One day in May, by the sea in the northeast corner of Annam. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the early morning, the rising sun casts the soft sunlight through the clouds into the sea, and on the vast blue sea, waves continue to surge, crashing on the dock on the shore, making a gurgling sound and splashing snow-white foam.

The sea breeze is calm, even the sound of the waves is exceptionally light, everything seems to be still asleep, never awakened.

The sea is as soft as blue silk, the blue sky is full of white clouds, and the wings of seabirds swirl in the air, looking for food.

Two Chinese sailing ships are quietly docked at the cement pier that has been built in Hongji Port. Hundreds of workers in uniform red short-sleeved uniforms, led by the foreman, nervously unloaded the ship's cargo. Their movements are very swift, and the animal-driven jib cranes, under their skillful operation, quickly and safely lift boxes of goods off the deck of the ship, it can be seen that the workers are familiar with this kind of work.

Some of the sailors on both ships stayed on the ship, and most of them had already descended to the dock in a giggling manner. As the only wharf operated by Chen Han in Annam, Hongji Port has not been built for a long time, but there are all kinds of facilities in the wharf area. Eat, drink, and even spend a silver horn or two to have something with those Vietnamese maids, as long as you want it, then let it be.

Since those Vietnamese women are willing to come to the dock area, they have what to prepare.

Around the perimeter of the wharf, there are four iron-reinforced cement batteries.

Hongji Port is located in the waters of Halong Bay, a place with more than 3,000 islands, large and small, and has been the nest of pirates in Ann Hai since ancient times. Since the beginning of the year, the Nanyang Navy Division has been using the excuse of Annan Hai pirates to commit crimes in the Qinzhou area, and without notifying the Zheng Zhu, they sent troops to attack and encircle and suppress Halong Bay. So far, in half a year, they have not been completely cleared.

In addition to the battle of clearing the pirates, one of the trophies obtained was the capture of more than 2,000 Annan pirates, in fact, many of them were Chinese from Liangguang. Historically, at the turn of Qianjia, a large number of Chinese pirates went south here and became the officers and soldiers of the Vietnamese sailors.

On the periphery of Hongji Port, there is also a marine battalion responsible for garrisoning, counting the defenders of the four batteries, there are as many as 1,000 land troops alone. Chen Han and the Zheng regime in the north of Annam easily reached an agreement, using 3,000 arquebuses, 1,000 flintlock pistols, 30 cannons, 600 pieces of rattan iron armor, and 5,000 knives and guns in exchange for the 'right to use' this vast land that extends from the Hongji Coal Mine to the seaside, and incidentally enclosed Halong Bay, which has a complex terrain, into its own sphere of influence.

The Vietnamese have not yet realized the value of a super-large coal mine.

In addition to the barracks and dock area, rows of cabins have been built throughout the port area, which are temporary housing for the employees working at the docks. Later, when conditions permitted, they would naturally be built stronger brick houses.

All the cement transferred from Hainan to Hongji Port was used for the construction of wharves and warehouses, grain depots, arsenals, material reserves and other facilities. This simple cabin will be under tremendous stress during the typhoon season.

Unlike two months ago, the port is already full of people.

At this moment, the smoke of the cooking stove is rising, and the residents who are rushing to work are already lighting a fire to cook. It is rare to see adult men in the residential area during the day, and even children running around playing are almost impossible to see. Chen Han has set up a school and a nursery here, and children under the age of six go to the nursery, and most of the women who take care of the children are family members of dock workers.

And children over the age of six go to school.

It's just that the conditions in the dock area are limited, and there can be no boys' schools and girls' schools, only boys' and girls' classes.

At this time, there are only two types of people who are willing to leave their hometowns and come to Hongji Port: first, the family is surrounded by four walls, there is no surplus food at night, and the poor are only the poor who have only the life of their family; The second is the real supporter of the Fu Han Army.

Zhang Fusheng, who is currently the captain of the second transport team of Hongji Port Terminal, is the latter.

He is the old man of the Fu Han Army, and when Chen Ming went to the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Fusheng joined the Fu Han Army. Of course, Zhang Fusheng did not follow Chen Ming to the south of the Yangtze River, but stayed in Nanyang, and soon became a professional from the army to the horse convoy of the local grain bureau.

A few months ago he arrived at Wusongkou, and now he has transferred from Wusongkou to Annan.

The members of his transport team include those from Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, and the people in one team speak as well as four or five foreign languages. Up to now, two or three months have passed, and it is still in the run-in. According to Zhang Fusheng, not all the people in the team have learned the official language, which is a great idea!

