When Huang Lue led his troops to the city of Guangning, he was in a very happy mood: the Chinese army on the south road had already reached the city of Guangning, while Zhao Tie was still besieging Wang Huazhen. It seemed that his own troops were going to take the lead, and the two armies joined forces in Guangning. Ning's plan no longer exists.
Sun Degong and others surrendered in the city, which was attributed to the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Domestic Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These two companies have been fighting for credit for this later. Several of Sun Degong's subordinates had already negotiated with people from the Commercial Information Department of the China Company many years ago. There is a connection. However, since there has never been a large-scale war between the Ming Army and the Chinese Army in the Northeast, these people lurked and then played a role in the Battle of Xining Fort. Many of the Ming Army's military secrets belonged to Sun Degong. His subordinates revealed it, but Sun himself turned a blind eye, obviously trying to tread two boats.
After Huang Lue led his team into the Guangning Acropolis, he immediately sent people to the Liaodong Governor's Yamen. That was the only place in the city where people were still resisting.
Fang Zhenru, the patrol commander of Liaodong, Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Jiliao, and Gao Bangzuo, who participated in the political affairs of Liaodong Bingdao, are all here. Their directly subordinate Biaoying soldiers and servants are still resisting stubbornly.
Sun Degong's soldiers attacked several times, but were repulsed. After Huang Lue led his troops here, he immediately asked people to shout to persuade him to surrender. As a result, one of Sun Degong's troops who persuaded him to surrender killed the arrow shot by the Yamen at the gate. .
Huang Lue saw this scene from a distance and sneered: "It's commendable to have backbone, but what's the use of this? Order! Push five field artillery here before evening. If the people inside don't surrender, they will fire to level the ground." Went to the governor's Yamen."
Sun Degong was shocked when he heard this: "General Huang, this is the governor's Yamen..."
"So what? They want to fulfill their duties loyally, and I'm just fulfilling them!" Huang Lue gave him a sidelong glance, and Sun Degong retracted his neck and did not dare to speak out.
Before evening, the explosive shells fired by five six-pound bronze field guns exploded into brilliant fireballs. The governor's office of Liaodong was razed to the ground by several rounds of artillery fire. Fang Zhenru, the governor of Liaodong, Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Jiliao, Gao Bangzuo, who participated in the political affairs of Liaodong Bingbei Road, and Dozens of civil and military officials in Liaodong were all killed by artillery fire.
News of the fall of Guangningcheng quickly spread throughout Liaodong through the Chinese Army's military order system, and also quickly spread to various coastal areas through the Chinese Army's communication ships.
When the news reached the capital, it was ten days later than the people in the Jiangnan area knew the news.
Huang Lue's troops and Zhao Tie's forward cavalry met at Zhenning Fort to the west of Guangning. The more than 20,000 Ming troops under Wang Huazhen's command who were surrounded in Zhenwu Fort were completely alone and had no hope at all.
The Chinese army surrounding Zhenwu Fort has not yet launched a general offensive. They have only dug a circle of trenches around the main fortress of Zhenwu Fort, completely blocking all external contacts of the Ming army.
The Chinese army has no intention of attacking the city. Zhao Tie and Zhang Pan both decided to besiege rather than attack. Now the Chinese army has basically eliminated all the Ming army troops north of Shanhaiguan. There is no need for them to waste manpower in places like Zhenwu Fort. Material resources.
Captain Francisco Barreto now independently owns a merchant fleet and also owns shares in a Chinese company. He also moved his home to Taiwan and married a Chinese wife. Captain Barreto Jr. is already extremely wealthy. , he can be considered a rich man whether in China or Portugal.
During these days, he actively responded to the call of the Chinese Army in Liaodong and took the initiative to lend his fleet to the Chinese Army for use as transport ships. He personally supervised the formation of his three schooner clippers and traveled back and forth between Juhua Island and Lushun for several days.
During the trip, he transported a large amount of arms for the Chinese army. At the same time, he also purchased a large amount of Chinese army trophies on Juhua Island and made a lot of money.
On this day, Captain Barreto received a direct order from Zhao Tie, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong march at the Juhua Island anchorage: he was asked to go to the coast of Fuzhou to pick up a group of people on board, and then go directly south to Taiwan Port.
Captain Barreto left Chrysanthemum Island unhappy because he was doing business very smoothly here. The price of the loot sold by the Chinese Army Logistics Department was extremely low. Any goods he purchased here would be transferred to China or Nanyang in the south.
It can make a lot of money. Now, the business on Juhua Island is at its peak. Winter has not yet arrived. Before the strong north wind blows on the sea, there is still time to continue to discuss a few business deals. However, as Yin
Feng and the earliest Western collaborator of the China United Company, Barreto Jr. attached great importance to the good relationship with the Chinese Army. Therefore, he put aside several unconcluded business deals and took the ship to Fuzhou.
His three boats are new schooners that were launched last year, respectively from the Taiwan Shipyard and the Cavite Shipyard in Luzon Island. Since his boats are new boats with good performance, the task he was assigned to perform is very important: pick up and drop off.
