501.The Second Battle of Korea (1)
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Zheng Kezang, who was far away in Wuchang, did not know about Batavia's birth, so for the purpose of continuing to deter Japan, he officially issued an order for the reorganization of the naval division on February 15 of the fourth year of Wucheng.
According to this order, the Xia Army's naval divisions, except for the Yangtze River Inland Naval Division, the Pearl River Fleet, the Western Naval Division, the Cam Ranh Fleet, and the Mekong River Fleet, were formally organized into four naval divisions: Beiguo, Zhejianghai, Fujian, Taiwan, and Western Ocean.
The Northern Naval Division, which is responsible for patrolling the waters of Japan, Korea, Haidong and Bohai Bay, has the jurisdiction of the First Patrol Fleet, the Third Patrol Fleet, the First Letter Ship Fleet, the First Army Ship Fleet, and the Ezo Detachment.
Among them, the first and third patrol fleets each have three standard cruise ship fleets, and each standard cruise ship fleet has four patrol ships and two letter ships; The First Messenger Fleet also has three standard letter ship sub-fleets, each of which has four letter ships under the standard flotilla; The First Army's ship delivery fleet is organized into four standard army ship delivery fleets, each of which has two mixed-style transport ships of 15,000 material size; The Ezo Detachment is composed of ships drawn from various fleets under the Northern Naval Division, and is responsible for cruising in the North Liao Sea north of the Tsugaru Strait to the vicinity of Kunai Island.
In addition to the part of the fleet, the Northern Naval Division also had three towns, including Jixian, Fujiang, and Ezo, and the Fourth Division of the Longxiang Army.
The establishment of the Xia Army's naval divisions and town guards was similar, generally with a port special fleet with light fast sail letter ships, old-fashioned junks, galleys, small express ships, and various miscellaneous ships including long dragons, and a part of the Fubo Army used to garrison artillery bases, undertake port defense, and maintain the replenishment of various fleets. Of course, the Ezo Prefecture and the Ezo Prefecture are not the same thing, one is the administration of the Mariko Prefecture and the other is the colonial administration, and the two should not be confused.
As for the 4th Division of the Yongxiang Army, it was mainly stationed at Seogwipo Port in Jexian County, Youchuan Port in Fujiang County, Yanyuan Port of the Japanese Tsushima Domain, Haeju Port in Korea, and Nampo Port in North Korea. The garrison of Yanyuan Port was used to deter the local Japanese and support the Tagawa family, who had recently received Tsushima, so it was only half a regiment; Youchuan and Hong Kong only had time to plan the garrison camp, and there were no substantial troops and horses stationed there; The main force of the division, more than two brigades, is still stationed in Haeju and Seogwipo, respectively, to deal with possible crises on all fronts.
The Zhejiang Sea Division, which was responsible for guarding the gateway of the Yangtze River and the Zhoushan and Funing islands and assisting in the defense of the Ryukyus, had under the jurisdiction of the 1st Cruiser Fleet, the 2nd Cruiser Fleet, the 4th Cruiser Fleet, the 2nd Messenger Fleet, the 3rd Army Ship Fleet, the 6th Army Ship Fleet, and the Ryukyu Detachment.
Among them, the first and second cruiser fleets each have three standard cruiser fleets, and each standard cruiser fleet has two cruisers of various types and two letter ships; The Fourth Cruise Fleet has four standard cruise ship subfleets; The second flotilla of the letter ship is composed of three standard flotilla of letter ships; The Third Army's ship-losing fleet consists of three standard sub-fleets; The Sixth Army's ship-losing fleet consists of four standard sub-fleets; The Ryukyu detachment is composed of ships and troops drawn from the above-mentioned units, and is responsible for cruising the entire Ryukyu sea area from Satsuma in the north to Keelung, Dongning, and the new ships built at the Sanduao Shipyard will also be temporarily incorporated into the detachment for sea trials.
