Whether it is Chen Jisheng or Kong Youde, because Chongzhen followed Mao Weizhang, a newcomer, to go overseas in the first year and occupied Yingzhou Island, he easily made a contribution to the Ming Dynasty to expand the territory, and he also rose all the way.

Just talking about the speed of promotion, even they feel that it is a little too fast.

Now, in just two years, Chen Jisheng was promoted from a general to a deputy general to the deputy commander of Dongjiang Town, and then after Dongjiang Town was reorganized into the Fifth Route General Military Office, he was promoted to the deputy commander of the Fifth Route Soldiers and Horses in Dongjiang Town.

Although it was impossible for Mao Wenlong to let Chen Jisheng take care of the affairs of the entire Dongjiang Town, and Emperor Chongzhen also ordered him to lead the army to be the chief general of the Yingzhou Town Guard, but nominally speaking, this Chen Jisheng had been quickly promoted to the military official in the entire Dongjiang Town, second only to Mao Wenlong.

This is also where Mao Wenlong is dissatisfied with Mao Weizhang and these people in the Yingzhou Town Guarding Mansion sequence.

In Mao Wenlong's view, these people have not made much real contributions, but they followed the successive victories in Dongjiang Town, and they were promoted all the way to make a fortune, and this promotion and fortune did not come from his Mao Wenlong's hands.

This made him feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

Because, whether it is the position of the Yingzhou Town Guard, or the officials of the Yingzhou Town Guard, it has faintly become a force to be reckoned with behind Dongjiang Town.

Mao Wenlong's upset is his own business.

For Chen Jisheng, who has risen all the way, and Kong Youde, who has taken a ride, these two people are full of spirit and encouragement.

At the same time, Chen Jisheng's heart is grateful to Mao Weizhang and the current Emperor Chongzhen, who has never met him, and has always wanted to make meritorious contributions, so that those colleagues in Dongjiang Town who regard him as a lucky person to welcome the good fortune are convinced.

Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly vigorously promoted Chen Jisheng, of course, with his own considerations, that is, to support a person of his own in Dongjiang Town.

Including the promotion of Shen Shikui, Li Xingzhong, and Qu Chengen, all contain this meaning.

Dongjiang Town can continue to grow, but it cannot completely become Mao Wenlong's private domain.

Historically, after Mao Wenlong was executed by Yuan Chonghuan, the Ming court entrusted Dongjiang Town to Chen Jisheng.

It's a pity that although Chen Jisheng is different from the sons and grandsons of the Mao family, he is a person who is completely loyal to the imperial court, but his qualifications and prestige are not enough to lead the proud generals of the entire Dongjiang Town.

As a result, it not only caused his own tragedy, but also caused the tragedy of Dongjiang Town.

In this life, Emperor Chongzhen of course learned a lesson and still chose Chen Jisheng as the successor of Mao Wenlong in the future, but unlike history, he had to establish Chen Jisheng's qualifications and prestige as early as possible.

Because of this, today's Chen Jisheng is young, less than forty years old, and he has become the deputy commander of the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Route of Dongjiang Town, whose rank is higher than that of the chief military officer of the Fifth Route of Dongjiang Town.

Of course, Chen Jisheng didn't know what to do, so his heart was full of gratitude for Emperor Chongzhen's kindness.

So when Mao Weizhang recruited Chen Jisheng and Kong Youde, conveyed the will of the imperial court, and Mao Wenlong's handsome order, although he was full of doubts about the unknown sea expedition, Chen Jisheng still said to Mao Weizhang:

"The court treats my generation as a national scholar, and my generation should repay the imperial court as a national scholar! This voyage, attack behind enemy lines, if you don't succeed, never look back! ”

Kong Youde also said: "I, more than 10,000 soldiers in Yingzhou Town, are full of food and have nothing to do all day long. ”

Kong Youde, who is not very peaceful, since he became the deputy general of the Dongjiang Town Water Division, and then led the Dongjiang Town Water Division to garrison Yingzhou Island, the old problem has not changed much, and he has to take the Navy Division to sea once in a while, saying that it is to train the Navy Division's battalion, but in fact he went out to rob.

Not to mention that the North Korean ships and Japanese ships passing by the waters around Yingzhou Island were robbed when they encountered them, even Tsushima Island in the Korean Strait in the north of Yingzhou Island did not know that it had been robbed several times by the fleet led by Kong Youde, and the Tsushima Domain on Tsushima Island was miserable.

Mao Weizhang knew more or less about these situations, but apart from telling Kong Youde not to embarrass those maritime ships who had paid the city tax at the Yingzhou Town Guard's Mansion in Yingzhou Ao and Seogwipo, he did not take any other measures.

In this way, in mid-September, Mao Weizhang, who was well prepared for the expedition in all aspects, issued an order, with Chen Jisheng as the main general and Kong Youde as the deputy general, leading 181 large and small warships, loaded with 8,000 well-equipped Ming soldiers and ammunition and food from the four battalions of Yingzhou Town Guard, left and right, left Yingzhouao, and crossed the sea to the north.

Along the way, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde and others led a huge fleet of ships, successively stopping at coastal ports such as Busan, Hae-nyeong, Gangneung, and Wonsan in southern Korea to replenish supplies, and brought the North Korean sailors who were ordered to follow the north on the coast of Gangneung.

