To Liu Mingchuan's camp, Concubine Min went in the name of Xingshi to ask for guilt, the Huai army stationed in Korea, without her permission, actually sent 500 people to Caozhi Town on Ganghwa Island, and killed more than 100 Yueben navy, this political axe will definitely not give up, these soldiers died on the territory of Korea, in 1875 Yueben did not have the strength to bully the Qing Dynasty, and there was no problem in destroying Korea.

Concubine Min's worry lies in the attitude of the suzerain, the Qing Dynasty, once Korea and Yuben go to war. Concubine Min also knew that the Great Qing Kingdom had been overwhelmed by long hairs and twist thieves over the years, and it was very stiff with Tsarist Russia in the northwest, and France was also ready to move in Vietnam, so she was a little suspicious that the Great Qing Dynasty was powerless to start a war against Yue. As early as 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a war maniac who said this, sent 160,000 troops to invade Korea, and once occupied Seoul.

Concubine Min took 3,000 Korean Imperial Forest Army, and went to Liu Mingchuan to ask for the crime, Liu Mingchuan blew her beard, and only let her bring four imperial guards into the barracks, and then, these four imperial guards were also blocked outside the camp by Liu Mingchuan's personal soldiers.

Entering the tent, Liu Mingchuan was sitting on the seat of the tiger skin general, domineering and leaking.

After Concubine Min sat down, a smell of rouge filled the entire camp. Her eyes were full of resentment, and she asked Liu Mingchuan: "Now that I have died so much, what should I do in the Great Qing Kingdom?" ”

Liu Ming said: "I only obey Li Zhongtang's command, and this time my mission is to protect North Korea from the invasion of Yuben." ”

Concubine Min said: "Once the war starts, what will happen to the Great Qing Kingdom?" ”

Liu Ming said: "Don't worry, the two warships on the Han River can't reach Seoul, and I have arranged for the gunboats of the Qing Dynasty to meet them halfway. ”

Concubine Min said: "What I am worried about is the entire army behind these soldiers, and this time the political axe will definitely not give up." ”

Liu Ming preached: "I think so too. Once the two countries are at war, Korea is weak and can rely on the Qing Dynasty to protect it. ”

Concubine Min received a satisfactory reply, and apologized to Liu Mingchuan with a red face: "A few days ago, I didn't know the ambition of the Japanese people, I blamed the general, and I looked at Haihan. If the Japanese invaders, I hope that the general can keep the people of Seoul safe. ”

An hour later, Concubine Min returned to Seoul, and Song Xiaofei and Ding Ruchang entered the account to see Liu Mingchuan.

At this time, Song Xiaofei had already worshiped Liu Ming as his brother. After he came back from Caozhi Town, Liu Mingchuan actually talked and wanted to call him eldest brother.

Liu Mingchuan was older, and the gambling contract at that time was just a joke, Song Xiaofei was afraid that he would be embarrassed, so he proposed that the two marry Jinlan.

Liu Ming saw that Song Xiaofei was young, but he knew a lot of things, and Li Hongzhang also appreciated him, so he agreed. The two exchanged greetings with each other, Liu as the brother and Song as the brother.

Seeing that Concubine Min had been in the tent for a long time, Song Xiaofei jokingly asked Liu Ming Legend: "Just now, my sister-in-law was in a hurry to return to the palace, and my eldest brother didn't go to send it off?" ”

Ding Ruchang smiled and said to Song Xiaofei: "Our Lord Liu doesn't have the guts, otherwise he will kneel on the washboard, you don't know that he is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is afraid of his wife."

Song Xiaofei said with a smile: "I can't imagine that there is still Brother Liu afraid in the world, presumably my sister-in-law must be gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable." ”

"One thing descends one thing! But then again, only men who are afraid of their wives will have a chance. You are really smart as a sister-in-law, I really admire Liu Liumazi! I was originally a rough man, and I was taught by her to pick up the book. Liu Mingchuan was exposed by his old subordinate Ding Ruchang, laughed, threw a military map in Ding Ruchang's face, and said, "Let's study the war." ”

