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 an army to conquer Yanjing 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, at present, there are still four divisions of troops in China that are fighting in the northwestern Mongolian Xinjiang region, and in particular, many places in the northern part of Xinjiang Province have been unstable one after another at the beginning of the year, and some people in the local area have even shouted for reading ability. Chen Zeyu had just signed a military order for the troops on the front line to be killed, and he had made the decision to purge Xinjiang Province, and not long ago, he had already 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 team 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 Hyun-joon of the DPRK to try to get the two sides to reach a peace agreement as soon as possible, so as to relieve the pressure on the royal family.

In the end, under the active intervention of Chen Zeyu, and at the same time the fear of the Russian invasion by the Korean forces themselves, the Korean royal family and Jeon Juan 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, which is known as the "Korean Cheonan Peace Agreement".

According to the agreement, the Korean royal family will carry out political reforms within three years, establish a national parliamentary organization, and transform the current Korean monarch[***] into a constitutional monarchy, as they promised, and before that 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 family's political axe army and the Donghak Party and civilian 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 riots in the Primorsky region, Alectiev, the governor of the Far East of Tsarist Russia, suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that he would mobilize troops from the Primorsky Frontier 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 residents in the entire Far East was only less than 4 million, and this "ruin" action of the Russian Far East Army immediately frightened the royal family 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 Yanjing, Chen Zeyu 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 asking for help through the telegraph line in Seoul, the situation changed again.

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

Almost at the same time, a group of transport ships departing from the port of Vladivostok, Russia, suddenly landed at the port of Hakodate in Hokkaido, with a large number of Russian convoys!

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 the territory that they could easily 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 the British Empire, far away on the other side of the world, also saw the natural deterrent effect of this geographical point on Russia. If it weren't for the deterioration of relations with Sayben one after another, the British political axe at this time might have already started negotiations with Justin as it did in the original history.

In the same way, the Russians will naturally not sit idly by after seeing this, and in the original history, Russia was concerned about its own strength factors, so it has always aimed at the direction of the Qing and North Korea, which are competing with it. But now, after Seris's intervention, the army has already suffered heavy casualties on the mainland battlefield, and its naval strength has also lost more than half. In this case, the polar bear suddenly finds itself in an excellent opportunity to solve the problem.

The timing of the Russians' intervention was also deliberate, as Hokkaido, an island that occupies about 22 percent of the country's territory, was the most backward region of the country until large-scale development was carried out due to its cold climate and barren land. At this time, on the island of Hokkaido, both the population and the presence of troops in this area were very limited. In addition, after the previous Korean and southwestern battlefields and several maritime "disputes", Ben had successively lost 90% of his army and 70% of his naval strength, and he could no longer resist the actions of the Russians.

The same is true of the fact that since the Russian army landed on October 5, the local military and civilians in Hokkaido have been unable to overcome the disparity in strength, despite their fierce resistance. The military strength in Honshu was also insufficient, and even if they wanted to send some troops to support Hokkaido, they would be powerless in the face of the Russian Far East Fleet cruising in the Kiyotsu Strait at this time when their naval strength was lost.

Within a week, the garrison in 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 beginning of winter in mid-December, the Russian army had completely wiped out all of the military forces in Hokkaido, and even the 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. In addition to the condemnation of world public opinion, the Russians did not lose half of their flesh, and the Russian Governor of the Far East, Alekseyev, 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) a few years ago, and ridiculed the Lushun massacre in the Qing Dynasty, which bluntly stated that he was not entitled to more humane treatment.

What makes people speechless is that even in winter, the Russian polar bear still seems to have not had enough 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 even forcibly broke into and occupied Tanegashima Island in the sea at the southern tip of Kyushu.

Chen Zeyu of Seris was taken aback by this move of the Russian army, and he 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 he had long been unable to control.

On December 27, under the cover of the Republican Navy, 7,000 Seris soldiers landed in the port of Naha without any resistance and immediately declared their sovereignty over the Ryukyu Islands. At the same time, with the exception of the local Ryukyu residents and the Chinese who had migrated to the area, all the overseas Chinese living there were forcibly escorted onto warships under the bayonets of the Republican [***] team. According to the instructions of their superiors, these men were to be sent as prisoners of war to Palawan, the most remote island in the South Seas, where for the foreseeable future they would be subjected to dark hard labor, as the price of their previous confrontation with the Republic, and no one would care whether they lived or died.

As for my own protest? As early as when their Kuroda envoy came to Yanjing to demand that the Ceris political axe fulfill the reparation of the former Qing political axe, the political axe of the Republic has never been taken 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 the year is destined to be spent in the sound of my own weeping......