In addition to the above-mentioned fleet, the Zhejiang Navy Division also manages the training fleet under the Navy Division. The training fleet of the Navy University Hall includes the letter ship fleet, the junk whaling ship fleet, the offshore transport ship fleet, and the oars rowing fleet, which are mainly responsible for training new naval attachés and some officers and men of the naval division in open waters.
In addition, the Zhejiang Sea Division also subordinates Chongming Town Shoufu, Daqushan Town Shoufu, Sanduao Town Shoufu and the First Division of the Longxiang Army, of which the First Brigade of the First Division of the Longxiang Army is stationed in Ningbo, the Second Brigade is stationed in Jiaxing, the Third Brigade is stationed in Taicang, and the Division Command Department and the regimental outpost directly under the division are stationed in Songjiang.
The 3rd and 4th Cruiser Fleets, the 5th Cruiser Fleet, the 6th Cruiser Fleet, the 4th Letter Fleet, the 2nd Army Fleet, the 4th Army Fleet, and the Labuan Detachment under the Fujian-Taiwan Naval Division, which are responsible for patrolling the coastal areas of Fujian, Dongning, and Chaozhou, as well as the waters of Dongsha, Zhongsha, Nansha, Labuan, and Changdao.
Among them, the 3rd and 4th cruisers, like the 1st and 2nd cruisers, each had three standard cruiser squadrons; The 5th and 6th cruising fleets each have three sub-fleets of standard cruising vessels; The Fourth Messenger Fleet has two standard Messenger Fleets; The Second and Fourth Army Fleets each have jurisdiction over three standard army fleets; The Labuan detachment is composed of ships and personnel dispatched from the above-mentioned departments and is responsible for patrolling the waters near North Borneo, such as Labuan, Long Island, Nansha and Zhongsha.
In addition, the Fujian-Taiwan Naval Division also subordinates Haitan Town Shoufu, Jinxia Town Shoufu, Penghu Town Shoufu, Nanao Town Shoufu, Labuan Town Shoufu and the Third Division of the Longxiang Army, of which the Third Division of the Longxiang Army is mainly stationed in the Dongning area, and another regiment or so of troops rotate the Labuan area on a daily basis and assist the Labuan Town Shoufu and Labuan Protectorate to deter the Sultanate of Brunei and ensure that the hereditary capital is under the control of North Borneo.
In addition to the Pearl River Inland River Fleet, Cam Ranh Fleet, Mekong River Squadron and other inland river fleets and sub-fleets, the division also has the Fifth Cruiser Fleet, the Second Cruise Fleet, the Third Letter Fleet, the Fifth Army Ship Fleet, the Seventh Army Ship Fleet, the Cam Ranh Fleet, and the Strait Fleet.
Among them, the Fifth Cruiser Flotilla also composed three standard cruiser subfleets; The second cruising fleet has four sub-fleets of standard cruising vessels; The Third Messenger Fleet has four standard Messenger Fleets; The Fifth Army's ship-losing fleet has three standard ship-losing sub-fleets; The Seventh Army's ship-losing fleet has four standard army ship-losing fleets; Because the Cam Ranh fleet is solely responsible for the cruising mission from Cam Ranh and Cham to the coast of the Gulf of Siam, it has a mixed fleet of two standard cruising ships, a standard military transport ship flotilla and a standard letter ship flotilla. The Straits Fleet is also composed of two standard patrol ship squadrons, one standard military transport ship squadron and one standard letter ship squadron, which is responsible for cruising the waters east of Malacca and Centipede Island.
According to Zheng Kezang's own calculations, after the reorganization and addition of the corresponding ships, the Huaxia Navy Division will have 12 first-class cruisers with 60 guns, 18 second-class cruisers with 52 guns, 38 first-class cruisers with 44 guns, 32 second-class cruisers with 38 guns, 26 third-class cruisers with 28 guns, 52 first-class letter ships with 12 guns, 80 second-class letter ships with 8 guns, and 54 heavy military transport ships with more than 15,000 materials (9oo tons). The number of other sampans, such as the small letter boats, fortune boats, wide boats, bird boats, sand boats, galleys, oars, boats, fast crabs, and long dragons, was hundreds of them??????
