Emperor Wu Ding immediately began preparations for the Eastern Expedition after returning to Shenyang.
The army assembled and the edicts were distributed throughout Henan, Huguang, Shandong, and Mongolia.
The governors and army officers of the Daqi Dynasty immediately took action upon hearing the news and dispatched elite troops and horses to Kuandian, Liaodong.
After careful assessment of the combat strength of the North Korean army, the Supreme Emperor and his advisers believed that the 60,000 combat troops were slightly insufficient. To ensure safety, they decided to recruit an additional 20,000 troops on top of the original strength, for a total of 80,000 troops to be used against North Korea. Combat.
Recruitment officers from all provinces immediately started to rise up. In accordance with the recruitment regulations issued by the Ministry of War, Da Qi relaxed the recruitment standards and allowed some outstanding landlords, gentry, and wealthy businessmen's children to join the army.
At the same time, the training period for recruits was shortened from the original five months to half a month, and the minimum age limit for conscription was lowered from sixteen to fourteen. Some gray-haired veterans of the Ming Dynasty were also allowed to enter the Qi army.
Enthusiasm for joining the army was high in all provinces, especially in the newly annexed provinces of Huguang and Henan. Many good family members were willing to contribute their own money and efforts to serve the army. Once the opportunity to expand the army was opened, the 20,000 troops were quickly used up, and more people could only join the auxiliary troops and fight with the army.
However, this kind of militaristic strategy has made several neighbors around Daqi think about it.
In June, Zuo Liangyu, who was stationed in Hefei, was the first to lose his patience. After he learned that the main force of Qin Jianxun's regiment across the Huaihe River had been mobilized to go north to conquer North Korea, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. The "famous generals" of the Southern Ming Dynasty decided that this was an opportunity and he would pass it up. Opportunity for yearly coins.
Zuo Liangyu hated Qi Guo so much that he decided to take the opportunity to give Qi Jun some color. As a result, he was once again defeated by Kaiyuan soldiers. Only 200 of the 3,000 elite troops sent to the other side came back. Qin Jianxun was furious. After repelling the Ming army, he immediately sent troops across the river to retaliate, killing and wounding more than 2,000 people on the left. People, plundered a large amount of food and grass and returned.
After Zuo Liangyu's disastrous defeat along the Huaihe River, Zhang Zicheng in the west and Zheng Chenggong in the east immediately gave up the urge to fish in troubled waters and withdrew the troops who were confronting the Qi army in Shanxi and eastern Zhejiang respectively.
The Daxi Liu bandits and the Zheng pirates unanimously chose to stay put and watch the success or failure of the Korean War, and then decide whether to advance or retreat based on the battlefield situation.
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The three armies have not moved, and the food and grass go first.
Emperor Wu Ding summarized historical experience and lessons and believed that the final failure of several conquests against Goguryeo during the Sui and Tang Dynasties was due to logistical problems.
In order to avoid making the same mistakes as Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and others, the Supreme Emperor strictly ordered the civil affairs and chamber of commerce to do a good job in providing food and grass for the Eastern Expedition army.
Although it was just a blitzkrieg, Liu Zhaosun still asked the Ministry of War, Ministry of Household Affairs and Civil Affairs to ensure two months of rations for 300,000 people (actually 350,000) in North Korea.
The Supreme Emperor strictly ordered the chief officials along the route to ensure the absolute safety of the grain roads from Weihai to Lushun, Tianjin to Jinzhou, and Shanhaiguan to Kuandian during the Eastern Expedition.
Fortunately, the safety problem of the Eastern Expeditionary Army's food road is not a big one, so there is basically no need to worry about it.
The Ming army has completely retreated to Huainan and does not pose any threat to Liaodong. The speakers of the Zheng family have now lost the support of the Nanming (at least the official support) and are confronting Wu Aheng in eastern Zhejiang. The Weihai Lushun fort is well-defended, and they cannot easily Dare to go north. Not only that, in order to gain more support from the family, Zheng Chenggong now needs to raise a sum of grain, grass, gold and silver to be delivered to Qi State to ensure the safety of his father Zheng Zhilong and several hostages.
The rations for three hundred thousand people are not a small amount, and coupled with the consumption of tens of thousands of war horses, it is an astronomical figure. The Ministry of Household Affairs and local civil affairs officials of the Qi Dynasty worked hard, and at the same time, they recruited nearby storage warehouses in Liaodong and Western Liaoning. grain, while urgently transporting grain and grass from the pass to Liaodong.
Grain and grass from various parts of Hubei and Henan were transported to Shandong in batches, and finally accumulated at Weihai Port, and then transported to Liaodong by sea ship. In order to improve the efficiency of shipping grain (the canal has been cut off), Emperor Wu Ding personally came forward and asked the civil affairs and navy to negotiate and mobilize Three warships participated in the escort of the grain transport fleet.
In early June, Zheng Chenggong, extremely depressed and unwilling, sent twelve merchant ships north to rescue his father Zheng Zhilong and several other Zheng family members who were eager to make contributions to Daqi.
Tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass, thousands of bolts of cloth, as well as a considerable amount of tea and southern goods, were shipped to Shandong in exchange for two hostages (the two brothers Zheng Zhilong).
On the eighth day of June in the third year of Taichu, the two sides took over the handover at Yingzui Port, Weihaiwei.
