On the other hand, Chen Zeyu, the head of state of the Republic of Seris, also seemed a little hesitant after receiving a letter of help from the North Korean royal family, Concubine Min.

At this time, Seris sent troops to conquer Beijing in May and wiped out the Manchu royal family in the north, and the southern provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Sichuan, and Yunnan and Guizhou were also annexed one by one, announcing that they would accept the rule of the central government. However, there are still four divisions of troops fighting in the northwestern Mongolian region, and in particular, many places in northern Xinjiang have been unstable one after another since the beginning of the year, and some people in the local area have even clamored for independence. Chen Zeyu just signed a military order to kill the troops on the front line last month, made the decision to purge Xinjiang, and not long ago he sent another batch of troops to the front line.

North Korea's letter for help really didn't come at the right time, and gradually Chen Zeyu's brows were furrowed.

In fact, long before the Qing Campaign was launched, Seris's navy and army were ready to engage in "intervention wars" with several neighboring countries. Among them, Tsarist Russia, which has a large number of territorial boundaries with the Qing State, is the top priority of the Republic's defense.

However, to the surprise of Chen Zeyu and other high-ranking military and political figures, until the late stage of the national war in Seris, the Russians still did not take any major action, but when the Republic troops first began to enter Mongolia, Xinjiang and other border areas, they sent a small number of border garrisons to quietly test the bottom line of Seris, and then retracted again soon after provoking a strong reaction from the Republic Army. Since Russia did not come to provoke itself, the republican side was naturally happy, and the well water on both sides did not interfere with the river water, and Seris happened to be single-minded in cleaning up his interior.

The Russians naturally had their own considerations, and as early as the founding parade of the republic, the Russians had a certain understanding of the military strength of the republic through their envoys to Seris. Persimmons still have to be picked up and pinched, and in the Far East, the Russians are not the only ones who can pinch persimmons.

At this time, Seris's military occupation in the country was about to reach the final stage, and while his war was still ongoing, Chen Zeyu also did not want the current slightly immature republic to clash with his polar bear neighbor.

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Zeyu finally did not sign the telegram of sending troops from the northeast to intervene, but only asked the Jilin Military Region to provide some necessary weapons and equipment for the North Korean side.

On the other hand, the Republic also sent a rather elite contingent of military instructors to the Joseon royal family, and Chen Zeyu soon instructed the Jeju Island fleet, which had been dealing with the Donghak Party, to put constant pressure on Jeon Jun-joon of the DPRK to try to get the two sides to reach a peace agreement as soon as possible, so as to reduce the pressure on the royal government.

Eventually, under the active intervention of Chen Zeyu, and at the same time because of the fear of the Russian invasion by the Korean forces, the Joseon royal government and Jeon Hyun Joon of the Donghak Party signed an agreement at Cheonan, the Line of Actual Control of each other, at about 9 a.m. on July 15, 1895, at Cheonan, known as the "Korean Cheonan Peace Agreement".

According to the agreement, the royal government of Joseon will carry out political reforms, establish a national parliamentary organization, and transform the current absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy within three years, as they promised, and before that time the royal family will "appoint" Jeon Hak-joon of the Donghak Party as the governor of the South Samdo region of North Korea.

On the afternoon of the day when the peace agreement between the two sides was signed, the joint combat force composed of the Korean royal government army and the Donghak Party and the people's army finally exchanged fire with the Russian Far East Army under the city of Pyongyang!

Because Seris temporarily supported a batch of 12.7 mm machine guns with ferocious firepower from North Korea, the Russian forward troops who were caught off guard were actually defeated by the combined forces of both sides.

After that, the DPRK and Russia fought a fierce battle in the area south of Hamgyong Province, and the Russian army, which was the army of the old powers, began to reorganize its forces to attack the main force of the coalition forces in North Korea after it was prepared. The two sides fought several battles one after another, and the Korean coalition forces suffered heavy losses, and the battle line retreated one after another. This continued until mid-August, when the North Koreans, supported by Seris's constant arms and their own heavy human sacrifices, were able to withstand the attack of the Russian Far East Army. By the end of August, the battle lines of the two sides had actually retreated to the northern part of Hamgyong Province, where Russia was originally located, and the limited strength of the Russian army seemed to have lost its original advantage under the joint "encirclement and suppression" of the local North Korean military and civilians.

The two sides fought until the beginning of September, and the Korean coalition forces had actually approached the city of Cheongjin, and the Russian army had no choice but to retreat into the city, which surprised the forces of various countries that had been paying attention to the war.

At this time, Russia, perhaps in order to maintain the port of Cheongjin, its last foothold in Korea, actually dispatched its Far Eastern Fleet stationed in Vladivostok at the last moment. Faced with a large number of naval artillery bombardment by the Russian naval fleet, the Korean coalition forces, which had suffered heavy losses in the siege battle, had to retreat.

On September 10, 1895, at the same time as a series of rice riots and grain grabbing riots broke out in Japan, Aleksayev, the governor of the Far East of Tsarist Russia, suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that he would mobilize troops from the Primorsky states to completely eliminate the "Korean pigs"!

The Russians in Vladivostok at the end of the month had once again regrouped an army of 200,000 men. You must know that before the opening of the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway, the total number of its inhabitants in the entire Far East was less than 4 million, and this "ruin" action of the Russian Far East Army immediately frightened the royal government on the Korean Peninsula.

