The Lushun fleet of the Yueben Navy retreated all the way from Dingju and Nampo to the port of Incheon, trying to assist the Korean army and the Yueben army to hold Seoul, but Song Biao was not polite, and continued to send troops south to occupy Kaesong and Yeoncheon, and actively deployed troops to surround Seoul.

The great rout of the army exceeded everyone's expectations, and the European and American powers did not expect it at all, let alone the political axe and the army, that all the media in China were hyping up the victory of the Northeast Army, and the army was blocking these news, and even if they reported the defeat, they could only use words such as "evacuation", "killed", "broken jade", and "damage", and it was strictly forbidden to report the specific figures of annihilation.

No matter how much he tried to cover up this kind of rout that could almost destroy the pride of the entire nation, the world knew it after all, Song Biao was indeed the god general of Asia, and now as the emperor of the Chinese Empire, he continued to repeat the old situation of the Liaoyang Battle on the Korean Peninsula, and three large-scale battles smashed the six main divisions and four reserve brigades of the Yue Army, as well as two division-sized Korean servant troops.

The army claims to have 15 divisions and regiments, but in fact only 12 divisions and regiments are formally organized, and the rest of the 13th, 14th, and 15th divisions have not yet taken shape, and the 14th and 15th divisions have also transferred a large number of officers and men to form reserve brigades.

It is clear that this battle cannot be fought any further.

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After occupying Pyongyang, Song Biao requisitioned the residence of the South Pyongan Province of North Korea as the front-line headquarters of the Northeast Army, set up a front-line general quartermaster station in Gangdong County, 35 kilometers east of Pyongyang, and began to plan another southward offensive from the northeast and the country, starting from Seoul and fighting all the way to Busan.

After Pyongyang was captured, the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Divisions in the Northeast were repaired on the spot, the 6th Division was intensively transferred to Kwandian through the railway to prepare for the south, the 12th, 14th, and 15th Infantry Divisions of the Beiyang Department were responsible for attacking Seoul as the main force, and the 1st Infantry Division was stationed in Yeoncheon as a reserve.

During this period, the whole army seized the time to reorganize, and the newly formed regiments transferred troops on a large scale to supplement the first- and second-line troops, and the 70,000 recruits transferred from the country were supplemented to the new regiments of the patrol forces in the third-line troops.

It was a very good decision to attack Pyongyang quickly, because Pyongyang was the general station of the Japanese army, and it had hoarded a large amount of military supplies and ammunition reserves, and by sorting out the captured materials of the Japanese army, the Northeast Army had achieved the goal of using war to feed the war and use the army's supplies to reduce supplies on the spot.

After reorganizing the artillery captured from the Yue Army, further repatriation from the Guannai, and the arrival of the second batch of artillery on loan from Russia, the Northeast Army will be able to have more than 3,300 barreled artillery pieces in half a month, which is enough for the Northeast Army to form two artillery corps.

After a new combat meeting that morning, Song Biao received a letter from Akiyama Zhen who had come to see him.

At this time, Song Biao was already the emperor of the Chinese Empire, and it was much more difficult to see him than in previous years, as for his identity as an emperor, after this war, there was no objection at home and abroad, and now the great powers of various countries are concerned about nothing more than two things, one is when to officially ascend the throne and send special envoys to congratulate and submit credentials; The second is how the Sino-Chinese Xinhai War should end.

Obviously he was an accomplice of the book, and he wanted to bite the new empire with the British Empire, and he wanted to come over to mediate for the Chinese people, but Song Biao refused very unceremoniously, as the relationship between Britain and France gradually improved, and Russia and France were allies, France also tried to coordinate with the Chinese people, but Song Biao decided to invite the United States, which was outside the neutral, to come forward to coordinate, and at the same time set the place of consultation and negotiation in Pyongyang.

The reason why Song Biao wanted to do this was precisely because the seemingly neutral United States was also eager to weaken the United States in order to reduce the threat of the Japanese Navy to the United States.

