On June 19, 1894, the Yamen of the Governor of Tianjin Zhili

"Newspaper -- A telegram from Lord Nie Shicheng of the DPRK said that this army had occupied Gyeonggi Province and was now attacking Pyongyang. We are outnumbered and suffer heavy casualties! ”

"Nakado-sama!" Sheng Xuanhuai walked up to Li Hongzhang and said eagerly, "Do you want to send some more reinforcements, the army is pressing, Nie Shicheng, Ye Zhichao, I'm afraid they won't be able to withstand it." ”

"Alas~ The old man also wants to send some more soldiers, but the clever woman can't cook without rice."

Li Hongzhang said while lighting his pipe, "Most of the Huai army is now stationed in Zhili and Guanwai, and both sides are located in places related to the country's social affairs, so they should not be moved lightly." If North Korea really can't do anything, then they have to let Ye Zhichao and them retreat to Liaodong. ”

"Why don't you get reinforcements from the Marines? It is also good to interfere with the rear supply of the army," Sheng Xuanhuai inquired to Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang shook his head, "The deterrent power of my Beiyang Naval Division lies in the existence of the second ship of Ding. These two ships have heavy cannons, but their speed is slower than that of their opponents, and they take the initiative to engage in battles, and the outcome is unknown. ”

"But now the imperial court has issued a strict order to let the Beiyang Navy Division take the initiative to attack and annihilate the enemy at sea. Admiral Ding Junmen has been ordered to be dismissed from his post and made meritorious service for his crimes. It's not a good idea for us to keep the sailor in the dark. ”

"Hmm," Li Hongzhang stood up and paced two steps, "Where is the supply location of the army troops in North Korea now?" ”

"Your Excellency, please look!"

Sheng Xuanhuai summoned the clerk, and after Ling Huan unfolded the map, he pointed to the north and south respectively.

"Since the arrival of Korea, the army has been divided into two routes, the west road is Incheon, which was conquered at the earliest, and the east road is the two places of Gangneung and Goseong on the eastern coast of Korea......

Li Hongzhang nodded, "It's okay to be in the land of Beihai, this Incheon is under the nose of my Liaodong Bohai Bay sailor, and I am very rampant!" Send a telegram to Ding Ruchang and ask him to dispatch a ship to find an opportunity at sea to intercept and kill the troop transports of the Japanese army. ”

"Yes! My lord! Sheng Xuanhuai responded.

Nanyang, Republic of Serris, National Courtyard Building

Secretary of State Liang Cheng walked into Chen's office with a telegram in hand.

"Führer, the Admiralty has sent a telegram -- our submarine unit has arrived in the predetermined sea area of Penghu in Taiwan to ask whether it wants to intervene in the naval battle of Qing and Yue in the north."

"Reply to the Admiralty," Chen Zeyu stood up from his seat and took the telegram sent by the Secretary of State himself, "Let Ding Chongji, the commander of the submarine force, calm down for a while, and let him take care of the affairs of the north, and let the troops control the ocean near Taiwan for me." There is a ship of the army, come one, sink one for me! ”

"By the way, send me a telegram to the Legation in the United Kingdom, and ask how the 'Gao Sheng Incident' that they are operating in the United Kingdom is doing over there now?"

"Yes, Führer! I'm going to go and ask the Secretariat to draft a telegram. ”

Watching Liang Cheng's figure walk out of the office, Chen Zeyu sighed and came to the giant East Asian map hanging behind him, looking at the Yellow Sea near North Korea and frowning slightly, not knowing what he was thinking......

At the same time, the progress of the Japanese army on the Korean battlefield was also very smooth.

After the initial conquest of Seoul, because the Qing navy intercepted and killed more than 1,000 Qing army soldiers who were transported by sea to the Sichuan Su position in Korea, the Yue army gathered a brigade of troops and easily conquered the Qing army's Sichuan fortress.

After conquering Chuansu, the army continued to march towards Anseong in the north with the 7th Brigade of the 2nd Division as the vanguard.

It was summer in Korea in June, and the soldiers were very tired from marching under the scorching heat, but the morale of the troops was very high.

On June 27, the army took advantage of the night to sneak attack the position of the Qing army in Anseong, although it was sniped by the Qing army, but after a hard battle at about 3 a.m. the next day, the army still succeeded in entering Ancheng before dawn.

Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Qing army, was shocked when he heard the news, and then concentrated his forces on the front line to rebuild the fortress in Cheng Huan.

