The battle continued until after 11 o'clock in the evening, and the two sides fought each other in the city.

During the Southwest War, the status of hand-to-hand infantry was still very high.

In this era, the 6th Japanese Army first showed the samurai of the Satsuma Army, which put great pressure on the new government army, and then the new government army had to organize a sword-drawing team specially used for hand-to-hand combat to face the Satsuma Army head-on.

During the entire war, melee infantry had a great impact on the war situation.

However, during the same period, the West entered the state of all infantry equipped with firearms as early as the Napoleon era.

European history has proved that after line infantry equipment is equipped with bayonets and smoothbore guns, the tactics of platoon shooting and bayonet charge should be able to completely suppress any melee infantry.

Why does Japan still have a stage of cold weapons in more than 70 years later?

Was Japan's training level at that time not enough to get soldiers to the level of European line infantry 70 years ago, or was it because the equipment level could not guarantee a sufficient number of firearms?

Can the Satsuma army's demonstration warriors and the New Government Army's sword-drawing team also play a certain role when facing the line infantry during the same period or the Napoleon period?

The characteristic of the famous Satsuma is the popularization of rural education and the cultivation of a large number of rural scholars.

These samurai classes feel like rich peasants or small and medium-sized landlords. They work normally, have certain knowledge and beliefs, and have considerable fighting skills.

Shimazu's classic tactic during the Warring States Period was fishing for wild fu, because the samurai had a high proportion of warriors and strong combat power, and they were determined to fight.

The Satsuma melee tactics were based on a large number of lower-level warriors and were also circulated in history.

Second, at that time, the Meiji government abolished the samurai privileges. Many down-and-out samurai in the southwest vassal lost their privileges and the basis for survival. They were full of resentment towards the government, gathered together, and recommended Saigo to rebel. These samurai were best at training not line tactics but close combat since childhood, and they were more accustomed to this kind of fighting method.

Of course, they also use modern firearms, but their equipment is not as good as government troops and is relatively miscellaneous.

Therefore, using close combat to fight the government forces is to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

Third, the Southwest rebels preferred to use night battles at that time, so it was difficult for the government troops to exert their firepower advantage.

In addition, the Samoans' melee tactics are not only about melee combat, but also mainly use firearms, cooperate with melee combat and night attacks to achieve the goal of disturbing and exhausting the enemy.

The Southwest War government forces suffered a great loss in close combat, so they turned the 6th Army's training technology tree.

The two sides' sense of vanity from the remaining old times may be the main reason for the convergence of combat thinking, and it will not play any role when they encounter Napoleon-style army.

For a long time, warriors were ashamed to use firearms to determine the outcome, and instead used swords to fight the outcome.

Both sides of the Southwest War participated in the war include a large number of members of the former samurai class. Needless to say, the Sa Army was almost all samurai.

The government mainly concentrates the command level, while the grassroots combat units come from citizens and farmers recruited by the new recruitment system.

The others are all samurai class.

If other external forces who were not good at fighting in hand and were good at industrial technology attacked Japan, and suffered losses in the show, he would definitely not consider countermeasures from the perspective of cold weapons.

A typical manifestation is that the US military in World War II adopted a large number of pistol-equipped strategies against the Japanese army's bayonet offensive, but did not concentrate on training any anti-bayonet fighting techniques, seeking qualitative change rather than quantitative change.

As for why the Sah Army wanted to use the secret technique of the vassal state of the vassal state, there are several reasons: 1. It was still vain. The arrogant samurai was eager to cut it off and quickly in the face of the rollover untouched, and used a gun to lower the B square like the other party. 2. The supply of ammunition was indeed urgent. In the early stage, the attack on Kumamoto Castle was not enough, and the bullets were short of bullets. Later, the bullets were so scarce that they had to tap the bullet holes and pick the warheads and re-melted new bullets. 3. I did taste the sweetness in the war in the anti-scene war ten years ago. His slash was fierce and fierce, and he emphasized that he would kill one blow. Even the director of the new selection group, Yukino Kondo. 4. Want to die. The main content of the book "Ye Yin" by Saga Yamamoto Takasaki tells the main story of the deeds of the samurai. The core is to advocate that the samurai should devote his life without hesitation and never live in secret. Only by not having one's own life can he take the life of others. That is, the way to die.

The Kyushu Island is only so big, and the Satsuma vassals must have been deeply influenced by it.

The main reason is that the Satsuma military had not much industrial capacity, and it was not enough to make guns and bullets. The reason for the Southwest War was that the old warriors were unwilling to be rebelled by the deprivation of privileges. Naturally, they were all a group of people who were skilled in swordsmanship.

But the government army is full of new recruits, and it hasn't been long since the samurai sect was suppressed. Therefore, although the uniforms of the government army's peasant militia are beautiful and the breech guns in their hands are also good, their morale and skills are not good.

Later, many people died, and they walked through the blood and fire before they grew up.

Of course, these new recruits started to panic when they met the samurai man rushing up with his swords.

Later, the old shogunate samurai was transferred to the Metropolitan Police Department as a sword-drawing team to solve the problem (it happened that Aizu's samurai and the Satsuma samurai who had fallen into the temple were cleared together this time). He also wrote a song of the sword-drawing team for this. This song was not a Japanese military song in World War II but a Japanese civil war song in the Meiji period, so it was not banned, and it was still a military song in the Metropolitan Police Department.

At the end of the 19th century, the middle-aged and middle-aged man who was about to aging sent the hand-to-hand troops to the battlefield, thereby quickly consuming and digesting the warrior class.

