The British consul sent a request for an armistice to the East China government, half of which was the result of Japanese diplomacy, and the other half was determined by British interests.

The war in the Liaodong Battlefield has come to an end, and in this stage of the battle, the East China Government naturally became the biggest winner; while although the Russian army suffered heavy losses in the Shilihe First Battle, it was not satisfactory to recover Shenyang after all; only the Japanese army became the biggest loser, not only was it completely expelled from the Liaodong region, but also suffered heavy losses in troops and personnel. Although after the end of the Battle of the Yalu River, several thousand soldiers swam across the Yalu River one after another to reach the Korean Peninsula, the total number of troops was less than 150,000, including more than 50,000 wounded, and the number of logisticians who escaped the Yalu River was only about 200,000, and the total losses of the army personnel amounted to about 60 percent.

After the news reached Japan, the Japanese cabinet was like a mourner, because no one expected that the Japanese army would be so defeated, and although the high-level commanders of the 2nd and 4th armies successfully crossed the Yalu River and fled to the Korean Peninsula, they were regarded as retaining some of their senior commanders, but this was completely disproportionate compared with the losses.

Of course, after the grief, the Japanese government still has to find a way to clean up the mess, and no matter how badly defeated it is, it cannot continue to rot like this.

First of all, of course, the news should be blocked, and the news must not be allowed to spread in Japan. In fact, since the People's Army entered the war, Japan has blocked the news of the front line several times in a row, and the price of goods in Japan has skyrocketed and all industries have withered because of the war problem, but there has been the news of the victory in the war against Russia before that, and the country can only be forced to maintain it, and if the news of the defeat spreads in the country, it will inevitably cause great turmoil, so we can only block the news first, and wait for the situation to slowly calm down and then gradually reveal it.

However, after the People's Army entered the war, the situation in Japan deteriorated, at first the Combined Fleet was destroyed, then the loss of Lushun, then the loss of Liaoyang and Shenyang, and now the defeat of the Yalu River, and the news of the blockade became more and more, including the news of the death of the two high-ranking generals Togo Heihachiro and Nogi Noshinori has not been announced yet, so the funeral of these two people has not even been held, and their families have also been controlled by the Japanese government, and now there is another big mountain rock. Fortunately, high-ranking generals such as Kodama Gentaro, Kuroki Weizhen, Okuhotsuku, and Nozu Michikani fled to the Korean Peninsula, otherwise it would have taken a lot of effort to control and pacify the families of these high-ranking officers.

The second is to immediately reorganize the troops that have fled to the Korean Peninsula. Although the People's Army won the victory in the Battle of Yalu, it did not take advantage of the victory to march to the east bank of the Yalu River, but turned back and fought fiercely with the Russian army at the Shili River. This also made the Japanese government breathe a sigh of relief. However, Japan cannot hope that the KPA will not attack Korea, so it must strengthen the defense of the Korean Peninsula.

However, now that the East China government has the right to control the sea, it is basically impossible for Japan to send troops to the Korean Peninsula on a large scale, so it can only find a way to do it on the Korean Peninsula. Fortunately, the telegraph lines between Japan and the Korean Peninsula were still open and communication could be carried out.

After consultations at the headquarters of the Japanese Army, it was ordered to establish a Korean Command on the Korean Peninsula, with Gentaro Kodama as commander-in-chief and Kuroki as chief of staff, and still concurrently serving as commander of the 1st Army Corps; except for the soldiers of the 1st Army Corps and the Yalu River Corps, all other soldiers who had fled to the Korean Peninsula were reorganized, and the 2nd and 4th Army Corps were reorganized in Korea, with each corps temporarily organized into a division and a brigade; and the Yalu Army Corps was changed to the 5th Army Corps, which was considered to have a formal establishment.

In addition to the existing soldiers, a part of the logistics personnel will be selected for training, and efforts will be made to organize two divisions in three months and two divisions after six months; and the Korean security force will be established to strive to organize six divisions within six months. If these plans are completed, then the strength of the Japanese army will be restored to more than 300,000 after half a year, of course, this is only a quantitative recovery, and there is still a huge difference in quality, but it is already good to be able to do this step.

According to Kamoto's estimates, the battle between the KPA and the Russian army will last for more than half a year, and although the KPA has a greater chance of winning, after half a year, the KPA will also have greater casualties and attrition, and then Japan can attack from the Korean Peninsula again, and perhaps fight again.

However, the biggest problem facing the Japanese army now is the insufficient number of weapons and ammunition, and now the Japanese army has more than 140,000 troops and more than 50,000 wounded soldiers. Of course, the wounded soldiers will not carry guns across the Yalu River, and among the other more than 80,000 soldiers, only about 70,000 people crossed the river through bridges in the early stage, and the weapons and ammunition are naturally all carried, and the remaining about 15,000 people basically swim over. Although the Japanese army still stored a batch of weapons and ammunition in Korea, the total number of guns did not exceed 100,000, and even if the old rifles originally equipped by the North Korean army were counted, it was less than 150,000, and the gap was more than half.

