352.Korean War (7)

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Updated: 2O12-11-2O

Speaking of which, Lord Nguyen has been able to confront Lord Zheng with a weak enemy so far, in addition to the support of the Portuguese, he also relies on a strong army, so in the face of the fierce ships of the Zheng Army's naval division, Nguyen Phuc Tao should have been tough against tough. However, Ruan Zheng has been on truce for decades, and the original strong army has been rapidly corrupted, otherwise it would not be possible for 3,000 soldiers to eat the Jinlan Governor's Mansion back then, but it would be humiliated. It was precisely because he knew that the soldiers in his hands were unreliable, and that he had destroyed Hoi An, which would have more advantages and disadvantages for the Nguyen regime, so after weighing it, Nguyen Phuc Tao finally did not dare to go to war, but instead welcomed Zhang Jiwen into Hoi An City as a consul.

The people of Quang Nam wilted, and the Portuguese did not dare to hold on. After all, they came all the way to East Asia to seek wealth, and once Ming Zheng really refused the Portuguese to enter the customs and trade, they would ultimately lose their own interests. Therefore, after some weighing, several of the richest businessmen paid out of their own pockets to pay for the troublesome accomplices to eliminate the disaster, and in this case, the matter of Zheng Jun's knocking was properly resolved.

Originally, Zheng Kezhang planned to take advantage of the refusal of the Guangnan people to carry out a surgical blow to Guangnan, so as to force the Guangnan people to pay a loss, so that they could get a vote to fill the already empty treasury, and they could also ask Zheng Zhu for credit and force him to spit out a part of the reward.

But now that the people of Guangnan have retreated, Zheng Kezang's imitation of Kangxi's actions in North Korea has failed.

However, Zheng Kezhang did not have time to complain about the actions of the Guangnan people, and the urgent news from across the sea reached Nanjing. On the first day of the third month of the 36th year of Kangxi, taking advantage of the melting of ice and snow, the Qing army left 3,000 soldiers and horses and 4,000 North Korean troops to stay in Seoul, and its main force of 10,000 and 2,000 auxiliary North Korean troops went south again. Since the Fourth Army of the Zheng Army's naval division Long Xiang had withdrawn from the forts on the front line of Gimpo and Ansan long before the thaw, the Qing army was unstoppable all the way, and the front of the troops was directed at Jeolla and Sanggyeong. Seeing that the Qing army was strong, the South Korean ministers stationed in Yeoju, Wonju, Chungju, Cheongju, Gongju and other places abandoned the city one after another, so in just 20 days, the advance of the Qing army re-entered the Geumgang defense line.

At this time, the Jinjiang defense line was larger than the scale built by Zheng Jun at the beginning, and the whole line was divided into two large fortresses with 1,000 people, four medium-sized fortresses with 500 people, and 11 small fortresses with 100 people, and nearly 100 outposts with 10 people.

"What a nuisance." Zhuoqi, the deputy capital of Xiongyue, who was looking at the South Korean military fortress with a monocular, smashed it while looking at it. "There is the Jinjiang River in the west, and there are mountains in the east, although there are still a few passages in the middle, but this is a trap for inviting you into the urn." Zhuo Qi shook his head. "I'm afraid that Hai Reverse wants to force us to smash this iron walnut." With that, he put down his binoculars and said in a tone of cutting gold. "This has to be filled with human lives."

Of course, it has to be filled with human lives, and Tsubaki, who had been here before, had already understood the stakes of this line of defense. No, in order to avoid the losses of the Qing army, 2,000 North Korean troops have already been driven up. Of course, out of all considerations, the first target that Chuntae pointed out to the North Korean army was not two large forts guarded by many small and medium-sized forts, nor a few medium-sized forts that played a central role, but a small fort and two front-line posts that were relatively prominent.

It is a pity that although Chuntae's abacus was well fought, the defending South Korean Army's Left Wing First Association was very tenacious, and instead of the previous appearance of being about to collapse at the first touch, it bombarded from a distance and fired arrows at a close distance, and the battle was impressive for a while.

However, no matter how good the battle was, after all, the garrison was insufficient, so the North Korean army spent a certain price to get close to the fortifications. However, when they reached the edge of the fortifications, the North Korean army was blind. You must know that the small fortress where the South Korean army is stationed is made according to the pattern of a fortress, and the front is extremely narrow, and it is impossible to invest a large number of troops. The outpost was built in the style of a turret, and the ladder carried by the Northern Korean army could not be delivered to the top battlement.

"What's that?" Clusters of fire appeared in the binoculars of high-ranking officers of the Qing army, such as Zhuo Qi and Chuntai, and the sound of explosions weakened by the wind was faintly heard in their ears. "What kind of cannon is this, how can it be so close?"

"It's not a cannon." An insider said. "It should have been a sky-shaking thunderbolt, which was directly ignited by the people and thrown from the sentry fort." Under the intensive bombardment of earth-shattering thunder, which resembled hand grenades, the North Korean army immediately broke up and fled. "Damn, the South Korean army is so tenacious, I'm afraid we may not please it."

"Then use shelling." Tsubaki ordered coldly. "Tune the Divine Skill Invincible General Cannon and Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon here."

The rumbling cannon sounded, and the range of the six-pounder Invincible General Cannon and the eleven-pounder General Murseong Yonggu were all kinds of light artillery equipped in the small fortresses and outposts of the Korean Army in the far south, so the artillery bombardment of the Qing army became a one-sided suppression, and the firing position of the artillery was also set extremely high for a time.

