Two days later, Li Xiao's entire army returned to Chifengwei from Ocean Island. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the materials obtained were put into the warehouse separately and the soldiers were rewarded and commended, Li Xiao ordered that the 3,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses, like the previous surrendered Manchurian soldiers and horses, go to Tielong City to dig iron ore and reform through labor. More than 1,000 soldiers from the original Dongjiang Town of Shen Zhixiang's department entered the quarries, lime fields, brick factories, and cement factories in Chifengwei's squatting dog mountain to do hard labor to atone for their previous sins.

Then, Li Xiao ordered to take the soldiers and horses of the Chifeng Battalion, General A and General B, to North Korea for emergency rescue. Only the general soldiers and horses of C were left to guard the Red Phoenix Guard.

In addition, Li Xiao set up a separate cavalry team with the original white flag armor of the Manchurian soldiers and horses, that is, more than 900 Manchurian Tartars who surrendered with Chata in the suburbs of Jinzhou, with the original white flag armor on both men and horses, called the Manchurian cavalry outpost, with Ebilun as the chief general and Samushka as the deputy general, and went to Korea with the army.

Therefore, the original general of this group of Tartars, Chata, because of his outstanding performance and hard work in the last battle to seize the city gate in Fangshan County, has now been promoted to the deputy commander of the rampant outpost, which is also a very important position.

After more than a year of re-education through labor, sixty or seventy Tartars died in the process of re-education through labor, and the remaining 900 or so Tartars were reorganized on the spot to become auxiliaries in Tielongcheng after the end of the re-education through labor.

Because of these Manchurian Tartars, basically everyone has the ability to ride and shoot, so they are all trained as reserve cavalry and trained every day, and now Li Xiao has formed them into Manchurian cavalry posts, but it is very natural.

Of course, this Manchurian cavalry outpost, like Li Xiao's other troops, has a supervision and maintenance department composed of all Han Chinese officials, which is in charge of the merit evaluation, cultural education, and military discipline inspection of the soldiers and soldiers, so as to ensure that the army has two sets of teams for combat and life, so as to divide the control of the generals over the soldiers and strengthen the actual control of the grassroots soldiers.

Moreover, in the past two years, these Manchurian soldiers, whether they were mining and labor reform, or when they were auxiliary soldiers, had high-intensity brainwashing and education from the supervisors every day, and now these Manchurian soldiers with long hair, dressed like the Han people, and their daily life habits are no different from those of the Han people, everyone has a good understanding of their Han identity, and even many Manchurian soldiers have given themselves Han names.

With Li Xiao's permission, there are still many Manchurian soldiers, after becoming auxiliary soldiers and having a fixed source of livelihood, such as Chata and others, have taken Han women as wives, started families, and had children.

For the Manchus, a nation that has just escaped from ignorance, the vast majority of the people are illiterate, and their religion is quite primitive, the effect of using the obviously advanced Han culture to edify and change them and erase their original national imprint is quite obvious. Li Xiao even believes that the speed at which these people integrate into the Han nationality and become part of the Han nationality may be faster than the indigenous people in Taiwan.

In fact,It's really extremely difficult to dissolve.,Can't be sinicized.,It's not oil and salt at all.,Even every anti-guest is the ethnic group that believes in a certain religion.。 Of course, in the Ming Dynasty, the number of ethnic groups of a certain religion was still relatively small, and now Li Xiao, because there are basically no people from a certain religion among his military and civilians, he does not need to consider this headache for the time being.

The appointed Ebbi Lun and Samushka were extremely happy, and they all loudly expressed to Li Xiao that they would do their best to fight for Lord Li in order to make new contributions.

In this way, the total strength of the rescue was 30 shields, 60 spearmen, 600 sentry posts, 600 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 600 flying harriers, 900 Manchurian cavalry, and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, with a total strength of 12,880 people.

