With the two new and old Beiyang fleets attacked each other, and the high-speed torpedo boats continued to launch torpedo attacks on the severely damaged Japanese pirates' combined fleet, the Japanese pirates' combined fleet was destroyed in the Yellow Sea just two hours from the beginning of the battle

The rest are the Beiyang Fleet to treat the wounded and use machine guns to shoot at the Japanese pirates who fell into the water. This is not for massacre, but because the Japanese pirates believe in the spirit of Bushido and are more concerned about being captured than to be captured. Of course, the Beiyang method is to help them. In history, the Japanese pirates won the battle, and they are also the officers and soldiers who fell into the water. Everyone has Asian countries and cultures.

The Beiyang Fleet deliberately put a torpedo boat worth more than ten tons back to report the news, but no other main ship was spared. Originally, the Beiyang Fleet had a large tonnage, strong firepower, good protection, and fast speed. It was reasonable to win a great victory.

The only 40-ton torpedo boat that the Beiyang Fleet lost was hit by the Yoshino 150mm rapid-fire artillery and sank when it launched a torpedo attack.

The entire Yellow Sea Battle was over, and the Japanese pirates' joint fleet was destroyed. Except for one torpedo boat in Beiyang, only 37 people were killed on the spot, and many were injured, with 466 people being slightly injured. The juicy shells exploded and the power was still very strong.

After hearing the war report, the Japanese pirate emperor vomited blood and fainted. When he woke up, his eyes were dull and his words were inconsistent. The blow was indeed a bit big.

After reading the battle report, Li Hongzhang said happily to himself: "The young children have defeated the enemy."

When the news reached the capital, the Qingliu people were quiet for two days.

Two days later, when the Beiyang Army in Korea was still fighting with the Japanese pirates, the Qingliu people started to move again. First, a censor wrote a letter to the censor, believing that Li Hongzhang led the Beiyang victory over the Eastern Japanese this time, and the victory of the national war was enough to break up the land and be named the king. He should be given nine tins of titles as the King of Huainan. The court could hand over all south of the Huainan River to Huainan King Li Hongzhang.

As soon as the memorial was written by Weng and his disciples, the censor followed up and asked the court to grant Li Hongzhang the king.

Li Hongzhang knew that Weng Tongxi gave him eye pills, so he simply claimed that he was sick in Tianjin and refused to see guests. Anyway, if he won, he would give an explanation, otherwise hundreds of thousands of Beiyang soldiers would be convinced.

Hundreds of thousands of Beiyang soldiers were making trouble, and those Eight Banners who were walking their birds and watching shows could be regarded as the Eight Banners?

With a great victory in the navy, the morale of the army also increased, and the sea supplies were constantly being replenished. Ye Paopau also transformed into Ye Zhichao - repelling the crazy attacks of the Japanese pirate army from the fortresses around Pyongyang.

When Ye Zhichao decided to break through in history, he almost had no ammunition and food, and he lost his control of the sea power.

The situation is now changing, and dozens of 37mm six-barrel machine guns sent by Lao Li have beaten the Japanese pirates in the defense battle of the fortress.

Lao Li used to not like machine guns because they were too expensive and the ammunition was also expensive. Now he finally got cheap machine guns and ammunition. It would be useless if he didn't need to use them, and it would not be useless if he used them.

In fact, the same is true. The 37mm machine gun is already considered an anti-armor weapon. It can be used to hit Japanese pirates on the spot. It also has a fast firing rate and a long range, and the shell explosion is powerful. When the Japanese pirates attack, they begin to be fired by machine guns three thousand meters away.

A longer distance, artillery fire, this time the navy retired and purchased a lot of artillery, and part of it was distributed to the Beiyang Army. Some of them had a range of more than ten kilometers and were very powerful. The fortresses around Pyongyang were built with such artillery and machine guns as the core. Infantry rifle firepower, that is, it is useful to carry a gun when working on night. But now, they are basically on duty with flares at night. Every flare is fired in ten minutes, and the Japanese cannot attack at night.

The repeated attacks with heavy casualties have confirmed one thing, that is, courage cannot compete with steel.

Almost all the Japanese pirates killed nearly 4,000 people, the army killed more than 10,000 people and more than 20,000 people. The biggest problem is that they suffered heavy casualties, but that the Beiyang Army had no casualties at all. According to the Japanese Army itself, there were about a few hundred people killed or injured in Beiyang, which was all due to artillery and a small number of machine guns. However, until now, the Japanese Army's artillery has been knocked off by the opponent's artillery, and now they can only be beaten.

During the Japanese military academy assessment, there was a question: what should I do if I discovered a large number of enemies? The only correct answer was to carry forward the spirit of Bushido and rush forward to destroy the enemy.

However, now the Japanese army has organized charges again and again, and only they have been eliminated. This is uncomfortable. The opponent's large-caliber shells and machine guns and shells seem to be unable to finish them. At night, they still fired guns and cannons into the grass in the invisible forests. For the Japanese army who were stingy with ammunition, they should not know what night duty firepower is.

However, the Beiyang Army shells are almost cost-effective now. They want golden nanmu and jade.

Not to mention the golden nanmu, many gentry and powerful families have it, just talk about jade resources. This era has not been exhausted at all, and as long as you are willing to dig it, you can find it - not to mention that the several jade old pit mines in Myanmar are still in the Qing Dynasty.

Now even Guangdong and Tianjin can produce some ammunition themselves. The assembly line prepared by Zhang Cheng for Beiyang is the steampunk version of the fully automated ammunition production line, just like the one shown in the opening film of the King of Arms.

Although it seems backward, this era is still the era of steam engines. No steam engine is used. The Qing Dynasty is a poor country. Using internal combustion engines is not as good as steam engines.

Although this set of equipment looks simple in later generations, it only requires manual boiler and loading, and then wait for the shells to come out of the assembly line. It was still very shocking for the workers of the Qing Dynasty. In this era, the shells were all machine-processed by mechanics. Is it good to use machines to process shells? This is why a shell costs dozens of processes and dozens of taels of silver. The labor costs of skilled mechanics are very expensive.

The emergence of fully automated assembly lines has greatly reduced the cost of bullets and shells. In addition to a small amount of labor costs, that is, raw material costs, this will definitely not be saved. However, new steel mills and new mechanical mining plants for Beiyang have begun to be built.

Faced with the Beiyang Army, which has unlimited ammunition to waste, the use of Japanese soldiers is just to accelerate death. Or it is lucky to die now, many seriously injured Japanese soldiers have begun to lack medical treatment and medicine.

Since the Japanese pirates' joint fleet was killed, the few remaining navy of the Japanese had to secretly carry out some transportation between Kyushu and Busan. However, facing the Pyongyang battlefield, this more than a thousand miles of mountain road is not so easy to walk.

Not to mention that we will encounter guerrillas composed of North Koreans on the road. These guerrillas will have to fight even if they can't beat them, even if they can harass them a few times. This will also bring about increasing logistical pressure on the army.

After reading the battle reports of the Navy and Army, the Japanese pirates base camp felt that they could not continue to fight. So they began to find allies to find solutions. Now they are the British-Japanese alliance.

Of course, Japan did not want to ask Britain to make any talk, but wanted the British to send troops to declare war on the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the British did not want to put themselves in for Japan. Not long after the First Boer War ended, the British had not yet recovered. Besides, they had to fight, and they really had to fight Boer. There were really gold and diamonds there, and the Qing Dynasty only had an immature market.

Of course, it is the British-Japanese alliance period. Even if the Japanese war bonds purchased for the sake of the United Kingdom, the British would have to help them, but just helping to scare people, it would be over.

After learning about the British's ideas, Hirobuki Ito made a plan to think.

Two days later, Japanese Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Sutaro Omura, and Japanese Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Keisuke Otori came to the Zongliya of the All-China Federation of Nations to meet with Prime Minister Weng Tong-shu, accompanied by British Minister to the Qing Dynasty, Sir Ogne and Sir Jurden, the General Secretary of the British Embassy.

Well, this position was deliberately given up by Li Hongzhang to make things sick to Weng Tongxi. Since ancient times, weak countries have no diplomacy, and the diplomacy of the Qing Dynasty is not something that people can do.

Originally, the target of Omura Sutaro and Oto Keisuke was Li Hongzhang, but since Li Hongzhang won the battle of the Yellow Sea, he has been ill and kept his door closed and refused to meet. He even said that he is no longer the Prime Minister and is not responsible for diplomatic matters. Please find someone else.

Fortunately, Weng Tongxiu was also a good choice. He was not only the Prime Minister, but also the Minister of Revenue. He also served as the teacher of the young emperor and the previous generation of the Qing Dynasty. There was no one else in this qualification. The Qingliu Gan generals under his command came in groups and responded to him.

Although I feel that the work of dealing with foreigners is not done by humans, today, Weng Tongxiu was still a little happy when he heard that the Japanese envoy and minister were coming to meet. Although it was Beiyang that won, the Beiyang was still the case with me in the Qing Dynasty.

Weng Gongsu had already thought about it before meeting him. At that time, he would humiliate the Japanese and let them go. Japan probably wouldn't be able to pay any money. I heard that in order to purchase ships, the Japanese Emperor even took pants. It would be the end if he could pay millions of taels of silver.

The land was cemetered, and the typhoons in Japan were hit by the earthquakes and tsunamis every year. Who would have to be given away for free? Of course, Ryukyu must be independent, and Ryukyu was originally a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty.

After the diplomatic personnel of the three countries settled, Japan's plenipotentiary Keisuke Otori took out a document to read: "In view of the unreasonable attack on our joint fleet in the Yellow Sea, the entire army of our joint fleet was wiped out, and all 3,900 naval personnel were killed in battle. Your country's army was even more unreasonable attacking our team in North Korea, our country's vassal state, causing more than 10,000 casualties.

After our domestic cabinet decides that for the eternal peace in Asia, your country is requested to compensate our country for unreasonable military actions. Among them, many people from the Beiyang Fleet, from Li Hongzhang and Ding Ruchang, should be included in war crimes and handed over to our country for trial. Secondly, compensation for the losses of our country's navy and army is equivalent to 400 million taels of silver.

We must also compensate our country for all ships from the Beiyang Fleet, recognize that North Korea is a vassal state of our Japan. We will also cede Northeast, Dayuan Island and Hainan Island as compensation."
Chapter completed!