"Report to the Lord, Shang Ming, the Ryukyu anti-Japanese allied army, has sent someone to send a reply, agreeing to the Lord to help Ryukyu form an exiled government, but "Zhang Feng was halfway through his words, and looked at Shang Tai next to Wang Chenhao, and stopped.

Wang Chenhao smiled and said, "Zhang Feng, just say that as long as it is about Ryukyu, we will never hide it from King Shangtai!"

Shang Tai nodded and paid tribute to Wang Chenhao. Shang Tai was very grateful to Wang Chenhao for his words.

Zhang Feng paused, and said, "Shang Ming said he was willing to come to Tianjin to form the Ryukyu exile government, but his request was that the king of the exiled government should be Shang Ming."

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Wang Chenhao was stunned. He didn't expect that Shang Ming would make such a request at this time, which really made him unhappy.

"It's really outrageous!"

Wang Chenhao couldn't help but get angry, but Shang Qin suddenly laughed a few times, turned to Wang Chenhao and said, "Mr. Wang, but you don't have to worry about this!"

Wang Chenhao asked: "What do you mean?"

Shangtai mocked his beard and looked a little depressed, but he said, "I am old and naturally should give way, let alone an exiled king. If he likes Shang Ming, this king will give him this king."

Wang Chenhao frowned and said, "But, did I agree to you?"

Shang Tai smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Wang, Shang Ming is also a descendant of the royal family. He just wants the position of king. As for the agreement between us, Shang Ming will definitely abide by it."

Wang Chenhao was only a little relieved.

It turned out that Wang Chenhao took Shang Tai to Tianjin for purpose. On the surface, he was under the banner of helping Ryukyu restore the country, but in fact, Wang Chenhao did not want Ryukyu to become a bridgehead for the Japanese to go south to invade China.

Because the geographical location of the Ryukyu Islands is very important, it guards the passage from China's East China Sea and the Yellow Sea to enter the Pacific Ocean. In Wang Chenhao's era, Ryukyu was the first island chain for the United States to blockade China. Wang Chenhao was the important thing for Ryukyu, so he had to take advantage of the fragile national strength to separate Ryukyu from Japan.

Wang Chenhao did not intend to occupy the Ryukyu Islands because the Qing Empire would not allow it, and international public opinion would also be unfavorable to Wang Chenhao's occupation of Ryukyu. Therefore, Wang Chenhao came up with this strategy to restore Ryukyu. The restoration of Ryukyu could become a bridgehead to restrain the Japanese. Wang Chenhao could indirectly control Ryukyu and make it his strong ally.

Shang Tai promised Wang Chenhao that as long as Wang Chenhao helps him restore his country, the Liansheng Peninsula east of the capital Shuli of Ryukyu will be concessed to Wang Chenhao. On both sides of the Liansheng Peninsula that Wang Chenhao wants are Jinwu Bay, the largest commercial and civil harbor in Ryukyu, and the main port for foreign trade in Ryukyu. To the south is Zhongcheng Bay, a natural naval base. The famous American Baitan Naval Base is located here. It can not only dock large warships of any tonnage, but also a natural base for amphibious troops and seaplanes. It only requires a little capital to transform it into a world-class comprehensive naval base, which has an extremely important strategic position for foreign naval naval entering and leaving the Pacific.

One is a natural large commercial port and the other is a natural large military port. Wang Chenhao only needs to get the Peninsula to win the Stand-Win Peninsula to control two economic and military important places. At the same time, the peninsula extends to the west is Shuri, the capital of Ryukyu, which is of great significance to controlling Ryukyu.

Thinking of this, since it did not affect Wang Chenhao's strategic plan, he would not mind whether Wang Chenhao was Shang Tai or Shang Ming.

"Since that's the case, Zhang Feng, please send someone to notify Shang Ming immediately!"

"Yes, sir! Let's do it now!"

After Zhang Feng left, Wang Chenhao continued to discuss countermeasures with everyone. Shang Tai was almost eighty years old and became tired after listening for a while, so he left early.

After Shang Tai left, Wang Shizhen said: "Sir, let Shang Tai be the king, he will live for a few years. After he dies, he will control Ryukyu with us. But if Shang Ming is the king, he may be full of wings in the future. Will he also be as strong as he is against China as he is against Japan?"

