1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 492 Donglai Trip ([-])
On October 1643, 16 (the 10th year of Chongzhen), Donglai City (now Busan, South Korea), an important town on the southeast coast of North Korea, was destroyed by the coalition forces of Qi State and Ming Dynasty, and all officials and hundreds of remaining soldiers in the city were captured.

As soon as they entered the city, the Qi Marine Corps and the township soldiers quickly took control of the main government offices, various official warehouses, military camps, important official residences and other important institutional facilities in the city.

Compared with the efficient and orderly looting operations of the Qi army, the tactics of the officers and soldiers of the new Ming army were a bit "rough".After swarming into the city, the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty suddenly turned red, and they began to burn, kill and loot the high-rise houses in the city frantically.In less than half an hour, flames erupted in several places in the city, and huge chaos began to appear in some streets.

Niu Jinming, the commander of the fleet who brought a team of sailors into the city for support, saw this, and immediately ordered someone to find Jiang Yongrui, the commander-in-chief of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, and asked him to immediately restrain his troops. If the surnames revolted, it would be impossible to control the situation.At the same time, more than [-] soldiers of the Marine Corps were deployed to maintain order in the city and stop the countless "atrocities" of the new army of the Ming Dynasty in the city.

At Shenshi in the afternoon (15:17 p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m.), the chaos in Donglai City gradually calmed down, and all the people in the city were ordered to stay at home and not to go out at will.All captured local officials and soldiers were detained in the military camp in the city, and all weapons were confiscated.

More than [-] local soldiers from two companies and three squadrons of the Marine Corps have begun to gather again, preparing to go out of the city to meet the North Korean reinforcements coming from nearby Yixing and Xinning.

More than [-] officers and soldiers of the new army also came out of the city after following the Qi army under the leadership of General Qian Jiang Yongrui.

Before noon, after breaking the city, although the new army of the Ming Dynasty took the lead in attacking the city, the Korean defenders in Donglai City had already lost their courage during the fierce artillery bombardment outside the city, and almost without any resistance, they all abandoned their weapons and knelt down surrender.

Therefore, the tragic street battle to seize the city that the officers and soldiers of the new army of the Ming Dynasty expected never happened.Let the soldiers of the Ming army, who were holding back their strength, have no experience in battle at all.However, in the process of wanton burning, killing and looting when they first entered the city, they encountered fierce resistance from some people in the city, and more than ten people were killed or injured.

The number of North Korean troops who came to support from Yixing and Xinning was not many, all around 100.Xu Chuanxing, the battalion commander of the Second Marine Battalion of the State of Qi, directly organized more than [-] firearmsmen and marine officers and soldiers of the Ming and New Army into one place, arranged a neat five-segment shooting array, defeated the North Korean officers and soldiers who came to help from two routes, chased and killed the enemy for several miles, and killed them. More than four hundred wounded and captured.

On October 10, the coalition forces once again defeated the North Korean army that had come all the way from the west to aid, and captured and killed 22 people.

While closely monitoring the movement of the North Korean army near Dongnae City, the coalition forces organized many civilians to step up the transfer of materials in the city.

On October 10, eight ships sailed out of Donglai City Wharf after being loaded with a large amount of grain, cloth, gold and silver.However, the coalition forces have no intention of leaving, and are still entrenched in Donglai City.

After learning that Dongnae City had been occupied and several groups of soldiers and horses nearby were defeated, the Protectorate of Changwon, Gyeongsang Province finally realized the seriousness of the problem.The return of the defeated soldiers may be that the Ming Dynasty united with the Nanyang vassal states to jointly attack North Korea. Judging from the fact that the other party is still lingering, maybe they are still waiting for more reinforcements to come to North Korea.

The question is, isn't the Great Ming Dynasty being suppressed by the Qing Dynasty in the west of Liaoning, and has been defeated repeatedly, with little power to fight back?

Why, instead of fighting against the Qing Dynasty, the Daqing Dynasty invited its own vassal states to raise an army across the sea to attack North Korea!