On the 29th, the troops of the Yue army to Dahuan took the lead in launching an artillery bombardment with the accompanying mountain artillery. Ye Zhichao's army was also equipped with a batch of Krupp infantry guns at that time, and immediately launched a counterattack.

However, the artillery skills of the artillery were obviously more than one step higher than that of the Qing army, and their mountain artillery shells could always accurately hit the target, and every shot could cause serious damage to the Qing troops on the position. On the contrary, the gunners in Ye Zhichao's army seemed to be fighting indiscriminately, and every time the cannonballs were sent out, they either fell far in front of the attack formation of the Yue army, or flew over the opponent's head, without causing much damage to the Yue army at all.

In terms of the quality of the soldiers, the Qing army and the army cannot be said in the same way. Although on the whole, the soldiers in this group of Huai army are all good families selected by the government from all over the country, and the soldiers are strictly forbidden to smoke big cigarettes in the army, and the soldiers' physique alone may not be much worse than the army. However, the quality of the officers of the two armies, especially the officers at the grassroots level, is much worse. Compared with the strict self-discipline of the officers and the fact that they took the lead in the charge, there were not a few officers on the Qing army's side who took the lead in escaping, let alone let them charge ahead.

In the charge of the officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, the Chenghuan Fortress was still conquered on July 3, four days later.

The commander of the Qing army, Ye Zhichao, finally picked up a surname, and when he was escorted to Asan by his subordinates, he met his deputy Nie Shicheng who refused to stay in the Asan position and insisted on retreating to the rear city of Pyongyang.

Asan is located on the road between Seoul and Pyongyang, and the terrain is dangerous.

Nie Shicheng tried hard to persuade him, but the coach Ye Zhichao just didn't listen, and the two of them were not from the same system, so they had to divide their troops in the end. Ye Zhichao was not bad, he knew what the division of troops was equal to Asan at this time, but he persuaded Nie Shicheng to retreat to Pyongyang with him.

Nie Shicheng refused to retreat without a fight after all, and Ye Zhichao retreated after assigning more than 2,000 soldiers to his department.

Fortunately, Nie Shicheng was very strict in governing the army, and the soldiers used their lives to not only successfully repel them, but also used the night environment to ambush and annihilate many soldiers of the Yue army.

On July 5, a division under the personal command of Major General Oshima Yoshikura arrived in Asan.

After dinner, the soldiers divided into two routes, and under the cover of artillery fire, they began to attack Asan from the east and west flanks.

Nie Shicheng supervised the battle in front, but there were too many troops in the army, and more than 10,000 people from a division and the forward troops of the army took turns to fight from all directions. Under the disparity in strength, when the battle was fought until evening, plus those who fled, the Qing army had only a few hundred people left, and in desperation, Nie Shicheng had to lead the remaining remnants to retreat from the position.

In the evening, according to the custom, the army launched another night attack, and when the troops came up, they found that the Qing army had retreated.

Seeing that Asan had become an empty shell, the commander of the army, Oshima Yoshikura, took a breath while disappointing the fun, and the army was too lazy to chase after it at night, so he camped on the position to rest.

Asan's geographical location in Korea was extremely crucial, and as soon as the news of the victory of the Syrian army in this battle was transmitted back to the rear, it immediately set off a wave of celebration throughout the island country.

The atmosphere of the whole country was high, and some people even wrote a special lyric to express their admiration for the officers and soldiers of the Oshima Division. The title of the song is "The Battle of Chenghuan", "The time began in early June, and our army in the capital embarked on a journey. The target is Shuiyuan County, and the morning light shines on the Zhangqi. Our army sent death prayer soldiers, and Cheng Huan stood in front of the fortress. The enemy soldiers could not hold out, and only attacked together. Bravely advance and then advance, Si is the enemy base camp of Asan. Our troops bravely advanced again, and all the shells hit. The defenders disorganized their camps one after another, and took the fortress like a snap. Three times to sing triumphantly, three times to sing triumphantly. ”

After that, the strength of the Korean reinforcements gradually increased to more than 30,000, and the large army was once again divided into three routes, and the left and right roads were successfully cleared for the troops to Pyongyang, an important town in northern Korea. By the beginning of July, Gyeonggi Province, Gangwon Province, and Hwanghae-do Province in Korea had all fallen under the iron heel of the Japanese army.

And just when the army was invincible, their cabinet axe in their homeland was in trouble.

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