Kumamoto Castle's garrison was the famous Japanese military general, Gentaro Kota, a famous Japanese general in modern Japanese army. He was known as the number one wise general during the Meiji period. He served as the Minister of the 6th Army, Minister of the Interior, Governor of Taiwan and other important positions in the Katsura cabinet.

In the original historical summary, he was one of the culprits of invasion of China. Because he paid special attention to the virtuous cycle of military and economic forces, he was called the rebirth of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

The Chief of Staff of the Manchurian Army during the Russo-Japanese War and the actual commander of conquering Lushunkou, he was known as the three heroes of the Meiji 6th Army along with Kawakami Kawakami Kawakami Kawakami.

The biggest contributor to Japan's rule of Taiwan, China, was a politician in military uniform.

The actual founder of Manchuria.

Kotaro Gentaro was born in 1852 in Tokuyama, the Tokuyama family of the Zhoufang Kingdom of Japan (now Yamaguchi Prefecture).

The eldest son of the Samurai Kata Hamankuro, whose young name was Lily Ruo, was later called Ken.

When he was 9 years old, his father assassinated the conservatives in the vassal state, and his brother-in-law inherited the family business. Later, he inherited the family name with the support of the reformists. His first battle was to participate in the Eastern Expedition of the Wuchen War in 1868 (the first year of Meiji), and later served as the Ministry of War Ministry of War.

Graduated from Osaka Military Academy (the predecessor of the 6th Sir).

On April 15, 1871, he served as the rank lieutenant of the 6th Army. He served as the adjutant of the 2nd Battalion and the 19th Battalion of the Infantry. During the Saga Rebellion, he joined the army as the adjutant of the Osaka Town Territory and was injured on the battlefield. During the Kamikake Rebellion, he was the deputy chief of staff of Kumamoto Town Territory and was known for his high skills.

During the Southwest War in 1877, Takamori Saigo led 35,000 people to surround Kumamoto Castle. At that time, the one who guarded Kumamoto Castle was Otaro Genharo.

It was almost impossible to defend the city. Some of the defenders remembered that they bought two cannons from France, but they had never used them.

At this time, the dead horse was treated as a living horse, and set up a cannon and fired according to the instructions.

Of course, the shells were not known where they were hit, but the enemy soldiers who were still sieging the city just now hated that their parents had few legs and ran faster than mice. No matter what the commander ordered, they would never step closer to the city.

I was frightened by the loud bang just now.

Eryu danced happily and shouted, "Haha, Ba Geya ran away, all ran away."

This time, Gentaro Kotaro became famous in one battle. Later, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Guards, captain of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and commander of the Sakura Battalion Office, and director of the General Staff Headquarters.

He accompanied the 6th Army Minister Dashan Iwam to Europe for military inspection.

After returning to China, the study target of the 6th Army of Japan was changed from France to Germany, and was appointed as the second officer of the 6th Army, the first director of the General Staff Headquarters and the officer of the 6th Army University, the chief of staff of the Military Supervisory Department and the principal of the 6th Army University, assisting the German instructor Major Merkel in training the army.

On August 24, 1889, he was promoted to major general of the 6th Army and appointed as chief of staff of the Military Supervision Department.

He was appointed as the second officer of the 6th Army, the director of the Military Affairs Bureau and the minister of the 6th Army Provincial Judge.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he served as the chief of staff and the temporary quarantine minister of the base camp, actively planned the war of aggression against China, and was called "Xiao He of the Japanese-Qing War".

After the Japanese army captured the Battle of Pyongyang and the Yellow Sea, after taking control of the sea, they immediately formed the Second Japanese Army of the invasion of China.

Since the 6th Army Minister Oyama Iwami served as the commander of the Second Army, he became the actual minister of the 6th Army, and practiced everything from the deployment of troops to the material supply in Japan.

On August 2, 1895, the Emperor of Japan awarded him the Golden Eagle Medal and the Sun Rising Glossary, and was awarded the title of baron. Later, he was promoted to the commander of the 3rd Division and Minister of Internal Affairs.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and Taiwan and the Penghu Islands were ceded to Japan.

At that time, in order to quickly pacify Taiwan, Japan adopted the method of suppressing and pacifying the two sides.

However, the first three governors of Taiwan, Shiki Kashiyama, Kashitaro, and Noki Hinomi Noki, were unable to control Taiwan. In Noki Hinomi's view, the Japanese rulers' gains are not worth the loss, and the military expenditure is as high as 70,000 yen per year. In addition to Taiwan's taxes, Japan also took out 12 million yuan from China's reparations in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 to provide military subsidies to Taiwan.

The huge expenditures not only prevented Japan from gaining actual benefits from Taiwan's ceasing, but instead became a heavy burden for Japan, and had the idea of ​​betraying Taiwan and inspired the righteousness of Aomatsu at that time.

