First, the flag points to the south, and the beacon fires are in the sky
A year and a half after the war of conquest and war, the Donghae Kingdom launched another large-scale war, the war to annex and clean up Goryeo. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The INFO war plan was drafted by the General Staff Department, approved by Fu Ning, implemented by the Military Affairs Department, and fully cooperated by the East China Sea State; The general plan was to control the Yalu River sweeping southward; Fu Ning gave a special instruction: "Occupy its land, clear its people, and occupy its land forever!" Leave 500,000 elites to be sent to Luzon to mine iron ore, and the rest will not be left! āć
The logistics base camp of the war was set up in the chicken coop hall, and the general person in charge was Zhao Fengrui, deputy director of the General Staff Department; The execution base camp of the war was set up in the Lushun Hall, and the general person in charge was Tian Yanwu. That is to say, the general logistics of this war is on Liuqiu Island, and the rhythm of the war and the specific execution power are in the Lushun Hall.
The Department of Military Affairs issued a strategic plan with reference to Fu Ning's opinions; The Admiralty was responsible for logistics and troop transportation, and the 10th Marine Division landed in Gwangju and the 4th Marine Division landed in Busan. The real battlefield consisted of Tian Yanwu's eight divisions of the War Department landing on the Yalu River, spreading out along the Yiju Mansion on the other side of Dandong and eastward, advancing steadily in a linear southward direction; The three heavily armed divisions easily moved along Uiju, Donglim, North Cheongju, and Anju in the direction of Pyongyang and Haeju, while the remaining five lightly armed field divisions first cleared the eastern mountainous areas, and then pushed south from the eastern Gangjie, Hyesan, and Cheongjin and then south to Hamhung and Wonsan. This will result in the completion of the removal and expulsion of indigenous populations from the mountains and the panic migration of indigenous populations to the south. It would be easier to drive the indigenous population to the south and achieve a strategic encirclement, and then it would be much easier to capture the able-bodied and clear the redundant population.
When the Japanese were annexed and cleaned up, it was Ryuqiu's rifle against the bamboo gun of the Japanese people, and it took a year to complete the comprehensive cleanup of the four islands; But Goryeo is different, the north is all mountainous, and it is very troublesome to clean up, so the plan proposed by Fu Ning is to comb it first, sweep it again, and finally clean it again. That is to say, the first time is to capture and clean up the population of the city, combing it like combing hair; Then clean up the surrounding population concentration areas, and finally go into the mountains to clean up the remaining population. After spending three or five months to basically clear the natives between the Yalu River and the Han River, the field division moved south to sweep the southern part of the peninsula. When it takes more than half a year to basically clean up the indigenous people, they will resettle the Han people to the peninsula, distribute the land for free, and keep the land forever.
Strategically, Fu Ning likes to use yang strategy, dignified and upright "cut the three roads", the army presses the top, cleans up the population, and then moves a large number of Han people to develop, so that the other party has no way to resist, and then gradually disappears.
Cold weapons are basically zero in the battle in the face of modern heavy firepower, although the field division of the War Department of the East Sea Kingdom can only be regarded as a modern army, but when cleaning up the Koreans, it is still like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, except for logistics and mountain marches, there is no other pressure, and the advance is extremely easy; Because there is no need to screen the other party, as long as it is not the military uniform and flag of the East China Sea State, you can just shoot and clean up when you see someone; The only regret is that the consumption of ammunition is too high, with about 130 million rounds of ammunition and 40,000 rounds of various shells consumed in a total of eight months of operation.
The 123rd Field Division took the west road to the south, and it was the easiest to walk, breaking the city for two or three days a day to clean up, and then leaving a regiment to continue to clear the garrison, and the time was basically spent on marching and cleaning up prisoners. In August, the 1st and 2nd Field Divisions had already advanced to the north bank of the Han River in October. Then, instead of going south, he began to comb and clear the mountains on both sides of the road on a large scale; Because at this time, the 8th Field Division had just finished clearing Qingjin and moved south, and the 6th Field Division had not yet arrived in Hamxing; So now the army's job is to sweep north of the Han River.
