"Your Majesty, as the ministers see, it is better to send the naval division of General Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde to the sea, and take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Korean monarchs and ministers to capture their family members on Ganghwa Island, which should be able to hit the morale of the other side and force the other side to surrender."

As one of the ministers accompanying the army, Fan Wencheng had already sensed that the Korean army on the other side was well prepared, and the price he had to pay to capture Namhansan Fortress was a bit huge, so he hoped to come up with a trick to make the war smoother.

"Two generals, what do you think?"

Huang Taiji actually has this intention, and the battles he has experienced along the way have made Huang Taiji, the master of great talent, feel a little tricky.

He thought that attacking the Koreans was just a matter of being captured, but when he really set foot on the land of the Koreans, he realized that some of his ideas were taken for granted.

The North Koreans were hostile to the Qing Dynasty, not only among the middle and upper class nobles who were influenced by the Ming Dynasty, but also spread to the common people at the bottom of the Korean class.

Along the way, it was not the regular Korean troops who defended the city with high walls that caused the most damage to the Qing army, but the guerrilla militia that roamed around the mountains and forests.

No one knows which horn will shoot a wooden arrow or a sickle from the shadows, and it will kill a Qing soldier.

Don't sleep, the whole of Korea was well prepared early, and the plan to make the Qing people want to supply on the spot under the strong walls and clear the wilderness failed at the beginning, and in the end they had to risk the loss of more soldiers to attack one city after another.

"The ministers will come back with the family of the King of Korea to report!!"

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming hurriedly knelt down and made a promise.

"Very good, if this thing is done, it will be a great success for the two of you!"

Huang Taiji laughed, their Jurchens are not good at water, this is their defect all along, otherwise they would not have come to attack North Korea in this cold winter season.

And with Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, the two Ming rebel generals, coming to defect, Huang Taiji has a naval army in his hands, which is just right to cross the sea to attack the concubines and ministers of the Joseon King and the ministers on Ganghwa Island, who think they are safe!

I'm afraid that the Koreans never thought that now they have a naval army in the Qing Dynasty, so this time Fan Wencheng planned to sneak attack the rear of Ganghwa Island, in the eyes of Huang Taiji, it is basically a stable matter.

"Lao Kong, we have to behave well this time, otherwise we won't have a good time in the future in the Qing Dynasty!"

After Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde received the order, they led the people and horses towards the location of the overseas Ganghwa Island, and on the way, the two chatted with excitement and some worry.

"At this time, you can't play tricks on me, Lao Geng, we are now grasshoppers on a rope, if this errand is messed up, with the temper of our new emperor, we are afraid that our head will fall to the ground!"

"Don't worry, I know what's heavy!!"

Geng and Kong actually have bitter self-knowledge, since the rebellion against the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers and horses in the hands of the two of them have become scarcer day by day, and the soldiers who fled and died in battle, because they fled to the sea, have not been able to get supplies, until they finally came to Liaodong and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the available soldiers in the hands of the two were less than 5,000.

Subsequently, although among the people of the Qing Kingdom, the two recruited thousands of soldiers to come in, but most of them had never touched the sword soldiers, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

In addition, in the Qing Dynasty, in addition to Fan Wencheng and several other Han officials who treated the two of them with a friendly attitude, other Jurchen generals such as Amin, Dolgon, and Duoyi looked at the extension of the two, and there were more things of contempt and contempt, which made the two of them tremble all the time.

Therefore, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, who can show up how long this time, know very well that in fact, Fan Wencheng proposed this plan more to fight for the opportunity for the two to make meritorious contributions, so that the two of them can have a more solid foundation in the Qing Dynasty.

In order to ensure that this raid could be successfully completed, the sailors of Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde almost rushed out and quickly attacked Jianghua Island in the southern sea.

The defense of Jianghua Island was indeed very lax, and when Geng and Kong's sailors arrived on the island, the garrison on the island reacted, but at this time, Geng and Kong's troops had already gained a firm foothold on the dock, and batch after batch of soldiers were killed from the sea ships and flocked to the palace community on the island.

"Take the princess and the ladies away, let's cover for you!"

Li Shiyou, the general on the island who knew that he was derelict in his duties, led a team of henchmen to resist the Qing soldiers who came up like a spring, and said hoarsely to the deputy general behind him.

"Take care!!"

At this time, the deputy general Cui Zige also knew that it was not the time for children to grow up, if the prince and princess were allowed to fall into the hands of the Qing people, it would be a fatal hammer for their kingdom.

The lieutenant led a group of disheveled, panicked ladies towards a hidden dock behind the island, where there was still a warship to use, and this was their only way out.

"Hurry up, set sail!!"

Cui Zige finally pulled a group of important female dependents onto the ship, and immediately commanded the sailors on the ship to set off, but the sailors in front of him pointed at Cui Zige's back with a pale face, and said bumpily: "General, general, you, ............ behind you"

Knowing that something was wrong, Cui Zige hurriedly turned around and looked at the vast sea behind him, but found that he didn't know when, but on the sea behind them, there were endless pieces of gray sails, and huge sailors who were tall and mighty, and they were going all out to kill them on their island.

"It's over, it's over, General, I've lived up to your expectations!!"

Cui Zige looked at the warship in front of him getting closer and closer with a pale face, and the long knife in his hand had fallen from his hand to the deck at some point, with a lost expression and muttering to himself.

"No, no, General, I'm afraid these warships are not the fleets of the Qing people, but our reinforcements!!"

The sailors on the ship, having lost the commander's command, could only continue to operate the sail ropes in their hands in a daze, preparing for the voyage.

It wasn't until the fleets in the distance were getting closer and closer that there were people among the sailors who were familiar with the standard of sea ships in the sea, and looking at the fleet that could be seen in the distance, most of the sea ships were very different from the Oriental standard ships, and then they shouted with some uncertainty.

(End of chapter)