After Yin Feng personally took command and defeated the Xianglan Banner army at Sansanlipu, the Chinese army took advantage of the navy's maneuverability by sea and cut off Amin's escape route many times along the way. However, the navy and marines did not have many ways to deal with the cavalry. Starting from the Xianglan Banner Camp in Pulandian and along the Bohai Sea coast to Haizhou and Gaizhou, the navy's temporary interception positions only served to harass and drive away the Xianglan Banner cavalry. Amin led the team to circle far away. The Kaishui Army Marine Corps set up a position and fled north at all costs.
Yang Qi, commander of the Marine Corps Northern Corps (formerly the Ryukyu Corps), later told Yin Feng: To deal with cavalry, you still have to rely on cavalry. Otherwise, even if you can defeat the enemy's cavalry, you will not be able to completely annihilate them.
This was the first time that the Chinese army faced the northern ethnic minority armed forces with cavalry as the main force. They won the battle and defeated their opponents with fewer casualties. Of course, compared to the Chinese army's previous wars, this time the thirty The casualties in the Battle of Lipu were relatively high.
Lu Xiaotian's cavalry brigade killed more than 1,000 people and injured more than 1,500 people. Independent infantry units such as the Second Division and the Ryukyu Battalion also suffered nearly 1,300 casualties in the final counterattack. Such casualties are unprecedented in the Chinese Army. In previous wars, it was considered quite serious.
On the third day after this battle, the main force of the newly formed Sixth Division arrived at Jinzhou Guard. This division was a newly expanded infantry division after the Nanyang Raiders. The division commander was Huang Lue, the former regimental commander of the First Division.
Lu Xiaotian took the lead in chasing the Eight Banners soldiers for several days.
Unfortunately, the horses ridden by the Eight Banners Soldiers were mainly Mongolian horses with excellent endurance. The Andalusian horses of the Chinese Army Cavalry definitely exceeded the Mongolian horses in sprinting speed, but their endurance was not as good. The Arabian horses were not adapted to the climate and landforms of Liaodong, so they were Xiaotian pursued the defeated troops of Xianglan Banner with little success, and finally had to return in despair at the gate of Haizhou City.
The Sixth Division of the Chinese Army directly advanced the defense line to Haizhou and Gaizhou. The entire Liaodong Peninsula has been controlled by the Chinese Army. By the way, the Chinese Army student army also regained Zhenjiang Fort (Jiulian City), and the navy controlled the mouth of the Yalu River. area.
Soon, the first heavy snowfall in Liaodong fell. The ground was covered with snow, the rivers began to freeze, and the climate was no longer suitable for large-scale battles. The Eight Banners soldiers on the Haigai and Liaoyang lines did not make any movements. It seemed that for a whole year The war has exhausted their strength.
The Chinese army also held the defensive line tightly and did not continue to move north.
The forty-eighth year of Wanli was actually the first year of Taichang. On December 20th of this year, heavy snow fell and the sky and the earth turned silvery white.
On the north bank of Qinghe River south of Gaizhou Guard, a group of Eight Banners cavalry braved heavy snow and approached the river. On the south bank of Qinghe River where the water had frozen, a group of Chinese Army cavalry patrols in black happened to pass by and immediately lined up to prepare for battle. .
There were about fifty Eight Banners cavalrymen, all wrapped in tight fur coats. One of them came to the river alone and shouted loudly to the Chinese army on the other side.
Xu Zhongping, the sentry commander of the first post of the Sixth Division's cavalry battalion, is from Zhili. He turned to ask the deputy sentry commander Li Yuhe beside him: "Brother Li, you are from Liaodong. What do you think he is talking about?"
Li Yuhe rode his horse to the ice of the river, shouted a few words to the Houjin Eight Banners knights on the other side, and then returned to the queue with a puzzled look on his face, "Brother Xu, the person calling from the other side is the general officer of the Jurchen Barbarian, with a weird accent. But I still understood: he said that they were envoys from the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, and they were going to pay New Year's greetings to my lord, the president."
