In Lushun Military Port, a new batch of transport ships are docking, and a large number of personnel organized by the Chinese Army Logistics Department are unloading the goods. Most of the coolies working are prisoners of the Ming Army who will be released in a year.
Although the local people in Liaodong have encountered military disasters, half of them took refuge in the guard castles such as Shenyang and Liaoyang, and the other half fled to western Liaoning. The people in Liaodong were not the refugees who could not survive after the disaster in the pass. They all wanted to wait for the Jurchen Tatars to retreat. Later, when he came back to live, the Eight Banners soldiers had not come over to the border of southern Liaoning yet, so there were not many refugees yet. No one in Liaodong expected that the Ming army would be defeated so quickly. Moreover, after the Eight Banners of Hou Jin occupied the border of Liaodong, they no longer wanted to Gone.
By May, the Ming army had retreated to Shenyang, Liaoyang (the location of the Liaodong Dusi Yamen), Haizhouwei, Gaizhouwei, Fuzhouwei and other cities, and all areas east and north of the Shenyang, Liaoning, and Haigai lines. There are nearly a thousand guard posts and fortresses, and all the cities and towns have been occupied by the Eight Banners soldiers. Shenyang and Liaoyang have been surrounded by the Eight Banners soldiers. The total number of soldiers and horses of the three guards in Haigai is less than 10,000, and they dare not go out of the city to meet the Eight Banners soldiers. During the battle, Yang Hao was trapped in Liaoyang City, and had been cut off from the imperial court by the Eight Banners soldiers. To the west of the Liao River, tens of thousands of Ming troops clung to the local area, and tens of thousands of guest soldiers who came to help cowered away.
In the Battle of Sarhu last year, the Huaiyang Dusi Jinguan who went north was transferred to the north. The Jiangnan camp was awarded the title of Dusi Wangbiao, each leading a thousand troops. They arrived in Tianjin in March of the 47th year of Wanli and did not participate in the Battle of Sarhu. , but kept using the excuse of repairing ships at Tianjin Guard, and without hesitation, a member of the Ministry of War personally went to Tianjin Guard to urge them to send troops to Liaodong. Wang Biao said that six ships had been repaired, and Jin Guan was also called the original Huaiyang patrol ship. It couldn't be repaired and had to be demolished. In the spring of this year, Nurhachi's Eight Banners army went out to attack Liaodong. Jin Guan and others went to the Shu again and said that they couldn't get out of the customs because they didn't have enough money and food...
There are also 2,000 Zhejiang soldiers in the capital. They were the troops transferred by Xiong Tingbizi to assist the Liao Dynasty before the Battle of Sarhu last year. They did not make it in time to participate in the Battle of Saarhu. They were stranded in the capital and did not dare to send troops. The original commander of the army was Zhang Chao's Baiji Camp. They even instigated the soldiers to stir up mutiny in the name of paying for their pay, and tried every means to avoid sending troops to Liaodong. Around the capital, there were more than 12,000 southern soldiers who came to help last year, and more than 20,000 people newly transferred from the Shanxi-Shaanxi Provincial Frontier Army, but there were no Not even a single soldier among the generals is willing to leave the border to rescue Liaodong. Moreover, all the soldiers in these armies have not been paid for three months. The soldiers who have been in arrears with wages for the longest time have been without income for more than half a year. Many troops have deserted.
The land of Liaodong, which is thousands of miles away, is full of beacon smoke and swords, and is full of fleeing people and defeated Ming troops. However, the mighty Ming Dynasty, with a nominal number of millions of soldiers, was unable to assemble a mobile force to rescue Liaodong.
...Yin Feng stood on the newly built No. 1 Fort on the west coast of Lushun, watching countless ships coming in and out of the port.
He held up the telescope and looked for a long time. Li Lihua behind him couldn't help but poked his waist: "Hey, people are asking you: What should I do about the Japanese country?"
Yin Feng turned around in embarrassment and saw Xu Daling, the director of the company's business office in Nagasaki, standing behind him with his head lowered, seemingly not seeing anything. Behind him, there were Zeng Shan, Zeng Qing, deputy director of the logistics department Zheng Dong, and a missionary. You Wenhui, Lu Ruohan and others gathered in a corner of the fortress and were discussing something.
Yin Feng smiled at Li Lihua: "Have you found out yet? The Anhai Regiment was funded by the Anhai Han family."
