On April 16, 1895, when the main force of the Yue army in Youpeng, Shan County, was fighting at the most intense level on the front line of Nanjinggi Province in North Korea, the defection of the Joseon royal family in Seoul in the rear was like a slap in the face, killing all the front-line combat troops at once. You must know that since the Korean army was cut off from the mainland by the Sellis fleet, the ammunition and supplies in Seoul have long become the last hope of all the Japanese army.

At the same time, the opposite Quanjun was also overjoyed after learning the bad news of this army, and hurriedly mobilized Daejeon's army to move north, and on April 19, he completely defeated the main force of the army in the south of Gyeonggi Province.

In addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers who were annihilated and captured, there are only more than 2,000 surviving soldiers who escaped by chance. This part of the remnants of the Japanese army, under the leadership of the general Katsura Taro, began to retreat to the northeast of Korea, and at this time, the main force of the Donghak Party did not pursue because of the same heavy casualties in the previous battle.

The commander of this remnant army was none other than Katsura Taro, an officer who was dismissed from his post in Seoul because of his failure to purge the Donghak Party.

It should be said that in the entire Korean army, Katsura Taro is the most sober of the Korean war situation. As early as when he was frustrated when he led the army to clear out the Korean People's Army, Katsura Taro felt that something was wrong. A peasant rebel army, which was originally inconspicuous, at best, still had a bit of "cultural ideals", such a peasant bandit army would actually be equipped with European and American breech bolts in large quantities. Thinking that the Imperial [***] team was fighting fiercely on the northern front line of Korea at this time, from the very beginning, Katsura Taro smelled a strong smell of conspiracy from it. It is a pity that neither the supreme general of the Japanese army in Korea, General Yama Aritomo, nor the base camp in Hiroshima, far away, have adopted his views. Later, when the Donghak Party in Jeolla Province was gradually annihilated by his own army led by the county general, even Katsura Taro wondered if he was a little nervous.

But now the heavy price of reality has given the army a slap in the face.

Katsura Taro no longer had the heart to think about the past at this time, and the most important thing at this time was how to save the surviving army in front of him. Due to the lack of ammunition, on the way to the north along the way, Katsura Taro always tried to lead his troops around the city to avoid conflict with the local forces in Korea. The original personal qualities of the soldiers surnamed Suo played a positive role at this time, and although the previous battles were fierce enough, none of these remaining soldiers threw away their weapons on the road and fled.

Along the way, relying on the few ammunition collected from all the surviving Japanese soldiers, the army relied on sneak attacks and looting villages along the way to obtain supplies, and reached the small border town of Cheongjin in Hamgyong Province in northeastern North Korea.

In Katsura Taro's memory, the headquarters of the Japanese army in Seoul, North Korea, stationed a unit here in order to prevent the sudden intervention of the Russian Far East Army in the war. The hardships along the way did not disappoint Katsura Taro, and in this Kiyotsu Castle, the surviving army was indeed supplied with a small but more valuable supply of ammunition and supplies. In addition, a brigade originally stationed here has greatly strengthened the strength of this army.

But all this still did not make Katsura Taro let go of the heart hanging in his heart, you must know that at this moment, the Korean army is still in the blockade of the Seris fleet.

What to do? After settling down in Kiyotsu, the commander of the army, Katsura Taro, asked himself quietly. Although the ammunition and equipment have been replenished, with the current supplies, once the North Korean army attacks north, its own army will be wiped out sooner or later......

Maybe God didn't want to see the army in front of him die, just when Katsura Taro was about to fall into despair because the troops could not get follow-up supplies, the other two forces on the Korean Peninsula at this time actually broke out again!

On May 13, 1895, on the same day that the Seris army captured Yanjing of the Qing Dynasty. In Seoul, the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, the Korean royal family, who had received equipment and supplies for the Korean army after a counterattack, also began to organize an army to attack the Donghak Party, which had entered the Gyeonggi region.

Caught off guard, the front-line troops of the People's Army in Pyeongtaek, the front line of Gyeonggi Province, were suddenly defeated by the royal political axe army of North Korea!

After that, both sides began to invest their troops one after another, and although the Donghak Party and the People's Army were more abundant in weapons and equipment, many soldiers within the People's Army still hesitated to fight against the royal government's axe army, and the battle lines of the two sides gradually stalemate at Cheonanseong in Chungcheong-do.

