Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Whole Country Is Boiling

The news of Kaesong's victory again spread throughout the government and the opposition in just a few days, and the Qing monarchs and people were encouraged by the great victory in foreign wars that had not been seen for decades, and the ministers in the court were even more singing praises and the people's hearts were excited. Emperor Guangxu also appeared to be in high spirits because of the great victory, and held a banquet in the palace for three consecutive days to entertain the ministers.

Regarding the martyrdom of Zuo Guigui, there was also a decision in the imperial court.

The Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu conferred on Zuo Precious and said in the holy decree: ...... Zi Zuoqing joined the army, invincible, repeatedly made meritorious contributions to the country, opened the city of a battle, did not spare his own body, personally committed the front, covered with heavy injuries, still did not retreat, is really the only model for the ministers. Specially posthumously awarded the Zuo Precious Guangdong Governor, and gave the title of Prince Taibao, and his eldest son Zuo Guoji Yin attacked the cavalry captain; The second son, Zuo Guodong, attacked the cloud cavalry captain,. Feng Zuo's precious great-grandfather Tianzeng, grandfather Fengyou, and father Shirong were honored as "General Zhenwei". Conferred the title of Zuo Precious Uncle Zuo Shihong as "General Jianwei". In addition, 800 taels of silver were rewarded for the bereavement, 25 taels of sacrificial silver, 500 taels of silver for the whole funeral, and 350 taels of silver for the monument. Zuo Gui wrote according to the example of the death of the Admiral, and gave mercy to him. During his tenure, all punishments were reinstated, and he was enshrined in Zhaozhong Temple. All the traces of the battle and the shape of the death will be passed on to the National History Museum.

Emperor Guangxu felt the death of Zuo Guigui, personally wrote the imperial mention, wrote the sacrificial text, and at the same time ordered Zuo Guigui's nephew Zuo Min to be the general soldier of Gaozhou Town, still leading the Feng army, and ordered Zuo Min to return to the country and Fengtian to recruit a new army, supplement the Feng army, and re-enter the dynasty to return to the construction after the formation is completed, led by Nie Shicheng.

As for Fengsheng A, Emperor Guangxu issued an order to strictly apply for punishment, and Nie Shicheng sent someone to escort him back to Beijing to be handled, and Fengsheng A's department was handed over to Nie Shicheng's designated person to be the commander, and continued to stay in the DPRK to fight. At the same time, it was decreed that Nie Shicheng was appointed as the Minister of the General Office of Military Affairs of the DPRK, and the Heilongjiang General Yi Ketanga and the Sichuan Governor Song Qing were appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Korean Military Affairs, and led the army into the DPRK to assist Nie Shicheng in commanding the war against Japan; Feng Liu Mingchuan was the acting director of foreign affairs, supervising the logistics of the Korean war;

Yiketanga and Song Qing have gathered 30,000 Qing troops outside the pass and entered Korea in batches, which is already all the elite troops in the Qing Dynasty, and then there is the Chu army that is still on the march, there are still more than 10,000 people, rushing to the pass. With the power of a great victory, the Qing Dynasty sent troops to Korea, and there was a great tendency to fight to the death with Japan.

Nie Shicheng received a domestic telegram and convened everyone to discuss the matter. Nie Shicheng said excitedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, now, the imperial army is gathered outside the pass, and it is about to enter North Korea in the near future. You are all immortal heroes of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Everyone present also responded one after another, and Zhang Yi was the only one who hung his head and was silent.

Nie Shicheng was stunned and asked, "Zhang Yi, what's wrong?" Now that the imperial reinforcements are about to enter the court, why do you still look unhappy? But if you have anything on your mind, tell me about it. ”

Zhang Yi sighed and said, "My lord, it is gratifying that the imperial army has entered the court. However, there are also a lot of troubles, one of them, Yi Ke Tanga and Song Qing are both important ministers of the imperial court, with high qualifications, although the adults are also directly subordinate to the governors, but in terms of qualifications, there is a lot of difference between them and the two adults, after the two of them enter the court, whether they can completely obey the dispatch of the adults, is a problem. In particular, Yiketanga is a Manchurian, known as a soldier, and has the identity of the Eight Banners to rely on, once he does not listen to the dispatch, it will be a huge hidden danger. Second, there are only a few units that can be called elite soldiers in China, and the total is less than 80,000 people, and now 60,000 people have all entered the DPRK to fight. Is there still enough troops in the various parts of Zhili? Is it an elite force? The subordinates were worried that once the land attack was blocked, Japan would blaze a trail and transport a large army by sea to the hinterland of our Daqing Dynasty, which had a vast territory, a long coast, and numerous ports, and that once the Japanese army launched a landing operation, there would be a loophole in China's defense, and the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

"Shhh Everyone gasped after hearing Zhang Yi's words, my good man, if this becomes true, it will be a big trouble. The elite divisions in the country have been assembled outside the Guan, preparing to march into Korea, and the garrison of Gyeonggi is empty, which is inevitable, even if there are some troops, they are all old soldiers who have not gone through a big war, how can they win the war? Once the Japanese army really gathers a certain number of troops, transports them to a certain port in the Bohai Bay through the navy, and then conducts a landing operation, it will only take a few days to threaten Beijing's security, after all, Beijing is not far from the mouth of the sea.

Nie Shicheng hesitated: "Zhang Yi, what is the basis for what you said?" This is a big thing, once the Japanese army really comes to Beijing, then even if we fight the Korean war beautifully, it will not be of any use, as long as the Japanese army forces the queen mother and the emperor to sign an alliance under the city. With more than half a year's efforts, the results of the bloody battle of tens of thousands of troops have to come to naught. ”

Zhang Yi smiled bitterly, according to? Where to find the basis. However, in the First Sino-Japanese War in the previous life, the Japanese army was really advancing by land and water, and the Japanese troops who landed were rampage in the area outside the pass, and no army could compete with it, Liaoning, Shandong and even part of Zhili became the racetrack of the Japanese army, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, knowing that the "Shimonoseki Treaty" was signed, the Japanese army withdrew from China one after another, and this war brought great damage to northern China. But now, will history repeat itself? Zhang Yi was not sure, after all, his arrival had deflected the course of history, and he could not fully predict the progress of the war, so he could only say that the Japanese army had the possibility of such an action.

Zhang Yi smiled bitterly: "My lord, if there is such a thing, the battle plan is still in the Japanese base camp, we can't get accurate information at all, we can only say that this possibility completely exists, after all, the Japanese navy still has a certain advantage." At the same time, the Japanese army has purchased three new warships, and they are afraid that they will be able to reach Japan within a month or two. I think that if Japan wants to attack the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty by sea, it should be two months later, that is, before the end of the year. In a short period of time, the Japanese navy did not have such a strong strength, because their capital ships were too badly damaged to carry out such a large-scale landing operation. What we can do now is to telegraph to the imperial court to leave some elite troops to garrison the Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea coast to prevent the Japanese army from advancing by sea and land. Now that the Korean war has come to an end for the time being, and there will be occasional wars in a short period of time, there will not be too many problems, the imperial court only needs to send one of them to replenish, and at the same time, you can also ask the imperial court to recruit new troops and send them to Korea, and we will be responsible for training and preparing for war while training, plus the new army and one of Iketanga or Song Kyeong, I think our troops are enough to deal with the Korean war. ”

Nie Shicheng nodded and replied, "Okay, what you said is quite reasonable, we must take precautions and immediately call Lord Zhongtang and the imperial court, so that they can prepare early." ”