The battle lasted until about 11 p.m., and the two sides were in close combat in the city.In the Southwestern War, the status of hand-to-hand infantry was still very high.In this era, the Japanese Army, first the Satsuma Army's demonstrative samurai put great pressure on the new government army, and then the new government army had no choice but to organize a sword drawing team specially used for hand-to-hand combat to face the Satsuma Army head-on.Throughout the war, the melee infantry had a great impact on the war situation.However, in the same period, the West entered the situation of all infantry equipped with firearms as early as the Napoleonic era.European history has proven that when line infantry was equipped with bayonets and smoothbore guns, the tactics of platoon gun fire coupled with bayonet charges should have completely suppressed any melee infantry.More than 70 years later, why does the stage of cold weapons still exist in Japan, is it because the training level of Japan at that time was not enough to allow the soldiers to reach the level of the European line infantry 70 years ago, or because the level of equipment cannot guarantee a sufficient number of firearms, whether the samurai of the Satsuma army and the sword drawing team of the new government army can also play a certain role in the face of the line infantry of the same period, or the Napoleonic period, the characteristic of the daimyo of Satsuma is that the popularization of education in the countryside has trained a large number of villagers.These samurai felt like rich peasants or small and medium-sized landowners, who worked in ordinary times, had a certain knowledge and convictions, and had considerable fighting skills.During the Warring States period, Shimazu's classic tactic was to fish no ambush, because the proportion of samurai was high, the fighting power was strong, and the will was firm and daring to fight.This method of melee combat of the Satsuma people is based on a large number of lower-ranking samurai, and it also has a history.Second, when the Meiji government abolished the privileges of the samurai, many of the fallen samurai of the southwestern feudal domain lost their privileges and the basis for their survival, and they were full of resentment against the government, and gathered in a crowd to elect Saigo as the leader of the rebellion.Of course, they also use modern firearms, but their equipment is not as good as that of the government army, and it is more miscellaneous.Therefore, to fight the government army in close combat is to play to the strengths and avoid the weaknesses.Thirdly, at that time, the southwestern rebels preferred to use night battles, which made it difficult for government forces to exert their superiority in firepower.In addition, the melee tactics of the Satsuma people are not only close combat, but still mainly use firearms, cooperate with melee combat, and night attacks to achieve the purpose of disturbing the enemy and exhausting the enemy.The government forces in the Southwest War suffered a big loss in close combat, and it was good to distort the technology tree of the army's training.The convergence of operational thinking between the two sides from the remnants of the old era may be the main reason, and the encounter with a Napoleonic army will not make a difference.For a long time, samurai were ashamed to use firearms to determine victory, and instead used swords to duel out.Both sides of the Southwest War included a large number of members of the former samurai class.Needless to say, almost all of them were samurai.On the part of the government, the command level is mainly centralized, and the grassroots combat units come from the citizens and peasants recruited by the new conscription system.The others were of the samurai class.If other external forces that were not good at hand-to-hand combat at that time and were good at industrial science and technology attacked Japan and suffered the loss of the show current, he would definitely not consider countermeasures from the perspective of cold weapons.The typical manifestation is that the U.S. military in World War II adopted the strategy of distributing a large number of pistols in response to the bayonet offensive of the Japanese army's Long Live charge, but did not concentrate on training in anti-bayonet fighting techniques, seeking qualitative change rather than quantitative change.As for why the Sa army sacrificed the secret art of the current domain, there are the following reasons: 1.
It is still vain.The arrogant samurai was in a hurry to cut down the untouchables, and pulled down the B grid with his spear like the other party.2.
The supply of ammunition is really urgent.In the early stage, due to the lack of heavy weapons such as artillery, the attack on Kumamoto Castle failed, and in the later stage, the bullet was so scarce that it was necessary to deduct bullet holes and pick up the warhead to recast new bullets.3 Ten years ago, I did taste the sweetness of the Downfall War, and its slashes were sharp and strong, emphasizing that one blow would kill, and even Isamu Kondo, the director of the Shinsengumi Bureau, was afraid.4.
Seek a quick death.The main content of the Saga Domain's book Ye Yin Tsuneji talks about the deeds of the samurai loyal to the king, and the core is to advocate that the samurai should sacrifice their lives without hesitation, never steal their lives, and only by not wanting their own lives can they take the lives of others.That is, the way to die.The island of Kyushu is so large that the Satsuma clan must have been deeply influenced by it.The main reason is that the Satsuma Domain's military industrial capacity is not much, and it is completely insufficient to build guns and bullets, and the reason for the launch of the Southwest War is that the old samurai are unwilling to be deprived of their privileges and launch a rebellion, which is naturally a group of people who are skilled in swordsmanship.However, the government army is a group of new soldiers, and it didn't take long for the samurai of the Samu faction to be suppressed, so although the peasant soldiers of the government army have good uniforms and good breech guns in their hands, their morale and skills and tactics are not good.Later, a lot of people died, and they grew up after all the blood and fire.Of course, this group of recruits began to panic when they encountered the samurai old men rushing up with their swords.Later, the samurai of the old shogunate were transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department as a forward sword drawing team to solve the problem, and it happened that the samurai of Aizu and the Satsuma samurai who had fallen before the curtain were cleared together this time, and they also wrote a song of the sword team, because this song was not a Japanese military song in World War II but a military song of the Japanese Civil War in the Meiji period, so it was not banned, and it was still used as a military song of the Metropolitan Police Department.At the end of the 19th century, the hand-to-hand combat department was in the middle and middle-aged years of aging, and sent hand-to-hand combat troops into the battlefield, so as to quickly consume and digest the samurai class.The assimilation of the samurai class meant that Japanese society broke out of its inherent classes, and thus rapidly Westernized and innovated, and the Japanese army was about to metamorphose, beginning to move towards the stage of modern warfare.Combined with Japan's national conditions and national culture at the time, this political method was born.The Chinese army is naturally different from the samurai army, the charge of the Chinese army is more simple and practical, while playing with bayonets, while shooting, and not like the Japanese, either just playing with bayonets, or just playing with katana, there is no such tactics as shooting while playing with knives.After a close battle, the strength of the Chinese army was originally about the same as that of the Japanese government army, but this group of government troops, to put it nicely, is the Japanese government army, to put it mildly, 80 percent of them are mud legs that have just washed their feet, just wearing a black uniform, where is there any combat experience can not withstand it, and the commander of the defense of the city does not have the courage to break jade, so he let people go down the mountain with ropes to form a small detachment of 1,000 people, intending to copy the rear road of the Chinese army.The Chinese army still had two battalions outside the city that had just been withdrawn to rest, and at this time, they rushed up and beat them violently, and the cavalry company rushed violently, killing all the Japanese who tried to go down the mountain and cut off the back road.In the early morning of the next day, the battle finally ended, and it was indeed completed within the time specified by President Meng, but the damage was relatively large, the Chinese army killed more than 1,000 people in total, and injured more than 2,000 people.Kyushu Island is the third largest island in Japan, located at the southwest tip of Japan, facing Honshu Island across the Kanmon Strait in the northeast, Shikoku Island across the Toyo Strait and Bungo Waterway in the east, the Pacific Ocean in the southeast, the Korean Strait in the northwest and South Korea as neighbors, and the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in the west.In the past, it was Chikuzen, Chikugo, Bunzen, Bungo, Hizen, Higo, Hinata, Satsuma, and Osumi, a total of nine countries, so it was called Kyushu.In a broad sense, Kyushu refers to the Kyushu region, which includes eight prefectures on the main island of Kyushu, including Fukuoka, Oita, Miyazaki, Saga, Nagasaki including the Goto Islands and Tsushima Islands, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture including the Osumi Islands and Amami Islands, covering an area of about 3.79 million square kilometers.The northern part is the Zhuzi Mountains, the mountains are low and gentle, with an altitude of about 500 meters, and there are many basins and plains.The southern terrain is high, the Kyushu mountain range runs through, and the main peak is 1,758 meters above sea level.The rivers are mostly rapid, and the hydraulic resources are relatively abundant.There are many forests, and the forest area accounts for about 35% of the total area of the island.Volcanoes are widely distributed throughout the island, including the famous Mt.
