Dominate the Country

Chungcheong Province, Korea, outside Hongzhou City.

Just when Chen Ming was thinking wildly, the Fu Han Army on Jeju Island joined five Korean righteous armies, with a total of more than 10,000 people, sailed across half of Korea from Jeju Island - Chungcheong Province is just below Gyeonggi Province, Korea - and suddenly appeared in front of the Hongzhou Qing Army and Korean surrendered soldiers.

The latter had only a little over 10,000 people, but the Qing Army had only 2,000 people.

With the landing of the Fu Han Army in southern Liaoning last year, the Qing Army, which had a fire in the backyard, hurriedly transferred its elite troops back to Shengjing, but they were unable to pose a strong threat to the Fu Han Army's defense. In particular, the Tianjin Navy of the Qing Dynasty was defeated after a battle with the Fu Han Army Navy on Dachangshan Island. More than half of the main warships were set on fire by the Fu Han Army Navy, whose warships were relatively inferior, with rockets.

The defeated Qing Navy did not even dare to stay in Tianjin, and retreated to the Yalu River first, and then retreated to Ganghwa Island.

Therefore, it was natural for the Fu Han Army and the Korean Volunteer Army to join forces, with more than 10,000 land warriors and 200 ships of various sizes - a considerable number of which were transport ships, to sail to Chungcheong Province without any obstacles.

The elite of the Qing army had been recalled, and the rest were mostly bannermen recruited from the Northeast. Although the total number of troops had increased instead of decreased, the overall combat effectiveness had definitely decreased. Then there were a large number of vassal troops, that is, Korean surrendered soldiers. After these people followed the Qing Dynasty, their lives were much more comfortable than before. And the Korean Volunteer Army was so bad that they couldn't even beat these Korean surrendered soldiers.

After the Qing Dynasty ended the earliest batch of burning, killing and looting, the subsequent oppression of the Korean people eased a lot. But according to reports from Korean insiders, at least 500,000 Koreans in the Northeast have become slaves who grow grain for the Qing Dynasty.

Last winter, a batch of grain was transported from outside the Great Wall to Beijing, although the amount was only a small 200,000 dan.

If the Qing Dynasty continues to abduct Korean people and bring them to the Northeast to farm this year, the result will be disastrous.

So long before the New Year, the Grand Commandery had formulated a guerrilla plan along the Korean line. Not only North and South Korea, but also the land forces of the Fu Han Army Navy will go straight north from the Liaodong coast when necessary. They don't ask to fight Shengjing, but they can still sweep Fenghuang City, Xiuyan Hall, and even Jinzhou Prefecture.

The Fu Han Army is located on the sea. In Liaodong, except Ninghai, there is no place to stay in other places. How many troops can the Qing Dynasty gather after several withdrawals in the Northeast? Can it be deployed carefully along the thousand-mile coast? This is impossible.

For example, now, Hongzhou in Chungcheong Province is an important agricultural area in South Korea, but there are only two thousand Qing soldiers. In Cheongju [Chungcheong's Qing] not far from Hongzhou, there are only a few thousand Qing soldiers, and the rest are all Korean surrendered soldiers. The Qing army also knew the threat of the Fu Han army to the coastal areas, so the Hongzhou garrison near the sea was much stronger than the Qingzhou garrison, which was more important.

The marines led by Deng Yun had a regiment of troops, but except for the original old marine battalion, the other troops were all new recruits. This was a marine force quickly formed by the Fu Han army. Instead of the original practice of selecting the best from the best, they recruited coastal fishermen on a large scale, so most of the marine battalions of various units had been expanded into marine regiments, but the combat effectiveness had not been greatly enhanced as it should have been. The Fu Han army, accompanied by tens of thousands of chaotic Korean volunteers, rushed to the outside of Hongzhou city in two days. The Qing army, whose ruling foundation was extremely unstable in the local area, seemed to have discovered the Fu Han army and the Korean volunteers at this time.

The Fu Han army and the Korean volunteers rushed to the outside of the city for 20 to 30 miles, and the Qing army inside did not squat in the city and hold it in.

Korea had not seen war for more than a hundred years. Hongzhou City itself was already in tatters. Last year, the Qing army came and attacked, and the top of Hongzhou City was bald. Such a city is purely for show. If the Qing army stayed in the city, the Fu Han army's cannons would block the four gates, and the shells would bombard the small Hongzhou City, and they would be finished.

The Qing general in charge of guarding Hongzhou was named Shuke. He had never fought against the Fu Han army, but his father and brother died in the hands of the Fu Han army. He knew the combat mode of the Fu Han army very well, because he wanted revenge. How could he not understand the enemy?

Shuke knew that the Fu Han army had fierce firepower, and even if the current troops were just a combined army of them and the Korean waste, he did not dare to take it lightly. As soon as he received the urgent report, he took the lead in pulling the team out of the city and built a camp to wait for the enemy.