It's just that something unexpected happened to the Qing army. The height of the small fortress where the South Korean army was stationed was only one and a half zhang, and although the height of the two outpost turrets was more than two zhang, the opening was extremely narrow. Therefore, as if by magic, the cannonballs fired by the Qing army either swept high above the fort or fell into the open space by grazing the sentry tower.

"I've got a look!" Amid the scolding of the firearms battalion commander, a shell finally hit the sentry tower on the left, and the six-pound iron bullet lightly pierced through the exterior wall of the sentry tower made of logs and cement coating under the tremendous impact, peeling off a large gap. "Great, quick, put on ammunition again, and give this officer a good fight!"

In view of the fact that the cracked wall could no longer withstand the next wave of attacks, the seven North Korean soldiers who were still fighting in the outpost had to evacuate. However, the withdrawal of the North Korean army was orderly, not only the three casualties of the North Korean army were taken away, but even most of the weapons and gunpowder of the artillery fortress were also taken away, so that the evil guests who came again did not gain much.

"Why did the cannon stop?" After capturing the two guard towers, Tsubaki Tai relied more and more on the power of artillery, but at this time, the firearms battalion stopped without giving face, which made him quite dissatisfied. "Come on, go and ask, what's going on?"

"Lord Wang, don't ask." Sun Zhaqi, the deputy commander of Manchuria with the red flag, hurriedly stopped Chuntai's foolishness. "The firearms battalion has been fighting for so long, and this artillery must also rest, otherwise it will explode"

In this case, the Qing army had to stop and wait for the artillery to cool down, and at this time someone said: "Lord, the servants have asked the courtiers, and they all said that although the mountains in the east are continuous, there is still a road to walk through the mountains. ”

Although the idea is good, the generals of the Eight Banners present looked at each other, it was not that they lacked the blood and courage of their ancestors, but no one really knew what the situation was on the other side of the mountain, such as whether the Korean army still had the strength to prepare, where the Zheng army was now, and so on. If you can't solve these problems, even if you break through the road in the mountains, you will only be afraid that there will be no return to the ** of the ten when you get to the mountain.

Seeing that all the generals didn't dare to squeak, Chuntai was a little helpless, and was thinking about ordering the generals, Zhuo Qi came out and said: "Lord, we can't just think about copying the back road of the Korean army, the Jinjiang River here is not wide, and the Korean army has a sea reverse water division to help fight, in case, our army divides the troops, and the Korean army and the sea reverse also come out of the eastern valley, then it will be"

Although Zhuo Qi's words are still unfinished, but Chun Tai is shocked, that's right, there is no rule on the battlefield that you are only allowed to copy others, and others are not allowed to copy you, in this case, let's continue to gnaw on the hard bones in front of you, as long as you are willing to spend time here, with the Qing army's superior artillery, sooner or later you can open the gap, you don't have to take risks

The Qing army stopped, but in other parts of Korea, the fighting intensified.

On March 20 of that year, the common people of the Governor's Office of Eunseong, Soisan, Danyang, Jecheon and other counties under Chungcheongbuk-do organized an anti-Qing uprising, and tens of thousands of people besieged Chungju, which was abandoned by South Korean officials and troops, and annihilated 500 North Korean troops in the city in one fell swoop, recovering the city.

Inspired by the liberation of Chungju, the people of Hoengseong, Hongcheon, Pyeongchang and other places in Gangwon Province marched to Wonju, defeated the 800 troops under the Wonju soldiers and horses appointed by the Northern Dynasty, and drove out the Wonju Mu, who was rampant for the Qing army.

The re-handing of the two important towns of Chung and Won further stimulated the will of the Korean military and people to resist, and soon there were groups of Korean rebels in the Qing army's grain routes, including Jingongju and Cheongju, as well as Yangzhou, Guangzhou, and Suwon in the rear, and Paju, Kaesong, Yan'an, Hwangju, Haeju, Sunju, and Anju north of the Han River.

These rebels, who could not survive because the Qing army and the North Korean army plundered the grain that survived the spring famine, extensively attacked the North Korean government offices and the rear grain transport team of the Qing army, and even successfully ambushed the Dongmeng horse team outside the capital of Hamgyong Province, causing great trouble to the invading Qing army and the North Korean royal court.

The North Korean royal court also tried to appease these anti-Qing rebels, but there was no food to appease the people who were waiting to be fed, and no amount of promises were made in vain. In addition, the brutal revenge of the East Mongolian Horse Brigade against the innocent Korean villages around Xianju made the shape of the North Korean Six Provinces become more and more intense, and the Qing army had to repeatedly send troops and horses to guard the grain and Taiwan grain team, and the North Korean royal court could only defend Pyongyang, Seoul, Kaesong and other large and medium-sized cities, and let the local forms be corrupted one by one.

Seeing that the overall shape was beneficial to his side, Tian Deputy, who was the general staff officer of the Fourth Division of the Longxiang Army, asked the new North Korean commander-in-chief Tang Baoyi to fight: "My lord, the lower officials think that they may be able to take this opportunity to take in Nampo, capture Pyongyang, and cut off the retreat and grain route into the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop. ”

"Confused!" Tang Baoyi scolded categorically. "Did the Lord send me here to help Korea expel the Tartars?" Tian was a little confused, and saw Tang Baoyi sneering. "It's very simple to drive out the Tartars, but the Lord asks for North Korea as a bait to attract the Tartars and reduce the pressure at home, but it can be solved in one war?" Seeing that Tian Ruo realized, Tang Baoyi waved his hand. "It's good to understand, this battle still has to be fought."

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