The capital of the city was renamed after the Korean Empire was renamed the "Korean Empire" after the Korean Reading Power, so as to be the "Jingshi" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Although it is said that the army is directly rampage on the territory of North Korea, and the so-called "escort team" is the "imperial palace" of South Korea directly stationed, but in this situation, the capital of South Korea is full of lights and wine, and it is drunk with money.

On the streets of the capital, you can see slogans such as "Defend Korea" and "Resist China's Invasion" posted by members of the "Yijin Society" everywhere on the streets, and more often than not, the members of the "Yijin Association" are hyping up China's oppression of Korea for thousands of years in the streets and alleys, calling on the people to cooperate with the Chinese army to resist the Chinese army.

In the past year, the Yijin Association set up by Song Bingjian has been advocating "Han and the United States" and inciting South Korea to send labor to serve the army, and the Yijin Association, which has more than 1 million members, has provided 169,000 laborers for the construction of the Gyeongui Railway and "contributed 114,500 people to the Imperial Army." As a patriotic organization that wholeheartedly hopes for the unity of Korea and the realization of great harmony in East Asia, it will naturally shout like jumping over a wall in the face of China's invasion.

Like the countries influenced and nurtured by the Han civilization, Gyeongbokgung Palace, the royal palace of South Korea, can see the shadow of China everywhere, the Chinese-style city gates, the Chinese-style pavilions, and the Chinese-style ...... In short, like the book, the country does not see anything of its own, even the flag on the fluttering city head, which was also designed by Li Hongzhang decades ago.

After entering the palace from the gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Li Jirong, who was in a hurry, asked the eunuchs in the palace directly.

"Where is Your Majesty?"

"My lord, Your Majesty is praying for blessings in the Taimiao!"

The eunuch in the palace, who had already been bribed by himself, naturally would not hide His Majesty's whereabouts from the foreign minister, and when he answered, Li Jirong, who was led by the eunuch, walked towards the temple in Gyeongbokgung Palace.

In the main hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Lee Hee, who has been the emperor of the "Korean Empire" for eight years, is kneeling in front of the tablets of the ancestors and ancestors.

"The ancestors and the ancestors bless, bless the [***] to drive away the ...... of the person"

In praying, he apparently forgot that eighteen years ago, Korea, as a thousand-year-old vassal of China, began to degenerate, and in addition to the aforementioned dispatch of plenipotentiary ambassadors to the United States and Europe, it was also prepared to borrow money from foreign powers with tariffs, and that Korea's diplomacy and customs duties were originally under the management of China, so that North Korea's actions were tantamount to a challenge to China's suzerainty.

Eleven years ago, after the Yue army entered and occupied the capital of Korea, it was not so much the pro-Yue faction that entered the palace with the support of the Yue army and coerced him to make a statement: not to recognize Korea as a subject state of the Qing Dynasty, to declare that Korea had read its autonomy, and to abolish all treaties between China and North Korea.

It is better to say that Li Xi announced the independence of North Korea's reading power by pushing the boat down the river. It's just that many things can only be cherished when they are lost, and it is precisely after the "reading power" of North Korea that Lee Hee, who became the emperor of the Korean Empire, really began to miss the years of the "closed-door" emperor of the year, where it will be like now, and it will be the persecution of the pro-Yue faction and the coercion of the minister.

Even Yuan Shikai, who offered the middle and lower three strategies to annex North Korea as a province of China, he followed the nostalgia, although Yuan Shikai said that Yuan Shikai gave Concubine Min a green hat to the night party, and even in order not to arouse suspicion, Concubine Min came up with a plan, so she went back to her mother's house to introduce her sister Bi Chan to Yuan Shikai. After my sister passed through the door. Concubine Min came to Yuan Shikai's house almost every day under the pretext of visiting her sister, but Yuan Shikai was worried that the affair with the mother of a country would have a great impact after it was exposed, so he entrusted Concubine Min with a false snake.

But Yuan Shikai didn't know that the Min family had an affair with him, but as the king, he acquiesced, on the one hand, because Concubine Min was grateful to Yuan Shikai for helping him get rid of the enemy, and admired Yuan Shikai's demeanor, and he promised to be resolute, and Yuan Shikai was also unwilling to be lonely, and the two immediately fornicated, but on the other hand, Li Xi, who didn't know about this help, wanted to use Yuan Min's private feelings to seek Yuan Shikai's support.