The Qing army's camp was three or four miles away from Hongzhou City. Deng Yun used a telescope to roughly observe the Qing army camping outside the city. Due to the distance, it was not very clear. But seeing that their entire camp was noisy, there was still order. It can be seen that the Qing general who led the army still had certain military qualities. It was simply incomparable with the Korean army encountered in Jeolla Province.

The Qing army has now abandoned Jeolla Province, and their troops are insufficient. They indulged the Korean surrendered soldiers and the Korean righteous army that received aid from the Fu Han Army in the coastal areas to repeatedly strangle and fight. The Qing army was insufficient in strength, and the Fu Han Army had even fewer troops.

The regular land forces of Chen Dai and Shi Xinxiong's troops, just Deng Yun's unit, had a total of 2,000 people. Except for the navy sailors, they were not the marines on the Western navy ships. If they went ashore, they would not be much better than bandits.

"They are quite good. They have seen blood in the past two years and they are quite methodical in their actions. They are much better than those useless Koreans." Deng Yun's position is only a regiment commander. The other five Korean rebels do not mention the generals, generals, and so on that they now claim to be. Just talking about their previous titles, Jin Jida is the general of the Dragon and Tiger Camp of the Korean Imperial Army. And the other Hong Sangying is the supervisor of the Guard Hall who was responsible for the defense of Ganghwa Island with Jin Jida. The other three routes, one is the military governor, one is the naval commander, and the other is the councilor of the Korean Hu Cao [Ministry of Hu]. They are all high-ranking officials of the first, second, and third ranks, and they are all awesome. But now they have to listen to the command of Deng Yun, a small regiment commander, and they have no doubts. Facts are better than people!

"Why do I feel that..., the Qing army has more rules in setting up camp than us." The two camps are seven or eight miles apart, separated by a small river, and there is a brick and wood bridge on the river. This stream is closer to the Fu Han Army, and the camp is less than two miles away from the river.

Neither side sent troops to test, because it was almost dusk.

Both sides were waiting for the decisive battle tomorrow.

Deng Yun was a little unsure about the combat effectiveness of the Qing army outside at this time. According to the intelligence sent back by the Korean insider a few days ago, the Hongzhou Qing army had two thousand infantry and cavalry, including four or five hundred cavalry. The answer given by the Korean sticks was sharp riding and shooting, and fearless. When the two armies attacked Hongzhou, a 4,000-5,000-man volunteer army was directly smashed by this Qing cavalry, and then this Qing cavalry immediately defeated another 3,000-plus Korean army. Killed nearly a thousand enemies, but only a few of them were killed or wounded. The Korean sticks were in awe!

And the other more than a thousand Qing soldiers, these people are Manchu and Han, or in other words, there are flags and Han. The latter are the Han people who have secretly run to the Northeast to make a living for hundreds of years and then take root little by little. Although the "Crossing Guandong" was officially launched in the late Qing Dynasty, it does not mean that the Han people in Shandong and Hebei did not cross the border in the previous two hundred years.

——After entering the Guandong, the Manchus implemented a system of ethnic hierarchy and isolation, strictly prohibiting Han people from entering the Northeast "Longxing Land" for reclamation-issued a ban on the border. Shunzhi once warned the Manchu nobles to retreat to Guandong. The Manchus' entry into the Guandong also caused a sharp decline in the population of Guandong. The Manchus then used the excuse of "the place where the ancestors started the kingdom" to protect the "benefits of the mountains and rivers" and implemented a long-term ban policy on Guandong. Starting from Shunzhi, the Manchus built more than a thousand kilometers of "willow border" fence walls in sections-the Northeast Great Wall (willow border wall, willow wall, willow city, strip border), which was completed in the middle of Kangxi.

When the Manchus attacked Korea, the soldiers recruited in the Northeast were almost all bannermen at first, but after the Fu Han Army landed in southern Liaoning, a large number of elite Qing troops returned, and the troops who filled in were a mixture of Han bannermen. Perhaps in a short time, these people will be incorporated into the Han Army Banner or the Baoyi Banner.

However, these people are well-equipped compared to the Korean surrendered soldiers. Whether it is the old leather armor, or the small amount of iron armor made in Korea, or the Korean cotton armor seized on the battlefield, basically everyone has one. With their strength of 2,000 infantry and cavalry, and so many Korean surrendered soldiers, if the Fu Han Army does not intervene, they are indeed capable of suppressing Hongzhou.

Early the next morning, both armies finished their meals hastily and lined up outside the camp. Hundreds of Korean volunteers who had almost not slept all night dragged long rafts to the stream, and in a blink of an eye, they paved a passage of hundreds of meters on the river.

