Chapter 728: If you want to surrender, only surrender to the Ming Dynasty (fourth update, please subscribe)
Hiroshima.
The smoke of battle has cleared.
The devastating bombardment brought unimaginable casualties to the "martyr army". After half an hour of bombardment, the entire Hiroshima Garrison Camp was razed to the ground. More than 8,000 officers and soldiers in the camp were either killed or injured, and the rest could only flee.
With the efforts of the Ming Marine Corps, armed sailors, Japanese naval artillery soldiers, and garrison soldiers, the resistance in Hiroshima City was weaker than expected. It seemed that even the Japanese themselves had not thought that they would clash with the Ming Navy. They had less than a thousand soldiers and only a few hundred policemen in the city.
With such a lineup, there is no need to even deploy armed sailors; the Marines alone are enough to crush them. After landing, just two Gatling machine guns are enough to knock the "martyr army" to the ground like sweeping the floor. Then, with a charge by the Marines, the little remaining resistance was disintegrated.
Of course, they also encountered stubborn resistance. Faced with the Japanese soldiers who relied on buildings to resist, the Marines directly used 88mm field guns to attack the buildings, and the rest was naturally a bayonet charge.
This was the tone set by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang back then - wars must be fought with drastic measures, firepower is the most important factor, and if something can be solved with artillery shells, don't use humans.
After all, the people of the Ming Dynasty are precious.
The people of the Ming Dynasty are precious, while the lives of the Japanese are worthless. When faced with a tough challenge, the Japanese sailors naturally took action. Of course, the Marines would also provide some support. After a few rounds of fire, the thick brick wall of the Hiroshima Prefectural Governor's Office where they were stationed was blasted open.
After the wall was blasted open, the Japanese sailors immediately rushed up shouting, holding their Schneider rifles. However, they had only rushed for a few dozen meters when bullets fired from the windows and other places drove the Japanese sailors who were swarming up into the water, forcing them to flee in panic.
Sun Mingyue, the commander of a Marine battalion, frowned as he watched the Japanese sailors flee in panic after leaving behind dozens of corpses.
"What a bunch of useless people! Tell the artillery to fire a few more shots!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the cannon roared again, and the 12-kilogram shells easily tore the solid brick wall into pieces. The martyred soldiers behind the wall were either buried by bricks and stones or directly blown to pieces by the explosion. For a while, the governor's hall with collapsed walls and broken beams was filled with screams.
Facing the powerful firepower, Issei Maehara looked at everyone with a desperate expression, first sighed, and then said.
"Gentlemen, it seems that the great event we have been waiting for is just a dream after all!"
Facing more than a dozen subordinates, Maehara Issei, a patriot who was known as one of the "Ten Heroes of the Meiji Restoration" and former Minister of War, was elected as the leader of the uprising after the Hiroshima Uprising because of his personal prestige. It was he who created this "martyr army". From patriots who were against the shogunate to senior government officials, to rebel leaders, you can see what unpopular things the Meiji Restoration government did by looking at him.
"Okay, this matter is over. The Ming army's warships bombarded the barracks at sea. Soldiers are either dead or scattered. I'm afraid we can't turn the tide. You don't have to make fearless sacrifices with me. No matter what happens, at least we have tried our best..."
"Your Mightiness……"
Kensuke Okudaira, Shinichi Ogura and others stood up and spoke.
"Sir, as long as you are alive, you still have a chance. Please break out now. After you break out, gather all the people and make another decision!"
Facing his subordinates' persuasion, Maehara Issei shook his head and said.
"It's not important now. What's important is the lives of the martyred soldiers!"
He pursed his lips and looked at Kensuke Okudaira, Shinichi Ogura and others, and said.
"I have met General Shen several times. If we surrender to the government, we will be charged with treason and beheaded. But if we surrender to General Shen..."
After thinking about it, Maehara Issei sighed.
"At least we can find a way out for everyone!"
In fact, in the past ten days or so, it was under the control of Maehara Issei that the group of rabble were able to be organized into an army. Of course, before that, he had already begun to gather dissatisfied samurai to prepare for a rebellion. The Hiroshima Rebellion was just a coincidence.
Soon, a white flag was raised. When surrendering, Maehara Issei had only two conditions - surrender to the Ming Empire Navy instead of surrendering to the Navy Minister Kawamura Junyoshi, and also to guarantee their personal safety.
Sun Mingyue would certainly not refuse this. With the surrender of Maehara Issei, the Hiroshima Rebellion was quelled on New Year's Eve. Afterwards, Maehara Issei and other martyred soldiers were taken on a carriage. On the way to the port, they saw dozens of martyred soldiers on the roadside being ordered to kneel in a row and then beheaded one by one. He immediately asked angrily.
"Sir, why did you break your promise?"
"promise?"
Sun Mingyue glanced at the corpse on the roadside and answered directly.
"They are the rebels who besieged the Ming sailors. They are not the ones who surrendered with you. Since they dared to offend the might of the Ming Dynasty, they can only atone for their sins with death!"
As the words fell, the sailors holding knives on the roadside chopped off the heads of those people with one stroke. The people kneeling on the ground were samurai, the knives were samurai swords, but the people holding the knives to execute them were sailors from the Ming Dynasty.
"These rioters deserve to be killed!"
Maehara Issei's tone was full of reluctance. If it weren't for these people's rebellion that caused the Ming Dynasty to intervene, it would only take another month for his martyr army to be trained, and they wouldn't have fallen to the current situation.
Such people must die! Even when he first learned about this, he considered using these people's heads to appease the anger of the Ming Dynasty.
It's just a little late...
Is this God's will?
Once again boarding the deck of the "Nanhua" battleship, Maehara Issei, as a prisoner, immediately bowed deeply when facing Shen Yaozu.
"General, I am sorry to trouble you. Please believe that the siege of the Ming navy was only done by a small number of disorderly soldiers, and it was definitely not our order."
In response to Maehara Issei's apology, Shen Yaozu simply waved his hand and said.
"Okay, Maehara-kun, there's no point in saying this now. Please rest assured that you and your subordinates are now prisoners of the Ming Dynasty. We will be responsible for your safety."
There are more than 3,000 samurai warriors!
They are definitely the best labor force, no, they should be the best security guards. Africa needs such talents the most. Old Shen also invested in plantations in the Congo colony, so he certainly knows the role of such talents in the colony.
cannon fodder!
Not everyone is qualified to be cannon fodder, but Japanese samurai are definitely the best cannon fodder!
So the cannon fodder is handed over to the Japanese government?
This is not a joke!
(End of this chapter)
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