Li Xiao followed, and ordered the 10 ships that were relatively dilapidated to rest in Longkou Port, and let Lin Dazhuang lead craftsmen to repair them on the spot. Only another 34 ships were brought to carry troops to North Korea.

The former second general of Dongjiang Town, Jin Riguan and Chu Jigong, were respectively appointed by Li Xiao as the captains of the two captured No. 1 Fu ships.

It was only at this time that Li Xiao finally squeezed out a little time to reunite with his family.

When he returned home, his son Li Cheng, who was almost one year old, was a toddler in the small garden in Li's mansion under the leadership of his mother Zhu Yujiao and the maid.

"Son, Daddy, I want to kill you." Li Xiao laughed and picked up Li Cheng, held him in his arms, looked left and right, full of fatherly love.

'Husband, I haven't seen you for more than four months, but my husband has lost a lot of weight. The county lord on the side, Zhu Yujiao, gently stroked Li Xiao's cheek and said in an extremely distressed tone.

"It's okay, it's just a round trip by sea, and I've suffered some hard work." Li Xiao looked back at her with a smile and said softly: "During the time I was not in Shandong, it was not easy for you, as an eldest woman, to take care of the family. ”

Zhu Yumei smiled and said: "It's okay, since my husband went to Taiwan, there is no big deal at home, and the slave family can still manage it." By the way, now Wan'er's sister's little Jing'er is becoming more and more beautiful and cute, and it is time for her husband to go and see them. ”

Li Xiao nodded, chatted with Zhu Yujiao intimately, and then went to Zu Wan'er's place.

When he entered the room, Li Xiao saw that the nurse was breastfeeding her daughter Li Jing, while Zu Wan'er was sitting on the side, chatting with the nurse sentence by sentence.

Seeing Li Xiao come in, Zu Wan'er's face was extremely happy, she was like a girl, she rushed over happily and laughing, hooked Li Xiao's neck, and murmured her thoughts after a long absence.

"Li Xiao, do you know, you are not there, Wan'er is thinking about you every day." Zu Wan'er whispered: "I haven't come back for so long, I thought you had a good relationship in Taiwan." ”

Li Xiao smiled: "Alas, Wan'er's little temperament is here again, do you think that my husband and I went to Taiwan to play, since I went to Taiwan, everything is complicated, and I am busy every day, you still talk about me like this." ”

Zu Wan'er wrapped Li Xiao tighter, and said coquettishly: "Alas, people are joking with you, you are still serious." Li Xiao, do you know that since you went to Taiwan, I have burned incense and prayed for you in front of the Bodhisattva every day to keep you safe. ”

Li Xiao gave her a kiss gently: "Wan'er's heart, I don't know your husband, I just laughed with you just now." ”

Li Xiao lingered with her for a long time before picking up Li Jing, who had already drunk enough milk and was yawning with her hands and feet, from the wet nurse's hands, looking at her pink and delicate daughter in her hand, Li Xiao couldn't put it down.

After chatting with Zu Wan'er for a long time and coaxing Li Jing to sleep together, Li Xiaofang left from their mother and daughter's room.

In the end, Li Xiao went to the room of the concubine Zhuo Naxi.

As soon as Li Xiao entered the door, before he could say a word, he was immediately hugged tightly by Zhuo Naxi.

Two crystal tears slipped from the corners of her eyes, and before Li Xiao could say words of comfort, Zhuo Naxi's hot lips were tightly pressed against Li Xiao's lips.

Li Xiao picked her up and walked to the bed.

After three full times with her like dry wood and fire, Li Xiao, who was exhausted, hugged her smooth body tightly and fell asleep soundly in her room.

Li Xiao slept and had a rare good sleep after returning from Taiwan.

The next day, after preparing food, replenishing fresh water, ammunition, and as many as 30,000 man-handed mines and other supplies, the fleet, which had only rested for a day in Longkou Harbor, immediately set off again and headed straight east for Korea.

This day is the second day of the fourth month of the tenth year of Chongzhen.

