In a conference room on the third floor of the Northeast Government Affairs Center Building, Japanese negotiators headed by Komura Shotaro, the Japanese minister to the Qing Dynasty, were negotiating a ceasefire with negotiators headed by Wu Peifu, chief of the general staff of the Dingbei Army, and negotiators from both sides were sitting on either side of the rectangular conference table.

Ogner, the British minister to the Qing Dynasty, Klinder, the German minister to the Qing Dynasty, and the American minister to the Qing Dynasty, Fidnall, who was invited by Komura Shoutaro to mediate, sat at the top of the rectangular conference table.

The atmosphere in the conference room is not too good now, as soon as Wu Peifu said the harsh armistice conditions that Lin Daxin had figured out by himself, Komura Shoutaro was so angry that he trembled, you are too ruthless, not only to let the Japanese Empire cede South Korea, the Ryukyu Islands and Hokkaido Island, but also to compensate 200 million pounds, do you know how much 200 million pounds is? It's definitely a lion's mouth, and that's not all.

It is really deceitful to go so far as to set aside land for you to use as concessions in Japan's five major port cities, including the capital Tokyo, and to have the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy hand over warships with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, so as to limit the size of Japan's naval and land forces after the end of the war.

When the three ministers who were the mediators heard Wu Peifu's terms of the armistice, they all felt that they were too harsh, and this was a rhythm that wanted to make Japan slump. However, none of the three ministers spoke, and they were ready to listen to what Komura Shoutaro had to say. After all, Japan took the initiative to provoke this war, and it was also Japan that took the initiative to request armistice negotiations. Maybe the Japanese will really do whatever it takes to stop the war.

Komura Shoutaro took a deep breath and made his tone as calm as possible, negotiation is a process of bargaining, and he must not be confused because of the harsh conditions given by the other party, so he opened his mouth and said: "Wu Jun, our Great Japanese Empire is here with sincerity, and I hope that peace can be restored between the two of us." But your conditions are too harsh for our Imperial Japan to agree. ”

After a pause, Komura Shoutaro then said the armistice conditions prepared by Japan: "Wu Jun, our Great Japanese Empire is willing to compensate you with 2 million pounds for this misunderstanding, and the two sides will exchange prisoners of war and sign a non-aggression pact. ”

Well, the compensation is 100 times less at once. The other conditions were all gone, and the three ministers who mediated looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly, the gap between the two sides was big enough. It seems that this negotiation is not easy to reach an agreement.

Wu Peifu listened to Komura Shoutaro's words, and said very simply: "Since you don't agree, then let's continue to fight on the battlefield!" ”

Threat. Naked threat! The green tendons in Komura's head jumped up.

At this time, the British envoy to the Qing Dynasty, Ogner, said: "Although the conditions of your two sides are very different, you are all sitting here with the sincerity of peace. I hope that everyone will try their best to achieve a satisfactory result and restore peace in the Far East! ”

The Far East here does not refer only to the Far Eastern Province under the command of Lin Daxin. Europeans take Europe as the center, and call the farthest east from Europe the Far East, including the eastern part of the original Russia, which has now become Lin Daxin's territory, as well as the Qing Dynasty, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and the original Philippines and other East Asian countries, so Europeans have always called Lin Daxin the military strongman of the Far East.

Under the mediation of the three ministers, the first talks between the two sides ended unhappily because the conditions put forward by the two sides were too different, but the two sides agreed to continue the talks tomorrow.

After the negotiations, Wu Peifu came to the office of Lin Daxin, the governor's mansion, and reported to Lin Daxin about today's negotiations. ”

Lin Daxin nodded and asked, "Ziyu, what do you have to build?" ”

Wu Peifu said: "I think that if we want to get something at the negotiating table, we still need support on the battlefield, and I think that our plan to attack South Korea remains unchanged, and if we can defeat the Japanese army in South Korea and occupy the whole of South Korea, then the Japanese will have fewer and fewer bargaining chips at the negotiating table, and the pressure on the Japanese will also increase, and finally force the Japanese to agree to most of our conditions." ”

Lin Daxin very much agrees with Wu Peifu's point of view, and the reason why the current negotiations are so difficult is because the Japanese still have a lot of bargaining chips, and only by reducing the bargaining chips of the Japanese can the Japanese give in.

So Wu Peifu continued to negotiate with the Japanese, and the two sides began to fight constantly, while the Dingbei Army, which was preparing to attack South Korea, continued to mobilize intensively, and finally started the campaign against South Korea on November 7.

The campaign against south Korea was launched from two directions at the same time, and the Dingbuk Army invested four integrated divisions of type A, seven division B, and armored divisions on the border line between Yalu River Province and south Korea, and in the early morning of 7 November, it suddenly crossed the border line and launched an all-out attack on the Japanese forces in south Korea.

The Japanese army built many strong mountain fortifications near the border line near Yalu River Province with the help of mountains, but the entire border between the two sides was several hundred miles, and although the Japanese army built many mountain fortifications, it was impossible to seal the border line of several hundred miles tightly, and this gave the Dingbei Army, which was attacking from the north of South Korea, an opportunity.

In order to reduce losses, the Jeongbuk Army, which was attacking from the north of South Korea, abandoned the traditional tactic of pushing flat on the front line, so as to avoid the war situation entering a state of see-saw due to the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, resulting in excessive losses of the Jeongbuk Army. Instead, they adopted the tactic of avoiding reality and making up for nothing, besieging and not attacking those strong mountain fortifications built by the Japanese army, and choosing to break through from the weak points of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army in South Korea knew that Japan was currently negotiating an armistice with Lin Daxin, and they could not help but be a little lax, coupled with the suddenness of the attack launched by the Dingbei Army, and soon on the day of the attack, border cities such as Incheon City and Sokcho City fell into the hands of the Dingbei Army, and Seoul was also surrounded by the Dingbei Army and launched a siege of the capital of the original Korean Kingdom.

The four divisions of the Japanese army in the mountain fortifications near the border line did not play much role, and the Dingbei Army passed through the weak places between the mountain fortifications, and left three B divisions responsible for surrounding and monitoring the Japanese troops on the mountain fortifications.

The Japanese garrison in Seoul reached 5 divisions, which was the city with the largest number of Japanese troops in South Korea, so it was not so easy to capture, with 2 integrated divisions of type A and 1 division of type B, as well as tanks and armored vehicles of some armored divisions, responsible for besieging Seoul, and after the troops of the Dingbei Army in the north captured the border city, they continued to attack inside South Korea.

As an important port in South Korea, Busan has 1 division of troops stationed near Busan, and 2 batteries have been built in Busan Port, and 12 large-caliber coastal defense guns and more than 20 small-caliber artillery pieces have been arranged, but the Dingbei Army did not directly land on the front of Busan Port, but unexpectedly chose a remote place near Busan Port to forcibly land, because the Japanese army was careless, and did not know that the Dingbei Army had landed on the shore, although this place was not suitable for large-scale landing, But it didn't take 2 hours for 1 brigade of troops to land.

After the landing of the Dingbei officers and soldiers quickly approached the port of Busan, suddenly launched an attack on the port of Busan, the Japanese army that hastily responded to the battle was defeated, and the large-caliber coastal defense guns of the two batteries in the port of Busan could not turn the muzzle, shelling the port, the more than 20 small-caliber guns of the fort could turn the muzzle, but the intensity of the support artillery bombardment of the Japanese army was limited after all, and it did not take long for the port of Busan to fall into the hands of the Dingbei Army, and the two batteries that posed a great threat to the naval warships also fell into the hands of the Dingbei Army.

The Japanese army in Busan, which reacted, immediately organized troops to counterattack, but at this time, the Third Fleet and the Fifth Fleet of the Northeast Navy had already approached the port of Pusan, and began to provide fire support with large-caliber naval guns to the officers and men of Dingbei who occupied the port of Busan, and the large-scale landing of other units of the Dingbei Army also began in front of the port of Busan.

As more and more troops of the Dingbei Army landed at the port of Busan, the Japanese army in Busan became powerless, and finally even the city of Busan was captured by the Dingbei Army, and the Japanese troops guarding the Busan area fled inland.

After the two A and two B divisions of the Jeongbuk Army landed at the port of Busan, the Jeongbuk Army in the south of South Korea began to continue to advance into the interior of South Korea.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese garrison in South Korea, Kuroki Weizhen, who was in Seoul, woke up early in the morning and found that the Dingbei Army had already approached the city, but the Dingbei Army only surrounded Seoul and did not attack immediately. What's going on? Aren't armistice negotiations underway? Why did the Northern Army come over? How could so many mountain fortifications on the border line allow the Dingbei Army to be broken through so quickly? Is it to put so many troops into it?

Kuroki couldn't take care of anything else for Zhen, so he immediately sent a telegram to Tokyo, Japan, telling the Japanese base camp that the Dingbei Army was attacking South Korea! (To be continued......) R1292