The battle ended in unimaginable ways when the detachment of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies attacked the Qing court's supply and transit center at Lushunkou from the Japanese Goto Islands. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Ming fleet was divided into two, one shelling the port and the other landing on the shoals two miles outside Fort Arthur.

However, the defenders did not give this Ming fleet, which had traveled thousands of miles, even the slightest possibility of forming a flanking attack on Fort Arthur. When the landing force was still nervously waiting for the assembly of troops, the fleet that had been shelled for two rounds found that the defenders were so frightened that they did not even have the courage to hold the port.

There is a way to hear the enemy and flee for the brave, to see the enemy and flee for the brave, to meet the enemy and break for the brave, this performance of the defenders can be regarded as the brave, but the appearance of the escape, it is estimated that the Ming army came too suddenly, otherwise, the courage is not good to be regarded as too reputational.

Seeing this, Zhao Qian also observed the movement on the fort wall for a moment, and sent this fleet of sailors to land with the small number of infantry, but the port was completely bloodless, and even the fort wall was taken down in one go, and the defenders did not even have the courage to fight.

By the time the landing force outside the city was ready and rushed towards Fort Arthur in formation, they saw the city gate wide open, a large number of Qing cavalry fleeing, and the Ming sailors in the fortress chasing them on their feet......

"This is the Mongolian Eight Banners of the Tartars?"

The cavalry was chased by the sailors on the land, and this kind of scene really stunned Zheng Qi, and what was even worse was that according to the prisoners' reports, these defenders were all the Eight Banners Army of the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the military general headed by them was Niu Lu Ezhen of the Mongolian Eight Banners Niu Lu.

"It's indeed the Mongolian Eight Banners, but it's not the one that Lushun was originally stationed in, but it was transferred from Haizhou a few months ago, and our intelligence is lagging behind."

For Liaodong, the Manchu Qing Dynasty left one or several Niulu's Eight Banner Army stationed in each key city, and the situation in the pass became more and more unfavorable.

The original Eight Banners Army in Haizhou had been transferred to the Guannai as early as after Jierharang died in Jiangnan, but the Niulu who had just escaped was a new Niulu composed of the remnants of the soldiers who fled from Nanjing and the Mongols who had recently arrived from Monan. Once he heard the word Haizhou, Zheng Qi's incomprehension was also explained.

"But this is a good thing, the number of the Eight Banners Army of the Tartars is constantly recovering, but in terms of quality, it is not so easy to return to the way it used to be. What's more, looking at today, our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wangshi are also famous, and the situation that every city and place had to be won by hard fighting like in eastern Zhejiang back then should not appear, at least not all. ”

Compared with the officers under his command, Zhao Qian came down from Dalan Mountain, which can be called a must in every battle, and every growth of this army at every time is in the eyes, and now with such a situation, he is happy in his heart.

Lushunkou was the most important naval base in the north in later generations, and the battles around it often determined the situation in southern Liaoning and the entire Bohai Rim region.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was the station of the Left Association of Dongjiang Town, the strategic core of the Ming army in southern Liaoning, and the two sides fought for it. However, after the decline of the Dongjiang army, the opponents at sea disappeared, and it became dispensable here, until Chen Wen recovered Jiangnan and the Qing army was forced to destroy Korea, and North Korea's taxes and grain had to be transported to Beijing in large quantities.

The Mongolian Eight Banners of this Niu Lu have fled north, and if nothing else, the Eight Banners Army of the Southern Fourth Guard of the Golden Cover Sea will also enter a state of emergency alert. It is uncertain whether the Qing army will send a large army to recapture Lushun, but Lushunkou is the base of this northbound detachment in the next year or two, and the repair and rearmament work must be carried out as quickly as possible.

"Gather the Han Chinese and Korean craftsmen in the city separately, and let Ono Ichiro take care of those Japanese craftsmen, and unload all those machines from the ship. I saw this Fort Arthur with my own eyes today, and I want to sort it out as soon as possible, and tomorrow I must start the renovation work. Ladies and gentlemen, there won't be much time left for us. ”

"The last general will obey!"