At this time, taking advantage of the stalemate at the front, the royal family began to send troops and officials to restore its rule in the northern part of Korea. After all, the Joseon royal family had ruled the peninsula for more than 400 years, and the people's reverence for imperial power was deeply ingrained, and it was not long before most of Gyeonggi, Gangwon, Hwanghae, Pyongan and Hamgyong provinces in the north returned to the rule of the Joseon royal government.

In addition, the North Korean concubine Min began to put forward the slogan of political axe reform among the people, and promised the people that they would reduce their tax burden. Gradually, even within the People's Army of the Dongxue Party, there began to be an unstable situation in the morale of the military.

For a while, the leader of the Dongxue Party, Quan Qizhun fell into a panic, and in the end, under the advice of Jin Mingde, the military advisor next to him, Quan Qizhun relied on the strong military strength of the Dongxue Party and the People's Army, and at the same time ruthlessly cleaned up a group of objects that disobeyed him internally, and the Dongxue Party gradually stabilized its position, at least there will be no more situations where the soldiers of the People's Army surrender easily to the royal political axe army.

In the end, Jeon Hyun-joon of the Donghak Party simply took out the Ganghwa Island Treaty signed by the Joseon royal family and Yu himself to attack the royal family and played the slogan of "the Korean royal family betrays the country", although these measures still have little influence on the people in the north of Korea, but at least they have stabilized the southern region of their own power.

In July, just when Chen Zeyu was already sitting in Yanjing Zhongnanhai and began to consider mediating for the two local forces in North Korea, Hamgyong Province in northeastern North Korea changed drastically again!

On July 3, 1895, the Russian Far Eastern Army stationed in Vladivostok attacked one of their border posts under the pretext that their troops in Chunjin, Korea, and brazenly crossed the border and broke through the only place of refuge in Korea at this time, the city of Qingjin!

Interestingly, the surviving Japanese army, which was broken by the Russian [***] team, did not surrender to the Russian army, nor did it flee to the south of Korea, but crossed the Yalu River under the leadership of the commander of this army and surrendered to the local garrison of Seris, which had been stationed on the border in the northeast at that time.

According to the confessions of these captives who surrendered, when they learned that their supplies to the mainland had been cut off by the Ceris navy, the morale of the garrison had already become extremely low, and the subsequent battle against the Dongxue Party could be said to be a blow to their backwater. When they were attacking deep into Jeolla Province when they suddenly heard the news of the fall of Seoul, the whole army suddenly became even more panicked and desperate, and many officers and soldiers had no desire to fight, and only hoped to return to their homeland as soon as possible. These Japanese troops stranded in northeastern Korea then asked the Russians on the east bank of the Ussuri River for reinforcements, hoping to charter their ships to return home, but the polar bear's reaction was obviously beyond all expectations......

After Chen Zeyu received the Jilin Military Region's report on the incident, he himself could not help but become interested in the commander of this army.

After learning that it was an officer named Katsura Taro, Chen Zeyu shook his head with a wry smile again, it is really not an ordinary person who can do this kind of thing. In addition to his emergence during the Russo-Japanese War ten years later, it was a politician decades later that Katsura Taro, an officer of the Shohon, really shined. Others Chen Zeyu may not be familiar with it, but Chen Zeyu still has a little impression of this political figure who played with Emperor Taisho in history above applause.

Thinking of the diplomatic measures that the Republic was about to launch against Yue Ben in the future, Chen Zeyu immediately hung up the phone to the Ministry of National Defense and asked the Jilin Military Region to take care of these soldiers who surrendered to his own side to prevent the killing of prisoners of war in the army......

Just when the local garrison of Jilin in the Republic of Seris was "busy" for this group of surrendered troops, the Korean royal political axe, which was only a river away from them, fell into a panic in an instant!

Originally, when the Russians sent troops to destroy this group of Qingjin troops in early July, the Koreans actually welcomed them. But what they didn't expect was that the Russian army did not stop after conquering the border town of Qingjin, but once again used the excuse of the "inaction" of the North Korean political axe to continue to attack in depth in the south of Korea.

On July 12, the Russian Far East Army was still not satisfied after conquering the city of Kim Chaek in central Hamgyong Province. After more than half a month, they successively captured Duanchuan, Liyuan, Beiqing, and Hongyuan, burning and looting along the way. By the end of July, the advance troops of the Russian army had already entered the territory of Hwanghae-do, North Korea, where the city of Pyongyang was located, and the Korean royal family was in a panic.

While sending people to Yanjing's Seris Central Political Axe for urgent help, Concubine Min's royal political axe also actively began to negotiate with Quan Qizhun in the south.

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