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Doguang 29, June 23, early morning, Seoul.

The officers and men of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Yellow Banner were gathered at the gates of several rice warehouses under the management of the Korean Xuanhui Office, and the soldiers were holding foreign guns with bayonets and uniforms waiting around the large warehouse of the Xuanhui Hall, strictly prohibiting all idle people from approaching. The bayonet sparkled brightly in the June sun, dazzling. Seonhyejeon Hall is near Changdeokgung Palace, and from the gatehouse of Changdeokgung Palace, you can see the scene clearly from the top of the gatehouse of Changdeokgung Palace.

Prince Gong Yixin and Joseon King Yi Yuying were on top of the gatehouse in front of Changdeokgung Palace, holding binoculars to observe the situation here. Prince Gong's face was expressionless, while Li Yuying's face was so painful that he couldn't speak.

Under the watchful eye of Prince Gong's personal soldiers, the Manchurian Yellow Banner New Army, a large number of people dressed in Korean national costumes were driving mules and horses to carry out bags and bags of white rice from the rice warehouses, which had been expropriated by high-pressure means from all over Korea, where the Korean Peninsula was mostly mountainous and grain production was already insufficient. These rice grains can be said to have been dug out of the mouths of North Korean farmers! There is probably already a shortage of food in all parts of North Korea, right?

In addition to the white rice stored in the Xuanhui Hall, the gold, silver, antiques, pearls, jade, calligraphy and paintings, precious stones and even copper coins in the inner collection workshop have all been removed by the army of the Qing Dynasty and transported to the north in large carts! If Li Yuying didn't guess wrong, these savings of the Korean Kingdom for hundreds of years would probably be transported to the treasury of Shengjing, right? This Qing Dynasty's looting methods are really powerful!

Moreover, it was not only rice grain and property that were plundered from Korea by the Qing Dynasty, but also living people and living Korean people! The whole of Seoul is close to the left. Young and strong men and women were forcibly conscripted. A team is formed into a team. Carrying the little belongings and food on his back, he walked north under the custody of the Qing army! Of course, there are also people who voluntarily went north, these people are the so-called Eight Banners of Korea, and all the men have shaved their heads. He wore the braids of the so-called "money rat tail" and flaunted his might behind the butt of the Eight Banners of Manchuria - the Eight Banners of Korea no longer belonged to Korea, but to the Eight Banners, they were the servants of the Qing Emperor, and there were good fields in Manchuria to distribute. There may also be ordinary peasants who were taken from Korea and given them slavery.

The current Northern Qing Dynasty seems to have found the feeling of the ancestors entering the customs and looting 200 years ago in the Koreans, which is probably cheering up, right? I don't know if Lu Dao can be murderous on the Han people again?

However, looking at the edict issued by Prince Gong to coerce Li Yuying to move the capital to Pyongyang, we know that the children of the Eight Banners of Lu Dao have not yet cheered up enough to compete with the Han army. You must know that the great emperor of Ludao has only arrived in Mujin County now, and the 10th Army under the command of Li Hongzhang, the governor of North Korea and the governor of Jilin, has just arrived in Chungcheong-do, and it is still more than 200 miles away from Seoul Province!

Li Yuying couldn't help but think of a joke about the Qing soldiers brought back from the Qing State by the tribute envoy: those who flee when they see thieves are brave, those who flee by looking at the wind are brave, and those who mishear the news and flee are brave.

It seems that Prince Gong, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, turned out to be quite brave.

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At the same time.

Dozens of small sampans pierced through the mist on the sea in the early morning and slammed against the tidal flats of Huludao in Jinzhou Prefecture.

Before the sampan could stop, the full Ming officers and soldiers had already jumped down. The first lieutenant of the Ming Army. In one hand he held a six-shot Colt pistol, and in the other he brandished a command knife. shouted loudly: "I, Zhang Wenxiang, am the first to set foot in Liaotu, and this battle will be able to make immortal achievements and go down in history!" ”

Zhang Wenxiang, the lieutenant and company commander of the first company of the 32nd battalion of the 11th regiment of the fourth division of the fourth division of the Ming Army, was wading through the knee-high sea water and rushing forward. On the sea behind him, the figure of the Ming naval fleet that launched this landing operation was already clearly recognizable. The fourth, fifth, and sixth class Western warships were already riveted and ready to stand, and all the gun doors on the side near the coast were opened, and the black holes of the cannons were pointed directly at the coast. A troop transport fleet of hundreds of boats and sand boats was as close to the beach as possible, and large numbers of soldiers climbed down the rope nets, went up to various dinghys, and then rowed hard to the beachhead.

