As the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy returned one after another, the Japanese Navy quickly withdrew from the eastern and northern oceans and other seas and retreated to the coastal areas around Japan.

The situation of the Sino-Japanese war was reversed, and the Chinese Imperial Army changed from the defensive to the offensive at home, while the Japanese went on the defensive.

Because the Pacific Theater lasted for more than half a year, the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were sunk and seriously damaged, and even the most powerful Hsiungfeng-class battleships had to return to domestic shipyards to replace the barrels because the rifling of the main guns was smoothed out and the barrel life was extremely long.

In addition, in half a year, each ship sailed an average of tens of thousands of nautical miles, which is equivalent to a voyage around the earth, and the bottom and propeller of the ship were covered with moss and aquatic weeds, the transmission was affected, and the speed of the ship was also greatly reduced, and it was urgent to return to the dock for cleaning and repair.

As a result, although the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy returned to their homeland, they could not immediately engage in counteroffensive operations against the Japanese Navy, and they needed to stay in the shipyard dock for ten days and half a month before they could be undocked for operations.

Of course, after this Pacific War, more than half of the nine Dingyuan-class ironclad ships were scrapped, and there was no value in repairing and re-entering service.

The Military Department, the General Staff Headquarters, the Military Command Department, and the Navy Department of the Chinese Empire jointly issued an order to remove the five Dingyuan-class ironclad ships that had been sunk or scrapped, and the remaining four ironclad ships were withdrawn from active naval service, and after maintenance and refitting, they were transferred to the Coast Guard to serve as territorial and coastal defense patrol ships.

In addition, nine Haiqi-class dome cruisers also received similar orders, six warships were denaturalized, and the remaining three warships were also withdrawn from active naval service and transferred to the coast guard after maintenance.

The nine Hsiungfeng-class battleships and the nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers were all overhauled in the dockyard, with the shortest taking only five days and the longest taking twenty days.

According to the plan of the Admiralty, it will take a month for the naval fleet to be put into the battlefield at the earliest.

However, the War Department did not wait for the navy, and when it learned that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy had withdrawn to the mainland, it immediately launched a large-scale ground war. The counteroffensive on all fronts began.

This time, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army mobilized 135,000 troops, all from the towns and villages under the Northeast Theater of Operations.

Originally, there were only five towns in the Northeast Theater as a standing army, of which the 38th town fought against the Japanese army on Sakhalin Island, and the total strength of the remaining four towns was only (4×12512) more than 50,000 people.

Obviously, the Chinese Empire had already carried out a general mobilization for war, with the standing army as the backbone, which was tripled in size and formed wartime divisions.

In wartime, divisions are somewhat different from standing divisions. The number of troops and equipment in each town has increased dramatically. Originally, there were only 12,512 people per town, but after it became a wartime division, the number of people per town increased to 17,000. The establishment of the division headquarters has also been adjusted, and the units directly under the division headquarters include a guard company, a cartographic platoon, a reconnaissance battalion, an engineer battalion, a vehicle-mounted infantry battalion, a medical battalion, a recruit supplement battalion, and a baggage battalion. The front-line combat unit has three infantry regiments, each of which includes units directly under the regimental headquarters and three infantry battalions. The artillery regiment has a light artillery battalion and a heavy artillery battalion.

The armament included 3,681 pistols, 12,609 rifles, and 200 heavy machine guns. 50 sniper rifles, 36 75-mm guns, 36 105-mm light howitzers, 18 155-mm heavy howitzers. 9 flamethrowers, 2 command vehicles, 696 trucks, 536 horse-drawn carriages.

It can be seen. The proportion of pistols per town in the wartime divisions of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army was greatly increased, which was to consider that when the battlefield was in close combat, it could give better play to its combat effectiveness. Kill and damage enemies effectively. The number of artillery pieces has more than doubled, from 27 guns to 90, indicating that the battle mode of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire is focused on the development of artillery to defeat the enemy.

The massive increase in the number of artillery pieces was due to the fact that the Chinese Empire was massively equipped with military trucks, which could tow more and heavier artillery pieces and transport more shells.

However, considering the mountainous environment of the Korean region, this time the Northeast Theater added a large number of horse-drawn carriages to various towns to adapt to the Korean battlefield environment.

On May 9, on the west bank of the Yalu River, the Chinese Empire concentrated 800 artillery pieces and suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese positions on the opposite bank.

Amid the rumbling of artillery, the entire mountainous area of North Korea on the east bank of the Yalu River suddenly fell into a sea of fire, as if it were the end of the world.

Under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the engineer battalions directly under the towns of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire quickly began to erect pontoon bridges, and the effect of the usual training was reflected at this moment, and in less than two hours, there were 20 more temporary pontoon bridges on the Yalu River.

