Boss Yang's raid on Osaka caused a sensation in the world, and tomorrow the newspaper went crazy in Europe with overwhelming propaganda, boasting that this was a righteous whipping of that barbarian nation, although there were also several tabloids that criticized the behavior of his subordinates in Osaka, but this sound disappeared as quickly as possible like a pebble thrown into the turbulent waves, especially after the Emperor and the Vatican praised this behavior at the same time, Boss Yang's burning, killing and looting was qualitated, this is the burning and looting of justice.

The Japanese accused him of all kinds of crimes in Europe, and even gritted their teeth and tried to play public opinion tactics with some of the already stretched funds, but unfortunately too few dared to take their jobs. Everyone understands the consequences of confrontation with a huge wealth empire with hundreds of millions of pounds in assets, and the media that dared to speak for the Japanese will be followed by a large number of competitors who aim to squeeze them to death, and it is needless to say who is behind the manipulation of these opponents. So even if there is money to be made, then you have to think carefully about whether the money is hot, and besides, compared to the Japanese money and the Yang consortium, it is purely a joke.

The helpless Japanese had no choice but to continue to beg the British, hoping that the British government would come forward to restrain Yang Feng, after all, this kind of behavior of always coming out to stir up the situation was seriously not in the interests of the British. At this point, the British Zhengfu was indeed very annoyed, but they were annoyed that they were very bad at offending Yang Feng now, and the significance of diesel engines and steam gas torpedoes had already been reflected in this war.

If it weren't for the two destroyers that dragged Togo and his first guerrilla fleet, then the outcome of the Sino-Japanese Yellow Sea War would definitely have to be rewritten, in this case, the Royal Navy has regarded diesel engines as the future, and even a Sovereign-class battleship that switched to diesel engines has been completed, and with the use of four diesel engines, this 15,000-ton giant ship has reached a speed of 21 knots, leaving all the battleships in service and under construction in this world far behind. Major European newspapers even exclaimed that the battleship had turned all the battleships into scrap overnight.

In addition to the excitement of the British Navy, they also found themselves facing a big problem, they could not imitate this diesel engine themselves, even if Young's Power opened all the drawings to them, and even sent a large number of engineers to help, the same volume of diesel engines built, the power is not even one-third of the genuine version, and the failure rate is surprisingly high, and it is not practical at all.

In this regard, the engineers of Yang's Power System Company were helpless, and they also told the British that more than one-third of the diesel engines they manufactured were made by Boss Yang who did not know where to make them, and half of the remaining part had to rely on the machine tools and materials that Boss Yang did not know where to transport them, without these things, in fact, they could not manufacture this diesel engine in Sweden.

The British then understood that they were pitted by Yang Feng, not only the diesel engine, but also the steam gas torpedo, their imitation can barely reach the same range, and the speed is about the same, but the hit rate and the explosion rate after the hit are simply different from the original, and the engineers of Bofors are also kind enough to tell them that some parts in this thing are also directly supplied by Boss Yang.

That is to say, as long as the British Navy wants to continue to equip these two things, then they must rely on Yang Feng, at least before the same thing is really imitated, the Royal Navy must stretch its neck into Yang Feng's hands and pinch him at will, this situation is very dangerous, and theoretically it is absolutely not allowed.

But without these things, the Royal Navy would be finished, because by this time the Germans, the French, the Austrians, and even the Italians began to introduce diesel engines on a large scale, and the Germans had also begun to build diesel battleships. Even the small countries in Northern Europe have begun to purchase high-speed destroyers from the Young's shipyard in large quantities, and even the Ottoman Navy has ordered six of these destroyers, and has also entrusted the Young's shipyard to build them two armored cruisers with diesel engines.

If the Royal Navy didn't use diesel engines, and in less than five years their huge fleet would be left behind by everyone, that would be a real nightmare! So they must continue to maintain friendship with Yang Feng now, compared with the future of the Royal Navy, the suffering of the Japanese is not worth mentioning, the British Zhengfu not only rejected the request of the Japanese, but also clearly told them that the best choice now is to admit defeat, otherwise when the German expeditionary force arrives, they will be in great trouble!

If you can admit defeat, you will have to cede the land and pay reparations, thinking about the scene of the great powers swarming in the future, Ito Hirobumi shuddered, but if he did not admit defeat, he would have to bear the price of the enemy hitting the homeland, he was hesitating, the good news came, the first good news in this war, and it was a huge good news.

Pyongyang was victorious.

The First Army, led by General Aritomo Yamagu, known as the father of the Japanese Army, defeated the Qing army that took the initiative to attack Samden, and had already taken advantage of the situation to kill the city of Pyongyang.

Yang Feng was also speechless when he heard the news, to be honest, although Iktanga is a Manchurian, this person still has military talents, after all, he is also the general of the territory who followed Monk Lingqin back then, and it is not the same nature as those who walk birds at all. Originally, he fought well with Nie Shicheng in Motianling in history, but with such a person, why was he stupid enough to attack nearly 40,000 Japanese troops with more than 20,000 people? Do you really think that those soldiers under your command have the ability to attack the Japanese army?

"It's also difficult for Iktang, he was named by the Queen Mother this time, and asked him to go to North Korea to kill the prestige of the flag man, after all, Asan has fought too well, and the flag man has been pressed by our Han people militarily over the years, since the time of long hair, but at that time, there was still a monk king to support the flag man to support face, after the death of the monk king, there was no longer a figure who could support the beam, the queen mother wanted to take this opportunity to re-erect a flag of the flag man, so he directly asked him to break the Japanese first army.

In this case, there is no other way for Iktanga, even if he knows that the strength of the Japanese army is far stronger than his own, he must attack the Japanese army hard, the imperial court does not know the true combat effectiveness of the Japanese army in Ludao, they know that the more than 10,000 of our more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Asan are helpless, since this is the case, there is naturally no problem for the more than 20,000 troops to take the initiative to attack.

In fact, he fought okay at the beginning, after all, most of them were Huai troops, I heard that Wei Rugui led his own soldiers to participate in the attack, and he was also shot and wounded, but the Japanese army also learned our trench tactics, so after a day of fighting, each army lost more than 3,000 and did not make any progress. As a result, in the middle of the night, the Japanese army sneaked up, Feng Sheng'a was the first to run, and the second general of Iktang A's subordinates, U Heng'e, ran away, and they ran away with Liu Shengxiu, who didn't want to attack, which caused the rout of the armies on all fronts, if it wasn't for the quick reaction of Song Qing, who stayed in Pyongyang, I am afraid that the Japanese army would have taken the opportunity to enter Pyongyang at this time. Xue Fucheng said with a wry smile.

In fact, Yang Feng was blinded by the results of the battle in Ashan, this is the real combat effectiveness of the Qing army, and the entire Jiawu battlefield was defeated all the way.

But it seems that this is not a bad thing, if the Japanese army meets again in Pyongyang, then I am afraid that they will not have the courage to fight this war, give them a victory, and can also strengthen the courage of Ito Hirobumi to fight, if the two sides do not fight, what reason do they have to continue to harm the Japanese people? This thing sinisterly decided to watch the hilarity.

In fact, as he guessed, the real combat effectiveness shown by the Qing army made Shan County Youpeng simply ecstatic, he suffered less than 200 casualties in this battle, and as a result, he wiped out 3,000 Qing troops at once, and also forced the main force led by Iktanga out of Pyongyang, and now there are only 4,000 Yi troops of Song Qingbu in the city.

Originally, Ito Hirobumi was already thinking about whether to let the British come forward to mediate the peace talks between the two sides, even if half of the family divided North Korea, or if it really didn't work, they would withdraw from North Korea, which could be regarded as saving some face. As for the Germans and Yang Feng, if they can really withdraw the two divisions, they will basically be able to hold out, Yang Feng is a pirate, and those 5,000 people will definitely not attack the well-defended city, and the Germans' 10,000-mile expedition will not last too long.

But now Shan Shan Youpeng resolutely disagreed, and clearly told him that the Qing army can really fight the ones in Asan, and it does not have the ability to attack, and the rest does not need the second army, he can easily cross the Yalu River with the first army in a month, and at that time there is hope for peace talks, at least North Korea is hopeful, and at that time you can also use the victory on the battlefield to show your strength, if you make peace talks now, then everyone will regard Japan as a weakling, which will stimulate the ambitions of the great powers against Japan.

He said very reasonably, if he can hit the Yalu River, at least let Germany and Russia know that Japan is not easy to provoke, and will carefully consider their requirements, since this is the case, Ito Hirobumi also decided to hold on a little longer, to be honest, it is indeed too embarrassing to sue for peace at this time, and if it is not good, it will be hacked to death by the angry samurai, as for the problem of domestic security, it is really not possible, so I have to organize more sword drawing teams, and in addition, those old-fashioned breech guns and artillery will be sent to the reserves in various places, and all the people will be soldiers to defend the country.

So Yama County Youpeng immediately divided his troops into two routes, he led the second and third divisions to pursue the retreating Iktang A's army, and Prince Beibaichuan Palace led the fourth division to besiege Pyongyang.