But there is no way for the army to solve this problem, and it can only be rescued by the navy. Although Japan's navy and army have always been at odds, they are quite sympathetic to each other at this time, and the navy people also know that now is not the time to make internal disturbances, after all, once Japan is finished, the navy and army will be buried with them, and no one will be able to escape. Therefore, as the Navy promised, it would do its best to find a way to send weapons to North Korea.

Although the base camp still wants to fight again, the cabinet knows very well that this kind of chance is extremely slim, and it can be thankful to God for being able to get out of this war with dignity. In fact, the military effort created a bargaining chip for Japan to withdraw from the war with dignity.

The Japanese cabinet believes that two conditions must be met for an honorable exit from the war: first, to preserve Japan's interests on the Korean Peninsula, but to make appropriate concessions, such as in Korea's economic power, as long as Japan can ensure its control over Korea; second, it is not possible to pay reparations, because reparations are tantamount to admitting defeat, and Japan now has no money. Although this result did not achieve Japan's goal of provoking a war, it was an acceptable result.

However, it will not be easy to achieve a dignified exit, and the East China Government will never let Japan go easily, and it is far from enough to rely on restoring its military strength; after all, when Japan's military strength was at its peak, the East China Government was not afraid, not to mention the army that had been put together indiscriminately, so in addition to this, Japan must also find the help of a strong external force in order to compete with the East China Government. Of course, the only external help that Japan could find was Britain.

Therefore, the Japanese government formally proposed to Britain that Britain fulfill the provisions of the "Anglo-Japanese Alliance Treaty" and send troops to the war to aid Japan.

In fact, after the Battle of Tsushima ended, Japan asked Britain to send troops to participate in the war, but Britain prevaricated on the grounds that it needed to discuss whether the East China government was a country, and there was still no clear statement. The Japanese political elite knew very well that the chances of Britain sending troops were not very high, otherwise they would not have discussed the question of whether the East China government was a state or not.

But Japan or Britain made a request to enter the war, that is, to kick the ball to Britain again. After all, Japan and Britain are allies and have signed international treaties, and if Britain really lets Japan go unchecked, it will be a major blow to Britain's national credibility, so even if Britain will not send troops to the war, it will use other resources to put pressure on the East China government to help Japan withdraw from the war with dignity.

It should be said that Japan still has confidence in Britain, after all, Britain is still the world's leading power, and in addition to its military capabilities, it also has huge diplomatic resources, so as long as Britain wants to, it can do so.

After receiving the diplomatic letter from Japan, the heads of the British government also had a headache, of course, the British government was reluctant to participate in the war, and the alliance treaty was signed with Japan, just to contain France, so that Japan could go to Russia's one-on-one PK, who knew that a government in East China would be killed halfway. In fact, Britain was also wary of the East China government's participation in the war, and repeatedly expressed its attitude of not wanting the East China government to participate in the war, but the East China government simply ignored it and took action when it was time to act, which also made Britain very faceless.

After all, Britain and Japan have signed an alliance treaty, and if Britain really sits idly by and ignores Japan, then what will other countries think of Britain? And which country will form an alliance with Britain?

If it was 10 years ago, Britain would not have cared about forming alliances with other countries, because at that time Britain was still insisting on "glorious isolation", and it was impossible to sign an alliance treaty with Japan, but now Britain has no way to insist on "glorious isolation", not only allied with Japan against Russia, but also actively drew closer relations with France, and promoted the alliance between the two countries to jointly contain Germany, but if Britain got rid of Japan, would France still fully trust Britain? Even if Britain and France signed a treaty of alliance, they would be in the same bed and dreaming of different dreams, thinking only of dead friends and not poor people, and it was impossible to work together to deal with Germany.

As a matter of fact, the current situation in the Far East is very much in line with Britain's interests, and now that both Japan and Russia have suffered heavy losses, even if Japan can withdraw from this war with dignity, it will inevitably suffer a great loss of vitality, and it can only rely more closely on Britain and willingly be Britain's thug and spokesman in Asia; and not look at Russia's recovery of Shenyang, but in fact the losses are greater than Japan's, because it is a great loss of navy and a great decline in the strength of the Far East, so it no longer poses a real threat to Britain.

Moreover, after Russia suffered setbacks in the Far East, it will inevitably turn its attention to the direction of Europe, which will inevitably clash with Austria-Hungary in the Balkans and the Middle East, and behind Austria-Hungary is Germany, and the contradictions between Germany and Russia will inevitably intensify. Therefore, Britain also had a huge plan, and since Russia no longer posed a threat to Britain, and the two countries had a common enemy, then there was a basis for turning enemies into friends, so that the formation of an alliance of Britain, France, and Russia against Germany would be enough to subdue Germany.