As early as after learning of the victory of the Imperial Chinese Navy in the Pacific Theater, the Japanese army began to actively prepare for war, and even without the support of the navy, the Japanese army clamored to win the ground war and keep the Korean Peninsula from being lost.

For poor and weak Japan, the mainland dream has always been their goal, and now that they have just occupied the Korean Peninsula, they cannot easily let it go.

In the battle that lasted for more than half a year, the Japanese army fought many times with the Chinese Imperial Shence Army on Sakhalin Island and the Ryukyu Islands, thinking that the legendary Chinese Imperial Shence Army was not so powerful, which gave them the confidence to continue fighting.

However, when the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire concentrated 800 artillery pieces to bombard Yizhou on the other side of the Yalu River, the overwhelming shells immediately blew up the Japanese army. In particular, the 155 mm grenade exploded with amazing power, and the small arms and legs of the Japanese army were torn apart in an instant.

The cannon roared, the mountains were swallowed up by the smoke of gunpowder, and even the mountain streams were dried up by the intense heat and air waves.

The Japanese position was like a hell on earth, with corpses strewn all over the field and rivers of blood.

When the charge of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army sounded, the Japanese army on the defense line of the Yalu River was already empty.

Three hours later, the Chinese Imperial Army had passed the Yalu River without danger, and the first-line field army had captured the nearby small high ground and built a safe defensive line.

Soon, trucks were transporting heavy equipment to the Korean side, and the Japanese were powerless to stop them.

The Korean battlefield kicked off in this way, and the Chinese Imperial Army marched step by step, every time it encountered a position heavily defended by the Japanese army, first an overwhelming artillery shell hit the past, carpet shelling, and blew the Japanese army to the ground, and then the infantry charged, suppressing the Japanese firepower with bloody heavy machine guns. Use a flamethrower to burn the Japanese soldiers inside the bunker. Once unsuccessful, try again, this routine fighting method suddenly abused the Japanese army.

In the mid-seventies of the nineteenth century, the world had just entered the era of breech-loading rifles, and the Chinese Imperial Army was already moving towards the era of automatic fire. Not to mention that there were also special forces of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army who secretly released cold guns, and the commanders, gunners and Gatling gunners of the Japanese army were constantly assassinated, causing frequent interruptions in the command of the Japanese army. The Chinese Imperial Army took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, seizing the positions of the Japanese army again and again, killing Japanese corpses all over the field and bleeding like rivers.

In just one month, the Chinese Imperial Army burned the flames of war from the Yalu River to the banks of the Qingchuan River, launched six battles successively, won six battles and six victories, annihilated more than 60,000 Japanese troops, and completely annihilated the first division of the Japanese army. This greatly shocked the Japanese War Department, and a nationwide panic broke out, and the Japanese emperor urgently ordered the Japanese Army to quickly withdraw from Korea.

Although the Japanese Army was very unwilling. But it still had to choose to retreat, but the Japanese Navy shrank its head, fearing that the Chinese Imperial Navy would suddenly come and refuse to provide cover for the retreat of the Japanese Army.

The reason why the Japanese Navy and Army are so contradictory. The main reason is that Saigo Moritaka, as the supreme commander of the navy, betrayed the Japanese emperor and prepared to lead the navy to overthrow Meiji's rule, but unexpectedly the news leaked. Meiji was prepared, but as a result, the Japanese Army raided the naval headquarters where Saigo Takamori was located, killing and injuring Saigo Takamori, and implicating a large number of officers of the Japanese Navy, causing a large number of tragedies. Although Emperor Meiji stopped the actions of the Japanese Army in time, the Japanese Army and Navy have since formed a feud.

Of course, the Japanese Navy, at the request of Emperor Meiji, finally dispatched a fleet to transport the Japanese Army from the Korean Peninsula to Japan.

However, the Japanese Army was unlucky, and a month later, all the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy completed overhauls and reorganized their fleets to set sail for the Eastern Ocean, which happened to collide with the spectacular scene of the Japanese Army's great retreat.

As a result, the Imperial Chinese Navy did not hesitate to enter the war.

The Japanese Navy was twice severely damaged by the Imperial Chinese Navy and was almost completely destroyed, and it had long been terribly afraid of the Imperial Chinese Navy. In line with the first principle of protecting the ship, the Japanese navy made a slight resistance and turned around and fled. And the Imperial Chinese Navy was not in a hurry to pursue the Japanese Navy, but aimed its guns at the Japanese troop carriers on the sea.

Boom! Boom!

In the Tsushima Strait, Japanese troop carriers exploded one after another, and then sank. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers struggled in the sea, waiting for them not to be rescued, but the rapid-fire guns of the Chinese Imperial Navy to shoot wildly, killing the Japanese soldiers crying and crying for their mothers.

In the blink of an eye, the sea was full of corpses, and blood stained the entire sea.