"What did he say? Give New Year greetings to our president. Did you hear it correctly? We are at war with the Jurchen barbarians." Xu Zhongping didn't believe it and kept shaking his head: "Go and ask their names and whether they have any Tatars with them." The leader’s token will be verified by someone from the Military Intelligence Department at Yulinpu Camp.”
At this time, Emperor Wanli had breathed his last in the Hongde Hall on July 21 of that year due to long-term illness. He was fifty-eight years old and was buried in the "Hong Kong Palace" that he carefully built more than thirty years ago. Dingling, the Palace of Longevity, had the posthumous title of "Fan Tianhe, Daozhe, Sudun, Jianguang, Wenwu, Anren, Zhixiaoxian Emperor", and the temple name was Shenzong. When he died, Liaoyang and Shenyang were about to fall, and the Ming Dynasty was defeated in Liaodong. These annoying news , Emperor Wanli, who had suffered many disasters in his later years, finally no longer needed to listen. The new emperor was Prince Zhu Changluo. After he ascended the throne, he changed his reign to Taichang. Although Zhu Changluo, who was weak, withdrawn, repressed and lustful, went on strike as a mine tax inspector, he left the house. The money was used as military pay, but he was unable to change the political situation at this time and had no time to make any changes. After Emperor Taichang ascended to the throne, the "Gong Move Case" and the "Hongwan Case" occurred successively. After the death of Emperor Wanli, the imperial concubine The Zheng family still lives in the Palace of Qianqing, vying to be the empress dowager with her beautiful concubine, but the crown prince cannot live in the Palace of Qianqing after he ascends to the throne. Emperor Taichang's favorite concubine Li Xuanshi takes the crown prince hostage in the Palace of Qianqing, striving for the throne of the queen, with Donglin Party members as the main force. Under the strong pressure of the courtiers, Zheng Guifei and Li Xuanshi were forced to move out of the Qianqing Palace. After the new emperor Zhu Changluo moved into the Qianqing Palace, he became ill only a few days after ascending to the throne. Li Kezhuo, the Prime Minister of Honglu Temple, presented two pills of elixir to Zhu Changluo. He died the next morning after taking it, triggering the "red pill" controversy.
Emperor Taichang was emperor for only 29 days and was known as the "Emperor in January". At this time, Emperor Wanli's corpse had not yet been buried in the coffin, and the underground palace of Emperor Taichang could not be built in a short time. In desperation, it was rebuilt on the ruins of the original Jingtai Mausoleum in Changping, Beijing. The new mausoleum was completed in August of the following year and buried in September. It was named Qingling.
The temple name of Emperor Taichang was "Guangzong", and his eldest son Zhu Youxiao succeeded him to the throne for his ministers after his death.
In this year, the Ming Dynasty went through three emperors like a revolving door. Various conspiracies emerged one after another in the palace. The intrigues among ministers became increasingly fierce. The chaos of the government reached its extreme. Under these circumstances, Nurhachi almost captured the entire Liaodong in this year. , in fact, it is also a situation of taking advantage of a weak point.
The news that the Chinese Army defeated the Eight Banners Cavalry in southern Liaoning has also spread to the areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty government through newspapers in the Jiangnan-controlled areas of the Chinese Army and insider information from the Liaodong Frontier Army.
Everyone's first reaction after hearing the news was disbelief: then, businessmen doing business in the areas controlled by the Chinese Company, businessmen returning home for the New Year, hungry people returning home, scholars studying abroad, etc., one after another, gave detailed information one after another. The situation was brought to the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty government. Soon, the news was confirmed by the fleeing Liaodong refugees and the Ming army's defeat.
From ordinary people to government officials, everyone was shocked by the victory of the Chinese army.
For three whole years, the news coming from Liaodong was all bad news. The Ming army was defeated again and again, lost thousands of miles of land, and had millions of refugees. The entire Ming Dynasty was almost unanimously disappointed with the situation in Liaodong.
The achievements of the Chinese army were like a ray of sunshine in the dark clouds, or like a bolt of lightning, which shocked the imperial court, made the imperial officials suspicious, and made ordinary people feel a little hope and surprise.
