On the other side of the Wei River, Yu Qi's subordinates reported to him after exploring the depth of the water: "The big boss, the river is too deep, we can't force it to cross, only the wood is discharged!" ”

"His grandmother's, then what are you delaying, take someone to tie up the row immediately!"

Yu Qi, who is nearly fifty years old, is still the fiery personality of the big man in the rivers and lakes, and after his subordinates took people to cut down trees and tie up the rows, he turned around and said to the man next to him with some guilt: "Brother Wei, I would have listened to you if I knew it, alas, I blame me for being impatient and insisting on this road, otherwise, we will be afraid that we will be able to kill the head of Weixian County." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"You can't blame my brother, who would have thought that the water of the Wei River would rise in advance, people are not as good as heaven, brother doesn't have to take it to heart. The boat is naturally straight to the bridge, and the Weihe River can't stop us. ”

The man who spoke was Wei Dalong, the general of the Marine Corps of the Taiping Army's Water and Sea Division, who was originally from the Zhejiang Army and was deeply respected by Zhang Huang of the Ministry of War. When the East China Sea Division formed the Marine Corps, it was Zhou Shixiang who personally appointed Wei Dalong as the commander of the Marine Corps.

There are two towns in the Marine Corps, and most of the soldiers in Wei Dalong are former Zhejiang soldiers. The other town is based on Zheng Jun's original ironclad soldiers and rattan knife soldiers as the backbone, and the town will be Gan Hui, a famous general of Zheng Jun and a prisoner in Nanjing. Now Wei Dalong led his troops under the command of Zheng Mingjun in Laizhou, and Gan Hui led his troops north with the main force.

After the East China Sea Division occupied the Laizhou Water Camp, it contacted and supported the Seventh Righteous Army according to the order of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and provided money, food, and ordnance personnel to help. Wei Dalong was in charge of this matter, because he admired Yu Qi as a person, and he also had a green forest temperament, Wei Dalong simply bowed to Yu Qi.

Yu Qi felt guilty, Wei Dalong naturally couldn't say anything, and now in this situation, he still regretted it in his heart. Yu Qi was too stubborn, accustomed to being the leader, easily unable to listen to other people's opinions, and bent on showing himself in front of the Taiping army, which led to the failure of the surprise attack, so that the soldiers of the Wei River wasted the precious time of the Marine Corps fighting for the precious raid on Wei County for the righteous army. If the North Korean soldiers in Weixian County ran away because of this, Wei Dalong really didn't know how to go back and confess.

This time, the East China Sea Division sent all the marines to cooperate with the action of the Seventh Righteous Army, and in one fell swoop surrounded and annihilated the arrogant and lone Qing Army's Nima Creek Division, the purpose was not really to help the Seventh Righteous Army to attack Qingzhou, but to come to the 5,000 Korean troops in Weixian.

As soon as the North Korean soldiers entered Shanhaiguan, the news of the Military Intelligence Department had already been sent to Laizhou and quickly spread to Jiangnan. After learning that the Korean State sent 5,000 troops to help the Qing Dynasty seek the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang was overjoyed, as if someone had sent a pillow when he was sleepy.

The key node of the northward extermination strategy is that the Taiping army can obtain food and grass supplements from Korea, so that it can carry out large-scale military operations in Liaodong, block the road out of the Eight Banners of Manchukuo in Beijing, and finally complete the goal of completely eliminating the Manchus.

Although North Korea has sent troops to help the Qing Dynasty attack the Ming Dynasty many times, it is because North Korea is unable to protect itself, and it is the result of being forced by the Manchu Qing to continuously attack the capital.

As the suzerainty of North Korea, the Ming Dynasty failed to protect North Korea, so naturally it was impossible to morally accuse North Korea of betraying the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not have much accusation against North Korea for helping the Qing Dynasty, but was very guilty.

Under these circumstances, Zhou Shixiang wanted to make Korea the goal of the first battle, so that Korea, like Annan, would achieve the goal he had always emphasized -- to feed our soldiers with the blood of other people, and naturally urgently needed a reason that could be accepted at home.