Mayuki Akiyama is an old friend.

Song Biao still agreed, so he asked Han Chunlin to pick up Akiyama Shinyuki in.

More than ten minutes later, Akiyama Shinyuki, who was wearing a handsome white military uniform, followed Han Chunlin and other chamberlains into the office with a solemn expression, and walked to the center of the office. ”

Song Biao raised his eyes coldly and looked at Akiyama Shinichi, and after a while, he bowed his head slightly, and motioned for Han Chunlin to bring the letter.

After receiving Song Biao's instructions, Han Chunlin stepped forward to take the letter and forwarded it to Song Biao respectfully.

Katsura Taro's calligraphy is very good, about these old people's brush words are much more chic than Song Biao, Song Biao is quite concerned about this point for a while, before opening the letter and Akiyama Mayuki said: "Your country is really interesting, do you have to send you over every time you come to such a time?" ”

Akiyama Shinyuki wanted to make a joke and humiliate the bastards in the army by the way, but considering that this is not what it used to be, Song Biao has become the emperor of China, even in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of China is still the emperor above the emperor.

He didn't dare to say those sneering and vicious words anymore, so he kept bowing his head and replied: "Your Majesty, Your Excellency probably thinks that I still have some courage to tell the truth in front of Your Majesty. ”

Song Biao opened the letter, and instructed while reading it: "You are a foreign envoy, don't be so cautious, sit down." ”

Akiyama Mayuki immediately thanked him and sat down on the chair arranged by Han Chunlin.

Song Biao finished reading Katsura Taro's letter, and he estimated that it was about the same as Abe's handwritten letter many years later, but China said that cooperation will lead to Asia's victory, China said that cooperation will restore Asia, and China said that competition will defeat Asia, and he also talked about the past history and friendship between China and China, and hoped that Song Biao, the emperor, would take into account the overall situation and work with him to end the war, restore peace, restore normal business and trade relations between the two countries, and talk a lot about future cooperation.

Whether it is me or the South Koreans, including North Korea, Vietnam, and Myanmar, they are all like this, and they will not let go if they take advantage of it, and they will not let go, and they will suffer because China has put on a great power posture, anyway, you have a vast territory and a rich family background, so you should let me be a little more, and you have been so tolerant for thousands of years.

After reading the letter, the more Song Biao thought about it, the more angry he became, and he directly tore the letter into two and crumpled it into a ball and threw it on the ground.

Akiyama Shinyuki was taken aback, and Han Chunlin, who was accompanying him, was also speechless in surprise, but neither of them could see any abnormality in Song Biao's expression, and he still looked calm and indifferent.

At this moment, Song Biao and Akiyama Shinji: "His Excellency Prime Minister Katsura Taro single-handedly launched this war, which led to heavy losses in our country, and my country solemnly demands that the war criminals be punished. During Katsura Taro's tenure as Prime Minister, Japan rejected all demands for peace talks. Also, don't insult my intellect with outrageous words like Prime Minister Katsura Taro. Not to mention the country's affairs, it's the street business, provoking others, smashing other people's vendors, and finally can't beat others, and they still want to pat their butts and leave, without taking any responsibility, there is no such good thing in the world. We have known each other for a long time, I won't talk nonsense with you, in short, I won't give up, if you want to talk about peace, then wait for your country to come up with conditions. ”

Akiyama Shinyuki didn't know what Katsura Taro had written, and he must have said something serious when he heard what he meant, probably not even an apology.

Thinking of this, Mayuki Akiyama really didn't know what Prime Minister Katsura Taro asked him to do, just to embarrass himself? Really, how can there be such a prime minister?

Think about it, Akiyama Shinnoto feels very sad, before those guys in the country shouted that Song Biao would be the emperor of China, and that it would be completely declining or something, but the whole country knew about it, and even Prime Minister Katsura Taro repeated it so conclusively, and the result was going to be a war.