The convoy belongs to the ranks of dock workers and is to be stationed here for a long time. The construction team is different, they are on temporary assignment.

In addition to repairing docks and forts, building bridges and paving roads, it is also necessary to level foundations, build walls, dig ditches, and build houses.

With the offensive of the Fu Han army in Guangxi, a large number of prisoners were newly added to the labor camps. The Fu Han army also slowly dismissed the civilians of Annam who had been summoned from the surrounding areas, and successively transported five batches of prisoners of war here, and now there are more than 3,000 prisoners of war in the entire Hongji District, organized into eight labor camps.

At the same time, the number of graves in a certain cemetery has grown from nothing to more than 100 now. But among the more than 100 people who died here, few of them were really tired to death, but were accidentally injured, and then hung up with inflammation and diarrhea. Vietnam has a tropical and subtropical climate, and even if the Fu Han army is prepared, it is inevitable that it will be recruited.

"Pull all this broken brick waste to reclaim the sea and repair the trestle bridge."

Ruan Chun came to the construction site early today, looked at the waste and broken bricks piled up like a hill on the side of the road, and shouted to his foreman in Vietnamese.

Dressed in a Ming-style Hanfu, Ruan Chun is more like a Chinese than a Chinese if he does not speak, wearing a net scarf on his head, and wearing a bun. But as soon as you open your mouth, the image is completely ruined.

Nguyen Xuan is a native of Annam.

During this year's New Year, he was still a minor official under Lord Zheng, but now he is the number one horse boy of the Fu Han Army under Annan. Because he could speak fluent Chinese, when the two sides negotiated, it involved the actual division of the region, and Ruan Xuan was one of the many minor officials sent by Zheng Zhu to negotiate. Then he became a member of the Han Army.

Especially after his family was taken to Hongji District by the Fu Han Army two months ago, Director Nguyen Xuan Ruan was even more 'dead hearted' to Chen Han.

He was the head of the Annam Labour Recruitment Office in Hung Kai Port, and his subordinates were all indigenous to Annam. Even though a large number of Annan laborers have now been dismissed, he still has three or four hundred Annan natives in his hands.

Ruan Chun was very loyal to the Fu Han army, because he knew that he was on Chen Han's ship and could not get off.

Now his reputation as a 'second minister' and a 'dog' is spreading very loudly in Quang Ninh and Haiphong.

If the Fu Han army abandoned him, Ruan Chun would really have no way to follow, and it was even likely that his life would not be saved.

His fate has been tied to the Fu Han army, and when the Fu Han army is developed, he Ruan Chun will also be developed; If the Fu Han army could not stand in Annam, then he would not have to jump.

There is no shortage of 'traitors' in any country, nation, or region. The same is true of Annan, especially since this powerful force comes from China, which has been their suzerainty since ancient times. It's psychologically easier to get over that hurdle.

Several Annan people nodded and smiled at Ruan Chunmei, Chen Han is Ruan Chun's sky, and Ruan Chun is the sky in front of them!

Ox carts were driven in, scrap bricks were shoveled onto carts, and then pulled to the beach to reclaim the sea.

As the most important coal-producing area in southern China in the future, the scale of Hongji Port is much larger than it is today. At most, next year, after the iron works on Hainan Island produce iron, the Fu Han army will build a horse-drawn railway in Hongji District. Until then, the docklands had to be expanded and expanded all the time.

At this moment, outside Cat Ba Island, five small boats from Annam bypassed the north end of the island, and then went straight to the west, you can see Hongji Port.

Ruan Hui looked at the destination of this trip from afar, and her young face was full of expectation. He brought with him almost all the gold and silver of his rebel army, which had just conquered Quy Nhon in a dramatic way a month earlier. Nguyen Hue's eldest brother, Nguyen Yue, ordered him to be tied up and put into a cage and carried into Quy Nhon City to offer to the governor Nguyen Kha Xuan. Ruan Kexuan was overjoyed, believed in it, and unguarded Ruan Yue and his people into the city. Then in the middle of the night of the same day, Nguyen Yue broke out of the prison and joined forces with the Tay Son army outside the city, and successfully captured Quy Nhon City, and Nguyen Kha Xuan himself was also captured. After the occupation of Quy Nhon Province, the Xishan army gained momentum and collected a lot of treasured jewelry, gold and silver goods. Nguyen Hue hopes that he will live up to his mission and use these gold and silver treasures to buy enough knives, guns and firearms!

