Time flies, two months pass in the blink of an eye, and the spring of 1794 has arrived.
In early March, the boundary negotiations between Beihai Town and Li Chao resumed again after being suspended for more than a month due to the Spring Festival. However, the two sides have been talking for so long since last year and have made no progress.
The main reason for this is that the border between the middle and eastern sections of Beihai Town is simply a lion's mouth. No one from Li Zuo to the ministers of the Zhuhe faction dared to agree, for fear of being infamy for the ages. Fait accompli is one thing.
Signing a treaty and putting the seal on it is another matter.
Just like when facing foreign enemies in the past, the Li Dynasty's court is now divided into the main peace faction and the denunciation faction. Among them, the main peace faction is the current faction headed by Cai Jigong, the leader of the government, while the denunciation faction is headed by the central government.
It is a secluded faction headed by Kim Jong-su.
Because the former was born in the south, he was more tolerant of the Catholic group, which was dominated by southerners, and was more accepting of new things. Cai Jigong himself had been to Beihai Town and had a personal experience of its strength, while the backbone of his men, brothers Ding Ruoyong and Ding Ruoquan, and Cao Peng
Lin Ruoyu, his father-in-law, has been maintaining close correspondence with each other and firmly believes that only by closely following the steps of Beihai Town can the Li Dynasty achieve national prosperity.
As for the latter, they are a group of self-proclaimed clean-bloods, but in fact they are people who form cliques in the name of "purging the party" for personal gain. And the rejection of peace does not mean that they have to fight with the North Sea Navy to the death. The philosophy they adhere to is that the party agrees with the party and opposes differences, as long as the enemy agrees
We must oppose it.
Although Wang Zhong and Liu Taigong have been arguing with each other at the negotiation table in the past few months, and they occasionally throw out historical materials of the Korean Kingdom from another time and space as surprises, the people in the Li Dynasty are not vegetarians;
Each of them had experienced many years of political disputes in the court, and their ability to quibble was much richer than Wang Zhong's. On one occasion, Wang Zhong was so angry that he just threw up his sleeves and stopped talking, which suited the Li Dynasty's envoys.
Just put it off, as long as it takes one day. Everyone said that as long as the king doesn't nod, anyone who dares to agree will be a traitor who will be ganged up to punish.
In fact, after talking for so long, in general, the two sides have no objection to the western section of the boundary being bounded by the center line of the Yalu River. This has been a fact since the Ming Dynasty. Negotiations on the border crossing of border residents in the western section of the boundary have always been based on the Yalu River.
If there is a limit, crossing the river means crossing the border and will be punished as a crime of "crossing". The penalties for this in the Li Dynasty were quite severe. The principal offender would have his head displayed by the river, the secondary offender would be exiled to the border area, and the local official would be dismissed.
Or flow distribution.
However, in the middle section of the border, Beihai Town's request is to completely overturn the Mukeden boundary demarcation in the 51st year of Kangxi's reign, and advance directly to the line of Xiaobai Mountain and Dajiao Peak, with five miles north of the main peaks of the two mountains as the boundary line. Beihai
For this reason, the town simply drew a zigzag horizontal line on the map, starting from the Yalu River in the west and ending at the Tumen River in the east. This means that whether it is the upper reaches of the Yalu River or the Tumen River or even the source, they are all the same as those of the Li Dynasty.
It has nothing to do with it. In addition, Beihai Town also requested that the Li Dynasty must make it clear in the agreement that Changbai Mountain with Tianchi is not the ancestral land of the Li Dynasty, and the official worship ceremony for Changbai Mountain must be abolished in the future.
If the Li Dynasty could reluctantly agree to the above requirements, on the issue of the eastern boundary, even the Lord Peace Sect could not accept it. Many people directly shouted that they would rather break the jade than let the thieves in Beihai Town know the Badao.
The unyielding heart of the people.
Well, in today's Beihai Town, most people have short hair or bald heads after having their braids cut off. When Li Chao learned about it, they denounced them as not abiding by etiquette and law, just like those who committed crimes and were punished in ancient times.