Although Akiyama Mayuki didn't know whether he would lose or win at first, he always felt that Emperor Song was not such a person to mess with.

It turned out to be good, but this time it was really too much of a loss.

Therefore, the bastards in the army are really unreliable at all, so they will only shout that they want to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, and they will not die.

Really.

There are really few reliable people now!

Akiyama Mayuki became more and more sad in his heart, and could only sigh to Song Biao: "Your Majesty, I knew that I would cause trouble when I came over this time, if this matter could be decided by me, it would be much easier." Presumably, the Prime Minister said some meaningless pleasantries, and probably did not express his own true thoughts, but as far as I know, the Prime Minister really wants to end this war that should not have happened in the first place, and now there are only two questions, one is to know the conditions of you and your country, the second is to consider the price that our country can pay, and the third is to ask your Majesty to forgive me if we can really reach an agreed peace treaty, please refrain from using words such as our defeat or your country's victory, so as not to provoke our people again. ”

Song Biao immediately sarcastically said: "Nonsense, the battle is so big, so many people have died, and so much money has been spent, can it just end up in such nonsense, and it can end without a victory or defeat?" ”

Akiyama Shinnoru said: "Your Majesty, please consider the situation of our country, after all, our country is an island country surrounded by the sea, and in the case of your lack of a navy, it is not easy to continue to fight like this." If the war really has to go on forever, our navy can only carry out more aggressive aggression along your coast, which is obviously not the situation you would expect. In other words, if you're not looking for a quick win, there's really no need to force it at such a cost. As far as I know, the real main force of the Northeast Army is only 200,000, and the current casualty rate may have reached 1/4, and although our army is embarrassed, after all, there are still plenty of reserve forces to be deployed. Although there are some suspicions of threats in these remarks, I sincerely hope that China and the two countries can end this war that should not happen at all as soon as possible. ”

Song Biao asked him, "What do you mean it shouldn't happen?" Major General Akiyama, existence is reasonable, there are many reasons why your country wants to provoke this war, you have to admit your mistakes, instead of covering them up with excuses such as 'it shouldn't have happened', what I hate most about your country is this, when you take advantage of it, you talk about ethnography, and when you suffer a loss, you treat it as if nothing happened, and you blindly avoid talking about any responsibility. In the words of us Chinese, your country can only be described in four words: despicable and shameless. ”

After a pause, Song Biao added calmly: "I am not here to get carried away and comment at random because I won the battle, but because I have known your country's surname since the Lushun Massacre. You can go back and tell Katsura Taro, don't underestimate me, I secretly produced and purchased enough munitions for me to wipe out all the armies of your country, you have been preparing for this battle for several years, I don't know, but I have been preparing for six years, if you just want to overthrow the Manchu rule, with the strength of the Northeast Army, you can swing your army into the customs four years ago, and I have been waiting for you to come to find trouble for the extra four years. As you said, it will not be very good for our country to continue fighting, but in the same way, in terms of our country's preparations, it will definitely be even more disadvantageous for you to continue fighting, and as long as you still want the colony of Korea, I can slowly drag you until you are exhausted. If you don't believe me, then take your time and fight me on the Korean Peninsula. ”

Akiyama Mayuki was speechless, thinking that you are really too ruthless, but I can't say it so ugly, although you are now His Majesty the Emperor, I am just an envoy of a country, but after all, I can be regarded as an old friend with friendship, I think you want to send students to study in the Great Empire, I have contributed a lot, and I have won a lot of preferential policies for you.

At this moment, Akiyama is really like sitting on pins and needles, and he feels very uncomfortable.

He hated the bastards of the army to death, and made him and the Empire lose face on the land of Korea.

If there was no Xinhai War, the Great Empire could be regarded as one of the rising powers in the hearts of all countries, but now it has really become a joke in the eyes of all countries, the army was slaughtered twice, and the death was worse than the other, and the last time it was consumed in the offensive, this time it was simply surrounded and annihilated, and it was used as a bench for the Chinese Army.

