Dragon Sea Empire

In August, Yin Feng, who had been in Liaodong for a year, sent Li Lihua and her daughter back to Taiwan to prepare for war wholeheartedly.

On the first day of October, the war belonging to the Chinese Army has begun. The 25000 troops of the 200st and [-]th Infantry Divisions and the two regiments of the Artillery Brigade, carrying [-] Fuchuan and Karak-type transport ships, have already sailed to the sea. Along the coast of North Korea, two battleships Feizi, five three-masted cruisers, dozens of fast ships and auxiliary ships of the First Fleet acted as escorts.

On the newly built East Fort in Lushun Port, a group of officers of the Chinese Army in black uniforms are watching the huge fleet gather outside Lushun Port. The garrison chief of the Second Infantry Division stationed in Jinzhou Guard is Zhao Cheng, the commander of the first regiment. Like Zhao Tie, he is also a child of a southern Fujian military family. An infantry general from Zhaojia'ao, his stocky body is next to his superior and division commander Yang Dacheng, and he whispered something to Yang Dacheng. Yang Dacheng responded very dissatisfied: " Since the captain of the ship has arranged it like this, you just follow orders, it is useless to talk too much, the world is so big, there are still battles for you to fight, and you have a lot of military achievements, do you understand?"

Zhao Cheng knocked his feet, stood upright and said, "Yes, my subordinate's suggestion is also to defeat the Hou Jin army as soon as possible, and there is no intention of competing for merit..."

Yang Dacheng shook his hand at this subordinate whose actual age was about the same as his own, and said seriously: "Your first regiment is the first line of defense in Jinzhou, you must be careful, and you must never leave the position to fight the enemy easily. Your Majesty has repeatedly emphasized, you should understand, right?"

Zhao Cheng stood at attention again: "Yes, this subordinate understands,"

Yang Dacheng nodded, turned around and walked down the fort. Zhao Cheng watched him leave, and smiled coldly at his subordinates who had gathered one after another: "Have you heard, you are not allowed to go out to fight in the field, and stick to the fortress defense line, let's go, we You have to obey this farmer in the countryside of Quanzhou,..."

"Let's leave the [-] Jurchens alone in southern Liaoning to fight. What's the point of defending the line of defense," a military officer shouted.

Zhao Cheng's subordinates have been in Liaodong for two years. Apart from training every day, they are busy building the Jinzhou defense line and doing all kinds of physical work. They can only clash with sporadic soldiers of the Ming army, or chase down some local bandits. , like those local garrisons, there are very few opportunities to gain military merit, and they have long been very dissatisfied with this, but this time the attack on North Korea is still not their share, which makes the brothers of the second division and the first regiment even more dissatisfied .

None of them thought of pointing the finger at Yin Feng. Although Yin Feng is the highest decision-maker, but after all, the prestige of Yin Feng, the founder of the Chinese Army, is there, and no one dares to touch it. Therefore, the middle and lower-level officers below the regiment They all pointed the finger of complaint at the teacher Yang Dacheng.

Along the coast of Fujian, the local aboriginal farmers and the military households in the castles of the guards have been entangled with each other since the early Ming Dynasty. The Zhao family has many connections in the infantry system of the Chinese army, and Yang Dacheng was born as a rural farmer in southern Fujian, who was one of the few generals in the infantry army. Therefore, Zhao Cheng's dissatisfaction with Yang Dacheng was already semi-public in the Second Division.

Where there are people, there will be factions. This problem cannot be avoided by the Chinese army created by Yin Feng.

Yin Feng is staying on the pier at the moment talking with Zheng Dong, the deputy director of the logistics department.

Zeng Qing came riding from a distance from Lushun City, and Yin Feng saw him from a long distance: "...Director Zheng, you need to discuss with Fan Tao and the others to make sure everything is safe..." He sent Zheng away. Dong, turned to look at Zeng Qing who was dismounting.

"How is it? What happened to the Ming army? Win or lose?" Yin Feng asked lazily as he sat with a group of timber merchants by the pier.

"Defeated, terribly defeated,"

Yin Feng sighed slightly: "It's expected, but, what a big defeat, Xiong Tingbi's army is extremely strict and cautious, so how could he be easily defeated?"

"Because Shenyang City fell,"

Yin Feng was slightly taken aback, and smiled coldly: "So soon, [-] defenders are in the city, and there are only [-] Nuqiu besieging the city...I see, it's He Shixian, the general soldier of Liaodong..."

Zeng Qing complimented him sincerely: "Your Majesty is wise, he thought that He Shixian would do bad things a month ago, but now he really underestimated the enemy and caused the city to fall,"

Xiong Tingbi led the main force of the Ming Dynasty reinforcements to Liaoyang. The original plan was to break the siege of Liaoyang first, and then join forces with Yang Gao's army in Liaoyang to go north, and then break the siege of Shenyang.

He Shixian and You Shigong, the generals guarding Liaodong in Shenyang, thwarted his plan.

