Chapter 180 The Ominous Incident in Kyoto
The signing of the Protocol to Tomorrow was soon spread to the outside of the city through the secret channels of the Kuma Agency. The first person to know about this was Chen Guangrui, the captain of the second infantry regiment of the Japanese army, who was attacking the Japanese army's Matsuping Desingsaki team.
Chen Guangrui, who was born in the Right Guard of Tengxiang, was very dissatisfied with the so-called "Protocol to Tomorrow" and believed that it was the deputy envoy who was not allowed to make the decision without permission.
Because, according to the contents of the Protocol, the emperor's personal army fought bravely to fight for the expedition, which was nothing more than helping the Japanese king Bird to restore politics. What is this?
"I don't understand politics. I only know that the Japanese capital is right in front of me, and the white silver and women are waiting for my brothers to get it. Why do you want the brothers to protect this city in turn!"
Chen Guangrui "snatched" the messenger of the chrysanthemum and hated him to whip the other party. Watanabe, the deputy staff officer next to him, quickly stopped him and whispered to the captain of the regiment to report the matter quickly.
"Ma, please ask two of you to send this guy to the back."
Chen Guangrui came to the front line angrily and saw through the Qianlijing that several Japanese generals wearing masks were giving instructions to the Imperial Army. Judging from his posture, he did not take the previous attack launched by the Second Infantry Regiment seriously.
Chen Guangrui was annoyed and immediately ordered the first brigade to organize the second attack, and to pull out the last bone in front of the Japanese capital.
Since entering Taiwan with the division, Chen Guangrui has not returned to the local area for more than a year. In addition, since the battle against Japan, his corps have suffered a lot of losses, and many of his subordinates who have been following him have been killed, so he feels very angry.
"Who can bring me the head of Song Ping's victory? I will upgrade him to the third level!"
After giving the heavy reward, Chen Guangrui actually issued another order, and he said to the officers: "Tell me, after entering the Japanese capital, I will give them ten days off!"
"Your Excellency, this seems inappropriate?"
The Watanabe Staff was responsible for the liaison and military order affairs between the corps and divisions. No matter whether it was the military or the division, there was no instruction to destroy Kyoto. Therefore, he would like to remind the corps captain not to do things that were not allowed by the above.
"There's nothing wrong. Brothers, I'll beat them here on hunger and don't let them go in and have fun once. I'm sorry to them!"
Chen Guangrui is stubborn.
After the command from the corps leader was issued, the officers and soldiers of the entire corps became excited, and even those Japanese officers and soldiers danced happily.
With the permission of the officer, military discipline will naturally become worse in the face of stimulation of interests.
In front of you is the capital of Japan!
How many nobles and nobles are there and how much wealth are there!
Seeing that he could not dissuade the captain of the regiment, Watanabe could only sigh and report the matter quickly.
At the same time, the officers and soldiers of the First Regiment, which were fighting with the Japanese army, received orders from the corps headquarters. Although these orders were different in writing, they were basically consistent with the orders of the Second Infantry Regiment.
The consequences of Changshi's killing and surrendering incident occurred.
The large-scale massacre of the Japanese army put down their weapons undoubtedly stimulated the entire emperor's personal army. Under the incitement and deliberate organization of some extreme officers, the situation could not be stopped at all, or even unforeseeable, to the base camp.
After capturing hundreds of Japanese troops, a squadron of the Fifth Infantry Regiment killed all the prisoners without asking for instructions.
"Due to the rapid collapse of the Japanese army, the brave and rapid advance of the various units of our imperial army, and about 10,000 Japanese soldiers were cut off from their retreat. They dropped their weapons and surrendered to our army. However, our army had limited military strength and had to deal with so many prisoners, and the guarantee of food was impossible to achieve. Therefore, I issued an order to the troops I belonged to, asking them to follow the Changshi incident and execute all these prisoners."
Anguo Temple, the chief of the engineer corps who was originally responsible for sheltering prisoners, executed more than 10,000 prisoners overnight. Before the Changshi incident, Anguo Temple advised the base camp to treat the prisoners well.
A brigade of the Third Infantry Regiment captured more than a thousand Japanese troops. They didn't know what to do. After hearing that the Changshi incident occurred in the rear, the brigade immediately executed all the prisoners.
Wei Guangsheng, the captain of the First Infantry Regiment of the Taiwan Security Division who was temporarily transferred to Japan, was the ninth master of Eunuch Wei. After arriving in Japan and being incorporated into the First Army, Wei Guangsheng often contacted the captains of the First Army's regiments.
Before the Changshi incident occurred, Wei Guangsheng often said why he should accept the surrender of the Japanese soldiers. It would be not easy to kill them. At that time, Jiajing, a few decades ago, there was no Japanese pirates who treated our emperor Ming people well. The older generation said that the people on the southeast coast were called Japanese pirates to be tragic.
Such remarks with strong revenge naturally aroused the disgust of Jiang Xifeng, the chief of staff of the base camp. He suggested to Eunuch Wei to transfer him away, but the suggestion failed to obtain consent.
This incident made Wei Guang have an illusion that his nephew and great-grandson was acquiesced to his actions. Therefore, the Wei tribe was burning, killing, looting, and wherever he passed, it almost turned into terrible soil.
