The few people present were all people who had fought many battles with the Manchu Tatars. Of course, they knew very well that the Manchu Tatars were not only not blind, but their Bajala vanguard soldiers were also the sentinels of Garbush Xianchaoha.

The detection ability is even better than that of Ye Bushou in the Liaodong frontier army back then. How could it be possible that he could not discover the anomalies in the Zhuanghe Fort area?

But among the crowd, Zu Keyong, who was responsible for the important task of guarding the East Route, was not satisfied with Yang Zhen's analysis. When he saw that everyone was silent, he continued to ask:

"Then, Commander, what should we do next? Fight, defend, or let it go and ignore it?"

"Ignore it? I don't have this option here! If he wants to fight, then fight."

"But--"

Facing Yang Zhen's decisive answer, Zu Keyong frowned and wanted to say something, but was interrupted directly by Yang Zhen.

"I know that Brother Zu, you are worried that if the war breaks out, the East Road immigration and reclamation business will be affected, and it may even be destroyed. Your worries are justified."

Yang Zhen's words made Zu Keyong nod his head immediately, because Zu Keyong did think so in his heart.

Seeing Zu Keyong nodding, Yang Zhen then said: "However, they have their own way of fighting, and we also have our own way of fighting. In short, we must not fight this battle according to the Manchu Tatar routine.

"Haha, they want to use their cavalry and infantry to fight us on land, but we can't let them do it. They want to fight on our territory, so we have to fight on theirs."

"Going to fight on the territory of the Tatars?"

As soon as Yang Zhen finished speaking, not only Zu Keyong was a little stunned, but also several other generals present.

After a while, Zhang Chen, the deputy general of the Musketeer Battalion who understood Yang Zhen's thoughts best, suddenly said: "What the governor said is that we go to fight the imperialists?"

"Going to fight the Koreans?"

As soon as Zhang Chen said this, others were even more surprised.

When they think about it, what does it have to do with the Koreans? How come the Tatars want to attack us, but we go to fight against the Koreans instead?

However, no matter how surprised they were, after Zhang Chen said what he said, Yang Zhen laughed, gave him a thumbs up, and then said to the other generals with a smile:

"That's right. We are going to fight the imperialists."

Seeing that some generals were still puzzled, Yang Zhen continued to explain with a smile: "Have you ever heard of diverting misfortunes to the east? What is diversion of misfortunes to the east? This is called diverting misfortunes to the east! And the persimmons must be picked at the softest, anyway, the people and the Manchus

Nowadays, the Tatars are all in one basket. If the soft persimmon of the Chao people is crushed, the Tatars in the same basket will not be cured."

Yang Zhen had made his words so simple, and naturally there was nothing that the generals present could not understand, and they all suddenly understood.

"Then, Governor, where are the Manchu Tatar shipyards at the mouth of the Yalu River? Let's just leave them alone this time. If they really build warships, it will be troublesome!"

Qiu Zhenhai, who was very sensitive to Mantatar's reconstruction of the navy, had no objection to Yang Zhen's final conclusion, but he was still a little surprised and even worried that Yang Zhen had ignored the existence of Mantatar's Yalu River shipyard.

"The diversion of trouble I am talking about can also be called surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao. At the same time, it can also be called diverting the tiger away from the mountain. It depends on how Jierhalang responds!"

As soon as Yang Zhen said these words, Qiu Zhenhai, who was originally a little worried that Yang Zhen was focusing on one thing and losing another, suddenly lit up. Like other generals present, his face was full of smiles and he nodded repeatedly.

Diversion of trouble to the east means moving the battlefield to the Chao people's side. Anyway, that side is now a vassal state and a source of food and grass for the Tatars.

The meaning of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao refers to using the move of attacking the imperial troops to contain the Manchu Tatar troops in Zhenjiang Fort. If Yang Zhen goes to attack the imperial troops, the imperial troops will ask for help from Jierhalang, the Manchu Tatar prince who is very close at hand.

In this way, how many troops can Jierhalang send south to attack Zhuanghe Fort?

As for diverting the tiger away from the mountain, it means that once Jierhalang sends a large group of troops to assist the Koreans and the area around Zhenjiang Fort is empty, other troops from Jinhai East Road can move in by land and water to attack the shipyards on the Yalu River.

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That night, the generals took the opportunity to chat with Yang Zhen in the small courtyard where he stayed, and asked Yang Zhen and the generals about their upcoming tasks.

Facing the generals whose doubts were all gone, Yang Zhen also quickly cut through the mess and made a series of arrangements for the next one.

First, Zu Keyong was ordered to recruit strong soldiers from all the villages under the jurisdiction of the East Road who had completed the work of reclaiming wasteland and planting potatoes in advance, to concentrate the troops and grain and military supplies, and to be prepared to face the Manchu and Tatar troops at Zhuanghe Fort.