Occupying Lushun and holding the entrance to the Bohai Sea, the navy's fleet could cut off the route of the Qing army from Korea to Tianjin. If the shipping route ceased to exist, the Qing court's finances would be under greater pressure, especially in terms of food, without the sea route, if the land route was used, the loss along the way alone would be enough for the Qing court, and it was more likely to cause a worse chain reaction.

"Zhao Shuai, the great marshal came out this time, our amazing army, the Tartars would never have thought of it."

Hearing this, Zhao Qian nodded, and then replied: "Ben Shuai remembers that the Great Shuai once said that the Tartars are fishing and hunting barbarians after all, and they lack sufficient understanding of the importance of sea routes. Otherwise, the Dongjiang Army would not have tortured the Tartars along the coast for so many years, and it would not have been possible for the king of Yanping County a few years ago to set off directly from Fujian, sail for more than a month, and kill directly from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Nanjing. ”

Compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang actually developed and grew up in the earliest years in the inland areas of Zhejiang by winning the anti-encirclement and suppression again and again, and even until the four provincial capitals were broken and Ma Xin and Hu Lai led the troops anyway, it was regarded as having an outlet to the sea.

At that time, the sailors of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, not to mention that they were compared with the Ming army in Fujian, even compared with the Qing army, were at the pediatric level, thinking about it back then, how would they have thought that now they could borrow Japan as a springboard to achieve the feat of seizing the important land in southern Liaoning and piercing a fish bone in the throat of the Qing court.

"That's true, a Tartar is a Tartar after all, how can you understand the importance of the navy."

The Qing court was well aware of the importance of Lushun, so it transferred a Eight Banners Army from Haizhou to assist in the defense. But they could not have imagined that the Ming army would come to such a hand, and the auxiliary defense force was not so much to guard against the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but to deter the large number of Korean coolies in Arthur City.

The capture of Lushun in World War I was an extremely important experience for Zheng Qi, who had fought some coastal pirates at most. Before departure, Chen Wen ordered that after receiving Lushun, Zhao Qian was automatically appointed as the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of southern Liaoning, as the commander of this partial division, and he and Li Huixiang were in charge of the fleet and the army respectively.

Of course, compared with this battalion of the army, the next task of the fleet is not light at all, not only to escort them here, but more importantly, they will also undertake the heavy task of patrolling the sea routes and attacking the grain ships of the Qing army, which is one of the most important tasks of their march this time.

"The last general is going to inspect the ship."

"Don't forget the Tartar ships in the harbor."

"The last will understand."

Zheng Qi left in a hurry, and the officers at all levels below were also methodically doing the things that should be done after recovering the city according to the plan. Zhao Qian gave the order, but did not wait for the execution of the order, but directly led the staff officers to climb the fort wall and look down on the entire Fort Arthur area.

"The harbor needs to be fortified, and the Tartars are amateurs, and we can't be like them."

"And here and there, ask the captives what their names are, but if you build a fort there, you can use the horns of the fortress."

A few staff officers began to carry out simple surveying and mapping with pen and paper and a number of tools, and had a general understanding that it would be possible to carry out more accurate surveying and mapping tomorrow. When they have a map and a sand table, they will be able to know this area well and make better use of the advantages of geographical advantages, which is what they have taught in the first lesson when they enter the General Staff Division.

From the perspective of an engineer, where to set up a trench, where to build a low wall, where to build a fort, and even where to build a small fortress to form an angle with Fort Arthur, all of which he had in his mind.

After carefully observing for a long time, Zhao Qian had a rough plan, and the specific things had to wait for the accurate surveying and mapping results, maps and sand tables to be manufactured before starting comprehensive construction.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qian suddenly remembered that he should also ask for the opinions of Zheng Qi and Li Huixiang, Zheng Qi went to inspect the ship, and when he finished the inspection, he would come to report. Then the rest is Li returning to his hometown.

"What about Li Yingguan?"

"Back to Zhao Shuai's words, Li Yingguan is organizing the defense of the fortress."

A battalion leader's troops, they will be used as the garrison of the fortress and the advance force harassing the southern Liaoning region, so Li Huixiang, an officer from the cavalry, will be sent as the battalion officer. With the command of the herald, Zhao Qian also saw that the troops were taking over the defense of the fortress step by step.

