1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Guards Division? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" The Crown Prince waved his hand firmly.

The Guards Division, also known as the First Division, is the Emperor's Royal Guards, and should be the most loyal to the Emperor.

Rebellion, how is it possible? The Crown Prince subconsciously distrusted it.

"Your Highness, there are gunshots from the east of the city, very dense. That's where the First Division is stationed, and the ones who just attacked are local troops."

"I doubt whether the Second Division is also involved." Nagata shook his head and explained to him.

"Impossible, the commanders or wing commanders of the First and Second Divisions are all loyal ministers who have been bathed in the Emperor's grace, and they should not care about my rebellion." The Crown Prince still didn't quite believe it.

After all, the Emperor's biggest supporter is the Army, followed by the Navy and various nobles, then the civilians, and finally the various chaebols.

Now tell him that the Emperor's Guards have finally rebelled, how can he accept it?

(In fact, it was almost the same. At 226, he didn't believe it at first, then he was furious, and finally he was afraid. He even called the police near the Imperial Palace to ask if the Imperial Palace was safe.)

"Your Highness! Whether it is or not, I believe that only a small number of people are rebelling. What Your Highness needs to do is to protect himself and wait for the army to quell the rebellion." Nagata's voice was a little louder.

The Crown Prince suddenly realized that he was not in the palace, but in a civilian residence, and he was very safe.

He only needed to wait until the surrounding troops joined together to quell the rebellion, and he didn't even need the surrounding troops. He didn't believe that two divisions in Kyoto had rebelled. In that case, there would be no sound of fighting.

Maybe his chance to ascend the throne early has come?

"Please rest for a while, Your Highness. I will send someone to check the situation with the elders in Yamagata." Nagata saw the Crown Prince's face and knew that he was stable.

"Thank you, Mr. Nagata." The Crown Prince nodded slightly.

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"Sir, the arsenal in the west of the city has been captured, but there are no heavy weapons there, it's just a supply station. Even if the First Division reacts, they can't defeat it." Jiro explored the general situation and came back to report to Terauchi.

"Then call the First Division and ask them to attack and quell the rebellion, but tell them that His Majesty the Emperor does not want to see civilians get hurt." Terauchi paused.

"The police headquarters reported that a group of troops entered the city and are attacking the police headquarters, and another group is attacking the Navy Minister's residence." Jiro nodded and added.

"Let them hold on." Terauchi waved his hand, not caring much, and then quietly waited for the next step.

To his surprise, there was no next step, and Jiro did not continue to speak.

"No one is moving towards the Imperial Palace?" Terauchi said with regret.

Whether it is to clear the emperor's side or to respect the emperor and punish the traitors, isn't the core to control the emperor, let the emperor dissolve the cabinet, and recognize their rights?

What's wrong with this group of juniors? Don't they understand such a simple truth?

Terauchi had deliberately transferred away the garrisons along the way by changing guards beforehand, and the only defense force outside the Imperial Palace was the Emperor's Guard.

If this group of people had moved quickly enough, they should have fought and defeated the Emperor's Guard by now.

Who knows what the use of this group of people, running around and killing some insignificant people, is?

"No." Jiro answered tremblingly.

"Has the Crown Prince still not been found?" Terauchi asked with a sigh.

"No." Jiro's sweat beads appeared on his head.

"Where are the three princes?" Terauchi asked again, and at this time, his tone was already somewhat dissatisfied.

"In the Imperial Palace, and the Crown Prince seems to have gone to the suburbs." Jiro breathed a sigh of relief, he knew about this.

Dinglingling~

Dinglingling~

The phone rang, Jiro glanced at Terauchi, and picked it up in one step.

"This is the Prime Minister's Office, ha!" Jiro stood at attention and covered the phone.

"Sir, it's the call from the Emperor's chief aide." Jiro said softly.

Terauchi stood up and took the phone.

"Hai, this is Terauchi."

"Hai! I have ordered the police to move closer to the Imperial Palace and organize defense."

"Preliminary judgment is that the First Division and part of the Second Division, as well as some local garrison troops, launched a rebellion. The army is temporarily untrustworthy, so I mobilized the police."

"Hai."

"Yes, I have ordered the troops stationed nearby to move closer to Kyoto immediately. Please inform His Majesty the Emperor. Don't worry, the matter will be resolved soon."

"Hai!"

Terauchi said a lot, mainly delaying.

The police were attacked, so he sent the police, and the army was untrustworthy, so he didn't send the army. After all, it was the army that rebelled. What if there were rebels in the army sent over?

After speaking, he hung up the phone, looked at the sunset, and sighed.

"Where is Ichiro?" Terauchi asked.

"The vanguard has boarded the train. According to your order, the officers leading the team are all ambitious military academy students who have not yet graduated." Jiro bowed his head slightly.

"Tell them to drive slowly. The 4th Division has not set out yet." Terauchi looked at the map and shook his head.

"Just let them arrive with the 4th Division."

"Hai!"

"It's almost time. Send a telegram to the 4th Division and ask them to advance to Kyoto. Anyone who blocks them will be considered a rebellion."

"Give the order and say that the 4th Division will arrive soon and no obstacles should be made along the way."

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Chuckles…

The Japanese Type 38 heavy machine gun fired a burst of shots, making a chicken-like sound, suppressing the "enemy" firepower, and the infantry took the opportunity to move closer.

The situation was critical, and several "enemies" ignored the risk and stuck their heads out to shoot, hitting two soldiers of the Asakuchi Yamada Squadron.

However, these people were not pleased, and three were killed and two were injured by the Type 38 heavy machine gun with a replaced feed plate.