Yang Shirang also said: "Yes, sir, you have to be careful!"

Wang Chenhao nodded. Although he felt that Wang Shizhen and Yang Shirang's words made sense, the plan could not keep up with the changes and he had no choice. Shang Ming controlled more than 3,000 underground armed forces in Ryukyu, which was a powerful force, which was of great help to the restoration of Ryukyu and could save Wang Chenhao a lot of strength.

"I can't think about it so much now! The court has issued an order not to interfere in Ryukyu affairs, so the one we sent troops to Ryukyu to help Ryukyu restore the country is almost impossible to work. So Shang Ming's three thousand armed forces have become the only way at present. Anyway, as long as he agrees to give us the Concession of the Liansheng Peninsula, anyway, other places in Ryukyu have no value to us."

Zhang Peilun said: "Sir, then we cannot send troops to Ryukyu directly. So should we support some weapons in Shang Ming? After all, although Shang Ming has three thousand armed forces, unfortunately his combat effectiveness is not as good as that of our country's Eight Banners masters."

Wang Chenhao nodded and said, "That's right! It's better to support some weapons! But, let's see how Shang Ming's attitude is?"

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Three days later, Shang Ming came to Tianjin in person and met with Wang Chenhao in secret.

Through negotiations, Wang Chenhao and Shangming reached an agreement that Wang Chenhao supported Shang Ming to become the King of Ryukyu and helped him form the Ryukyu exile government in Tianjin. At the same time, in return, Shang Ming agreed to all the conditions that Shang Tai had promised to Wang Chenhao before.

However, Shang Ming was smarter than Shang Tai. He asked Wang Chenhao for the loan fee for the Concession Winning Peninsula. Wang Chenhao replaced the armed forces with arms and allocated five thousand Mauser 95 rifles, six ting Maxim heavy machine guns, six 80 infantry guns, as well as a large number of guns, ammunition, and grenades and other advanced weapons. He also provided a 22-person instructor advisory group to help Shang Ming's subordinates train and teach them to fight.

Hu Zhanri, under the deliberate arrangement of Wang Chenhao, Shang Ming and Shang Tai established the Ryukyu exile provisional government in Tianjin. Shang Tai gave way to Shang Ming, and Shang Ming became the king of the Ryukyu exile government.

At the same time, on the day of its establishment, Wang Chenhao invited ministers and consulates from various countries to participate, and the Japanese consuls refused to participate in protest.

But Wang Chenhao did not care whether Japan participated. Under his instigation, Shang Ming expressed his support to safeguard the interests of the powerful powers in Ryukyu. Therefore, the consuls of various countries successively recognized Shang Ming's Ryukyu government in exile.

Under pressure, the Qing government abandoned the Ryukyu Kingdom and now it cannot refuse to recognize Shang Ming's exiled government. However, the Qing government immediately declared neutrality outside the country and strictly ordered Wang Chenhao not to interfere in the war between the Ryukyu government and Japan.

Wang Chenhao also knew that Chao* gave him a vaccination in advance. If Si sent troops to help Shang Ming again and waited for the order, Guangxu would deal with him legitimately.

Wang Chenhao was honest and did not move, because Wang Chenhao knew that Shang Ming's 3,000 men were armed with his excellent equipment and were more than enough to deal with the Japanese garrison in Okinawa Prefecture,

Therefore, he was not in a hurry. Although Guangxu was happy to see that Wang Chenhao did not move, he felt more disappointed. He still wanted Wang Chenhao to resist the order, so he would have the opportunity to repair him.

But Guangxu also knew that Wang Chenhao was as cunning as a fox and it was difficult to catch his handle.

After Shang Ming and Shang Tai established the Ryukyu exile government in Tianjin, Shang Ming quietly returned to Naha with the advanced weapons and military advisory group given to him by Wang Chenhao, preparing to attack the Japanese army in Shuri City.

Hu Wanri and Shang Ming were already a little impatient. His subordinates had just obtained the advanced weapons provided by Wang Chenhao, but they were pulled out by Shang Ming to formally attack the Japanese army in Okinawa before training for a few days.

At this time, the Japanese army stationed in Okinawa Prefecture had only one guard team, with less than one thousand troops. However, the combat power of these thousand people was not weak, much stronger than Shang Ming's army.

