It took eight days for the Manchu army to cross the Zhenjiang (Dandong) Bridge, which was actually just a pontoon bridge that was built during the last Jin attack on Korea, and the bridge during the Jin Dynasty had long since been destroyed.

The last time North Korea relented, Houjin also withdrew, and North Korea did not dare to dismantle the pontoon bridge. At that time, Amin wanted to establish himself as king in Korea, but when he returned, he was imprisoned by Hwang Tae-gil.

This time, Hwang Tae-gil attacked Korea again, not only to plunder enough population, but also to completely solve the troubles of Phi Dao, but also to make the Korean king completely surrender.

When Huangtaiji was proclaimed emperor, the Korean envoys stood but did not kneel, and the officials of the Qing Dynasty knelt according to him, and the two sides tore apart, but still did not give in. After the ceremony, Huang Taiji was furious, believing that this was a manifestation of Korea's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and disobedience to the Qing Dynasty.

This is also one of the reasons why Hwang Tae-gil attacked North Korea.

If Huang Taiji had not thought about Phi Dao before, the Manchu Qing had tried to fight at sea, but was killed by the Ming navy and lost his armor. But Kong Youde's surrender allowed them to get a large number of warships.

As long as the troubles of Phi Dao are solved, they can completely withdraw their hands and feet to attack the Ming Kingdom.

Dolgon as a striker, after crossing the Yalu River, directly to Uiju (New Uiju), North Korea due to the invasion of the Ten Thousand Years, to this day has not recovered, simply unable to resist the attack of the Manchus, the Uiju defenders heard that the Qing troops were attacking, hurriedly abandoned the city and fled, did not dare to have any resistance.

Dolgon captured Yizhou without much effort, and then pounced on Xuanzhou, and in less than three days, he went down to Tieshan, and then went south to attack Xuanzhou...... Dingzhou ...... Along the way, Dolgon attacked the city and fought extremely smoothly. North Korea's military strength is already weak, and North Korea does not have the fortifications that the Ming Dynasty has built up over 200 years, where can it resist the Manchu army?

On the 8th day of the second lunar month, Dolgon captured Pyongyang, and the Joseon king Yi Kui sent his wife, children, and important ministers to Ganghwa Island, and fled to Namhansanseong Fortress himself. When the Qing army heard the news, they rushed to attack, and Huangtaiji also led his army to camp in Namhansanseong.

The Korean army came to the rescue, but was defeated by the Qing army, and Huangtaiji sent Dolgon to cross the sea to Ganghwa Island by boat, and captured the princesses, children, and ministers of the Korean king, and Dolgon treated them with courtesy.

At the beginning of March of the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), Huang Taiji issued an ultimatum to Li Liang, demanding that Korea surrender. Li Liang was trapped inside and outside, and decided to surrender. The conditions were: to serve the Qing Dynasty, pay tribute to the Qing Emperor, and the eldest son to stay in Shenyang as a hostage. Therefore, Huang Taiji set up an altar in Sanjeondu, on the east bank of the Han River in Seoul, and held a surrender ceremony to establish the "alliance of kings and ministers" between the Qing Dynasty and Korea.

On the tenth day of the first month of March, Huangtai Ji was in charge, and Li Liang led his ministers out of Wangjing for ten miles to kneel and send. Then let people set up the "Santiandu Monument" in the mountain city of Nanhan, the front of the inscription is engraved with seven big characters in Chinese "Great Qing Emperor Merit Tablet", and the inscription is engraved in Chinese and Manchu in Yin.

After the Han annihilated Kong Youde, Shang Youxi, Geng Zhongming and others arrived at Tieshan with their baggage troops, they stopped their southward advance, and instead threw the water army to plan to attack Phi Dao. The Ming army on Phi Island was unstable at this time.

In order to save financial expenditure, Chongzhen cut off the 550,000 taels of military salaries for the officers and soldiers of Phi Island in nine years, and the logistics support of the Ming army was extremely fragile, and the military salaries were deducted layer by layer, and the upper and lower levels were already poor, and then 550,000 taels of military expenses were cut.

Hearing that the Qing soldiers were attacking, the upper and lower parts of Phi Dao were in a state of confusion. After discussion, Du Du, Kong Youde and others decided to immediately launch an attack on Phi Dao.

In mid-February, Chongzhen heard that the Qing troops were attacking the dynasty, and Zhao Yan led the Shandong Navy Division to aid Phi Dao.

Zhao Yan received the holy order, but he did not move. It was not until early March, when the Manchus attacked the mountain city of Nanhan, that the general staff believed that the North Korea could no longer hold out and the Manchus could no longer go deeper, so Zhao Yan ordered the army to march into Liaodong.

