The Sino Japanese War: Huayuankou Login (Part 1)

This post is a real war photo taken by Japanese military reporters in the same year. It mainly reflects the battlefield conditions of Japan’s entry into Huayuankou during the Sino Japanese War of 1894. The photo is mainly taken from the Japanese war pictorials issued in that year, such as the Japanese Qing War Photo by the photo class of the Land Survey Department of the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters, and the Japanese war pictorials of the Battle of the Twenty seventh and Eighth Years of the Meiji Period by Keii Zmin

Huayuankou is located in a small bay on the Yellow Sea coast on the east side of Liaodong Peninsula (today’s southwest of Zhuanghe County, Dalian City). Facing Dalian Changshan Islands across the sea in the south, there are hills on three sides behind. The southwest is about 100 kilometers from Dalian Bay and 80 kilometers from Jinzhou. It is about 40 kilometers away from Zhuanghe downtown. After the Yellow Sea Battle on September 17, 1894, the Japanese base camp was organized into the Second Army, and the Chief of Staff of the Joint Fleet, Mr. Gui Dazuo, and others were asked to choose the landing site in Liaodong Peninsula. On October 5, Shadao informed the headquarters that Huayuankou near Piziwo was a suitable landing site

红水城

后萧家堡子，第一师团司令部

后萧家堡子

后萧家堡子附近，第一师团长山地中将、大寺参谋长及参谋副官宪兵长

后萧家堡子民居

后萧家堡子民居农家

花园河上游后萧家堡子，工兵截流蓄水以备炊事

1894年10月24日凌晨，日军第二军第一师团在联合舰队的掩护下，自朝鲜大同江渔隐洞到达花园口，因花园口属浅滩，日军先将兵船停泊在距岸三、四海里处，尔后趁涨潮时用登陆艇牵引舢板登陆，一昼夜往返二三次。10时许第一师团长山地元治中将上岸。26日第二军司令官大山岩大将到达花园口。到11月1日，日军陆军已在花园口全部登陆完毕；等到11月6日，日军辎重、军械、马匹等也已登陆完毕。自10月24日至11月6日，日军在花园口登陆时间长达14天，登陆人员24049名，战马2740匹及其他大批辎重武器。

 花园口登陆点日军

花园口第二军骑兵营地

花园口第一师团司令部

日军在花园口登陆期间，为防止清军袭击，决定再开辟一个登陆地点，以防不测。9月27日，日本联合舰队根据自己掌握的材料，派出筑紫、鸟海二舰，开往貔子窝进行侦察。与此同时，日第一师团长山地元治也派出一个支队在斋藤太郎少佐率领下作为前锋从陆路奔袭貔子窝。9月28日晨，日军斋藤部与日舰筑紫、鸟海同时抵达貔子窝。时驻守貌子窝的请军营官荣安仅有马队两哨200人，“以众寡不敌，退扎廿余里”，貔子窝失守。

花园口附近村落

驻扎貔子窝的捷胜营马队营空荣安于24日8时许得知有船泊于花园口外，即派骑探侦察，途中捕获日间谍钟崎三郎，得知日军万余人将在花园口登陆。25日荣安将情报告知金州副都统连顺，26日连顺知日军将攻占金州、大连湾、旅顺口，乃急电李鸿章、龚照玙和盛京将军裕禄请援，均不果。至11月7日日军第二军官兵、马匹及辎重等全部登陆。清廷及地方官得知日军自花园口登陆情报，末认真组织阻击，是日军未失一兵一卒登陆并顺利进犯金州的主要原因。

花园口临时栈桥

花园口日军登陆点

花园口日军登陆情景

花园口日军登陆艇

花园口日军登陆艇

花园口日军登陆艇

请待后续……