1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3236
On April 1657, [-], Lushun Military Port in Liaodong Peninsula.

Although it has entered April, Lushun Port has not ushered in a warm spring, especially in the early morning, when the temperature is still as cold as winter.

Chen Pingliao walked out of the barracks and immediately shuddered.Compared with the outdoors, the warm barracks seem to be two completely different worlds.

"This damn weather, why is it getting colder every year!"

Chen Pingliao looked at the still dark sky, carried his backpack, and walked quickly to the officer's canteen.To fight against such low temperature weather, the best way is to eat a hot breakfast quickly to warm up the whole body.

He remembered that when he was a child, he came to Lushun with his father to participate in the National Day military parade. It seemed that it was not so cold at that time.But my father said at the time that this is a "little ice age" that will last for decades, during which the entire northern region will remain in a cold period, and it seems that it is really being fulfilled little by little.

When Chen Pingliao stepped into the cafeteria, more than 20 officers who were eating immediately put down their chopsticks and stood up in unison.Chen Pingliao gestured for everyone to sit down, and then ordered the cooking soldiers who came up to bring him a bowl of Fushan noodles.

This kind of pasta can be regarded as a traditional delicacy in Fushan County. It needs to be made with flour ground from local wheat in Fushan. It is not only a large portion, but also rich in ingredients.

The expedition is imminent, and such delicacies are hard to get during the battle.This breakfast before leaving the base, Chen Pingliao must feast on it.

Soon the cooking soldiers brought a big bucket bowl, half of which was noodles, and half of which was noodles made from various ingredients.Chen Pingliao picked up the chopsticks and started to eat voraciously.

Chen Pingliao's qualifications in the army are still young, so his current position in the army is actually not high, just a captain.This is still due to his background and experience of studying abroad in Sanya, otherwise, with his qualifications, usually at this time he is only a second lieutenant platoon leader who is standard for military school graduates.

Chen Yixin originally planned to arrange for him to stay in Dengzhou or Jinzhou first, work as a combat staff officer for a few years to get familiar with the environment, and then slowly improve.But Chen Pingliao couldn't stay in the yamen, so he took the initiative to ask to lead the army soon.

Chen Yixin couldn't hold him back, so in the end he could only appoint a battalion commander according to the upper limit of the captain's rank, and continued to hold the post of combat staff officer.

Chen Pingliao has been in the army for several years, and has traveled to most places in Liaodong, Shandong, which can be regarded as having a certain amount of experience.So for this expedition, Chen Yixin asked him to lead a team from Lushun Port to the hinterland of Bohai Sea.

However, Chen Pingliao understood that what he was responsible for was only the marching stage. After arriving at the combat area, his father should take back the command.Whether there will be a chance to join the battle in the future is still unknown.

Chen Pingliao dug down a large bowl of noodles, wiped his mouth, stood up, and said to the officers waiting beside him, "Get ready to go!"

The troops participating in this expedition have already assembled on the pier, and after receiving the order, they began to board the ship one by one.

The Sixth Army Division stationed in Liaodong dispatched a total of four regiments, accounting for almost two-thirds of the total force.

One of the regiments was personally commanded by Sun Zhen, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Army, and went south along the coast from Liaodong Bay to attack Shanhaiguan.

The strength of the other three regiments crossed the sea from Jinzhou to Tianjin, where they joined another landing force from Dengzhou, and then jointly attacked the capital.

Another force from Shandong will pass through Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture along the coast, and attack Hebei all the way, putting pressure on Ming's defense from the south.

From Chen Pingliao's point of view, this battle plan was simple and crude. There was no such thing as luring the enemy or feigning an attack.

But this is also the tactic that the Haihan Army has tried and tested over the past 30 years. It uses firepower to defeat the opponent on the frontal battlefield and quickly achieve the goal to end the battle.

Chen Pingliao was on the Wei Neng, one of the flagships of the Northern Fleet.This battleship has been in service for a long time, and it has undergone two overhauls during the period. If there is no accident, this may be the last time it will go to sea to perform combat missions.

However, the Wei Neng will not be dismantled after it is decommissioned. Chen Pingliao heard that the North Koreans intend to buy this old ship to expand their naval power.

Even though this is an old ship that is about to be decommissioned, it still has great use value for North Koreans with limited military expenditures.If there is such a battleship used to suppress the field, Li Hao must have a little more confidence when facing Li Yi in the south.

This time, without exception, Li Hao sent a group of officers to participate in the operation as military observers.

Chen Pingliao was not very interested in the North-South dispute in North Korea, because he knew that even if a war broke out between the North and the South one day, there would be no clear outcome.

After all, behind the two imperial courts in the north and south, stood the East China Sea Region and the Northern Region respectively. Haihan had the final say as to how far they could fight.

Chen Pingliao once heard from his father that the executive committee is also considering applying the North Korean partition model to Ming Dynasty, splitting Daming into several vassal states, which may make the process of Haihan annexing Daming easier.

But the disadvantages of doing so are also obvious. Once it is divided into multiple small countries, it will be difficult to gather people's hearts together after a long time.

Chen Pingliao believes that the most feasible solution is to capture the capital of Daming, take down all the relatives of the emperor, and then let the emperor issue an abdication edict, admitting that Haihan is the master of the world.

As long as you get the name of orthodoxy, it will be easy to slowly clean up the mess left by Da Ming in the future.

However, Chen Pingliao felt that it was still unclear whether he would really take the capital in one go this time.According to the combat plan he knew, only a plan for attacking the capital was given at present, but the final combat goal did not include the capture of the capital.

This meant that if Daming surrendered again, perhaps the executive committee would still leave some room for negotiation to the opponent, which made Chen Pingliao, who was determined to win a complete victory, a little uncomfortable.

Nearly 5000 Haihan Army troops landed from Lushun Port. For this reason, troop carriers from the entire Liaodong Peninsula were assembled here, and dozens of civilian ships were requisitioned to transport such a large-scale troop to another place in Bohai Bay. A destination.

The personal space left for the soldiers on each ship is extremely limited. Many of the requisitioned civilian ships are cargo ships and do not have perfect living conditions. The soldiers can only spend this voyage in the cargo hold.

Fortunately, Lushun Port is only about [-] miles away from the destination, and if all goes well, it can be reached in about two days, and it will be over after a little patience.

(End of this chapter)