War is a bloody thing, so the distinction between recruits and veterans in the East China Sea Kingdom is to see that they have not been on the battlefield and have not killed foreign races. The ten marine divisions under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Marine War have all participated in the clean-up operation of the natives, and they are all veterans who have seen blood, so they are not the main force of this Goryeo War, the main force is the eight field divisions under the jurisdiction of the War Department, they are the main force to clean up the indigenous people of Goryeo, and they need to grow into veterans through this operation, so as to be able to undertake follow-up and more large-scale military operations, because after the end of the Goryeo War, Fu Ning is preparing to start the war of the Bohai State in succession, and there may even be a war with the British Dynasty.
It took far more time to clear the natives in the mountains than it did in the plains, and it took nearly half a year from August to December for the army to clear the natives between the Yalu and Han rivers and encircle all the Koreans in the south.
The British Dynasty's official name for the Goryeo Peninsula was "Korea State", but Fu Ning liked to call it Goryeo, so the official name of the Donghae Kingdom was always called Goryeo. The Goryeo Peninsula is the Goryeo Peninsula, which borders the Balhae Kingdom through the Yalu and Tumen rivers, and has a total population of nearly 20 million. According to the information of the Intelligence Department, in the 20th year of the British Dynasty (1719), the British Dynasty paid tribute to the British Dynasty in the letter of the British Dynasty, "There are eight million Korean officials and people, and there are eight million Korean officials and people, and there is a kingdom of Bongcheon!" This shows that there were at least 18 million people in Goryeo at that time, and the total population of the Goryeo Peninsula was actually more than 20 million, including the hidden indigenous population, Han people belonging to the British Dynasty, merchants, etc. Tian Yanwu, the base camp of the War Department of the Lushun Department, reported to Liuqiu at the end of the year that more than 3 million indigenous people had been cleared out, and the rest of the indigenous people had been driven south of the Han River by the field division; A rough calculation would have thought that there were about 17 million Goryeo people in the southern part of the peninsula, but in fact this is not the case at all, because in 1723, about 2 million Goryeo Han people were bought by the Donghae State to develop the four islands of Yingzhou, plus the Donghae State's clean-up of the surrounding waters of Goryeo in the first half of 1724 and the clean-up of the northern part of Goryeo by the Donghae State in the second half of 1724, so there should theoretically be about 15 million people in the current southern Goryeo; But this is also only theoretical, because the most terrible part of war is not on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield.
The secondary disasters caused by the war are far greater than the losses caused on the battlefield, hunger, migration, disease, war, etc., all quickly consume the population of Goryeo, Tian Yanwu now estimates that there are about 10 million people in the south of Goryeo, Fu Ning agrees, because the remaining 6 million Goryeo people may have been wiped out by the "war".
The Spring Festival of the lunar calendar this year is the 13th day of January 1725 in the Gregorian calendar, and the 12th is the New Year. Only Gwangju in the south fell into a sea of corpses and blood.
The surname of the Goryeo king is Lee, and too many Goryeo people were frightened in the half-year war; Death is fate, life is luck, and those who do not die or live are the most tormented. Goryeo King Yi Brown fled from Hanyang City to Cheongju to avoid trouble, and the crown prince Yi Mi secretly went to sea to ask for help from the British Dynasty when he was sunk in the Yellow Sea by the warships of the East China Sea State; The 70-year-old Uncle Li Li organized nearly a million hungry people to attack Gwangju City, and the impact of the sea of blood on the corpse mountain lasted for five whole days, and hundreds of thousands of people died, and after the corpse mountain was level with the city wall, the defending 10th Marine Division collapsed, and the emergency naval ships only picked up more than 60 surviving soldiers through the river, and the remaining 7,000 soldiers were drowned in the hungry crowd of Goryeo; Since then, the East China Sea has no longer had the military establishment of the 10th Marine Division.
At that time, there were five field divisions on the Han River blockade line, so there was no need to worry; Therefore, the Donghae Kingdom, which had learned a lesson in Gwangju, had no choice but to immediately increase the heavy firepower of Busan Fortress, and urgently reinforced two regiments and a large number of heavy equipment from Nagasaki and Shimonoseki to prevent the Koreans from storming the port of Busan with the same tactical methods. The 4th Marine Division stationed at the port of Pusan clamored to teach the Koreans a lesson, but in fact they were also afraid of the Korean people's decisive attack of hundreds of thousands of people, especially the attack method of using millions of hungry people to the death in the heavy rain. The 4th Marine Division in Busan was nervously guarding against the Koreans, and the airships had detected a large number of hungry people coming from Daegu in the direction of Pusan Port, but there was no follow-up; After the war, I learned that the organization of the Goryeo people collapsed on the way, and the southern part of Goryeo was completely chaotic, and the lord of the country, Li Brown, had completely lost control of the hungry people, and had to surrender to the army of the Donghae State, looking forward to the life of that line.