The Korean sailors quickly decayed and declined after the end of the Wanli Anti-Japanese War, and by this time, there were not many ships and sailors left.

This time, in order to show their obedience to the Ming Dynasty and the strength of their own country, the Korean lord Li Ju and the leader of the council, Yin Fang, insisted on recruiting more than 200 large and small fishing boats from fishermen along the coast of Gangwon Province in North Korea.

When Chu Xianzhang and Mao Wenlong met with Yin Fang, the leader of the DPRK on Ganghwa Island, they did not make it clear to him that the sailors of the Ming army wanted to bypass the Korean Peninsula and copy the back road of Jianyu, but Yin Fang, the leader of the DPRK, was not a good man, on the contrary, he was a smart man who was very good at playing with power tricks and all kinds of conspiracies.

The meaning of the Ming officials not telling him the truth, he understood, was just for the sake of secrecy.

But it couldn't stop him from consolidating his power and authority, and he urgently needed to follow the Ming army to fight and make some achievements.

So, after some transfers, Won Doo-pyo became the general of the Korean unification army this time, and at the same time collected a large number of fishing boats and waited for the arrival of the Damyeong Navy Division and the army at the seaport of Gangwon Province.

In this way, at the beginning of October, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde and others led the fleet of the Daming Naval Division, rested for several days in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, North Korea, and after meeting the Korean army led by Yuan Doubi, they continued to go north along the coast of northern Korea.

At noon on October 14, they arrived at Yuanshan, the garrison of the General Military Office on the right road of Dongjiang Town, and continued to the north after resting and replenishing food and water.

Ten days later, in the early morning of 24 October, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde, and others, who had been dormant on Yingzhou Island for a year, led a fleet of 388 large and small ships from Dongjiang Town of the Ming Dynasty and the vassal state of Korea, and suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Tumen River after nearly a month of continuous sea voyages!

It is said that it appeared suddenly, of course, for the Valkha Beyler or the Uliang Hawanhu Buzhantai and their generals.

For them, the sea to the east is vast and unfathomable.

Except for the occasional fishing boats of the Koreans who venture to fish along the coast, they have been stationed here for a long time, but there has never been a fleet from any other country that can appear in this place!

Not to mention the fleet of the Daming Sailors flying with huge dragon flying phoenix dancing military flags!

At this time, the north is cold, and there is already floating ice on the Tumen River, but because of the proximity to the sea, the ice on the Tumen River is not frozen solid.

There is no way for the Fufu boats in Donggang Town to sail into the estuary, but a large number of small boats, especially the North Korean offshore fishing boats, can.

Under the defenselessness and surprise of Beyleb Zhantai of the Varkha Department, before the evening of the same day, the Jianyu cities near the mouth of the Douman River and along the coast were destroyed one after another.

In the evening of the same day, with Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde, Yuan Doubi and others who had a foothold in the place of survival, the sailor ship anchored in the sea outside the mouth of the Douman River, and then led the whole army ashore.

Subsequently, Chen Jisheng led Bi Denghan's subordinates, as well as the pirate leaders Chen Xiasheng and Lin Chuanfu, who were entrenched in Seogwipo and Yingzhou Ao, into the coastal Qingxing City.

And Ling Kong Youde led the headquarters and others to stationed in Wencheng, not far from the south bank of the Douman River.

Yuan Dou Pyo, deputy marshal of the North Korean soldiers and horses, and the Yingzhou town guard Luo Shouzhong Department, stationed in Douman City, not far from the north bank.

The next day, Chen Jisheng, Kong Youde, and Yuan Doubi left some of their men and horses to defend the city, and then led three people and horses all the way west to the hinterland of the back road of the Varkha Department, and went straight to the base camp of the Varkha Department.

These three groups of men and horses do not attack the city or the land, and they specialize in burning, killing and looting.

In just a few days, the rear of the Varkha tribe Beyleb Zhantai was thrown into chaos, and the messengers from the various walled cities asking Beleb Zhantai to return to the division for rescue sent wave after wave.

And Buzhan Tai was also shocked when he heard the news, he knew exactly how empty the rear forces of the Varkha Department were.

Because all the Ding Zhuang who could fight in armor in the Varkha Department were requisitioned by him and deployed in the area of Odori City and Mirror City.

Most of the remaining people left behind in the mountain towns and villages of the Varkha Department were old and weak, women and children, and in the face of the sudden attack of the Ming army, these people who stayed behind had little resistance at all.

However, it is precisely those old and weak who stayed in the rear that are the root of the Varkha tribe or the Uliangha Mongols who surrendered to the Jurchens back then!

Without these people, would he, a non-Jurchen Varkhabele, still have his current status in the Jurchen Dajin Kingdom?

Therefore, Buzhantai, who was in the city of Odori (Huining), while asking people to quickly report to Zhenjiang Fort for help, did not wait for any instructions from the owner of the blue flag, Zilharang, and left the general Bu Jie Dai to guard the city of Odori, and then personally led 3,000 men and horses to cross the Douman River to the west, and returned to the army to rescue his heartland, Varka City (that is, near Yanji in the later generations).