The retreat of the Japanese Army was interrupted, and more than 10,000 Japanese troops were trapped in Busan, Korea, whose fate awaited them would be completely wiped out by the Chinese Imperial Army.

On 13 June, the last Japanese army was wiped out by the Imperial Chinese Army at Pusan, and the entire Korean Peninsula fell into the hands of the Imperial Chinese Empire.

The Joseon king, Yi Hee, was so happy that he was holding a meeting of his government-in-exile in Shengjing to discuss nation-building after the end of the Korean War.

However, Li Xi did not know that he had no chance to return to his hometown at all, and the Chinese Empire had used various reasons to prevent Li Xi from returning to Korea.

In particular, Li Weiguo, in the name of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, directly invited Li Xi to the capital.

Li Xi didn't want to go to the capital, he wanted to return to Pyongyang as soon as possible, but his arm couldn't reach his thigh, and in the end Li Xi was helpless to go to the capital under the protection of the Chinese Imperial Army, and never returned to the land of North Korea.

The Korean Peninsula was first ravaged by the Japanese army, and then beaten by the Chinese Imperial Army, and it was already in tatters. Under the covert operation of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Korean people were furious with Li Xi and asked the Chinese Empire to take control of Korea.

As a result, Li Weiguo reluctantly complied with the will of the North Korean people, mobilized funds and materials, and provided large-scale relief to the North Korean refugees, and soon won the support of the North Korean people.

The master-servant relationship between China and North Korea, which had been deadlocked for many years, finally settled and ended with the victory of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, the all-out counterattack of the Chinese Imperial Army was also carried out in various other theaters.

The Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands and Sakhalin Islands were close to the Japanese mainland, so they quickly withdrew to the mainland, but under the combined attack of the Chinese Imperial Navy and Army, there were many casualties.

By June 19, all the Japanese troops who had not been able to withdraw in time had been wiped out, and this time the Imperial Chinese Army did not leave any prisoners, and set a precedent for the Chinese Imperial Army to massacre prisoners of war. However, the whole world did not pay attention to this matter, just like the First Sino-Japanese War in history, when the Japanese army committed the massacre in Lushun, international public opinion did not pay attention.

In this world where the powerful are respected, in this era when public opinion is not developed and only a tool of the government, no matter how big the massacre is, no one will pay attention to it, at least until the First World War, except for the countries concerned.

Of course, Japan is not favored by the European and American powers at all, it is just a pawn, and even Britain will not stand up, let alone other countries.

In the end, the Japanese War Department made statistics, and in the nine months since the war was launched, the Japanese army has invested a total of 304,000 troops, killed 121,000 people, wounded more than 65,000 people, invested 27 warships, 494 artillery pieces, 482 Gatling machine guns, and consumed a total of 2.27 million tons of various ammunition and military supplies, but did not reap any war benefits, but lost 210 million yen.

The Chinese Empire invested a total of 278,000 troops in the war against Japan, of which 200,000 troops were invested in the last half month of the war, 2,122 were killed and 24,000 were wounded, and 144 warships were successively invested, of which 98 were invested in the last half month of the war, 1,540 artillery pieces, 2,876 heavy machine guns, and 822 Gatling machine guns, and a total of 3.7 million tons of ammunition and military materials were consumed, of which 2.9 million tons were consumed in the last month, which dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army, and the results of the last month exceeded the sum of the results of the previous six months.

However, the Sino-Japanese War was not over, and the Chinese Empire still did not agree to Japan's request for peace, but ordered the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy to go to the coastal areas of Japan to carry out large-scale attacks on major cities and naval bases along the coast of Japan.

This is a pure act of revenge, there is no human cover-up, Chi Guoguo's killing to slap the Japanese in the face.

Chen Shaoyi did not command this naval military operation, and after he did the handover work, he handed over the command of the fleet to Li Weijun, chief of staff of the fleet, who commanded the Pacific Fleet to carry out the military operation to retaliate against Japan, while Chen Shaoyi immediately went to the capital to report to the Chinese Emperor Li Weiguo on the details of the work related to the Pacific War in the past six months, and finally explained to the Imperial General Staff the issue of the warships of the Chinese Imperial Navy that were sunk and damaged in the naval battle of the Solomon Islands, as well as the casualties of the officers and men of the navy.

For the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, whether it was a victory or a defeat, such a routine explanation must be made. In Li Weiguo's words, this is called a meeting to summarize the lessons learned from the post-war work, and in response to various problems that occurred in the course of the war, the relevant commanders and representatives of the front-line soldiers will hold a review meeting of the Imperial General Staff, and then there will be a congressional hearing. Mistakes should be criticized and punished, and outstanding performance should be affirmed and rewarded.

Summing up lessons and lessons after the war and making sure that rewards and punishments were clear was the fundamental reason why the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire was able to rapidly become stronger. (To be continued.) )