〖Japanese〗Col. Nome, the commander of Okinawa's garrison, immediately led his troops to fight, but because the Japanese police lacked heavy weapons, Shang Ming's troops carried heavy machine guns, infantry artillery and other heavy weapons provided to them by Wang Chenhao, and their firepower was very strong. In addition, Shang Ming's troops have been making small fuss and failed. At the beginning, the Japanese police commander, Colonel Nome, underestimated the enemy, and suffered a great loss.

The two sides broke out in the area near Beizhongcheng. The Japanese army was out of firepower and more than 100 casualties were killed and killed as soon as the war started. Yena did not expect that Shang Ming's weapons and equipment suddenly increased a lot, which was more advanced than the Japanese army's equipment, so he did not dare to underestimate the other party anymore and rationally chose to retreat.

The Japanese army was forced to retreat within an hour. Shang Ming won the first battle and immediately ordered an advance.

On Hu Hongri, the Japanese army retreated to the North Valley and continued to resist fortifications.

At this time, Nona already knew that Shang Ming's troops had fierce firepower, so he gave up confrontation and chose to retreat continuously. Every time he pretended to be defeated, there were actually not many casualties.

Ye Ming was deliberately paralyzing Shang Ming and making Shang Ming strong enemy.

Sure enough, seeing that the Japanese army was defeated repeatedly and their confidence increased sharply, Shang Ming ordered the entire army to advance quickly, and tried to capture Shuri Castle in one breath.

Shang Ming had a military advisory group sent by Wang Chenhao. Advisor Cui Shangwu persuaded Shang Ming many times, pointing out that the Japanese troops were not injured but retreating repeatedly would definitely be a fraud, and asked Shang Ming to slow down the attack speed.

But Shang Ming was so happy that he could no longer listen to the persuasion at this time. In addition, his subordinates were all proud and encouraged Shang Ming together.

As a result, Shang Ming rejected the advice of the advisory group and ordered the entire army to chase Ye Ming's Japanese troops.

Ye Ming's army retreated, but the speed was getting faster and faster. Shang Ming's army was chasing him closely. Soon the artillery troops of Shang Ming's army landed behind. A few days later, the heavy machine gun company was far away from logistics and had a long time of regardless of the cost. The unregulated shooting caused serious damage to the heavy machine gun and could not be repaired.

On April 2, Ye Ming led more than 700 troops to retreat to Shuri Castle. At noon that day, Shang Ming led his troops to catch up, and the two sides fought a war under Shuri Castle.

But the Japanese army no longer retreated and counterattacked fiercely. Shang Ming's troops lost firepower support from the artillery company and heavy machine gun company. Although the offensive was still very fierce, they lacked heavy weapons to break the city, so they could not do anything to the Japanese army.

The two sides fought until dark, and Shang Ming's troops suffered more than a thousand casualties, while the Japanese army suffered less than one hundred casualties. The 10-to-one loss ratio made Shang Ming furious.

As night fell, Shang Ming's troops stopped attacking. Shang Ming sent people to urge the artillery company behind to come and meet quickly. The heavy machine gun company also came to meet after feeling repairing the weapons.

That night, the Japanese colonel Nobuna sent someone to send a letter to the Japanese base camp, asking the Japanese headquarters to send troops to reinforce, but on the other hand, he quietly left the city from the north gate, bypassed the west gate of Shuri, and raided the Shangming military camp at night.

Shang Ming's troops were caught off guard and had no formal training and could not organize their resistance when they were suddenly attacked.

Shang Ming's troops fought on their own, but were defeated by the 500 Japanese troops and defeated overnight.

Shang Ming was killed in the battle, more than 1,000 other Ryukyu people were killed and injured, and more than 300 others were captured, and less than 400 escaped.

Because Cui Shangwu knew that Shang Ming would be defeated, he controlled the heavy machine gun company and artillery company in the rear, urgently repaired the heavy machine gun, and gathered the broken Shang Ming's old subordinates to organize defense again.

When Ye Ming led the Japanese army to come, Cui Shangwu decisively organized a counterattack. The Japanese army was afraid of the Maxim heavy machine gun weapon in Xi Shangwu's hand, so after the two sides stalemate, Ye Ming saw that he could not get any advantage, so he retreated back to Shuli and stood for help.

