Heavy footsteps and intermittent breathing.

A group of workers, supporting a few weak technicians, staggered towards the direction of the Datong River. The road was rough, surrounded by hills, and everyone's clothes were hung in the grass and bushes, but no one dared to stop.

They were a team that surveyed a gold mine on the north bank of the Datong River. The technicians are teachers and students recruited from the affiliated school of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and most of the workers are recruited from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, all of whom are rare talents with some culture. These people slept on the north bank of the Datong River, surveyed the ground and looked for mineral seedlings, although it was hard, but they all worked happily. Zhan Tianyou is not a good politician, but he is definitely a good construction leader, he gives the greatest respect and care to his subordinates, takes care of all aspects very thoughtfully, and leads by example everywhere. His dream of total industrialization also touched these people who had been thousands of miles away from home. I am willing to do something under him.

You must know that the domestic foreign affairs pattern is lifeless and full of official authority. Compared to the relaxation of the mind and body in North Korea, the scene of everyone working in one direction is really heaven and earth.

In North Korea for a few months, it can be said that everyone is happy and devoted themselves to work. Xu Yifan relied on thousands of guns to shock the entire Ping'an Dao. Engaging in some industrial construction work, how can the local government in the DPRK dare to exert official authority and impose constraints like those yamen in China? Sufficient material and financial support allows them to hire a large number of North Korean people to help them with logistics and transfer equipment and materials. Those Korean people, in front of the technical team of Shangguo, also seemed to be cowering and silent, respectful. After all, the North Koreans in Pyongan Province know that the force standing behind them is strong relative to the North Korean force.

They never imagined that there would be such a day!

What happened last night was a bloody nightmare.

In their camp in the mountains, they heard a faint whistling sound from outside the mountain, and when they looked down from the top of the mountain, they saw that on the plains on both sides of the Datong River, the villages with dots and strolls were originally silent in darkness. Gradually, torches lit in one village, and a long winding dragon of torches rushed to the next. On the land at night, villages everywhere gradually light up until the banks of the Datong River are illuminated!

The technician who led the team immediately ordered to stay vigilant all night, and then sent people to the base on the south bank of the Datong River overnight to get in touch with the base and ask what was going on. These technician workers no longer thought of this kind of scene, which represented what was happening, and they did not think of being wary of those Korean people around them who had always behaved docilely and obediently!

The time slowly moved from the first half of the night to the second half of the night, and the worried technicians and workers did not notice that there were Korean men sneaking down the mountain. When the day was about to dawn, a large group of Korean mobs wielding all kinds of farm tools, all kinds of blades, and red cloth strips on their heads, rushed into their camp from another mountain road!

At that moment, the people who suffered. I can clearly see that there is a distorted bloodthirsty madness on those flat faces that are expressionless and numb!

Many people were suddenly overwhelmed by the violent crowd in the north, and they were afraid that they would not be able to find even the complete corpse. The rest cried out, panicked, and fled south as they struggled to resist. At this time, only an army composed of their own compatriots can protect them!

I don't know who shouted in a panic: "Take the mountain road, take the mountain road!" This roar saved most people's lives, and they stumbled down the mountain road to escape, and if they had left the mountain at this time, they would have encountered more mobs!

A small procession of dozens of people ran along the mountain road for an unknown amount of time, followed by hundreds of yelling mobs. People keep falling behind, and then they are brutally killed. The rest of the people had only one thought: "Run!" Run! Die with your own people! ”

The mountain road had come to an end, and the panting people ran up to the small flat land between the mountain and the river. The road under your feet has changed from a dirt road to a flat ground covered with cobblestones, and when you look up, you can see the Datong River, which rises in the summer.

The sky has always been gloomy, and the Datong River seems to have become irritable, and the river water slaps the river bank into waves. The river that I was used to seeing has also changed!

From time to time, there were corpses floating down the river. It's all already bulging, and I can't tell whether it's a dynasty or a Qing person. The exhausted fleeing team only noticed the faint sound of shouting and killing coming from behind, and getting closer and closer. It's just that it has changed from simple Korean to neat Chinese: "Kill the Qing people!" Kill the Qing people! ”

The river is wide, but it is difficult to reed. People stumbled into the river, looking at the south bank and almost losing their strength. A young technician whose glasses had run away and the placket of his robe was torn to shreds still had the childishness of a school student on his face. He still didn't give up, and shouted loudly to the people who were in trouble: "Find wood!" We have to drift over! We can't die here! ”

His roar lifted the spirits of the paralyzed people, and they struggled to get up from the river. At this time, it was faintly heard, and a violent shout was heard on the other side. They were stunned, staring blankly at the mountain pass opposite, when they saw a large group of people suddenly pouring out of it, who also had strips of red cloth tied on their heads, and were holding wooden forks, hoes, kitchen knives and sticks!

