Dragon Sea Empire

In the Lushun military port, a new batch of transport ships was docking, and a large number of personnel organized by the logistics department of the Chinese army were unloading. Most of the coolies were prisoners of the Ming army who could be released in a year.

Although the local people in Liaodong have already encountered military disasters, half of them took refuge in Shenyang, Liaoyang and other guards and castles, and the other half fled to Liaoxi. Afterwards, I came back to live again. The Eight Banners soldiers had not yet come to the territory of southern Liaoning, so there were not many refugees. The people in Liaodong did not expect that the Ming army would be defeated so quickly. don't want to go.

By May, the Ming army had retreated to the cities of Shenyang, Liaoyang (where the Liaodong capital is located), Haizhouwei, Gaizhouwei, Fuzhouwei and other cities. Nearly a thousand fortresses and fortresses in the guards have all been occupied by the Eight Banners soldiers. Shenyang and Liaoyang have already been encircled by the Eight Banners soldiers. During the war, Yang Gao was trapped in Liaoyang City, and had been cut off from the imperial court by the Eight Banners soldiers. To the west of the Liaohe River, tens of thousands of Ming troops clung to the local area, and the tens of thousands of guest soldiers who came to help them flinched.

Last year in the Battle of Saerhu, the Huaiyang Dusi Jinguan who went north, and the Jiangnan Battalion were assigned the title of Dusi Wangbiao, each leading 47 soldiers. They kept using the excuse of repairing ships at Tianjin Wei, but never moved a step. A member of the Ministry of War personally went to Tianjin Wei to urge them to send troops to Liaodong. Wang Biao said that six ships had been repaired, and Jin Guan said that the original Huaiyang cruise ship was too old to be repaired. In the spring of this year, Nurhachi's Eight Banners army went out to attack Liaodong, and Jin Guan and others went back to say that they couldn't get out of the customs because they didn't have enough money and food...

There are also 2 Zhejiang soldiers in the capital. They were troops transferred by Xiong Tingbizi to aid Liao before the Saerhu War last year. They did not catch up to participate in the Saarhu War. They stayed in the capital and did not dare to send troops. The original leader was Zhang Chaobaiji Battalion He even instigated the soldiers to mutiny in the name of making a fuss about wages, and tried every means to refuse to send troops to Liaodong. Around the capital, there were more than [-] soldiers from the South who came to aid last year, and more than [-] newly transferred from the Shanshan Xuanda Frontier Army. Not a single general, not a single soldier is willing to go out to rescue Liaodong. Moreover, all the soldiers of these armies have not been paid for three months, and the soldiers who have owed the salary for the longest time have not had income for more than half a year. Many troops have deserted .

Thousands of miles across the land of Liaodong, there are beacons of smoke and swords everywhere, fleeing civilians and the collapse of the Ming army. However, the huge Ming Dynasty, with millions of soldiers in name, was unable to gather a mobile force to rescue Liaodong.

... Yin Feng stood on the newly built No. [-] Fort on the west coast of Lushun, watching countless ships coming in and out of the port.

He held up the binoculars and looked at it for a long time. Li Lihua behind him couldn't help poking his waist: "Hey, people are asking you: what about the Japanese country?"

Yin Feng turned around in embarrassment, and saw Xu Daling, the director of the company's Nagasaki business office, standing behind him with his head down, as if he didn't see anything. Behind him were Zeng Shan, Zeng Qing, Zheng Dong, the deputy director of the logistics department, and the missionary You Wenhui, Lu Ruohan and others gathered in a corner of the fortress to discuss something.

Yin Feng smiled at Li Lihua: "Have you found out, the 'Anhai Group' was funded by the Anhai Han family?"

