In the ruined house, Tan Sitong opened his mouth wide and looked at the explosions in the distance, the sound of the explosion cut off the attacking troops, and many soldiers were blown up without a trace in an instant.

"General Wan, what's going on, what's going on?" Tan Sitong, who reacted, pulled Wan Gulin, who also opened his mouth wide, with both hands.

There was a crisp sound of the bell, and the one in Wan Gulin's hand fell to the ground at once. With a thud, Wangulin sat on the ground and stared blankly at the troops still being bombarded in the distance.

"Falling short, falling short." Muttering to himself, Wan Gulin raised his head and looked at Tan Sitong, who had not yet understood: "Lord Tan, their reinforcements have arrived, and we have failed." ”

What the? Tan Sitong took two steps back. Hold on to the stool behind you at once.

Seeing the victory of the hand, he failed like this, he was not willing, he was a little unwilling.

"General Wan, is there really no way?" Tan Sitong ran over at once, pulling Wan Gulin, who was about to run outside.

There is no way, Wan Gulin knows the strength of his troops too well, just attacking the guards guarding the yamen, that's okay, but to fight with the main force of the Qing army coming in from outside the city, he doesn't have that much ability.

"No, Lord Tan, let's run for their lives." struggled to break free of Tan Sitong. Wan Gulin turned around and ran through an alley, disappearing into the chaotic Guangyuan City.

Prefect's Yamen. Zhang Zhidong heard the shouts of killing outside, and heard the shelling fiercely, his tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he made the right bet, the troops finally blocked the attack of the rebels, and waited for reinforcements.

"My lord, our people are here." Song Pan, who also heard the arrival of reinforcements, showed a message on his face, and looked at Zhang Zhidong with an expressionless face on the side.

"yes, it's finally here." Zhang Zhidong took a deep breath, and then spit out heavily.

"Let's go, we can go tell Lafayette." Zhang Zhidong smiled, turned around and walked towards the main hall inside.

Pyongyang City, Headquarters of the 1st Corps. Since receiving the matter of the Japanese army's reinforcement of troops in Korea, Ding Ruchang has spent almost all of the past few days in front of the map and in the forward positions.

The Japanese army, which had been quiet for several years, suddenly carried out a large number of troop movements, which had to make Ding Ruchang cautious, and reminded himself to always pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army in addition to Lushun's telegram. For the first time, Ding Ruchang mobilized almost all the scouts, and all of them were scattered to the border and even the Japanese-controlled areas.

"How's it going, what's going on?" Putting down the command in his hand, Ding Ruchang returned to his position and looked at Qin Liang, the commander of the North Korean Corps who was standing beside him.

"Commander, according to intelligence, a division of the Japanese Second Army has entered Mount Wutai and is building fortifications there, and a brigade has also arrived near Yangkou and is stationed less than five kilometers from our position.

Okay, it's only been a few days, and the Japanese army is moving so fast, Ding Ruchang frowned, stood up, and quickly found the few locations that Qin Liang said.

"Commander, there is a sentence from my subordinates, I don't know if I should say it or not?" Glancing at Ding Ruchang, who was looking at the map, Qin Liang lowered his head and thought for a while, he wanted to ask the doubts in his heart.

In Qin Liang's view, the Japanese army has mobilized troops on such a large scale, what it wants to do, you don't have to close your eyes to know, since this is the case, now while the Japanese army has not completed its deployment, why not launch an attack immediately, catch Japan off guard, and then go south directly, after taking Seoul, all the armies will advance and drive the Japanese army into the sea.

But now, the Japanese army is blatantly deploying troops, but they can only watch and can't do anything. This made Qin Liang feel hated and aggrieved.

"Say whatever you want." Ding Ruchang turned his head and looked at Qin Liang.

"Commander, since the Japanese army is sitting so obviously, why don't we strike first?"

Hey, Ding Ruchang, who understood Qin Liang's meaning, shook his head helplessly, he knew very well that it was not that he didn't want to strike first, but that the time was not ripe.

