At the end of this year, Yin Feng led the main force of the First Division to the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, Jinzhou Guard.
Also coming with him was Li Lihua, who had just taken over as the head of the Overseas Bureau of the Ministry of Military Intelligence. By the way, Yin Feng also brought his precious daughter Qian'er.
Yin Qian caused a big disturbance in Taiwan's Zhonghua Company Primary School: One day, in order to vent her anger for the bullied Siraya indigenous children, she summoned all the children who admired her, as well as the son of the black guard captain Magaro. A group of mixed-race black kids and a group of military boys got into a fierce fight on campus.
Qian'er saw that her side suffered a physical disadvantage due to her young age, so she tried to lure several of the other boys' leaders into a pre-arranged trap, and then launched a counterattack to disrupt the opponent's camp, digging traps to hunt prey, which was what the indigenous children had done since childhood. One of the techniques he learned is Chen Kangxin, the child of Chen Zhongji and Xilan, his indigenous wife from Mokaliuwan Village. He has learned to understand this technique since he was 5 years old, and he is one of Yin Qian's most loyal followers.
It was just a group fight at first, but one of the two boys who fell into the trap broke his ankle bone, and one of them was Yan Siqi's son. Yin Feng had a big headache because of this, but Yan Siqi laughed out loud after hearing the news. He scolded his son: "He's so useless, he can't even beat a girl."
Because of this, Qian'er was imprisoned for three days by Yin Feng, and he took her to Liaodong, preparing to consume the little girl's excessive energy in the ice and snow.
For the current two children of Yin Feng's family, they cannot celebrate the New Year at home and have to go to the freezing north. This is not a punishment at all, but a reward. Yin Feng is too busy and rarely plays with his children, but now he has to take them with him Qian'er went to sea, so his eight-year-old brother watched with extreme envy as his ten-year-old sister boarded the Feilong battleship, thinking that she would try to cause a big disaster sometime.
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A storm swept across the Yellow Sea, and heavy rain mixed with snowflakes occupied all the space above the sea...
The rain and snow had just stopped when a huge four-masted ship suddenly appeared on the sea with its gun windows open.
"There is a coastline ahead, and we should have reached Chengshanwei on the Shandong Peninsula," Feilong's new captain Shi Daxuan reported to Yin Feng outside the cabin.
Yin Feng put down his pen and took a few steps out of the cabin. He raised his telescope and looked outside the ship for a while: "What's the situation of the fleet?"
"The communication ship Haiyu has caught up. Following the Feilong are more than a dozen cruisers and fast gunboats. Most of the transport ships have escaped the storm in Jeju Island, and a few ships have taken shelter in Jiaozhou Bay. Basically There is no loss," Shi Daxuan said, then thought for a while and said: "President, it is said that several grain transport ships were detained by officers and soldiers of Fushan Qian Station in Jiaozhou Bay."
Yin Feng smiled coldly: "What's going on? How dare Shandong officers and soldiers seize our ship?"
Shi Daxuan shook his head and remained upright on the swaying deck of the battleship. Yin Feng always felt as if he was nailed to the deck. It was difficult for Yin Feng to stand firm without holding on to the side of the ship.
"Send several cruisers and gunboats to Jiaozhou Bay, and the officers and soldiers will bombard the dock there without letting anyone go," Yin Feng ordered very domineeringly.
Shi Daxuan nodded, but after thinking for a while, he said: "President, there is no decent dock in Jiaozhou Bay, and capturing the dock is meaningless to the local officers and soldiers..."
"Really? Then send the Marines ashore and capture Fushan Fortress..." Yin Feng admired Shi Daxuan's meticulous and thoughtful style: "You have full authority to handle this matter without worrying about the court's reaction."
Shi Daxuan stood at attention and saluted: "Yes, I will make arrangements immediately."
Zeng Shan just walked out of the cabin and saw that Shi Daxuan had left, so he whispered: "Brother Feng, we are still in peace talks with the imperial court, so it is not appropriate to attack the stronghold of the officers and soldiers like this,"
Yin Feng shook his head indifferently. He had long been accustomed to the timid attitude of scholars like Zeng Shan: "It doesn't matter, the court has no time to take care of us now. You have to draft a memorial to protest against the Shandong government troops' seizure of our troops." What happened to the grain ship, are you okay? You look ugly,"
Zeng Shan smiled bitterly and said: "It's okay. When I went to Western Europe, I encountered much more wind and waves than this... Those were really earth-shaking waves. Hey, I really want to go there again..."
"I will ask you to go to America and see that land that is bigger than Europe..."
A series of laughter like silver bells came, Qian'er's figure flashed by the side of the ship on the other side, and Li Lihua hurriedly chased after her: "Be careful, the deck is full of water, be careful of slipping..."
"Brother Feng, why do I think you brought Qian'er out to let her go out to sea to play? What kind of punishment is that?"
"Haha, my brother is right. Qian'er, like me, likes to draw and walk around. The world at school is too small for her.
Zeng Shan still has some opinions about his niece: "This Qian'er is too wild-tempered, not like her mother at all..."
"Do girls have to stay at home? The children of my Yin family should be like seagulls on the sea, flying freely..."
Zeng Shan shook his head and muttered: "This girl has a temperament like yours, how can she get married in the future?"