The Qing army in Korea is very arrogant, just like the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty when they first entered the pass, dozens of people counted the heads of the thousands of Korean volunteers. But today is a little different. There is no longer the relaxed atmosphere in the camp when the Korean volunteers were crushed in the past. The Korean surrendered soldiers are not people without ears, especially some officers who lead the troops, who are also well-informed. Today, not only the Korean Volunteer Army came to Hongzhou, but also a wave of Fu Han Army. These people are the most elite new army of the Qing Dynasty, and they dare not easily claim victory. They are ten or a hundred times more difficult to fight than the most elite Korean Volunteer Army.

The "Qing Army" leading the battle is of course not the genuine Qing Army, but the surrendered Korean surrendered soldiers. However, the Korean surrendered soldiers are also divided into internal and external, near and far. For Shu Ke, those Korean surrendered soldiers who have shaved their braids are naturally closer, and those Korean surrendered soldiers who still have hair are the cannon fodder in the front.

The Qing Dynasty has issued a hair-shaving order in Korea. Perhaps it is because they know that their strength is insufficient. They are not as tough as Dorgon after entering the pass. Instead, they learned a trick from the Fu Han Army-heavy taxes for not shaving their hair and changing clothes.

A wave of Korean officers with braids, led by Min Honghao, looked at the Korean surrendered soldiers who had not shaved their hair with a proud and complicated look, and a feeling of wanting to cry surged in their chests. Let you not shave your hair? Let your grandson be disobedient? They even looked at our braids with contempt. Humph, today I will let you know how to behave!

Deng Yun looked at the infantry formation of the Qing army, and a sarcastic smile rose at the corner of his mouth.

Sure enough, they used the unshaved Korean surrendered soldiers as cannon fodder, and later the shaved Korean surrendered soldiers, and then the genuine Qing army.

"Beep beep..."

The sharp sound of the whistle sounded, and Deng Yun waved his hand. The two battalions of the Fu Han Army's land combat troops took the lead. They walked steadily across the bridge and rafts on the river to the other side, and behind them was the mortar troops following the army.

The roads in Korea were worse than those in the Qing Dynasty, and there were no large livestock on the shore. The cattle, horses, donkeys and mules were all taken away by the Qing Dynasty. The cannons of the Fu Han Army were left on the warships. There were only a few small and medium-sized mortars and two-jin cannons that had long been abandoned by the Fu Han Army.

This was cast by the Fuhan Army on Jeju Island. Because the roads in North Korea are too inconvenient for heavy artillery to move, not to mention ten-pound cannons, twelve-pound cannons, and even five-jin cannons are difficult to move. The three-pound cannon can't go far, only the smaller two-pound cannon.

As a former North Korean general, Park Ji-sun had ridiculed the Manchus and praised the power of the Fuhan Army. But he didn't match it. Today, he had to taste the power for himself.

It has been more than a year since the Fuhan Army intervened in the Korean War. The navy is invincible, which has become the general recognition of the Fuhan Army in North Korea. The land troops of the Fuhan Army were famous for their small numbers, sharp guns, and determination and courage to fight. During the Battle of Ganghwa Island, Deng Yun led the land battle and successfully rescued some of the Korean forbidden troops, and even rescued the descendants of North Korea.

This level is very difficult right now. Maybe, all the two thousand people I have today may be exhausted.

In troubled times, only with soldiers can everything be possible. Without soldiers, there are pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Park Ji-sun deeply understands this. In troubled times, the army is his capital. If he loses the army, he will be useless. But he couldn't resist all this. The infantry and cavalry troops led by Shu Ke were behind him. As long as he dared to disobey, he was afraid that he would be crushed into powder by the Manchu cavalry immediately. And after leaving the Manchu Qing Dynasty, could he return to the Korean rebel army? One misstep will lead to eternal hatred, and it will be a hundred years later when you look back.

But there was no time for him to think further. The Fuhan Army on the opposite side has completed its formation, and some artillery has crossed the bridge. The two neat formations are moving slowly, but our side, which came out earlier than the Fuhan Army, is still forming a chaotic formation.

However, just when Park Ji-sun thought he was going to be ravaged in the first battle, the sound of Shasha's footsteps suddenly sounded from behind the Fuhan army town. A large number of Korean rebels walked across the creek. Among the five Korean rebels, the Fuhan army was the most vulnerable. Jin Jida, who was "promoted" by the army, led his 2,000 men to pass directly between the two battalions of the Fuhan Army.

Park Ji-sun's first formation was not the Fuhan Army, but Kim Ki-dae. Just like the Qing army, the first task of the Fuhan army was to suppress the formation.

Four two-pound cannons were pushed to the front of his unit by Jin Ji's army. "Boom, boom, boom..." an explosion sounded.

In the several battles between the Marine Corps and the Qing Army in Korea, artillery has always been the protagonist of the war. The Korean rebels also followed the same example, no matter how far behind the artillery in their hands was compared with the Fuhan Army.