The Changwon Metropolitan Protectorate immediately ordered the nearby counties and towns to gather all the limited soldiers and horses in Changwon City, and at the same time dispatched fast horses to report to Gyeongju (the prefecture of Gyeongsang Province) and Wangjing Seoul.It is said that the Ming Dynasty sent a large army to attack, in order to punish North Korea for departing from the vassal position, and to help the Qing Dynasty attack Daming.

How unfortunate is it for me in North Korea to serve the two great powers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties by my side!

"Mr. Xu, the city has been almost completely looted. Why are we still waiting for the army to linger here?" Jiang Yongrui found Xu Chuanxing, the commander-in-chief of the landing force, and asked with a puzzled face: "If North Korea gathers a large army to come, will the city be destroyed?" How do we get out of North Korea?"

"Most of the floating wealth in the city has basically been transported away, but there is still some rice in the government treasury and the grain depots of some merchants that has not been transported away. Moreover, there are some live animals such as livestock and poultry in the city that need to be taken away. Therefore, We must stay here for a while, waiting for the big ship to return." Xu Chuanxing said with a smile: "No matter how many troops the North Koreans come, as long as they cannot block the sea, we have the opportunity to withdraw at any time."

"Isn't there still four big ships at the pier, they can take away the remaining food and livestock in the city, why wait for other big ships to arrive?"

"In addition to grain and livestock in this city, there are other important goods that need to be transported back to Changshan Island."

"... What important goods?" Jiang Yongrui couldn't help wondering.For more than ten days, the officers and soldiers of the new Ming army followed the army of the Qi State and almost completely searched the entire Donglai City. Gold and silver, precious calligraphy and paintings, all kinds of jewelry and jade, and even many collections of books were also carefully searched. Come out, pack it up, and send it to the ship.Now that Xu Chuanxing said that there are still important goods in the city, he immediately became interested.

"There are tens of thousands of Koreans in the city. If you search carefully, you can easily capture thousands of young women." Xu Chuanxing said: "We will deal with this matter immediately after the big ship returns."

"Abduction of Korean women?" Jiang Yongrui was astonished, "I'm afraid this will arouse strong resistance from the people in the city!"

"So, we chose to be hands-on during the evacuation."

"This move is somewhat...somewhat inappropriate?"

"What's wrong?" Xu Chuanxing said nonchalantly: "We landed in North Korea and broke through Donglai City, and we are already at war with North Korea. In the former, we looted all the supplies in the city, and now it is reasonable to kidnap some young women among."

"This move...how is it different from that Jiannu?"

"Of course there is a difference!" Xu Chuanxing said: "Jiannu captured the people of Ming Dynasty, treated them as slaves, bullied and squeezed them wantonly, and even killed them arbitrarily. We took the Korean women back to our mainland of Hanzhou, and they were assigned to be with me. If you are a wife to the people of the country, you are also a member of the people in the country."

"However, kidnapping other people's wives and daughters, destroying people's families, hurts peace." Jiang Yongrui murmured.

"This is a war between countries!" Xu Chuanxing couldn't help but take a deep look at Jiang Yongrui. He didn't expect that the son of the Marquis' maidservant, the chief executive of the new army of Ming Dynasty, would have a compassionate heart.

"The war between countries is to weaken each other as much as possible, and there is no room for half-sympathy. The army, materials, wealth, and even population resources are all targets that need to be hit hard. We will send thousands of young women in North Korea If people are taken away, then they will reduce thousands of fertile women in the future, and in the future, they will correspondingly reduce the potential future soldiers. You must know that in this period, population is an extremely important strategic resource .”

"Jiannu entered the customs several times, destroyed the city and killed the people, robbed people and materials, and destroyed the social economy of Hebei, Shandong, and Gyeonggi. Is it also weakening our Ming's war resources?" Jiang Yongrui thought.

"That's right. Jiannu entered the customs several times, almost destroying the entire Hebei, Gyeonggi, and most of Shandong, which is consuming Ming's war resources and combat potential." Xu Chuanxing nodded and said: "Let me ask, if you want to fight with Jiannu Fighting in Liaodong, but the economies of Hebei, Gyeonggi, Shandong and other areas in the rear are dilapidated, people's livelihoods are sluggish, and there is no way to support the Liaodong battlefield. If it is to raise and deploy materials from Jianghuai, Henan, or even Jiangnan, the cost is huge and the efficiency is slow. .”