"That's right, it was formed by a brother-in-law of Han Jing on the board of directors. The veterans who joined the pioneering team were all from Anhai, Quanzhou, and there were also servants of the Han family who gave birth to children. There were five or six hundred people. Another pioneering team The regiment is much smaller, formed by veterans of the Marine Corps who participated in the Battle of Kyushu, with about 200 people," Li Lihua said slowly, pointing to Zeng Qing with a half-smile, implying that Zeng Qing found out about the situation.

Yin Feng thought for a while and asked, "What's the opinion inside the company?"

"What everyone means is that you should concentrate on domestic affairs now and avoid conflicts with other countries for the time being. However, the pioneer group occupied Tanegashima, but it did not violate your orders, so I still have to let you decide,"

Yin Feng smiled wryly and shook his head: "It's nice to say, but it's just to let me be a villain. We started with trading, and credit comes first. Since I said in advance that I would allow the pioneering group to occupy land everywhere, naturally I didn't force An Haituan to withdraw from the seed The principle of the island, how about it, since Tanegashima is the territory of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain, Xu Daling..."

Xu Daling, who was dressed in Confucian robes, took a step forward and cupped his hands: "The owner of the ship, my subordinates are here."

"You immediately take Mr. Lu Ruohan back to Japan. He is an old friend of the late General Tokugawa. He has good connections. He can help you when dealing with the shogunate. Tell the Tokugawa shogunate that we will not return Tanegashima. , we bought it from the shogunate, so let’s transfer the last installment payment of Satsuma this year to the current general in Kyoto, and count it as the payment for us to buy Tanegashima,” Yin Feng called his personal consultant Lu Ruohan Come over and ask.

Lu Ruohan is a born diplomat, so it's definitely right to entrust this matter to him.

Zeng Shan came over and whispered, "There are only a few hundred of us on Tanegashima, isn't it..."

"You are right in reminding me, I will ask Fan Tao to send a battleship to patrol Tanegashima. Okay, let's leave things like this in Tanegashima. You send a letter to Han Jing and Han Ping and his son at the company headquarters to let them People in the family should stop attacking Japan, at least not during the battle in Liaodong."

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Now, more than [-] Chinese army, land and water armies have assembled in Jinzhou in southern Liaoning. The Liaodong Korean campaign is about to start. Yin Feng does not want to start a war with the Japanese at this time. The main energy of the Chinese army is concentrated In Liaodong, a large number of spy spies were sent to various places in Liaodong, and all kinds of news were passed on continuously.

In May, the Ming court urgently appointed Xiong Tingbi as Liaodong strategist, and Yang Gao was dismissed. At this time, Yang Gao and 3 Ming troops were besieged in Liaoyang. He didn't know that he had been dismissed from office and went to Beijing to question his crimes.

At the end of June, Xiong Tingbi rushed to the capital day and night. At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers had already surrounded Liaoyang and Shenyang. Occupying Haizhou, Gaizhou and other places, the cavalry forward has already contacted the Chinese Army guard post on the front line of Montenegro to the north of Jinzhou.

The defense of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong was slack, and most of the soldiers and horses had not recovered from the defeat in the Battle of Sarhu the previous year, so it was difficult to withstand the impact of the Houjin. In April and May, the Houjin soldiers successively entered Liaoyang , the castles around Shenyang, and after Li Ruzhen was urgently appointed as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, he borrowed the power of his father and brother, and he had been the right governor of Jinyiwei and a close minister. Before he left the customs, he argued with the governor Wang Keshou In June, after the Houjin army surrounded Shenyang and Liaoyang, Zhang Chengji, the governor of Liaodong, fled from Haizhou across the Liaohe River and returned to Jinzhou in the west of Liaoning. , Shenyang, and all Liaodong areas except Jinzhouwei in southern Liaoning were occupied.

Xiong Tingbi's training of the new army in the south of the Yangtze River has not yet yielded results, and he was transferred to Liaodong like a firefighter to deal with the crisis.

Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, who has ignored the government for many years and has recently been suffering from serious illnesses, at the repeated request of the chief assistant Fang Congzhe, bestowed Xiong Tingbi with a sword to honor his power. There were 800 elite soldiers from the Beijing camp, thousands of them in name, but actually 2000 old and weak soldiers. Xiong Tingbi had no choice but to take [-] Zhejiang soldiers he had transferred from Jiangnan out of Shanhaiguan and went to Xingshan. The news of the loss caused the pessimistic atmosphere of "Liao will perish" that shrouded the entire Ming Dynasty. Xiong Tingbi went all the way, and arrived at Hupiyi (South Shili River, Shenyang) in early July. The cavalry stood in his way.

Xiong Tingbi was walking on the way, and when he encountered fugitives, he persuaded them to return to their hometown. At that time, the officials and people in the border areas fled one after another. , It is important to keep Liaoning West.

Xiong Tingbi beheaded several dereliction of duty officers who abandoned their land and decided to gather troops in Songshan and Xingshan temporarily, and then rescue Liaoyang and Shenyang.

At this time, on the banks of the Yalu River, countless rafts and rowboats were busy shuttling between the two banks. Tens of thousands of North Korean civilians were transporting grain and grass from Uiju on the south bank to Zhenjiang Fort on the north bank. The 20 elite Manchurian soldiers led by Niu Lu.

Amin is the son of Nurhachi's half-brother Shuerhaqi. After Shuerhaqi failed to compete with Nurhachi for the throne of Khan, he was imprisoned in a secret room by Nurhachi. In the end, he died inexplicably. Saktu was killed by Nurhachi, and his general Wu Erkun was also executed. Nurhachi was still angry and planned to execute his second son Amin, but Amin escaped only under the pleading of Huang Taiji and others. , was saved from death, but half of his family property was confiscated, but this incident made Amin have the same idea as his father in his heart, rebelling against his uncle.

Now Amin is alone leading a partial division to attack the southeastern part of Liaodong. He is planning to take this opportunity to strengthen his own strength. He put all the captured Liaodong people and soldiers of the Ming army under his own name, and only selected some old and weak people to send to Jiefan City. , He also sent people to North Korea to force the North Korean local officials in Yizhou to deliver food and grass for his troops. Originally, his task was to attack Zhenjiang and Jiulong City from Kuandian to contain the southern wing of the Ming Army in Liaodong, but he has now captured He went to Haigaifu Sanzhou, Zhenjiang Fort and other places, which was far beyond the scope of his mission.

The 33-year-old Amin did not intend to stop here, nor did he obey the military order sent by Nurhachi: let his troops move closer to Liaoyang, block the west of Liaoyang to block the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty in Liaoxi, he only sent his general Altai to lead 1000 people went to Liaoyang to deal with errands. They took the main force of the Xianglan Banner and a part of the Zhenglan Banner to continue to attack southern Liaoning, intending to completely occupy southern Liaoning.

The [-] troops of the Xianglan Banner are distributed around Zhenjiang Fort, and the Zhenglan Banner and some Mongolian cavalry are on the front line of Haizhou. Now the generals around Amin are all his cronies, so Amin, who is reckless and outspoken, is not shy The ground was cursing: "King Khan is biased, he doesn't send me reinforcements, and he doesn't want to give me food and grass. So what, I went to get it myself. Why is this Korean coolie moving so slowly? Send someone to urge you!" ,"

A North Korean liaison officer nodded and bowed and came to the slope where Amin was standing, and muttered something to Amin’s Goshha. Let him come and talk,"

The short Korean clerk tremblingly came to A Min, knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "I tell the general of the country that there must have been heavy rain upstream, the river is too fast, and there are still [-] catties of grain and grass..."

Amin interrupted the person: "You mean that all the food and grass can't be delivered before tomorrow, right?"

"Yes, General, we..."

"Tell your boss, if you don't bring the grain and grass before tomorrow, I will take the army across the river to fetch it myself, understand?"