Chapter 261 Taiwan people fight against Japan (Part 1)

On April 17, 1895, the Qing Dynasty signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" with Japan, which was humiliating and ceded Taiwan to Japan.

The bad news came out, like a bolt from the blue. The whole country was angry and denounced the traitors and opposed the cemetery for peace.

The people of Taiwan wrote letters to the governor of Taiwan, determined to use their lives to defend the territory of the motherland. When the patriotic gentry of Taiwan Qiu Fengjia heard the news, he immediately pierced his finger and wrote the four big words "anti-Japanese defending the territory" in blood to show his determination to resist the enemy and protect Taiwan.

However, if one is not a race, his heart will be different

**Throughout, the Qing government, which regarded the land of China as a colony, only wanted to continue to maintain colonial rule. Regardless of the grief and anger of the people across the country and the lives of the Taiwanese people, several imperial edicts were ordered by Taiwan Governor Tang Jingsong to lead civil and military officials to evacuate Taiwan, and sent Li Jingfang, the special envoy of the ceding of Taiwan, to handle the ceding of Taiwan.

Although it was not difficult for Japan to accept Taiwan from the Qing government, it was not easy to occupy Taiwan in front of the Taiwanese people. The Taiwanese compatriots who "vowed not to obey the Japanese" were determined to resist Japan's occupation of Taiwan with their own strength.

On May 25, 1895, under the promotion of Qiu Fengjia and others, Taiwanese officials and gentry formed the "Taiwan Democratic Country", electing Tang Jingsong as president, Qiu Fengjia as the commander of the rebel army, and the famous Black Flag Army leader Liu Yongfu as the general.

Taiwan's democracy was a national-salvation regime established by the Taiwanese people to defend Taiwan and resist invasion at the critical moment when Taiwan was occupied by Japan. "In the name of independence, the reality of anti-Japanese resistance."

Because Tang Jingsong lacked the determination to truly "sustain and perish with Taiwan", on the day of the founding of the Taiwan Democratic Republic, he ordered all officials to return to the Great Six within three days, which triggered an internal rush to escape.

On the seventh day of Japan's massive attack on Taiwan, Tang Jingsong, who was afraid of death, hid in the British ship and fled back to the Great Six.

With Tang Jingsong's escape, the "Taiwan Democratic Kingdom" was disbanded soon, which disappointed the defenders. The Japanese army quickly captured Keelung.

At midnight on June 6, the Japanese army began to attack Taipei. Some people in the city resisted bravely, but because no one was in command, they could not repel the Japanese attack. On the afternoon of the 7th, the Japanese army captured Taipei.

The fall of Taipei and the retreat of bureaucratic gentry such as Tang Jingsong aroused the grief and indignation of the vast number of loving people in Taiwan.

Liu Yongfu, the leader of the Black Flag Army guarding Tainan, was very angry when he learned the news and called for a joint anti-Japanese war, saying that he would "don't refuse" in order to defend the country.

I am very excited to hear this news and jointly elected Liu Yongfu as the leader to lead the military and civilians in Taiwan to continue the armed struggle against Japan.

However, due to the lack of domestic aid and necessary weapons, in January, facing the Japanese army's full-on attack, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army was outnumbered and forced to flee from Tainan and retreat back to the country. The Japanese army controlled the entire Taiwan Province.

From the Taipei Blocking War in April 1895 to the fall of Tainan in January, in the past six months of bloody battles, the Taiwanese military and civilians wrote a tragic patriotic epic with their blood and lives.

Although the vigorous armed anti-Taiwanese people's struggle against Taiwan ceding failed, it dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders.

During the Japanese invasion, the Taiwanese rebels fought bloody battles with the Japanese army, which made the arrogant invaders frightened and felt like they were stuck in the mud and struggling to move forward.

Japanese Takeno and Saburo said with lingering fear in the center of the Taiwan Rule: "No matter whenever our army is defeated, the nearby villagers will immediately become our enemies. Everyone and even young women pick up weapons, shouting while joining the battle.

Our opponents were very tenacious and were not afraid of death. They hid in the village. When one house was destroyed by cannons, they calmly moved to another house and attacked whenever they had the chance."

According to the figures released by Japan, Japanese officers and soldiers who were shot and killed and died of illness in Taiwan, including Prince Noku Kitashirakawa and Major General Yamane, had more than 48 oo, more than 5 oo seriously injured, more than 21 oo oo returned to China for treatment, and more than 52 oo oo stayed in Taiwan for treatment, with a total loss of more than 32 oo oo, accounting for more than half of the total number of invading Taiwan.

In order to defend the sacred territory of the motherland, our compatriots in Taiwan are not afraid of the sacred people or sacrifices. Their heroic deeds of awe-inspiring mountains and rivers will always be remembered in the hearts of the descendants of Yan and Huang.

The Japanese political affairs originally thought that as long as the Qing Dynasty gave up Taiwan and the Japanese army occupied the entire island of Taiwan, the Taiwanese people would be completely desperate, give up resistance, and accept the rule of the Japanese political affairs.

Unexpectedly, the facts were exactly the opposite. Although the Japanese invaders occupied Taiwan, the anti-Japanese struggle of the Taiwanese people did not stop.

From 1895 to 19o2, the anti-Japanese rebel army formed by the Taiwanese people carried out a continuous armed struggle for seven years.

Taiwan has a dangerous terrain, and the rebels often attack the Japanese army unexpectedly. Guerrilla wars spread throughout Taiwan, rising and falling, causing great trouble to the Japanese army.

Until 192, the Japanese political team used Taiwan's Han dynasty to conspire to formulate a "big cleaning" plan to kill Taiwan's anti-Japanese armed forces.

Not long after, Taiwan's famous anti-Japanese armed leaders Ruan Zhen, Lin Shaomao and others were successively arrested and killed by Japanese invaders. The anti-Japanese armed struggle between Taiwanese compatriots suddenly turned to the low-key com   According to Japanese rough statistics, from the fall of Taiwan to 192, a total of more than 20,000 Taiwanese people were killed.

This shows how cruel and cruel the Japanese army treated the Taiwanese people in order to obtain the strategic location of Taiwan.

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At around 5 pm on May 9, 19o8, a talented and short stranger came outside a village more than 2 kilometers away from Taipei City.

As soon as the stranger appeared outside the village, he was greeted by Wang Jiulin, a villager who had been waiting outside the village.

After entering the reception room of a large tile house in the village, Lin Zhenwen, the captain of the Taipei Anti-Japanese Guerrillas who had been waiting for a long time, Deng Ying, the PLA special forces sent from Borneo, and others warmly received them.

The stranger is named Yue Ming, a PLA special forces soldier who had just been sent from Borneo to convey orders and instructions. Like Deng Ying, Yue Ming also grew up in Taiwan and later immigrated to Indonesia.

Knowing that the Borneo headquarters only sent a soldier to Taipei and Tainan respectively this time, Lin Zhenwen said to Yue Ming with a bitter face: "Brother Yue, the Taiwanese people are now suffering from cruel oppression by the Japanese invaders and are living in dire straits. Why don't the headquarters send more soldiers to support us?"

Yue Ming smiled and said, "Captain Lin, at present, we need loyal and reliable personnel everywhere, and there are no extra people sent to Taiwan."
Chapter completed!