But this kind of firepower is enough when used on North Korean troops.

The Qing army would not use its precious artillery power on the useless Korean soldiers. And their own fighting will is so weak.

The limit range of the two-pound cannon was only four to five hundred meters. Park Ji-shan's men screamed in surprise, not because four shells had hit their array, but because they were frightened by the sound of the cannon. Their formation was obviously a bit chaotic, but under the strong suppression of the officers, it was generally maintained.

The drums behind him were still ringing, and Park Jishanjun could only continue to move forward.

When the distance between the two armies was reduced to a hundred feet, the four two-pound cannons opened fire again. One of the four iron eggs missed directly, and one passed over the heads of the North Korean soldiers, but the other two all fell in their formation.

The power of the two-pound cannon is far less powerful than that of the five-pound cannon. It can plow a bloody path in the dense queue, but it also gives Park Jishan's army a blow. Many people immediately hesitated and no longer wanted to move forward. However, under the shouts of the officers and the deterrence of the troops supervising the battle from behind, these people reluctantly continued to move forward.

They are much faster. Because even a fool knows that if you walk slowly, you will only get more shells. But this also made their array gradually chaotic.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Another wave of shells sounded.

"Dong dong dong..." At this time, the sound of drums also sounded from behind the Korean rebels. At this time, Kim Jida wanted to move forward even if there was no drumbeat from behind to urge him. "Attack, kill..." Pulling out came, Jin Ji shouted loudly.

Two thousand gold-based rebels formed six large and small arrays, like a huge giant, rushing towards Park Jishan's army.

Four two-pound cannons fired the final round...

After a not very fierce charge, Park Jishan's army was defeated without a doubt. Shuke didn't care at all about Park Jishanbu's loss. Compared with Park Ji-sun's defeat, if he could take advantage of Kim Ki-dae's attack to kill the leading Korean rebels in one fell swoop, he would have made a profit. "Idiot." Shuke put away the telescope in his hand and waved his hand gently. The Korean rebels on the opposite side were really stupid, they actually followed the defeated soldiers and killed them...

"Da da da..." Four to five hundred cavalrymen rode out to attack.

The dust and smoke raised by the horses' hooves immediately aroused Deng Yun's idea. The latter's flag was erected on a low hill. The deputy beside him saw through the telescope that it was the Qing army's cavalry and immediately shouted: "Not good. Jin Jida will suffer!"

"Sir, please send troops to rescue..."

He swallowed back the rest of the regimental deputy's words, because the expression he saw on Deng Yun was a calm one without any fluctuations.

"Save what?"

"I told Jin Jida before that after repelling the surrendering troops, he should immediately withdraw his troops and reorganize his team. Where is he?"

"Now that he is suddenly killed by the cavalry, he deserves to be unlucky."

The Fuhan Army wanted obedient dogs, not people who had their own concerns. Since Jin Jida is disobedient, he deserves to suffer a little. This is just like training a dog. If you don't obey, you will be beaten. The more you beat, the dog will remember it.

The Qing Dynasty made a lot of money in Korea, but the Fu Han Army fell into a bottomless pit. No matter how much money, food and weapons they had, it was not enough for Korea. If they couldn't raise a group of obedient dogs, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Eun-yeon Lee Seong, Yeon-ryeong Lee Jin, and Eun-jeon Lee Seong, now all three of them have fled to Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province. Lee Sun is already dead and has no son left. Then the three of them, as the blood of Prince Zhuangxian, are the only direct descendants of the Lee Dynasty royal family in the situation where Lee Sun is dead, and they are also the most qualified to compete for the throne of Korea. Therefore, they all have to establish merits in the war of national restoration and win popularity, otherwise how can they inherit the throne legitimately? ——Formal words!

In this case, the Fu Han Army will be more attentive to the various Korean righteous armies that are still attached to them. The means must not only be gentle, but also strong.

The appearance of Li Yi, Li Zhen, and Li Yi, these three people, let them gather a group of volunteers around them, even though the youngest one among them, Eunjeon Li Yi, was only twelve years old, Yeonryeong Li Zhen was only seventeen years old, and Eunyeon Li Yi was one year older than Yeonryeong Li Zhen.

"Send Li Yuanbin and Jin Zhongxiao's army to support, and Hong Shangying and Cui Zhenxi's army will follow."

After waiting for two minutes, seeing that the Qing army cavalry was about to rush to Jin Ji's army, and the latter was gathering troops in a panic, Deng Yun gave the order. As for whether the two Korean voluntary armies could force back the Qing army's cavalry, it was not that Deng Yun looked down on the Qing army. With the pressure of two thousand Fu Han troops, if the Qing army cavalry got entangled with the Korean voluntary army, it would not take long, a quarter of an hour would be enough, and Deng Yun dared to keep this cavalry forever.