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In Lushun Bay, Jinzhou, Liaodong, complete port facilities have been established. Forts and fortresses have been built on the left and right coastlines. There are more than a dozen gunboats cruising at the mouth of the bay flying the Chinese flag with the Chinese character "Jinghai" on the blue background. This is the symbol of China. The northernmost military port on the coast of China controlled by the company.
Fan Tao, the commander-in-chief of the First Fleet (Northern Fleet), Lu Xiaotian, the commander of the cavalry brigade, Su Li, the commander of the fourth regiment of the second division stationed in Jinzhou, and Zeng Qing, the northern intelligence chief, all greeted the Feilong at the dock.
As soon as they met, Yin Feng asked: "Is there no news about Brother Rui yet?"
Everyone looked at Zeng Qing. The short Zeng Qing cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, there is no new news about Liu Tsai. A month ago he went to Fushun and used money to ransom the shopkeeper. There is no news yet."
"Let's go to the Zhongzuo Yamen first and discuss the Liaodong war immediately. Brother Fan Tao, the fleet encountered a storm at sea and the fleet was divided into three groups. You'd better send several squadrons to Jeju Island, Jiaozhou Bay, etc. Please give me the direction,"
On the way, Yin Feng grabbed Zeng Qingluo and asked in a low voice: "How did that matter go?"
"We have obtained the Liaodong Zhentang Newspaper. Yang Hao has already seen the letter from Korea and has written a memorial to the capital."
"Where are our people trapped in Nuqiu, have they evacuated?"
"Shopkeeper Jin was kidnapped last year when the Jurchen Tatars attacked Liaodong. Fortunately, there was a Jurchen Tatar named Beile who had done business with our company and recognized him, so he took him around with him. In this way, we have a chance. We found the captured officer who was willing to work for us,"
Yin Feng nodded: "The seals and writing rules in the Korean state letters were all made by Korean officials themselves, and they should not be seen through by Yang Hao. However, this Ming army officer is a hidden danger. Zeng Rui went to ransom the shopkeeper, in fact, just to think about it. There is a way to get this Ming army officer out of the Jurchen Tatar territory and control it in our hands. The matter of rescuing the officer is a secret. There are many locals in Liaodong here, and they are afraid of leaks, so I didn't tell you, you..."
Zeng Qing immediately held up his hands and said: "The captain is overly worried. I know the rules of the Military Intelligence Department... In fact, Lao Liu is brave and careful, and he is better at doing these things than me."
"That's all you need to think about. Now, use all the people in Liaodong to figure out Brother Six's situation and help him."
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At this time, Zeng Rui was attending a banquet hosted by the Great Khan of Hou Jin without any appetite in Kaiyuan City, the new capital of Hou Jin.
After several years of plundering Liaodong and the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi's Houjin Kingdom has improved and developed its national strength in all aspects that can be converted into combat effectiveness. They have increased their wealth through plundering, and they were originally short of clothes. Wearing clothes was expensive, and even the poor were barely clothed. After the war, they all wore brightly colored clothes due to looting. More importantly, Hou Jin obtained a large number of Han prisoners and defectors, and the labor force greatly increased. In the areas under his control, he began to vigorously With the development of agriculture and handicrafts, farmers around Hetuala have cultivated land, and cattle and sheep have been left wild. With the expansion of the occupied area, fortified cities were built in Fushun and Kaiyuan areas, and they were cultivated and defended. Although the land occupied at the time was not comparable to The Ming Dynasty was vast, but its actual combat effectiveness was growing.
At this time, Nurhachi adopted a policy of preferential treatment to the Han people in the newly occupied areas. He generally did not kill people indiscriminately, and captured the labor force and distributed it to the ministers of Zhubeile. If Han businessmen were captured, their property was returned and they were asked to continue to do business with Houjin.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, in the last month of the fourth year of Tianming in the Hou Jin Dynasty (1619), in the severe cold, after occupying Kaiyuan and building the city, Nurhachi issued an order to Zhubeile ministers: "None of us should return to the capital (Hetuala). "
All the Baylor ministers were shocked. They did not understand the intention of Houjin Khan's words. After some discussion, they jointly proposed: "It is better to go back to the capital, build stables, cut grass to feed the horses, wash them with water, and the horses will be escorted." Being fat and strong allows the soldiers to tidy up their equipment when they return home."
Nurhaci insisted on his own opinion and persuaded Zhubeile's different opinions. He said, "You don't understand this. In this cold winter, it will take us twenty days to march back to Hetuala. Our soldiers and horses need to rest. Next year We still have to fight a big war." The debate was settled by Nurhachi's strong insistence. Nurhaci and the ministers of Beile unanimously moved to Jiefan to station and herd horses in the Liaodong border area. In order to strengthen their will, they later moved Their wives were also brought here to reunite together.
After the war in Sarhu, Nurhachi's obvious change in his strategy towards the Ming Dynasty was from retaliating against the Ming Dynasty to plundering property and occupying land. For this reason, although Nurhaci still used the Seven Hatreds as mobilization propaganda, in reality The request went far beyond the scope of revenge. After the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi warned his subordinates in the name of the Khan of the Jin Dynasty: "The victory of the day before yesterday, God, don't rely on repeated victory. I will definitely win Liao, and then I can In life, you should be prepared to die under the Liaodong city. "Capturing Liaoshen is the biggest goal of Hou Jin's new strategy."
Moving to Jiefan was actually Nurhachi's next strategic war preparation.
Zeng Rui didn't find anything about this at first.