The digestion of the samurai class means that Japanese society breaks the inherent class, thus rapidly westernizing and innovating, and the Japanese army is about to transform and begin to move towards the stage of modern warfare.

Combined with Japan's national conditions and national culture at that time, this political method was born.

The Chinese army is naturally different from the samurai army. The Chinese army's charge is simpler and more practical, playing bayonets and shooting, rather than being the Japanese, either playing bayonets or playing samurai swords, without the tactics of shooting while playing knives.

After a close battle, the Chinese army's strength was originally similar to that of the Japanese government forces, but to put it nicely, these government forces were Japanese government forces, to put it bluntly, 80% of them were mud legs that had just washed their feet, but they were just wearing black uniforms. Where did they have any combat experience?

Seeing that he could not hold on, the commander guarding the city did not have the courage to go down the mountain with a rope from the mountain and form a team of thousands of people, intending to capture the retreat of the Chinese army.

The Chinese army had two battalions that had just retreated and rested outside the city. This time, they rushed up and beaten up. The cavalry company rushed forward and killed all the Japanese who were trying to go down the mountain to cut off the back.

In the early morning of the next day, the battle finally ended. It was indeed completed within the time specified by the cute president. However, the damage was relatively large. The Chinese army died in total and injured more than 1 ooo and more than 2 ooo. For the Chinese army, which had the advantage of military and strong fighting spirit, it was already a serious loss in the case of sneak attacks, and this was just a city.

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In a broad sense, Kyushu refers to Kyushu places, including Fukuoka Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture (including Goshima Islands and Tsushima Island), Kumamoto Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture (including Osumi Islands and Amami Islands), with an area of ​​about 37,900 square kilometers.

The north is a purple mountain area with low and gentle mountains, with an altitude of about 50 meters, with many basins and plains. The southern terrain is high and steep, with Jiuzhou Mountain running through the mountains, and the main peak, Grandmother Mountain is 1,758 meters above sea level.

There are many rapids in the river and abundant water resources.

There are many forests, and the forest area accounts for about 3/5 of the island's area.

The volcanoes on the island are widely distributed, with the famous Asu Mountain and Kirishima Mountain volcanic groups.

The coastline is winding, with many bays, islands, peninsulars.

The south is mainly agriculture, animal husbandry, vegetables, fruits and fisheries.

Coal resources are abundant and output ranks among the top in the country.

If you use this efficiency to attack, let alone the mountainous areas where the people are distributed, even if you defeat all these seven counties, you will need an army of more than 100,000, which the Chinese army cannot afford.

Therefore, before the war, Li Hongzhang and Princess Katrina Kaif were not optimistic about the cute CEO's plan to annex the entire Kyushu Island.

When the coquettish president received the telegram, he was in Seoul, listening leisurely to the music. He didn't plan to go to Japan again, so he decided to hand it over to Xuan Jianzhang and Li Hongzhang to complete it all.

Politics and military, diplomacy and economy are several important hands of the cute president, but there are people who help the cute president to contribute.

Emperor Meiji did not have such good conditions. Emperor Meiji, who was listening to music in the palace, heard that Sasebo Castle and Sasebo Port were captured by the Chinese army and stood up in fear.

"Everything goes down!" Emperor Meiji roared, left his seat, and hurried to the small hall where he met the minister.

"Haifun Ito, what's going on?" Emperor Meiji asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, it took only one day for the Chinese army to occupy Sasebo Castle." Hiromon Ito bowed his body. "Kekikuishu, Sasebo Castle, Fukuoka, Nagasaki Castle, all the front lines have fallen into the hands of the Chinese army."

"Is this news conclusive? Aren't the British and French ministers saying that the Chinese army is preparing to make peace with us? How many people have been dispatched in total?" Emperor Meiji was sweating heavily and his eyes were weak and unconscious.

"There are two regiments in total, and there are no less than 10,000 cavalrymen." Hirofumi Ito replied.

"Two regiments?" Emperor Meiji stared, "Two regiments? Are they planning to embezzle the entire Kyushu Island when we are fighting with Takashi Saigo until the most critical moment, bastard!"

Hiromori Ito was so scared that he dared not speak. In fact, Hiromori Ito did not expect that the Chinese army would suddenly attack. Before that, all signs showed that the Chinese army seemed to be just going to obtain Nagasaki Castle and build fortifications, and they were always just near Nagasaki Castle. For some reason, they suddenly took down Sasebo Port.

"You all tell me. All this matter will be left to the British ambassador and the French ambassador to deal with. You will eat Saigo Takamori's army as soon as possible. They are not able to take over the entire Kyushu Island! What the Chinese want is only money." Emperor Meiji made a judgment, "They are provoking and adding chips to the capture of Nagasaki Castle. We cannot be fooled, and don't take the initiative to conflict with the Chinese army. The railway was built by the British, and I don't believe the British will ignore it. Tell the government troops near Kumamoto not to approach Nagasaki Castle and not to leave any evidence for the Chinese army."

The Chinese army has now scared the Japanese people out of their courage. They no longer have arrogance. From the Emperor to the common people, they have placed the Chinese army on the same height as the British army, French army, and American army.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Hiromori Ito's mind was also in chaos now, but he felt that giving up the entire railway line from Kitakyushu to Nagasaki Castle without resistance was equivalent to giving up all the external transportation from Kyushu Island to the Chinese army. This was wrong. In fact, it should be negotiated with Takamori Saigo's army to fight against the Chinese army together, but Hiromori Ito did not dare to say it.

Compared to the Chinese army, Emperor Meiji was more disgusted with the troops of Takamori Saigo.
Chapter completed!