The First Fleet was divided into two routes, three warships and ten warships, and was responsible for blockading the Yalu River. The other three warships assisted Li Ran in the ships of the 3rd Battalion of the Shandong Army to land in Zhenjiang.

He also mobilized ten armed merchant ships, plus thirty merchant ships, to send 7,000 men from the first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army to reinforce Phi Dao and annihilate the Manchu Qing Division.

…… On the fourth day of the first month of March, Kong Youde sent a naval division to attack Phi Dao. The first battle was thwarted by the officers and soldiers of Phi Dao, with the loss of hundreds of people. Kong Youde then used the tactics of attacking the east and west, and successfully sent 5,000 people to Phi Dao on the sixth day of the third month.

Shen Shikui, the chief soldier of Phi Island, led the troops to battle, but was defeated, so he left behind more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians and retreated to Shicheng Island. Adjutant General Jin Yueguan did not retreat from the battle to the death, and led the officers and soldiers of Phi Dao to fight fiercely against the Qing army.

The fierce battle lasted for five days and nights, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but this also made Kong Youde and others even more crazy, if they did not win this battle, they would lose their use value, and the Manchus would abandon them mercilessly.

At this time, the officers and soldiers on Phi Island were at the end of their crossbows, and Kong Youde postponed the offensive.

Jin Yueguan led the generals to the top of the city to fight fiercely, fainted on the spot after carrying three arrows, and was framed down by the family, but fortunately did not hit the vital point, and woke up after a while.

"Have Shandong's reinforcements arrived?" Jin Yuguan asked immediately after waking up.

"My lord, our messenger has been dispatched, but reinforcements from Shandong have not yet arrived."

"Damn, they really can't be saved if they want to die." Jin Yueguan spit out a mouthful of blood in a hurry, at this time Phi Dao was besieged by tens of thousands of Han troops and eight banners, and it was already in a desperate situation, but Shandong reinforcements had not arrived for a long time.

In Shandong, except for the good relationship between Yuan Keli and Dongjiang when he was the governor of Denglai, the relationship became worse and worse in the future.

"My lord, let's get out of here! If you don't leave, it's too late. A staff officer said at this time.

"Withdraw a fart, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, it will be guarded by Lao Tzu, maybe...... Reinforcements will arrive. Jin Yueguan was angry, but he still held on to the last glimmer of hope.

"Report, my lord, I don't know what happened in the Qing army camp, and I suddenly made a mess." At this time, a soldier hurriedly ran in to report.

"Quick, help the official to take a look at the city." Jin Yueguan hurriedly said, and the guards on the left and right hurriedly helped him to the top of the city.

From the far distance of the city, the Qing army camp stationed on the beach was in chaos, and many Qing soldiers were running around, but they were quickly quelled.

"What's going on?" Jin Yueguan asked in confusion.

"My lord, look at ......" The general beside Jin Yueguan suddenly pointed to the sea in the distance.

I saw dozens of big black dots emerging on the sea in the distance, cruising on the beach. Suddenly, I saw a rapid whistling sound from the sea in the distance, and then an orange-red light rose, dragging a thick gunpowder smoke, and fell sporadically into the Qing army camp.

That's a rocket!

......In a series of explosions, the Qing army camp was lit with flames everywhere, and the Qing army suddenly exploded, and many Qing soldiers were busy extinguishing the flames in the camp.

However, rockets kept flying on the sea, although the distance was very far and the accuracy was a little worse, but it still caused the Qing army camp to burn fire everywhere.

Under the gaze of the people, a huge fleet of ships flying the moon flag appeared! It was a fleet of forty large ships, slowly heading towards Phi Dao, and before it docked, it kept firing rockets at the Qing army camp by the sea.

"Reinforcements, Shandong's reinforcements have arrived!" The city burst into enthusiastic cheers.

Amid the cheers, the Manchurian Division composed of fifty or sixty warships set out, and the cheers came to an abrupt end. Fifty or sixty warships crashed head-on with the flotilla that had come to support.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the two sides met head-on at sea. Yan Shiliang, who led the fleet to reinforce Phi Dao, ordered the armed merchant ships to open fire, but only to hear the sound of the roaring cannons, several warships of the Manqing Water Division were beaten to the ground and fell apart.

The effect of the artillery bombardment was not very ideal, and there were more warships in the Manchu Dynasty, and it was too troublesome to use cannons. Yan Shiliang immediately ordered the ships to ram, and forty large ships faced the small warships of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, almost like adults and children.