But later, Yuan Shikai categorically refused to have an affair with Concubine Min again, which also made Li Xi quite satisfied, and now seeing the initial recovery of China's rivers and mountains, that is, it shows the trend of a strong country, of course, I can't help but think about Yuan Shikai, an old acquaintance.

"It seems that we should send someone to Nanjing to pay a visit to Lord Yuan!"

While praying for the blessings of his ancestors and ancestors, Li Xi thought that Yuan Shikai was now the Minister of the Interior, and he was in charge of vassal affairs, so he must lose his sincerity to China before China hit Seoul.

As for the reason for losing sincerity, he had already thought about it almost when the Chinese army crossed the Yalu River.

"Declare the declaration of the first year null and void!"

After praying for blessings, Li Xi left the temple and saw Li Jirong walking towards this side under the guidance of the eunuch, although he didn't want to see him, but this was unavoidable.

"Foreign Minister Li has seen Your Majesty!"

Li Jirong bowed respectfully.

"Excuse me!"

Li Xi said lightly, but his words were just nonsense, before he said that he was exempt, Li Jirong had already straightened his waist, and now these pro-factions have their own support, and they don't take him as the emperor seriously.

"Your Majesty, the minister just met with Minister Lin Quanzhu, and Minister Lin Quanzhu said that it is really an unprecedented thing for Korea to be invaded by China without declaring war, and for the sake of the reputation of the Korean Empire, please Your Majesty immediately issue an order to declare war on China!"

In the face of Li Jiyong's request, Li Xi replied with silence, joke, declare war? South Korea doesn't even have an army, so what to declare war?

"Your Majesty, Minister Lin Quanzhu said that if South Korea does not declare war on China, the country will be destroyed in a moment!"

Li Jirong said a pun, this sentence only surprised Li Xi, he looked at Li Jirong in front of him, almost couldn't believe that this was the words of his ministers, they are so traitorous to sell the country, don't they know, Zhong [***] has already called?

"Declaring war on China is really a matter of life and death for the country, so ......"

Li Xi hesitated for a moment, and decided to delay for the time being, and he must immediately send a secret envoy to China.

"At the very least, we should convene a pre-imperial council to make a decision!"

Although it is explained that it is known that Li Xi is delaying the declaration of war, but there is no suitable reason to refute it, will those ministers agree to declare war on China?

"Your Majesty, I don't know how to start the Imperial Council!"

"I don't know when the Qing family thinks the Imperial Council should be held!"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the ministers should be notified first, and it is more appropriate to hold a pre-imperial meeting in two days!"

Although he knew that his suggestion was exactly what Li Xi was thinking, he also understood that even Minister Lin Quanzhu needed time to "convince" those ministers.

Hearing these words, Li Xi, who suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, turned around and walked towards the inner palace.

"Stand down!"

On the way towards the Inner Palace, Li Xi's expression was a little solemn, and he glanced towards the north.

"Hope ......"

Shi Ji instructed the eunuch beside him.

"Immediately, please have the prosecutor of the Peace Academy, Lord Li Jun!"

On the outskirts of Bochuan City on the banks of the river, the eyes are full of desolation, and everywhere are wooden layers of earthen houses that have been blown up by shells and grenades and then burned into charred black, and the wooden beams that have collapsed and collapsed, and the occasional sparks of wooden beams remind people that not long after the battle ended, the broken walls were one after another.

In the curtain, the ragged Koreans cleaned up the corpses of the soldiers according to the orders of the soldiers, and the trenches dug by the soldiers would be their graves, and the poor and greedy Koreans once again "plundered" the corpses that had been cleaned by the soldiers of the Guards before throwing them into the trenches.

Hundreds of stripped corpses of the soldiers were thrown into the pit at random, the mouths of the corpses were opened, their necks twisted, and then the Koreans, who had harvested a lot, shoveled up the soil with shovels and buried the soldiers, and a tomb of the unknown soldier was built.