Cui Shangwu had only a few hundred people left in his hands, and there was no hope of siege. When he learned that the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, he immediately ordered his retreat and hid in the nearby mountains. At the same time, he sent someone to report the situation to Wang Chenhao.

On April 6, the pilot unit of the first division of the Japanese Army arrived in Shuri. At the same time, the Japanese army began to sweep around, searching for the remnants of Cui Shangwu, in order to completely annihilate.

However, after learning that Ryukyu's king Shang Tai fled from Japan, the local people began to move. After the Japanese occupied the Ryukyu Kingdom, they took the king's family away and threatened Ryukyu officials and the people who dared to rebel would kill Shang Tai. Therefore, the Ryukyu people did not dare to rebel publicly.

Now that Shang Tai has escaped from Japan, many people loyal to the Ryukyu kings have begun to prepare actively.

When they learned that the rebel army had failed, the people of Ryukyu took the initiative to help them hide and refused to inform the Japanese soldiers of the rebel army. Therefore, Cui Shangwu and others were able to wander in the gaps of the Japanese army and escape from the big cleaning.

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The news of Shang Ming's death in battle was sent back to Tianjin, which brought a huge blow to the newly established Ryukyu Kingdom's exile government. Shang Tai fainted on the spot and then went to a British hospital for treatment.

The attitudes of governments of various countries changed suddenly. They thought that the Ryukyu exile government could restore the country with the support of Wang Chenhao, but they never thought that they had not even fought a Japanese military guard team, which was really unworthy of being valued.

The Japanese government once again called on the governments of various countries to give up support to the Ryukyu government in exile and declare it an illegal government. The Russian government with good relations with Japan immediately declared that the Ryukyu government in exile was illegal and cooperated with the Japanese government to put pressure on the Qing government. At the same time, Germany and France were also unwilling to offend Japan on this issue because of the improvement of relations with Japan and Japan, so they also announced that they would no longer support the Ryukyu government in exile. However, considering Wang Chenhao's relationship, France and Germany did not object.

Although the United States and Britain did not make any statements, the Ryukyu civil war will affect the trade between the United States and Britain in Ryukyu, and they also hope to calm the matter as soon as possible. However, they need to know Wang Chenhao's attitude. If Wang Chenhao gives up Ryukyu, then Britain and the United States will no longer support the Ryukyu government in exile.

Under such circumstances, Wang Chenhao immediately recommended Shangtai as the king of the Ryukyu government in exile and continued to maintain the title of the government in exile.

This move was extremely dissatisfied by Japan and Russia. The Qing government was under strong political pressure from both countries and ordered Wang Chenhao to resolve the diplomatic crisis as soon as possible.

The Qing government did not allow Wang Chenhao to use his army to support the restoration of Ryukyu. Wang Chenhao also understood that Guangxu must be playing the game this time. If Wang Chenhao dared to use his army, Guangxu would definitely have an excuse to deal with him.

Wang Chenhao would not give Guangxu any advice or excuses, but he did not want to lose the promise of the King of Ryukyu. After all, Ryukyu's strategic position is important. In the hands of Japan, it is the springboard for Japanese invasion of China, and in the hands of China, it is the East Gate of strategic defense.

"Sir, what should we do now? Just drag it like this. After a long time, the court will have excuses."

Wang Shizhen raised his stubbornness, and Ruan Zhongshu, Yang Shirang, Zhang Peilun, Zhang Feng and others also expressed concerns about this, but they saw that Wang Chenhao was still as if nothing had happened, and they felt a little as aware that Wang Chenhao must have a solution.

Sure enough, Wang Chenhao smiled slightly and said, "Living people cannot let their urine suffocate to death!"

Yang Shizhu asked quickly: "Sir, have a solution? Why don't you say that you can listen to it with us so that we can have a long experience!"

Wang Chenhao looked around for a while and said with a smile: "It's true, this method is indeed unprecedented!"

Zhang Feng said: "Sir, don't swear our appetite, tell us it quickly? We are all anxious!"

Wang Chenhao smiled and said, "Since Shang Ming's idiot is not good enough, then I will decide to send troops to Ryukyu!"

"Send troops to Ryukyu?"
To be continued...