Because President Meng doesn't need to do any mobilization, the military and civilians of Huaguo really mean where to fight, this is a big family, can turn the country into a small family, that is, President Meng This situation, in fact, President Meng is gradually creating a new Han nationality, the great cause of the new Han nationality, so that President Meng is enthusiastic and full of enthusiasm every day.In the early morning of March 28, 1874, Sheliao Bay, the southernmost point of Taiwan.The sky was dark, a fleet was like a swarm of black rats, tearing open the calm sea, the flag of the rising sun was flying high on the ships, and the warships had lifted their gun jackets and pointed to the coastline that was becoming clearer and clearer.On the transport ship was a dense crowd of heavily armed soldiers, dressed in blue uniforms, all pursed lips, and bloodthirsty desires in their eyes, which were none other than the Japanese Expeditionary Force to Taiwan.The fleet consisted of five warships, they were the Longxiang, the Nisshin, the Fengxiang, the Mengchun, and the Yunyang, and three other ships: the Osaka Maru, the Takasago Maru, and the Mikuni Maru, which carried more than 3,600 officers and men in addition to carrying military supplies.The flagship of the fleet, the "Ryusho", is the second Japanese ironclad ship after the "Kotetsu", the Kumamoto Domain ordered from the United Kingdom in 1868 for 270,000 taels of silver, and was dedicated to the Meiji government after completion in 1869, with a displacement of 2,530 tons, and its waterline and side, especially the middle deck, are equipped with steel armor plates, which is the most powerful warship of the Japanese Navy at present, and it is also the flagship of the Combined Fleet.The commander of the expeditionary force, Lieutenant General Saigo Shomichi, stood on the bridge of the Ryuchamp, looking into the distance with a telescope in hand.Saigo is another younger brother of Saigo Takamori, Saigo Takamori is a great man in the rise of Japan, and his younger brother is not inferior, in history, for Japan's military development, made outstanding contributions.President Meng tried not to let himself have too much emotional color to look at the rise of Japan, people have a lot to learn, of course, not to learn their inhuman and Japanese etiquette, the spirit of always fighting for the first, a strong sense of nationality and violent temper, are all appreciated by President Meng, President Meng's Chinese army, there is also suicide, however, President Meng does not encourage officers and soldiers to use.However, if an officer or soldier who has violated military law and meets the conditions for being shot will be treated as martyrs if they are willing to commit suicide by disembowelment, and will not be disqualified as martyrs, and their families can receive the martyrs' pensions, and their bad deeds will also be erased from the files.The suicide by disembowelment alone brought the bloody nature of the Chinese army to the same level as the Japanese army.Saigo is quiet and quiet, and although his ideas are equally radical, he maintains a good relationship with Okubo Ritsu.This time, Okubo deliberately chose him as a commander, which also had the meaning of appeasing Saigo Takamori.The fleet set out from Nagasaki more than 10 days ago, and for the sake of secrecy, it deliberately did not stop at the transit station Keelung Port, and went straight to the small peninsula "Yaoqiao" in the southernmost part of Taiwan, in order to control this area to the greatest extent before the matter spread.President Moe was very clear about the plan of action of the Japanese, but President Moe did nothing, and abided by the agreement with Hirobumi Ito, so he managed northern Taiwan well.Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, it's not that others will and the president will not, there is nothing more simple than doing nothing, the sword of the president can be unsheathed at any time.Saigo ordered the movement to be accelerated, a large number of wooden boats were carried ashore in batches carrying people and materials, and camp was set up in the woods.There were only Fanmen in the Yaoqiao area, and the Qing government did not set up any administrative offices here, so they knew nothing about the Japanese landing operations.Since a telegraph system has been established from Chicken Coop City to Tainan, President Meng can know the progress of the war at the first time through the telecommunications department of the Taiwan station.The course of the war was as expected by President Meng, the Japanese attack was very smooth, and the Qing court did not organize effective resistance, so it retreated to the city of Tainan, with more than 10,000 Qing troops, but it was not something that the Japanese dared to provoke casually.The scale of this war is not large, but it is very much like a war for diplomacy.Because, the Japanese also knew that they did not have the strength to occupy Taiwan, on the one hand, to show President Moe's Hua Guo and the Qing court, and to show the great powers the level of construction of the Japanese Army in the past two years, the main purpose of the Japanese was to gain control of the Ryukyu Kingdom and the power of the rightful suzerainty of the Ryukyu Kingdom.Therefore, the ammunition and food carried by Saigo Congdao are not sufficient, the Japanese are not stupid, of course they will not believe that President Meng will not make trouble, this time the five warships and 4000 people of the devil soldiers attacked, just tentatively, compared to the Qing court, small Japan, the ability to explode troops is more excellent, so that President Meng also admires, Meiji Restoration is only a few years old, according to the intelligence of President Meng's Japanese station, the Japanese government has the ability to explode 200,000 soldiers at any time.If it weren't for the fact that the problem was not completely resolved, the speed of the Meiji Restoration would have been even more astonishing.President Meng did not forget the Fanvalve issue, which was a cancer restricting the speed of Japan's development, and the Japanese and the Qing army confronted each other along the coast of Tainan, and the Yamen, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, received an urgent call for help, and quickly sent a report to the Qing court to request the latest instructions.Fortunately, President Meng occupied Taipei in the early stage, and the military operation in Chicken Coop City allowed the Qing court to start deploying a strategy to rescue Taiwan as soon as possible.Li Hongzhang was shocked: "It's a small country, it's this Japan, what are you going to do" The staff were stunned, but they didn't expect that it was the Japanese who launched an attack on Taiwan first, which was not expected by anyone in advance, in fact, President Meng had already released relevant news to the Qing court through Beijing Station and Tianjin Station, and it did not attract the attention of the Qing Court.Sheng Xuanhuai frowned: "Zhongtang, could it be that the Japanese and Xuan Yuemeng colluded with the scum of this country" Li Hongzhang nodded heavily, "I'm afraid it's like this, hurry up and send a report to Jingshi" This telegraph office is also the credit of President Meng, Klinsmann's telegraph office is now all over China, although the Qing court resisted contact with China and stifled the commercial development of China, but Klinsmann & Co. was under the banner of German and American businessmen, which the Qing court had no way to do, as a commercial economy, the Qing court had no way to take Klinsmann's foreign company, a branch of Klinsmann & Co.Under the management of Vice President Timothy Lee, it has developed into a large ocean firm all over China, the largest ocean firm in China, the largest in size, the first in dispute, and nine-tenths of China's finances come from Klinsmann & Co., but all branches of Klinsmann & Co. are established in the concession, which makes the Qing court even more helpless.t1706231537: