"General, it's not good, the Chinese army has begun to attack the city, no, it has already attacked" The adjutant general was angry, and knocked on the door of Youpeng in Shan County in a panic.Youpeng of Shan County got up from the bed all of a sudden, opened the door, and said angrily: "We have more than 30,000 troops, and there are more than 3,000 defenders in the city, how did we suddenly be attacked into Xiaguan City" "I don't know" The deputy general was sweating profusely, "The general should break through the siege quickly" Youpeng of Shan County was only in his early 40s at this time, and it was in his life that he was about to enter a glorious period.Aritomo Yamaprefecture was a military strategist and statesman in the late Tokugawa and Meiji periods, the founder of Japan's modern army, and the "ancestor of the warlord kingdom" since the Meiji Restoration.Born in the Choshu Domain.The young name Tatsunosuke, later changed his name to Xiaosuke, Xiaosuke.After the Meiji Restoration, the name was changed to Aritomo, and the number was Hanxue.Since childhood, he has loved martial arts, and once took "I am a martial artist" as his motto, and is good at judo and swordsmanship.In 1853, at the age of 16, he served as a member of the Choshu Domain and an attendant of the Inspectorate.Participate in the "Respect the King" event.He served as the military supervisor of the armed surprise team of the fallen shogunate of the Choshu Domain.He studied at Matsushita Murajuku, where he studied under Yoshida Shoin, the leader of the Shogunate faction, and had close contacts with Genrui Kushi, Shinsaku Takasugi, Takayoshi Kido, Hirobumi Ito, Shin Inoue, and Kassei Maehara.He traveled back and forth between Cheung Chau and Kyoto many times to understand the situation and instigate the downfall.In September 1864, in the battle against the bombardment of Shimonoseki by the combined fleets of Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, he took the lead and was wounded in the right wrist and abdomen, becoming the vanguard of the rebellion.In 1865, he led a detachment of strange soldiers to eliminate the "vulgar party" in the Choshu domain, which had shown deference and submission to the shogunate, and regained power in the domain.In 1866, he commanded the Odd Soldiers to defeat the shogunate army in the second expedition to Choshu and defended the Choshu base area.In 1868, during the Boshin War, which was crucial to the success or failure of the Shogunate Restoration, he served as a staff officer to the Governor of Hokkaido Province and the Governor of Aizu-Echigoguchi, and personally led his army to conquer strategic locations such as Nagaoka and Wakamatsu, making a major contribution to the establishment of the Meiji Restoration.In 1869, due to his meritorious service in the "Boshin War", he was awarded 600 stone for generations.After the Meiji Restoration, he went to Europe to study military affairs in Britain, France, Germany and other countries.After returning to Japan, he successively served as the Junior Assistant, the Daisuke, the Army Chief, the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of the Army, the Chief of Staff, the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.until he became the most powerful person in the military world.He has long been committed to the construction and transformation of the modern Japanese army.In 1878, he issued a letter of admonition to military personnel, emphasizing the old virtues of bravery, loyalty, and obedience to the emperor, and opposing democratic and liberal tendencies.He was the advocate and formulator of the conscription order, and he presided over the transformation of the town into a division and regiment system, the rectification of the army's educational institutions, and the establishment of the military medical department, thus laying the ideological and organizational foundation for the establishment of the modern army.The gradual building of the Japanese army into a modern bourgeois army played an important role.Therefore, he is known as the "father of Japan's modern army".At the same time, he also politically pursued the policy of "strengthening the army and enriching the country" by forming two cabinets, thus further broadening the space for the formation and development of Japanese militarism.His ruling skills are not as sophisticated as Ito's, but he is not mediocre either.He has a calm and somewhat neurotic temperament, and he is cautious and decisive.No matter what, once you make up your mind, you will do it to the end.In 1872, there was an incident in which Yamashiro Ya, a merchant of the Ministry of the Army, was suspected of receiving illegal financing from the Ministry of War from Yama Prefecture, and Yamashiro Ya committed suicide and Yamayama was forced to resign.Two months later, however, Yama Prefecture was reinstated as Secretary of Army, because the government of the Sacho clan at the time believed that without Yama Prefecture Youtomo, Japan's efforts to create a new army would have slowed down.The government first established an unprecedented conscription system.Based on the experience of Aritomo Yamaguchi in the Odd Soldier Brigade and his study of the conscription systems of European countries, the Japanese government issued a conscription edict in 1872.The edict and the edict issued at the same time criticized the old samurai class for "resisting the appearance and sitting on the table", pointing out that breaking the privileges of samurai status would achieve equality between the upper and lower levels and the unity of human rights, which was the basis for the unity of soldiers and peasants.This view represents the common sentiment of the Restoration heroes who came from the lower ranks of the samurai.There is a friend in Shan County who has a very elegant and beautiful name called "Hanxue", but the things he has done all his life have nothing to do with "elegant and beautiful".He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is very good at swordsmanship, judo, and marksmanship.As a young man, Yama Prefecture heroically participated in the war against the shogunate and made great contributions to the Meiji Emperor's government.After the Meiji Restoration, the largest "new revision" in Japanese history, Yama Prefecture was sent by the Meiji government to Europe and the United States to inspect the military.After returning to Japan, Yamaguchi gradually took control of the Meiji government's military power, and began to devote all his energy and ability to reforming the military system, and he wanted to build the Japanese army into a strong force like European and American countries.Yama carefully pondered the military system he had seen in Europe and the United States, and believed that the Japanese Army should learn from France, which gave birth to Napoleon, the first great man in land warfare, and that the Japanese Navy should learn from Britain, which gave birth to Horatio Nelson, the first great man in naval warfare.At that time, most of the soldiers in Japan were feudal soldiers composed of professional samurai, and these guys had never seen much of the world, they were quite backward, and they thought they were self-righteous, and Yama County had long wanted to abolish them.At the suggestion of Yamagu, the Meiji government instituted a conscription order to recruit soldiers from among the common people of the country, and soldiers were finally no longer limited to samurai as before.As soon as the modern military system was implemented, the strength of the Japanese army immediately increased.In order to make the newly built army "honest and obedient," Yama Prefecture has also engaged in such things as the seven articles of "reading the law" for soldiers, admonitions for soldiers, and edicts for soldiers, stipulating that the most important thing for soldiers is to be loyal to the emperor, that fighting for the emperor is the greatest honor, and dying for the emperor is the greatest happiness.Yama Prefecture worked hard to instill the spirit of bushido in the Japanese soldiers all day long, and in this way, the Japanese army became an "imperial army", and they could do anything for the sake of the "emperor".With the new army, the old samurai were no longer valuable, and Yama suggested that the government issue an order to abolish the sword, forcing the samurai to take off the katana, which symbolized their status and status, of course, the leaders of their "imperial army" in Yama County still wore Oriental swords all day long.The samurai were angry at the new government's actions, and a series of samurai rebellions broke out, the most influential of which was the Kagoshima Rebellion of 1877, known as the "Southwest War", led by Saigo Takamori, one of the "Three Heroes of the Restoration" and a famous tragic hero in Japanese history.In 1878, he set up a very important military department, the General Staff Headquarters, which was a major event in Japanese military history, and the "General Staff Headquarters" was extremely powerful, directly under the emperor, and could directly command the army and be responsible for the formulation of all army battle plans.For the General Staff Headquarters, the government and parliament are birds, not only does the government have no authority over it, but it can also manipulate the government.Later, how did Japan become a militarist country ruled by soldiers, and it went around killing people and setting fires, and this "independence of the military department" made a fuss, and the people in Shanxian County "made great contributions?"
why did Shanxian County work so hard to reform the military system?
It must be a "strong country", so what will it do after the country is strong?
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the people of Shanxian County are extremely obsessed with the reform of the military system, very devoted, and have a soft spot for aggression and expansion, and do their best.Therefore, at this time, the Japanese government army not only had a high level of training, but also had a regular staff system, and under the general command of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, the command level was also not low, and the British and Americans were also used as advisers.This will make Youpeng in Shanxian so surprised, why the Chinese army can attack Xiaguan City t1706231537 at once: