After thinking about it, Li Hongzhang still decided to transfer Xu Bangdao's people to Asan, you must know that now in the Huai army, the two generals he trusts most are there, and sticking to Asan is equivalent to dragging the Japanese army south of Seoul, so that the army in the north can continue to enter Korea, if the battlefield is locked in Korea, the Japanese will not benefit, and then find someone to mediate in the world, it is not difficult to end the war, even if he lacks modern military thinking, he also understands the war very well, in the final analysis, it is still money, Tiny Japan is not at all comparable to China in this regard.

Although this will eventually make the Huai army suffer a lot of losses, but the war is also a good opportunity to expand the army, now this situation of overstretched troops, in the final analysis, is because of the imperial court's distrust of themselves, restricting the expansion of the Huai army, just like Nie Shicheng These people, who are not on the head of the general army, the admiral's top, but the result is only one person with one or two thousand or even hundreds of troops, according to the military system, how to a general soldier has to tens of thousands.

At this time, Li Hongzhang realized that this war did not seem to be a bad thing, at least for him it was both a danger and an opportunity.

In this way, the Gong Guards of the Xu Bang Daobu stationed in Tianjin began to board ships in Tianjin, and then sea to Asan, and on the same day that he set off, the battle began in a place that no one expected.

In Sandeng, North Korea, a group of Qing cavalry wearing uniforms was galloping on horseback, numbering about thirty or fifty people, and the officer headed by him actually had a red belt tied around his waist, carrying a pistol and a knife across his waist, and he looked murderous, which frightened the North Koreans on the side of the road and quickly dodged, but at this time, a local North Korean official suddenly ran out to meet the side of the road.

"What for?" The officer took the horse and shouted.

"General, I just heard the rumors of Orion, and there seems to be traces of Japanese people in the west." The official hurriedly said, in fact, the sticks at this time are still very affectionate towards China, and in the First Sino-Japanese War, they ventilated the news and stumbled so that the Japanese army could say that they had suffered a lot, but the Qing army was too uncompetitive to complain about this.

The officer's eyes lit up suddenly, he was originally a reconnaissance cavalry, and the whereabouts of the 3rd Division Headquarters and the Daeko Shangmin Brigade had been unknown since the landing at Wonsan, and the four major armies that arrived in Pyongyang were extremely careful with this Japanese army, because the Fengsheng Abe training army was basically cavalry, so the reconnaissance work was basically done by his people.

After asking the direction, the officer immediately waved his hand, dozens of horses galloped away, and just ran to a secluded place, a Qing soldier urged the horse to step forward and whispered: "Master, let's just go back and report a message, there is no need to make a risk, right?"

"What are you afraid of, this world belongs to Lao Tzu's family, you can't watch those Han slaves show off their might, right? What is there to be afraid of the Japanese people, even Nie Shicheng's gang can kill them to the head, Lao Tzu is not as good as those minions as a Manchurian nobleman!" The officer grinned, and there was a chorus of echo around him.

"Master, that gun doesn't have long eyes, didn't the old man just follow the monk and let the foreign gun kill him?" The clothed servant next to him said with a sad face.

"You Tama purify the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige!" His master raised his hand and slapped him, then brandished his pistol and said, "Look what this is?" Self-deed, what kind of Bo, Bofors's best fast gun, even foreigners look at it greedily, there is such a good guy who doesn't kill him today A hundred or ten widows will be sorry for the red belt on our waist. ”

"That's right, in the end, it depends on our Eight Banners to fight the war, and today we will let those Han slaves open their eyes! Kill him seven in and seven out!" The other guy sang about Nagasaka Slope, and was greeted with cheers, so the cavalry rushed down the road, and the Baoyi had to follow with a look of grievance.

Ran out for about dozens of miles, a veteran suddenly took the horse, and the others quickly stopped, this veteran who is more than fifty years this year frowned and listened for a while, suddenly jumped off the horse in the puzzled eyes of everyone, and was quite agile into a nearby wood, the red belt and his soldiers hurriedly followed, this veteran climbed out of the dead pile of Bali Bridge back then, and the family spent a lot of money to ask him to follow.

A group of people followed him, and soon crawled through the dense pine forest, and lay down on this small mound, the scene in front of them made everyone gasp, and the Japanese soldiers in a neat line could not see their heads, and were advancing along the road below the mound, with a forest of spears on their shoulders, cavalry running by from time to time, and the cannons dragging behind looked chilling.

The faces of a group of Eight Banner disciples turned white, and the Tianhuang nobleman trembled so much that his teeth slammed, and his hands were shaking constantly.

The veteran frowned and looked at the gang of wrecks behind him, and waved his hand lightly to signal him to hurry back, these Japanese soldiers were at least a few thousand, not to mention Zhao Zilong on the stage, even if Zhao Zilong came out and made a sieve, judging from their marching route, it would not be long before they would come around in front, and they would not be able to run if it was late.

The Qing soldiers hurriedly retreated to the pine forest, no one noticed how the head of the machine in the hand of the Tianhuang nobles was opened, he was running down in a panic at this time, and accidentally pulled the trigger, and the sudden gunfire frightened everyone, and the veteran's face immediately turned white.

"Run!" He roared, stepped forward and dragged this guy who had more than enough success and more than enough to run away, and at this time, the gunfire behind him had already sounded, and a Qing soldier who had just turned around fell in response, and half of his face was flying and the dead body stared at the rest of the eyes staring at the heavenly noble.

Tianhuang Guixuan screamed in fright, and at that time he collapsed on the ground and peed his pants, and was dragged down the mountain like a dead dog by the veterans, and just threw him on horseback, the figure of the Japanese cavalry had already appeared behind him, followed by a burst of gunfire, and the Qing soldiers who were on the horse fell seven or eight at once.

The veteran didn't care about it anymore, he pulled out a dagger and stabbed it on the buttocks of the Tianhuang noble horse, the carefully selected Jinzhou horse, screamed and galloped wildly, and the veteran took the troublesome self-deed, jumped on his horse and fled while shooting at the back.

Dozens of Japanese cavalry in the back chased after him, not far this team of Qing soldiers has lost more than half, even the veteran himself was shot in the leg, just running to see the Tianhuang nobles in front of him actually fell off the horse, it is no wonder, even if he can ride a horse, it is nothing more than to go out to slip his legs, how can he stand such a wild run, the veteran just wanted to go down to help him, just a war horse that could not dodge a hoof stepped on his chest, now there is no need to take risks, the veteran gritted his teeth and rushed over.

The news that the main force of the Japanese army appeared in Sandeng immediately made Pyongyang nervous, as for the death of a red belt, this is a trivial matter not worth mentioning, the yellow belt is not worth anything in these years, let alone the red belt, Zuo Guigui Zhijun killed two disobedient people just by killing, which is good at all, it is a death in battle, and it did not insult his ancestors.

Although Pyongyang does not have a formal commander, it is actually Zuo Guigui who is in command, he is the general of Jianwei of Zhengyipin, although this is just a military rank similar to that of a military rank, but it is also much higher than the other three, and even higher than Ye Zhichao, so Li Erdevil later asked Ye Zhichao to command all the armies in Pyongyang, and he could not convince the public from his identity alone.

On the one hand, he sent a report to Li Hongzhang urging the follow-up Song Qing and Liu Shengxiu to hurry into the DPRK, and on the other hand, he began to quickly arrange Pyongyang's defenses, as for taking the initiative to attack, don't mention this matter, although they have not yet clashed with the Japanese army, they also know what level their subordinates are.

Moreover, both of them are Huaijun systems, Wei Rugui and Ma Yukun cannot have any understanding of the situation of the Battle of Asan, in this case, it is better to rely on the fortified city, and the Japanese army relies on Wonsan Port for transportation, from there to Pyongyang is not only a long way, but also full of mountain roads, and the Koreans do not welcome them, such an army cannot maintain a long battle, they are all veteran generals with troops, this is still very clear.

It should be said that Zuo Guigui and these few are okay in the First Sino-Japanese War, of course, except for Fengsheng, who is purely playing soy sauce, Ma Yukun needless to say, even the Japanese in the first battle of the bridge shamefully admitted that they almost disabled a wing.

Even Wei Rugui, who was scolded in later generations, was mainly because of his wife's hurtful family letter, in fact, it should be seen from that letter that these two people still know the root of the matter, because the sixty-year-old guy in the battle of Pyongyang really carried a knife and went into battle in person, and the only counterattack in this battle was done by him, although the counterattack was messed up, but it was enough to prove that he was not as his wife expected.

On September 10, 1894, when Pyongyang was urgently preparing for war, the main fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division was riding the wind and waves on the Yellow Sea, and in the middle of the fleet were four merchant ships flying the British flag, loaded with 2,000 Gong guards of the Xu Bang Provincial Department and a batch of munitions transported from Lushun to Asan.

Ding Ruchang, who was sitting on the deck according to his old habit, was frowning and looking at the sunset on the horizon, the victory of the naval battle did not make the admiral of the naval division happy, because he knew very well what this victory relied on, if it were not for the rapid-fire cannon and picric acid cannonball presented by Yang Feng, I am afraid that the battle would have been lost by him, but he also knew very well that this was rootless water, and the ammunition consumed one-third of the last battle, and the movement of the additional ammunition and rapid-fire cannon was rejected again, and the victory of the Beiyang Naval Division did not make everyone happy.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, as an admiral, he needed to consider not only the enemies on the battlefield, but also outside the battlefield, and even behind, this is the sorrow of a general.

At this moment, a faint trail of smoke appeared in the sky.