Most of the people who poured out first were covered in bloodstains on their traditional white Korean clothes. In the back, only the various weapons raised could be seen. On the other side of the riverbank, more and more people poured out, and it became denser and denser. I don't know how many there were, but I could only see them rushing towards the riverbank, almost as far as the eye could see!

Seeing these braided Qing people on the other side of the river, the mob let out a louder roar with excitement and rushed into the river one after another. He didn't stop until he was half immersed in the water. The whole scene is like a bloodthirsty!

The young technician slowly turned around, and the mountain pass they had escaped from began to rush out sporadically. He was accustomed to wanting to hold his glasses, but he felt empty. smiled bitterly, and whispered to the people around him: "Goodbye to the west, we can't go home......" As he spoke, he knelt down, kowtowed three times in the direction of the west, and then gritted his teeth and stood up, touching the stones on the ground: "Even if Lao Tzu is dead, he must pull a cushion on his back, drag him to jump into the river together, the river will wash us to the sea, if the dragon lord blesses, our corpses can still return home!" ”

The exhausted people around them stood up straight and silently grabbed the stones on the ground. On the opposite side of the mountain pass, more and more mobs poured out, and across the river, there were more mobs waving their flags and shouting. The cheers of the two sides joined in one place, almost disturbing the gloomy sky overhead!

Dark clouds rolled in, and torrential rain suddenly poured down. The rain curtain is like weaving in an instant, enveloping everything in the heaven and earth, and the mist on the river surface is stirred up, and it is even more solemn. All the fleeing people leaned close together, watching the mob approaching on the opposite side, waiting for the final moment, and everyone straightened up, trying to leave the last dignity in front of these sticks.

The snapping sound seemed to come from far away, and was soon drowned out in the rain and shouts of killing. No one noticed. There was a slight pause, but there was a neat row of crackling sounds!

The mob on the other side stopped in confusion, and even the messy weapons in their hands danced straight. The technicians and workers were undecided, just staring at them.

On the south bank of the Datong River, gunshots have been fired in the blink of an eye. At the same time as the gunshots rang out, there was the sound of military boots hitting the earth, overpowering the surging river and the sound of torrential rain, as if the whole earth was trembling at the same time!

One person turned around, then another, until the indomitable little group all turned their heads.

At this time, the screams on the north bank of the Datong River rang out from the ground!

In the rain, the mob on the other side of the river was scratching and pushing, and it was already a complete mess. Crying and shouting rang out, and more and more people were squeezed into the river. At the back of the line, rows of hoes and wooden sticks that had been raised high fell layer by layer, and the gunshots were already connected, and they were inseparable. Later, these mobs were screaming and being forced into the river, and in the roaring river, there were human heads floating!

In the midst of the rain, an army in yellow uniforms moved forward silently like a wall. The officer walked in front, and the Western-style command knife was always pointed ahead. The boots tapped neatly on the ground, the rain ran down their large-brimmed hats, and under the brim of the patent leather hats were young and tough faces, with deep contours that the North Koreans did not have.

It's our army!

Rows of rifles were raised, and with each swing of the officers' knives, there was a neat salvo, and white gunpowder smoke rose from the ranks in rows, mixing with the heavy rain. Under the dense bullets, the heads floating in the river sank one by one. Blood kept coming out, and the traces disappeared after being rolled up by the river. The bullets hit the river more densely than the raindrops, and the river floated all over the river, and only wailing and screaming remained!

The technician fell to his knees in the water, then jumped up again, clenched his fists and shouted hoarsely, despite the bullets also whistling in their ears: "Hit! Hit! Avenge us! ”

On the south bank of the Datong River, it is already a hell on earth, on the bank of the river, there are layers of corpses everywhere, military boots have been stepped on, and all that is splashed is blood. The heads of those people in the river were constantly being beaten and sunk. The soldiers of the first platoon had already stepped into the water and were still insisting on firing. The mob could not bear the slaughter and struggled to crawl out of the river. The officers shouted the command of bayonets from one end of the queue to the other.

With a swipe, the dazzling bayonets rose up, forming a jungle of bayonets on the riverbank. The rain hit the edge of the jungle formed by the bayonets, doubling the cold and killing.

