Judging from the current situation, the Goryeo army is much weaker than expected, but Gongsun Sheng did not find the Goryeo naval division on Ganghwa Island, which is a hidden danger.

Therefore, Gongsun Sheng ordered the prisoners to be interrogated as soon as possible, hoping to get information about the Goryeo naval division.

It is not difficult to obtain information.

In fact, there were many Goryeo people on Ganghwa Island who consciously provided all kinds of information to the Qi army, not only the sailors that Gongsun Sheng was most concerned about, but also all the geography and military deployment of Goryeo from Ganghwa Island to the capital of Goryeo.

The information was so detailed that Gongsun Sheng didn't dare to believe it at first.

However, the navy still wanted to give it a try, because many of the Goryeo captives consciously and voluntarily led the way for the Qi army, and with this kind of intelligence support, it would be a pity not to try it.

The target of the Qi army was not far from Ganghwa Island, near the confluence of the river and the Han River, and across the sea from Ganghwa County.

There was a small peninsula with Munju Mountain sheltering the waves, thus creating a small sheltered harbor, and the Goryeo sailors were stationed near the mouth of the Han River to the east of the peninsula.

However, according to the confessions of the captives, the Goryeo Gyeonggi Provincial Naval Division, which was highly valued by the Qi army, was not very strong, and it itself had only more than 50 Baozuo ships and no more than 10 banya ships.

The main task of the Gyeonggi Provincial Navy Division was to provide transportation for the Goryeo bureaucracy to travel between the banks of the Han River and Ganghwa Island.

The main task of wartime was to transport the king, queen, prince, two classes of nobles, and their families to Ganghwa Island for refuge when the enemy attacked the city of Wangseong, and to block the Ganghwa Strait as much as possible.

As for naval battles, only 7 or 8 Itaya ships actually had the ability to make sorties.

In other words, in fact, the Gyeonggi Provincial Naval Division had no combat effectiveness at all, and the main defense force of the Goryeo people in the face of a naval invasion was the defenders on the Munju Mountain at the mouth of the Han River.

According to the information provided by the captives, the garrison of Manjushri Mountain Castle has 3,000 people, and because of the empty salary, I am afraid that only the mountain castle defender himself knows.

There were 28,000 sailors in Gyeonggi Province, but it was impossible to have so many people, because the Goryeo officials who had once sat on the navy warships on Ganghwa Island confessed that there were usually only about 20 sailors on those Baozuo boats, and there were more than 150 people on the Panya boats, with a total of more than 60 boats of all sizes, and no more than 3,000 people at most.

This number almost made Gongsun Sheng spray rice, he didn't quite understand, how to eat empty salaries to only 3,000 people in the establishment of 28,000 people?

However, the captured Koreans themselves were not surprised, according to the information provided by the captives:

In terms of establishment, there were more than 160,000 sailors in the whole country alone, and this huge number was also the main reason why Qi Province was wary of Goryeo sailors before the war.

However, this is only the number of registered personnel, in fact, Goryeo implements the system of one soldier and three guarantees, that is, a real "regular soldier" must be supported by three auxiliaries who only exist in the account books.

As a result, the actual number of fighters that the Goryeo Navy Division could use was only 40,000, even if calculated in terms of establishment.

And these so-called regular soldiers, in fact, are not staff, half of the number of sailors in the sailors, are temporary recruits on the ship when needed, usually only occupy the number of soldiers, but do not actually exist.

The other half of the regular soldiers will be divided into two movements, and each movement will be divided into three divisions, taking turns to be on duty.

In other words, a force of 500 people on the books of the Goryeo Navy Division may actually have less than 50 people on duty .......

Hearing this, Gongsun Sheng was really shocked.

In this world of great controversy, can the armament of the Goryeo Kingdom be abandoned to such a degree? How big is this heart?

However, the capacity of the Qi Provincial Fleet was insufficient, and the main fleet had to return to Dengzhou immediately to participate in the transportation of Xu Shiyang's main force, so in addition to the 4,000 army of Gongsun Sheng's army, only a few reconnaissance ships remained on Ganghwa Island.

Although Gongsun Sheng had completed the goal set by the General Staff to occupy a foothold on the peninsula, he still did not have the strength to clean up the Goryeo Gyeonggi Provincial Naval Division, which was far from being as strong as he had imagined before the war, so he could only quietly wait for the arrival of Xu Shiyang.

This will probably give the Koreans some time to react.

On November 25 of the second year of Longdao, Xu Shiyang led the main force of the Qi army to arrive at Jianghua Island, and with him came the advance fleet sent by the Li family of Shuangyu - 12 large sea ships, more than 30 medium sea ships and more than 120 small ships under the command of Li Feifeng, and more than 7,000 pirate sailors.

Xu Shiyang did not trust the land combat capabilities of the Li family's pirates, and the reason why he called them was mainly to increase the shipping capacity.

After all, Goryeo is not Lushun, and the sea ships can't do one round trip a day, which increases the pressure on Xu Shiyang's shipping.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang hoped that this war would be supported by the Li family, and he would use the spoils obtained from Goryeo to compensate the Li family in some way.

The Li family was not confident in how much loot Goryeo could provide, but he decided to support Xu Shiyang anyway.

The main reason is that he wants to improve his relationship with the Xu family as much as possible.

Last year, operated by Xu Shisong and Xu Shiliu, the Great Zhou court completed the recruitment of Li Feihu, Li Feihuang and others.

Neither of these two people had accepted Qin Huizhi's recruitment before, so they were treated differently by Wen Xianggong.

And Li Feilong and Li Feifeng, who once supported Qin Xianggong, did not have such good treatment.

In fact, Li Feihu also wanted to participate in this operation, but he was already an official of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and taking the initiative to attack other countries was a "border provocation without permission", and Li Feilong and Li Feifeng did not have these concerns for the time being.

Fortunately, although the relationship between Li Feilong and Li Feihu's brothers is tense, they have not completely turned their faces, he came to support Xu Shiyang, and Li Feihu can also gain a little favor from Qi Province.

After Xu Shiyang arrived on Ganghwa Island, the combined forces of the Xu and Li families had gathered more than 500 large and small ships near the mouth of the Han River, with more than 30,000 troops.

In the seven or eight days between the occupation of Ganghwa Island and the landing of Xu Shiyang, the navy's reconnaissance ships carried out armed reconnaissance in the vicinity of Manju Mountain many times.

The Qi army found that the Goryeo army was gathering at an alarming pace, and the city of Manjushri was partially supported by the army, but it still seemed that the total strength of the army was still no more than 3,000.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Navy Division twice dispatched the Panya ship to expel the Qi reconnaissance ship, but one of the Banya ships was bombarded by the reconnaissance ship with a magic gun, and most of the casualties were captured by the Qi army, and the rest of the Goryeo ships all shrank back.

The Qi army interrogated the captives on the board house ship and got the following news:

Manjushri Mountain Fortress was theoretically supposed to have 6,000 Goryeo troops at this time, but in reality it barely managed to gather 3,000 men.

As for the Gyeonggi Sailors...... well, for so long, they have not been strengthened in any way, not even to recruit temporary paddle sailers - it is said that the supper, mainly slave and maidservant, are serving the two shifts and the king, and mobilizing them will affect the income of the king and the nobles.

Moreover, according to the captive confessions, the Goryeo people seem to regard the Qi army occupying Ganghwa Island as a ...... of the Japanese Invaders.