On the sea, there is not a single ship or ship in the Qing Dynasty, and there is no figure of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry on the beachhead, and even the ordinary Eight Banners people are not seen, it seems that this Jinzhou Mansion is a no-man's land at all.

However, from the telescope of Major General Peng Yulin, the chief officer of Liaodong Town of Daming standing on the back deck of the Lanfang, it can still be seen that there are still many traces of inhabitation. At a distance from the tidal flats, there are large expanses of green crops growing, and there is a complex of buildings surrounded by earthen walls, and it is not known whether the road is a military camp or a residential area. Maybe in Manchuria, there is no difference between the two at all, right? I don't know how many Eight Banners soldiers are in Lu Dao? Are there any cavalry?

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! There are warships that are rebellious, let go of the wolf smoke quickly......"

At the same time, the Eight Banners military village that Peng Yulin saw had become a mess, and this military village was built in the 28th and 29th years of Daoguang, which was to prevent Zhu Mingshui's division from attacking from the sea. However, when this military fortress was built, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have enough 10,000 catties of huge artillery available, so they could only move this military village three or four miles away from the beach, so as not to be injured by the Ming naval guns.

Aside from the fact that there was not enough heavy artillery, the defense of the stockade was strong enough. The outermost layer is a dense trap pit, which can not only trap the horse's feet but also trap the horse's legs, but also allow the Ming army's siege equipment not to be easily pushed in front of the camp.

After the horse pit, there is a trench more than one zhang wide and more than one person deep. Behind the trench was a low wall, almost as high as a man's chest, which was used to cover shotspearmen and spearmen to shoot—by the way, now the Shengjing Manufacturing Bureau, which belonged to the Qing Dynasty's foreign affairs yamen, was able to barely produce foreign guns and cast foreign cannons. However, the output is limited, and can only meet the needs of the three flags of the Manchurian Eight Banners, and the blue flag of the five flags of the Manchurian Eight Banners stationed in Jinzhou is stationed. Therefore, the only way to do this is to use shotguns and carry guns.

Behind the low wall, there is an earthen wall that is more than a foot high. There are also several artillery pieces on the earthen wall, all of which are 6-pound cannons made by the Shengjing Manufacturing Bureau in imitation of the 6-pound guns of foreigners.

Fu Kejing'a, the co-leader of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with a blue flag, stood on the watchtower of this village called Ningyuan Qianzhai, looking at the Ming army fleet on the sea in the distance, and his heart was filled with a sense of powerlessness.

There are so many ships of the Ming army! There are at least seventy or eighty large ships, and there should be more than 10,000 troops, right? The current Manchuria Blue Banner under Prince Gong's jurisdiction is the same number - due to the great losses in the Guannei, the number of troops in each of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is only half of the original New Army of the Eight Banners, that is, 12,500. That's it, there are still vacancies. These 12,500 people are still divided into 5 associations plus a little direct force, so the strength of each association is only about 2,000. Fukejing's association is no exception, there are only about 1,800 people in the full game, of which the youngest is only 13 years old, and the old ones are more than 60. It's sad to watch!

"If you can't beat it, Lord Co-Leader, there are too many Ming rebellions, if we can't beat it, let's withdraw......" A fellow acquaintance in Ningyuan Prefecture, a civil official of the Han Army with a blue flag named Lu Zhaoqi, came to Fu Kejing's side at this time, and reminded in a low voice.

This surname Lu is a native of Guangdong, born in Jinshi, and it turned out that he was not a Han military banner but a Han person. Because he had a grudge against Zhu Ming for killing his father, he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty and followed Prince Gong from Beijing all the way to Guanwai. He carried the Han army flag with the Han people who came out together, and became an official of the same knowledge. Now there are very few officials in Manchuria, and it is really not easy for a Han army banner man to get a common acquaintance. However, the people in this territory under the jurisdiction of Tongzhi are really pitiful, but this Han army banner person under the jurisdiction of Ningyuan Qianzhai. In the current Manchuria, the status of the Han military flag is of course the lowest, and it is not a combination of military and civilian, and it does not even have the power to be a soldier of the Eight Banners, but only a civilian in charge of production. Therefore, even the officials with the Han military flag are inferior, and they are called by the masters of the Manbaqi and the Mengbaqi who are inferior to them, as if they are subordinates.

Fu Kejing glared at Lu Zhaoqi with eyes that could not afford to look down on people: "What to withdraw!" Lao Tzu withdrew all the way from Beijing to Guanwai, he has withdrawn enough, and now he is guarding the land of his ancestors, so he can't withdraw anymore! (To be continued......)