Akiyama thought to himself, this is really a turn of feng shui, today's Chinese army is enough to deter all countries in the world with this battle alone, and rank among the world's army powers, from today onwards, during the lifetime of Emperor Song, what other country would dare to send an army to this continent to challenge the Chinese army?

Seeing that Akiyama Mayuki was embarrassed and had nothing to say, Song Biaocai said: "What specific conditions must be negotiated to reach an armistice agreement, let the provisional cabinet political axe consider this kind of matter, as the emperor of the constitutional monarchy, and under the current circumstances, it is not convenient for me to openly or semi-openly interfere in the work of the political axe." You can just sign an armistice agreement, and as for whether you are defeated or victorious, history will naturally judge fairly, but since this matter began with South Korea's provocation of territorial disputes, and South Korea has also sent troops to fight, it is said that South Korea and South Korea need to negotiate separately, and South Korea must admit defeat, otherwise Japan will have to occupy the whole of South Korea. During the formal negotiation period, it was said that the navy and army must withdraw from Seoul and stop all military operations, and that the DPRK should not increase its troops again, and that China will not increase its troops during this period, and this is the basis for the negotiations between the two countries. ”

Akiyama Shinyuki breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Song Biao was willing to start negotiations, his trip would be considered to be completed, and he immediately asked: "Your Majesty, regarding the affairs of the mediation country, my country has entrusted Britain and France to participate in the negotiation and negotiation, your country and France and Russia are quasi-military alliances, and our country and Britain are general-Italian alliances, it may be more reasonable for Britain and France to preside over the consultations, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks?" ”

Song Biao said: "I have invited former US President Theodore. Mr. Roosevelt took charge of the mediation on behalf of the United States, and I am confident that he would act on the principle of impartiality and not take sides. As for France's opinion, I think we can listen appropriately. ”

Regarding these things, Song Biao didn't want to come forward directly to negotiate and negotiate, even if he gave Akiyama Shinyuki some old feelings, but it was over here, he didn't want to say any more, and briefly ended the conversation: "That's it, I have other things to do." ”

Akiyama Mayuki could only reluctantly get up and say goodbye.

The reason why Song Biao wants to let the cabinet axe come forward to be responsible for the armistice negotiations is that he needs a layer of buffer, and the cabinet axe can be raised a little higher in some terms, or it may be lower, without touching the bottom line of the book, and he can later let the cabinet axe renegotiate with the government on the grounds of refusing to sign the decree.

It is rare to fight such a good battle, and if it does not hammer out some favorable terms, how can China give up?

At least in Song Biao's time, China will be a small country that is not good at patience and tolerance.

Song Biao's invitation to the United States to intervene in mediation was to a large extent to squeeze out Britain's influence and not give Britain a chance to mediate, which would be conducive to him uniting with the United States to squeeze the original and former US President Theodore. Both Roosevelt and the United States were happy to play the role of mediators, since the armistice negotiations were held in Pyongyang, Theodore. After arriving in Pyongyang, Roosevelt met with Song Biao to understand some of the basic requirements of the Chinese side.

With the start of formal armistice talks, China and the two countries have temporarily stopped their military operations on the Korean Peninsula, and the navy has also interrupted its original plan to invade the country.

Taking advantage of this period of time, he actively recruited and transferred reserve officers and men at home in an attempt to reorganize the four reserve divisions, but under the premise that Britain and France refused to provide new loans, it was difficult for him to purchase military equipment from abroad to quickly make up for the gap in the equipment of the Chinese army.

Similarly, the Northeast Army has also seized the time to repair and redeploy, build temporary railways, and strengthen the construction of fortifications; in China, recruit training camps in various localities are still actively recruiting new recruits, and even in the DPRK, a 15-day crash course for noncommissioned officers has been held temporarily to transfer new noncommissioned officers.

