Chapter 354: The Korean Peninsula
The two warships sent by Yu Mingjun quickly blocked the Yangtze River waterway, but what puzzled Li Dabai was that he had never seen any trace of Wu Sangui's sailors since he saw the three small boats that time.
Ma Peng received the news from Li Dabai, and a trace of doubt appeared in his heart. It stands to reason that although the number of Wu Sangui's naval army is small, he will not hide so timidly. After all, they haven't fought Li Dabai yet. Could it be that they have some conspiracy?
Seeing that Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses did not move for a long time. Ma Peng decided to send troops and horses to the south bank of the Yangtze River to try to try.
In order to protect the safety of the soldiers, Ma Peng called Li Dabai over. Ma Peng said: "When your navy blockaded the Yangtze River waterway these days, may it be close to the south bank? The south bank that Ma Peng said was the place controlled by Wu Sangui, and the north bank of the Yangtze River was controlled by Liu Xia. With the Yangtze River as the dividing line, they do not interact with each other.
Previously, Ma Peng had prevented dozens of artillery pieces on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and he would bombard the south bank at any time, such a bombardment would have no effect on Wu Sangui at all, and it would not be able to hit their soldiers and horses, but this was enough to deter them.
At that time, Ma Peng did not have a naval army, and in order to prevent Wu Sangui from taking the opportunity to land on the north bank, it was quite a clever way to defend with artillery.
Li Dabai is very disappointed now, the reason for the disappointment is that he did not meet the main force of Wu Sangui's army, which makes him have no battle to fight at all, one of the purposes of his coming here is to train troops, if Wu Sangui's army has not come out, then there will be no point in him coming this time.
"Back to the general, there are few people on the south bank of the Yangtze River, I don't know what's wrong, Wu Sangui's army is gone." Li Dabai's navy does not belong to Ma Peng, but he is still very polite, after all, Ma Peng is at the level of a general, and he is only at the level of a regiment. The position difference is too far, if Ma Peng arrests him for disrespect, it is estimated that no one will bail him, and even Yu Mingjun is estimated to be unwilling to meet a person who contradicts the chief.
"No one?" Ma Peng muttered to himself, and after thinking for a while, Ma Peng frowned and said: "What kind of trick is this Wu Sangui playing, no, General Ben can't sit still." ”
"Dabai, General Ben plans to send a regiment of troops to act as a vanguard in the past to detect the movement of the enemy forces in front, and needs the cover of your naval army, you should prepare, this night I will carry a regiment of troops across the Yangtze River and land on the south bank."
As for which regiment to go, Ma Peng has already chosen and sent the second regiment of the Wolf Howling Brigade to go, and there are more than 2,500 soldiers and horses in one regiment, although there are not many of them, but there are also a lot, at least much more than Wu Sangui's sailors and horses on the south bank. However, in Wuchang Mansion, which is not far away, Wu Sangui has a large number of soldiers and horses, which has to make Ma Peng cautious.
The Second Regiment of the Wolf Howling Brigade sent out this time, one of their tasks was to find Wu Sangui's army and destroy them. By the way, occupy Hanyang Province and try to avoid alarming Wuchang Province. Although the two are very close to each other, Wu Sangui is not in Wuchang now, so Ma Peng just took this opportunity to enter Hanyang.
Some time ago, because Li Dingguo made too much trouble, Wu Sangui went to Guiyang to sit in charge in person, and with Wu Sangui coming in person, it naturally greatly encouraged the soldiers, and the morale of the soldiers of the Chu army soared.
The shipyard in Jiaozhou had gathered a large number of craftsmen a few months earlier and began to build treasure ships overnight. It's already October, and the weather is bitterly cold, and even snowflakes are falling in the north. The year 1650 is coming to an end.
It was a very unwise decision to attack the Northeast in winter, so Liu Xia decided to postpone the war to recover Liaodong until next spring. Now the shipyard and the navy are tasked with working overtime to build the ships and strive to deliver all the ships around March next year. At the same time, the navy also began to sail out of the Bohai Sea and towards the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.
