After the outbreak of the Gengyin War, Hu Chuyuan and Li Hongzhang made a gentleman's agreement of "not attacking each other", but Li Hongzhang did not hold back, he really could not bear the defeat of the Huai army and the situation of another big victory for the navy.

He even blamed Song Qing's failure on "Ye Fu" not understanding the overall situation and delaying major events, since he wanted to assist in the defense of transportation, he should let the transport formation quickly arrive in Pyongyang to support the operation, instead of stopping the troop carrier and using the transport ship to block the artillery fire.

He uses others to cover up his incompetence.

This completely angered Hu Chuyuan, and now Hu Chuyuan is not afraid of him at all, and the two of them are also at the same level, just like Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang back then.

Hu Chuyuan immediately refuted and exposed the issue of Li Hongzhang's transfer of funds to Weihai Port, and then reported the number of troops falsely reported by Li Hongzhang and Song Qing, as well as the fact that several generals of Li Hongzhang's lineage took the lead in escaping the battlefield, all of which were played to Emperor Guangxu in one excerpt.

Not only that, but he also asked people to track down old accounts and turn over all kinds of old things about the collapse of the Beiyang Bank, Li Hongzhang also had shares in the old Beiyang Bank, and all the share capital came from the funds of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Li Hongzhang spit out a mouthful of blood, and he reported Hu Chuyuan's material on the side, saying that Hu Chuyuan secretly rewarded the three armies, and his intentions were ill-intentioned, and he sent Yan Xinhou to say to Hu Chuyuan from the middle - as an official in the same dynasty, why do you bother? I'm just looking for an excuse to say it, cover it up, it won't lose you anything anyway, you really want to turn your face with me?

Hu Chuyuan called him a fart.

He directly submitted all the accounts to the Military Aircraft Department, so that the Military Aircraft Department checked them one by one, he had no selfish intentions at all, and the private award of the three armies was also for a victory, to protect the family and defend the country, if the court had doubts, he would record the accounts in the court accounts, and all expenditures were taken care of by the court.

The dog said.

Yi was taken aback, he already knew about Hu Chuyuan's heavy rewards for the soldiers under his account, but he only didn't know.

Employing people has its own methods and techniques.

Li Hongzhang likes to be promoted, and he installs cronies everywhere, Hu Chuyuan likes to give money and sprinkle money everywhere, this is all a way, as long as the affairs of the court can be handled well, and the big battles can be fought well, except for the anti-thieves and foreigners, the court will only open one eye and close one eye.

Now it's good, the two of them scolded each other and shook out their old bottoms.

One scolds the other party for appointing incompetent rats everywhere and delaying national affairs, and the other scolds the other party for using private money everywhere, and his heart is weird.

Yi could only run out, and kept persuading the two of them to be calm and restless, and wait until the battle was over, saying that, but he also handed over many things in the Huai Army to Liu Mingchuan to be responsible, and no longer dared to let Li Hongzhang continue to command the front line.

After Song Qing ran back, the imperial court was supposed to hold him accountable, but Hu Chuyuan went up to protect Song Qing and asked Song Qing to continue to lead his troops to Yingkou to set up defenses.

At the same time, Hu Chuyuan was more and more afraid of the Huai army, so he transferred Liu Jintang and the Hunan army under his account to the Liaodong Peninsula in advance, responsible for defending Liaodong, especially Lushun, and also had the ability to assist in the defense of Yingkou and Dandong at any time.

The time gradually came to mid-September 1890, with the withdrawal of Li Hongzhang, Liu Mingchuan and Liu Jintang were half a level lower than Hu Chuyuan in terms of actual authority, and the entire Northeast Theater was controlled by Hu Chuyuan.

When Hu Chuyuan seized real power, he escorted a large number of Huai army generals who had escaped in the Pyongyang campaign back to Beijing, and the 11 Huai battalions withdrew to Dandong and Dalian, and under the control of Liu Mingchuan and Liu Jintang, all of them were disarmed, the battalion numbers were cancelled, they were cut into civilians, and they were returned to their hometowns.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan completely used a high-pressure policy to break up these Huai battalions and transfer all firearms and materials to the Northeast Regiment Training Unit and the Qingxu Regiment Training Unit.

Liu Kunyi was temporarily transferred to Jiangning to act as the governor of Liangjiang, Zhang Zhidong was in Shandong and Qingxu, and Mei Qizhao was in Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan, and was responsible for transporting materials together.

In order to prevent Li Hongzhang from secretly obstructing him, Prince Gong personally arrived in Tianjin and sat in Tianjin to coordinate troops and materials to supplement the loss in the northeast.

Li Hongzhang actually didn't dare to do anything, from top to bottom, from Emperor Guangxu to the people of Limin, everyone scolded Huai Jun from head to toe, and the responsibility was on him.

As the main elite of the navy has been depleted, there is only one detachment left, at best, the total displacement tonnage is less than 70,000 tons, and the rest are converted merchant ships, and it seems that there are still 150,000 tons.

Hu Chuyuan was not worried at all that he would carry out another surprise attack on the seaports in Shandong and Jiangnan, so he also transferred the Jiangxi army to Taiwan to prepare for a landing operation, intimidating him and making him dare not continue to send troops north.

