Kodama Kentarou

Kodama Kentarou

Kodama gentaro (March 15, 1852 to July 23, 1906), formerly known as Jian, is a famous general in the modern Japanese army. He was known as the first intelligent general in the Meiji period. He once served as Minister of the army, Minister of the interior, governor of Taiwan and other important posts in the guitaro cabinet. He was one of the chief culprits of the invasion of China, and was known as the rebirth of Toyotomi hideyi because he paid special attention to the virtuous circle of military and economic power. The chief of general staff of the Manchurian army in the Russo Japanese war was the actual commander who conquered Lushunkou. Together with guitaro and Kawakami, he was known as the three heroes of the Meiji army. One of the main planners of Japanese rule over Taiwan, the statesman in military uniform. The actual founder of Manchuria Railway.

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Life of the characters

A new look

Jiayong 5 years (1852) on March 15, was born in Japan's Zhou Fangguo Deshan fan (now Yamaguchi Prefecture). Samurai son jade banjiulang eldest son, young name lily if, later called health. When he was 9 years old, his father was assassinated by the conservative faction in the vassal. His brother-in-law inherited the family business. Later, he inherited the family name with the support of the reformists. He took part in the eastern expedition of the Wu Chen war in 1868 (the first year of Meiji), and later served as the provincial governor of the Ministry of war. He graduated from Osaka military academy. on April 15, 1871, he was appointed as a second lieutenant of the army. He successively served as an adjutant of the 2nd brigade and the 19th infantry brigade. During the chaos of saga, he joined the army as an adjutant of the captain of Osaka Zhentai. He was wounded in the battlefield. During the chaos of Shenfeng company, he was the deputy chief of staff of Kumamoto Zhentai. He was famous for his superb skills. In the southwest war of 1877, Xixiang Longsheng surrounded Kumamoto City with 35000 people. At that time, it was eryuyuantaro who guarded Kumamoto City. I can't defend the city any more. Some people in the garrison remember that they bought two guns from France, but they never used them. At this time, the dead horse as a live horse doctor, set up a gun, according to the instructions to open a gun. Of course, the cannonball didn't know where it hit, but the enemy soldiers who were just attacking the city were hating their parents for giving birth to two legs and running faster than mice. No matter what the commander ordered, they would not go near the city any more. what's wrong? Scared by the loud bang. This time, he became famous in the first World War.

Military promotion

After the war, eryuyuantaro successively served as the deputy chief of staff of the guards, the captain of the second infantry company, the commander of the Sakura camp, and the director of the East Management Department of the General Staff Headquarters. accompanied army minister dashanyan to Europe for military inspection. After returning to China, the object of study of the Japanese army was changed from France to Germany. In 1885, it was appointed as the second officer of the army, the first director of the staff headquarters and the officer of the Army University, the chief of staff of the supervision department and the president of the Army University, and assisted the German instructor major Merkel in training the army. On August 24, 1889, he was promoted to major general of the army and served as chief of staff of the supervision department. He was re appointed army undersecretary, Military Secretary and judge Minister of the army province. After the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895, he served as chief of staff and temporary quarantine Minister of the base camp, actively planning the war of aggression against China, known as "Xiao He of the Japanese Qing war". After the Japanese captured Pyongyang and the Yellow Sea naval battle, they immediately organized the second Japanese army to invade China because they had the power to control the sea. As the army minister dashanyan took the post of commander of the second army, he became the actual army minister. He practiced everything from the deployment of troops to supplies in the Japanese War of aggression against China. On August 20, 1895, the emperor of Japan granted him the order of golden stag and the medal of sunrise, and conferred him the title of baroness. Later he was promoted to head of the 3rd Division and Minister of interior.

Governing Taiwan

After the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and Taiwan and Penghu Islands were ceded to Japan. At that time, in order to quickly pacify Taiwan, Japan adopted the tactics of suppressing and pacifying Taiwan. However, the former three governors of Taiwan, Huashan Ziji, guitaro, and naimuxidian, failed to control Taiwan. In naimuxidian's view, the Japanese rulers' gain in Taiwan was not worth the loss. The annual military expenditure was as high as 7 million yen. In addition to Taiwan's tax revenue, Japan also provided 12 million yuan of military subsidies to Taiwan from China's compensation in the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895. The huge expenditure of funds made Japan not only get no real benefits from Taiwan's cession, but also become a heavy burden for Japan, which initiated the idea of selling Taiwan, and urged the then prime minister, justice matsukuni. After a series of behind the scenes activities, it was initially decided to sell Taiwan to France for 15 million francs (say 100 million yen). In 1898, ITO Bowen became Japanese prime minister again. At the meeting of military and political officials he presided over, naimu hidian formally put forward his theory of selling Taiwan. The Japanese Ministry of foreign affairs also firmly supported Japan's idea of selling Taiwan. "I think Taiwan is a barrier to the south of Japan. It has great military value and can't be sold to France," he said. At the beginning, in order to get Taiwan, we spent so much effort and killed so many people. If Taiwan is sold to other countries, it will not be worthwhile in the long run. As for governor naimu's mention of Taiwan's bad governance, I think it's not Taiwan's bad governance, but the incompetence of our officials. If the prime minister feels that there is no governor in the government to govern Taiwan, I would like to go. " He was the governor of Taiwan. After the outbreak of the Russo Japanese war in 1904, although he was still the governor of Taiwan, he had returned to the military department and became the actual ruler of Taiwan. Japan's political circles say that yugoto has created an era and laid the foundation for Taiwan's colonial rule.

