On the afternoon of 27 August, after Mao Wenlong gathered at the Phi Dao Marshal's Mansion to discuss matters, he took his confidants and others to inspect the war readiness of Uiju, Jeongju, Tiesan, and the surrounding islands in North Korea, and he did not have time to stay on Phi Island with Chu Xianxian. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

And Chu Xianzhang didn't have time to ask about the current situation of Mao Weizhang, the superintendent of Dongjiang Town.

Mao Weizhang was the imperial history of the overseer of Dongjiang Town, but Chu Xianzhang did not see him on Phi Dao or other islands in Dongjiang Town.

Because at this time, Mao Weizhang was taking Chen Jisheng and others to build a castle on Jeju Island.

Of course, Jeju Island at this time is naturally no longer the Jeju Island of North Korea, but the Yingzhou Island of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a coincidence. Ten days after Chu Xianxian, Yuan Shu and others left Beijing and went to Dongjiang Town to deliver the decree, that is, on the day of August 15, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, received a secret letter from Mao Weizhang, who was urgently forwarded by Gong Yonggu under the command of Jinyiwei.

Emperor Chongzhen thought that there was another emergency situation, and opened the secret fold with a little apprehension, and at first glance, he was absolutely overjoyed.

And such an overjoyed surprise only appeared when he learned that Chen Renxi took Cao Wenzhao and others to subdue Karaqintai Jibul Hatu.

After the emperor finished reading the second secret fold of Mao Weizhang, the imperial historian of Dongjiang Town, after five months, he was once again so happy that he danced with his hands and said again and again: "Yingzhou! "Yingzhou!" "Not bad!" "Not bad!" "This Mao Weizhang is really good!"

And immediately set up the Wuying Palace, in the east hall of the Wuying Palace, Emperor Chongzhen stared at the whole map of the Kunyu of all countries that had been hanging on the east wall of the Wuying Hall since the missionary Matteo Ricci was dedicated during the Wanli period.

Emperor Chongzhen found the island in the southernmost sea of the Korean Peninsula and asked Wang Chengen to mark the word "Yingzhou" next to it.

It turned out that as early as the end of March this year, because of the emperor's will conveyed by Gao Shiming, Mao Weizhang took Chen Jisheng, Mao Youde and others, as well as 3,000 young men newly recruited from the Han people of Liaodong who were in exile in North Korea, and took a fleet in Dongjiang Town, along the coast of the Korean Peninsula, all the way eastward, according to the route Gao Shiming said, looking for the big island that the emperor said.

However, after sailing by boat for more than 20 days, they have reached the end of the coast of the Korean Peninsula, but they still have not found the legendary big island.

Mao Youde was the first to lose his breath and clamored to return to the voyage, but Mao Weizhang disagreed, and then even Chen Jisheng began to doubt it, and tactfully suggested to Mao Weizhang that the fleet was about to run out of rice, so he either returned as soon as possible, or had to dock nearby to replenish.

However, this Mao Weizhang, on the one hand, is a civil official from Jinshi, and on the other hand, he has experienced the emperor's insight up close, so it is rare to be stubborn and obstinate.

In this way, after more than a month of searching and sailing, Mao Weizhang and his entourage, under the guidance of the merchant ships that had plundered along the way, were forced to return to the sea, and finally found the big island in the sea that the emperor described to them through Gao Shiming on the ocean more than 100 miles southeast of the Korean Peninsula.

And this island, of course, is Jeju Island.

This Jeju Island is the largest island on the coast of the Korean Peninsula and even the so-called Black Water Ocean at this time, and it looks like a square garden for four or five hundred miles.

Historically, this place used to be called Tamna Island, and there was a small country called Tamna Island.

This Tamna country and the Tunguska Goryeo stick on the Korean Peninsula are not a single race, but belong to the descendants of the Xianbei people, which can be regarded as a Mongolian race.

When the Chinese dynasty was strong, he was attached to China, and when the Chinese dynasty was not as strong as this, they attached themselves to several dynasties in Korea, and even once took refuge in Japan.

And the so-called refuge is actually forced, or simply occupied.

In the thirteenth century, the East Asian continent was inextricably warn, and no court had the energy to take care of this small land, at this time, the Koreans took the opportunity to occupy this island, changed the country of Tamna to Tamna County, and later renamed Jeju Island, and set up Jeju Mu, but the Tamna people never stopped resisting.

Later, when the Yuan Dynasty rose, the Mongol army conquered the entire Korean Peninsula, and by the way, it also conquered this Tamna Island, almost wiped out the indigenous and Korean immigrants above, and completely wiped out the Tamna country at once, and then immigrated thousands of Mongols, and set up a Tamna military and civilian administration, which opened up a horse farm on it to raise horses for the Yuan army and prepare for the conquest of Japan.

As a result, the Yuan army's conquest of the Japanese archipelago failed, and the status of this military and civilian administration, which was located in a corner of the sea, became dispensable, and no one cared about it from then on.

The Mongols who migrated to the island intermingled with the few remaining Tamna people, as well as the Koreans who came to make a living on the sly, for hundreds of years, and now constitute the majority of the indigenous population on Tamna Island.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the power of the Mongol Yuan had shrunk significantly, and the Lee dynasty of Joseon once again took the opportunity to go to the island and occupy the island, and then established Jeju County, which was still mainly used as a place for horse breeding and exile of prisoners.

Although Jeju Island is nominally part of Korea, the power of the Lee dynasty has always been relatively weak, and there are not many people on the island, and the Koreans are unable to control the island, so most of the time it is occupied by pirates or some powerful maritime merchants, as a port and warehouse for maritime trade.

