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"The two cavalry divisions quietly assembled first and marched along the railway line in the direction of the spring!" Seeing the expressions on the faces of his subordinates, Todeltay opened his mouth and set up his spirits to arrange the combat mission: "An hour of preparation time, after getting there first, hurry up and restrain the local people, buy or rob...... Raise me rations and all the transports I can find! Wagons, donkey carts, mules! ”
He arranged the tasks of the two cavalry divisions he trusted the most, and then began to arrange the tasks of another ordinary cavalry division and elite infantry: "The other troops also hurry up and pack their things and wait for Your Majesty...... When His Majesty is ready, he will set off immediately, follow the cavalry troops, and go to the spring! ”
Todeltay's plan was not complicated, he planned to raise a large number of means of transport in the springs and small cities, and make a posture to flee south to Korea, and then suddenly rush north to the railway line between Fushun and Meihekou, and escape into the border of Jilin. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He did this in order to bypass the main force of the new army of the Ming Empire, which made him very jealous, and also to block the road of the Ming army rushing into Jilin from Mukden through Fushun as soon as possible.
Having exhausted all his calculations, he wanted to use the Japanese who went south as bait to buy himself a precious time of one or two days. As long as the time of these two days is in hand, he can calmly command his troops, from springs and small cities and other places along the road around the lake to Xinbin. As long as he arrived in Xinbin, he was sure to seize the railway between Fushun and Meihekou before the Ming army reacted, and fled back to the base camp in Jilin.
However, he racked his brains to think of a trick to get out, and the Japanese did not waste their time. With the help of Jiro Yamaguchi's train from Korea, the Japanese troops in Liaodong moved south much faster than expected. They hurriedly transported the troops across the Yalu River, and then returned to Fengcheng after unloading, and continued to rush the remaining troops.
On the side of the Jingshi of the Ming Empire, what the Japanese army in Liaodong did not know was that Sun Fang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Empire, had restarted the peace negotiations in Liaodong with envoys from Britain, France, Germany, the United States, the Duchy of Moscow, Ceylon and Japan under the instruction of Emperor Zhu Mu and the cabinet ministers of the Ming Empire.
In this negotiation, which originally gave Britain and France little hope, the Ming Empire suddenly put forward an attractive compromise plan, agreeing to treat the "Japanese armed forces" differently and separately start peace talks with the so-called "Japanese Empire" involved in the war of Liaodong of the Ming Empire, and strive to achieve an early peace in the entire Liaodong region.
Peace negotiations with this compromise were quickly accepted by frightened Japanese diplomats. Now the fools already know that Japan can't take any advantage in the Liaodong region of the Ming Empire, so they withdraw now, which is enough to reduce their losses to an acceptable range.
The somewhat broken French ambassador Lekov, who was suffering from the Ming Empire's sluggish efficiency, also supported this compromise because he feared that the Ming Empire would take the opportunity to cross the Yalu River and spread the war that engulfed the entire Liaodong to the Korean Peninsula. For the same reason, Ceylon also supported this compromise solution, because Ceylon was already disappointed by the poor performance of the rebels, and they could only rely on stabilizing the situation as soon as possible to maintain the "special status" of the Korean Peninsula.
Of course, Germany and the United States were very much in favor of this proposal, so the remaining Muscovy, which did not want to see the Ming Empire win the Liaodong War, finally withdrew from the peace talks.
Therefore, a day later, the Ming Empire unilaterally signed a "Memorandum on the Cessation of the War in the Liaodong Region" with the Japanese authorities, which clearly stipulated that the Ming Empire would abandon its attempt to cross the Yalu River, and the Japanese army must all retreat to the area east of the Yalu River and cede the territory of the Ming Empire. After this memorandum was signed, it was immediately announced to the world, and at that time, Ye Hehaolian knew that he had been betrayed by countries all over the world.
Everyone in the world knows that time moves forward in every corner. So at the same time that the troops of the Ming Empire went south and occupied Liaoyang and Anshan; At the same time that Yehhaolian and Todeltai made a plan to retreat northeast and return to Jilin; While the Japanese hurriedly retreated to the Yalu River and were in a hurry to build a defense line on the Yalu River; The "Memorandum on the Cessation of War in the Liaodong Region" was repeatedly discussed in the Jingshi of the Ming Empire, and finally signed under the supervision of several countries...... There's a lot going on.
These things that happened are actually not as complicated as imagined, and these characters who are destined to leave their names in history can't bear their loneliness. I don't know if anyone still remembers that the night before the Ming Empire took advantage of the internal turmoil in Fengtian City to recapture this city, a "prince of the Great Jin Kingdom" named Yehe Haozhe escaped from the city that was supposed to be commanded by him to fight until the last moment with his entourage.