Of course, Liu Xia did not forget another place, which is Japan. The Japanese nation, Liu Xia has a very bad impression of him. Therefore, the conquest of Japan is a must. Of course, Liu Xia's army is not strong now, so a springboard is needed. So I chose North Korea. Now Korea has been conquered by the Tatars, and the Tatars have nominally been submissive. Therefore, Liu Xia's attack and letting the naval army attack North Korea is famous.
Liu Xia now decided to occupy the southern part of Korea first, and then stationed troops and grain in the southern part of Korea, which could attack Japan. It is possible to recover the entire Korean Peninsula.
This arrogant nation needs to be annihilated in the long river of history.
Liu Xia couldn't help but think of the three major expeditions of Wanli, how much manpower and material resources China spent, and how many soldiers died to keep their country, but people did not contribute money or people, and they did not appreciate it. Such a nation is really disgusting.
After having a plan, Liu Xia asked Yu Mingjun to start marching to the south of the Korean Peninsula with his naval army, which was now idle. It was just the right time to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the Korean Peninsula.
Korea is not very happy at this moment, since the Ming Dynasty was unable to control Liaodong, the Tartars have attacked and sacked them again and again, of course, their army is naturally impossible to resist the Tartars. As a result, the losses were enormous. Most of the people and officials moved south to escape the Tartars.
This time, Yu Mingjun personally went to sea, leading the [Zhenyuan] and three other warships, as well as dozens of ships transporting soldiers and horses, and led 2,000 men and horses to the south of the Korean Peninsula.
On the Korean Peninsula, it is already a little cold at the moment, but there are still a lot of fishermen at sea, far away they drove to the vast sea and dozens of black spots appeared, the opposite side of the sea is China, they know very well, they know even more that at this moment China is likely to be occupied by their enemies Tartars, so the ships from China are not the ships of the Tartars - thinking of this, those fishermen have given up a net of fish that they are about to get in hand, and hurriedly returned.
"Everyone, go back! Go back! The Tartars are coming! The Tartars are coming! ”
"Tartar? Where are the tartars, don't talk nonsense, have you been kicked in the brain by a donkey, here is the sea, how can there be tartars! ”
A fisherman laughed at the panicked fisherman, who did not see the approaching warship behind him.
"Bastard, look what's behind you! Lots of big ships! These ships must have been Tartars. Hearing what the man said, the surrounding fishermen looked over, and sure enough, a large number of boats had appeared on the endless blue waves, but because the distance was too far, they couldn't see the people on it clearly, but they could have such a strong strength, they naturally thought it was a tartar.
"Tartars really! Let's go back and tell your lord that the Tartars are coming! The Tartars are coming! ”
Soon these people put down their men and rowed to the shore, shouting along the way, and the North Koreans on the land panicked when they heard the shouting.
When some of the children heard the news of the arrival of the Tartars, they were crying loudly, but they stopped crying in an instant. It can be seen that the name of the Tartar represents the meaning in the hearts of their Koreans.
"Here comes the Tartar? Where are the Tartars, Jin Wangjiang, don't spread rumors and make trouble, otherwise you will be slaughtered! "A middle-aged man dressed in a North Korean official mansion, with a pair of mustaches, looks very cunning and obscene.
I only heard that Jin Wangjiang said respectfully with a bitter face: "My lord spare my life, my lord spare my life." Where do the small ones dare to deceive the adults, just now the small ones were in the sea and the big fish, and suddenly saw a lot of them on the sea, there were hundreds of big ships, and they came from China. Now the situation in China is also known to adults, so the small ones think that the Tartars are coming. ”
That Jin Wangjiang said that, and immediately startled the adult, and said, "Is that really the case?" Can you really see it? If the real Tartar comes, we will definitely not be able to stop it, what should we do, what should we do? The adult's eyes kept rolling, and his mind was anxiously thinking.
He doesn't want to die, who wants to die if he lives well? But the Tartars were notoriously cruel and ferocious, and if they were to kill, they would not be able to escape.
"What to do, can't die, can't die-"