can only watch North Korea's Fifth Division die!

In Taiwan, Nomu Hidian's report on the capture of Tainan was proved to be nonsense! The Japanese army failed to capture the Red Tower, let alone kill Zhou Charter. On the contrary, the southern army was all surrounded by the Zhang army in the city of Tainan and has become a turtle in the urn. In central and northern Taiwan, Zhangjun guerrillas launched a fierce offensive with the help of the local people. Changhua and Taichung were lost one after another, leaving only Taipei and Keelung in the hands of the Japanese army. The powerful Zhang army navy, based in Penghu, has guarded the Taiwan Strait, and the base camp has been unable to send any reinforcements to Taiwan.

In the conference room, those once arrogant generals and politicians are all mournful in the face of such a situation.

Everyone knows that Japan has been defeated!

However, no one dares to say this sentence.

When any country launches a war, it must formulate a war plan, a victory plan and a defeat plan, both of which are indispensable.

However, when Japan launched the First Sino-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War, it did not make a plan for defeat at all. In their view, in the face of the decay of the Qing Dynasty, there is no possibility of defeat in Japan!

So, when Japan faced failure, the whole base camp was in chaos, and the result of chaos was silence.

No one knows what to do now?

Emperor Meiji looked at the group of dumb people in front of him and was extremely depressed and exhausted. This war has exhausted Japan's national strength and the emperor's energy.

"Maybe it's time for a diplomatic solution." Chief of Staff Kawakami's low voice broke the silence.

Ito Hirofumi's cold eyes shot at Kawakami: "You mean, the army has failed!"

Kawakami opened his mouth six times, but made no sound and lowered his head helplessly.

A month ago, the generals led by Churoku and Yamamoto Quanbei were almost above the literati cabinet of Hirofumi Ito. They mocked the literati's timidity, toughly rejected any diplomatic suggestions put forward by the literati cabinet, and insisted on solving all matters by force. In the base camp, the generals could even In the name of Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito.

And now, they have to lower their arrogant and arrogant heads and ask for help from the literati cabinet.

Emperor Meiji said slowly, "What suggestions does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have?"

Foreign Minister Lu Ao Zongguang cheered: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can't intervene in this matter."

"What do you mean?"

"The Taiwan War is not a war between countries." Lu Ao Zongguang sighed, "From Japan's existing legal theory, this is a war to suppress rebels within our country."

At the beginning of the year, Japan announced the annexation of Taiwan and North Korea. Legally, these two regions are the homeland of Japan. According to this idea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is responsible for the diplomacy of the Japanese government, cannot interfere in domestic affairs! Otherwise, we can only admit to the world that Japan's occupation of Taiwan and North Korea is an illegal invasion of Taiwan and North Korea!

Japan not only failed militarily, but also entered a contradictory dead end politically!

This is all thanks to those arrogant generals!

"What is the attitude of the Qing Dynasty?" Emperor Meiji asked helplessly. He knew that this was a war between Japan and Zhangjun, and the court of the Qing Dynasty could completely stand aside and watch jokes, but now, the Qing Dynasty seems to have become Japan's life-saving straw.

Lu Ao Zongguang's voice was even lower: "Your Majesty, yesterday, Zhang Menghuan, the Prime Minister in charge of foreign affairs of the Qing Dynasty, rejected the request of Japanese Minister Lin Dong, saying that the matter of Taiwan had nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty. He suggested that Lin Dong go to Zhou Charter to talk. After Lin Dong returned to the embassy, he committed suicide!"

Director Lin's war was crazily shouted. In the cabinet, he and the generals of the military department responded to each other, forcing the cabinet to launch the First Sino-Japanese War. Although he is a literati, his mind is even more fanatical than that of generals.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, Zhang Menghuan once sent an envoy to Japan on behalf of the Qing Dynasty to negotiate with Japan. At that time, Lin Dong, who was the undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, humiliated Zhang Menghuan arrogantly. Now, Zhang Menghuan treats others in his own way. The desperate Lin Dong finally couldn't bear the pressure and humiliation from home and abroad and committed suicide.

Hirofumi Ito said in a low voice, "Maybe we should consider Zhang Menghuan's suggestion."