The direction in which Ye He Haozhe fled that night was much smarter than his father, Ye He Haolian, who had gone south to Benxi, fled directly to Fushun, and from there took a train that had just entered the station, and rushed non-stop towards Changchun, the "capital" of the Jin Kingdom. His Royal Highness, the rightly chosen prince, arrived in Changchun many days earlier than his father, and seized control of Changchun by taking advantage of the absence of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces.
Then, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who may not have really left his footprints on the long scroll of history, made a choice that surprised everyone: he established a new imperial court, declared his father who was not dead as the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and personally presided over the Changchun court!
So Ye Hehaolian chose the plan of going north to Jilin, but encountered another obstacle: even if he escaped back to Changchun by luck, he still had to face the resistance of his own son in Changchun City. This time, Ye Hehao even tasted the emperor of the Ming Empire: the Ming Empire called the Jin State a rebel, and he had to call his son a rebel......
What's even more sad is that although the emperor of the Ming Empire was angry because of the Liaodong rebellion, he did not have such grief and sadness as Ye He Haolian at this moment: after all, it was not the son of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire who made the Ming Empire, but it was a prince named Ye He Haozhe who made Ye He Hao Lian rebel!
Unfortunately, we all know that time keeps moving around every corner. Therefore, when Yehe Haozhe launched a mutiny and seized the foundation of Yehe Haolian in Changchun, the generals of the new army of the Ming Empire did not stop their advance. Guo Xing, the commander of the 2nd Army of the New 1st Army, who was usually unknown, commanded his troops to capture Fushun City, which was not far from Fengtian City, in only three fierce attacks.
And this major general, whose military achievements are not as prominent as Zhang Jianjun, whose status is not as high as Yang Zizhen, and who is not very dazzling in the new army, stopped his rash pace because he wanted to make a strong stand for his commander Wang Jue, and advanced along the railway line to Qingyuan in one breath. Qingyuan, an important area that Todeltay originally hoped to capture, had already planted the royal flag of the Ming Empire before Todeltay arrived in Xinbin.
Therefore, if the two of them, Yehehaolian and Todeltay, had known, the place they decided to go to would have become a dead place long ago, and they would never have crashed into this big pocket with their troops so happily. Unfortunately, they don't know what is happening above yet, and 100,000 rebel troops are also marching towards the Xinbin area according to the plan.
Almost at the same time, as Yehehao Lian rode on his war horse and watched his troops wind their way down the road, moving slowly. In the garrison headquarters of Anshan, a group of ministers of the Jin State who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and were left in Anshan by Ye He Haolian were crying to Sima Mingwei, the old general who had just taken over the new 1st Group Army of the Ming Empire, and explained the escape route and plate of their master.
An old man who was old enough to be Sima Mingwei's father knelt on the ground, kowtowing and crying, as if he was the most wronged in the world: "General! Checkmate! We and other thieves are persecuted! Our wives and children are all in the hands of others......"
And next to him, another minister also kowtowed like garlic and begged any officer of the Ming Empire who passed in front of him, trying to grab a life-saving straw: "That Yehe thief, fled all the way to Benxi from here, and the Japanese also ran from this direction...... More than 100,000 people There are more than 100,000 people! I know it all! I confess everything I know! Pray for mercy from the sir! Pray for mercy from the sir! ”
Sima Mingwei also ignored the remnants of these people kneeling on the ground, looking at the map hanging there that no one cared about destroying at all, or even Todeltai did not expect it to fall into the hands of the Ming army so quickly, and looked at the main attack direction of the Ming army marked on it.
He smiled and looked at Major General Zhang Jianjun, the commander of the New 1st Army beside him, who was unconvinced, waved his hand and said to this subordinate with some sourness: "Forget it! You don't have to look down on me, an old man, and I know that sooner or later you won't be able to achieve anything below me...... I just helped Wang Jue's kid support the new 1st Group Army first, and when he comes back, I will definitely abdicate and make way for Xian, right? ”
The old general said calmly, and Zhang Jianjun was also a little embarrassed. He bowed his head and apologized, his voice so small that he couldn't hear it clearly. Sima Mingwei was not angry, smiled and pointed to the direction of Benxi on the map, and said: "Now we don't have to choose, chasing the Japanese or chasing the rebels, we have to get Benxi back first, you can work harder, within two days, I want to enter Benxi, can I do it?" ”
"Yes!" This time, Zhang Jianjun's voice was too loud, too much...... (To be continued.) )