May 5, 1645, Jeju Province, Jeju Island. In the open field outside the city, two thousand soldiers in various costumes raised their swords and guns, trying to straighten their chests and look ahead. After the supervision and training of the officer advisory group dispatched from the east coast for more than half a year, these soldiers from the three departments of Zhai Congge, Wang Jiazhong, and Qin Shangxing are much more decent than when they first came to the island. At least when they were well fed, clothed, and occasionally paid, their mental outlook changed dramatically, at least like a soldier, not the kind of serfs who lived in a mess.

Riding on a tall Andalusian horse, surrounded by officers, the yellow-clothed commander of the yellow-clothed army slowly passed through the queue of 2,000 men with a military salute, and turned back to the queue of the leaders of the various armies who were standing respectfully in the distance. Zhai Congge respectfully stepped forward to take the reins of the horse, and Wang Jiazhong and Qin Shangxing also stood aside with their upper bodies bowed slightly, with a flattering smile on their faces.

"It's decent, at least when I go to fight those North Koreans later, it shouldn't embarrass me." Mo Ming glanced at several leaders of the vassal armaments and said casually.

"Back to Dashuai, although the children are not as good as my Great East Coast Heavenly Soldiers, they will never be ambiguous when they ask themselves to fight those North Koreans. When the time comes, you will look at us, and go all the way to Wang Jing. Zhai Congge, as the closest to the East Coast among the three, immediately stepped forward to pat his chest and pack the ticket, and Wang and Qin also nodded in the back.

"It's all!" Mo Ming nodded Zhai Cong's head with a horsewhip, and said with a smile: "Just with the two thousand crooked melons and cracked dates that the three of you put together, you also want to hit Wang Jing?" There's a limit to bragging! Besides, if you want to go to Wangjing (i.e., Hanyang City), you can only go to the vicinity of the Nakdong River. Don't want to go too far. ”

"Hey, hey. The big handsome laughed. We are naturally the only one who is handsome. Dashuai goes east, we naturally don't go west, Dashuai, you want to fight Busan, the children will definitely not go to Ulsan. Wang Jiazhong finally found an opportunity to speak on the side, and immediately stepped forward to make a joke. He had the weakest army of the three divisions in Jeju, only 1,500 soldiers, and the local Koreans were not very obedient, so they relied on the support of Zhou Zuoding, a standing team stationed at the southern foot of Hallasan Mountain. Therefore, it has been closely following the footsteps of the East Coast people.

"This trip to fight North Korea is only for two." Mo Ming stuffed the horsewhip into Wang Jiazhong's arms, and Wang Jiazhong was immediately flattered to take it.

"One is to punish the North Koreans." Mo Ming continued, "The Li family of North Korea has repeatedly sent troops into the customs to help the Qing Dynasty fight, helping the evil and the tiger to fight, and it is they who are talking about it, which is really hateful. If you don't punish it, you don't know that it will get worse in the future! ”

The Koreans have been conquered since they were conquered by the Houjin. Whether it was voluntary or not, the fact is that it has been sending troops to help the Qing army fight since the end of the Ming Dynasty. At most, more than 10,000 firefighters were dispatched. This time, the Qing army entered the pass to seize the world, because the people on the east coast harassed Liaodong and the northern coast endlessly, Dolgon once again ordered the North Korea to send troops to help the war, and the Koreans did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent about 15,000 people to Shenyang. Among them, 5,000 firecrackers were transferred to Guannei to suppress the local resistance of the Ming Dynasty, and the main force of 10,000 foot cavalry was stationed in eastern and western Liaoning, and was controlled by the local Eight Banners generals to prevent accidents.

Although the Koreans behaved like this, although there were many reasons, Mo Ming naturally wouldn't listen, he only knew that the Koreans had sent troops to join the Qing army to fight, so they were the enemy and the object of the East Coast army! Now that the northern coast of the Ming Dynasty has been beaten by the people on the east coast, it is estimated that the Qing army is already heavily armed and ready for battle at this moment, and the people on the east coast will naturally not touch this mold again. However, if you don't fight northern China and fight North Korea, the Manchu dog, then there will be no problem at all. The North Koreans, with their lax armament and weak combat effectiveness, are they not exactly the targets of the bully?

"Second, it's to plunder some women's goods, which I think you all like." Mo Ming openly said what they were going to do, "Remember, you can take the goods for yourself, you just need to hand over a copy to me on the east coast according to the rules." As for the women and children, they must reach the required number. If there is not enough to catch in Busan, you can figure it out by yourself, in short, I only need to have enough quantity, and I don't care about the rest. ”

Sakhalin Island and the Heilongjiang River basin are now being reclaimed on a large scale, and the shortage of women has always been a very difficult problem. For example, the 3,000 Henan troops who were placed in the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk area of Sakhalin Island, and the 2,000 Henan troops of the Qing army Xu Dingguo who were placed in Miaojie and Henggonzhai were basically all strong, and there was no way to take root in the local area without women. And now that the proportion of men and women in the population collected by the people on the east coast from the Ming Dynasty is already very large, there is no surplus to be resettled in Sakhalin Island or the Heilongjiang area, so they can only think of a way on the spot.