Thieves. The problem is that they don’t want to see Beihai Town, and the people in Beihai Town don’t want to see them yet! The reason why many men keep their hair short is because it is easier to clean up and saves soap when washing their hair.
Closer to home, Beihai Town’s request for the eastern boundary is that the Li Dynasty must give up Ludao, Qingxing, Ashanpu, Qianyuanpu, Qingyuanfu, Xunzhencheng, Meiguizhencheng, Wencheng, and Yongdacheng.
Nine places, the border between the two sides must be pushed to Luoduan Mountain, Xiaobai Mountain, and Huangshan Ridge. In addition, a fifty-mile radius of Maoshan County must also be placed under Beihai Town.
In fact, although Li Zuo had made preparations to abandon the five towns in the north, he did not want to give up Maoshan! Furthermore, the eastern section of the border was divided into Luoduan Mountain, Xiaobai Mountain, and Huangshan Ridge. This was completely different from what he had thought before.
Likewise, this is no longer a question of ten or twenty miles south of the Tumen River, but hundreds of miles!
It's so bullying, the rabbit even bites people when it's anxious!
In the twelfth month of the twelfth lunar month, Lang Ting of the Bibian Division had received a report from Funing County and learned that the Northern Navy occupying Mushan Castle was a lone army of only more than 300 people. So in the second month of the lunar calendar (March in the Gregorian calendar)
, Li Zhen issued an order to the Border Division to recruit large and small merchant ships, and mobilize both land and water to mobilize the army into Jingcheng, a coastal city in Hamgyong Province.
By the beginning of April, eight thousand soldiers and horses had gradually arrived in Jingcheng County. Every day, civilian vehicles and ships on the sea transported food and grass in a constant stream. When the food and grass were almost gathered, tens of thousands of people followed the post road to Funing County.
March forward. Then they will follow the post roads of Qianshuiyan, Feimao Mountain, Wheel Ridge, and Matian, and station themselves at Duqiao City and Nanling in the south of Mushan City, forcing the Northern Navy of Mushan City to withdraw.
In order to form a cover on the battlefield, Bibiansi also made a big deal about adding 5,000 troops to Xisuluo, and mobilized warships to gather at the water camp of Xisuluoqianpu to confuse the Northern Navy in Qingxing and Mokuowei.
As everyone knows, the Northern Navy Staff Department is well aware of the movements of the Li Dynasty's army. Starting from three years ago, the Northern Navy Intelligence Bureau obtained the conditions for household registration in Beihai Town and secretly recruited spies among the people of the Li Dynasty who were crossing the border to open up wasteland. After that, it used two more people to recruit spies.
Within a year, a huge spy network was built throughout North Hamgyong Province.
Yongba is a node in this big network. He is a native of Huining County and a servant of Cui Jinshi's family. He helped Lin Ruoyu and his daughter sneak to Hunchun a few years ago, and also helped the Qing army pass on information. Lin Ruoyu defected to Beihai.
After the town was over, he in turn asked Yongba to help him spy on the Qing army's intelligence on the south bank of the Tumen River. Repeatedly, it was impossible for him not to fall into the sight of the intelligence bureau.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Intelligence Bureau will conduct screening interviews on all new personnel, and also use the so-called "lie detection equipment"; it is said to be a lie detector, but in fact it is
A portable electrocardiograph, plus an oximeter.
Yongba had never seen this before! He was so panicked when he was brought into the intelligence agency's stronghold in Hunchun, and even more frightened when he brought the equipment. Especially when he was asked if he had ever worked as a spy for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, his heart skipped a beat.
I wish I could have one hundred and six.
The people from the Intelligence Bureau then gave him two choices, either go to Bitter Leaf Island to mine coal, or become a spy in Beihai Town. Yongba chose the latter without hesitation.
Later, Lin Ruoyu wrote a confidential letter to Cui Jinshi, the owner of Yongba, saying that he wanted to make a sum of money to start a business in leather goods and agricultural tools. He was very optimistic about Yongba and planned to put him in charge of the trade routes between Huining and Funing. Cui Jinshi was very happy
He readily agreed and helped smooth things over with the officials. So Yongba took the funds and opened two shops in Huining and Funing. Since then, he frequently traveled between the two places to collect information from the Qing army and the Li Dynasty.
information.