At this time, the generals of the Ming army were generally afraid of fighting, but He Shixian was a rare general who dared to fight. This fierce general from Yulinwei in northern Shaanxi came from a humble background when he was young. The guerrilla in Shenyang went to serve as the general officer after the Sarhu war. At that time, Xiong Tingbi mobilized veteran generals from all directions to gather in Liaozuo in order to resist the attack of Houjin. Most of them were afraid to fight. He Shizi was one of the bravest generals. Actively set up defenses in Shenyang, strictly investigated spies, and rectified the troops. Before Nurhachi surrounded Shenyang, they dared to take the initiative to attack. Shenyang was besieged in June. He Shixian gathered firearms soldiers outside the city. There were more than a dozen deer villages outside the city wall, and he went out of the city every day. To face the battle, he was cautious at the beginning, not daring to leave the firearm protection range on the city wall, and repelled several tentative attacks by the Eight Banners soldiers one after another. The Ming army led out of the city and then dealt with its main force in the field, unwilling to fight the Ming army under the high walled city.

At the beginning of October, news came that Xiong Tingbi had crossed the Liaohe River. Nurhachi knew that if Xiong Tingbi was allowed to cross Liaoyang, he would have to fight the Ming army under Shenyang City, and there were still 4 Ming troops in Shenyang City who could attack at any time. It was very unfavorable, so on a certain day in early October, Nurhaci sent his Mongolian light cavalry to attack the west gate where He Shixian was located. He Shixian beheaded dozens of people and then broke up and fled screaming. He Shixian couldn't bear it anymore. He stopped, thinking that the Eight Banners soldiers were nothing more than that, and rushed out of the Luzhai defense line with his own soldiers and servants, desperately chasing the defeated Mongolian cavalry.

Not long after, He Shixian found that he was completely surrounded by elite cavalry from the Eight Banners.

Although He Shixian fought desperately and retreated back to the west gate of Shenyang with more than a dozen arrows in his body, the Jin Eight Banners soldiers from the other route were already attacking the west gate, blocking his retreat. Outside the west gate, in order to rescue He Shixian, the deputy commander-in-chief You Shigong opened the south gate and brought cavalry to rescue him, but he was also surrounded near the west gate.

Taking advantage of the fact that the main generals of the Ming army in Shenyang were surrounded outside the city and the soldiers in the city were scattered, Nurhachi immediately launched a large army to attack the city gates on all sides, breaking through the city defenses and entering Shenyang city in one fell swoop.

One day later, the street fighting in Shenyang City ended. Most of the 4 Ming troops were killed and captured. A small part broke through and went south to Liaoyang. .

Yin Feng stood up, and a group of hard laborers on the pier were passing by him, each of them carrying a heavy bag to a huge four-masted transport sailboat. .

Yin Feng looked at the Yellow Sea where the sun was just rising, and there were sail shadows in the distance, which should be all ships of the Chinese Army.

Zeng Qing said cautiously: "The personnel of the Military Intelligence Department have withdrawn from Shenyang, the next step..."

"Maintain contact with Liaoyang, increase manpower to go to Fuzhou, Haizhou, and Gaizhou, and closely monitor the situation of the Ming army and the Jurchens,"

Zeng Qing hesitated for a while, then scratched his head and said, "This subordinate thinks of one thing, I don't know whether I should say it, it's not that my subordinate exceeded his authority, it's really important."

Yin Feng looked at Zeng Qing, saw his worried face, smiled and said: "Do you want to ask me if I will recruit troops from North Korea to return to Jinzhou?"

Zeng Qing nodded: "Now the decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Hou Jin in Liaodong is imminent. If the Ming army is defeated, the three states of Haigaifu will be controlled by the victor, and our army will directly confront them. Now Jinzhou The guard only has two regiments of the second division stationed, including the cavalry brigade and sailor marines, the available strength is only more than 1..."

Yin Feng patted Zeng Qing on the shoulder: "Uncle Qing, I thought about this too. We didn't expect Shenyang to be lost so quickly, and in the next battle of Liaoyang, Xiong Tingbi faced the Eight Banners led by Nurhachi himself." The main force, I think his chance of winning is only [-]%,"

"Then, now that the north wind is blowing, the reinforcements of the newly formed Sixth Division will go northward against the wind, and it will take a month to reach Jinzhou. My lord, it is better to transfer some of the first division or the fifth division back," Zeng Qing said anxiously. said.

Yin Feng shook his head: "It's okay, the Second Division has been busy building fortifications along the Jinzhou Isthmus for two years. A large amount of new building materials and cement have cost hundreds of thousands of catties. Our army only needs to block the Jinzhou defense line." Stay with the enemy, and wait until our army from North Korea steals the route of the Jurchen Eight Banners soldiers, and we attack from Jinzhouwei, the overall situation in Liaodong will be certain."

Zeng Qing muttered in a low voice, lacking confidence: "This is the idea of ​​those staff officers in the Operation Department, but how long do we need to guard in Jinzhou?"

"In my original plan, I asked Zhao Tie, Yan Siqi and others to outflank and attack the central area of ​​Jin after the situation in the north of North Korea was calmed down. Just go north to the Yalu River, do we have to let them cross the Changbai Mountains in winter?"

Yin Feng also began to have doubts, but his face was still calm. He ordered Zeng Qing: "Add more people to closely monitor all the roads from Liaoyang to Jinzhouwei, and report back as soon as there is news."

……

Nurhachi moved very quickly. He only rested in Shenyang for a long time and immediately went south to join the Houjin army in Liaoyang. At this moment, Xiong Tingbi's army was still staying in Anshan Station, mainly because the transportation of food, grass and ammunition behind was too slow, and they encountered the Eight Banners cavalry everywhere along the road. harassment.

The Sichuan soldiers became the vanguard of the Ming army at this time, and after a few days of rest, they rushed to the Taizi River in the east of Liaoyang City.