Li Hui did not believe much in the telegrams sent back to China by the Qing army in Pyongyang, and he trusted the two "venture company employees" he sent to Pyongyang to watch the battle. The name seemed familiar, but for a moment I couldn't remember who it was. In any case, the battle of Pyongyang can be won, and this person is absolutely dedicated! After Zuo Guigui was killed by Japanese artillery fire, if he hadn't stepped forward and ordered the officers and soldiers of the headquarters to kill an officer who wanted to escape on the spot, he stabilized the situation at Xuanwumen, and stubbornly persevered until the Japanese army ran out of ammunition and food (in fact, it didn't take long, the supply of the devil during the Pyongyang Battle in history was only enough for three days, and the situation in this time and space was even worse.) The outcome of this battle will probably not be much different from the one in history. And what is even more rare is that after the Japanese army retreated, he actually dared to chase out of the city with his own troops, so that the Japanese army could not restrain the defeated soldiers, and the army was shaken and scattered and fled, and even captured hundreds of Japanese prisoners of war"

What made Li Hui a little curious was why this tall man in history didn't stand up, but this time and space was so bold and responsible? Could it be that the butterfly effect is so huge?

As soon as he asked on the message board, Li Hui knew that this Gao Shanji had come to North Korea by the Gao Sheng, and suddenly realized, and finally remembered the identity of this tall man, "No wonder, no wonder!" It turned out that he was the one who died bravely with Gao Sheng in the Battle of Toshima in history, and the Jiyuan did not harm his comrades in the Battle of Toshima in this time and space, and Gao Sheng was lucky to escape, and later safely transported this batch of Qing troops to Korea, that is to say, there were thousands more Qing troops defending the city during the Battle of Pyongyang in this time and space than in history (increased from more than 15,000 to more than 16,000), and they were all elite soldiers! In an extremely bad situation in which there is no hope of victory and there is no doubt that they will die, all the officers and men will not surrender to the death, and insist on carrying out a completely useless attack on the enemy ships with rifles and holding on to it until the last moment of their lives, I am afraid that many modern armies, let alone the Qing army, which is not even a modern army, can not attain such a fighting will. With the addition of such an iron army, coupled with the fact that the Caojiang military ship was also spared, the actual combat strength of the Pyongyang Qing army increased by at least 50%, and this is the fundamental reason for winning the Pyongyang Campaign! Moreover, the great victory in the naval battle certainly had no small impact on the morale of the Qing army and on the morale of the Japanese army, especially on the determination of both sides.

However, even with so many objective factors, the role played by Gao Shanji himself still cannot be ignored, and if he had chosen to retreat temporarily, Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Qing army in Pyongyang, would have an excuse to order the entire army to retreat, and it is likely that the situation of the great collapse in history will be repeated at that time.

Compared with the twilight of ordinary Qing army generals, Gao Shanji, who was born as a layman, did not "not seek merit, but seek no fault." Therefore, he boldly led the army to pursue, which led to the defeat of the Japanese army that could have retreated with the whole division (only the way to attack Xuanwumen), and the number of people lost was several times more than the number of deaths in the previous attack, and its morale and military spirit were severely damaged, making it more difficult for them to hold on in the predicament of running out of food, and the number of people who died of starvation, disease, and serious injuries increased dramatically.

In addition, many Japanese officers and soldiers could not stand the hunger and scattered to the Korean countryside to grab food, but were fiercely resisted by the local armed forces (mainly the Donghak Party rebel army), and suffered many casualties (the Japanese army basically ran out of ammunition, and their physical fitness was also very problematic due to hunger and injury, and their morale was extremely low, and their combat effectiveness was already exhausted). ）。

As a result, the total number of Japanese soldiers who retreated from Pyongyang exceeded 2,500, more than a dozen times more than in history, and such an outcome would not have been possible without Ko Sun-tsug's coming forward at that time

And with an in-depth understanding of Gao Shanji's situation, Li Hui was surprised to find that this person was actually a civil official, even if he put pen to paper after the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, he was only a small assistant in the camp office (equivalent to a clerk), and he didn't even have a grade (he was a candidate magistrate before, and China before the First Sino-Japanese War was still a civil and military lowly, this gap is not small, and it can be seen from this point that this person is indeed dedicated to serving the country and does not take personal gains and losses to heart). Strictly speaking, the two battalions of thousands of troops were not under his command.

This suddenly made Li Hui even more impressed with Gao Shanji, "In this case, can you make thousands of officers and soldiers willingly obey the command in less than a month, and even die with them?" This person is really powerful, there are only a few people in history who can do this, such as Yu Yunwen and Wang Shouren, and they at least have the hope of victory, and their official positions are much higher than Gao Shanji's assistant in the camp office! Such a heroic hero, who died in the sea in history, is really a great misfortune for China! ”

From this, Li Hui couldn't help but think of an old question that many people debated before crossing over - "Is it the current situation that creates heroes, or the heroes that create the current situation?" Gao Shanji's example may be an excellent annotation, "If there is no suitable environment, heroes are useless, and they will definitely not emerge; And if there is a suitable environment, will there be heroes who will emerge? I am afraid that even in a populous country like China, there will not be too many people with this potential, and it is certainly not easy for them to grow into heroes and great men who influence an era. Take the example of Gao Shanji, if he followed the Gao Sheng to the bottom of the sea as in history, who would have known that he had such a great talent and strength? ”

"It is so rare to be able to achieve great things in the end, even if it is a chaotic era of changing dynasties, there may not necessarily be a real hero, the end of Qin, the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there are such true heroes, and China is thus strong again, this is the situation created by heroes! Although the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the end of the Qing Dynasty were also in turmoil in the world, they may have died halfway through growth because they all had potential, and there were never real heroes born, so the people of China had to endure long-term wars and even suffer from foreign enslavement, which is that there are no heroes, so they can't create the current situation", Li Hui came to this conclusion after deep thought, and he was more interested in Gao Shanji, a hero who died halfway through history