Chapter Ninety-Three: Target Phi Island
Shi Lang and Liu Guoxuan still went back to Fujian, which made Zhu Ping'an inevitably feel a little disappointed. Tong Wanjun is already in his fifties, and he doesn't know how many years he can withstand the wind and waves at sea, most of the generals of the Denglai Navy Division are about the same age as him, and seeing that it is about to be the time to renew, Shi Lang is Zhu Ping'an's favorite talent.
Among the students in the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, there were not many people who specialized in studying water warfare, and these people were not as experienced as Shi Lang. As a result, Zhu Ping'an moved the idea of taking Shi Lang as the future chief of the water division, but there were many good things, and Shi Lang returned to Fujian with Zheng Hongkui this time. However, Zhu Ping'an is also confident, in the past few months in Penglai, I believe that Shi Lang's heart has been engraved with a deep imprint, and one day in the future, Shi Lang will definitely join the ranks of Denglai sailors.
Mrs. Sun Chuanting's family has been coming to Penglai for a while, during this period, Mrs. Sun has been treated by the top Chinese and Western physicians in Dengzhou Hospital, and has screened out a set of extremely targeted diagnosis and treatment methods, such as the control of Western medicine and the recuperation of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is estimated that the entire recovery process will take half a year to a year.
The children's class of Jiangwutang was officially established, Sun Chuanting's youngest son Sun Shining became the first student to sign up for participation, and then the children of officers in the Dengzhou system enthusiastically signed up, and even a group of officers under the former Liu Zeqing who had been appeased also sent their children in, and in less than ten days, the children's class had reached the scale of fifty people. The choice of the head teacher of the children's class made Zhu Ping'an very difficult, and finally decided to be served by Zhang Tao, a famous man who returned from Guangdong.
Zhang Tao is the author of "Western Fire Attack Diagram", and once assisted Sun Yuanhua to take charge of Denglai. He is also a famous scholar, and he is connected to China and the West. After Sun Yuanhua was killed, Zhang Tao was disheartened and went to Guangdong, and if Sun Hejing hadn't come to the door to plead, I am afraid that he would never have left the mountain again in his life. After coming to Dengzhou, Zhang Tao joined the sequence of the institute, and saw that Denglai was becoming more and more prosperous, which actually surpassed the era of Sun Yuanhua's rule. Zhang Tao, an old man who is nearly sixty years old, also suddenly "talked about the old man and became a teenager", and rejuvenated. This time, I took over the children's class. Zhang Tao is also well aware of the heavy responsibilities involved. insisted on asking Zhu Ping'an to bring Sun Hejing over, assisted by his nephew.
Mrs. Sun and Sun Shining have a place to go, but Sun Ruoxuan has a place to go, but Sun Ruoxuan has a leisure, and Mrs. Sun goes to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment every day. But she had nothing to do. One comes and goes. But he became familiar with Mu Yuling. Sun Ruoxuanzhi is two years younger than Mu Yuling. The two are the same age, but they have the same topics as each other.
Sun Ruoxuan was born in a famous family, and her father was both civil and military. She was also raised by her mother since she was a child, and her poetry, calligraphy and painting are all excellent, and her personality is gentle and lovely. After a long time, Mu Yuling also treated her as her sister.
But gradually, Mu Yuling discovered some subtleties of this Miss Sun. Zhu Ping'an is busy with official business, and can only go home at night on weekdays, Mu Yanzi likes mountains and rivers, and often travels with a group of scholars, often not coming back once in a few days. It is because there are only Mu Yuling and Sun Ruoxuan in the house during the day. And Sun Ruoxuan's topic always involves Zhu Ping'an, intentionally or unintentionally.
A woman's mind is always sensitive, and soon Mu Yuling captured this unusual point. That familiar feeling appeared in my heart in an instant, and that was after learning that Chen Yuanyuan had a secret affection for Zhu Ping'an. As Mu Yuling and Zhu Ping'an, who have become husband and wife, from the bottom of their hearts, Mu Yuling still has a certain understanding of Zhu Ping'an's thoughts.
In this era, it is common for a man to marry a concubine after his wife, and even his father took a concubine back then. It's just that because of the outbreak of the plague in Beijing, my mother and aunt were unable to avoid the past and died, and after that, my father took him to Nanyang. But with Zhu Ping'an since childhood, Mu Yuling found that Zhu Ping'an himself had a unique single-mindedness for feelings, and even had a natural rejection of concubines. Mu Yuling also speculated that this may be related to his life experience, Zhu Yujian's wife Zeng is extremely harsh on him, could it be because of this that he rejects this kind of thing.
Chen Yuanyuan and Sun Ruoxuan are both beauties that are difficult to find in this world, Mu Yuling thinks to herself that there may not be a man who can resist their affection, but her husband doesn't seem to think much about that direction at all. For Chen Yuanyuan, he instinctively chose to resist. And he also turned a blind eye to Sun Ruoxuan's feelings, so what did Zhu Ping'an think in his heart? Mu Yuling felt that she needed to test her husband's true thoughts.
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sent away Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Sen and others, and the feud between the sea and the Zheng family came to an end for the time being. The current Denglai Naval Division, after absorbing some officers and soldiers of the Zheng Army and more than 100 ships, is already enough to control the northern maritime frontier. Although Zheng Jun's naval division still has strong strength, but it is distributed in the Ryukyus, Taiwan, Fujian and even Annam and other vast areas, if you want to concentrate on attacking Shandong, unless it is a ruin, the vast territory is surrendered to the Dutch and Portuguese, Zheng Zhilong at this time as long as he is not a fool, he will never do this kind of lose-lose thing. The threat from the sea has also been temporarily eliminated.
These days, Zhu Ping'an has been doing two things, one is the integration of troops in Shandong. Denglai has successfully infiltrated the forces into the seven prefectures of Shandong, and Shandong's military strength and military power have been under Zhu Ping'an's control, and the next thing to do is to integrate, reorganize and train. As with the policy of Denglai, the reality is to recover a large amount of fertile land in the hands of officers, dismiss the old, weak and remnant soldiers, and check the military household register. With Zhu Ping'an's previous thoughts, he wanted to complete this work within one to two years, but now it seems that there is no time at all, and the top priority is to complete the military integration of the entire Shandong by thunderous means, so the method of boiling frogs in warm water is obviously inappropriate. Zhu Ping'an can only use the power in his hands to ruthlessly suppress the forces that dare to oppose him.
In this process, the inspection office played a key role, Jinyiwei, as a representative of the imperial court, also fully cooperated under Wang Chengen's central dispatch, and in just two months, more than 100 officers in the former Shandong General Military Office and the Dusi Yamen were cleaned. Of course, their butts themselves are not clean, and it is easy to find some crimes. This move also shook the whole of Shandong. But then Zhu Ping'an infiltrated all over Shandong with the students of the first phase of the lecture martial arts hall and inserted them in various positions, and soon, the restless situation settled down. Shandong's magnates, civil officials, and military generals also realized that Zhu Ping'an's position was unshakable, so they chose to move closer to Zhu Ping'an, whether actively or passively.
Second, Zhu Ping'an decided to launch a military offensive. Jinzhou is cloudy, and although Hong Chengchou's 130,000 army is huge, Zhu Ping'an has already known the final result. Zhu Ping'an was far away in Dengzhou, so naturally he could not intervene in the battle in Liaodong, but in order to minimize the losses of the Ming army and even reverse the entire battle situation, Zhu Ping'an still decided to support the Jinzhou battlefield from the side.
The target is Phi Island, which is next to North Korea.
Phi Island, also known as Dongjiang Island. Located in the east of the mouth of the Yalu River, the geographical location is special, that is, it is in the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the three major forces of North Korea, and the location is urgent. The island is only fifteen miles from east to west, and only ten miles from north to south, and the islands are all boulders, and there is no vegetation or trees. The island's inhabitants make a living from fishing, and most of them are Han Chinese.
In the second year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Keli patrolled Denglai, and Mao Wenlong was appointed as the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, stationed on Phi Island, recruited the Han people in Liaodong, trained the soldiers, and constantly harassed the land of Liaodong, which was still the Later Jin at that time, and repeatedly made military exploits, and strongly supported the frontal battlefield outside the Ming Pass.
In the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan was good at killing Mao Wenlong, and the Ming army in Dongjiang Town was leaderless, and there was no achievement since then. In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Bei Zishuotuo united Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi to storm Phi Island with artillery, and the Ming army fought to the death and did not retreat. Later, Azig, the king of Wuyingjun, led the army to reinforce, and the two sides fired at each other with artillery, and the Ming army gradually ran out of ammunition and fell into hand-to-hand combat. The general of the Qing army took the lead and killed Phi Dao, but the Ming army was outnumbered and could not get support from the sea, and soon Phi Dao fell.
Since then, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no worries, and can rest assured that they can boldly enter the Kou Pass. This shows the importance of the strategic location of Phi Island.
Zhu Ping'an's idea was to recapture Phi Dao and deter the Qing army's flank, so as to support the Jinzhou battlefield.
This is completely consistent with the original strategic concept of Yuan Keli and Sun Yuanhua.
However, at present, it is still very difficult to implement. The most important aspect is not from the Qing army, but from the inside of the Ming Dynasty. Yuan Chonghuan was good at killing Mao Wenlong back then, and then Phi Dao fell, and now it has been several years. Once Zhu Ping'an started a war against Phi Dao, the attitude of the Ming court was worth pondering. Emperor Chongzhen ordered Zhu Ping'an to garrison Denglai, originally intended to retreat southward, if Zhu Ping'an used troops against Phi Island, the news reached Chongzhen's ears, and Emperor Chongzhen would inevitably have his own ideas.
"What does Zhu Ping'an want to do? I let him control Denglai in order to leave a way back for Daming, but he attacked everywhere, what does this mean? Don't you have the idea of supporting the army and respecting yourself? ”
I'm afraid that the first thought that popped into Emperor Chongzhen's mind was like this. That's almost certain.
Once Chongzhen became suspicious of Zhu Ping'an, he found an excuse to cut his military power, but the gains outweighed the losses.
Therefore, the capture of Phi Dao must not be in the name of the Ming army, so how should this be?
After a period of careful consideration, Zhu Ping'an decided on the final strategy of using troops, and summoned Li Dingguo, the commander of Jinghaiwei, back to Penglai City at the first time.
This sword, which has been bladed, is now ready to show its edge. (To be continued......) R1292