Conquer Lushun

In September 1903, the contradiction between Japan and Russia deepened day by day. Major general Tamura yoshizuo, who was then the deputy chief of staff, died of illness. He was promoted to the post of Japanese interior minister, and began to plan a comprehensive war plan against Russia. After the outbreak of the Russo Japanese War, he was promoted to General of the army and served as chief of staff of Marshal dashanyan, commander in chief of the Japanese Manchurian army. On July 14, 1904, with the Japanese invasion of China. Since then, Japan's military aircraft affairs in China have been planned and decided by itself. During the Japanese attack on Lushun, they paid close attention to the war situation in Lushun and visited Lushun twice to inspect the war situation and supervise the war. On August 19, after the Japanese launched a general attack on Lushun, the attack was blocked and heavy losses were incurred. On September 15, eryuyuantaro rushed from Liaoyang to Lushun. He ordered naimu to change his tactics and focus on Highland 203. On October 5, he returned to Liaoyang. However, Lushun was still unable to attack for a long time. On December 1 of the same year, eryuyuantaro rushed from Liaoyang to Lushun with marshal dashanyan's warrant. He ordered naimuxidian to hand over the command and give it to him personally. Throughout naimu, the Russian army concentrated its forces on attacking highland 203, but the Russian army also deployed reserve forces to concentrate its forces on counterattack and defense. The result is stalemate. After the intervention of the jade jade, two of the adjustments are on artillery. First, the 280mm heavy artillery team in the east front was concentrated in the west front in one day, completing the concentration of artillery fire, and suddenly increased the artillery fire on the 203 highland in the west front. Naimu was worried and said, what should we do if we withdraw the artillery team from the East and the Russians come out to fight back. Er Yu is very angry. I'm worried that he won't fight back. Second, the artillery infantry attack mode was changed, and the artillery did not stop shooting when the infantry attacked. As a result, the Russian army at the top of the mountain lost the time to occupy the positions and organize defensive shooting under the normal mode of shelling, and it was unable to use the reserve to support the threatened positions. Basically, it fell into the state of fragmented positions fighting on their own, and the fate of the position's collapse could be said to have been decided by the scuffle with the Japanese army with a number of advantages. From Er Yu's involvement in the command of Lushun campaign to the capture of highland 203, we can see that he is very good at calm calculation. On December 6, the Japanese army finally captured the 203 highland and won the key victory in the capture of Lushun. The firepower controlled the whole urban area and port of Lushun. As the victory was decided, he returned to Liaoyang Japanese general command on December 10. After that, the Japanese attacked like a tide and forced the Russian army to surrender after one month.

Head of Manchuria Railway

On March 23, 1905, after the victory of the Japanese Mukden war, taro eryuyuan was ordered to return home to report the war situation. Nagaoka foreign history deputy chief of staff went to Xinqiao station to meet him. When Er Yu saw Changgang, she immediately asked if there was any sign of peace talks. When she heard that Changgang had no sign of peace talks, she scolded: "once the war starts, the biggest issue is how to end it. You don't even know that. What do you do? " This Nagaoka is the student he trained as president of the Army University. Later, he and the upper class of the army resisted the pressure of the people and signed the Portsmouth peace treaty with Russia, driving the Russian forces out of Southern Manchuria. During his return to China, he proposed to the Japanese base camp the establishment of a general station supervision department under the Manchurian army, the establishment of a civil affairs department under the general station supervision department, and the renovation of Railways to increase transport capacity. These suggestions were quickly adopted by Japan. From then on, as the chief of general staff of Manchuria army, he actually became the general leader of Japanese army in Dalian and northeast occupied areas. He is also the chief planner of 5 million Japanese immigrants to Manchuria. In his view, Manchuria was obtained by Japan after spending 200 million yen on the war and killing 100000 people. If China wants to recover Northeast China, it must bleed blood. In September 1906, at the "consultation meeting on Manchuria issues", chief of staff Er Yuyuan taro said: "is it necessary to set up an official government to take charge of the issue if we want to appoint someone to study the sovereignty of Manchuria?". But at that time, this proposal was rejected by the important minister ITO Bowen: "Manchuria is not the territory of Japan, Manchuria is the territory of the Qing Dynasty, which is beyond doubt.". But this did not seal her ambition

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