After Zhao Xin learned about the Li Dynasty's dispatch of troops, he warmly welcomed this move and said that he finally had an excuse! He was determined to get the Li Dynasty to sign this territorial agreement, and he did not hesitate to change the Li Dynasty to a king.
, and he has already found the candidate for the new king!
On April 8, 1794, three Northern Navy gunboats stationed in Mokuowei were ordered to dispatch. At the same time, Pan Xiucheng, who was stationed in Hunchun, also received Zhao Xin's order. He sent an artillery battalion to Qingxing Mansion to cooperate with the troops stationed there.
A regiment went south along the post road to attack Xishuiluo.
On April 12, the North Korean navy fleet bombarded Seosuluoqianpo water village and dock. The next day, the artillery battalion, under the guidance of drones, launched an artillery bombardment on the Yi Dynasty defenders of Seosuluo. Eighteen 75mm cannons were fired.
Within an hour, Li Chao's army, which had no experience in positional warfare, had been bombarded and cried for its father and mother. It only regretted that it had lost two legs. Then the ground troops of the Northern Navy strode into Xishuiluo.
On April 13, a battalion of the Northern Navy stationed in Tongguan City crossed Xiaochuan, crossed the Guoshitang Ridge in one day, and suddenly appeared at the foot of Zhongcheng City. The local defenders immediately lit beacon fires to sound the alarm and summoned the people in the city to defend the city.
The Li Dynasty established a strict beacon fire alarm system in six northern towns, especially along the Tumen River, where there was a beacon tower every fifteen miles.
The Northern Navy outside Zhongcheng did not send troops to attack the city. After submitting a letter of surrender to the defenders, they dug fortification trenches on the hills two miles north of the city. During this period, they also used several mortars to blast through the city wall.
Crazy bombardment. This frightened the soldiers and civilians in the city. Afterwards, the defenders tried to launch a night attack. Unexpectedly, they stole the chicken but lost the rice. Not only the casualties were heavy, but also the commander-in-chief was seriously injured and fell into a coma.
The helpless Zhongcheng County Sheriff thought about it for a day, and finally gritted his teeth and left the city to surrender.
On April 15, eight North Korean naval aircraft, sailboats, gunboats and five transport and supply ships departed from Dolphin Harbor and arrived at Mokuawei, which also carried two battalions of Marines.
On April 17, the fleet that had completed its freshwater supply began to move south. Three gunboats and one supply ship went to Uyugoon in the south of Seosulua to implement a naval blockade on Gyeongseong. Gyeongseong is a link between the north and south of the east coast of Hamgyeong Province.
The main point is that once this place is lost, Funing County will become an isolated city, and the eight thousand army heading to Maoshan will be cut off from supplies.
But what frightened Li Chao most was not the problem of Jingcheng. On the morning of April 22, a fleet consisting of five gunboats and four transport ships arrived at Anping Port. After completing supplies again, the fleet went straight north and took two days to complete the task.
Appeared on the sea south of Yeonpyeong Island.
This time, the North Korean Navy's target is Ganghwa Island.
Speaking of Ganghwa Island, because it guards the estuary of the Han River, and the Ganghwa Strait has complex hydrological conditions and many reefs, it has been a place to avoid foreign invasion since the Goryeo Dynasty. When Jin invaded North Korea after the year of Jeongmao, Injo
The king first fled here, and then went to Namhansanseong Fortress. Therefore, Ganghwa Island's status is equivalent to that of the capital. Since it was upgraded to a left-behind fortress, its military defense has been continuously strengthened.
Since the headquarters of Yi Chao's three navy command battalions was stationed on Ganghwa Island, when King Hyojong, the son of King Injo, planned the Northern Expedition to regain the Ming Dynasty, Wolgus, Jemul, Yongjin, Gwangseong Castle and other forts were set up on the island.
; By the time of his grandson King Sukjong, 53 fortresses were built on prominent locations along the island's coast, turning the entire Ganghwa Island into a huge military fortress group that could not only defend against enemies at sea, but also defend Ganghwa.
Straits, dealing with inland.