When the Koreans buried the corpses of the soldiers there, and several bonfires guarded by the soldiers burned the corpses of the Chinese soldiers there, the baggage soldiers with guns on their backs spread out around the city according to the size of the squad platoon, and when they crossed the Yalu River, in order to carry as much ammunition as possible to reduce the logistical pressure, each soldier only carried three days' rations, and in order to continue the battle, after the battle, the baggage soldiers had to go separately to find food, and they did not search for a day or eat for a day. This was the situation of the Korean Army five days after entering the Korean War.

The war caused a large number of Koreans to flee their homes, and in the homes of these Koreans, the soldiers got their own supplies, these "ownerless" food did not need to be paid, when the baggage soldiers scattered to collect food, the troops who had fought fiercely a few hours ago rested outside the city of Bocheon, while more troops were along the rice fields on both sides of the dirt road, and the horse-drawn artillery wagons and baggage wagons on the dirt road were running in the dust towards the next target...... Sinanju.

Although the population of Sinanju, which was raised by the "Gyeonggui Railway" that was repaired during the war, was only a few thousand, it had begun to take on the scale of a city, and attacking there was equivalent to entering South Pyongan Province in North Korea, and now three divisions are rushing towards South Pyongan Province like three steel tongs, and they are rushing straight towards one final goal, Pyongyang, the former capital of North Korea.

Go to Pyongyang, go to Pyongyang!

Wu Luzhen, who was on horseback and marching quickly with the troops, seemed to be able to hear the cries in the hearts of the soldiers.

"Speed, speed, the first is speed, and the second is speed!"

In order to speed up the offensive, the General Staff worked out the deployment of double-pointed knife battalions for each regiment. In principle, it is stipulated that if you encounter a small group of enemies on the road, you will be killed and annihilated; If the enemy is relatively large, if it can be bypassed, it will be bypassed, and if it cannot be bypassed, the avant-garde battalion will start a battle, and the second avant-garde battalion will continue to advance, anyway, in principle, the main attacking force of the three divisions cannot stay.

This is the requirement of the General Staff, and it is necessary to win the war in Korea, but the fundamental thing to win the war is to compete with diplomacy, and time has never been as tight as it is now.

Soldiers with guns on their backs in the rice paddies walked forward with shrunken bullet packs and a day or two of rations, without complaining or complaining, and their hearts were all they could think of Pyongyang, Seoul, and even Busan...... The railway bridge was blown up by the army, it doesn't matter, they still have legs!

"Report to the division commander, the 7th Battalion detoured to the railway bridge behind the side of Xin'anzhou and defeated the defense of the army, but the army did not have time to destroy the railway bridge......"

"Got it"

After the report of the communication corps, Wu Luzhen almost did not hesitate to open his mouth and order.

"Immediately send a telegram to the 136th Regiment and order them to attack Yongrou immediately, and strive to capture Yongrou before tomorrow afternoon!"

There is no need to look at the map at all, Wu Luzhen immediately issued an order, it can be said that almost every target on the current offensive route of the division has been engraved in his mind, his task is to follow the Qingyi narrow-gauge railway that he said he was trying to get rid of the status quo of being subject to Dalian, using the sappers to repair the Qingyi narrow-gauge railway, along the way, although the troops accelerated the march, but the army still succeeded in blowing up the Daning River railway bridge, even other simple railways on the Qingyi railway, have also become the object of destruction of the army, and now the division is not only to compete with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for time, It is also necessary to race against the sabotage actions of the army.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning of 27 April, the atmosphere in the war room of the DPRK Army Headquarters in Wujiang Town, on the banks of the Yalu River, was very tense. Sunlight poured in through the open door, forming an oblique square of light on the floor of the doorway, wisps of smoke floating in the sunlight, and a spicy smell of tobacco wafted in the wooden room. The light in the wooden room was dim, and Lan Tianwei frowned as she faced a combat map hanging on the wall. Fang Zeping, chief of staff of the division, was either smoking or reading telegrams, and his expression was also very anxious.

Except for the 1st Cavalry Division's annihilation of the 2nd Reserve Division in Wulidong, in the entire North Pyongan Province, they hardly encountered the 40th Division, which advanced along the railway line, and the largest enemy they encountered was a brigade of the Yue Army that was defeated in Sin'anju yesterday evening.

"The gate of the peninsula is open, and our department is advancing quickly!"

