Master Yuan, start!

He had seen the notice when Yuan Shikai was recruiting soldiers in Beijing and Tianjin and had taken the initiative to go to Korea.

After Yuan Xiangcheng learned about this, he could only sigh at the powerful corrective power of history.

As Duan Qirui's slogan sounded, the entire army shouted in unison, and the sound shook the earth.

Yuan Xiangcheng smiled, raised his hands and gently stroked them, then walked to the front of the army and spoke again in a high-pitched voice:

"We soldiers, since joining the army, have vowed to be good soldiers who stand tall and proud! Helping those in need and defending our country is my dream."

"Helping the poor and needy includes not only the Qing Dynasty, but also Korea!

Now that the people of Seoul are suffering from this disaster, how can I just sit back and do nothing?

What's more, the Japanese were involved in this rebellion and their ambitions were very big.

If we leave it alone, China's borders outside the Great Wall will be in danger!"

Yuan Xiangcheng pointed at the smoke-filled Hancheng, and said with swift steps and a loud voice:

"I know what happened tonight, and some of you know it too!

The rebels are stirring up trouble, misleading the people, and the Japanese are involved, harming Chinese people and Chinese businessmen, and humiliating our compatriots."

"Eat Marshal Yuan's food, wear Marshal Yuan's clothes, and serve Marshal Yuan." Ming Ye took the opportunity to shout.

More than 2000 soldiers also shouted in unison again:

"Eat Marshal Yuan's food, wear Marshal Yuan's clothes, and serve Marshal Yuan!"

Ming Ye suddenly opened a silver box, revealing a pile of silver, and then scattered the silver on the ground.

But none of the soldiers went up to pick it up.

"I don't want it. Lord Yuan has already paid my salary and sent food and cotton clothes to my old father. If I continue to covet Lord Yuan's money, I will be ashamed to see my father."

After one person spoke up, the rest of the people also refused to take the silver on the ground.

"I am willing to defend our country together with Lord Yuan and defeat the Japanese pirates!"

1. "Follow Master Yuan's orders!"

"Die for Master Yuan!"

Until Yuan Xiangcheng said: "Go and get it, serve as a soldier and fight in the war, get money and risk your life. I, Yuan Xiangcheng, will never treat you unfairly!"

Then someone slowly came forward, took his share of the silver, and returned to the team and stood in order.

"The army's morale is ready!"

9 Yuan Xiangcheng muttered to himself, then drew his sword from his waist.

1 Raised high above his head, the tip of the sword pointed directly at the distant Hanyang City.

As soon as the gunshots were heard in Hanyang City, everyone in the city became chaotic.

In the Lu gambling house, Wu Zhaoyou's excited shouts could still be heard.

"big big big!"

Wu Zhaoyou stared intently at the dice in front of him, muttering to himself non-stop. Several personal guards stood behind the card table to cheer him on.

"Damn it, this is such bad luck!"

Wu Zhaoyou and his personal soldiers sighed, completely unaware that several people in the gambling house were absent-minded and only staring at their table.

As for the guns they carried, they were too heavy and were placed inside the casino under the watchful eye of one person.

While Wu Zhaoyou was still immersed in the regret of failure, dozens of Korean new soldiers with guns suddenly rushed into the door. The leader was Xu Guangfan, one of the two Xus.

Wu Zhaoyou suddenly felt something was wrong, and without saying a word, he stood up from the card table and walked towards the house in the backyard.

The personal soldiers around him had not yet reacted.

However, their long braids were too conspicuous, making them sitting ducks among everyone in the casino.

When Xu Guangfan saw his personal guards beside the card table, he shot and killed one of them. The Korean new soldiers beside him did not care whether they injured anyone by mistake or not, and fired a volley of more than ten guns at the personal guards.

"It's murder! Run!"

The gambling house was in chaos, with mahjong tiles, dice, and banknotes scattered everywhere.

At this time, Xu Guangfan saw Xu Zhaoyou running towards the back door, and shot him, injuring Wu Zhaoyou in the shoulder.

But Wu Zhaoyou still escaped into the backyard.

Xu Guangfan was furious and chased after them with a dozen new recruits.

Although Wu Zhaoyou fled into the backyard with a gun, he was left with only one personal soldier to look after the gun, and his two fists could not fight against thirty hands.

He was so angry that he pulled out his gun and shouted: "What do you Koreans want to do? Are you going to rebel? Do you know that I am the nominal admiral of the Qing Dynasty, the acting general of Tianjin Town, and the admiral of the Qing Dynasty's garrison in Korea!"

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"Master Wu is so majestic."

Xu Guangfan's cold words made Wu Zhaoyou's face change drastically. Looking at a dozen Korean new soldiers walking into the backyard one by one, pointing their guns at him and his personal soldiers, he couldn't help feeling a little desperate.

"You, the new Korean army, don't want to defend your country, but want to rebel?!" Wu Zhaoyou was still making his last struggle.

"Don't be coerced. Retreat immediately. I can ask the King of Korea to execute only the main culprit and forgive your crime of rebellion."

"Hmph, the Qing Dynasty is unjust. We allowed you to steal the world during the Chongzhen period. It should have been destroyed during the time of Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing. It's God's fault that the Qing Dynasty survived to this day." Xu Guangfan laughed coldly, waved his hand, and a volley of gunfire swept over.

