After receiving the news that the United States quickly agreed to pay compensation and asked the Huaxia Army to leave the west coast of the United States as soon as possible, Hu Zhen couldn't help but sigh: "Damn, this war is really a good thing!" In less than a month, I made another 60 million meters, no wonder the people of the United States in later generations like to fight so much, it seems that they will come to the United States more to fight and make money in the future! ”

However, when Hu Zhen sighed, the war between the Japanese and the Qing Dynasty was not at all like the First Sino-Japanese War in another time and space.

Stimulated by the terrible pressure of the Huaxia Guild, after the defeat of the Beiyang Fleet, the Wa Kingdom launched an attack with all its strength, using more than 300 steam-engine steamers and more than 1,000 wooden sailing ships, carrying 400,000 troops, and landing in four places at the same time:

The 100,000 troops of the Second Army under the command of Lieutenant General Nodo Guanjin defeated more than 20,000 Qing troops commanded by Ye Zhichao, captured Seoul and Pyongyang, and swept through the Kingdom of Goryeo.

The second route, with the Third Army under the command of Lieutenant General Katsura Taro, landed in Jinzhou City on the Liaodong Peninsula, rushed to the line of Fuzhou, Gaiping, and Yingkou, advanced to Shenyang, and cut off Lushun's connection with the mainland.

The Third Route was the Fourth Army under the command of Lieutenant General Dashanyan, which stormed the base of the Lushun Beiyang Naval Division.

The Fourth Road, with the Fifth Army under the command of Vice Admiral Gentaro Kodama, landed on the Jiaodong Peninsula into a mountain corner, outflanked the rear road of Weihaiwei, and cooperated with the Combined Fleet to trap the Beiyang Fleet in the port of Weihaiwei.

The offensive of the Japanese army was very fierce and rapid, not only the princes of the Qing Dynasty did not expect it, but even Hu Zhen from later generations did not expect it.

The Qing Dynasty could not stop the mad dog-like onslaught of the Japanese army.

However, in more than 20 days, Seoul, Pyongyang, Jinzhou, Lushun, Yingkou, Liaoyang and other important places fell one after another, Ye Zhichao fled, Wei Rugui fled, Zuo Guigui died heroically, the reinforcements were defeated, and the greatest achievement of the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement, the Beiyang Fleet was trapped in Weihaiwei and could not move, and it was about to be wiped out.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was bent on celebrating a beautiful 60th birthday, found that the Japanese kingdom was attacking like a flood and a beast, so she decided to mobilize all her strength to fight to the death with the Japanese army.

However, the Qing army has not yet completed the mobilization, and the Qing army in Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu has not yet completed the assembly and mobilization, and the Japanese army has resorted to a real killer move:

Shan County Youpeng commanded the 150,000 troops of the First Army of the Japanese Army. Under the cover of the combined fleet, it suddenly rushed to land on the beach from the mouth of Dagu.

Luo Rongguang, the defender of Dagukou, commanded 3,000 Qing troops to fight bravely and bloodily, but the Japanese army was dozens of times more than his own, and the defenders were weak. Luo Rongguang was killed in the battle, and the 3,000 Qing army was annihilated.

After the Japanese army succeeded, they pounced on Tanggu and Tianjin, and the commanders of the Qing army, Jiang Zikang, Zhang Gaoyuan and others, died heroically, and Tianjin fell. Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, fled into the imperial capital in disgrace.

At this point, the thousand-year-old capital was completely exposed to the spearhead of the Japanese army.

The Qing Dynasty was immediately panicked, and in a hurry, while issuing a call to the whole country for the holy decree of King Qin, and at the same time secretly ordering Li Hongzhang to send people to negotiate with the Japanese army to delay time.

What good results can be achieved by negotiating with a robber at this time?

Youpeng of Shanxian ignored Li Hongzhang at all, but commanded the 200,000 Japanese army commanders who had received reinforcements to drive straight in, enter under the walls of the imperial capital, and cut off the connection between the capital and the outside world with two brigades and more than 26,000 cavalry of three wings.

The Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, under the protection of the guards, escaped from the imperial capital overnight and ran towards Xi'an. But he was stopped back by the Japanese cavalry.

Cixi and Guangxu, who returned to the imperial capital in the gray past, issued a holy decree, requiring the "soldiers and horses of the Qinwang of the world" to fight to the death against the Japanese army under the command of Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili.

This is exactly what the Japanese army who came from afar pursued.

The soldiers and horses of the various Qinwang came one after another, forming a typical refueling tactic, and they were broken one by one by the Japanese army that took the initiative to fight.

In less than ten days, the Qing army lost 70,000 or 80,000 horses, all of which were the most courageous troops who dared to rush ahead, while the other Qing troops who cowered and acted slowly and hid behind did not dare to come up again.

At this point, the imperial capital lost reinforcements. It became a lonely city that was slaughtered by the Japanese army.

In the war-torn imperial capital, there happened to be more than 1,300 students from all over the country who came to participate in the imperial examination.

Most of these students have read articles, books, newspapers and periodicals about the Nanyang Huaxia Guild, and learned that the Huaxia Guild has almost won every battle in the war with the foreigners, and the territory of the Huaxia Guild is thriving.

As a result, some of these naïve young students launched an action to write to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to "recruit" the Nanyang Huaxia Guild. Hu Zhen, the chief of the Huaxia Guild, was the prince and prime minister, and led the invincible Huaxia army of LinkedIn to rescue the imperial capital.

As a result, all the students participated in the joint signing and carried out a vigorous "book on the bus", an unexpected action that also had many sympathizers and supporters in the bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty. Many people were ready to seconded the students' bus letters, which put great pressure on the Qing rulers.

However, in the hundreds of years since the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the idea of "preferring outsiders to domestic slaves" has long occupied the brains of the Qing rulers, who are not willing to leave the life and death of the imperial court to a pure Chinese organization, and the students' bus books will not be accepted by the Qing Dynasty at all.

When the Qing court did not reply for a long time, the students gathered and ran to the gate of the Forbidden City to assemble and petition, and some people in the imperial capital who were worried about the imperial capital being defeated by the Japanese army also participated in the petition.

For a time, outside the gate of the Forbidden City, more than 30,000 people gathered to petition, hoping that the imperial court could "recruit" the Huaxia Guild and let the army of the Huaxia Guild rush to the aid of the imperial capital.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was angry and annoyed, so she asked Guangxu to find an excuse casually, so she sent soldiers and horses to disperse those naïve students and people, forbidding them to gather again to discuss the public and write on the bus, and issued an order, Hugh wanted to mention what kind of Chinese guild that had left his homeland and ran overseas without righteousness, loyalty, and king.

However, the Qing army did not have enough strength to repel the besieging Japanese army, and the situation in the imperial capital was precarious.

"I can't think of it, I can't think of it!" At this time, Hu Zhen, who was far away on the flagship of the Huaxia Army Fleet on the west coast of North America, could not have imagined that the students of the Qing Dynasty and the people of the imperial capital would love him so much.

"Congratulations, sir! This is the desire of the people! The people of the United States have softened, and the Indians have already obtained more than two years of ammunition reserves" Zheng Dingbang was also overjoyed, feeling that this was a good sign, which was greatly beneficial to the return of the Chinese army to the Chinese mainland.

"It's an expectation, but it's also a pressure!" Hu Zhen took a deep breath and ordered: "It's time, the fleet is heading towards the western Pacific at full speed, ready to fight the most ferocious enemy of the Chinese nation!" ”

When the Chinese army was returning to China on a large scale, the Japanese army on the Hebei Plain also seized the opportunity to besiege the imperial capital, to force the Qing court to pay reparations and cede the land, and seize the fruits of victory.

(pS: Thank you for your rewards, especially the Lord of Creation and the thief who rewards you every day, with your support along the way, it is the motivation for me to persevere!) Thank you so much! (To be continued.) )