Forty galleons went on a rampage, directly sinking more than a dozen Manchu warships, and the Manchu soldiers who fell into the water struggled in the icy waters, and after a while, they completely stopped.

The soldiers on the galleons continued to fire rockets at the Manchu warships, and some soldiers simply held the rockets in their hands and launched them. After a long period of preparation, the ammunition warehouse in Longkou Port was already full of rockets, and they could be shipped again when they were used up.

The Qing army's naval division does not have an advantage at all in terms of the size of the ship, although there are also some rockets called 'flying swords' and 'flying knives' in terms of firepower, but the lethality is very rubbish, and there are few decent artillery, and the Qing army only has more than 100 Hongyi cannons on land, all of which are very precious, where can they equip the naval division.

In addition to the Hongyi cannon, which is a decent artillery, only the Furlong cannon in the Qing army has a slight threat, but it is almost impossible to sink any galleon with the Furlong cannon, although the rate of fire of the Furlong cannon is faster, but the power is small, even if it is hit by hundreds of shells, it will not sink, but it will cause casualties among Chengren.

The fleet was full of soldiers, and Yan Shiliang naturally did not allow this to happen, so he asked the herald to raise the flag and let the thirty troop carriers enter the downwind position, so as to avoid casualties when they were shelled.

Yan Shiliang, on the other hand, with ten armed merchant ships, was in the upper hand position and attacked the Qing army's naval divisions.

The sound of artillery continues, in addition to sinking, or sinking!

Most of the soldiers of the Qing Army's naval division were soldiers brought by Kong Youde, and the officers and soldiers in the north were not proficient in naval warfare, after all, the sea had been forbidden for many years, and there was no war at sea, so naturally no one studied naval warfare.

Therefore, the Ming official army in the north will only have some superficial naval warfare methods, although the weapons of naval warfare are relatively comprehensive. Such a crude method is naturally no problem to deal with the former Manchu Qingshui Army.

But now the navy used against Shandong will not play any role at all.

As soon as the artillery hit and the ships collided, Kong Youde's sailors were completely confused, and some of the Ming warships and artillery were so sharp that they had no hope of victory, so they turned around and fled in all directions.

Yan Shiliang did not chase either, and spent nearly half an hour to deal with the enemy ships in front of him one by one, and then began to gather the ships, lined up in a neat formation, and sailed towards the port of Phi Dao, which was not far away.

On the port of Phi Dao, the Qing army had long been in battle to prevent the first battalion of the Liaodong Army from landing, but this plan of the Qing army failed again.

I saw that the troop carriers began to approach the wharf, and the ten armed merchant ships launched fire cover after they left, and the shells and rockets exploded in the middle of the Qing army, blowing up the Qing troops on the shore.

After nearly ten minutes of indiscriminate bombardment, the troop carriers approached the pier, where landing was very simple, and the galleons could land directly on the shore, as if they landed in the shallows, which would require a lot of assault boats. Groups of soldiers jumped to the ground with weapons in their hands and quickly formed a defensive line at the pier to cover the comrades behind them to go ashore.

In order to prevent the Qing army from rushing up and disrupting the chaos, the ten armed merchant ships behind began to continue shelling, forcing the Qing army to a safe distance.

The Qing troops on the shore were at a loss, and just as they were waiting for the order of their superiors, they found that Kong Youde had run away.

Kong Youde felt that there was no team when he saw the appearance of the sailing boat, and at this moment only Zhao Yan from Shandong would reinforce Phi Dao.

He and Zhao Yan have a grudge against their father.

The Shandong army was strong and strong, and he had heard of it, so no matter what the situation, after the naval army attacked, he took a warship and fled directly to Tieshan.

He still has 20,000 Han troops in Tieshan, and most of the firearms are in Tieshan, as long as he preserves his strength, he will still have to mix in the future.

"Reinforcements are coming, his grandmother's. Reinforcements really came. "When the officers and soldiers on Phi Dao at the head of the city saw the reinforcements landing, their morale was greatly boosted.

Jin Yueguan was even more excited and shed tears, only to see him ignore his injuries and shout: "Brothers, the reinforcements sent by the imperial court have arrived, and they will go out of the city with me." ”

"Your Excellency, you can't go, you're still injured." The two generals on the side hurriedly dissuaded, "My lord, let the lower officials go!" ”

"Okay, you take 5,000 men and go out of the city to cover and kill the Tartar soldiers!" Only then did Jin Yueguan notice that there were already colors on his body, so he had to let his subordinates go out of the city to cover up.