"That's right, it was established by a brother-in-law of Han Jing on the board of directors. The veterans who joined the pioneering group are also from Anhai, Quanzhou. There are also servants and sons of the Han family participating. There are a total of five or six hundred people. Another pioneering group 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, indicating that it was Zeng Qing who found out these things.
Yin Feng thought for a while and asked: "What are the opinions within the company?"
"What everyone means is that we should focus on domestic affairs now and avoid conflicts with other countries for the time being. However, the pioneering group occupied Tanegashima, but it did not violate your order, so we still let you make the decision,"
Yin Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It sounds nice, but it's just a way for me to be a villain. We started with trade, and credit comes first. Since I made it clear in advance that I would allow the pioneering group to occupy land everywhere, I naturally did not force the Anhai group to withdraw from the seeds. The principle of the island, so be it, since Tanegashima is the territory of the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain, Xu Daling..."
Xu Daling, who was dressed in Confucian robes, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, the ship owner, my subordinates are here."
"You immediately take Mr. Lu Ruohan back to Japan. He is an old friend of the late Tokugawa General and has relatively good connections. He can help you when dealing with the shogunate. Tell the Tokugawa shogunate that we will not return Tanegashima. , as we bought it from the shogunate, let’s transfer the amount of this year’s last indemnity installment from the Satsuma Domain to the current shogun in Kyoto, and count it as the payment for our purchase of Tanegashima,” Yin Feng then called his personal consultant Lu Ruohan. Came over and gave instructions.
Lu Ruohan is a natural diplomat, so it would be right to leave this matter to him.
Zeng Shan came over and whispered: "There are only a few hundred of our people on Tanegashima, right..."
"You're right to remind me. I will ask Fan Tao to send a battleship to patrol Tanegashima. Okay, let's leave it to Tanegashima. Send a letter to Han Jing and Han Ping and his son at the company headquarters, asking them to Members of the family should not attack Japan again, at least during the Liaodong campaign,"
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Now, the Chinese army's water and land forces gathered in Jinzhou, Liaonan have reached more than 45,000 people. The Liaodong Korean War is about to begin. Yin Feng does not want to start another war with the Japanese at this time. The Chinese army's main energy is concentrated on In Liaodong, a large number of spies were sent to various places in Liaodong, and a steady stream of news was passed on.
In May, the Ming court urgently appointed Xiong Tingbi as the Liaodong manager, and Yang Hao was dismissed. At this time, Yang Hao and 30,000 Ming troops were besieged in Liaoyang. He did not know that he had been dismissed from his post and went to Beijing to face charges.
At the end of June, Xiong Tingbi rushed to the capital day and night. At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers had surrounded Liaoyang and Shenyang. The Ming army that covered the three prefectures had abandoned the city and fled to western Liaoning. The Eight Banners soldiers, Xianglan Banner and other partial divisions attacking from Kuandian had already Haizhou, Gaizhou and other places have been occupied, and the cavalry forward has been in contact with the Chinese military guard posts in the Black Mountains north of Jinzhou.
The Ming Dynasty's defense in Liaodong was weakened, and most of the soldiers and horses had not recovered from the defeat in the Battle of Sarhu the previous year. Therefore, it was difficult to withstand the impact of the Later Jin. In April and May, the soldiers of the Later Jin continuously entered Mei Liaoyang. 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, plus he had served as the right commander of the Jinyi Guards and served as a close minister. Before he left the country, he started to quarrel with the governor Wang Keshou. Seeing the gift, he ignored the task of defense. In June, the Hou Jin army surrounded Shenyang. After Liaoyang, Zhang Chengji, the capital of Liaodong, fled from Haizhou across the Liao River back to Jinzhou in western Liaoning. Without any decent defense, Hou Jin easily eliminated Liaoyang. , Shenyang, and all Liaodong areas except Jinzhou Wei in southern Liaoning were occupied.
Xiong Tingbi's training of the new army in Jiangnan had not yet yielded results, so he was transferred to Liaodong like a firefighter to deal with the crisis.