At this time, the southern Quanjun was also worried that the Russians would suddenly send a fleet to attack their territory, and urgently sent someone to Seris's Jeju Island fleet for help. After the letter of request for help was sent to Beijing, Chen Zeyu simply sold the four old warships of the former Qingshui Division's fleet, "Chaoyong", "Yangwei", "Guangjia", and "Kangji", to the southern governor of the Dongxue Party, which was considered a waste use.

On October 5, while the North Korean side was still calling Seris for help through the telegraph line in Seoul, the situation changed dramatically again.

At 7:45 a.m. on October 5, 1895, the Russian Far East Fleet suddenly appeared off the coast of Yokosuka, Tokyo, Japan, and sank the six remaining cruisers of the Japanese Combined Fleet, such as "Naniwa", "Takachiho", and "Tsukushi", at the cost of damage to its own three heavily armored ships.

Almost at the same time, a group of transport ships departing from the Russian port of Vladivostok also suddenly landed in the port of Hakodate in Hokkaido, Japan, carrying a large number of Russian troops!

After receiving the relevant information sent back by the Navy's Jeju Island Fleet as soon as possible, even the "cunning" such as Chen Zeyu had to admire the cunning of the polar bear. At the same time, Chen Zeyu and other high-ranking military and political leaders of Seris were also vigilant against the Russians' style of waging war and aggression only for interests and without morality.

The situation is already clear, the Russians may also have ambitions for North Korea, but at least for now, the Russians do not want to fight with North Korea, they are still worried about the Republic of Seris behind North Korea!

In contrast, Hokkaido, which also provided the Russians with an ice-free port in the Far East, was the northernmost part of Japan, which was easier for them to grab. Hokkaido is bordered by Vladivostok to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, and the Sea of Okhotsk to the north.

It was not only the Russians who saw this, but also the British Empire, far away on the other side of the world, who saw the natural deterrent effect of Japan's geography on Russia. If it had not been for the deterioration of relations with Japan, the British government would have been negotiating an alliance with Japan as it had done in history.

In the same way, the Russians will not sit idly by when they see this, because in the original history, Russia was concerned about Japan's own strength, so it has always aimed at the direction of the Qing and Korea that they competed with. But now, after Seris's intervention, the Japanese army, which lacked medical care and medicine, had already suffered heavy casualties on the mainland battlefield, and its naval strength had also lost more than half. Under these circumstances, the polar bear suddenly found itself in an excellent opportunity to solve Japan's problems.

The timing of the Russians' intervention was also deliberate: Hokkaido, an island that occupies about 22 percent of Japan's territory, was the most backward region of Japan until large-scale development was carried out due to its cold climate and barren land. At this time, the island of Hokkaido was very limited in terms of population and Japanese presence in the region. In addition, Japan had lost 90% of its army and 70% of its naval strength in Korea, the Southwest Theater and several naval "disputes" in the past, and it was no longer able to resist the actions of the Russians.

The same is true of the fact that since the landing of Russian troops on October 5, despite the resistance of the local Japanese soldiers and civilians in Hokkaido, they have not been able to overcome the disparity in strength. The Japanese military in Honshu was also insufficient, and even if they wanted to send some troops to support Hokkaido, the Japanese would not be able to do anything against the Russian Far East Fleet cruising in the Kiyotsu Strait with their naval strength exhausted.

In just a week, the Japanese garrison in Hakodate and Sapporo had been completely annihilated by the Russian Far East Army. After clearing all local resistance, the Russian army had already begun to advance inland into Hokkaido, and by this time the South Kuril Islands further north had already been occupied by the Russian Far East Fleet.

By the onset of winter in mid-December, the Russian army had completely wiped out all Japanese military forces in Hokkaido, and even the Japanese civilians of the local pioneer regiment were completely killed by the soldiers of the Far East Army who had landed, leaving only the local Ainut people.

Later, the massacre of the Russians in Hokkaido was exposed by a Dutch merchant who was stranded in Hakodate at the time, but unfortunately all traces were already covered by the heavy snow in Hokkaido. The Russian Governor of the Far East, Alekseev, openly declared in his own newspapers that the war was a punishment for the assassination of His Royal Highness the Russian Crown Prince (now Tsar Nicholas II) by the Japanese a few years earlier, and ridiculed the Japanese Lushun massacre in the Qing Kingdom, which bluntly showed that the Japanese did not deserve more humane treatment.

What is speechless is that even in winter, the Russian polar bear still seems to have not satisfied its appetite, and when several of its main warships of the Far East Fleet began to move south for the winter as in previous years, it forcibly broke into and occupied Tanegashima Island on the southern tip of Kyushu.

This move of the Russian army surprised Chen Zeyu of Seris, who was afraid that the Russians would invade and occupy the Ryukyus, which were close at hand and his own side had already planned, so in a hurry, he simply let his own naval fleet play the role of a bandit and pocket the Ryukyu Islands, which Japan had long been unable to control.

As for the protests of the Japanese? As early as when their Kuroda envoy came to Beijing to demand that the Ceris government pay reparations to the former Qing government, the government of the Republic never took it seriously. Chen Zeyu rarely agrees with the statement of the former Russian Far East Governor, and the murderer must have the consciousness of being killed!

The winter of Otomi was destined to be spent in the cry of the Japanese......