Chapter 76 The Rainy Season
Before the completion of the Taiwan Governor's Office (now the Taiwan Presidential Office), the office of the Taiwan Governor's Office was temporarily set up in the former Taiwan Governor's Office. This was the only remaining building with the official Chinese nature in Taipei City. ○ After Japan occupied Taiwan, for more than ten years, all buildings with the official imprint of the Qing Dynasty were wiped out in various names. At the beginning, the traditional Chinese buildings facing north and south were forced to be changed to south and north, facing east, and "looking north to Japan" and "welcome the rising sun". In addition, after the rule gradually stabilized, in the Xinchou year, in the name of expanding the city and laying railways, the city walls and the Qing official houses in the city, as well as the most important Chinese marks - the Confucian Temple, Wu Temple, Chenghuang Temple, and Tianhou Palace. At the same time, the names of the streets were all changed to the Japanese-style "Cheng, Me". Then, the Taiwan Governor's Office building rose from the ground in Wenwu Town, where the Wenwu Temple was located.
Lin Zijin sat in the clerical department of the Governor's Office. Looking at the Taiwan Governor's Office, which had been in practice for two years and had been higher than one day, he breathed a deep breath. It is said that this building cost several million yen and would take another four or five years to complete. With four or five years, the court should be able to fight.
While he was thinking about it, the short and thin section chief Ono walked to the door of the third-class clerk's office, knocked on the open door, and then said, "Lin Sang, come here!"
"Hay!" Lin Zijin bowed reflexively, then walked along the corridor in the Chinese-style yamen to the section chief's office in a small Japanese step.
"Lin Sang, is Mr. Liang Qichao doing well in Taichung?" Ono is a capable Japanese with small eyes, but his eyes are profound and sharp. It is reported that he was a student of the non-commissioned officer school before, but he dropped out of school for some reason.
"Hi!" Lin Zijin agreed and nodded in a Japanese way before he answered. Then he said: "Mr. Liang mainly wrote poems with many literati in Taichung. He said that he had exhausted his energy to mediate the Sino-Japanese dispute. He needed a long time to rest, so he tactfully rejected the invitation of the president of the Rijixin Newspaper."
"Oh..." Ono seemed to have known that it would be the result, his little eyes flashed a few times, and then he restrained himself. He followed the next thing, "Lin Sang, how are you sick? Now the Governor's Office is about to conquer the Taroko people, and he needs some documents to go with the army. I hope you can go."
His body suddenly shook, and Lin Zijin bowed excitedly and said, "Hi! Thank you for your care. My illness has been cured. I am willing to follow the army to fight for the Shengfan!"
Lin Zijin, who has always been known as weak, agreed to go to the front line as if he had changed his personal opinion. This made Chief Ono very puzzled, but it was probably because the last exercise had effect. He also said happily: "It's good that Lin Sang is fine. Many people say you are a weak guy. I think if you can't be strong, how can you be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor? The reason why the Japanese can defeat the Qing Dynasty and Lu Kingdom is that every citizen is as strong as a samurai. They are willing to endure the pain that ordinary people cannot bear for the Emperor. This is something that Qing slaves cannot do, and it is difficult for white people in Europe and the United States to do. Lin Sang, you must take out your courage and strength this time and let those who accuse you shut up."
"Hi!" Lin Zijin's face turned red, except for himself. Others couldn't tell whether it was shame or anger, but his loud "Hi" and deep bow made the head very satisfied. After giving a few more words of expectations, Ono asked him to go back.
Lin Zijin began to feel restless after returning. The Governor's Office was planning to raise troops to fight against the Taroko tribes a year ago, and personnel and materials were also being collected. But when will the conquest be fought? If it is, only the Governor and various senior officers and police officers knew that he was going to follow the army to conquer, so his itinerary was the entire conquest plan of the Japanese army. However, how could the news be spread in the army?
After his initial happiness, Lin Zijin began to deeply worry about this issue. Usually, his intelligence can be transmitted through the intelligence networks everywhere, but there is no such convenience in the army. He suddenly began to complain that he easily agreed to this issue without discussing with the organization. It was so stupid!
Lin Zijin cursed himself in his heart and sat wither and thought for a few hours. It was not until he got off work that he slowly left the Governor's Mansion and returned to his residence. He slowly finished his meal. When the night was dark, he left the door and went to the contact point.
More than half an hour later, in the clinic full of medicine fragrance, the medical officer in plain robes performed routine examinations as usual, "Put the pulse first... take a look at the tongue coating... Can you sleep well at night?"
The fragmented questions were finally over, and the medical officer suddenly asked in a low voice: "Why are you here?"
"The Japanese are about to conquer Taroko soon. They want me to follow the army, I... I agree." Lin Zijin spoke quickly and said in a low voice, "But I am worried that the information of the follower's words will not be able to be released. Can there be any medicine to relapse my old illness?"