In addition, there is a military fortress called "Gyodong-eup Castle" on Gyodong Island to the west of Ganghwa Island, where some of the troops from the water camp are also stationed.
The southern part of the Li Dynasty has not been in war for many years, and its armaments are lax. It is okay to engage in anti-smuggling at sea and kill a few thieves, but it is useless against the Northern Navy. Just as they were panicking, the Northern Navy fleet was guided by the drone.
Next, they fired at the Qiaotong water camp.
For a moment, the sea was like thunder roaring and smoke was filling the air. In just one hour, the warships in the water camp sank and burned, and the officers and soldiers on the shore fled into the city. Immediately afterwards, the fleet turned south.
, began to bombard the Mangsan Beacon Tower and Ujeong Fortress on the west side of Ganghwa Island. After the defenders were driven away, the Marine Battalion landed in an assault boat in a leisurely manner, and then rushed up to Dongkou Mountain, which was only more than 400 meters above sea level.
Follow the ridge and head towards Ganghwasan Fortress.
When the Marine Battalion appeared outside the mountain city, the defenders from all over the island had not yet completed their assembly. The defenders in the mountain city were frightened when they saw the Northern Navy surrounding them from all directions. They just thought they were charging outside the city.
After firing randomly and a few more rounds, the Marine Battalion's mortars opened fire. More than a dozen shells fell, and the officers and soldiers on the top of the city disappeared without a trace.
Ganghua Mountain City was built very solidly, but no matter how solid it was, it could not withstand the explosive charges. With a huge explosion, the gate of Zhanhua Tower in the west was blown to pieces, and the small tower above also shook and fell with crackling noises.
Bricks, wood, and stones turned into dangerous buildings in a blink of an eye. When the soldiers of the Marine Battalion rushed into the city with guns in hand, messy gunshots rang out everywhere in the government offices and palaces of the left-behind mansion. In less than an hour, the battle in the city ended
Declare the end.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Xu Dayong, wearing a military uniform, was escorted by several soldiers and quickly walked into Jianghua Mountain City from the Yanbo Tower in the south. Because Zhao Xin said this
This mission was very important, so he, the deputy director, came in person.
After whispering a few words to a company commander of the Marine Battalion at the city gate, Xu Dayong was led to a dilapidated courtyard surrounded by fences in the city.
At this time, in the small open space in the yard, a family of eight, five men and three women, were kneeling. Four adults and four boys, all with their heads lowered. Although they were wearing white clothes and net scarves, both men and women had messy hair and clothes.
It's also a bit shabby, and it's obvious that it's had a rough life.
Xu Dayong first asked all five people to stand up, and then said to the frightened middle-aged man among them: "You! It's you! What's your name?"
"Reporting to the military commander of the Shang Dynasty, I am Li?"
Ouch! When Xu Dayong heard that the other party's Chinese was pretty good, it was obvious that he had received higher education since he was a child. So he sounded a little more friendly and said with a smile: "Are you the son of Crown Prince Zhuang Xian? The younger brother of the current King of Korea?"
Well, this middle-aged man is the candidate chosen by Zhao Xin to be the new king of Li Chao. He is Li Zou's half-brother, and his biological mother is the concubine of Crown Prince Zhuang Xian.
Because he was born as a concubine, Lee?'s fate was very sad. When he was seventeen, this unlucky boy borrowed money from a businessman because of tight money. As a result, King Yeongjo found out. Even his own son could be locked in a rice cupboard and starve to death.
, naturally he would not have a good look towards his own son's bastard. So the unlucky child and his younger brother were exiled to Daejong County, Jeju Island, which is now Anpyeong Port. During this period, his younger brother died of illness, and Li?
Return to Hanyang.
Unexpectedly, more than ten years after the good times, Princess Jin discovered that the powerful minister Hong Guorong, who died five years ago, had planned a rebellion during his lifetime and wanted to make Li Zhan, the eldest son of Li Zhan, the king. What the hell is this?
Soon Li Zhan was given poisoned wine and committed suicide. Li Zhan, who had gone from being an unlucky child to an unlucky father, was once again deprived of his official rank and his family was sent to Ganghwa Island, where they lived a life of dependence on others.