The Huaxia Navy Division was still receiving orders to reorganize, and the Qing army in the north took the lead in action. On 16 February, Yanu, the governor of Shandong, personally went to Huang County to serve the people of Denglai to set up a beacon tower along the coast; On February 17, Bei Henuo, the governor of Zhili, also sent a letter to the prefects of Tianjin, Cangzhou and other places, ordering the construction period to build Fengsui; As a result, the Qing court's early warning mechanism around the entire Bohai Bay began to be established.
On February 26, the 42nd year of the reign of Kangxi, the Qing Dengzhou Naval Division successfully landed on Changshan Island in the north and south with 40 fishing boats carrying more than 200 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division, and then successfully recovered a series of islands such as the adjacent Miao Island and Daheishan Island from the Xia army, which did not exist, and initially controlled the Miaodao Waterway and the Changshan Waterway.
On the seventh day of the first month of March, the Qing army in Shandong, which had initially established beacon lookouts and cantonment points on Changshan Island in the north and south, continued to move north to seize the island. As a result, after paying the price of "heavy dà", it successfully recaptured the empty Dangji Island and some affiliated islands, and basically established an early warning of the South Tonji Waterway, the Gaoshan Waterway, and the North Tonji Waterway.
On 15 March, when the two Xia Army letter and telegraph ships on routine patrol sailed into the Bohai Strait, they were surprised to find that starting from Beichenghuang Island, the Bohai Haikou Islands were lit one after another, and the beacon flames spread all the way to Liaodong and the Shandong Peninsula to the distance beyond the sight of the officers and men of the Xia Army's naval division.
"What the hell is the Qing army doing?" The two commanders of the Xia army informed the ship and chatted for a while with the signal flag, but they still didn't know why. "Let's go, go back and report to the superiors, I'm afraid the Qing army has made a big move??????"
On the 10th day of the first month of March, the 1,000 Outer Firearms Battalion, the 1,000 Eight-Banner New Army, and the 3,000 New Battalion Green Battalion with 10 Wucheng Yonggu cannons and 30 light Shenwei general artillery guns came out of the Beijing-Tianjin area, all the way east, and it took only seven days to cross the most dangerous corridor in the western Liaoning Corridor to Shengjing.
Later, the Qing army rested for three days and crossed the Yalu River into North Korea on 25 March.
At this time, North Korea only retained the extremely barren Hamgyong and Pyongan provinces and parts of Hwanghae-do and Gangwon provinces, with less than 300,000 registered residents and less than 30,000 troops, and it was only because of the South Korean side's fear that the complete destruction of North Korea would force the Qing government to intervene on a large scale, and the realistic deterrence of the South Korean army by the 5,000 Qing troops stationed in Pyongyang. Fortunately, the south Korean side, which owns four provinces, has a household registration of one million, and has an army of 50,000, also has hidden worries, and out of concern that the Chinese side will force the DPRK to fulfill its agreement and cede the Korean throne, the south Korean side is actually unwilling to immediately unify the DPRK, so it has made a wedding dress for the Chinese plain.
Just as the pro-Xia faction and anti-Xia forces in South Korea were still repeating the usual party struggle in the past, the Qing army had already started a counterattack. On 30 March, the left wing of the New Army of the Eight Banners, which led the army into Korea, commanded the old and new Eight Banners and 8,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion to take the pledging in Pyongyang, and then crossed the Taedong River, passed through Huangzhou, and then went straight to the Qilin Road in Yaojin. At the same time, in order to confuse the Xia army in Nanpu, the Qing army also pretended to exchange markets, and as a result, when the Xia army guards were still considering building a warehouse for dozens of vehicles of Liaodong giant trees, the Qing army's forward horse team and captured Qilin Road.
The Qing army immediately abandoned Haizhou and did not attack, first captured the county town of Jinchuan on the bank of the Licheng River, and then approached the important town of Kaicheng??????