It is now November, and the Ming army has withdrawn from the United States one after another, almost without a moment's delay. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Just in March of this year, Japan launched the Sino-Japanese War.

The reason for the war is no different from history, the Korean Donghak Party uprising, Korea asked the Qing government for assistance, and then the Japanese minister told the Manchu diplomats that the Manchus should send troops to help Korea quell the rebellion, and the Manchus thought that Japan would not object, so they sent troops, and as a result, Japan sent troops at the same time with the treaty signed with the Manchus in 1882.

Fearing that the Japanese army's long-term stay in Korea would cause unnecessary trouble, and cause a war between the Ming Dynasty and Japan in history, the Korean government quickly agreed to the conditions of the revolting Donghak Party, and the Donghak Party uprising slowly subsided.

The Qing government decided to withdraw its troops, and at the same time demanded that Japan withdraw its troops at the same time, but at this time, instead of withdrawing its troops, Japan increased its troops.

After the two countries began to engage in diplomatic wrangling, it should be said that the foreign policy of the Qing government at this time was appropriate, and the attitude of Li Hongzhang and other moderate factions to avoid war was actually desirable, and Li Hongzhang did achieve a series of diplomatic results, and the relevant powers mainly Britain and Russia expressed their condemnation to Japan, and the Qing government had an advantage in diplomacy.

However, Japan could not take into account diplomacy at this time, and in July 1894, the Japanese army raided the palace of Seoul and held the Korean king Yi Xi (Korea Gojong) hostage. It's not like a veteran politician like Hirobumi Ito can do it, and it's normal for a stunned young man in the military to do this kind of thing.

After the Japanese occupied the Joseon Palace, they dissolved the pro-Chinese government of Korea and installed the Daewonjun Yi Yuying as regent. The pro-Japanese government of Japanese-controlled Korea announced that it would sever relations with the Qing Dynasty and entrusted the Japanese army with the expulsion of the Qing troops stationed in Korea, and the relations between the Japanese army and the Qing army in Korea became tense.

At this time, due to the Japanese occupation of the Korean palace, Manqin Wenwu was very shocked, and was divided into two factions, the main battle and the main peace, and slowly the main battle faction took the advantage.

Therefore, the Qing government also increased its troops accordingly and began to put pressure on Japan.

At that time, the main force of the Qing army had retreated to Asan, preparing to return to China across the Yalu River, and the continuous increase of Japanese troops made the Qing government decide to increase the army, so it transported the army to the Dadonggou area near the Yalu River.

Li Hongzhang sent the cruiser Jiyuan to escort the first batch of Huai soldiers to Dadonggou, the army had landed, at this time encountered the cruiser led by the Japanese Naniwa, the two sides broke out conflicts, shelling each other, for the Battle of Toshima, the Jiyuan cruiser was defeated, and began to evacuate.

The Japanese said that the Qing warships were the first to attack them with torpedoes, and the Qing government claimed that it was the Japanese army that shelled the Qing warships first, but according to the actual judgment, the Beiyang Naval Division did not necessarily have the courage to take the lead in attacking the Japanese fleet when the troops were weak.

After some conflict, the escort fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division fled, and the Japanese cruiser fleet pursued, only to encounter the second wave of troop carriers of the Qing army, that is, the Gaosheng.

The captain of the cruiser Naniwa was Heihachiro Togo, and around the Takasho, he made a famous game, that is, he sank the British ship, and the British couldn't even say it. First of all, he sent people to board the ship and asked for their capture, and the British captain agreed, but the Qing army on the ship was unwilling to sail to Japan to be taken prisoner directly, so he coerced the British captain, and Togo Heihachiro successfully separated the British captain from the Qing army.

He then repeatedly demanded that Gao Sheng surrender and fired a torpedo warning, but after the warning failed, they shelled Gao Sheng and sank the ship on the grounds that Gao Sheng had been hijacked by the Qing army. More than 1,000 soldiers fell into the water, and eventually more than 800 people died, and the Japanese fleet rescued most of the foreigners, but only a small number of Qing troops were rescued and sent to Japan, and finally died in Japan.

After the Gao Sheng incident, the two sides fought a lawsuit for several years, and Japan successfully won the lawsuit using international law and various evidence. not only won the lawsuit, but also smeared the face of the Qing government, or the face of the Qing government. One of the biggest reasons is that when the Gaosheng began to sink, many Qing soldiers jumped into the water to escape, and those Qing soldiers who stayed on the deck shot and killed these soldiers who jumped into the sea. So he sank the British merchant ship, but in the end, the British understood that the loss of the Gao Sheng was even compensated by the Qing government.

At this time, such an incident had already broken out, and the Qing government had no room for maneuver, and six days later declared war on Japan, and Japan chose the Qing government at the same time, and the First Sino-Japanese War broke out.

When this war broke out, Zhu Jinglun was both apprehensive and surprised, and at the same time had a trace of expectation.

He wanted Japan to wake up most of the Chinese people, except for Japan, a country despised by Chinese scholars, no country could do it, and even if the Western powers fought another opium war, they would not be able to wake up the Manchu literati.

I am worried about whether Da Ming has the ability to control the situation and let the situation go the way Zhu Jinglun designed. The surprise is that Japan really started a war, and it still started the war as before, even though it did not have an advantage at all on paper.

Seeing that everything happened as scheduled, and the Qing government's reaction was as panicked as ever, Zhu Jinglun suddenly felt that there was no accident in this war, and that Japan would still win, and that a country that had been Westernized militarily, economically, and administratively would have a great chance of winning against the decrepit Qing government.

Sure enough, Japan was well prepared, and after the declaration of war, their army immediately launched an attack on the Qing army in the confrontation, and the Qing army collapsed at the touch of a button as in history, and was defeated for thousands of miles, and in a month, it first retreated from Seoul to Pyongyang, and then retreated from Pyongyang to the territory, losing all the 3,000 miles of Korea to Japan.

The rot of the Manchu Army amazed the whole world, only Zhu Jinglun was not amazed, he expected all this, the only thing he looked forward to was whether the Beiyang Naval Division could make a breakthrough, because the Beiyang Naval Division was different from the army, and most of the officers were foreigners, and in history they fought at least much better than the army, at least one point, in the naval battle, both sides had no way out, often only to fight to the death, in the case of having equipment advantages, the Beiyang Naval Division is likely to achieve results.

But Zhu Jinglun was still disappointed, and the Beiyang Naval Division, which had four ironclad ships, was defeated by the Japanese fleet composed of a group of cruisers.