Who doesn't know that the Chinese gave a large number of knives, guns and firearms to the northern head Zheng Zhu in order to get Hongji, a coal-producing place, and Zheng Sen used these weapons to equip his own pro-army and handed them over to his close general Huang Wufu. Now the soldiers are stationed in the Liangshan area. It shocked the defeated Qing Dynasty soldiers who fled from Guangxi to the mountainous areas of northern Anbei.

Of course, the newly fledgling Tay Son Army could not be favored by China, and although there were coal mines in Quy Nhon province, they were small in scale. What's more, the Annan people of this era did not look at coal mines at all, and did not understand the preciousness of coal mines at all. That's why Zheng Sen didn't care that Na Hongji changed so much of the arms, and he was complacent, thinking that he had taken a big advantage.

The three brothers of the Ruan family also wanted to sell their land, but the Chinese did not come at all.

Their brother's original surname was Guo, but in order to win the support of the people after the incident, he did not hesitate to change his mother's surname. Will the three brothers, who don't even care about their surnames, pity the coal mine?

These three brothers, especially the eldest Ruan Yue and the third Ruan Hui, are all standard 'those who achieve great things are not informal'. A little vanity is not enough to worry about, as long as it does not involve the general righteousness, their eyes will only be fixed on actual interests!

Sighing at Lord Zheng's good luck, Ruan Yue sent the third elder, Ruan Hui, over. At this time, the Xishan Army did not have any surface power at all. Of the five modest Annam sailing ships that Nguyen Hue was on, only two were equipped with artillery and were equipped with more hand-to-hand combatants. There were more than a hundred people in the five small sailboats, otherwise Ruan Yue didn't feel relieved.

Although the three brothers of the Nguyen family, who are known for the pirates of Halong Bay, know that in the past six months, Chinese sailors have been vigorously eliminating pirates in Halong Bay. But he was still scared, lest he encounter bandits.

As a result, the five sailing ships had barely detoured from Cat Ba Island when Nguyen Hue and his men saw an astonishing scene.

A tall Chinese naval warship was like a wild elephant, crashing into the fragile 'crowd' - more than a dozen Annan pirate boats, guns and cannons were fired, the roaring cannons resounded on the sea, and the pale cyan smoke enveloped the tall Chinese warship, and then more than a dozen Annan pirate boats scattered in a hurry. Only three corsair ships were left wounded by several rounds of shelling by Chinese sailors. The three pirate ships had completely lost their ability to fight back, and most of the pirates on them had been smashed into a sieve by shotguns, and they were now floating on the surface of the sea like three coffins.

The mast of the big war ship fluttered with a red blood flag, which was the symbol of the naval division of the Fuhan Army!

"Three generals, it's coming to us."

The frightened cries of sailors rang out around Nguyen Hue. The cry caused even more consternation on the ship, except for Nguyen Hue and a scribe beside him, who remained calm, knowing that he had no ill intentions. And with the speed and strength of the big ship opposite, any resistance and evasion were in vain. "Get off the sails, stop the boat, and throw all the swords and guns in your hands for me." Nguyen Hue shouted loudly.

"Three generals, they want us to stop the ship for inspection." An old sailor on the ship shouted.

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This is how the first exchange between the Fu Han Army and the Xishan Army unfolded. When Chen Ming didn't know it at all, when he was staring intently at the summer grain harvest while watching the development of the Korean war situation. At this time, Chen Ming couldn't even take care of the battle in the southwest, and he would pay attention to an inconspicuous little message from Hongji Port there.

After the time entered April, Hailancha, the general of the Qing army in Korea, personally led 3,000 new troops of the Eight Banners and 10,000 Northeast Bannermen, plus 10,000 surrendered Korean soldiers, and marched south from Seoul, swept Chungcheong-do, and marched straight to Korea.

Fukangan's actual position in the new army was still that of a battalion officer, but he was accompanied by a full 1,000 bannermen and 3,000 Korean soldiers. As a partial division, Fukangan led his troops into Jeonju [Jeolla Province] alone.

A scar was added to Rin's face. The red foot was three inches long, sliding down from his cheek to under his left ear.

Such a scar did not make He Lin feel afraid, and the handsome face was matched with this scar, which made He Lin more heroic and fierce.

He Lin's position has not been actually promoted, and he uses the position of deputy officer to represent the actual power of the first team, but this is only temporary.