Daqi officials who presided over the handover ceremony included Moriti, the training officer, Fujiwara Kyouji, the member of the Ministry of Rites (foreign affairs), Dongfang Zhu, the general manager, Lin Yu, the imperial guard officer, and others.
At noon, Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Tagawa Nanaemon, surrounded by a group of uncle Zheng Zhihu and second uncle Zheng Zhibao, walked quickly off the sampan and looked at the Dongguan boy standing on the shore with an angry look.
Seeing that this Chinese-Japanese mixed-race person was not a good person, Senti said threateningly:
"Street boy, what are you looking at? The Zheng family is capricious, treacherous and debauched. Last time, the ministers of the court and the government wanted to punish you with death. My emperor is kind and generous, and it is known all over the world. He has decreed to release these two people. I will treat you You are so benevolent and righteous, why don’t you quickly thank me?!”
Worried that Tagawa Nanzaemon wouldn't understand, Moriti asked Fujiwara Kyouji to translate it in his own words and tell it to Zheng Chenggong's younger brother.
Fujiwara Kyouji was quite dissatisfied with this verbose Cantonese, but out of sympathy, he had to repeat his original words in Japanese. Tagawa Nanzaemon heard this and said angrily:
"You bunch of barbarians! Robbers! Killing and looting, forcing the Ming Dynasty to collect taxes in the 81st year of Hongguang's reign, forcing the people of Jiangnan to sell their sons and daughters. You have done so many bad things, yet you are not afraid of divine retribution, and you still have the nerve to talk about our Zheng family! How shameless!”
Moriti pushed aside the guards in front of him, showed his head from the long card, pointed at Tagawa Shichizaemon and cursed:
"Bold, my emperor's goal is the stars and the sea, how can you, a group of roebuck-headed pirates, understand it! Damn boy! I also grew up by the sea, but I have always done things that are harmful to nature. Considering your young age, you don't want to go Learn well, but you still want to be a pirate, rob homes and houses, eat dumplings and eat wontons, and still have the nerve to say that we are Daqi. I advise you to keep your mouth clean. This is Daqi territory. If you are embarrassed, I will be careful of this father-in-law sending you there. Jingshifang, click the knife! I will leave you to be a father-in-law!"
After Senti finished speaking, he looked back at Dongfang Zhu and showed a flattering smile to the famous man next to the Supreme Emperor.
Dongfang Zhu showed a professional smile, waved his hand to interrupt the inexplicable dispute between the two, and announced loudly:
"Order the goods and release them!"
So the two parties delivered the goods in one hand and handed over the goods in the other hand at Yingzui Port.
After counting the twelve cargoes and confirming that they were correct, Zheng Chenggong's two uncles, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhifeng, were released by the Qi army.
"Where's my father?"
"Sai Zai, I will only let your two uncles go this time. Zheng Zhilong is still waiting to become a high official in Qi State." As soon as Senti opened his mouth, he wanted to kill people.
"Haga, くそ, die!"
The Japanese mixed-race man suddenly pulled out his samurai sword, and Zheng Zhihu next to him also raised a fire blunderbuss towards Senti.
"You bad guys, are you desperate for your life?"
Lin Yu, who looked like a black tower, said nothing, dragged a mace weighing more than thirty kilograms, and walked between Moriti and Tagawa Shichizaemon, looking down at the Zheng family's uncles and nephews as if they were looking at dead people.
Zheng Zhihu, who was known for his martial prowess and nicknamed Li Er, was not afraid of Lin Yu's strong aura and subconsciously took two steps forward.
The Qi soldiers responsible for escorting a group of Qi soldiers immediately gathered around them without saying a word.
When the two sides were at war with each other, Zheng Zhibao, who had been silent for a long time, grabbed his rebellious brother and young and energetic nephew, and expressed his willingness to accept Qi's proposal and only released Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhifeng.
Fujiwara Kyouji took out the telescope and handed it to Tagawa Shichizaemon, and pointed at the Hundred-foot Cliff Guardshouse two miles away.
Tagawa Nanzaemon took the telescope and looked over there. Under a pavilion on the Baichi Cliff, his father Zheng Zhilong was playing chess with a fat civil servant. Zheng Zhihu took the telescope and recognized the man sitting under the pavilion. It was the fat man Lu Demin.
"Damn it, Fatty Lu is here too!"
Dongguan Zai told Tagawa Nanzaemon that if he wanted to redeem his father Zheng Zhilong, he would need to prepare more grain and southern goods, which would have to be filled at least thirty large ships...
At the same time, the Hongguang court was also blackmailed by Qi. In early June, Nanming delivered grain, silver, cloth and tea in Xuzhou as promised.
After receiving a large amount of material Sui coins, Qin Jianxun did not forget Emperor Wu Ding's instructions and randomly detained two people from the Nanming mission. In Liu Zhaosun's words, this was an "additional human resources service project" of Sui coins.
In the summer of the third year of Taichu, tens of thousands of grain, grain and grass supplies shipped from the south were unloaded at ports such as Lushun and Weihai.
Throughout the summer, massive supplies gathered from major ports in the north to Liaodong.
Kuandian, located at the rear base of the war, is even more busy. The small border town is like a festival. The streets and alleys are full of carriages and coachmen. Instructors and civil affairs officers speaking the local dialects of Weihai, Liaoxi, Henan and other places are noisy, over and over again. Count the supplies on their carriages to make sure every load of grain, cotton, and coal is accurate.
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