In September last year, when the Northeast Army was formally preparing for war, the Northeast Army considered the issue of installing light machine guns, and also negotiated with the Danish company Madsen to purchase light machine guns, but the Madsen company initially did not consider how big the sales of light machine guns would be, and easily agreed to the terms of the Far East Arms Company's purchase of royalties at a price of 60,000 pounds.

The price of the Madsen machine gun was not cheap in the first place, and after putting on a posture of ruthlessly slaughtering the company, he always felt that it was not cost-effective, and buying a Madsen machine gun was enough for the company to build two 38-year-old heavy machine guns in the country, but he only bought 300 Madsen light machine guns.

Now the Madsen machine gun is famous, and now if you want to buy it, the price is even higher.

Obviously, the Northeast Army did not care; after a buyout of the patent fee clause, the Far Eastern Arms Company opened six branches in the three eastern provinces, which separately undertook the production of parts and components, introduced assembly line management, and purchased special machine tools from the United States to reduce the difficulty of production and processing, and the current output can reach 2,000 units per month.

At this stage, there is not only a shortage of light machine guns, no submachine guns, and even a serious shortage of artillery, so we can only step up the production of crude mortars to cope with the situation.

At this time, the situation was that the Northeast Army continued to intensify its preparations for war, constantly expanding its troops, and adding new equipment, while the Northeast Army made every effort to offset such pressure and ensure that it could be in a relatively better environment during the negotiation process.

Futile.

The main force of the army has been lost, and the Northeast Army continues to maintain the scale of 500,000 iron army, so what else can be done.

Song Biao also admitted that the navy is the strongest in Asia and can also rank among the top five in the world, but on the Korean Peninsula, it is impossible for the navy's 10,000-ton battleships to sail on land, right?

Because Ben has actually lost most of the hole cards in the negotiations, the armistice negotiations were not difficult, but an unexpected thing happened in the middle, several princes of Outer Mongolia actually really wanted to announce the reading power, and there was no need to find out who supported it, in short, their news was really ill-informed, and even the slightest wave was not alarmed, and the Third Cavalry Division and the Second Cavalry Division marched into Outer Mongolia at the same time.

It was said that it had been delayed for a while, and seeing that Outer Mongolia could not make any waves, it was really discouraged, and by mid-May, the two countries had basically determined the bottom line of both sides.

China's armistice conditions are that South Korea admits defeat and compensation, China and South Korea negotiate separately, that the territorial dispute between China and South Korea is based on the evidence submitted by the Chinese side, that China and South Korea reach an "equal" territorial transaction treaty, that China buys Jeju Island and surrounding islands from South Korea at a price of 10 million taels of silver, and that South Korea's compensation to China is about 14 million taels of silver.

In the Sino-Chinese armistice talks, the Chinese side said that the Chinese side would return Taiwan and the surrounding islands and the Lushun Leased Area, and that it would make a formal apology for the Lushun Massacre, severely punish those responsible, compensate China with 4 million pounds, peacefully renounce all privileges and concessions in China, sign a separate treaty of commerce to replace the original treaty, give up the Gengzi indemnity, and repay the Gengzi indemnity that China has already paid to the Gengzi in the form of offsetting the expenses for students on official assignment, and China and the Ben share the guardianship of South Korea, and the area under mutual supervision is bounded by the Han River.

At the same time, he needs to repay the Zhenyuan ship.

The Chinese side is happy and worried, the good thing is that "at least the face of the empire has been preserved", there is no more compensation, and the worry is about giving up Taiwan, which is the cornerstone of the southward strategy.

The return of Taiwan and the relinquishment of privileges in China are no longer inevitable, and what makes it difficult for the Chinese side to accept is that the Diaoyu Islands and the islands are certainly "part of Taiwan and the surrounding islands", and they cannot be denied, and they were originally occupied through a war treaty and should be returned together, but the Chinese side has expanded the "surrounding islands" to the Senjima Islands, which the Chinese side calls the Western Ryukyu Islands, and the corresponding ones are the East Ryukyu Islands, which are divided equally from the Miyako Strait.