The Type 38 heavy machine gun is a Japanese defense Hotchkiss M1897 air-cooled heavy machine gun, which is different from the Taisho 3rd Type heavy machine gun and the Type 92 heavy machine gun in many aspects.

It uses 5mm Arisaka rifle bullets and unified logistics, which seems to be pretty good.

However, this is a heavy machine gun, still an early air-cooled model, and it also uses a feed plate to feed ammunition. The theoretical maximum rate of fire is only 450 rounds per minute.

As a heavy machine gun weighing 5 kilograms, it uses 5mm bullets, which is too small and has a slow rate of fire.

(I only found the parameters of the Jin-made Type 38 heavy machine gun, which weighs 5 kilograms, but it should actually be heavier, after all, the times are different.)

So later, the Japanese developed the Taisho 3rd Type based on the Hotchkiss 1914 heavy machine gun, which increased the range and shortened the length of the gun body, but did not change the 5mm bullet.

Finally, the Japanese found that it didn't work, so they changed to firing the Type 92 7mm ammunition, which is the Type 92 heavy machine gun.

The Japanese's thinking cannot be said to be wrong. Unified logistics is very important, especially for late-developing industrial countries.

Unified logistics has a very big advantage - saving money!

However, the Japanese are always like this, never knowing that some money cannot be saved, and the definition of heavy machine guns is directly wrong, and it continues to be wrong.

What does a heavy machine gun do? Long-range fire suppression, blocking traffic, attacking fire points, and supporting infantry.

Although the accuracy is good, precision shooting is not the main business of heavy machine guns! It's just a sideline!

Now, Asakuchi Yamada has encountered such a problem.

In front of him was the artillery station. Along the way, he relied on two heavy machine guns to face the infantry invincible. (The other six were divided into two and four to defend the street entrances to stop the anti-rebellion troops.)

Outside the artillery position, the artillery and the defending infantry were still watching the excitement and did not immediately recognize that Asakuchi Yamada's troops were rebels.

Then, Asakuchi Yamada fired a burst of shots and took advantage of the chaos of the defenders to rush into the artillery camp.

Then, they encountered the second obstacle - various artillery fortifications.

The defenders hid behind the fortifications. Asakuchi Yamada's troops rushed twice, lost seven or eight people, and could not rush in. Just now, they rushed again.

In fact, these fortifications are not strong. If the 5mm Arisa rifle bullets of the heavy machine guns were replaced with 43-caliber Maxim machine gun bullets, or 92mm heavy pointed bullets, they might be penetrated.

(92mm pointed bullets with built-in steel cores are called heavy pointed bullets, 92*57sS.)

Unfortunately, the 5mm Arisaka rifle bullet used by the Type 38 heavy machine gun is a general model for machine guns and rifles, and it can't penetrate sandbags and wooden fortifications at all.

And using a 30-round feed plate for ammunition, the Type 38 heavy machine gun has no chance of firing at a theoretical rate of 450 rounds in combat.

Because the feed plate is not just plugged in, it has to be oiled, and it may get stuck if there is dust.

Fortunately, there is no other cover in the camp, including the cannons are also displayed in the barracks. The machine guns can effectively suppress the artillery who want to get close to the cannons, and the defenders cannot use the cannons.

Otherwise, Asakuchi Yamada can only wait to die.

"Machine guns continue to suppress, the third squad, go around from the left, the second squad is ready to attack, and the artillery must be taken down!" Asakuchi Yamada was ruthless and prepared to lead the charge.

Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck...

The Type 38 rifle made a chicken-like sound, which made the defenders' positions fly in the dust, but it was useless. The firepower continuity was too poor to form effective suppression.

"Half a year!" Asaguchi Yamada took out his command knife and rushed towards the defenders' positions.

At the same time, the third squad on the left broke through the artillery's defense, causing chaos and loopholes in the defenders' positions.

"All troops charge! Charge!" Asaguchi shouted immediately when he saw this, and the first squad, which had just retreated and had no time to rest, also joined the battle.

"Half a year!" Kentaro rushed to the front of the first squad with a Type 38 rifle that was longer than him, and soon caught up with the second squad that launched the charge first.

As he stepped onto the defenders' positions, the defenders began to surrender one after another.

"Quick, move the cannon out and fire at the first division headquarters, immediately!" Asaguchi Yamada limped forward and pointed his revolver at the head of the artillery squadron leader.

"What? Asakuchi Yamada, you betrayed? Impossible, even if I die, I will never fire at the division headquarters!" The artillery squadron leader said stubbornly.

He didn't believe Asakuchi Yamada could succeed. If he fired now, he would only die miserably afterwards.

Bang!

The artillery squadron leader stared at Asakuchi Yamada with wide eyes, as if he didn't expect him to really fire.

"You! Fire at the division headquarters!" Asakuchi pointed the muzzle of the gun at a squad leader again.

"Ha... Ha... Ha!" The squad leader looked at the squad leader who died with his eyes open, walked to the cannon tremblingly, and began to operate it slowly.

"Hurry up! In addition to you, there are many people who can fire!" Asakuchi put the muzzle of the gun against the squad leader's face.

"Ha!" The squad leader swallowed his saliva and adjusted the coordinates according to the map, but tampered with the coordinates.

It's not big, but it is expected to deviate more than 200 meters to the left.

"May Amaterasu bless you..." The squad leader fired the cannon.

Boom!

With a roar, a 120mm howitzer shell flew out of the muzzle and hit the headquarters of the First Division three kilometers away.

"One shot hit!" The observer saw the impact point with a telescope.

"Yoshi! That's it, keep firing!" Asakuchi Yamada said excitedly.

The squad leader looked at the dust in the distance at a loss, his whole body cold...