The Intelligence Department reached a strategic deception through the second prince of Goryeo, Li Xuan, promising that Li Xuan and the Goryeo people would survive as long as they moved to Nanyang; Li Xuan couldn't believe it anymore. So the Koreans began to be silently organized to board the ship, but after arriving at Xiaguan, they were separated in an orderly manner, and the young and strong women were escorted to Yingzhou to mine gold and silver mines, and the young men were escorted to Luzon to mine gold, iron, copper and other mines, and the old and weak were cleaned up and thrown into the sea; Knowing the truth, Lee Seon committed suicide by poisoning himself in remorse, and was secretly shot dead after the surrender of Lee Brown, the lord of Goryeo who was hiding in Cheongju.
About 2,000,000,000 young laborers survived in the Goryeo Kingdom, but that was three months later; 500,000 young men were taken to the Yingju mine, 500,000 young men were sent to the Luzon mine, and about 1 million young men and women remained on the Goryeo Peninsula to build the planned Dandong-Pusan railway.
In fact, the most terrible part of war is not actually the battlefield, because there are a number of people who die directly on the battlefield, and the number of people who die outside the battlefield is the largest. In the Three Kingdoms Rebellion in Chinese history, the Yellow Turban Army that died on the battlefield was only a few million people, but the total number of people who died because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was no less than 20 million; In every upheaval, the number of people who die outside the battlefield is generally more than ten times the number of people killed on the battlefield; Therefore, Fu Ning never wanted to cause internal turmoil in the British Dynasty, because he was afraid that a large number of people would be destroyed in the turmoil.
The war for the annexation of Goryeo lasted more than eight months, and lasted from August 1724 to March 1725, which was the third year of the British calendar. During this period, the British Dynasty issued three extremely strongly worded letters to the East China Sea State, demanding that the East Sea State immediately stop annexing Goryeo under the threat of war and the forbidden sea, but Fu Ning politely refused; The British Dynasty immediately ordered the coastal naval forces to assemble at the port of Dengzhou to prepare for war, but the generals of the naval forces had already been frightened by the navy of the East China Sea State, and the orders of the British Imperial Court were delayed and shirked, and the British Dynasty failed to complete the naval assembly until the end of the Goryeo War. After the end of the Goryeo War, the British Dynasty was completely speechless, because the letter of the Donghae Kingdom to the British Dynasty wrote, "In March this year, there was no one left in the Goryeo Kingdom, and the country was no longer in the country!" āć
After the end of the Goryeo War, immigration and development followed, and the first thing was to build the railway from Lushun to Busan via Dandong, Anju, Pyongyang, Haeju, Hanyang, Cheongju, and Daegu.
The national flag of the East China Sea Kingdom is the red background gold dragon flag, which was set by Fu Ning very early, which means that the East China Sea Kingdom is the descendant of Yanhuang, red blood, and dragons. The flag of the East China Sea has been used for three or four years, but the military flag of the East China Sea has never been unified, until the Goryeo War was launched, the military decided to use the red background gold dragon claw flag as the military flag, which means that the army is the dragon golden claw of the Yanhuang blood, responsible for tearing up all foreign enemies. The finalization of the military flag was made by Fu Ning, and the previous departments of the Military Affairs Department had opinions on this "dragon claw" military flag, thinking that this military flag was too simple and monotonous, and that patterns such as flying bears, flying tigers, goshawks, and golden dragons should be used as military flags, but Fu Ning insisted on his own opinions; Fu Ning openly said that the army is the force of the Yanhuang bloodline, and it is responsible for protecting the people and tearing apart the enemy, so it is just the claw of the golden dragon, not the "princes' flag" of the goshawk flying bear or something, and the army should always obey the government! As a result, the army was forced to accept the red background gold dragon claw flag as the flag of the whole army. In order to avoid tongue-twisting, the Eastern Navy privately called it a red flag, so the Eastern Navy people carried the "red flag" from Dandong to Busan, and it took eight months to annex and clean up the Goryeo Peninsula.