After a series of behind-the-scenes activities, it was initially decided to sell Taiwan to France for 1.50 million francs (one of the words, 100 million yen).

In 1898, Hirofumi Ito became the Japanese minister again. At the meeting of military and political leaders he presided over, Nogi Kinomi formally proposed his theory of selling Taiwan, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also firmly supported Japan's proposal for selling Taiwan.

Gentaro Ota stood up and objected: "I think Taiwan is a barrier in southern Japan, with great military value and cannot be sold to France. In the beginning, we spent so much effort to get Taiwan and died so many people. If Taiwan was sold to other countries, it would be unworthy in the long run. As for Governor Nogi's mention of the problem of Taiwan's difficult governance, I think it is not that Taiwan is difficult to govern, but that the officials we manage are incompetent. If we feel that the governor who can't find Taiwan to govern, I am willing to go."

After Oshita took office, he immediately implemented a series of new colonial measures in Taiwan: in military terms, Oshitaro brutally suppressed his compatriots in Taiwan. He implemented the Baojia system and implemented the law of continuation and murdered countless people.

However, on the other hand, Eryu adopted the policy of "outside the whip" and "sugar".

The people's favorite bad habits to absorb opium have changed from being cleansed to being relaxed to being "unique", and the elderly are respected by "savoring the old" activities, and the "Yangwen Club" attaches importance to commendation activities for reading and business elites.

Economically, Gentaro Ota has implemented a monopoly system such as salt, camphor, tobacco and alcohol, and opium, and has exploited Taiwanese people vigorously.

In order to squeeze more oil and water from Taiwanese farmers, Gentaro Ota has promulgated the "Taiwan Cadastral Rules" and "Land Survey Rules" and organized a large number of people to re-measure the land in Taiwan.

Through this measurement, Taiwan's arable land area was twice as high as before, and Japan's land tax revenue to Taiwan also doubled.

What satisfies the Japanese authorities most is that Gentaro Kotaro frantically plunders various resources and materials in Taiwan, causing Japan to make great profits.

At that time, sugar was a very short supply, and the prices sometimes rose several times a day. Taiwan's soil and climate were very suitable for planting sugarcane, so Guyu Gentaro forced Taiwanese farmers to plant sugarcane.

After the sugarcane harvest every year, Japanese colonial officials directed sugarcane farmers to make it into chorizo, then purchased it at a low price, and then shipped it to Japan for fine processing, so that the price of sugar doubled.

Taiwan's jelly sugar is continuously transported to Japan, which not only makes the Japanese authorities make a lot of money, but also solves the employment problems of many unemployed people in Japan.

The series of colonial policies implemented by Gentaro Kotaro in Taiwan have made the Japanese authorities taste the sweetness, and no one has ever mentioned selling Taiwan to other countries again.

Eryu served in Taiwan for more than 8 years, almost the longest among all the governors.

After the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 19o4, although Gentaro Ota was still serving as the governor of Taiwan, he had returned to the military headquarters to serve. The civil affairs chief Shinhei Goto, who was also appointed at the same time, became the actual ruler of Taiwan.

Japanese political circles evaluated Kota Goto, who created an era and laid the foundation for Taiwan's colonial rule.

In September 19o3, the conflict between Japan and Russia became increasingly deeper. Ichimura, then the deputy chief of staff, and Major General Zao (for his cautious use of military service, he was called Takeda Shingen's rebirth, and Ogawa, who was known as the second Lieutenant General of Uesugi Kenshi), died of illness. He had been promoted to Japanese Minister of Interior and Quezusa Gentaro Quezuo, and began to comprehensively plan combat deployments against Russia.

After the Russo-Japanese War broke out, he was promoted to general of the 6th Army and served as chief of staff of Marshal Oyama Iwa, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army.

On July 14, 19o4, he invaded China with the Japanese army.

Since then, Japan's military aircraft affairs in China have been planned and decided in person.

During the Japanese attack on Lushun, they were always concerned about the situation of Lushun, and went to Lushun twice to inspect the situation and supervise the battle. On August 19, after the Japanese attack on Lushun, the attack was blocked and the losses were heavy. On September 15, Guyu Gentaro rushed from Liaoyang to Lushun, ordering Nogi to change his original tactics, focus on attacking the 2o3 highlands, and return to Liaoyang on January 5, but Lushun still failed to attack for a long time.

On December 1 of the same year, Gentaro Otaya took Marshal Oyama Iwa's order from Liaoyang to Lushun, and ordered Nogi Hinomi to hand over the command, which he personally commanded.

Looking at Nogi's concentration of military forces and focused on attacking the 2o3 highlands, the Russian army also dispatched reserve forces to focus on counterattack and defense.

