Incheon, Baiyun Mountain, Yonggungsa Temple, in the early morning of the winter moon, it was windy and rainy.
This ancient temple was founded a thousand years ago by King Wenmu of Silla (AD 670). Today it is the place where the instructors of the Sixth Army Corps preach the new policies of the Qi Dynasty.
Han Keke, the chief instructor of the Sixth Corps, stood under a thousand-year-old pine in front of the Seven Star Pavilion. The giant tree had dense branches and leaves, shaped like an umbrella cover.
In front of the ancient pine, there was a crowd of people, five or six hundred people in total. A group of people stood guard around the temple, each holding a firearm and a sword, with a neat military appearance and bright armor.
Han Keke summoned several North Korean generals and walked to the crowd.
There were mountains of bloody human heads on the ground. A group of Incheon officials who had not had time to escape were tied up by the Qi army and knelt in front of the people.
Han Keke put down the loudspeaker, pointed at the kneeling Smecta, and roared angrily:
"Emperor Wu Ding was kind enough to entrust North Korea to you. He expected you to guard the country and educate the people of North Korea. Look at the good things you have done! It is really a waste of all the hard work of the Supreme Emperor and his old man!!"
"Robbing people's food, stealing people's money, ruining people's wives and daughters, taking people's bones to make soup and eating them, it's still not enough, now they want to collude with the Japanese pirates and sell them all to the Japanese country as slaves!"
The soldiers brought a group of Japanese pirates, all of them bloody and beaten to death.
"Kill them, beat them to death!"
The angry people swarmed around and kicked and punched the tied Japanese pirates. A few overly excited fishermen even bit them directly with their mouths. Incheon has convenient shipping and has been attacked by Japanese pirates all year round. It is normal for people to have their families destroyed and their lives destroyed by Japanese pirates.
"Kill them! Kill the Japanese pirates!"
Amid the angry cries of the Korean people, a dozen Kaga clan warriors were killed on the spot. The Incheon officials who were tied up around them were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they were as motionless as lost souls.
Han Keke nodded with satisfaction,
"What two groups of nobles, tycoons and gentry are all bullshit! Have they ever taken good care of you? Now, Emperor Wu Ding is here, and your good days have come! To be honest, the Qi army came to Incheon this time not to rob you. The money man is not here to rob your women, but to save you! He will go to the granary to put grain in a moment, and you will kill anyone who dares to stop him!"
"Emperor Wu Ding is here, your good days are coming!"
The instructor jumped onto the high platform and waved his arms to the people in an exaggerated manner.
"Go to the granary, go to the masters' homes, and get your things back! With Da Qi here, you won't starve or be bullied!"
"After we leave, they will exempt you from part of the rent and usury, and will give you food rations. This is not because of their conscience, nor because they have become good people, but because we have been here."
On that day, Meng Jinbao followed the orders of his superiors and led 300 soldiers into Incheon. He killed the Korean traitors who were causing trouble, opened the granary and appeased people. The training officers of each battalion of the Sixth Corps preached the elegant politics of Qi to the people of Incheon.
The totalitarian egalitarianism created by Emperor Wuding is full of temptation at all times and everywhere. The beautiful blueprint of keeping warm everywhere is uneven, and it is extremely inspiring to the Korean people who are in dire straits.
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On the 19th, the fleet left Inchon and continued northward. On the 21st, it arrived at Ganghwa Island.
As usual, Wu Aheng sent a North Korean general to go ashore and hand over the "Letter from Emperor Wuding to the King of North Korea" to persuade the defenders of Ganghwa Island to surrender.
As a result, the unlucky general was brutally killed by his own compatriots as soon as he landed ashore.
There is no hope for peace talks, only war.
At noon on the 21st, the flagship Dingyuan and the battleship Zhiyuan were anchored on the sea two miles away from the island. They used broadside naval guns to violently bombard the defenders of Chochi Town and Guangcheng Town, the fortress of Ganghwa Island.
The garrison of Ganghwa Island originally had 3,000 people and deployed more than 60 forts. However, the garrison heard that the Daqi Navy was heading north, and more than a thousand people escaped last night. The remaining more than a thousand people were not loyal and brave. Seniors, when they thought of escaping, they were already blocked in the military camp by the servants sent by General Yu Zaiyuan.
At that time, there was a saying circulating in Gyeonggi Province, North Korea, that the reason why the North Korean army suffered repeated defeats was all because of traitors in the North. This was true in the Battle of Seochon, the Battle of Inchon, and even more so in the Battle of Ganghwa Island.
This statement is obviously nonsense.
However, the leader of Ganghwa Island, Yu Zaiyuan, firmly believed in this statement.
Due to the special location of Ganghwa Island, which is relatively close to Seoul and Pyongyang and has convenient transportation, a large number of merchants from the Ming Dynasty gathered here to do business.
I heard that there might be traitors from the DPRK, so before the Qi army could approach, the DPRK soldiers massacred innocent Han people on Ganghwa Island.