A mob dragged out of the river and walked right in front of an officer. The killing just now had already made him lose his soul, and he had no strength at all, just staring blankly at the officer in front of him, who was more than half a head taller than him. The officer smiled coldly, and the command knife in his hand went through his chest, and with another kick, he kicked his body into the water.

"~~~~~~~~~~~~ stab forward!"

One by one, the mob rose from the river, and row after row were stabbed down. Some of the soldiers began to vomit, but they did not stop stabbing at them. They swept all the way to the south bank of the Datong River, and saw too many corpses of Chinese tortured and killed!

No one has the slightest mercy for these mobs.

It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, the force of each nation is, of course, defending its own national interests, especially at the end of the nineteenth century, an era of the law of the jungle, unprecedented in human history.

This one-sided killing on the south bank of the Datong River has already stunned the mob on the north bank. I don't know who it was, so I threw the messy weapon in my hand first, turned around and ran. I fell a few times in the rain and mud, and when I got up, the voice in my mouth had turned into an unconscious cry, and the actions of several people woke up the already frightened crowd. The hoes and sticks were thrown to the ground at once, and everyone fled like an avalanche in the heavy rain, in different directions, and they were completely frightened by the merciless killing on the other side and lost their minds!

The technician chased a few steps north from the river and shouted, "Remember! This slaughter will be remembered for a hundred years! ”

The torrential rain was like a note, and the shouts echoed on both sides of the Datong River.

On the north shore, the army was surrounded by a jungle of bayonets.

Son, kill someone.

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Outside the county seat of Cheongju, blood and rain have been mixed together, turning the ground into a scarlet quagmire. The torrential rain was so heavy that it seemed that he could not bear to witness the bloody massacre that had just occurred.

As a county town 60 miles southwest of Pyongyang, it is only more than 40 miles away from the Praetorian Guard camp. Since last night, tens of thousands of mobs have been concentrating, preparing to attack the county seat, but they have been attacked by the Janissaries Left Association Erbiao, and several battalions of troops are concentrating here, and the final result is, of course, undoubtedly one-sided massacre.

Wearing a gauze hat, Qingzhou Juncao, with a pale face, struggled in the pool of blood and cement, and every soldier in military uniform passed by, and he and his servants hurriedly nodded and saluted. The soldiers ignored him and passed by the North Korean officials in silence.

These silent soldiers could not help but make them feel fear. Tens of thousands of people filled the sight of this county cao who was in the city at the time, but now the result is this Shura hell in front of him!

The corpses were carried and pulled, and many people had been beaten into hornet's nests. Under the rain wash, there was no blood on his body, only a black hole wound, and he was thrown on top of the pile of corpses that were getting higher and higher. Countless mobs who had laid down their arms were being watched by soldiers with guns and digging pits with their hands. Because of fear, they all worked desperately, and the pit became bigger and bigger, but also because of the heavy rain, the big pit had been dug out and turned into a big pool, but the water was not only the color of yellow mud, but also the color of blood.

I don't know how long it took for this county cao to walk near the appearance of a high-ranking officer. The senior officer, surrounded by the soldiers, stood straight in the torrential rain. He still wore white gloves on his hands, and there was no trace of blood on them, which looked so dazzling in the red and rainy and misty gloomy weather.

Jun Cao naturally didn't know that this officer was Chen Jinping, the second standard commander of the Praetorian Guard. The first mate on the Deng Shichang Zhiyuan ship that year.

Chen Jinping looked down at a row of corpses on the ground that had become insincere. The battalion officer beside him said in a low voice: "These are the ambassadors of Qingzhou County and his attachés...... A man was dragged to death on a horse......"

Chen Jinping snorted: "It's well buried, thirty people...... Find three hundred captives and hang them on their graves. Hang for three days, you can't die, let them get out of here! ”

The battalion officers around him saluted and left, but Jun Cao, who knew Chinese, broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly greeted him: "Your Excellency, ......"

Chen Jinping didn't look at him, but just looked at another battalion officer. The battalion officer erected a report: "My lord, the armed reconnaissance team has set out in the rain to follow the whereabouts of the fleeing mob, as soon as we find the place where they have assembled, we will set off immediately!" ”

Chen Jinping waved his hand and snorted again: "These mobs are below the city, and there is actually an organized phalanx to rush us...... Lord Xu's order must find their command structure and check what is behind the instigation. Until they are caught and hanged! ”

"Yes!" The battalion officer stood in solemn salute.

At this time, Chen Jinping seemed to notice the Jun Cao next to him who was bent over and almost bent into the muddy water: "What's the matter?" ”

Jun Cao didn't dare to raise his head: "Thank you for the grace of Lord Shangguo for relieving the siege...... Lord God and his brothers have worked hard, and they have prepared a banquet in the county town, and invite Lord God to appreciate it......"