Li Xiao's final destination is Ganghwa Island in North Korea.

Ganghwa Island, known as kanghwa-do in Korean, covers an area of about 410 square kilometers and is the fifth largest island in modern Korea. The island is separated from the capital of South Korea, Seoul (Hanyang, the capital of the country during the Joseon dynasty of Lee), and is separated by only 1 km of the strait. Mount Mani () in the south of the island is the highest peak on the island, with a height of 468 meters, and the terrain is gentle and hilly, and the land is fertile, rich in rice and other agricultural products, and is also the main ginseng cultivation area.

Li Xiao let the fleet sail straight to Ganghwa Island, but because Li Xiao knew that in the history of his previous life, Ganghwa Island, in this Qing invasion, was an important place for the Korean royal family to hide from the Qing army.

In real history, after the Qing army invaded Korea in early December of the ninth year of Chongzhen, it successively attacked Yizhou, Dingzhou, Guoshan, Anzhou and other cities, and quickly hit the Imjin River only one river away from Hanyang, the capital of the Joseon king. In order to protect himself, Li Liang hurriedly led his army out of the chaotic and depressed capital and took refuge in the nearby Namhansan fortress to wait for the arrival of the reinforcement army, and sent the princess, the prince, and the wives and concubines of a relative minister to Ganghwa Island for refuge.

Soon after, Ganghwa Island was broken by the Qing army, including the princess, the prince, the clan and the family of the ministers, including 76 people, all captured by the Qing army, seeing that all the relatives and family members were captured by the Qing people, the Korean king Li Liang was frightened, and finally had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and since then Nagong has been a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, and has completely severed diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the history known in his previous life as a reference, Li Xiao went to Ganghwa Island this time, and the most important point was to rescue the Korean royal family who were under siege, and then use this as a breakthrough to finally change the history of Korea's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The warm sun was shining, the sea was rolling, and under the shouting and chasing of a large group of seagulls, Li Xiao's fleet cleaved the waves and went all the way east, and his heart was very excited.

Since Li Xiaojun's security department has not yet been able to set up a point in Korea, Li Xiao has not been able to keep abreast of the movements of the Qing army, and his current military operations are completely based on the historical foundation of his previous life.

So, what is the real situation of the Qing army now?

In fact, although the Qing army's march was delayed by nearly three months compared with the real history, the entire course of the campaign and the route of the march were not much different from the real history.

In less than a month, the entire army of the invasion of Korea advanced to the edge of the Han River, and then, the vanguard crossed the river to fight, and defeated as many as tens of thousands of reinforcements from Jeolla Province outside the royal capital of Hanyang, which can be described as a success.

In order to prevent the entire imperial family from being trapped in the royal capital by the Qing army, the Joseon king Yi Wei was so frightened that he urgently retreated to the nearby mountain fortress of Namhan with his eldest son Yi Wei and a group of officials and generals, as in history. The princess, princess, second son Li Hao, the clan and the wives of officials quickly retreated by boat to Ganghwa City on Ganghwa Island.

When Li Xiao returned to Chifengwei from Haiyang Island, the Qing army had just captured the royal capital of Korea, so they burned and plundered it on a large scale, and it is rumored that more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians were taken away from the royal capital Hanyang alone.

The king of Korea was defeated, and the Qing army became more and more arrogant, like a crazy beast, in the territory of Korea, burning, killing and looting, *** women, capturing the people, and committing countless heinous crimes.

At this time, the complacent Huang Taiji, seeing that the Korean army was defeated one after another, and the monarchs and ministers would only retreat from the fear of war and have no fighting spirit, so they decided to make a forced landing on it.

He ordered the Qing army to completely surround the mountain fortress of Nanhan, cut down the wood fences, and garrison around the city, so that the grain and grass in the city were cut off. The Korean monarchs and ministers who were trapped in the mountain city even had to kill horses to satisfy their hunger.