It was not until a long time later that all the troops entered the various points of the fort, and the scouts were scattered to monitor the area on the left. After finishing the work, Li Huixiang knelt on the ground and shouted loudly in the direction of his parents' graves in Zhejiang: "Father, mother, my son has returned to Liaodong." When Wang Shi recovers Liaodong, the child will definitely let your second elder return to his hometown and return to the ancestral tomb of our Li family! ”

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"How is this possible?!"

Lushun was lost, and the Niu Lu of the Mongolian Eight Banners ran back to Haizhou directly, and after returning to Haizhou, the Mongolian Niu Lu Zhang Jing, who had escaped from the south of the Yangtze River, was shocked for a while, and then sent an urgent document to the Qing court.

In the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, the magnates of the Eight Banners and the important ministers of the court listened to this ancient anecdote dumbfounded. The sailors of the Ming army suddenly appeared at the mouth of Arthur from somewhere, and the sea ships that covered the sky and the sun were bombarding Port Arthur while still being able to organize thousands of troops to land around the remaining strength. And they also went through hard battles to successfully break through with difficulty, in order to report the important military information of the Ming army in southern Liaoning to the emperor and the masters as soon as possible.

"The sea ship that also covers the sky and the sun, went to Jiangnan, and Hasato, a dog minion, has learned to use idioms."

After listening to the chapter, Ji Dudang, who has the most military experience among the princes, let out a contemptuous laugh, and then said to Shunzhi: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that although Liaonan is a choke point in my Qing Dynasty, occupying Lushun can threaten the shipping route between Tianjin and the northern and southern provinces of Goryeo, but it is also unrealistic for the Zhejiang bandit army to attack. Not to mention anything else, Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, and the larger the scale of the Zhejiang bandits, the more difficult it is to supply, if there are really so many Zhejiang bandits, I am afraid that they will be starved to death in a few months, Chen Wei will never be so stupid! ”

Jidu's father, Prince Zheng Jierharang, was Chen Wen's defeated general, and Jidu would never believe that Chen Wen would do such a thing that violated military common sense. In his opinion, it should be a successful surprise attack by a Ming army, and the Lushun defenders were caught off guard and fled out of the city, especially when he thought that Niu Lu Zhangjing originally fled back to Jiangbei from Jiangnan, this understanding was even more convinced by him.

At this moment, after listening to Jidu's speech, all the nobles and important ministers present nodded in agreement.

The reasonableness of the analysis is basically the only reasonable explanation. The status of Lushun was substantially enhanced with the destruction of Korea, and the status of a transshipment center and a water supply center allowed the Manchus to concentrate a large number of Han Chinese and Korean coolies to maintain the operation of the port.

On the other hand, the army had no less than four cattle at the most. However, as the possibility of harassment was constantly ignored, the number of Niu Lu continued to shrink, and when Wu Sangui's rebellion was quelled and the new army was expanded, Lushun's original Niu Lu was even more emptied, but the new Niu Lu formed by Haizhou with defeated soldiers and new herdsmen was transferred to such an important place as the only garrison.

"Your Majesty, we have indeed ignored the shipping capacity of the Zhejiang bandits. Chen Yi now dominates the southern half of the Yangtze River, and has the resources to expand his army. The speed and scale of the construction of seagoing ships may not be comparable to even the pirates now. But being able to float thousands of miles into the sea is indeed very human. ”

"Tunqi, if you have the kung fu to grow others here, you might as well find a way to get rid of those Zhejiang bandits, we can't let this fish bone always get stuck in the throat, the current importance of North Korea's taxes and food, there shouldn't be any need for this prince to say more."

After the success of the counterinsurgency, the merits were offset by the demerits, and Fu Shou looked at the four commanders and deputy commanders of the counterinsurgency, Jidu, Tunqi, Aobai and Liu Cheng, who were particularly unpleasant. The relatives and nobles present also understood what was going on, but Tun Qi didn't take it to heart, so he just gave a smile and didn't say anything.

"The problem of the slave in Hasatona, I don't have time to pay attention to him for the time being, let him make meritorious contributions in southern Liaoning first, and talk about it later. The top priority now is to try to recapture Lushun, otherwise it will be next year's summer tax, and even the rest of this year's autumn tax will not be able to be shipped. ”