As the Jiangxi and Hunan armies entered the battlefield, he did stop the breakthrough of the army, but only tried his best to stabilize Korea, occupied Korea, and supported the new Korean king and political axe in Seoul, wanting to stabilize Korea as his own colony.

At the beginning of October 1890, after stabilizing the situation in Korea and causing the situation of the complete occupation of Korea by the Japanese army, the soul of the diplomatic circles, the new foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu, arrived in Yanjing and held the first peace talks with Prince Cho, proposing to follow the example of the Sino-French War and divide Korea into two kingdoms, with the north belonging to the Qing Dynasty and the south belonging to the Empire.

However, the division of the median line was shameless, and the Qing Dynasty only intended to transfer the area north of the Taedong River to the North Korean Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty had already essentially occupied the whole of Korea, and the Qing Dynasty could not defeat the army at all.

Even so, Prince Cho was happy to accept this condition, and proposed that as long as Nampo and Pyongyang were returned to North Korea, then negotiations could continue.

That night, he happily sent a telegram to Hu Chuyuan, saying that the big thing had been decided.

Hu Chuyuan immediately poured a basin of cold water on him.

Hu Chuyuan didn't say any nonsense, he just grasped a problem very simply-peace talks according to this condition will not help stabilize the throne of Emperor Guangxu at all, but will add big trouble, so that the diehards have the opportunity and excuse to make Cixi come back.

Therefore, we must continue to fight, there is no way out for these imperial parties, once Cixi is allowed to come back, whether he is Prince Alcohol, Prince Gong, or Prince Su, everyone will have to die.

He said that the reason why Kangxi Ye is the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty is never because of who he has made peace with, but because of the three feudal clans in the south and Tsarist Russia in the north.

His words immediately dispelled the idea of peace talks with Prince Alcohol.

Yes, they do not have a possible surname for peace talks, and they do not have this option, and it is necessary to beat the Japanese army out of Korea, which will take three years.

What's more, the Qing Dynasty has the ability to fight and drag it down.

Northeast China is not China's economic center of gravity, and it can even be said that it is a desert; although 300 million yuan of national bonds have been withdrawn at present, it has little impact on the domestic economy, and the economy of the six provinces south of the Yangtze River is still continuing to develop rapidly, and even Liangguang, Huguang, and Shandong have all grown on a certain scale.

The Jinghan Railway is still under construction, the Huguang Railway, the Jiangxi-Zhejiang Railway, the Xuzhou-Qingdao-Qingdao Railway, and the Xuzhou-Jiangning Nanpu County Railway have all been opened to traffic, and several new domestic iron and steel plants are still expanding and building new ones, and new coal mines and iron mines are being excavated.

China's textile industry and shipbuilding industry are rapidly rising to become the leading projects of China's economy.

In contrast, the economy is already in chaos, and the risk of a financial crisis has forced the entire economic and financial circles, and even if there is no big victory on the battlefield, within two years, the economy will be completely bankrupt.

At that time, none of the European powers would dare to continue to sell arms to the company and continue to provide other support to the company.

The situation in China is quite different.

Under Hu Chuyuan's skillful and forceful intervention, Mutsu Zongguang could only leave Yanjing with his extremely beautiful first lady of Yuben diplomacy, and after a short meeting with Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang in Tianjin, he had to choose to return to Yuben and continue to go to Europe to wave the flag and shout for Yuben and advocate the theory of the China threat.

Hu Chuyuan, on the other hand, continued to maintain his theory of despicability and economic bankruptcy, and used public opinion and the media in Europe to contain the political axes of various countries and prevent these powers from changing their minds and supporting them instead.

The two sides slowly became entangled, and gradually, the Combined Fleet was reorganized into a new Standing Fleet and stationed in Hiroshima to avoid being raided by the North Sea Combined Fleet.

On the side of the Army, they stationed the 2nd Sendai Division, the 5th Hiroshima Division, and the 6th Kumamoto Division in Korea, plus two brigades, and concentrated heavily in Pyongyang, and began to camp at Guseong in preparation for a final general assault on Dandong.

On the land side of the Qing army, Liu Mingchuan and Liu Jintang respectively reorganized the Hunan and Huai armies, adopting a large battalion system, with more than 3,300 to 3,500 people per battalion, five battalions of the Yi Army stationed in Dandong, two battalions of the Huai Qing Army, and three battalions of the Zuo Guifeng Army.

In terms of total strength and military equipment, the two sides are still roughly equal.

Liu Jintang reorganized the five battalions of the Hunan Army, the third battalion of the Jin Army, and the second battalion of Xiao Delong's Yongjun on the Liaodong Peninsula, with nearly 16,000 people.

Mei Qizhao's Jiangxi army deployed five battalions in Fuzhou and Taipei, Zhang Zhidong led the Qing Xu regiment to train three battalions in Shandong, and Liu Kunyi merged Xu Zhanxu and Wang Debang's troops after being transferred to the north to lead seven battalions of the Hunan army.

Speaking from the heart, the armies of both sides can still fight, as long as the Qing army does not continue to be defeated.

I really can't afford to lose again.

Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan also sat on the crater, and Prince Alcohol was panicked and said, the Manchu ministers had begun to brew a storm to make the Empress Dowager Cixi's old man come back.

Cixi is really going to make a comeback, and everyone will not end well.

Especially Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan knew it in his heart, but he didn't think that Liu Mingchuan would be able to resist his own attack in Dandong.

(To be continued)