"Wan Sheng!" The soldiers of the second brigade of the forward team standing at the head of the camp excitedly raised their swords and guns. A North Korean army was retreating rapidly in the distance, and several artillery placed on the city were still sending shells into their array for a moment, continuing to harvest the lives of these North Koreans.

The gate of the village was also opened. One thousand,500 cavalrymen stepped on the soft valley on the Luodong River, holding up their swords, and quickly rushed towards the retreating Korean army from behind to try to leave more Korean soldiers. They chased them far away, and they retreated unwillingly until they met the Korean musketeers who were blocking them by fortifications. But even so, the retreating Korean army also fell down one thousand or hundreds of people again in their head-end pursuit, and the losses were quite high.

Faced with these weak Koreans, the East Coast army initially took the large number of opponents and retreated to the temporary camp. As a result, after fighting for a few days, they found that the quality of these Korean soldiers was very average, just like the ordinary Qing army green camp. Moreover, there were very few cavalrymen (less than two thousand), and most of them were riding Korean ponies. The number of Mongolian horses was very small, so they were hit hard by the cavalry brigade led by Captain Yang Mingyang as soon as they went on the battle, and then disappeared from the battlefield.

When facing more than 50,000 Qing troops in Yantai Fort, the East Coast army just guarded the city and fully utilized its firepower advantages, without any move to fight. However, when facing the siege of less than 60,000 Korean troops, the East Coast army always opened the gates to pursue the enemy's defeated army after repelling the opponent's offensive, and tried to maximize the results of the battle.

After several failed sieges, the North Koreans have lost five or six thousand people and their morale is extremely low. On the contrary, the East Coast people have only been killed or injured by about two hundred people. They are all like the stand-up team. The losses of the East Coast Army and the black soldiers are minimal. Only a few more than ten people.

Speaking of which, the reason why the front team suffered such casualties was mainly because the rough and completed city walls were not perfect enough. The combat quality and combat experience of the soldiers of the Second and Third Battalions were far inferior to the First Battalions, and they were equipped with cold weapons. Therefore, it was normal for them to be killed and injured by North Korean archers and musketeers.

However, this casualties are not a problem for the East Coast people with nearly 10,000 war soldiers. They suffered minor casualties and their supplies were abundant under the endless shipping. As their opponents, the Koreans were in a very unsatisfactory situation. Not to mention that they suffered more than 5,000 casualties. Just to maintain the supply of 50,000 or 60,000 troops on the front line, the neighboring Gyeongsangdo, Chungcheongdo and Jeollado were already suffering. Especially when Gyeongsangdo's supplies were plundered by the East Coast people, the burden was almost entirely on Chungcheongdo and Jeollado. Even though these two Taos were said to be rich, they were overwhelmed and their years of savings were consumed.

Today is June 15th. The two sides have been stalemate on the narrow alluvial plain at the mouth of the Luodong River for a full ten days. In addition to the first few days of defending due to the enemy's strong momentum, the East Coast people began to fight back in the past few days, causing the North Korean casualties to soar. The intensification of casualties has intensified the war-wearing feelings of these North Korean soldiers with loose military equipment. The confidence of the generals who led the troops was also shaken. In this case, after a day of procrastination, the North Koreans sent another peace talks on June 16th to discuss the ceasefire between the two sides.

Unexpectedly, the conditions offered by the East Coast people were basically not changed much from the first time, and they were still the same conditions that were difficult for the North Koreans to accept, such as cede land, compensation, trade, and severing ties with the Qing Dynasty. This is not counting. Their negotiator Mao Desheng also said shamelessly that due to the long-term delay, the East Coast army was very expensive and needed more military compensation, which was that 200,000 taels increased from the original compensation of one million taels of silver, which angered the North Koreans.

However, this time they did not leave like the negotiations at the beginning of the moon, but patiently talked with the people of the East Coast, hoping to reduce their conditions. As for why, it was mainly because the commander of the front line received an emergency order from Wang Jing, demanding that the battle end as soon as possible and the withdrawal of the army back to guard Wang Jing. Because several warships of the people of the East Coast (two guard gunboats and one fast cruiser) suddenly appeared in the waters near Jianghua Island and sunk several Korean naval warships, Wang Jing was panicked.

They dare not bet whether the yellow-clad pirates would land nearby on a boat and then head straight to Wangjing. They couldn't afford to bet. If they really dispatched thousands of elite troops to come on a boat, what would you do to stop them? Many of the troops guarding Wangjing have been transferred to Gyeongsang Road, Wangjing is very empty! When the force was unable to drive the people on the east coast into the sea and their capital was seriously threatened, the North Koreans could only demand peace talks with bitter face, and even give in to some steps.

As if they knew the situation that the North Koreans were facing now, the East Coast people offered prices without fear, which made the North Koreans in the negotiations frightened and angry. They left several times, but under Wang Jing's urging, they had to return to the venue with shamelessness to continue the negotiations.

During this period, in order to encourage the Koreans to give way, after fully considering the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and us, Mo Ming decisively ordered the main force of the army, the Eight Banners New Army, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Second Brigade of the Standing Team, to dispatch more than 7,000 people, and then lined up outside the camp. After the formation, they began to slowly move towards the camp established by the Koreans, and immediately stopped after entering the range of artillery fire, and then concentrated artillery fire to bombard it, killing the same thick wooden camp so that wood chips flew across the wood.

The Koreans were forced to fight! However, they were beaten by more than 20 artillery guns while leaving the camp to get up. Some local soldiers from Zhongqing and Jeolla Road were scattered by fierce artillery fire before they even finished the formation. Only then did they know how terrible the rumored yellow-clothed pirates' combat method with artillery as the core. Thousands of troops who had been arranged in a hurry were even chaotic before they even rushed to the other side's formation, and the soldiers were in a state of chaos. And after the opponent's black vassal ghost slave soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding spears pressed up fiercely, their morale immediately collapsed and began to turn and flee back. In the distance, the cavalry of the yellow-clothed pirates raised their shiny sabers and began to accelerate slowly and came to the center of the battlefield.

The Koreans were defeated without any suspense. They lost two or three thousand troops again. In addition to the fleeing Jeolla Do and Chungcheong Do local soldiers, the Koreans' troops were probably already tens of thousands, and their morale fell to the bottom. This time it was a dignified field battle! Facts proved that they could not defeat the yellow-clothed pirates in both field battles and siege battles, and even the battle to defend the city was probably not able to defeat the battle to defend the city - because they could not withstand the other party's artillery! This understanding completely made the Koreans completely lose a trace of confidence, which also accelerated the negotiation process between the two sides.

The first article proposed by the East Coast people was the clause of renting the Port of Busan for 100 years. The North Koreans flatly refused. But just when Mao Desheng was furious, the North Koreans vaguely stated that they would allow the East Coast people to travel to and from the Port of Busan freely, trade, settle down, farm, and fishing. The North Koreans did not make any obstruction or charge any taxes. North Korean officials would even allow the East Coast people to "autonomously" in the Port of Busan, which is equivalent to actually recognizing the special interests of the East Coast people in the Port of Busan.

The East Coast people had no intention of actually renting the Port of Busan because it would obviously disperse their troops. This was just to put forward this article to more bargaining chips during negotiations. Therefore, when the North Koreans proposed such a vague and vague compromise proposal, Mao Desheng gently exposed this article after pretending to be dissatisfied.

Regarding the second requirement for demilitarization of Gyeongsangdo, the Koreans said at first that they could not agree. However, after the East Coast artillery conducted a test firing towards the Korean camp, the Koreans had no choice but to say that Gyeongsangdo could be dismissed. But they could not keep the army at all. After the final argument, Mao Desheng "gun" agreed to the North Koreans retain an army of no more than 6,000 people in Gyeongsangdo, of which the cavalry should not exceed 1,000.

As for the proposal of the East Coast people to open a shopping mall in eight North Korea roads, the North Koreans hurriedly refused. The East Coast naturally refused. After a verbal fight, the two sides finally agreed to open trade in Busan Port and Wonsan-jin. The East Coast people can sell any quantity of goods in the two places, and local North Korean officials are not allowed to obstruct them for any reason.

Next was the focus of the negotiations, namely the clause that the East Coast people demanded to cut off all ties with the Qing Dynasty. Regarding this clause, Mao Desheng also knew that the Koreans had no courage to agree, because they were afraid of the Qing Dynasty's anger and raised troops to conquer them. But Mao Desheng pretended to be unhesitant and repeatedly entangled on this issue. During this period, he dispatched cavalry again to plunder the four fields and attacked the Korean soldiers who were picking out of woodcuts to exert pressure. In addition, the sailors on three warships on the east coast suddenly landed on the land to occupy Jianghua Island, which was defended by few soldiers. Several parties put pressure on them. In the end, the Koreans reluctantly agreed to withdraw all the troops that assisted the war from the Qing Dynasty on the grounds of domestic uneasiness, and reduce the trade volume with the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, they also hinted that they would inform the East Coast people of the Qing Dynasty through some secret channels.

Finally, regarding the compensation, the East Coast people asked for 1.2 million taels of silver, while the North Koreans only agreed to 100,000 taels. The gap between the two sides seemed too big at first glance. However, at this time, the two sides were exhausted by the lengthy negotiations. After a hasty discussion, they decided that North Korea would compensate the East Coast people with military expenses of 150,000 taels and the Ganghua Island redemption fee of 100,000 taels, totaling 250,000 taels, which seemed to be quite beneficial to the North Koreans. However, in order to obtain this "benefit"

The terms also pay some additional conditions, namely: ships on the east coast can be parked in the North Korean port to avoid wind and waves and repair ships; naval ships on the east coast can be measured along the coast of North Korea, and the North Koreans must not make things difficult for no reason; the currency used by the two sides to trade should be the legal currency of the East Coast Republic of China; North Korea sells grain to people on the East Coast every year at a preferential price, and the quantity must not be less than 100,000 stones, etc. All of the above are included in the Appendix to the Treaty.

After submitting the approval from both sides to the superiors for approval, on July 30, Mo Ming arrived on Ganghua Island on a naval ship and signed a peace treaty with the North Korean representative, namely the "Treaty of the East Coast Republic of China and the Kingdom of Korea". The treaty includes the main text and appendix, which basically covers all the negotiation results of the two sides. From the war between the two sides to the signing of the peace treaty, it was even less than three months. During this period, I don’t know if it was North Korea’s failure to notify or what happened, the Qing Dynasty did not respond. In fact, they were unable to send a large number of troops into North Korea within three months, which made the East Coast people smoothly weaken and shake North Korea, one of the wings of the Qing Dynasty, and the large net of the Qing Dynasty would obviously be weaved more and more densely.
Chapter completed!