North Korea helped the Qing Dynasty to defeat the Ming Dynasty and sent troops into the customs, which was undoubtedly the best excuse for Zhou Shixiang to send troops, so that attacking North Korea occupied the moral high ground.

Zhou Shixiang urgently ordered the East China Sea Division to surround the Korean soldiers who arrived in Shandong no matter what, and at the same time to destroy them and capture a certain number of Korean soldiers, so as to provide detailed Korean domestic information for the upcoming attack on Korea, and to make these Korean prisoners become the vanguard of the attack on Korea, so as to control the DPRK with the Korean people. After all, the main purpose of the Taiping army's attack on Korea was to obtain money and food supplements, not to occupy Korea, so the number of troops was undoubtedly far from enough, and Zhou Shixiang did not have this time.

As long as the Manchus knew that the Taiping army appeared in their hometown, and the fool also knew what the thief Xiucai was going to do, that would mean that Zhou Shixiang's plan to exterminate the clan and take revenge failed.

The use of troops in the DPRK must be swift, not seeking its own territory, but only its food, and this depends on having detailed intelligence on all aspects of the DPRK's domestic forces and knowing who are the allies with whom they can cooperate and who are the enemies who must be attacked. At the same time, it is also necessary to have the reputation of the North Koreans for the Taiping Army as "brutal", after all, North Korea has been a subject of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and there is the grace of the Ming Army to save the country during the Wanli period, and most people in the country are still grateful to the Ming Dynasty, so they cannot treat North Korea and Annam the same, and must adopt the means of war and appeasement.

Zhou Shixiang's order can make the East China Sea division very worried, Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew did not know how to complete the important tasks assigned by His Royal Highness King Qi, and finally Feng Xifan formulated a set of feasible plans, suggesting that the elite of the Marine Corps should be boldly sent to the interior of Shandong, contact Yu Qiyi Division for strategic cooperation, and surprise attack Wei County, Qingzhou Prefecture, where the North Korean army was stationed, and take Wei County in one fell swoop before most of the Qing army in Shandong did not react.

Zheng Mingjun approved the battle plan and asked Feng Xifan to make specific arrangements. This time, Zheng Mingjun learned the lesson of reporting to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the past, which resulted in the reprimand of the King of Qi, so at the same time as the report, the marines began to act.

In the battle of encircling and annihilating Nima Creek, the elite of the Marine Corps disguised as Yu Yu Righteous Army bravely assaulted and successfully cut off the retreat of the Qing army in Nima Creek. Yu Qi, who was anxious for revenge, was also ruthlessly determined, regardless of casualties, stormed the Qing army, and finally annihilated the Nima River at the cost of more than 2,000 casualties of the righteous army and more than 300 soldiers killed by the marines of the Marine Division. And before the news spread, the Marine Corps and the elite men and horses drawn by Yu Qi attacked Wei County, preparing to take the Qing army in Wei County by surprise. But no one thought that a Wei River would make the raid plan go to naught, and nearly 10,000 horses were forced to stop on the other side of Wei County.

Yu Qi knew that his mistake was too big, and he was very bitter in his heart. Previously, Wei Dalong suggested that he send his family to Laizhou Shuiying, but he refused, but the Taiping army did not snub him because of this, and still continued to unconditionally support him with money, food, and ordnance.

In this situation, Yu Qi had no good way but to attack, and he said to Wei Dalong: "Brother Wei, I will let my sons take the lead and let your people take a breath." ”

"I listen to my eldest brother's arrangement."

Wei Dalong did not fight with Yu Qi, even if he knew that the rebels under Yu Qi were actually a rabble, and the only elite who could fight was only the more than 1,000 people who the Taiping Army helped train, and the others were either the green forest heroes of Shandong, or the people from all over the country who defected to Yu Qi.

These people have good anti-Qing aspirations, and they all want to kill the Tartars, but they are not regular troops, and military discipline and military orders are poor. In the battle of encircling and annihilating Nimaxi, if it weren't for the hard work of the marines, I was afraid that Yu Qi's Chinese army would be able to disperse hundreds of people from the other side.

Wei Dalong thought that it would be okay to let Yu Qi's people explore the bottom of Wei County first to see if the North Koreans' shotguns were really as capable as the legend suggested.