The problem of the Southwest War in Japan, what are the reasons for the outbreak of the Southwest Wa

Saigo Takamori is not an idle person, since the retirement of ** in Kagoshima opened a private military school, most of the backbone elements of the rebellion are cadets of the military academy, and his army is composed of the strongest combat power of the old Satsuma clan at the time of the curtain There are also a lot of troops!

Well, you know, Saigo Takamori is one of the "Three Heroes of the Restoration" and Kido Takayo (Katsura Kogoro), Okubo Ritsu, and compared to the other two, Saigo is mainly outstanding in military ability, and he is much higher than Yama Prefecture Aritomo in terms of ability, and the people who followed Saigo to participate in the Southwest War were basically the samurai of the old Satsuma Domain who had experienced the war training of the end of the Edo era, and they could be called one of the absolute main forces in the fallen army, if it weren't for the disparity in the strength of the two sides in the Southwest War, It's hard to say how it turned out.

Most of the people who participated in the rebellion were samurai, and most of the troops in the prefecture were recruited from the peasants, which was also one of the reasons. This reason sometimes even leads to the immediate collapse of the ** army as soon as the rebels attack. You can take a look at "The Last Samurai" for reference, although that movie is just a romance, some content is still worth watching.

Finally, I would like to add that the connotation of "bushido" in the Japanese Middle Ages is not at all the same as that of the devil soldiers.

In 1877, the Southwest War, the largest civil war in Japan's modern history, broke out.

colinsunxin001 friend said pretty much it. I add.

Satsuma and Choshu were the main forces that fell to the table, but after the Restoration, the Japanese army practiced the same feudal politics. The Choshu domain was in charge of the army (Masajiro Omura), and the Satsuma domain was in charge of the navy (Saigo Servori, the younger brother of Saigo Takamori). This may be the reason why Choshu is not the opposite.

The contradictions between the Japanese army and navy (i.e., the contradiction between Satsuma and Choshu, such as the choice between the "southward" and "northern" policies) ran through the entire Japanese Empire.

The Last Samurai is actually a summoning of the soul of bushido, so it was not introduced in the country. In the real Southwest War, both sides used firearms, but there were differences in the organization of the army and the number of firearms. In order to highlight the heroic sacrifice of the samurai, this movie is expressed in the form of a firearm on one side and a cold weapon on the other.

The elegy of the samurai class, such as the Southwest War, was portrayed as a "corpse admonition" carried out by the samurai class in order to express their hope that the Japanese emperor would maintain national pride, and the spirit of bushido was greatly promoted. Other than that, the whole film is pretty good.

Okubo Ritsu sent 23 spies, including Nao Nakahara, who was born in Kagoshima, to Kagoshima to investigate the situation of the private military academy and the intentions of Saigo Takamori and others, and planned to assassinate Saigo Takamori. In order to weaken the military power of the Satsuma clan, Meiji ** planned to transport the army powder depot stored in Kagoshima ** and ammunition to Osaka, but these actions were known by a group of radical private military academy students, Meiji 10 On the night of January 31, 1877, military cadets attacked the Kagoshima Kusamuta army powder magazine, and soon the powder magazines of Ishijokan, Kaminohara, etc. were also attacked, and many places in Kagoshima City were set on fire, and the riots were out of control, when Saigo Takamori was hunting in Konezhan on the Okuma Peninsula, After learning about this, although he understood that now was not the time to raise troops, but seeing the actions of that group of young students**,**, Saigo Takamori had no choice but to take advantage of the situation to raise troops to resist**, at that time there were 12,000 people in the Satsuma army, and there were more than 40,000 dissatisfied warriors from all over Kyushu.