Chapter Seventy-One: Defection

South Seas, Republic of Seris

"Führer! The envoy had come again to ask for a meeting. ”

Waving his hand again at the secretary Huang Hanlin, Chen Zeyu continued to look at the documents in his hand without looking up.

"Go and tell Mr. Kuroda that we don't have to meet until we withdraw our troops from the mainland."

"Yes, Führer!" Huang Hanlin respectfully responded and walked out of the Führer's Office......

After reviewing the documents in his hand, Chen Zeyu stood up and stretched, "Ahhh ~”

Walking to the coffee table to make himself a cup of coffee, Chen Zeyu casually opened a page for the calendar, "It's April 5th."

"The troops who landed from Liaodong should have arrived at the Liaohe River......"

While talking to himself, Chen Zeyu walked alone to the giant world map hanging on the wall of the office office.

The index finger of the right hand gradually extends from Zhanjiang, Guangxi, below East Asia, and slowly crosses Guangdong... Fujian... Chekiang... Jiangsu... Shandong... Hebei, which eventually stopped in an area called Liaodong......

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

At noon on April 5, 1895, the Liaodong Peninsula of the Qing Dynasty

At this moment, a steady stream of troops was walking on the north bank of the Liao River, and a pair of soldiers in black uniforms were marching in a neat queue to the west.

They are the officers and men of the 8th Division of the Cyris Army, which just landed from Lushun half a month ago!

In the past two weeks, this army has fought from Lushun to Yingkou and from Yingkou to Liaoyang, eliminating all the Qing troops along the way and some of the Yueben troops still stranded in the northeast. Just as they wanted to continue their attack on Shengjing in the north, they received a telegram from the General Staff of the Army in the rear, asking them to change the direction of their march and attack to the west.

Li Xiaoliang, the commander of the 801st Brigade, who was riding a Bohai horse, was a little idle, and urged his mount to trot directly to the marching headquarters at the rear of the team.

"Commander, where are we going?"

"I don't know how to look at the map, how did you learn it in the military academy in the first place?" Zhao Ke, the commander of the Eighth Division, replied angrily.

"Hey, I'm just guessing, is it Zhangjiakou?"

"I know, you still come to ask me~" Zhao Ke nodded, "I want us to cut off the retreat of those grandsons of Qingguo." ”

"What should I do in Jinzhou? If the Manchu royal family retreats from there, we are not blind. ”

Zhao Ke shook his head and sneered, "Turtle son, you are smart!" Don't worry, the Ninth Division has already landed in Bohai Bay! ”

"Don't talk about Jinzhou, even Shanhaiguan is about to be beaten down by us!"

Li Xiaoliang touched his short head with a smile, but forgot that he had already put the helmet on his head now.

"Hehe, aren't I worried that the troops won't be able to catch big fish? Division commander, have you heard that Ma Wenyu, who landed in Guangzhou, has arrested two feudal officials of the Qing State one after another. ”

"Alas, there's no need to worry about this, you can't catch the big fish when you get to the north? Haha" Zhao Ke glanced at the Bohai Seahorse under his crotch, "Your kid is lucky, damn!" It's not like I found a Mongolian horse in Lushun~ It's ugly to death, and it doesn't show the majesty of Lao Tzu at all. ”

"Haha, division commander, you don't understand," Li Xiaoliang grinned and said, "The Mongolian horse doesn't look good, but it has good endurance and is not a picky eater. ”

Zhao Ke glanced at him and scolded with a smile, "You kid doesn't have a backache when you stand and talk, why don't we change it?" Lao Zhang Ke and I have been coveting your snow-treading dark clouds for a long time! ”

"Don't! Other! I'm out of feelings......"

"You don't fucking fart, it's still your mother-in-law......

"Hahahaha-"

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On April 15, 1895, at the same time that the 801st Brigade of the Republic Army conquered Zhangjiakou, the situation in Korea was gradually falling into chaos on the border of the East Asian continent.

Since receiving a request for help from the Donghak Party and the People's Army in the first month of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Republic of Seris has successively sent naval fleets to reinforce a batch of weapons and equipment to the whole army, and then sent the navy and army to capture Jeju Island, the stronghold of the Japanese army in the Yellow Sea. Beginning in February, the Navy of the Republic of China sent fleets to cruise the waters around Jeju Island, cutting off the sea supply line to the west coast of Korea by the transport ships, and forcing the Japanese army to reopen supply bases from the eastern part of Korea, which was not so suitable, to the south.

Even so, Seris's navy did not spare him, and in March, Seris dispatched the most powerful First Detachment Fleet, which had been patrolling the waters of the East China Sea, to cut off the transportation channel in the Korean Strait at once, and gradually extended the blockade of the transport fleet to the entire North Sea.

While these combination punches of the Seris people made the country dizzy, the Donghak party members in the southwestern part of Korea, who had been wiped out by the garrison, gradually eased up. After receiving a batch of weapons and equipment and food from Seris on "credit", the Donghak Party and the People's Army gradually began to launch a new offensive in Korea from mid-March.

At this time, the garrison of nearly 50,000 troops of the six divisions that had been "stranded" in Korea also began to slowly feel the power of the "all-round blockade" tactics of the Seris naval fleet.

On 19 March, Jeon Juan Joon of the DPRK suddenly led his troops to attack the defenders of the Yue army in Daejeon, and after several stalemates between the two sides, the Yue army was finally wiped out by all the troops of Jeon Juan Juon due to the lack of ammunition and rations.

On March 26, when Jeon Hyun Joon led his army to hold back the main force of the Yue army in Daejeon, another part of the Donghak Party and People's Army, under the command of his military adviser Kim Myung-deok, suddenly concentrated its forces and instantly conquered Jeonju, the capital city of Jeolla Province in Korea. On April 2, Jin Mingde led his army north to support Quan Qizhun on the way to encounter sniper by the army, and the two sides won a complete victory with Jin Mingde's civilian army.

On April 5, 1895, when the first nationwide Rice Rebellion broke out in Tokyo, the troops of the Japanese army, which was fighting in the southern part of Korea, received an order from General Aritomo of Yamasan, Seoul, and began to retreat from Jeolla Province.

Beginning on April 7, the situation gradually improved, and the Donghak Party and People's Army, which had been supplemented by a large number of troops, began to attack Gyeongsang and Chungcheong-do on a large scale, and captured Cheonan and Busan Fortress respectively around the 12th.

On April 15, when the main force of the Yue army in Seoul was forced to shrink its forces in various places and re-launched an attack on the Donghak Party and the people's army in the south, the Joseon royal family suddenly turned against the Korean royal family under the command of Concubine Min, and a small number of Yue army troops remaining in the Korean royal capital were caught off guard and were driven out of Seoul by the "puppet army" of the Joseon royal family......

;