Song Xiaofei picked up the map, unfolded it and put it flat on the table, Liu Mingchuan pointed to the location of the mouth of the Han River on the map and said, at present, the two warships have arrived here, and in half an hour, they will enter the range of the artillery of "Feiting" and "Cedian", although Liu Buyun and Deng Shichang have served as pipe bands on warships, but after all, they have no actual combat experience, I am a little worried about whether they can deal with the two warships, and I am considering whether to send you to help them. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Brother Liu, don't worry, although you send people to send signal flares on time, I have great confidence in Liu Buyun and Deng Shichang, although they are young, but when they were in the Mawei Ship Master School, they are all good at algorithms, and the most important thing for the 'mosquito ship' is the aiming of the gun position, judging from the 'Yunyang' I captured, at most three guns can sink the two warships." What worries me most now is that the military will become angry and rent large British and American warships to invade Korea, or take the opportunity to seize the Ryukyus by force. ”

Liu Ming said: "I will immediately write a letter to Lord Zhongtang to introduce the battle situation here. By the way, let him put pressure on the British and American ministers in China to prevent them from renting large warships to Yue himself. ”

Sure enough, half an hour later, the warships "Second Ding Mao" and "Chun Yue Maru" entered Liu Buyun's field of vision.

The sentry on the mast of the "Flying Thunder" warship saw a few clusters of black smoke on the sea northwest of the Han River and reported that "the warship was found."

Liu Buyun personally went to the deck to supervise the battle, and then ordered the ships to raise fire and live ammunition to prepare for battle. Deng Shichang also ordered the soldiers of the "Electric" to raise the artillery, fill it with shells, and prepare to ignite it.

Ten minutes later, the warships of the two sides were only 4,100 meters apart, Liu Buyun ordered to open fire, a shot hit the main mast of the "Chun Yue Maru", the 20-meter-long mast was instantly knocked away, the power of the cannonball was really no less than the cannon fire of a giant warship, and then, Liu Buyun ordered to continue to make up a cannon, the port side of the "Chun Yue Maru" caught fire and capsized, and gradually sank, and more than 100 Yue soldiers on the ship jumped into the Han River one after another, and many were drowned in the turbulent water.

At the same time, Deng Shichang also ordered the artillery of the "Cedian" to open fire, but the first shot missed, the "Second Ding Mao" began to return fire, and the two sides fought fiercely for about two o'clock, the "Ceden" itself was hit by one cannon, three times hit the "Second Ding Mao", and the last shot hit the turret of the "Second Ding Mao", and the flames that spewed out ignited the explosives next to the turret.

In this artillery battle on the Han River, Liu Buyun and Deng Shichang won a complete victory, saying that 10 people were captured, 120 people died, and 26 people were missing.

After the news that three of his warships were sunk twice in Korea and captured and that none of the 300 navies survived was transmitted back to the country, the Manchu Dynasty was terrified, and some ministers of culture, sports, and culture even exclaimed that the book was not far from the death of the country, and was cut down on the spot by Saigo Moritaka.

When he heard that none of the three warships had returned, he committed suicide by disemboweling Inoue, so he joined forces with the ministers of education, Culture, Sports, and Culture, Yamamoto Gonbei and Kayama Shikiri, to ask the Diet to allocate 1 million taels of silver to the Americans and the British to lease the warships.

At that time, the financial resources were limited, the parliament did not do anything, and it was noisy for three days, and no results were discussed. Saigo was on fire, and when Gonbei Yamamoto and Shikinori Kayama met in the Diet, they went to the Niju Bridge outside the Imperial Palace and threatened that if the Diet did not allocate funds, they would commit suicide on the bridge. All three of them were important ministers and lords of the emperor, and each of them had hundreds of samurai with swords. According to his own tradition, if the master committed suicide, these samurai with swords would surely avenge them, and the congressmen were so frightened that they hurriedly voted to allocate one million taels of funds from the army to support the navy.

At the same time, Saigo's samurai under the Taoist faction disguised themselves as civilians, nominally going to the American and British embassies to petition, but in fact surrounded their embassies, shouting early every morning, blocking the road out of the embassies, disturbing their ambassadors and their families, and not leaving until the middle of the night. After a week of such trouble, the American and British envoys in Yue could not stand it, and the US political axe hoped that Yu Ben would become his assistant in the invasion of China and Korea; In an attempt to use the British political axe to contain Russia's influence in the Far East, they rented a warship to the company, namely the "Enterprise" and the "Dreadnought", both of which had a displacement of more than 1,000 tons and a caliber of 28 centimeters for their largest guns, making them relatively advanced medium and large warships at that time.

Saigo was overjoyed from the province, personally took command of the expedition, and took three thousand marines to take these two rented warships, chose a zodiac auspicious day, and went straight to North Korea to find Liu Mingchuan for revenge.