As a result, there was another stalemate. After Eryu intervened in command, he adjusted two of them, both of which were on the artillery. First, he concentrated the 28omm heavy artillery team on the east front to the west front in one day, completed the concentration of artillery firepower, and suddenly increased the artillery firepower on the 2o3 highland on the west front.

Nogi said worriedly, what should I do if the Russians came out to fight back if the artillery team in the east were withdrawn.

Eryu was furious, and I was worried that he would not come out to fight back. Second, he changed the artillery-infantry offensive mode and ordered the artillery not to stop shooting during infantry assault.

Like the above two points, the Russian army on the hill lost the time to occupy the position and organize defense and shooting after the shelling in the usual mode, and could not use the reserve team to support the threatened positions. They basically fell into a state of war between the various positions and the melee with the Japanese army. The fate of the position loss can be said to have been decided.

From Eryu's intervention in the Lushun battle command to conquering the 2o3 highland, we can see that he is very good at calm calculation.

On December 6, the Japanese army finally captured the 2o3 highland and achieved a key victory in conquering Lushun. The firepower controlled the entire city and port of Lushun.

As the victory was decided, he returned to the Liaoyang Japanese Army General Headquarters on December 1o. After that, the Japanese army had a tide of offensives, and one month later forced the Russian army to surrender.

On March 23, 19o5, after the victory of the Japanese army's Battle of Fengtian, Kotaro was ordered to return to China to report the situation.

Deputy Chief of Staff Nagaoka Waishi went to Shinbashi Station to pick him up.

When Otaki saw Nagaoka, he asked if there was any sign of the peace talks. When he heard Nagaoka say that he had no sign of the matter yet, he cursed: "Once the war begins, the biggest topic is how to end. You don't even understand this, what are you doing?"

This Nagaoka is a student he served as the president of the 6th Army University.

Later, he and the upper class of the 6th Army withdrew from the pressure from the people and signed the Portsmouth Peace Treaty with Russia, driving Russian forces out of South Manchuria.

During his return to China, he proposed to the Japanese base camp to establish a General Station Supervision Department affiliated to the Manchurian Army, a General Station Supervision Department affiliated to the General Station Supervision Department, and to renovate and increase railway capacity.

These suggestions were quickly adopted by Japan, and since then, as the chief of staff of the Manchurian Army, he actually became the chief leader of the Japanese army's rule in Dalian and the Northeast occupied areas.

He is also the chief planner of 50,000 Japanese immigrants in Manchuria.

In his opinion, Japan spent 200 million yen on war expenses and 10,000 people died. China had to bleed if it wanted to recover the Northeast.

In September 19o6, at the "Conference on the Manchuria Issues", Chief of Staff Gentaro Kotaro said: "Is it necessary to be appointed to study the sovereignty of Manchuria? Is it necessary to set up an official office to take charge of this issue?"

But this suggestion was rejected by the important minister Hirofumi Ito back: "Manchuria is not Japanese territory, but Manchuria is the territory of the Qing Dynasty."

But this did not block Eryu's ambitions.

At the meeting, Gentaro Kotaro discussed in detail the policy of implementing colonial rule on Dalian, including land, harbor, industry, education, tax system, police, health, roads, electrical, etc., and even crematoriums and cemeteries were not missed. According to the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth, Japan seized the Dalian leased land and the South Manchurian Railway from Tsarist Russia.

In January 19o6, he was appointed chairman of the Manchurian Business Investigation Committee.

He was appointed chairman of the "Manchurian Railway" by the Japanese cabinet on July 13.

On November 26, 19o6, Japan established the "South Manchuria Railway Corporation" in Tokyo. He called his right-hand assistant Goto Shinhei in Taiwan to appoint him as the president of the Manchuria Railway Corporation.

After the Russo-Japanese War, Marshal Yuto of Yama County was scared and always felt that the Tsar was coming back to take revenge.

It was proposed to expand the 6th armies of the 17 divisions to 25 in peacetime and 50 divisions during wartime.

Why 5o?

Because Tsarist Russia can mobilize in the Far East, it is said that there are 50 divisions.

But General Oshiyu, the chief of staff, firmly opposed it. The basis is very simple: Can you maintain the national strength of 25 divisions? I don’t know when the famine that has been brought down by the Russians will be paid.

Eryu proposed that two divisions were added, plus a total of 20 guard divisions, which doubled to 40 during wartime.

This is a barely enough to make do with it.

However, the 6th Army Minister Masato Desun was firmly opposed to Kota's plan.

During the quarrel, on July 23, 19o6, Gentaro Ota died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 55.

On the day after his death, he was specially ordered by Emperor Meiji to resign the two, including the first-class gold medal and the Great Rising Sun Tung Flower Chronicle. The following year, he was posthumously named Earl.

There is such a powerful general and a wise general who commands the city to defend.
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