Mo Ming searched on the map, and only North Korea could think of a way. Japan has a unified central power, and its armed forces have not been greatly degraded, so it is not a good target for plunder; North Korea, which is separated by a sea from Japan, is different, its armaments are sluggish, and it is completely unable to resist the all-out blow of the army on the east coast.

The army on the east coast has also rested in the Yantai area for a while, and the ships have basically been maintained and can sail again. Therefore, after listening to the opinions of his staff officers and subordinate officers, he finally made the decision to land in the Busan area of North Korea. As for why he did not land near Hanyang City, the king of Korea, it was mainly because the purpose of this operation was not to destroy Korea, which was in fact unlikely, and it was not cost-effective, but to plunder the goods and women, and to train the soldiers of the upright team.

In this combat operation, the east coast side mobilized two companies of the army, two battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, a reinforced artillery company, all the cavalry brigades, all the scout teams, and all the second and third brigades of the forward team, totaling about 7,700 soldiers, and also requisitioned 2,000 soldiers from the three divisions of Jeju Zhai, Wang, and Qin, with a total of nearly 10,000 soldiers, the highest in history; In addition, Mo Ming also ordered all 5,000 soldiers in the Yantai fortress area to be dispatched, and then requisitioned thousands of Korean masters and a large number of livestock on Jeju Island to serve as logistics baggage troops and carry out material transfer work, so as to fully support the battle of the front-line troops.

In order to support this operation, the East Coasters also mobilized most of the ships currently in their possession, namely 8 steam engine sailing ships, 2 flute-type transport ships, 2 armed transport ships, 2 frigate gunboats, 1 fast cruiser, and 8 medium fishing boats, with a total tonnage of more than 13,000 tons, to transfer supplies and personnel. As for the two river steam gunboats, they had already gone to the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River with some muskets, cannons, armor, and more than a dozen officers and men from the Shun army, and they would do their best to search for Li Zicheng's troops in that area.

And just now, a large fleet of ships on the east coast has already taken two companies of the army, all of the reinforced artillery company, two battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, some soldiers and a large amount of supplies to the mouth of the Nakdong River, they will look for an opportunity to land there, and then do not deploy troops, but try their best to stabilize the beachhead and wait for the arrival of follow-up troops and supplies. It was also the first time for the people on the east coast to organize such a large-scale landing operation, so everything was still being explored, and mistakes were inevitable in the busyness. However, fortunately, their opponents were quite weak, and it was difficult to pose any threat to the more than 2,000 East Coast soldiers who had landed in advance. And after all the tens of thousands of soldiers have landed, with the strength of the Koreans, it will be even more difficult to shake the army on the east coast.

Mo Ming was accompanied by four steam engine sailing ships from the navy, which were to carry the 2,000 soldiers of the Three Divisions (commanded by Zhai Cong-ge) and Zhou Zuoding, a marching force from the Hallasan Ranch, who would also take part in the operation to get some exercise. Now, at the improvised docks in Jeju Province, the sailors, with the assistance of the Joseon masters, have begun to lift a large number of pack animals and other livestock into the holds. These Korean masters and livestock will be transported to the mainland of the peninsula on the other side of the river to serve as military husbands for the people on the east coast, which is also a rare thing for the descendants of these exiles. Because with their previous status and situation, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to have the opportunity to return to the Korean Peninsula in their lifetime.

Mo Ming didn't stay on the island for long. On the third day, he boarded the landing ground of the East Bank Army at the mouth of the Nakdong River. Mao Desheng, commander of the Army's 104th Company, who arrived there earlier, reported to Mo Ming that the North Koreans had spotted their arrival, but so far there has been no response.

After listening to the report, Mo Ming waved his hand, asked Mao Desheng to continue to go to the front line to organize the defense, and urged the newly landed Zhai Cong's 2,000 men to open up a new landing ground. Then he recruited the logistics staff and asked the logistics staff to find someone to unload a large number of heavy cash boxes from the cabin. The box contained a newly minted silver dollar, which was an advance payment for the May month to boost the morale of the troops.

It is said that due to the siege and plundering of the city along the coast of Daming by the army on the east coast, there are countless gold and silver goods looted over the years. Among them, a considerable amount of jewelry, jade calligraphy and paintings are not easy to value, and they have been shipped back to the local area for processing. Of course, there are also things that are easy to value, such as silk, silk, tea, porcelain, furs, etc., which have basically been cashed out from the Japanese through the Shandan trade, and exchanged for large quantities of sulfur, grain, and the settlement allowance of the recruited samurai.

Not to mention the above things, just talking about the gold and silver directly grabbed, the amount is already extremely terrifying. In the past few years, the small underground vault of Heishui Port is full of land, and it is conservatively estimated that it should be more than 300,000 taels. And with the increasing size of the army in the Blackwater area, they are paid more and more, and it has now reached more than 30,000 yuan per month (black soldiers have no military pay, only a small bonus; Navy salaries are paid domestically), and transshipment from the mainland is often inconvenient. Therefore, the Executive Committee and the State Administration of Precious Metals specifically authorized Mo Ming to set up a mint in the Far East Port of Dabo, temporarily managed by the Far East branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, and shipped several sets of machinery and equipment to mint silver dollars locally to pay his salary.

After the military salaries in May were paid in advance, the morale of the men was greatly boosted, and soon a landing ground was opened on the west bank of the Nakdong River, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops. (To be continued......)