The Ming Dynasty court was in the chaos of the death of the old emperor and the new emperor's accession to the throne. Even Yang Hao, who was imprisoned in Tianlao due to the failure of the Battle of Sarhu, was left alone and no one cared about it. Although Xiong Tingbi lost Liaodong because of He was also imprisoned, but like Yang Hao, almost no one cared about him.
The newly enthroned Emperor Tianqi issued an edict to the world: Next year is the first year of Apocalypse, and Liao rates will be increased again. However, Hai rates were not mentioned in the edict. However, the court was busy investigating the "Red Pill" and "Moving Palace" cases. The handling of the situation in Liaodong is just to maintain the status quo. Yang Hao, Li Rubai and Xiong Tingbi have all been imprisoned, but there is no time to pay attention to them for the time being. Regarding the Chinese army's victory over the Eight Banners soldiers, the entire court was briefly surprised and hesitant. , and there was no reaction.
In December, Fang Congzhe became an official, and Sun Ruyou, the Minister of Rites and a bachelor of Dongge University, was appointed as a pre-engineer. At this time, Yuan Yingtai, the censor of the governor of Liaodong, was appointed as the minister of the Ministry of War and was appointed to manage Liaodong on behalf of Xiong Tingbi.
Yuan Yingtai instead sent his own aide Lin Congdi across the sea to Jinzhouwei to meet Yin Feng in a private capacity through his connections with Huaxing associate merchants.
In the last few days of 1620, the envoys sent by Nurhaci, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, Nurhaci's sixth son Aixinjueluo Tabai and general officer "Baksh" Dahai came to Jinzhou Guard with a large number of gifts.
At the same time, Lin Congdi, the personal representative of Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong manager, also came to Jinzhou Guard with Yuan Yingtai's letter.
At this moment, Yin Feng, Li Lihua, Mai Wan'er and other wives, concubines and children were gathering together in the Lushun military port fortress to prepare for the New Year. Zhao Tie and Fan Tao, who went to North Korea, also returned to Lushun, bringing two big surprises to Yin Feng. .
In Yin Feng's view, this big surprise is actually a big trouble: King Guanghae of North Korea gave him two princesses from the Li family royal family.
Yin Feng's estimate was absolutely correct. After Fan Tao led his navy into the mouth of the Han River, he attacked directly to the city walls of Seoul. The cavalry regiment of the Fifth Division also broke through Kaesong in the north of Seoul and advanced towards Seoul.
The Lee Dynasty of the Joseon Dynasty knew the current affairs and was a hero. He immediately signed a seal outside the South Gate (Sungnye Palace) built in 1398 AD to express his surrender. Zeng Rui rushed to Seoul urgently to accept the surrender of the Joseon king on behalf of Yin Feng. Sailor Lu More than 1,000 people from the northern regiment of the army entered Seoul and took control of important locations such as Gyeongbokgung Palace, Deoksugung Palace, Changgyeonggung Palace and Gyeongdeokgung Palace. The First Division dispatched a regiment to enter Seoul and controlled various city gates.
Seoul was China's "Lelang County" in the Han Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the "Andong Protectorate", one of the six major protectorates of the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, in 18 BC, King Wenzuo, the founder of Baekje, established his capital here. , built Weiryeseong, Goguryeo occupied this area, and called the area north and south of the Han River Bukhansanju, and called the area near Seoul now South Pyongyang. In the middle of the 7th century, after Silla unified Korea, it was incorporated into Hansanju , King Cheng of Goryeo (960-997 AD) upgraded this place to Yangjumu (one of the 12 Goryeo nomads). In 1068, he upgraded it to Nanjing, one of the three small capitals (Xijing, Tokyo, Nanjing), and became a city in 1104. The Nanjing New Palace was built and upgraded to Hanyang Prefecture in 1308. Li Chenggui of the Li Dynasty built a lot of construction here in 1393 and moved the capital here in 1394. It was called Hancheng Prefecture. It has a long history. In ancient times, it was named "Hanyang" because it was located in the north of the Han River. After the Joseon Dynasty established its capital in Hanyang at the end of the 14th century, it was renamed "Seoul".