Secondly, Yu Liangtai was ordered to lead the East Route Naval Battalion to move northward to Yuncong Island, Pidao. While continuing to complete the work of introducing sweet potatoes to the settlement area, he sent a sentry boat north to the mouth of the Yalu River to inquire about the situation, and was ready to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in and attack Zhenjiang at any time.

Enemies around the fort.

Third, Yang Zhen personally led the Qiu Zhenhai fleet and Zhang Chen's Musket Battalion that followed him north this time. After stopping at Pi Island, they used Yu Haichao as a guide to go east along the Korean coast and headed straight for Ganghwa Island.

The next battle strategy was decided, and Yang Zhen no longer had the need to stay on Shicheng Island. When he got up the next morning, seeing that the weather was fine, he immediately ordered all the troops to board the ship and set off.

Zu Keyong said goodbye to Yang Zhen and others, landed on the island, and returned to Zhuanghe Fort, not far from Shicheng Island, to carry out various orders of Yang Zhen's East Route Horse Infantry Army.

Yu Liangtai, on the other hand, arranged the affairs of defending the island, led the main fleet of the East Route Naval Battalion, and followed Yang Zhen and his party on their mighty voyage north.

It turns out that both Yang Zhen and Yu Liangtai were worried about alerting the enemy and did not dare to resettle immigrants on Dalu Island. Now that they have alerted the enemy, there is no need to be polite anymore.

At noon that day, the huge fleet docked at the shore of Dalu Island. Yu Liangtai sent one of his generals to bring a large ship, several small boats and hundreds of people to the island, and picked up Dalu Island Tun from Qiu Zhenhai's fleet.

of immigrants disembarked.

Then the entire fleet turned around and headed east, heading straight for the coast of North Korea where Pi Island is located.

In the evening of that day, a huge fleet consisting of more than 200 large and small ships docked at the port of Pi Island under the afterglow of the setting sun.

The size of Phi Island is similar to that of Shicheng Island, but there are much more facilities on it.

Ports, docks, barracks, warehouses, temples, villages and government offices are more complete.

Although after the fall of Phi Island, all kinds of military facilities, mountain fortresses, fortresses and other defenses on the island were destroyed. However, after the renovation by the Koreans who have been entrenched on the island in the past few years, it can still be used today.

Especially the original farmland on Phi Island and Yuncong Island. In recent years, people from the DPRK have secretly visited the islands to cultivate, so they have not been abandoned.

And this time, while Yang Zhen asked Qiu Zhenhai's fleet to transport immigrants, he also asked Chen Shunong from the Agricultural Reclamation Institute to prepare enough sweet potato vine seedlings, and sent seed potato masters Wu Deduo and Wu Gongqin and his son to bring them with them.

Now that there are large tracts of cultivated land on the island, the work of dividing the fields according to households and planting sweet potatoes can begin quickly.

In this way, the day after the group landed on the island, Yang Zhen inspected the situation of Pi Island and Yuncong Island early in the morning, and led the generals to pay their respects in front of the martyrdom monument erected by Yu Liangtai for Shen Shikui, and then

Yu Liangtai was given the task of setting up settlements for the immigrants from Dongjiang Daotun and Yuncongdaotun.

As for himself, in the morning of the same day, he took the musketry battalion commanded by Zhang Chen, Zhang Guogan, and Li Shouzhong and hundreds of large and small ships selected in good condition, set sail again, and left the port to the southeast.

The destination of Yang Zhen's trip was Ganghwa Island, which had been determined before.

Yang Zhen had said so many things to the generals before, including how to divert disaster to the east, how to surround Wei and save Zhao, and how to divert the tiger away from the mountain. What he said was mysterious and mysterious.

However, all these beautiful ideas have a common premise, that is, Yang Zhen must hit the seven-inch area when attacking the Koreans this time. He must hit the places where the Koreans must be saved and protected, and cannot hit areas that do not hurt.

No itchy place.

Otherwise, none of Yang Zhen's ideas will become reality.

Of course, when Yang Zhen first left Lushunkou, he had no idea how big or terrifying this operation would be.

If he had thought this way earlier, he would not have left Li Lu's grenadier battalion and Yang Shen's artillery battalion idle.

Now, in addition to the three-post musketeer battalion commanded by Zhang Chen, the rest are Yu Haichao's guide fleet of more than a hundred people and the three-and-a-half-post South Road naval battalion led by Qiu Zhenhai.

Fortunately, although Yang Zhen came with not many people this time, he came well prepared.

Not only were the three sentry soldiers of the musket battalion led by Zhang Chen fully equipped with muskets and ammunition, but Yang Zhen also asked Qiu Zhenhai to bring two heavy Hongyi cannons and supporting ammunition with him on board the ship from Lushunkou as sharp weapons for attacking the enemy.
Chapter completed!