One of the officers under Fukangan ate a gun and hung up. According to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's regulations on the New Army of the Eight Banners, all those who hold positions above the rank of platoon commander will be replaced by deputy positions if there is a vacancy in the battle, but if they want to really receive a real position, they must report to the military department for discussion.

South Korea - the de facto control area of Yi Su, that is, Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province are the main ones. A large number of volunteers were organized at the local level. But God doesn't seem to protect the stick, and in this national disaster, there are no famous generals like Yi Sunsin in the Korean official army, and there are no cadres like Guo Zaiyou in the righteous army.

With a force of less than 5,000 people, most of whom were North Korean soldiers, Fukangan went all the way to the city of Jeonju.

Jeonju is a very important place in North Korea, surrounded by steep cliffs, one of the famous ancient cities in the history of North Korea, and also a very important strategic location.

When the vanguard of the Qing army arrived at the outskirts of the city, it was already dusk, and He Lin could not deny that the terrain of the city was indeed very dangerous. But when He Lin saw a camp set up by the Korean army outside the city, he smiled, and then he didn't have the slightest worry.

The entire camp of the North Korean army was full of people, there were people playing in the open space in the camp, there were people who gathered to drink, and even he saw the singer in his telescope, but there was no training for the whole army.

A group of military officers and some people dressed as civil officials gathered together, there was wine and meat, and under the drunkenness, some people were scolding, some people were talking and laughing loudly, and some people were crying. Moreover, the camp gate was opened, and He Lin could clearly see that people were entering and exiting inside and outside with a telescope, which looked more like a village and a market than the camp where the soldiers were.

Of course, there were some people outside the camp who were on patrol, but there were not many of them. And although the number of people in Helin's department is not large, there are four or five hundred Qing soldiers and North Korean soldiers, can't you find it on the other side? Plus this camp does not seem to have artillery......

He Lin immediately made a decision - to fight a wave. He's going to fight a wave.

The North Koreans are so lax in their garrison, Wen Tian is martial, and there are no cannons yet, so I'm sorry for them if they don't fight a wave!

Shouldn't the Korean soldiers in Jeolla Province be vigilant as the general swept away Chungcheong-do? Even if they have a large number of volunteers, the most basic patrols, reconnaissance and military guards should always be there, right? These people are so lax now, who will not die if North Korea does not die?

There is nothing to describe the battle.

He Lin didn't have a cannon in his hand, only two sub-cannons, and a few lifting cannons.

He Lin pressed the formation with half of the new army in his hand, dozens of Qing army horsemen were also ready for a surprise attack, and three hundred Korean soldiers and the other half of the new army were ready to attack.

The attacking troops advanced at a relatively slow pace, and it was not until the Koreans discovered the Qing army and the whole barracks panicked that Ho Lin ordered the sub-mother cannon and the raised cannon to open fire.

A group of musketeers poured out of the North Korean barracks, and the tense queue seemed to be out of order. And when He Lin asked the guns and cannons to continue to bombard them, this group of musketeers, numbering three or four hundred, was even more scattered.

The Korean officers commanding them were shouting loudly, and it wasn't until the Qing army was a hundred paces away from them that the Korean musketeers didn't line up as the officers wanted to platoon. Then the sporadic gunfire from the opposite side opened fire.

The 50 Eight Banners New Army did not pull the trigger of the musket in their hands until they were about 15 zhang away from the Korean soldiers.

Then the fifty New Army of the Eight Banners let out a roaring roar together, and the three hundred Korean soldiers rushed towards the Korean musketeers on the opposite side. The North Korean musketeers collapsed immediately......

Not only did the musketeers collapse, but so did the North Korean barracks. The Qing soldiers threw grenades while charging.

The sound of grenade explosions rang out one after another, and the North Korean military camp was filled with ghosts and wolves. In fact, the lethality of these grenades is extremely limited, but the huge 'influence' they have caused should not be underestimated.

A 'key place' garrisoned by three or four thousand people fell into the hands of the Qing army so easily. It's like a joke!

"The mud can't hold up the wall!" Chen Ming, who received the war report of the Hailancha sweep of South Korea in May, shook his head weakly. Fortunately, the Manchu Qing Dynasty really had few troops, and the combat effectiveness of the Korean soldiers who surrendered to the Manchus did not seem to have increased much, otherwise the whole of Korea would really be eaten by the Manchus.

He, when it's time to 'braid', he can still destroy North Korea and destroy a country, and 'I Daqing' is really bullish! (To be continued.) )