At present, the fighting between the central and northern theaters of the domestic theater has not completely stopped, and if an attack on Japan is launched at this time, it will cause a two-front battle, not to mention the fact that it will not be able to lose in terms of materials.

"The marshal also wants to launch an attack on Japan, but now Li Rong is besieging Nanjing, and Wang Shizhen is advancing towards Baoji."

"What you mean is that only after Wang Shizhen takes the whole of Shaanxi and Li Rong takes the two rivers can we attack Japan." Qin Liang took a step forward suspiciously, and asked tentatively.

didn't answer, but Ding Ruchang's nod told him the answer clearly.

In fact, in Ding Ruchang's current drawer, there is a telegram sent by Lushun Liu Jun, and that telegram, even if it is written, no matter what the Japanese army does now, Ding Ruchang can only have one, that is, it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the army can be secretly mobilized, but it cannot be fired. Be sure to wait for the order to bring Lushun.

Ding Ruchang has been crisscrossing the territory for decades, although there is no mention of the imperial court, but he also guessed that Liu Jun is going to temporarily stop attacking the imperial court and then attack Japan.

In the Lushun Headquarters, although the cold wind outside was whistling, it was unusually warm in Liu Jun's office.

"Damn, Guangxu really didn't fight, this coup d'état was destroyed in less than five hours, it's too embarrassing." Liu Jun, who was sitting at the table casually, shook the telegram in his hand, and looked at Zhong Lin and Zheng Yiqian, who were standing beside him like a monster, with a sad face.

Is there any reason for this, Zhong Lin swallowed a mouthful of saliva, if it wasn't for Kou Lian here to inform Cixi, now it's impossible to say who will lose and who won, but now it's good, Liu Jun, who betrayed Guangxu, now actually began to say that Guangxu's coup d'état was so unbeaten, and it was completely wiped out in less than five hours.

"Cut, if you don't let someone inform Cixi, maybe Guangxu will succeed." Zheng Yiqian on the side did not leave Liu Jun a little face.

She can't get used to Liu Jun being like this, not to mention falling into the well, and still gloating here.

Guangyuan coup, due to Wan Gulin's escape, Tan Sitong committed suicide, Kang Youwei escaped, and Kou Liancai did not mention Guangxu when he reported Cixi, so Cixi knew that this matter had something to do with Guangxu, because there was no evidence that this was Guangxu's order, and it was only over, and Kang Youwei and Wan Gulin were ordered to leave for Chengdu after the whole country was wanted.

In this incident, the two standard and right battalions and the rear battalion of the rebellion were all killed, and the Qing army lost nearly 7,000 main forces at once.

Hehehehe, Liu Jun couldn't hold his face, and threw the telegram in his hand aside: "This, I didn't know that Zhang Zhidong reacted so quickly, and I didn't think that Guangxu found a few straw bales to plan this matter." ”

"By the way, according to intelligence, Kang Youwei and Wan Gulin seem to have entered Shaanxi after escaping, you see?"

"Catch them and execute them immediately, I don't need such people to defect." Liu Jun didn't wait for Zhong Lin to finish speaking, and immediately issued an order.

This kind of soft bones, to take refuge in yourself, is to lose your face.

"Okay, I'll handle it right away." Zhong Lin nodded, turned around and walked out.

Seeing Zhong Lin's distant back, Liu Jun picked up the teacup next to him this time, looked at Zheng Yiqian beside him, and asked lightly after taking a sip of water: "By the way, where are Li Rong and Zhang Xun now?" ”

"Li Rong and Zhang Xun's troops have converged and are now advancing towards Nanjing, while the three cruisers of the Fujian Navy Division have already arrived downstream of Nanjing, and after Li Rong launches an attack in Nanjing, they will immediately advance and attack Nanjing by land and water."

Okay, good, after saying a few good words in a row, Liu Jun rushed to the map in a few steps, took a pen from the side, and drew a circle in Nanjing.

He knew very well that as long as the city of Nanjing was taken, the war with the imperial court would be temporarily over for a period of time, and at this time, he would be able to concentrate his forces with all his strength against Japan.