He looked at Lin Zijin seriously and the medical officer said, "I will record this matter. Is there anything else?"
"Liang Qichao arrived at Wufeng. He wanted to use the relationship and capital of the Lin family to do something. If Beijing fell, he would invite the Lin family to Shanghai and participate in the second Chinese Congress in the name of overseas Chinese." Lin Zijin still spoke very quickly, and then took out a box of cigarettes: "The specific things are all inside."
"Okay!" The medical officer immediately put away the cigarette and said, "Okay, go back quickly. In order to conquer, the Japanese have taken time to fight, and martial law has begun everywhere to prevent trouble in various places. The police are staring at everywhere day and night. You must be careful."
"Yes! I understand." Lin Zijin nodded cautiously. He had already stood up, and the medical officer changed his previous tone at this time: "The complexion is much better than the previous two months, but it is still bloodless. Remember to avoid meat and fish, don't get angry, and you still need to rest... You can follow this prescription and go to the next door to get medicine."
"Yes." Lin Zijin, who turned back to the patient, responded weakly, and then took the prescription. Shortly after he left, a ray of radio wave passed through the roof and broke through the air and shot into the inexplicable distance.
At the same time, in an unknown yard, accompanied by the harsh telegram ringtone, there were long horizontal pieces of paper burned on the mailbox and pulled out by the mailbox. After seeing the telegram, the mailbox reported loudly: "Taipei sent to the command center. Emergency!"
He said this. While the telecommunications team leader on duty immediately stood up, decoded it nervously and quickly. He sent the telegram and came back in a hurry. He took the newly drafted telegram and said, "Send the telegram immediately."
"Yes!" the sender shouted. The text on the paper quickly turned into an electrical signal to go where he should go.
The telegram ringtone rang again on Liwu Creek in Hualien. This is where the Taroko tribes that Japanese Governor Sakusamata was determined to conquer. Originally, with the Sino-Japanese war not over, the Chinese army of the division across the strait eyeing them, the expedition should not be carried out immediately. However, with the northern transfer of most of the Chinese army stationed in Fujian and the tendency of Taroko Shengfan to form alliances with anti-Japanese organizations, the Excellency Sakusamata still made a quick decision. He believed that the Taroko tribe should be wiped out as soon as possible.
The Intelligence Bureau and General Staff, who were focused on the situation on the island a few years ago, were also happy to have the main Japanese forces on the island transferred to Hualien, Taitung when landing in Taiwan. However, because the time for crossing the sea to land on the island was initially set within 60 days from the seventh day to the ninth day of the ninth day of the seventh month, if the Japanese army starts to conquer the Japanese army next month, the Taroko tribe will have to resist the Japanese army for three months. Although it is convenient for a tribe with only more than 2,000 strong men, it is still extremely difficult for a tribe with only more than 2,000 strong men this time. In particular, the forces dispatched by the Japanese army are above the original estimate. According to the latest information, there are more than 20,000 soldiers in the Taroko siege. It is equipped with a mountain artillery corps, a machine gun brigade, and warships and aircraft. These things are also very stressful for the Fuxing Army, and for a strong man from a tribe who has not received training in modern warfare, it is even more difficult to deal with.
After reading the telegram in one glance, Hu Wenyao, a special envoy of the Intelligence Bureau, looked at Major General Li Erhu, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Team, and local guide Li Along, with some excitement: "The Japanese are coming."
He was excited. Li Erhu, who had long wanted to fight the Japanese, was unmoved. He came to Taiwan for so long that he was going to fight a war. He had been thieves before, but not many Japanese killed them. Many of his own people were arrested, which made Li Erhu and his bandits extremely dissatisfied. Fang Dawang, the backbone of his subordinates, once he fucked the guy and wanted to fuck the Japanese, but he was persuaded by Hu Wenyao to come back halfway.
"Just tell me, can you do your best to fuck the little nose this time?" Li Erhu lit a cigarette casually, squinted his eyes and looked at part-time political commissar Hu Wenyao. This once asked the boss of the Shanghai Beach was an extremely cunning person. He could settle in Taroko, but he was polite to convince the leader of the other party, so Li Erhu still valued him a little.
"This is the order of the General Staff!" Hu Wen turned his eyes. Considering all the possibilities of the Japanese army's attack, although he did not know when the army would land, he could still guess the General Staff's plan.
"That's good!" Li Erhu slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Would you like to discuss it with Halu Pavilion?"
"Well. Let's go find him." Hu Wenyao nodded, and after saying that, under the leadership of Li Along, he and Li Erhu went out of the thatched hut and went to the residence of Halu Pavilion and Nawei, the leader of the tribe.
