It is still September, judging by the intelligence given by foreign security spies, the approximate time for the Jurchens to attack the Koreans should be at the tenth of the lunar month, when the Koreans were preparing for the Spring Festival like the Ming people, and the defense would be more lax, suitable for the Jurchens with few soldiers to take the capital of the Korean Kingdom in one fell swoop.

Therefore, at this time, Li Tianyang still had time to think carefully about whether to send troops to attack the Korean Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, before this, Li Tianyang could already prepare for the dispatch of troops, anyway, the next action of the Hongtang fleet is not small, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, the annual operation to clear out pirates should also be carried out at the end of the year.

In October of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing people's plan to send troops to Korea has been confirmed by the Hongmen foreign guard spies who entered the Qing Dynasty, and Li Tianyang also discussed with the Hongmen Counselor Office countless times, and reached a consensus: send troops to Korea.

At this point, the huge Hongmen violent institutions began to operate busily, and the grain that had just been collected in the granary was stored in batches; The recruitment of new recruits is also being carried out at the same time, not to ask them to be able to fight, but to ask them to be able to supplement the Hongmen war, which is really good to the loss.

At the same time, a total of 30 "Yang Fan-type" and "Jiaolong-type" warships of the Hongtang fleet began to gather on Huludao, which attracted the attention of the major gangs around Hongmen, and they inquired everywhere about Hongmen's big move.

Even the small pirate gang that had not been cleared up in a year and roamed within the huge sphere of influence of Hongmen was not a few, so there were not a few who escaped without a trace, and it was not for nothing that they even disbanded on the spot and abandoned evil and followed good.

Li Tianyang and they have the confidence to provoke the Jurchens in the Northeast, which comes from their strong strength on the sea now, with the current strength of Hongmen on the sea, even if it is a behemoth of the Ming Dynasty, Li Tianyang and them can turn their faces and turn their faces.

At least on the sea, Hongmen now has 12 "Jiaolong-type" warships, 45 "Yangfan-type" warships, as well as 400 warships and 100 auxiliary warships, and there is no one in the entire eastern sea area who can compete with it.

Not to mention the shortcomings of the Jurchens in the Qing Dynasty in terms of strength at sea, they could not have much impact on Hongmen, which was far south.

Of course, this dispatch of the Hongtang fleet was still to move along the coastline, relying on the support of the superior artillery fire of the powerful ground fleet, and conducting guerrilla operations with the Jurchens again and again.

There is no way, Hongmen's team has expanded in a few years, including the Penghu Water Division, and the general strength has expanded to nearly 50,000 people, but the number of troops that Hongmen can send to the north is no more than 6,000 people, which is already the largest number of troops sent by Hongmen in recent years.

However, looking at the scale of the Qing people's dispatch this time, according to the intelligence discovered by the spies of the foreign guard spy warfare station, the army that has been mobilized exceeds Yigushan, that is, the female Allah force of one banner, as well as the newly organized Mongolian Eight Banners One Banner and the Han Eight Banners, a total of nearly 30,000 troops, plus auxiliary soldiers, grain transporters, etc., it is claimed that there will be 100,000 troops to attack Korea.

Li Tianyang would not be so arrogant as to think that a team of 6,000 people in Hongmen would be able to confront such a huge Qing army!

Even if he wanted to test the strength of the Jurchens, wanted to slow down the Jurchens' southward march by helping the Koreans, and even optimistically hoped to weaken the main force of the Jurchens in the Korean war, Li Tianyang never thought of letting his team hit the stone with an egg and make a senseless sacrifice.

Hongmen's development is not easy, and every ounce of combat power should be sacrificed to be valuable and should be cherished.

Wu Changtao of the Salesian Bureau also sent a group of local doctors scattered in all corners of Hongmen back to form a professional team of military doctors to prepare for the upcoming war.

Of course, Li Tianyang is still an official in the Ming Dynasty, and when North Korea did not ask for help from the suzerain, the Ming Dynasty, Li Tianyang can only prepare silently now, waiting for the Qing people to attack Korea.

At this time, the nameless island that Satsuma Bo compensated for Hongmen had a great effect, and batches of grain, grass, and materials were pulled out from Bengang, Keelung, and other places on Dayuan Island, and transported in an orderly manner to the small island called Nakanoshima by the Ryukyu and Japanese people, and piled up.

Wu Daofu has been painstakingly managing this island during the time of fleet patrol over the years, with his understanding of Li Tianyang, Li Tianyang, who is in the prime of life, is not a master who will be content with peace, with the conquest of the Luzon Islands in the South Ocean by Hongmen, Hongmen wants to expand its territorial strength in the future, in addition to the vast territory and the powerful and unrivaled Ming Dynasty, only the Eastern Wa Kingdom and North Korea will become the next target of Hongmen.

No matter which target it is, this Zhongzhi Island will inevitably be the frontier position of Hongmen's expansion in the future, so Wu Daofu will understand its important role in the future without Li Tianyang's reminder.

Naturally, when Li Tianyang and the others had the idea of going north to support the Korean war, then the prominent position of Nakanoshima was remembered by Li Tianyang, who had long forgotten its existence.

At this time, Li Tianyang and the others discovered that Wu Daofu, who had thought that he had no other merits except for the Ryukyu fleet, had built a huge building complex on such a small island: it could supply 6,000 people with grain, grass and materials for the battle of the Moon, and the building complex on Nakanoshima was easily accommodated, and a large part of the land was still empty.

Up to now, even Li Tianyang has to admit that Jiang is still old and spicy, and Wu Daofu has won a first-line opportunity for Hongmen in silence.

With this small island that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Hongmen is fully able to prepare for a long-term competition with the Jurchens on the long coastline of the Korean Peninsula for a long time.

At the same time, the information that Hongmen had finally collected was also shared with the officials of the Lee Dynasty in North Korea, so that they could prepare in advance, as well as the foreshadowing of their next Hongmen operation.

Since it was to delay the Jurchens to the south of the Ming Dynasty, and even the main army of Hongmen was sent out, Li Tianyang naturally hoped that the Koreans themselves would be a little more angry, at least let the Jurchens pay a greater price for the capture of Korea.

At the same time, it can also show favor to the officials in power of the pro-Ming faction, which occupies the mainstream in the Korean Kingdom, and pave the way for the Hongmen to go north to support the other side and obtain benefits.

(End of chapter)