In any case, the Daqi warships were invincible. On the 23rd, the fleet occupied Caozhi Town and bombarded Guangcheng.
Guangcheng Guo is a complete stone city. The North Korean commander Yu Zaiyuan led the defenders to fight bravely. However, they ran out of ammunition and food and lost support. Finally, they used knives and spears to fight the Qi army. The knives and spears broke, and they died. They fought with stones and fists until everyone died heroically.
To this day (2023, the 17th year of Yonghe), when Daqi tourists visit this place, they will still see the traces left by the naval gun shells on the old pines and city walls of Ganghwa Island.
After the fleet captured Ganghwa Island, it did not stop here and immediately sailed north. On the 28th, the navy arrived at Haeju.
Li Bu, the censor of Haizhou, did not stay out of the incident after hearing about the fall of Ganghwa Island. He knew that Haizhou's coastal defense would have a decisive impact on the war in the north.
The question is, can Li Bu stop the Qi army?
Li Bu, who was born in the second class, actually had little to do against Qi's powerful ships and artillery.
When the Qi warships entered the waters near Haizhou, they bought enough matches, water and rice for the Qi ships, and also demonstrated to Li Bu.
Who dares to sell anything to the people of Qi? The people of Qi didn't buy anything, so they sent people to find Li Bu. The attitude is very clear: selling the supplies Qi needs to Qi will not embarrass you. otherwise……
Li Bu agreed to Wu Aheng and said that he would satisfy Qi Jun as much as possible. Haizhou is known as a coastal defense town, but in fact it has almost nothing.
The so-called coastal defense only has a few cannons that are about to rust. There are only a thousand coastal defense troops available in Haizhou, not including the soldiers Li Bu temporarily transferred from other provinces.
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In people's habitual impression, the Taichu Japanese Rebellion (i.e., the Eastern Expedition in the third year of Taichu) was a battle in which a small number defeated a large number.
The Qi army faced 400,000 Japanese and Korean allied forces with 80,000, and finally defeated their opponents.
If we look at the absolute numbers of troops on both sides, the Japanese-North Korean coalition certainly has the advantage.
However, if readers carefully read the relevant historical materials, they will discover a shocking historical fact:
In several important battles of the Japanese Rebellion in the early days, except for the final decisive battle in Pyongyang, the Qi army and the Korean army (Japan had already been eliminated) had basically the same strength (60,000 vs. 50,000). In other battles (such as the Incheon landing battle and the Busan annihilation battle) , Shuchuan bombardment, Haizhou invasion, etc.), the strength of the Qi army far exceeded that of the Korean army.
Implemented in the Sixth Corps, more than 7,000 sailors under Wu Aheng fought against Gyeonggi Province and Chungsang Province with a total strength of 200,000, and they did not lose.
Why did the Li Dynasty's 200,000-strong army in the south feel passive and defeated when faced with a mere 8,000 Qi troops coming from the sea?
In fact, the reason is also very simple.
In addition to the huge disparity in combat power between the two armies, another important reason is that North Korea's land is long and narrow, and the defenders rush to fight and lack mobile forces.
According to historical data, at this time, the total number of royal troops, Japanese preparation troops, and training troops registered in various Korean provinces reached 420,000. Putting aside the situation of empty pay, the number was actually at least 300,000, concentrated. In the south is the main force of the Li Dynasty, with at least 150,000 troops.
Compared with Wu Aheng's seven thousand navy, this force has an absolute advantage of 20:1.
However, judging from the dispersion of the North Korean army's garrison and the use of its troops, none of the North Korean factions could use all their main forces to fight the Qi army.
Since the various forces were constrained by each other and there was no way to rescue each other, the Qi army faced all the isolated Korean troops.
On the other hand, the Qi army benefited from the use of steam engines on battleships, strong ships, powerful cannons, strong maneuverability, and ability to travel thousands of miles at a time. They were able to truly attack wherever they pointed, coupled with the magical brainwashing effect of the "Qi Dynasty Land Acquisition System". Although it was an away game, it completely occupied the battlefield advantage.
Therefore, during the Eastern Expedition to Korea in the third year of Taichu, the Qi Navy was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength. The commander-in-chief Wu Aheng effectively implemented Emperor Wu Ding's strategy of "concentrating superior forces to annihilate the enemy" and attacked all the prefectures in central and southern Korea one by one. Break.
On November 29, the Sixth Corps finally landed in Fengyuan. Wu Aheng received the order from Emperor Wuding and quickly assembled to the southeast of Pyongyang. At this time, the defenders in the Yellow Sea Belt and Gyeonggi Province were tortured to death by Wu Aheng. , has long been exhausted and can no longer resist this navy.
In early December, the Sixth Corps joined forces with the Central Route Army and the East Route Army on the Fengchuan and Huanggang lines to cut the Korean Eighth Route into northern and southern sections.
Since then, Pyongyang has lost foreign aid and has become a dead city, and the Ri dynasty has begun to enter the fate of total collapse.
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