This is a telegram sent by Lan Tianwei to the General Staff three days ago, except for the two divisions of the Tumen River, which are less than 40,000 troops, it can be said that there are almost no people in Korea, and for the enemy on the Tumen River, he left one cavalry division and one infantry division, and the remaining four divisions are desperately spreading their feet and rushing towards Pyongyang.

On the huge battle map on the west wall, three red arrows protruding from the banks of the Yalu River, the left flank is attacking south along the coast of the peninsula, the right flank is marching south along the Wolf Forest Mountains, and the center flank is marching along the Chungmanjiang River, the Jiulong River, and then the Boiling River, and the ultimate goal of the three armies is directly aimed at Pyongyang.

The three troops, like three iron pincers that appeared in the north of Korea, turned into fierce tigers descending the mountain and headed straight at Pyongyang. Now Pyongyang has already appeared in Pyongyang, the 6th Division that was urgently transferred from the direction of Dalian, and they directly took advantage of the Yellow Sea tide along the Taedong River to reach Pyongyang.

“…… In addition, after the 6th Division was deployed along the south bank of the Taedong River, in order to block the crossing of our troops, it sent six additional gunboats in the direction of Pyongyang...... If our army bypasses Pyongyang and leaves a section to contain the enemy in Pyongyang, then the Japanese army, which has superiority on the water, will inevitably use Pyongyang as a wedge and penetrate deep into the rear of our army's main force......"

When the chief of staff explained, Lan Tianwei nodded thoughtfully, Pyongyang is a battleground, but looking at the map, his brows are tightly locked, the army gave full play to their maritime advantages, and directly used small tonnage merchant ships to transport troops to Pyongyang, instead of the limited capacity of the Gyeongui military railway, along the way the army even took the initiative to withdraw troops, the purpose is to use the Taedong River in Pyongyang to build a defense line.

The defense on the south bank and the gunboats in the river, this is Kodama Gentaro forcing himself to fight a battle to cross the river.

"Where is the 38th Division now?"

Lan Tianwei looked at the map and asked without looking back.

"The vanguard has arrived in Tokugawa, and the main force of the division has just arrived in Shimo-aung-dong, and it is expected that it will be able to cross Myoxiang Mountain in two days."

Chief of Staff Fang Zeping replied.

"Why are the soldiers of the 38th Division walking, like women with small feet, a group of big men can't walk, right?"

As soon as he heard that the 38th Division had only arrived in Tokugawa, Lan Tianwei immediately scolded angrily, and when he scolded this sentence, Lan Tianwei took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table.

He took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Fang Zeping, then took a deep puff of his own cigarette, stared at the map with his eyes and said.

"Where has the 32nd Division been?"

"Long Sanli!"

"Order that the 32nd Division must arrive at Monsan...... by two days"

"What do you mean, sir?"

Fang Zeping glanced at the map and found that Tokugawa and Monsan were just a river apart. ”

"Kodama Gentaro has set up a defense for me along the Datong River, we don't have a fleet, and we don't have ships to cross the river, it's just wishful thinking!"

"Then we have to make a detour back to southern Pyongyang from other regions!"

Zhao Shupu drew a line on the map.

"Sir, if we transfer the two divisions to the south of Pyongyang, although we can form an encirclement of Pyongyang, the army can still be from the north of Haizhou Bay, and they have the advantage of shipping, which cannot be ignored, and it is very likely that the two divisions will fall into ...... at that time."

Before he could finish speaking, Lan Tianwei interrupted him and said.

"Time!"

Lan Tianwei's brows furrowed, and then he spoke.

"Troops, as long as the main force of the Manchurian Army is still surrounded by us, I have a division to surround the enemy, and a division to block the enemy, I can ensure that nothing goes wrong, as long as an encirclement is formed, I will eat Kodama Gentaro in Pyongyang! ……”

"Well, I think I can give it a try,"

Fang Zeping looked at the map and thought about it for a while and said.

"If Pyongyang is encircled, it can not be annihilated immediately, and the army can use the Taedong River, then they will inevitably shout for help, and if the land route is cut off, they may be able to reinforce through the Taedong River, and then they can bombard the river boats along the coast with field artillery, or lay mines, and then they will ......."

"I have to see if Kodama set me up, or if I prepared a pit for him!"

A powerful voice spewed out of Lan Tianwei's mouth, and his voice reverberated through the room, as if to foreshadow a fierce battle that would soon take place in North Korea.

(To be continued)