Song Biao did not have an aggressive posture, after all, China does not have a navy, and it is not a matter of relying on it, and the posture he made the cabinet political axe put on is to demand that the dirt be divided equally with the Lord, and that North Korea take half of each and the Ryukyu Islands also take half of each.

If he really wants to force the whole of Korea to take it back, but the problem is that it is impossible for the Korean Peninsula to be taken back as territory, and China is not suitable to directly dispose of Korea as a colony, so it is better to be more affordable, nominally the Korean Peninsula will give you half, and you will give me half of the Ryukyu Islands. As for how to manage the DPRK in the future, it is, of course, a joint division between the two countries.

The other terms, Yue Ben really felt that they were still very loose, and the loss was not big for him, and it was acceptable, but for the Xiandao Islands, Yu Ben didn't want to let go, and the two sides were at a stalemate in this place.

Therefore, it is the kind of country that takes advantage of it and does not want to vomit, but it is better than the post-World War II country, at least it understands the truth of the victorious country.

Although he was very unwilling, he put on a posture of "even if I sign it, I will continue to work hard to win it back" and "China said that there will be a real ocean war one day", as if this would scare Song Biao, but he basically had to sign it, and he had to sign it if he changed Xiyuan Temple Gongwang to become the prime minister.

In the words of Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, it is much better to sign than not to sign, and ending the war is what should be done at this moment.

Objectively speaking, in terms of the level of politicians such as Ito Hirobumi and Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, China's politicians in this period are really worse than them, although Song Biao pushed Tang Shaoyi out to be the prime minister, but he actually does not look down on Tang Shaoyi's level.

Even Zhang Kangren, Ouyang Xi and others below, in Song Biao's view, are still far from the level of the kind of prime minister that China needs, and they are not even qualified as training reserves.

In the period immediately before the signing of the Sino-Japanese Armistice Treaty, the prestige of the Chinese Empire in the international community grew rapidly, and Song Biao also secured his imperial throne and returned to Yanjing on May 22, 1911.

At this time, the Xinhai War, which had actually lasted only half a month, would come to an end.

As the emperor of the empire, Song Biao once again created a new miracle with his own hands, annihilating 120,000 troops with a ten-day rapid onslaught, which was more brilliant than the Battle of Liaoyang six years ago.

At this time, no one dared to oppose it anymore, and no one had any qualifications and guts to challenge his authority and his legitimate surname as emperor.

At this time, no one dared to question the orthodox surname of the Liberation Revolution.

When he returned to Yanjing, Song Biao enjoyed the treatment that a founding emperor really deserved, and continued to stay in Xihai Tower Park to perform the duties of the emperor in the admiration of all the people, and when he returned to the office he was familiar with, the first thing he did was to send a check of 300,000 silver yuan to Long Jiguang in Guangdong, Lu Rongting in Guangxi, and Luo Peijin in Yungui.

Song Biao didn't want to talk nonsense with them, but also let them do it themselves, willing to hand over military power, and get along with each other, he would not be held accountable, if these three continue to be ignorant and shameless, then he can't be blamed for being polite.

The military power in the hands of these three people is still not weak, and the 25th Town of Guangdong, the Guangdong Mixed Association, the Guangxi Mixed Association, the 19th Town New Army, the Yunnan Mixed Association, and the Guizhou Mixed Association add up to the strength of the four towns, which is almost equivalent to half of the Beiyang Army.

It is precisely because of this that it is impossible for Song Biao to continue to tolerate them to become bigger in the local area, and Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang provinces are not in a hurry to clean up for the time being, at least in China's traditional territory, Song Biao is not allowed to stay at all.

At this time, he definitely has the capital to leave no sand in his eyes.

As long as he insisted on being emperor and firmly controlled the military power of the whole country, it would be impossible for China to be chaotic, and the era of warlord chaos would not come.

(To be continued)