Hearing Xu Dayong mention his biological father, Li? He raised his head in fear and surprise, then lowered his head and said yes with a solemn expression.
Xu Dayong said: "Do you have anything on you to prove your identity?"
Li? thought for a while, then reached into his arms and took out a small sapphire seal. Xu Dayong took it and looked at it carefully, and found that the word "Mingxing" was engraved on it. It was clearly written in the information Zhao Xin gave him.
, Li?’s nickname is Mingxing.
That's it! Xu Dayong handed the seal back and said to Li? "Pack up your belongings. Forget it, don't pack it up anymore. Your whole family will come with me immediately."
Li? was shocked and said: "Where is Shangguan taking us?"
"Do you know Beihai Town?"
Li? thought for a while and shook his head helplessly. He had been exiled to Ganghwa Island for nine years. He was cut off from news and had no memory of many things.
"Please rest assured, Your Excellency, we will not harm you. You said that your family has fallen into this state, how could it be any worse?" Xu Dayong smiled after saying this, and stepped forward to whisper to the frightened Li?
: "You said if that woman in Hanyang knew that your wife and daughter-in-law are Catholics, what do you think she would do?"
Li Huan's expression suddenly changed, his legs couldn't help but slump on the ground. He couldn't understand how the person in front of him knew about such a secret thing!
It is said that in another time and space, in 1801, the Li Dynasty once again suppressed Catholicism. During the investigation, it was discovered that Li?
The Jin family said they would never let it go, so they sentenced the three to death one after another, leaving only an only son to escape. This only son was the later King of Jeonhye Dawon, Li Jing, and the father of King Cheoljong, the 25th generation monarch of the Li Dynasty.
.
The news of the Northern Navy's attack on Ganghwa Island soon reached Hanyang. The shocked Li Zou immediately took his entire family to the south of Hanyang more than sixty miles away in the name of paying homage to his father, Crown Prince Zhuang Xian.
Suwon Hwaseong Fortress.
Since the Li Dynasty in this time and space obtained large amounts of rent from Anping Port, which greatly alleviated the financial crisis, Li Zuo's city building plan was launched in advance in 1792. During the construction process, the Li Dynasty officials in charge of the project learned from
We obtained various lifting equipment from Beihai Town in Whale Harbor and made a large number of wooden jib cranes and iron chain hoists, which greatly improved the efficiency of the project, so it was completed in only one and a half years.
This is a fortress city integrating politics and military.
On the morning of the second day after Li Zuo arrived at the Hwaseong Palace, his buttocks were still hot, and his subordinates suddenly came to report that all the Northern Navy troops on Ganghwa Island had evacuated that night. However, before he could be happy, a sunny day came.
Thunderbolt, the Beihai Navy took Li?’s family away!
Now Li Zuo finally panicked, and he immediately understood the purpose of the Beihai Navy's visit.
Okay! This is to use the dethronement and establishment of a new king as a threat to force me to bow my head!
Sure enough, a few days later, the North Korean navy sent an ultimatum to Li Chao through Hanyang merchants traveling to and from Anping Port, stating that if the demarcation agreement was not signed before the end of the fourth lunar month, not to mention that the entire Hamgyong Province would not be preserved, it would directly invade Hanyang to support the establishment of a new territory.
king.
At this time, Li Zuo finally stopped chanting the curse. He had to send a secret envoy to Beihai Town, saying that he would do what King Zhao wanted. He sent the envoy first, then went to the tombstone of his father, Crown Prince Zhuang Xian, and cried loudly. It was humiliating.
Ah! What a humiliation!
After receiving the news, the time-travelers in Beihai Town were naturally elated. When they went home to visit relatives not long ago, they were all disgusted by Bangzi's plagiarism. However, while they were excited, some time-travelers also questioned why they didn't take it.
Down the entire peninsula?
Zhao Xin's answer to this is that in remote areas, the cost of management and control is too high, and I don't have the time.
Well, Zhao Xin finally achieved the goal he planned many years ago. Changbai Mountain has nothing to do with the Li Dynasty, the lower reaches of the Tumen River have become an inland river, and the high-grade iron ore urgently needed by the steel plant has been obtained.