Haluge. Nawei is the leader of the Huhus Club and has great reputation among the forty ethnic groups in the Taroko. In addition, there are many people in the Huhus Club, so he naturally became the leader of the entire Taroko tribe. After learning about the Japanese's attempt to attack, Hu Wenyao contacted him through Li Along. Although the last time the Japanese army launched a suppression was the Weili incident several years ago, Haluge. Nawei still received him with the new recruits against the Han people.
Since we met, the future development will be natural. Better guns, better knives, more ammunition and medicines were transported by airship one night. For a time, the more than 2,000 Taroko people all replaced cannons with bird guns, and were full of joy, shouting that the world was better. The barbarians were barbarians, and they could not teach some things. Rifles and grenades were better. This thing was not too difficult. However, artillery and machine guns could only be drawn from the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Team. In this way, these more than 2,000 talents could barely form a regiment, but this was just a regiment in terms of number of people, and their establishment, command, and tactics could not be compared with regular troops.
However, it has been three months since this problem. It may not be a good thing to see Major General Li Erhu, who has seen the powerful Shengfan. He believes that the inherent infantry tactics of the Fuxing Army are not suitable for these natural mountain infantry. If you really want to teach them, it would be a waste of good soldiers. To play the role of these people in team combat, you need to explore another set of higher-difficulty mountain infantry tactics in a targeted manner, which is not something that can be achieved in a few months. It will take several years or even longer. Li Erhu's judgment was finally accepted by the General Staff, and in the next few years, he led this army to re-develop a set of infantry tactics based on the mountain tactics of the Fuxing Army, thus creating the reputation of the 2nd Marine Division of the Fuxing Army.
Hu Wenyao and others found Haluge. When Na Wei was wearing a cigarette for his brothers on his face, he was holding a military offering cigarette in his mouth and pouring the military offering Erguotou white wine into his mouth. He was dizzy and didn't get drunk, and he was happy. Seeing the Han brothers, Na Wei burped and ordered the woman next to him, "Give my Han brothers a drink!"
The people in the mountains are honest. Except for their wife who can't let him go, you have them too. Hu Wenyao, who was training in this wine, pinched his nose and poured half a bowl of Erguotou. He said vigorously: "The leader of Haluge, the brothers at the foot of the mountain told us that the Japanese are coming. They have more than 20,000 people this time, and they probably won't withdraw their troops if they don't step on the Taroko!"
Not surprising at all, Haluge. Nawei laughed and said, "I said several years ago that they will come again sooner or later. They peeked at the treasures in the mountains. They would not give up without conquering all the tribes on the mountains. Beishifan, Maliwan, Chinaji, Chalixian, Yamei... These tribes have surrendered. Now there are only Taroko left. Don't worry, just like the previous few times..." As he said, Haluge slapped the knife on his waist on the table, "They will only be hunted down by us."
Li Erhu couldn't understand the Fan dialect. He waited until Li Along next to him translated it before he said: "It's not that he doesn't believe in the ability of the Haluge brothers. This time the Japanese will not give up until they achieve their goals. In the past few years, the Japanese have built the road outside the mountain. The dangerous terrain everywhere has been clearly depicted by the spies they sent in. This battle cannot be taken lightly."
Li Erhu said this from the perspective of a soldier. But when Li Along was about to translate, he was pulled by Hu Wenyao. He interjected: "The leader of Halu Pavilion, the Japanese came this time to unite the entire tribe to win, and only the leader can unite all tribes. Before the war begins, it is a perfect solution to let each tribe send people to discuss."
"I've already gone, and the tribes will come back tonight." Haluge. Nawei's answer was beyond everyone's expectations, and it seemed that his news was also very well-informed.
"Then there is no problem." Hu Wenyao smiled when he heard this. Just as he was about to get up to say goodbye, Halu Pavilion. Na Wei stood up and looked at him with a glance: "How can you Han people guarantee that you will not invade our hunting ground like the Japanese?"
When a barbarian asked this, Li Erhu touched his waist but was stopped by Hu Wenyao. He smiled and said, "Because there is no need!"
"No need?" The Halu Pavilion, which I thought the Han people would promise, was somewhat different, but the murderous eyes dimmed.
"Just don't need it!" Hu Wenyao nodded. "I am from South China to the South China Sea, from the North to the Ice Ocean, from the Desert in the West, and from North Korea in the East. The country is tens of thousands of miles wide, more than 40 times that of Japan's territory. There is no need to care about the camphor and wood on the mountain. The leader of Halu Pavilion, if you can really defeat the powerful Japanese this time, what if you report to His Majesty the Emperor in the future, what if the mountains in Hualien are sealed as hunting grounds? Greater China doesn't care about these places!"
Hu Wenyao's habits of Bai Xiangren in Shanghai remained unchanged, and even Li Erhu's beard was stunning. It should be noted that there was no emperor in China, and his fiefdom was unprecedented. He actually promised to grant Hualien to Haluge. If the Taroko people really defeated the Japanese, what would happen in the future?
