Rebirth of the Qing Empire

In order to facilitate combat command, the Jin Army Staff also returned to Taiyuan with Kang Fan and set up the headquarters on the fourth floor of the provincial hospital. The guard battalion also came back together to guard Kang Fan. Captain Li and the special operations troops were at

With the cooperation of a large number of internal guard troops stationed there, we continued to carry out the mission of clearing out the remaining Japanese and Russian stragglers in the Northeast, and did not return together.

1905 was destined to be a changing era. Since Kang Fan and the others came to this era, after 10 years of hard work, they finally waited for the time to be proud and proud. The actions of the Shanxi and Heilongjiang governments also gained the recognition of the Qing people.

Universal support and support have laid a broad public opinion foundation.

The result of this was that more than 40,000 Manchu Eight Banners soldiers originally stationed in Jilin and Shengjing provinces all defected to the Jin army, and the Manchu Eight Banners soldiers, Han green camps, and local regiment training from all over the country voluntarily came to support the Jin army in combat.

It was more than 300,000! The number of soldiers of the Jin army suddenly increased to 600,000! Almost overnight, the dilemma of being stretched due to the shortage of defense forces after occupying a vast area was reversed.

There are countless amounts of gold, silver, mules and horses, grain, vegetables, fruits, wine, meat and other materials supported by the government and private parties from all over the country. A large number of medical staff, young laborers and vigorous students from the mainland are pouring in like a tide.

To the northeastern region, they did their best to assist the Jin army, which significantly reduced the war pressure in Shanxi and Heilongjiang. They were able to concentrate on the production of weapons, ammunition and military equipment that consumed huge amounts of money. This further enhanced the strength of the Jin army and demonstrated the unprecedented status of the Chinese nation.

A tremendous strength!

This is a reality that no contemporary world power wants to see, and it is also a reality that any contemporary world power is afraid of! As for the Russian and Japanese armies, they have fallen into a situation that is beyond redemption!

Kang Fan was not surprised by the exciting sight of officials and civilians all over the country, regardless of ethnicity, openly violating the Qing court's decree of "strictly observing outsider neutrality" and vigorously supporting the Jin army with practical actions.

In addition, it was expected that the Jin army's war against Japan and Russia would definitely get the support of some domestic officials and people. What was unexpected was that this support would be nationwide! This shows that the people of all ethnic groups in China are awakening.

And this is what Kang Fan wants to see the most!

Kang Fan immediately made adjustments quickly: using the former Jin 1st Division with great military exploits as his team, he added elite officers and soldiers selected from various Jin army units participating in the war, and expanded it into the Jin 1st Army with more than 50,000 soldiers. Commander Zhou

Promoted to the commander of the 1st Jin Army, stationed in the border area between China and North Korea; with the original 2nd Jin Division as the team, it was expanded to the 2nd Jin Army, garrisoned in the Shengjing Province-Bohai Coast area; with the 3rd Jin Division as the team, expanded to the 3rd Jin Army.

Return to defend Shanxi. The defense task of the vast area from the mouth of the Tumen River along the south bank of the Heilongjiang-Amur River to the west bank of the Tatar Strait is handed over to the Heilongjiang garrison, and Vladivostok is renamed "Vladivostok" in China. 4 ships

Jiaolong-class submarines and 12 Crocodile-class torpedo boats are stationed at the Vladivostok naval port, a large number of 130mm shore artillery positions have been built in important areas along the coast, and troops are stationed in Heilongjiang to enhance coastal defense capabilities.

On November 10, Kang Fan ordered the Jin 1st Army to forcefully cross the Yalu River and attack North Korea. The engineering troops built more than a dozen pontoon bridges overnight, effectively supporting the crossing of personnel, materials, vehicles, equipment, etc. A large number of 122 rocket launchers were strengthened

Under the guidance of the "Chasing the Wind" reconnaissance aircraft, the artillery unit of the 1st Jin Army with 130 cannons blasted the Japanese army assembly areas and important strongholds along the line into scorched earth. The Japanese army was unable to resist and retreated steadily.

The Jin army marched straight in. Within a week, the forwards had broken through the Qingchuan River defense line and wedged themselves deeply into the Korean Peninsula.

On November 16, all six "Jiaolong" class submarines gathered along the coast of the Korean Peninsula, looking for opportunities to block the Japanese navy.

On November 21, when the four destroyers serving as the vanguard of the Japanese reinforcement fleet sailed to the sea off Busan, they were discovered by the Jin Army's "Chasing Wind" reconnaissance aircraft that closely monitored the sea area. The summoned Jin Army submarines were all sunk. The follow-up fleet heard that

After the news, they retreated hastily to the Japanese mainland, and the reinforcement operation failed. The sinking of these four destroyers, which were not the main battleships of the Japanese Navy, became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

On December 8, the Japanese government made an active request for an armistice to the Qing government through the U.S. Embassy, ​​paid the compensation as required, and ordered all Japanese troops in various battlefields to cease fire.

But Kang Fan would not let go of this excellent opportunity to regain the Korean Peninsula: on the one hand, after occupying the Korean Peninsula, it could provide a strategic buffer zone for the northeastern region of the Qing Empire, making the defense situation more favorable; on the other hand, it would have

The vast contiguous sea area from the mouth of the Amur River, the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan, the coast of Korea to the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea made the northeastern inland area of ​​​​the Qing Empire, which had been closed by Russia for half a century, re-established as the Primorsky Territory. This strategic significance is extremely important.

.Therefore, Kang Fan ordered the 1st Jin Army to continue the offensive until all Japanese troops were driven out of the Korean Peninsula.

On December 17, the Japanese army, which had just received the armistice order, was caught off guard and defeated by a new and more fierce offensive of the 1st Jin Army. The 1st Jin Army divided its forces and attacked, heading south, chasing and killing the scattered troops everywhere.

A small group of Japanese troops drove them to the southern coastal areas of Korea and routed them.

Originally, all the countries watching the battle thought that the Jin army was fighting far away from homeland. After losing the strong logistical support of their own people, according to common sense, as the front extended, the Jin army would definitely encounter difficulties in logistical supplies, and it would take a few days to give up the offensive on its own initiative.

The Japanese also thought so. They only resisted briefly and quickly retreated south, waiting for the Jin army to give up the attack due to lack of logistical supplies.

But the fact is that a large number of transport vehicles equipped by the Jin Army's logistics troops continuously transported all kinds of combat materials from the country to the front line, showing an astonishing rapid supply capability. The Jin Army's troops entering North Korea changed their vehicles early

Wearing warm winter clothes, the cooking trucks, medical trucks, maintenance trucks, etc. equipped with them followed the large troops and provided hot meals, hot water, medical aid, equipment maintenance and other services to the troops in a timely manner, allowing the Jin Army's combat troops to go from start to finish.

In the end, it maintained a strong offensive power, and its momentum was simply unstoppable. Moreover, a large number of Jin army's internal defense troops stationed in North Korea effectively guaranteed the safety of the Jin army's logistics supply lines while doing a good job in the aftermath of the occupied Korean areas.

, leaving no gap for the small Japanese attack force to take advantage of.

The Japanese army was defeated again and again. At the end of December, tens of thousands of Japanese remnants were surrounded by the Jin army in a small area around the port city of Busan on the southern coast of Korea, fighting desperately. At this time, the Korean Peninsula began to enter winter, and the temperature dropped sharply below freezing point.

The cold wind was biting and the snow was falling heavily. The Japanese army, cut off from logistical supplies, had no warm clothing, lacked food and medicine, was suffering from cold and hunger, and the number of sick and dead increased day by day. The time before the entire army was annihilated could already be counted in hours.

The Empress Dowager Cixi sent several urgent telegrams, asking Kang Fan to stop the attack, but Kang Fan always ignored him. In the end, the U.S. government finally couldn't hold it back and intervened directly in the war. Of course, the only people who could convince Kang Fan were Donovan and Judy.

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Kang Fan accepted Donovan and Judy's persuasion and agreed to allow the remaining Japanese troops in Korea to return home on neutral ships under the supervision of the US government. However, the Jin army, which had always moved as fast as lightning, was very slow this time and delayed again.

It took nearly a week for the cold wave to pass before the retreat began slowly.

The besieged Japanese army had already run out of fuel. This week finally broke the last will of the Japanese army and triggered a large-scale riot. They were fighting to the death for a little bit of food, water, fuel and even the clothes on their dead comrades.

The fighting developed into cannibalism. The Jin army officers and soldiers who monitored the withdrawal watched all this indifferently and mercilessly withheld all the relief supplies provided by the British to the Japanese army without giving any to the Japanese army. The British diplomats strongly protested against the Jin army.

The Jin army behaved inhumanely, but the Jin army politely controlled it, and there was nothing that could be done about it.

"Kang Fan, is there something wrong with what you are doing?" Donovan and Judy both expressed their confusion.

Kang Fan said with a stern expression: "There is an old saying in our country called 'Abolition of all evil,' and I think both of you know what it means. It was only because of your intervention that I had to make the decision to cease the war. Do you understand?

It doesn’t matter if you understand it, that’s it.”

Donovan and Judy looked at each other, neither daring to speak anymore.

In the end, less than half of the tens of thousands of besieged Japanese troops retreated into the country, and the rest were buried in the ice and snow of the Korean Peninsula. The Sino-Japanese War ended.

This combat operation against Japan and Russia was the first real war commanded by Kan Fan. Russia lost the Heilongjiang-South Bank of the Amur River to the Sea of ​​Japan coast of the Qing Empire that it had occupied since 1860. Although Japan had

Russia seized half of Sakhalin Island and several surrounding islands, but lost the entire Korean Peninsula. The Japanese and Russian armies suffered heavy losses in personnel, weapons and equipment, combat supplies, etc., and lost their territory in the northeastern region of the Qing Empire and

All the original rights and assets of the Korean Peninsula have been completely destroyed.

And Kang Fan and the others not only won the war, they almost wiped out hundreds of thousands of enemy troops who invaded the Qing Empire, displayed their national and military prestige, recovered a large area of ​​lost and occupied territory, and took this opportunity to forcibly take back

All the rights and interests of Russia and Japan within the territory of the Qing Empire, including concessions and leased areas in Shengjing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places, as well as all road rights, mineral rights, factories, etc. within the territory of the Qing Empire, reversed the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop.

The government's crumbling decline has established a powerful position in the world and shocked the whole world! Their outstanding courage, strong national will and heroic spirit of daring to challenge powerful enemies have influenced many people in the country, from ordinary people to gentry, officials and businessmen, etc.

These people won widespread support and support from all walks of life in the country, causing certain changes to occur quietly in the domestic situation of the entire Qing Empire.

The contemporary world powers are unwilling and can only willingly accept the reality that the local forces of the new Qing Empire have squeezed into the ranks of world powers to compete with them. On the surface, they no longer dare to make mistakes easily. The days of peace have come again.

The domestic and international situation has never been better.

Kang Fan seemed to have seen the light.