"Then, can I, Ming Dynasty, also frequently land in Liaodong and harass the rear of the slaves, in order to destroy their livelihood and economy, and attack the potential of the slave war?"

"Of course!" Xu Chuanxing said with a smile: "But the premise is that your Daming must have a naval division that is good at fighting and a land division that is brave and durable."

Hearing this, Jiang Yongrui couldn't help but sighed deeply, then cupped his hands at Xu Chuanxing, said "I've been taught", and turned to leave.

On November 11, it may be that it is inappropriate to concentrate all the nearby troops in Changwon City and wait passively for the "Da Ming Dynasty" army to attack.Cui Yingdong, the inspector of Gyeongsangdo in North Korea, feared that he would be punished by the king and leader of the government (equivalent to the chief assistant of the Ming cabinet), so he ordered Changwon Dadu guards to lead troops to Donglai City to stop them, and at the same time sent envoys to communicate with the officials of the Ming dynasty. Military negotiations.

The coalition forces in Dongnae City also wanted to delay the time and wait for the big ship to return, so they negotiated with the envoys sent by Gyeongsangdo.

Jiang Yongrui, the commander-in-chief of the new army, proposed to the Korean envoys who came to negotiate that North Korea should immediately sever ties with Jiannu and return to the Daming vassal. At the same time, he ordered North Korea to send troops out of the Yalu River to attack Jiannu's rear.In this way, the Ming Dynasty's official army will withdraw from Donglai City, and the follow-up army will no longer be sent to attack North Korea.

How dare the North Korean envoy agree to this condition, and immediately return to Gyeongju to report to Cui Yingdong, the observation envoy of Gyeongsangdo.

Gyeongsang-do could not help sighing when he heard about the conditions of Ming’s officers and soldiers. As expected, the Ming Dynasty came to punish North Korea for North Korea’s betrayal of the vassal status, and for helping Qing to plunder Liaodong and Guannei.Immediately, Cui Yingdong, the observation officer of Gyeongsang-do, dispatched a fast horse again to report the news obtained here to Wang Jing Seoul, and urged to send elites from the five national armies to expel the landing Ming army.

During this period, the four warships of the State of Qi cruising near the waters of Donglai City once again destroyed a Korean navy composed of more than [-] large and small ships, sunk and injured eleven ships, captured four ships, and the rest fled to North Korea. Southwest sea area.

In the early morning hours of November 11th, the coalition forces suddenly went out of the north gate of Dongnae City, and first bombarded the 15 Korean Guarding Department troops from Changwon, Daedu, Gyeongsang-do with artillery. Assault, defeated the North Korean army in World War I, covered and killed several miles, killed and wounded more than a thousand North Korean troops.

On November 11, when the return date of the big ship was approaching, Xu Chuanxing, the commander of the coalition forces in Donglai City, immediately ordered the troops and the accompanying soldiers to start picking young Korean women in the city, causing the whole city to throb and cry loudly.During the period, dozens of sporadic resistance incidents occurred, and the coalition forces immediately resorted to violent means, beheading more than a hundred rebels, and Donglai City returned to calm.

On November 11th, a group of eight large ships from the Qi State Fleet returned to the port of Donglai City, and at the same time brought a series of bad news from Ming Dynasty.

Qin soldiers led by Sun Chuanting went out of the pass (Tongguan) and fought several battles with Li Zicheng. They won first and then lost. In October, in the battle of Ruzhou, the entire army collapsed. The soldiers crossed the Yellow River from Mengjin, entered Tongguan from the north of the Yellow River through Yuanqu, and stood firm here.

But in the face of hundreds of thousands of Li Zicheng's refugee army, Sun Chuanting's forces are already in jeopardy, and defeat is a matter of time.

"So, hurry up and pack up your things, let's go back to Changshan Island." Niu Jinming said hastily: "Da Ming may be about to collapse!"

(End of this chapter)