Wu Zhaoyou wanted to say something else, but Xu Guangfan didn't give him the chance.

Nearly ten Qing soldiers, including him, were killed by the mob in this gambling house.

Wu Zhaoyou was Yuan Shikai's immediate superior in the original time and space, and he worked with Yuan Shikai to suppress the Korean rebels during the Gapsin Coup.

But now he died.

"Sir Xu, Wu Zhaoyou has been coming to Huicai Hall frequently recently. That's why we can secretly plan and kill him by surprise." The man who had been following Wu Zhaoyou in the hall stepped forward and said.

"But Ma Jianzhong and the German, Mu Linde, are staying inside the embassy, ​​so it's difficult for us to take action."

"Where is Yuan Xiangcheng? Where is he?"

"Sir, our spies say Yuan Xiangcheng has fled to the Qing concession in Incheon. We can't leave the city anytime soon, so we can't kill him!"

"Forget it then, you're just an incompetent rat. Seeing the chaos breaking out, you just ran for your life. What a coward."

"Take a group of people to surround the embassy and don't let Ma Jianzhong out." Xu Guangfan gave the order without hesitation.

Search q group: 2九h4散6驷 "Others, follow me to kill the traitors!"

There were only three Qing army commanders in Seoul. In Xu Guangfan's view, one was dead, one was surrounded, and one had escaped.

Next, if we kill all the pro-Qing, pro-Daemon, and conservative ministers one by one, then who in Korea can sit in power safely if we don't let the Enlightenment Party take power?

...

Before Wang San found Yuan Xiangcheng, he first went to the Qing army camp in Hancheng and just hurriedly shouted at the camp gate:

"The North Koreans are rebelling!"

He ran to find Yuan Shikai, and had no intention of fighting the enemy together with these Qing soldiers.

Wang San naturally knew the quality of the Qing soldiers in the city. Facing the new Korean army, he was not only powerless, but also unable to do anything.

This group of Qing soldiers was just as Wang San had expected. Wang San's words made them start to cause chaos among themselves.

Before they could put on their clothes and get their equipment, the Qing army barracks, which had been designated as a key location for attention, were suddenly attacked by the new Korean army.

In the chaos, more than 100 of the 500 or so remaining soldiers of the Qing Camp were killed on the spot.

The remaining people did not dare to fight back even with guns, and could only run out of the city in ragged clothes in the cold weather until they met Yuan Shikai.

Looking at the former Qing soldiers stationed in Seoul who were running towards him in disheveled clothes, some of them didn't even have guns in their hands. Yuan Xiangcheng could only let them go to the rear to get new guns and prepare.

All the new troops in Incheon followed the order and lined up to march out.

Putting away his sword, Yuan Xiangcheng nimbly mounted his warhorse with Ming Ye's support and galloped towards Seoul.

When he got on the saddle, Yuan Xiangcheng thought to himself: It was thanks to my original riding skills that I had this body, otherwise, as a modern young man who had never ridden a horse, I would have been thrown over as soon as I got on.

The one thousand people on the left are the first battalion of new troops led by Duan Qirui and the second battalion of new troops led by the second battalion commander Sheng Fei.

Although the Hanyang City in front of them was not a century-old fortress, Yuan Shikai did not have time to build siege equipment such as catapults, ladders and battering rams.

In addition, there were occasional gunshots from the Korean New Army on the city wall. Although the muskets of this era were at such a distance, they had no killing power at all.

Looking at the closed city gate, Yuan Shikai ordered people to lead horses and bring eight 8-pound frog cannons to the front line.

"boom!"

"boom!"

After a few cannon shots, the Hanyang city gate collapsed.

"Follow me into the city and kill the enemy!"

A group of more than 2000 people filed into the city, only to find that Hanyang was in a state of hell on earth.

"Let's go! Go to the embassy to find Mu Linde." Seeing the chaos in the city, Yuan Xiangcheng's first thought was to protect important officials.

Yuan Xiangcheng had his own selfish motives for not stopping the riot in the city.

Now the Kaihua Party was killing people indiscriminately in the city. Although some of them were pro-China people, most of them were still blindly conservative, and there were even many conservative nobles.

If these people survived, they would be a huge obstacle in Yuan Shikai's future strategy of conquering Korea.

If they dare to oppose the Kaihua Party now, they will dare to oppose Yuan Shikai in the future.

In Yuan Shikai's strategy, Korea would be used as a base to advance into the Northeast in the future, and the reform of Korea was the top priority.

It can be said that Yuan Shikai thought the same as the Kaihua Party members in some aspects.

It’s just that the Kaihua Party wanted to rely on Japan, while Yuan Shikai first had to eliminate Japan’s influence in Korea.

When the rebel army turns the situation of the entire rebel army in Seoul upside down, Yuan Shikai will lead the army to suppress the rebellion with the support of the people.

If we use the power of suppressing the rebellion to implement reforms in North Korea, there will be less resistance.

What's more, Yuan Shikai had at least several thousand well-equipped Qing troops under his command, and the rebel army could do nothing to them with the existing thousand or so troops.

The longer it drags on, the better it is for him, because that way he will have more time to expand his influence.

Chapter 12 The Bear and the Hero