Chen Jinping smiled coldly, slowly took off the gloves in his hand, held them in his hands, and knocked the wings of his gauze hat casually: "Well, drunk us, so let's do it again?" The same as the dozens of envoys and attachés of the kingdom lying here? Why is there no warning of such a big riot, and there is no notification from your Korean magistrates? Well? ”

The last sound was extremely fierce, and the county Cao's legs went limp, and he sat down in the muddy water. I don't know what I'm saying with a crying voice.

Chen Jinping slapped his gauze hat off: "Military management begins here!" You give me an honest home! We will negotiate with Seoul to deal with the follow-up! ”

Before the county could reply, an officer suddenly shouted in the distance: "My lord! The guy who commanded the resistance under the city, the body was found! ”

Chen Jinping was shocked, ignored the county Cao anymore, and ran over in the heavy rain. The attaché in the back also followed with a sloppy stream of water. When I walked up to the little officer who found the corpse, I saw several corpses lying in the muddy water, one short and sturdy pressed at the bottom, and everyone was beaten like a hornet's nest. Underneath the short corpse, a flag was revealed. As soon as Chen Jinping signaled slightly, the entourage kicked several corpses over, and one of them tore out the flag and presented it to Chen Jinping with both hands.

It's just a very simple homespun flag, with the three big characters of Dongxue Road written on it in cinnabar, and the rain has long been blurred. Chen Jinping dismissively dropped the flag and kicked the corpse.

The corpse lay on its back in the bloody muddy water, its mouth slightly open, revealing a burnt yellow gold tooth. The face is all messy beard. Chen Jinping suddenly snorted and looked down carefully. The adjutant of the Specimen Department beside him was the same as him who had joined the Beiyang Naval Division. Hesitantly, he said, "My lord, this is a bit like ......."

"Kind of like something?" Chen Jinping didn't look back, squatted down and looked at the corpse carefully.

"A few years ago, when we arrived in Nagasaki, weren't there always a few people guarding the docks and watching our ships for a few days? They are all wearing kimonos, and we sailors go to the streets, and some of them follow, and this guy seems to be one of them! ”

Chen Jinping stood up and said coldly: "Xiao Yueben! ”

Before they set off, the adults kept telling them that they must focus on observing and searching for the clues behind this sudden chaos, but they didn't expect that it was just the beginning, and it was exactly as the adults said!

He shouted into the rain to deploy the order: "The troops are all scattered, increase the force to sweep the area!" You can always figure out where those guys are hiding! Send someone and return to the adults! It is said that there is a trace of the Ronin here! ”

The sky lit up, followed by thunder.

The heavy rain also became more and more violent, and as far as the eye could see, there was a vast rain and fog.

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Killing, at the beginning of the riots, came like thunder everywhere. The blood-stained waters of the Datong River and the corpse piles under Cheongju County are just one or two of the concentrated manifestations. Such a scene is being played out throughout Heian Road. The Praetorian Guard sent out six or seven thousand troops, scattered into detachments, and marched towards every place of rebellion, and those who stood in front of the road were mercilessly killed by fire. Often a rifle salvo was followed by a bayonet.

The resistance of these ordinary people who rose up everywhere under the banner of the Donghak Party was weak, and although occasionally some Koreans resisted desperately, the contrast in strength was really far from the difference. The newly forged sword of the Praetorian Guard began to be tempered for the first time in the blood and fire that spread across both sides of the Datong River. The abuse and massacre of the sporadic Chinese in various places also made them bayonet out without the slightest hesitation. Being born in a soil full of xenophobia can inspire a sense of nation as a whole. These are all things that naturally generate and develop.

This is also what Xu Yifan wants most in this riot.

The mob is still struggling desperately, although many have laid down their arms and slipped away to become obedient again. But there were still many mobs standing under the banner of Dongxue Dao desperately dodging the crackdown begun by the Praetorian Guards, and they were gradually driven together.

In the midst of the raging tide, a fast horse flew desperately towards Seoul. These hundreds of thousands of mobs being chased and slaughtered are but part of a well-orchestrated grand picture. The main force of the Janissaries was dispatched and began to suppress it, and the situation in the north of Korea seemed to have been successful!

Life, in the game between countries, has always been the least important thing. What's more, just a small country sandwiched between two major powers?

The situation is still going on like fire, and the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains in North Korea are about to shake the whole thing!

The blood in front of me is just an introduction.

(To be continued)