Red Alert 1895

Chapter 34 – Delivery To Taiwan

Happy times always fly by so fast. Ever since Wang Guorui forcibly overthrew that Zheng Hong, Zheng Hong has accepted his fate and is willing to be Wang Guorui’s woman. And Wang Guorui, a virgin, finally got rid of the shameful title of a virgin, and began to get together with Zheng Hong like glue. Since Wang Guorui met a woman, he has always been very knowledgeable, and has been pestering Zheng Hong almost every day. Wang Guorui also went to tease Tanya a few times, but Tanya was not as easy to deal with as Zheng Hong. Every time, Tanya cleaned up Wang Guorui, which made Wang Guorui very depressed.

Wang Guorui has been with Zheng Hong for the past two months, obviously like a couple who have fallen in love. However, because of Wang Guorui’s control, Zheng Hong was not pregnant. Although Wang Guorui gave birth one by one as soon as possible, he also knew that it was not suitable to have children at this time, so he deliberately used the female menstrual cycle of future generations to plan, and never did that kind of thing when Zheng Hong was suitable for pregnancy menstrual cycle. In this way, Wang Guorui would have more reasons to get close to women.

However, time passed quickly. This happy day did not last long, and the time came to May 31, 1895. On this day, the governor of Taiwan, Tang Jingsong, took the initiative to call all the officials above rank seven in Taiwan and announced a heavy things.

“My Qing Dynasty has made an agreement with the Japanese pirates to hand over Taiwan to the Japanese pirates on June 3, 1895 in the Western calendar. That is, after three days, Taiwan will no longer belong to my Qing Dynasty. Next, it depends on ourselves That’s right. The imperial court has already issued an order. We must hold back the Japanese pirates, so that they can’t take the initiative to evacuate after knowing that they cannot occupy Taiwan. As long as the Japanese pirates can be driven away, everyone will be a hero of the imperial court and will get the imperial court A lot of rewards. Therefore, please work hard together and swear your allegiance to the Qing Dynasty!” Tang Jingsong shouted righteously.

Wang Guorui looked at Tang Jingsong’s shout, and complained in his heart: “Hmph, don’t look at what you are shouting now is a righteous statement, but according to the original history, you were the first to run away after the Japanese army landed. The Japanese army Not long after you landed, you took the initiative to cross to the mainland after a little beating, and left a mess for Taiwan, what kind of loyal minister are you?”

Although Wang Guorui looked down on Tang Jingsong very much in his heart, he didn’t say anything out. After all, he is now a reasonable and legal governor of Taiwan, so he must save some face. However, Wang Guorui has already started preparations, and this task is very arduous.

“Swear allegiance to the imperial court to the death!” Wang Guorui and other officials shouted together, but there was no way of knowing what was going on in his heart.

Wang Guorui returned to Hsinchu County immediately after the meeting at the Governor’s Office in Taiwan, and continued to check the military’s preparedness.

“Wangzhi County, our Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army has a division. This division has three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, and various directly-affiliated troops. There are about 15,000 people in total. And our reserve troops also have We are stepping up training and striving to be able to go to the battlefield as soon as possible!” Hu Wei said.

Wang Guorui nodded, this was the result of his plan to build an army in a hundred days. Although there are only 15,000 people, and most of them are recruits who have not experienced actual combat, at least they are all achievements within a hundred days. Wanting to be better, Wang Guorui thought that he could not even do it. And the next troops, that is, after the next battle, they can be trained as soon as possible. Now equipment is not a problem, what matters is people. As long as the soldiers can be trained as soon as possible, there will be no shortage of equipment. With the Red Alert base system, will there be a lack of equipment?

However, Wang Guorui is not completely without confidence, because their firepower is much stronger than that of the Japanese army. Even if the training and combat effectiveness of the soldiers are not as good as those of the Japanese army who have experienced actual combat, the firepower can make up for the disadvantage of insufficient training to a certain extent. For the next battle, soldiers can gradually adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield, and then they can become qualified soldiers.

Three days passed quickly, and the Japanese Guards Division also came to the sea outside Keelung, Taiwan under the cover of the Japanese combined fleet, ready to land at any time. According to the procedure this time, Taiwan should be handed over. First, Li Jingfang, the representative of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, signed the handover document with the governor of Taiwan, Kawayama Sukiki, who was appointed by the Japanese army on behalf of Admiral Japan.

And I have to say that this Li Jingfang came here to be the delivery representative this time, and he will definitely become a sinner through the ages. Everyone knows that if you come to be this representative, you will definitely be reviled by the people in the country, and you will even be infamous for thousands of years. No one wanted to take on this unfortunate job, so Li Jingfang and Li Hongzhang wanted to refuse several times.