300 Chinese Military Academy student soldiers returned to Taiwan.
As Yin Feng's early partner and one of the first foreign shareholders of the China United Company, Barreto Jr. was someone the Chinese Army could trust. Therefore, Yin Bin, Zhao Yi, Li Jigong and other young trainee officers came
On his ship, they headed back to Taiwan. On board the ship with them were some Ryukyu Pioneer Regiment militiamen and some wounded soldiers of the Second Division. The battle in the Western Liaoning Corridor was not completely over yet, and the Ming army in Zhenwu Fort was still there.
The trapped beast is still fighting, but the Chinese army is already preparing for the end of the war: there will be no more big wars. Yin Feng and the old battalion staff discussed for several days and reached a consensus: the Ming court has spent all the financial resources accumulated in the past five years,
Material resources and military strength were all consumed in the war caused by the attack and defense of Xining Fort. At the same time, the She'an Rebellion was still in full swing in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, and there were constant disasters and weather in the north. For the time being, the Ming Dynasty court was no longer capable.
A war broke out, and the signing of a peace agreement between the two parties was imperative.
Therefore, this group of people, including the student army, became the first batch of troops to leave the battlefield in western Liaoning and returned to Taiwan on Captain Barreto Jr.'s ship.
Barreto was surprised when he spotted Yin Bin among the young soldiers on board. He often visited Yin Feng's home and was familiar with his family. Especially Yin Bin, who was often taken by Barreto when he was a child.
Playing with the children of the sailors at the sailors' school - Barreto served as a teacher at the sailors' school. So after the ship sailed, he quietly called Yin Bin into his captain's cabin.
"Uncle Barreto, hello." Yin Bin greeted Barreto in Portuguese.
Barreto put his hand on his chest and bowed in the popular European etiquette of visiting the royal family: "Your Highness, it is my honor to meet you."
After saying the polite words, Barreto quickly pulled Yin Bin to sit down, looked him up and down, and then asked in pure Chinese: "My Prince, why are you here? Did you participate in this Xining Fort
Battle?"
Yin Bin nodded vigorously and proudly: "You are right, I have been in the fortress for a full month."
"My God! Does the respected ship owner know this?"
"Of course, my father hopes that I can fight on the battlefield like an ordinary soldier."
Captain Barreto had a hard time understanding what Yin Feng meant, nor did he understand Yin Bin. He made the sign of the cross on his chest and said, "God bless you. It seems that you are living a good life in the fortress? You don't seem to have any injuries..."
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Speaking of these things, Yin Bin looked depressed and sighed: "Don't mention it, I get depressed when I talk about this! It's not fair! We haven't fired a single shot these days, and we haven't hit any enemies.
I have nothing to do all day long!"
Little Barreto was a little hard to understand: "What's going on? Isn't it said that the war is very fierce? All the troops in Liaodong have been mobilized..."
Yin Bin did not know that this emergency troop deployment in Liaodong was related to him. He just lamented his disbelief: "You don't know, whether it is Zhang Pan who is guarding Zhang Pan or Uncle Zhao, as well as Uncle Lu from the cavalry brigade,
, all of us student soldiers were not allowed to go to the battlefield, and they only asked us to guard the warehouse. We could only listen to the artillery fire outside the city, and we could only act as gatekeepers."
Young Yin Bin was still at the age where "young people don't know what it feels like to be sad", but little Barreto had already understood what Yin Bin was going through, laughed, and could only say a few words of comfort to him.
The fleet soon passed through the Bohai Sea and arrived on the Yellow Sea. Originally, these three schooner clippers carrying a large amount of merchandise should go directly south to Taiwan. However, among the people on board were hundreds of militiamen from the Ryukyu Development Corps.
, so Barreto Jr.’s fleet is going to take a detour to Ryukyu.
As a result, just before they approached Ryukyu, the fleet had an accident.
It was supposed to be the season for northerly and northeasterly winds, but a southeasterly wind suddenly blew in the Yellow Sea. Then the wind and waves became stronger and stronger. It was already difficult for ships to move against the wind, so they had to start walking in a zigzag shape to resist the wind.
Soon, the sea roared, and the line between sea and sky was covered by dark clouds, and heavy rain poured down.
The captain stumbled to little Barreto and said: "Master, your luck is so bad, this is a typhoon!"
Little Barreto has been running on the sea all year round, and he has long noticed that something is not right about the weather. He frowned and said: "I think so too. This is probably the last hurricane of this year, and we just happened to catch up with it."
"Hey, there is another person on board..." Little Barreto shook his head, and then made up his mind: "Abandon all the canvases that were too late to recover, and cut off the cables! Close all the watertight compartments, and now we can only obey God's arrangements!"
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"Goddess Mazu bless you!" said the Chaozhou captain, and turned around to arrange it.
This typhoon swept through a large area of sea north of Taiwan and south of Japan. Human ships were no more than children's toys at this time. God played with these wooden ships wantonly and blew them alive from the Ryukyu coast to the north to the Korean coast.
Three days later, when everything on the sea calmed down, little Barreto, who was proficient in East Asian sea routes, exclaimed: "We have arrived in North Korea!"
The three schooners of Barreto's fleet that were tortured by the hurricane have been scattered. The only one drifting off this coastline is Barreto's ship, which is the schooner merchant ship on which Yin Bin and others are aboard.