Because of the large number of children of the Wei tribe, the Suning Imperial Army officers and soldiers continued to transport the looted goods from Japan to their hometowns for several months and even two years, turning the famous poor county in Northern Zhili into a wealthy county in the province.
No matter how far away a girl is, she will marry into Suning. This unexpectedly solved the infamous reputation of becoming a eunuch in Suning for two hundred years, resulting in the large insufficient eunuch quota in the palace during the Tianqi period.
The nine thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian sighed to his nephew: "We have been the emperor for the rest of our lives and have never been able to make the people of our hometown live a good life. You go out to sea and become a living Bodhisattva in your hometown. Let them stop establishing our life service, and you will establish yours."
The one who angered the camp the most was not Eunuch Wei's ninth master, but the captain of the First Infantry Regiment and the main responsible person of the Takashi incident.
In his speeches by the officers and soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment, he publicly declared that everything in the shogunate is our enemy, even the mountains, rivers, plants and trees!
After the Takashi incident, Sanada issued a secret order, "All Japanese people in Kyoto and near Kyoto, even if they are elderly, women or children, the troops must pay close attention. Recently, there have been constant incidents of our corps officers and soldiers being attacked by Japanese soldiers by individual soldiers, so they cannot be careless and bold, and they need special attention, especially the troops in the future. If these behaviors are discovered, they will not be forgiven and must be dealt with decisively."
Li Yanzhao, the captain of the Sixth Infantry Regiment, declared: "Kyoto is the Kyoto of Japan and the Kyoto of the Imperial Ming Dynasty. The Imperial Army's occupation of Kyoto is an implementation of the will of the imperial army, so any shogunate poisoning is not allowed to exist in Kyoto!"
The remarks of these generals undoubtedly deepened the harsh nature of the Imperial Army's actions in Kyoto, causing the Imperial Army's military discipline to be very corrupt for a long time.
But what is difficult to understand is that, as the supreme commander, Eunuch Wei, did not stop him from doing anything to the misconduct of the frontline troops.
Even in an interview many years later, Eunuch Wei said that he had an old injury when he pacified the Tumans in Taiwan, so he was unable to effectively command the troops. Therefore, his father-in-law himself was not clear about the incidents that occurred in Kyoto, the former Japanese country.
During the incident, civilians may have been killed by mistake. My father-in-law himself has always felt guilty about this, so he later asked the emperor to serve as the eunuch of the Japanese garrison, hoping to make some contributions to Japan's development to heal the trauma left by the war on the Japanese people.
After the interview, my father-in-law kindly reminded the reporter of the Huangming Daily interviewed: "Don't turn over the past things. The Kyoto Empire has long been determined. Some literati who have been full and want to overturn the case through this matter. On the surface, they want to dig deep into the historical truth, but in fact the finger is aimed at our family. We must be wary of these people. They dare not make trouble when I am alive. If I die, they may have to be whipped by them. I think it's not okay to not hit these people. There were a few more sessions in the early years. As scholars, their minds are always unrealistic."
This report and subsequent related measures have had a good effect, but there is one thing that Eunuch Wei did not tell the truth.
He has been on the front line.
Just the second day after the Imperial Army captured Kyoto, Eunuch Wei led Lubo to participate in the city entry ceremony and personally beat the old musical soul-summoning drums from the Han and Tang dynasties for the fallen soldiers since the war against Japan, so as to return the souls of the Imperial Army and shake the Japanese forever.
On the way to enter the city, snow fell from the sky.
This is the remains of the dead being burned outside the city. Because there are too many and it is difficult to count, pedestrians look like snow two or three miles away.
The next day, Eunuch Wei personally summoned Cao Wenyao, Wu Fuming, Ichiro Sanada, Yukiji Yamamoto, Li Yanzhao, Wang Dahai and other senior generals, and praised them for their conquering Kyoto and presented their treasure swords to each.
The incident that happened in Toshishi was soon spread by local Japanese villagers, and the murder of thousands of Japanese soldiers and the eldest son of the general made the shogunate people stagnant.
The Ming army officially claimed to the outside world that Tokugawa Iemitsu was a fraudulent surrender, so the emperor's personal army took necessary measures to prevent the situation from worsening.
However, privately, the Imperial Army generals who were conducting attacks on Kyoto claimed to their subordinates that they should be cruel to the enemy and that they would have to substantially eliminate the shogunate army in the future.
The propaganda caliber of the Chrysanthemum and the Revival Society was surprisingly consistent, that is, the empire never used the Tokugawa Shogunate as the target of combat, so it did not have to give the Tokugawa Shogunate extra humane care.
Affected by the Takashi incident, especially the officers and soldiers involved in the Japanese army were more motivated. The officers and soldiers overcame various difficulties and effectively killed and injured the Japanese army in front of them, forcing the Japanese chief Hidetachi Tokugawa to abandon his army and retreat eastward.
Just when Hidetachi Tokugawa, who was suffering from the pain of losing his son, had no choice but to retreat eastward, some means of his emperor's imperial decree was spread, saying that anyone who served in the shogunate and helped the Tokugawa family were "non-nationals". Once the shogunate fell, the court would liquidate these "non-nationals".
At the same time, the emperor's personal army's new letter to the Japanese people was quickly passed on throughout Japan, "Instructing Japanese officials, gentry, soldiers and civilians to resist and refuse to obey, once the soldiers arrived, they would be burned and all the slaughtered!"
Chapter completed!