But which of the officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not a villainous guy, anyway, they just pushed Li Jingfang out. After all, the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed by Li Hongzhang, and his son wanted to take the initiative to bear this notoriety. Therefore, when Li Jingfang failed to refuse, he could only be forced to come here to make a delivery with the Japanese army.

“Mr. Li Jingfang, please sign the delivery document!” Japanese Navy Admiral Huashan Suikiki said.

Li Jingfang signed the delivery document with trembling hands. And Li Jingfang knew that after he signed, he might have left an indelible stain in his life, and he would also become a sinner of the nation.

“Mr. Li Jingfang, will you follow me to Taiwan?” Huashan Ziji asked.

Li Jing said bitterly: “People in Taiwan think that my father and I have betrayed Taiwan. If I go to Taiwan, I’m afraid I will be besieged and killed by them!”

Li Jingfang was right. Countless people in Taiwan thought that Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang were traitors when negotiating with the Japanese, so they hated Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang in their hearts. If Li Jingfang arrived in Taiwan, he would probably be eaten alive by the Taiwanese. And Li Jingfang actually thought he was wronged, because he knew that no matter who went to Japan to negotiate, the final result would not change. But who asked him to take the blame? Since he was blamed, he naturally wanted to hide, otherwise he would really be skinned alive by the Taiwanese. Li Jingfang can already be sure that he will never come to Taiwan in his life, after all he has no face to meet his parents and folks in Taiwan.

Huashan Ziji watched Li Jingfang leave, obviously he didn’t take Li Jingfang seriously. And Huashan Ziji looked at Taiwan in the distance, and he knew that this land would belong to Japan in the future. And this is also their first step in Japan’s development, the first colony they occupied from China. And with this piece of Taiwan, it is worth it. Although Liaodong has been interfered by other countries and then returned to China, Taiwan must be swallowed. If Taiwan cannot be annexed, then the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 would really be in vain.

“Your Excellency, this time we have received information that the Chinese will not directly cooperate with us to take over Taiwan. They are ready to resist and are ready to fight us in Taiwan at any time. This time Taiwan’s equipment is much better than we imagined. They I don’t know where they colluded with some Western arms smugglers, and got more than 70,000 old-fashioned rifles. And this old-fashioned rifle is the kind of rifle with paper shells that was probably decades ago, although it is nothing to us , but it can be regarded as having a certain ability to resist. So please be careful, Mr. Governor, Taiwan will become a hard bone!” said a staff officer.

This kind of Taiwanese army has a lot of old rifles, which can’t be kept secret at all, because Taiwan is full of Japanese spies. But because Wang Guorui’s army has police dogs on guard at all times, ordinary spies can’t get close at all. These little spies came and killed one by one, so the secrets of Wang Guorui’s army were not exposed. The Japanese did not know of the existence of such troops as Wang Guorui, so although they knew that the Taiwanese army had old rifles, they did not know the existence of the Red Police soldiers.

When a Japanese lieutenant general laughed: “Lieutenant Akashi Yuan, you think too highly of these Chinese people! Even if these Chinese people have obtained some old rifles, they have not been trained, how can they be our opponents? We don’t like these old rifles anymore, we can defeat them directly and fiercely. They can’t be our opponents at all, our Imperial Japanese Army is invincible.”

“Your Excellency, it’s better to be careful!” Akashi Yuan Zhongzuo said.

The division head of this Guards Division is Kitashirakawa Miyanohisa, a member of the Japanese royal family and a lieutenant general of the Japanese Army. And he looked down on the Chinese army very much. After all, the regular army of the Chinese army was beaten to pieces by them. Obviously, they didn’t look down on these volunteer troops temporarily formed by Taiwan. Even the weapons of these Taiwanese troops are extremely rotten. They don’t even look down on this kind of rifle that was ninety years ago. Now that times have changed, the tactics ninety years ago are no longer applicable, so he is not optimistic about what the Taiwan army can do.

That Nakamura Akashi Moto could only shake his head when he saw how arrogant Kitashirakawa was for a long time. And no one knew that even in the original history, this Kitashirakawa Nohisa died in Taiwan, and he was a downright unlucky ghost. Zhongzuo Akashi Yuan deeply suspected that this attack on Taiwan would not go so smoothly, after all, the enemy’s weapons and equipment were much stronger than expected. Although he has no doubts about Japan’s victory, he thinks that his side will suffer much more losses than previously expected.

And these Japanese have no idea that Taiwan will become an eternal nightmare for the whole of Japan.