Chapter 728: Take Ganghwa Island
Let the rich enjoy good medical services while earning a lot of profits, and hospitals with an economic foundation will do public welfare treatment.
The focus is to provide prenatal check-ups and free midwives for pregnant women in poor people, and not only that, but pregnant women from poor families will receive three days of nutritious meals free of charge when they come to give birth.
These regulations of the hospital to save lives and help the wounded were all issued by Huang Han in the form of orders.
Saving a pregnant woman and reducing the death of a baby is immeasurable, and it is much more cost-effective than saving an elderly person who is about to die of illness.
In the case of limited medical conditions and the lack of ability to achieve full coverage of free medical care, it is of course possible to focus on doing good deeds from pregnant women and infants.
Zhang Fengyi, Liang Tingdong and other civil officials saw the changes in Tianjin Wei, and even more sighed at Huang Han's dominance and super ability to govern one side, and were full of confidence in taking Korea and running it into a royal paradise.
When they crossed the sea to Phi Dao, they received Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, Jin Sheng, Huang Long, Zheng Xiaozhang and so on, who had been preparing here for a long time.
At this time, Phi Dao was not a shortage of materials during the Dongjiang Town period, because it was the base camp for the imminent war of the war, the military stockpiling began last spring, and a large number of sea ships transported immigrants, supplies, and food in the autumn.
Nowadays, there should be everything on the island, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and sheep are all raised in captivity on the island, and Chinese cabbage is stored in the cellar......
On the day Huang Han arrived at Phi Dao, he held an operational meeting and listened to Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, and others report on the preparations for the attack.
Huang Han, who never thought that he was possessed by the god of war, but liked to use his collective wisdom, agreed on the spot to the attack plan formulated with Sun Chuanting, Jin Sheng, Song Pengfei, Liu Fenyong, Mao Chenglu, and so on.
On 15 March, the battle to capture Ganghwa Island began.
The main general Song Pengfei, the first general Sun Chuanting, the eunuch Zheng Zhihui, Fang Jingcheng, the deputy general Huang Long, the generals who participated in the battle, such as Shang Keyi, Mao Chenglu, Liu Fenyong, etc., and the commander-in-chief of the artillery Sun Yuanhua.
In the past two years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also often mobilized garrison troops, and after reconnaissance and tongue arrest and interrogation, it was confirmed that the defenders of Seoul were the great traitor Geng Zhongming, the deputy general Zhang Cunren, the staff generals Xue Dahu, Jiang Xin, and so on.
There are 10,000 Han troops and 20,000 Goryeo servants, and there are 4,000 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry supervising the battle, of which less than 1,500 are real slaves.
When the Joseon Dynasty was eliminated, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming seized Ganghwa Island and killed the Korean civil and military generals hiding on the island.
The Joseon lord Yi Kuo disappeared after that battle, and it is unknown whether he died in the melee or in the raging fire, and it is said that the Joseon king burned the palace on Ganghwa Island for several days and nights.
Geng Zhongming was more realistic, he chose to concentrate his forces to defend Seoul, and only put 2,000 people on Ganghwa Island, led by the general Jiang Xin.
It was not for him to block the possible attack of the "Red Banner Army" with 2,000 men and horses, but to allow them to discover the enemy situation as soon as possible and flee back to Seoul in time to report the news.
The "Red Banner Army" dispatched too many troops at one time, with as many as 300 warships, merchant ships, cargo ships, and sentry ships, and the narrow strait near the mainland on Jianghua Island was almost filled with Red Banner Army warships, and Jiang Xin had no way to escape with one or two thousand men.
Jiang Xin turned out to be a Ming general who followed Zhang Chun to aid Liao, and he became a traitor after being captured in the battle to rescue Dalinghe City.
After this kid changed the boss, he immediately offered advice to the master, and took the initiative to persuade Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren and other Ming army generals who were still holding Dalinghe City, and finally Zu Dashou killed He Kegang, and Dalinghe City surrendered without a fight.
How could such a soft-boned general have the courage to confront the "Red Banner Army" more than ten times larger, Jiang Xin found that after the "Red Banner Army" landed, he had 500 Han arquebusiers and 1,500 Goryeo gunners, sword and shield men, and pikemen.
The first battle of Pingliao became a classic joke of the Han people, and when the "Red Banner Army" landed on Jianghua Island, they saw a neatly arranged and half-short team from a distance, which was Jiang Xin kneeling with his subordinates to welcome the general to recover Jianghua Island.
Huang Han, who learned of this situation, was very depressed, he really wanted to kill Jiang Xin, a traitor and traitor.
However, Jiang Xin raised his hands and surrendered without organizing resistance, and if he did not get a chance to spare his life, it would lead to a vain increase in the casualty rate in the next battle.
People are like this, knowing that they are going to die, they are willing to fight hard.
If the "Red Banner Army" refuses to accept surrender, the Qing army has no hope, and everyone resists to the end, there will definitely be too many sacrifices.
In order to demoralize the defenders of Seoul, Hwang Han made a decision to let Liu Zaiqi carry out propaganda.
Since Jiang Xinbu did not resist the "Red Banner Army", did not deliberately burn materials and destroy fortifications, the general Kai released Jiang Xin and all his subordinates, and immediately shipped them to the other side.
An even bigger joke ensued, after Liu Zaiqi led the propaganda team to spread the word, Jiang Xin refused to go to the other side, and most of the Han army and Goryeo servant army knelt down and begged to stay.
The general spoke, no one could bargain, Jiang Xin and the other two thousand people had to get on the warship even if they were reluctant.
In order to deter and disintegrate the enemy, they deliberately used battleships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons to transport the returned Qing troops, and the effect was good.
Geng Zhongming, Zhang Cunren and other traitors understood that they did not have the shortcomings of the naval division, and knew that the opponent's warships had many Hongyi cannons, and did not establish a position on the seaside, but dug fortifications outside Seoul and deployed heavy troops.
Geng Zhongming, Zhang Cunren, and others have been praying, hoping that Seoul will not be the first target, but unfortunately the gods did not favor them, and thousands of sails on the sea danced the red flag and the dragon flag fluttered in the wind, and the "Red Flag Army" came across the sea.
After getting the news, Geng Zhongming, Zhang Cunren and other generals even led their families to quietly lurk on a lush hill by the sea and peep in turn with the only clairnear.
The traitors saw the strong ships and cannons of the "Red Banner Army" and were full of bitterness, and the first thing they did when they returned to Seoul was to send messengers to Pyongyang and Shengjing to inform them that Seoul was the first target of the Ming army and to ask for reinforcements.
Geng Zhongming no longer had the confidence to hold on to Seoul, although he had more than 100 artillery pieces of calibers and scattered captured from the former Korean Kingdom, including more than a dozen heavy artillery pieces capable of firing eight catties of artillery shells in the Ming Dynasty.
Just when a group of traitors were discussing any response to the attack of the "Red Banner Army", Jiang Xinquan, who was responsible for guarding Ganghwa Island, came back, and there were three or four hundred fewer soldiers under his command.
It was not that Jiang Xin's subordinates were damaged in battle, but that after going ashore, hundreds of Goryeo sticks did not obey the command, refused to return to Seoul to serve the Manchus, and ran directly into the mountains and forests.