Juehua Island is more than ten miles in circumference, and once hung overseas in the shape of a gourd, twenty miles away from the mainland. However, when a huge fleet of nearly 100 seagoing ships appeared nearby, only a quiet sea area was seen.

There were no Qing ships to catch up, and Wu Ping looked through the clairvoyant mirror, and he didn't even see a single figure on the island.

What's going on? Could it be that the Qing army failed to abandon Juehua Island? Wu Ping and Li Yan looked at each other in disbelief.

Anyone who knows about the battles between the Ming and Qing dynasties in eastern Liaodong knows that Juehua Island is of great significance to the western Liaoning corridor.

Juehua Island is only twenty miles from the mainland, and it takes less than an hour to reach the land from Juehua Island.

When the Ming Dynasty confronted the Manchu Qing Dynasty in western Liaoning, it was to use Juehua Island and Ningyuan City on the other side of the river to have horns. If the Manchus attacked Ningyuan, the Ming army could send troops from Juehua Island, detour behind the Qing army, cut off its grain route, and attack its belly.

And the grain stored on Juehua Island can be supplied to the Ningyuan defenders in a steady stream. During the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan guarded Ningyuan, relying on Ningyuan Juehua Island to resist the army led by the old slave to attack, severely injuring the Houjin soldiers and seriously injuring the old slave.

Of course, Juehua Island also has great defects, in spring, summer and autumn, the sea surface of 20 miles wide is enough to form a moat to keep the Qing soldiers out of the island. However, in winter, because the salinity of the Bohai Sea is too low, it will freeze, and in winter, the entire sea surface will freeze, and Juehua Island will be connected with the mainland, and the Manchu cavalry can directly attack the island along the ice.

In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, when Nurhachi led 60,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners to attack Ningyuan, he sent the main cavalry force to gallop on the ice, landed on the shore from the mouth of the Yao, attacked the grain city of Juehua Island, and burned all the military rations stored in the Ming army.

Therefore, the significance of Juehua Island to Liaoxi and Ningyuan is too important. And now through the clairvoyant mirror, he can't see that there is a Qing army stationed, which makes Wu Ping not surprised.

The fleet headed straight for Juehua Island, and the leading ships had already bypassed the northern end of Juehua Island and docked at the port of Intar, which was empty and there was not even a single boat. The soldiers got off the ship and went straight to the pier and landed on Juehua Island, the whole island was deserted, and the former grain city was in tatters and had long been deserted.

It turned out that the Qing army had already abandoned Juehua Island!

"The meaning of Juehua Island is to stand with Ningyuan to resist the Manchus. And now Wu Sangui led the Guanning army to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the entire western Liao, including Shanhaiguan, was the territory of the Qing army. And the Ming army in the entire north has long ceased to exist. Without the enemy, Juehua Island naturally lost the value of its existence.

The islands are barren, there are no rivers that cannot be irrigated, and the people cannot cultivate them. In the Ming Dynasty, it was used as a base for grain and water army, and a large amount of grain was transported to Juehua by sea every year. And now, without the enemy, Juehua Island has also lost its value, if it is a garrison, it will cost a lot, the Manchus do not pay attention to this, Wu Sangui led the army into the customs, naturally no one wants to live here. “

After inspecting the island, Li Yanzhi couldn't help but sigh.

"But the Qing army gave up Juehua, so it's cheaper for us!" Wu Ping said with a smile. Occupying the island without having to fight hard and getting an excellent rear base is of great significance for the next mission.

"The port can be used to moor large ships, and although the buildings on the island have been abandoned for two years, they can barely live in it. We can use Juehua Island as the foundation, send troops to attack Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and control the entire Liaoxi Corridor! ”

The Qing army abandoned Juehua Island, but there were quite a number of garrisons outside the pass. If the Ming army captured Ningyuan City, the Qing army would inevitably react. After all, the Liaoxi Corridor communicates Beijing and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's hometown outside the northeast Guan, if the Liaoxi Corridor is occupied by the Ming army, Beijing's Manchu Tartars can only choose to cross the Yanshan Mountains to the north and return to the Northeast via Mongolia. Not to mention the extra time, the road is still very difficult to walk.

So it is conceivable that once the Ming army appears in the Liaoxi Corridor, once Ningyuan is captured by the Ming army, the Qing army will inevitably launch a counterattack.

Kyaw Hoa Island, on the other hand, hangs overseas and controls the sea with a strong fleet of ships, which can become a solid rear base. Of course, this is based on the time when the sea does not freeze, if the sea freezes in winter, the Qing army can step on the island along the ice at will, and the geographical advantage of Juehua Island will no longer exist.

However, it is only March, and there is still more than half a year before the winter freezes, and for such a long time, the battle between the Ming and Qing armies in Liaocheng has long ended, and the Qing army has long been driven out of the pass.

Leaving some troops and ships to garrison Juehua Island, under the command of Li Yanzhi, who was responsible for repairing the barracks and cangcheng wharves on the island, most of the troops did not stay long, but sailed to the northern coast under the command of Wu Ping.

According to known intelligence, the main force of the Guanning Army was transferred to fight in Guannei by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was no garrison in the western Liaoning area at all. The families of Wu Sangui and Guan Ningjun are distributed in the narrow corridor of western Liaoning from Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan.

Many people think that Wu Sangui was the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan when he died in the Ming Dynasty, but in fact his official position was the chief soldier of Ningyuan, and it was Ningyuan City that was responsible for guarding Ninghaiguan instead of Shanhaiguan.

The Guanning Army in Wu Sangui's hands is a generational military household, and every soldier has a family member, and all the family members add up to more than 100,000 people. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when the army crossed the Yellow River and attacked Beijing, when Chongzhen's holy decree was Qinwang, Wu Sangui had already made plans to give up the land outside the Guan, and withdrew tens of thousands of troops and more than 100,000 family members outside the Guanhai into Shanhaiguan.

In fact, it was precisely because it took a lot of time to evacuate his family, which also led to Wu Sangui's inability to rescue Beijing in time, and when Beijing was broken, he was still slow to arrive in Beijing.

However, it is impossible to accommodate so many people in the land of Yongping Mansion in Shanhaiguan alone, and Yongping Mansion is a land with masters. Therefore, after occupying Beijing, the Manchu court decided that the families of Wu Sangui's troops should return to the original Ningyuan area and cultivate the military fields in the western Liaoning corridor. However, they are no longer military households, but ordinary people.

In the western Liaoning corridor outside the Shanhaiguan, there are hundreds of thousands of millions of acres of cultivated land, all of which are the military cantonments of the Guanning army, originally because of the perennial war between the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of these cultivated lands are barren, and now Wu Sangui descended to the Qing Dynasty, and there is no war in western Liaoning, these lands can no longer be left barren, and can be used to support the families of the Guanning army in the past.

Under the leadership of Wu Sangui, the main force of the Guanning army entered the customs to fight for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the old and weak soldiers were dismissed as farmers. And Ningyuan City has also changed from a former military city to an ordinary county seat. (https:)

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