After the Jiajing period, the coast of Jeju Island was once occupied by the Japanese pirates, and later by the Chinese pirate Li Dan and his gang, and the Korean Li dynasty did not dare to ask at all, and of course was unable to ask.

Today, although there is a Jeju county on the border of the original Tamna country on the island, and the county guards and other officials are stationed to govern it, the power of the Jeju county guards is limited to the Jeju county town, and the coastal island ports and other things are still occupied by some maritime merchants and pirates.

Therefore, when Mao Weizhang and his entourage led more than 40 warships, large and small, suddenly appeared on the sea outside an unknown port in the northwest of Jeju Island, all kinds of fishing boats and merchant ships docked in this simple port naturally fled one after another, and some people on the coast also dispersed, and of course, some of them stood on a high place and stopped to watch.

At that time, Mao Weizhang was on top of Chen Jisheng's flagship, half excited and half apprehensive.

Excitedly, I finally found this island, and from the ocean, this island is indeed as Gao Shiming said, the area is far larger than the islands that Dongjiang Town currently occupies, and from a distance, there are mountains, forests, plains, and it seems that there are small villages scattered all over the island.

Mao Weizhang stood on the top deck of the lucky ship he was on, holding the Western clairvoyant mirror that had been introduced into the Ming army at this time, that is, the monocular of this era, watched for a while, and then handed the still very precious clairvoyant to Chen Jisheng, who was standing next to him, and said excitedly: "This is it, General Chen, we have finally found it!" ”

Chen Jisheng, who was over forty at this time, was also quite emotional in his heart, fortunately, this Lord Mao was not an ordinary stubbornness, otherwise he would probably miss this opportunity to make contributions in this industry.

Looking at the defenseless small port in front of him, Chen Jisheng said, "Lord Mao, what should we do next?" ”

Mao Weizhang immediately said when he heard this: "You are the deputy general of my standard battalion of the supervising army, the two armies are facing each other and charging into battle, of course, you have the final say!" ”

Chen Jisheng nodded when he heard this, signaling that he understood. Then he said to the herald: "Tell Mao Guerrilla, continue to move forward, and fire the cannon when you are close!" ”

The herald immediately took out two small flags and waved them at another, even more forward, fortune ship.

At this time, the Daming sailor had long understood the important value of the flag, although the flags of the northern and southern sailors were different, but the liaison and herald flags belonging to a sailor division had a strict agreement.

Although Mao Weizhang didn't understand much, he also knew that Chen Jisheng was giving orders to Mao Youde, who played as a striker.

The Fu ship, which rushed two or three hundred meters ahead, was Mao Youde's ship. Mao Youde saw the order of the flag-bearer on Chen Jisheng's ship, and immediately rushed left and right and said: "Pass the order, go down and fire the cannon when you get close!" ”

The people on the shore who stopped to watch, seeing the tall fortune ships rushing forward, naturally knew that the other party was not good, and many people ran towards a walled city not far south of the port.

Not long after Chen Jisheng's order came out, only a few muffled sounds of "boom", "boom", "boom" and "boom" were heard, and the two fortune ships in front headed by Mao Youdezuo opened fire.

Among the forty-two warships that followed Mao Weizhang to Jeju Island, there were eleven large ships with Franc guns on their bows and sides, and each ship was equipped with nine Franc machines.

Sixteen other centipede ships were each equipped with a Fran cannon on the bow.

As for the remaining sub-mother ships and fire dragon ships, they are also equipped with various large-caliber firearms such as thunderbolt guns.

After Mao Youde's ship opened fire, these warships also approached one after another to open fire, and for a time the entire small harbor seemed to be boiling, and projectiles of various sizes fell one after another, some hit the merchant ships or fishing boats in the harbor, and all of them were broken, but more of them hit the sea, stirring up large or small waves.

After several rounds of shelling, the harbor was in shambles, and the crowds on the shore were scattered.

Mao Youde's ship, without waiting for Chen Jisheng's order, first stopped the shelling, and then ordered several other warships that arrived close to the shelling to cease fire, and then, leading several ships in front to storm the harbor, knocking over the small boats that had stayed in the harbor.

Although the Fubune was not the most advanced warship of this era, the size of the Fufune was very huge, except for the three-masted sail warship of the Spaniards, there was no other warship comparable to the Fufune in the western Pacific Ocean.

In addition, at this time, the warship led by Mao Youde rushed from the northwest to the southeast, gaining the upper hand, and sailing with the wind for a while, which was indeed unstoppable.

Mao Weizhang saw that Mao Youde's ship had rushed into the harbor, and then said to Chen Jisheng: "It seems that our trip is quite smooth, and the defenders on the island are defenseless. ”

Chen Jisheng bowed and clenched his fists and said, "Congratulations to Lord Mao for this pioneering work!" ”

Mao Wei smiled and said, "At this time, it is too early to congratulate you!" Besides, our army came to this island in the east, and I took General Chen to make meritorious contributions together, and if you want to say congratulations, you should also be happy! ”

After saying this, Mao Wei shouted loudly and vigorously: "Pass the order!" Arrive at the port and land on the island! ”

All of a sudden, the shouts of "enter the port and land on the island" sounded everywhere in the fleet, which was not far from each other.

At this time, Mao Youde had already ordered the mother ship to follow the port to land first, and a team of more than 100 elite veterans of Dongjiang Town, jumped on the shore at the moment when the mother ship was loaded on the shore, and took advantage of the terrain nearby.

However, everything they do is superfluous.

Because when they came ashore, they found that there was not even a shadow of a ghost in front of them, let alone any defenders, except for the mess.