At the end of the 19th century, the Qing government was defeated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, signed a treaty of loss of power and humiliation, and ceded the island of Taiwan to Japan, making Taiwan experience a period of Japanese occupation for decades. The corrupt and incompetent Qing Dynasty abandoned Taiwan, but the sons and daughters of China in Taiwan never conceded defeat.
During this period, many anti-Japanese heroes emerged in Taiwan and fought hard for decades under the brutal suppression of the Japanese. Among them, there are the three rebel leaders of the "Anti-Japanese Three Fierce" - "Lion Tiger Cat", which made the Japanese army feel afraid. The protagonist of our story today is the fierce "tiger" Ke Tiehu among them
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Ke Tiehu, whose original name was Ke Tiehu, because he was brave and fierce, and his arm strength was extraordinary, his martial arts were superior, and he had always been known as the "overlord", and he was nicknamed Ke Tiehu. The Qing government's act of handing over Taiwan made the whole of Taiwan angry, and for a time, Taiwan's patriots took the lead in carrying out anti-Japanese activities, and rebels everywhere appeared in an endless stream, and the Japanese army continued to suffer heavy losses in Taiwan.
Liu Yongfu of the Black Flag Army had a subordinate named Jian Yi, who formed an anti-Japanese rebel army in the Daping area of Yunlin County, Taiwan, based on Tieguo Mountain. In 1896, Jian Yi called himself "Nine Thousand Years Old" at the Tieguo Mountain Conference, taking this year as the first year of Heavenly Fortune and calling on all heroes in the world to fight the Japanese army together. Ke Tiehu also led his team to the Iron Country Mountain.
For the sake of the rebels of Tieguo Mountain, the Japanese army has gathered heavy troops many times to encircle and suppress them, but they have suffered heavy casualties, and they can be said to hate Tieguo Mountain to the bone. After many defeats, the Japanese army switched to the Huairou policy and sent traitors from within to persuade them to make peace. It is really said that Jian Yi was a person who, under the coercion and inducement of the Japanese army, gave up the anti-Japanese resistance and surrendered alone. After Jian Yi escaped, the people of Tieguo Mountain elected Ke Tiehu as their leader and continued to lead a group of rebels to actively resist japan.
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The Japanese coercion and inducement did not help Ke Tiehu, but on the contrary, he became more and more fierce in the war, winning one after another, and for a time the reputation of the Tieguoshan rebels was greatly enhanced. In order to completely eliminate Tieguoshan, on December 12, 1896, As the first Japanese governor stationed in Taiwan, He personally led thousands of Japanese troops to encircle and suppress Ke Tiehu again. Because the disparity in military strength between the two sides was too great, the Iron Country Mountain rebels suffered unprecedented casualties, and in order to preserve their strength, they had no choice but to gradually hide deeper into the Iron Country Mountain and wait for the opportunity to continue to resist Japan.
The Japanese also felt a dilemma in the face of Ke Tiehu, and they could not finish fighting and retreating unwillingly. Ke Tiehu led his troops to hide in the deep mountains, from time to time came out to fight guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army, and those who mastered the terrain advantage ran after the fight, and they were haunted, and the Japanese army was exhausted and exhausted. In desperation, the Japanese army tried to persuade and recruit security, and also promised Ke Tiehu many favorable conditions.
At the same time, the Iron Country Mountain Rebels also had a large consumption of guns, ammunition and personnel because of the long-term combat, and they were also in urgent need of replenishment. Therefore, Ke Tiehu superficially pretended to accept the "Zhao'an", and also put forward ten conditions, indicating that he wanted to occupy the mountain as king, and asked the Japanese to assign Yunlin and other places to him, so that the well water with the Japanese would not violate the river water. The Japanese ostensibly agreed to his conditions, wanted to appease Ke Tiehu first, and then secretly sent people to keep a close watch on him. Ke Tiehu himself knew very well that this was just a delaying tactic for the Japanese, and he needed to take this opportunity to buy time for the rebels and step up preparations.
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In 1897, after Ke Tiehu reorganized the Tieguoshan rebel army, he once again led 500 or 600 subordinates to fight the Japanese army, and the two sides fought fiercely for several days. However, in desperation, the Japanese had an absolute advantage in military equipment and combat personnel, and the Iron Country Mountain rebels led by Ke Tiehu were eventually forced to transfer again because of their backward weapons and defeat. Ke Tiehu was also seriously injured in this battle, and his overall combat effectiveness was much worse than before.
For the next two years, Ke Tiehu continued to fight guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army. The Japanese army repeatedly pretended to persuade them to surrender, trying to recruit Anke Tiehu, but he was not moved, not even the virtual and the snake, and insisted on resisting to the end. Until 1899, Ke Tiehu's old wounds recurred, so serious that he could not even pick up a gun, and it was difficult to carry out anti-Japanese actions, so he had no choice but to negotiate peace. Eventually, Ke Tiehu died of a serious illness on February 9, 1900.
After Ke Tiehu's death, the remaining rebel army was leaderless, still surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese army, and was quickly destroyed. The Japanese army hated Ke Tiehu and the soldiers and civilians in the Yunlin area to the bone, and even the unarmed ordinary people did not spare it, implemented the inhumane policy of slaughtering villages, created the inhumane Yunlin Massacre, retaliated and bloodily slaughtered more than 30,000 Taiwan compatriots, and burned more than 4,000 houses, which can be said to be inhumane!
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Ke Tiehu's death dealt a heavy blow to the anti-Japanese forces in Taiwan. Even the Japanese, as enemy troops, did not dare to easily dare not believe it, and after finding the body in the cave where Ke Tiehu was hiding, they sent people to repeatedly check it to determine that it was really a "fierce tiger" that had made them feel frightened for many years. In the same year, jian dashi, who was "three fierce against Japan", was arrested by the Qing government, extradited to Japan, and eventually killed. Two years later, Lin Shaomao, the last of the "Three Heroes of The Anti-Japanese Resistance," was also unfortunately killed in battle, and Taiwan's anti-Japanese forces have gradually fallen silent since then.