Comrade Hu Wenyao, a special commissioner of the Intelligence Bureau, fooled him. Haluge happily drank the same glass of wine with him before happily sending him away. On the way back, Li Erhu said nothing. After everyone left, he blamed him: "You are a lion. If someone really does it, what should the commander do?"
"What should we do?" Hu Wenyao smiled and said, "We should think, what if Taroko and other tribes surrendered the Japanese when the 1st Landing Division landed, and Taroko and other tribes surrendered to the Japanese? You must know that the Japanese are strong now. Their strategy for the Shengfan is to suppress the whole country, but you must find that they are not superior to the island, and the reinforcements from the domestic market cannot come for a while. What should we do if the vassals are not smart, and they often give them sweetness. These people can do anything, or if a leader dies, the situation will be reversed. You must be careful! I promise blindly now, but I am much stronger than if I don't promise in the future?"
Hu Wenyao smiled and said that his words only made Li Erhu feel cold. Japan had killed more than ten years of ruling Taiwan. So everyone thought that as long as he climbed up his arms after landing on the island, Jing Cong could have the wisdom of becoming a vassal without understanding the truth, and it was very likely that the Japanese would be fooled by the Japanese to fight the Fuxing Army, especially those tribes that had been enslaved by them, such as the Amei people who were conquered with the Japanese army this time.
When Li Erhu thought of this, he felt that his soldiers had been working for a long time and had forgotten those tricks. He couldn't help but say ashamed: "If this is the case, what should we do?"
"What else can you do? Everyone is bragging." Hu Wenyao still laughed, "Those tribes that have surrendered may be fooled in front of the formation and they will run away even if they don't rebel. Most of those loyal people cannot be beaten, so we will just press them over! Okay, Lao Li, you should rest first. I will report the attitude of Halu Pavilion, so you can go to bed first."
Because the situation was not urgent, Hu Wenyao's telegram was sent to the Intelligence Bureau and did not immediately turn it to Yang Rui's desk. Even the Intelligence Bureau Director Zhang Shi just browsed it quickly and filed it. He has no time to care about what is going on in Taiwan now, and all his energy is focused on Sarajevo, a Balkans thousands of miles away from China.
At 2 pm on the sixth day of the fifth lunar month in Beijing time, at 8 pm on the 28th of June, Sarajevo time, it was rare for the Prime Minister's Office to get off work early. After everyone in the office left, Yang Rui, Xie Zhangtai and Zhang Shiku sat in the study in Yin'an Hall. Several agents from the intelligence bureau were debugging telegram antennas inside and outside the room in order to receive telegrams from the West in a timely manner.
With the smoke, Yang Rui looked at the heavy rain outside lazyly. While vomiting smoke, he suddenly laughed: "Actually, there is no need to worry too much. Even if the waves in Europe are calm, the rainy season in North China can delay the Japanese offensive for a month. With this month, the front-line shells will be reserved more."
In more than a month, the Japanese transferred all the divisions that they could be transferred. The Japanese army in North China exceeded 300,000, and more than 500,000 Korean and Japanese workers recruited, and more than 500,000 were in the narrow area of the capital. Because the Japanese army divided into two groups, one was Lu Longfengrun, and the other was Yangcun surrounded by rivers and lakes. The former was a mountainous area and the latter had a water net, making these soldiers and laborers even more crowded.
More than 500,000 people were hoarded in the capital, and food, drink, defecation, and logistical remedies were all major problems. Fortunately, the docks could be used in Dagukou, Tianjin and on both sides of the Haihe River. Some coasts on Qinhuangdao also built long wooden trests under the hard work of laborers. In this way, the daily supplies and combat ammunition for more than 500,000 people could barely be supplied. However, because the Japanese were unable to recruit Chinese workers in the Kuangba, they could not buy war zone supplies at low prices with waste paper military tickets. In addition, the consumption of shells in this war was five times that of the Russo-Japanese War, which caused the Japanese military expenditure to rise sharply and frequently overspending. It turned out that the military expenditure that had surplus had bottomed out. Through London, Paris once again issued bonds within the Japanese government's plan.
Military expenditure is a problem. Compared with the approaching of the Lu team, the Japanese army has not been able to make progress for half a year. This comparison only made the Japanese people extremely dissatisfied. Especially in the Battle of Yangcun last month, a lieutenant general was killed, which made a large number of angry young people in the country shout that Kuroki should be punished and apologized; the people did this. In contrast, Emperor Taisho, who found that there was indeed a gap between the Japanese army and the Lu army, also began to be dissatisfied. After summoning Kaitaro several times, the latest time to launch the Beijing general attack was set on July 30, which is before the Tianchang Festival, and it is necessary to occupy Beijing in this battle.
Chapter completed!