After five days of fierce fighting, the officers and soldiers in the city suffered heavy casualties, but there were still more than 10,000 people, mainly because the city wall was seriously damaged and could not be defended.

In less than a quarter of an hour, five thousand men were assembled.

"Reinforcements have arrived, everyone rush out of the city with me, and flank the Tartars."

"Kill!"

"Reinforcements have arrived, kill!"

The city wall burst open, more than 5,000 people rushed out, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and when I heard that the reinforcements had arrived, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city was greatly boosted, as if they had been stimulated.

A sense of confidence in victory filled my heart.

On the other hand, the Qing army outside the city watched the defeat of the naval division and fled, and the blow to morale can be imagined.

Swimming across the sea? That's too whimsical, on such a cold day, it doesn't take a stick of incense for time, and the icy sea water can make them completely braided.

Just when they were messing around and didn't know what to do, a message spread that broke them completely.

Kong Youde actually left them and ran away.

In the case of the leaderless and low morale, the first battalion of the Liaodong Army that landed was stunned, only to see that the 5,000 Ming troops who had slaughtered from the city were like tigers entering the flock, rushing left and right in the formation of 20,000 Qing troops, without resistance, and many Qing troops even threw away their weapons and knelt down and begged.

In the final analysis, these Eight Banners of the Han Army are just a team that has just been raised, most of them are new recruits, and most of the elite troops with Kong Youde stay in Tieshan.

The troops formed by these recruits did not have a decisive New Year, let alone how they could resist an army with high morale in such a demoralized situation.

"Kill." You Xuefeng, commander of the first battalion of the infantry of the Liaodong Army, let out a loud roar and led a thousand pikemen who had just landed ashore to pounce.

A chaotic battle has begun!

However, friend and foe are well distinguished, and those Qing soldiers have shaved heads, only a small braid at the back of their heads, which is very small, and can only be considered standard if it can pass through the small hole in the middle of the copper coin.

The soldiers of the first battalion were extremely unfavorable to these Han Eight Banners with pigtails, and if these whip soldiers surrendered slowly, they would cut down with a merciless hand axe.

However, for the Qing soldiers who surrendered decisively, they can't be killed indiscriminately, after all, these are Han soldiers, and according to the explanation of the Education Commission, these people can still be transformed.

When it comes to transformation, everyone's look will be very strange. In Denglai, you can see people who have been transformed everywhere, and the transformation period ranges from half a month to a lifetime, and they are basically pulled to the mine as coolies. These Han Eight Banner soldiers, don't think about it if they don't be transformed for two or three years.

In less than an hour, the battle on the field was over, most of the Qing army was easily captured, a small part was killed, and a small part did not know where to flee to the island, waiting for further clearance.

All the captured Qing soldiers were gathered and then examined one by one.

"Damn, why are there dozens of real captives, what are you fighting in this battle. Battalion commander, why don't we go to Iron Mountain, where there are many Tartars. The soldiers of the first battalion examined the prisoners and were very dissatisfied with the results of the battle, and their battalion commander You Xuefeng instigated.

"There is no order from the military headquarters, so we can't act without authorization, and we will first integrate the officers and soldiers on the island." You Xuefeng said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the battle will not be fought, there are more than 100,000 Tartars in the entire Liaodong, and the Shandong Army will definitely not be busy, and we will have to go into battle in Liaodong at that time." ”

According to the plan, after they reinforced Phi Dao, they first dealt with the Qing army on the island, and then cleaned up the mess on Phi Dao, and then stationed on Phi Dao to stand by.

After a great victory, the soldiers and civilians of Phi Dao rejoiced.

After You Xuefeng entered the city, he immediately discussed with Jin Yueguan, the deputy chief soldier of Phi Dao. When their negotiations were over, Jin Yueguan began to obey You Xuefeng's orders and completely took refuge in Zhao Yan.

At this moment, the Dongjiang Army is already an existence that grandma doesn't love and grandpa doesn't love, and even the military salary has been cut, and the court completely left them to fend for themselves.

The conditions offered by You Xuefeng are very simple, that is, military salary. He promised Jin Yueguan that as long as he defected to the general, the general would pay the Dongjiang Army the full salary.

Jin Yueguan is just a deputy commander-in-chief, and Zhao Yan is a general of Jianwei, of course he knows that he has no conditions to talk about, not to mention that the conditions given by Zhao Yan are really good.

At the same time, the 3rd Battalion of the Shandong Army, under the cover of three warships of the First Fleet, launched a landing battle at an undeveloped natural port (Donggang City) south of Zhenjiang, but the Qing army they faced was not as vulnerable as the Qing army on Phi Dao......

(To be continued)