Aso and Mt.
Kirishima volcanoes.The coastline is tortuous, with many bays, islands, and peninsulas.The south is dominated by agriculture, with animal husbandry, vegetables, fruits, and fisheries developed.Coal resources are abundant, and the output ranks among the top in the country.If they all use this efficiency to attack, not to mention the mountainous areas where the common people are distributed, even if these seven counties are defeated, it will also require more than 100,000 troops, and the Chinese army cannot afford it.Therefore, before the war, Li Hongzhang and Princess Katrina Kafu were very optimistic about President Moe's plan to annex the entire island of Kyushu.When President Meng received the telegram, he was in Seoul, listening to music leisurely, he didn't plan to go to Japan again, and decided to leave it all to Xuan Jianzhang and Li Hongzhang to complete.Politics and military, diplomacy and economics, these are several heavy hands of President Moe, however, there are people who help President Moe contribute.Emperor Meiji, on the other hand, did not have such good conditions, and Emperor Meiji, who was listening to music in the Imperial Palace, was so frightened that he stood up in fright when he heard that Sasebo Castle and Sasebo Port had been captured by the Chinese army."
All down," Emperor Meiji yelled, left his seat, and hurried to the small hall where he met with the minister."
Hirobumi Ito, what's going on?"
asked Emperor Meiji eagerly."
Your Majesty, the Chinese army occupied Sasebo Castle in only one day."
Hirobumi Ito hunched over."
Kitakyushu, Sasebo Castle, Fukuoka, Nagasaki Castle, the first line has all fallen into the hands of the Chinese army.""
Is this news conclusive, aren't the British ministers and French ministers talking about whether the Chinese army is ready to make peace with us, and how many people have been dispatched in total" Emperor Meiji was sweating profusely, and his eyes were weak and blank."
There are two regiments in total, and cavalry, no more than 10,000 people."
Hirobumi Ito replied."
Two regiments" Emperor Meiji glared, "Two regiments dispatched so many people, are they planning to encroach on the entire island of Kyushu While we are fighting with Saigo Takamori at the most critical moment, bastard" Ito Hirobumi was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, in fact, Ito Hirobumi didn't expect that the Chinese army would suddenly attack, before that, all kinds of signs showed that the Chinese army seemed to just want to get Nagasaki Castle and build fortifications, and it had always been only near Nagasaki City, and I don't know why it suddenly took Sasebo Port."
You all listen to me, this matter is all handed over to the British ambassador and the French ambassador to deal with, you will eat Saigo Takamori's army as soon as possible, they have no ability to take the entire island of Kyushu, all the Chinese want is money."
Emperor Meiji made a judgment, "They are provoking and adding chips to the capture of Nagasaki Castle."
We must not be fooled and do not take the initiative to clash with the Chinese army.The railroad was built by the British, and I don't believe the British would leave it alone.Tell the government forces near Kumamoto not to approach Nagasaki Castle and not to leave a pretext for the Chinese army. ”The Chinese army has now frightened the Japanese into fear, they no longer have arrogance, from the emperor to the common people, they have put the Chinese army on the same level as the British army, the French army, and the American army."
Yes, Your Majesty."
Ito Hirobumi's mind is also in a mess now, but he thinks that giving up the entire railway line from Kitakyushu to Nagasaki Castle without resistance is equivalent to giving up the external traffic of Kyushu Island to the Chinese army, which is not right, in fact, he should negotiate peace with Saigo Takamori's army and jointly fight against the Chinese army, but Ito Hirobumi did not dare to say it.Compared with the Chinese army, the Meiji Emperor was more disgusted by Saigo Takamori.t1706231537: