In Liaodong City, Yang Tai, the veteran of the Jiuzhou Army and the commander of the First Corps, received a telegram from the capital, ordering his First Corps to cross the Yalu River to enter the Goryeo Kingdom to quell the rebellion, abolish the Goryeo Kingdom, and establish the Goryeo Province.

"I have been stationed in Liaodong for so many years, and finally attacked Goryeo." Yang Tai couldn't help but sigh and immediately mobilized the First Corps to prepare for the war.

The First Corps was an elite force in the Jiuzhou army. It has been guarding the industrial base of Liaodong and southern Liaoning, which is rich in iron ore. It also suppressed the former Later Jin nobles and conquered some unsubmitted savage tribes in the Heilongjiang River Basin.

After the order to send troops to Goryeo was issued, more than 10,000 fully armed soldiers gathered in Liaodong City, and almost a large number of civilians were summoned to transport food. In addition to the First Corps led by himself, Yang Tai also borrowed 2,000 cavalry from the Liaodong Cavalry Regiment to supplement the lack of cavalry.

In the past, Chu Yun and other generals of the military headquarters discussed that it might take two corpses to pacify Goryeo, but now he thinks one corps is enough.

The First Corps brought 17 artillery and 2 Gatling machine guns to advance eastward. They destroyed the sieges along the way and easily stepped on the rebels' siege.

The leaders of the rebels were executed, and the land confiscated by the rebels was temporarily distributed according to households. The landlords who were unwilling to hand over the land were executed like the rebels.

Wherever the First Corps went, they were invincible, and the rebels were frightened!

They have been against the governments in Seoul for several years, but those were the old-style troops of the King of Goryeo, and even the Japanese warriors were unbeaten, so the rebels became stronger and stronger in the battle.

When the Kyushu Army decided to annex the Koryo Kingdom into a Koryo province, the rebels found that their enemies were incomparable!

In the decisive battle in the field, the First Corps simply used artillery to bombard the rebel formation, and then lined up the formation to move forward. The rebels would often become defeated after two to three rounds of shooting and were then chased by the cavalry.

The rebels could only try their best to hide in the mountain city, but the mountain city seemed fragile in front of the artillery. Often, before the artillery collapsed the city wall, they surrendered first.

The Goryeo region has been regarded as the Central Plains dynasty as the sect leader for a period of time. When they saw the sect leader coming to fight, the civilians were frightened. The civilians who led the rebels and the big landlords resisted were executed on the spot for committing rebellion. The remaining civilians and big landlords, under the premise that the other party was merciless and showed no mercy, began to surrender and did not dare to continue to resist.

As the First Corps was singing triumphantly, Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, informed the Goryeo Governor Jin Zidian that he would take over Seoul. Jin Zidian needed to send troops to cooperate with the Beiyang Fleet and the First Corps to clear the rebels of the Goryeo Kingdom.

Jin Zidian finally climbed to a high position like the Governor of Goryeo, but he obviously disappointed his master Chu Yun. He did not stabilize the situation in Goryeo in the past few years, but the rebels became more and more intense. Now Chu Yun plans to personally send troops to occupy Goryeo and turn a kingdom into a province. He is no longer the head of the place.

"The little incompetence disappointed the military leader. What will the capital do if it deals with me after the war ends?" Jin Zidian was sweating profusely, afraid that he would be settled by Qiu Hou.

"The opinion in the capital is that after the establishment of the Goryeo Province, you will be removed from your status as the governor of the Goryeo Kingdom and serve as the sheriff of the Goryeo Province." Zheng Zhilong said.

"It's okay for the sheriff of the provincial yamen..." Jin Zidian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although he could no longer be the top leader of the Goryeo region, a province had three powers separated by civil affairs officers, sheriffs and judicial officers. Sheriffs were also one of the highest positions in a province. Finally, he did not break the bridges.

Jin Zidian then reorganized the local troops of the Goryeo Kingdom, assembled 15,000 imperial guards and peasant troops in Seoul, and handed over the command to Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong led the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet and 15,000 Goryeo soldiers to start cleaning up the active rebels near Seoul, and began to cooperate with the offensive of the First Corps to comprehensively eliminate the rebels in the Goryeo Kingdom.

The process of establishing the Goryeo Province is even more cruel than that of the Japanese province. The warriors in the Japanese province have experienced a long war and will listen to whoever has a big fist. At that time, the Kyushu Army also joined forces with the Western Daming to maintain order. However, the Goryeo has always claimed to be a small China, and there are also a group of stubborn literati and landlords, so it is not easy to make them surrender.

During the process of pacifying the Eighth Road of Goryeo, at least tens of thousands of casualties were killed and tens of thousands of casualties, while the number of marine troops of the First Corps and the Beiyang Fleet lost very few.

The battle to pacify the Eight Roads of Goryeo lasted for two months and was announced to end. The First Corps moved from Liaodong to Goryeo to stationed. Before they completely surrendered here, the First Corps would suppress the place like Wuzhishan, making the rebels unable to move. In addition, the Beiyang Fleet still monitored Goryeo and Japan's two provinces that had just been swallowed up for a long time until they completely surrendered.

The Goryeo King Li Li, who had disappeared for a long time, returned to Seoul on a steamship "Yongchang" and announced to all officials and subjects that he gave up the royal rule over the Goryeo Kingdom, which would become a province of the suzerain state.

This major decision was shocked by the government and the public. Many rebel leaders who had just surrendered rebelled again, and the royal relatives who supported other Li dynasties became the new kings.

Of course, these rebellions were also strongly suppressed by the First Corps.

The Goryeo Province was then announced to be established, and a group of officials from Central China and local civil and military officials formed a new government office. The local civil and military officials had quite complained that because Goryeo changed from a kingdom to a province, their official positions naturally dropped.

However, in front of the soldiers with real guns and ammunition, they had to accept this fact no matter how much they complained, and their country became the 22nd province of the empire.

The news of the annexation of Goryeo was soon reported. When it comes to the annexation of Goryeo, the first reaction of ordinary people is that where is Goryeo? For officials and merchants who know Goryeo, the annexation of Goryeo is expected, and nothing to be surprised.

At present, only the Goryeo region in East Asia has not yet been officially incorporated into the territory of the empire. Under the premise that other places have fallen one after another, the Goryeo people are destined to be unable to settle down.
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