The armies of King Qin, such as Jeolla Province and Chungcheong Province, were successively defeated by the Qing army, and the Korean monarchs and ministers were like turtles in an urn, trapped in a lonely city, and there was nothing to be done.

When the situation was in danger, Li Liang personally changed into civilian clothes and climbed to the south gate of Namhanshan Fortress to watch the military situation of the Qing army. When he saw the magnificent military appearance of the Qing army under the city, which was besieged on all sides, with iron armor and swords, he couldn't help but cry and sigh and staggered down.

After defeating the Korean reinforcements, the Qing army reverted to the Mochigetsu Peak outside the city of Namhansan, raised a white flag, with the word "surrender" in a big book, and sent a letter to Li Liang in the city with an archery book, ordering him to surrender out of the city.

Li Qi was frightened and timid, crying, he wanted to surrender but was afraid, and replied to Huang Taiji: "The siege has not been solved, the emperor is angry, and he cannot surrender lightly." The ancients had worshippers of the Son of Heaven in the city, and the cover was indispensable, and the might of the soldiers was also terrible and ......." Seeing that the Korean side was still entangled in the details of the surrender out of the city in such an embarrassing situation, Huang Taiji was furious in his heart, so he ordered to attack the city with artillery to show his military might, and at the same time sent Abatai to lead a partial division to attack Ganghwa Island.

Huang Taiji planned to capture all the royal families under the fortress of Namhansan after capturing Ganghwa Island, so that the crying and persuasion of these royal families would become the last straw that crushed Li Liang.

Abatai accepted the task with great spirits.

In fact, as early as when he came to the outside of Hanyang City, Huang Taiji considered that Li Liang might transfer some of his wives and concubines, children and clan ministers to Ganghwa Island. Therefore, he ordered Prince Cheng Yue Zhi and Beizi Nikan and others to quickly transport a group of shipbuilders from the Qing Dynasty, and then equipped them with a large number of capable Han troops and captured Korean people, on the banks of the Sanyang River, cutting wood and building ships on the spot, thinking that they would be used to capture Ganghwa Island.

In less than a month, the Qing army had built 10 Tong Keshen-type boats, 10 Korean horse-type boats, and 80 other small boats of various types.

Abatai led 4,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses drawn from various banners, plus 2,000 Mongol soldiers from the inner domain, and 3,000 Han troops from Angbangzhangjing, Maguangyuan, forming a total army of 9,000 people.

The Korean naval divisions deployed on the left and right flanks of Ganghwa Island, with a total of more than 100 warships, saw that the Qing army was crossing the sea in a big way, and immediately began to flank the Qing ships from the left and right sides.

Due to the Qing ships, most of them were equipped with large and small artillery transported from Liaodong by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and the firepower was very strong. Therefore, the Korean naval division was unable to stop the attack of the Qing army at all, but was defeated and fled, and the Qing army finally forcibly broke through from the center of the Korean naval division at a very small cost of casualties, and finally successfully landed on Ganghwa Island. (Note: The description of the naval battle in this place generally follows the real historical record in the "Records of the Li Dynasty", and after reading it, the author is also very lamented, how could the Korean naval division, which had been defeated by the Ming Liang naval battle, be defeated so badly by the Qing army, which has always been weak, which really makes people speechless.) It can be seen to what extent the Korean sailors were corrupted and regressed in the late Ming Dynasty. ）

Abatai, who led the army to the island, was extremely proud, and after transporting the baggage and improvised siege equipment transported by the ship to the shore, he immediately ordered the Qing army to block the strait and block the Korean reinforcements.

And he himself, with 9,000 Manchurian, Mongolian and Han soldiers, continued to attack the low and dilapidated Ganghwa Island Fortress in the center of the island, the last retreat of the Korean royal family, with the intention of taking it in one fell swoop.

(The new year is here, and here, the author wishes every reader a happy family and all their wishes come true!) Thank you for every recommendation, every monthly pass, every reward, your support is always the greatest motivation for the author to write. (To be continued.) )