Ming Shenzong, who had ignored government affairs for many years and was recently suffering from illness, gave Xiong Tingbi the Shangfang Sword at the repeated request of his chief minister Fang Congzhe to strengthen his power. Before taking office, Xiong Tingbi came to the capital to see his Majesty. The Beijing camp was accompanied by 3,000 elite soldiers, a thousand men in name, but actually 800 old and weak soldiers. Xiong Tingbi had no choice but to take the 2,000 Zhejiang soldiers he had transferred from Jiangnan out of Shanhaiguan and marched to Xingshan, only to receive three orders from Haigai. The news of the loss of the state caused a pessimistic atmosphere throughout the Ming Dynasty that "Liao must perish". Xiong Tingbi traveled all the way and arrived at Hupiyi (Shili River south of Shenyang) in early July. In front of him was the Eight Banners joint camp, tens of thousands of eight The color cavalry stood in front of him.
Xiong Tingbi was walking on the way and met people who were fleeing, so he persuaded them to return to their hometown. At that time, officials and people in the border areas were fleeing one after another. Yan Mingtai, who was in charge of Jinshi, was also fleeing to western Liaoning. He met Xiong Tingbi and persuaded him to go back to Songshan and Xingshan first. , it is important to protect Liaoxi.
Xiong Tingbi beheaded several derelict officers who had abandoned their territory and decided to temporarily gather troops in Songshan and Xingshan, and then rescue Liaoyang and Shenyang.
At this time, on the banks of the Yalu River, countless rafts and rowing boats were busy shuttling between the two sides. Tens of thousands of Korean civilians were transporting grain and grass from Yiju on the south bank to Zhenjiang Fort on the north bank. The one receiving the grain and grass on the other side was Amin, the leader of the Eight Banners and the Blue Banner. He led 20 elite Manchurian soldiers.
Amin is the son of Shuerhaqi, Nurhachi's half-brother. After Shuerhaqi failed to compete with Nurhaci for the throne of Khan, he was imprisoned in a secret room by Nurhachi. In the end, Mo Mingqi died. His two sons Altonga, Zha Saktu was executed by Nurhaci, and his general Wu Erkun was also executed. Nurhachi was still angry and planned to execute his second son Amin. Only with the desperate pleas of Huang Taiji and others, Amin escaped. , escaped death, but half of his family property was confiscated. However, this incident gave Amin the same idea as his father, to rebel against his uncle.
Now Amin alone led a partial division to attack the southern part of Liaoning, and was planning to take this opportunity to strengthen his own strength. He put all the captured Liaodong people and Ming army soldiers under his own name, and only selected some old and weak ones to be sent to Jiefan City. , he also sent people to Korea to force the local officials of Yizhou in Korea to transport food and grass for his troops. Originally, his mission was to attack Zhenjiang and Kowloon City from Kuandian to contain the southern wing of the Liaodong Ming Army, but now he has captured Covering the sea, covering three states, Zhenjiang Fort and other places, it 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 conveyed by Nurhaci: to move his troops closer to Liaoyang and blockade the Ming Dynasty reinforcements in western Liaoning. He only sent his subordinate general Altai with 1,000 people went to the direction of Liaoyang to handle errands. They took the main force of the Xianglan Banner and a part of the Zhenglan Banner to prepare to continue the attack on southern Liaoning, intending to completely occupy southern Liaoning.
The Xianglan Banner's five thousand troops are distributed around Zhenjiang Fort, and the Zhenglan Banner and part of the Mongolian cavalry are on the Haizhou front line. Now the generals around Amin are all his cronies, so Amin, who is reckless by nature and speaks unabashedly, is not shying away. The ground was cursing: "King Khan is partial and won't send reinforcements to me, and he won't give me food and grass. So what? Didn't I go get it myself? Why is this Korean coolie so slow? Send someone to hurry up and hurry up." ,"
A North Korean general officer nodded and bowed and came to the slope where Amin was standing. He muttered something to Amin's Goshiha. Amin impatiently said to the leader of Goshiha: "What's wrong with the Korean barbarians? Let him come and talk,"
The short North Korean general officer came to Amin tremblingly, knelt on the ground and said with a trembling voice: "Tell the general of the country, it must have rained heavily upstream, the river is too fast, and there are still 100,000 kilograms of grain and grass..."
Amin interrupted the person: "You are saying that all the food and grass cannot be transported before tomorrow, right?"
"Yes, General, we..."
"Tell your superiors that if the grain and grass are not shipped before tomorrow, I will take the army and cross the river to get it myself. Do you understand?"