Although Jiexuan's rank is not high yet, as an imperial envoy, he still has the qualifications and authority to go into the mountains to inspect the Japanese casualties, because it involves the deployment of medicines to rescue the wounded, which is something that has been discussed with Abe in advance. .
Taking into account the current very happy cooperative relationship between the two parties, especially since such a big gain has not yet been cashed out and exchanged for silver, Abe once again briefly described to Jie Xuan his previous meeting with the Qing army messenger and the price he had offered. Again.
Jiexuan did not object after hearing this, because the prince had already warned him in advance that any injured Tatar could be sold to the other party for money. Uninjured Tatars could only be sold after being injured.
The prince wrote very clearly in the precautions that the Ming Dynasty cannot feed these wounded Tatar soldiers in vain. Killing them with one knife will make them easier. If you let them go mining, the work efficiency will not be high, and they may have to pay for food.
The only feasible way is to sell it to the original owner and let the original owner feed these wounded soldiers. Anyway, even if they are cured, they are still a group of cripples. They can still eat a lot of food from the "Qing Dynasty" and earn a lot of money by the way. Why not?
The prince came up with this trick. Anyone in the imperial court would definitely not agree to cash out the captives they finally captured. It would be too damaging to the court's face.
The prince is a very pragmatic person, and everything is based on reality. As long as it does not increase the burden on the Ming Dynasty and adds a lot of burdens to the "Qing Dynasty", the prince is particularly happy to do such good deeds.
As long as the original owner is willing to pay to redeem the person, they can all be packaged and sold, leaving no one behind. These people are not princes and nobles, and have no value in publicity at all. It is impossible to be favored by the court.
Sell!
Not only to sell!
And it’s even sold at a discount!
Selling at 50% off the imperial price!
Walk through!
Passing by!
do not miss it!
Excellent...
Uh... not a very good "Qing Warrior", only one hundred taels of silver!
You can’t afford to suffer a loss, let alone be fooled!
Take a look, take a look!
The prince had already written the sales copy on it, which made Abe feel confused for the first time.
General Tokugawa once commented that the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty was extremely talented and had extraordinary intelligence, which could be described as unparalleled in the world.
Abe Shigeji originally thought that General Tokugawa's evaluation was too complimentary and was entirely polite.
Through this campaign on the Liaodong Peninsula, Abe Shige had a new understanding of the crown prince.
He has the ability to govern the country, and he is also capable of doing business and selling goods. He also knows the art of war and strategy, and he knows how to hire helpers to defend against the enemy.
Looking at ancient and modern times, people can be regarded as unprecedented in thousands of years.
If I have the opportunity to come to Beijing in the future, I must contact him personally.
Jiexuan said that the prince had allowed him to sell prisoners to the Qing army, which allowed him to make small profits but quick turnover, and he could still pay the bills. In other words, the amount of the results would remain the same and the money would still be collected.
The extra money earned from the Qing army will belong to the Japanese army. How it is divided, the Ming army will not interfere. It is equivalent to giving the Japanese army an extra reward for fighting for many days.
With the support of the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty, all worries were eliminated, and it strengthened Abe's confidence and determination to do business again.
After careful counting and identity verification, it was found that among the prisoners now in custody were Jia La'e Zhen, Niu Lu Zhangjing, and a bunch of worthless knights, for a total of 625 people.
Most of them were injured, and their legs and feet were so agile that they had escaped long ago. Those who were not injured were knocked unconscious by the artillery fire and became prisoners when they woke up.
According to the 50% discount price and the general's price, the total value of these prisoners is 97,000 taels of silver!
Dorgon's one hundred thousand taels is not much to put together!
The price is clearly marked and reasonable!
If the Qing army still had a large number of Japanese prisoners, they could use these people to make up for the loss.
Osaka Jiro, who returned from the Qing army camp, said that there were only three people detained with him, and the situation in other camps was unclear.
However, Abe Shigetsu was very confident in this. As a defensive party, the Japanese army did not need to pay a high price.
He never suffered a major defeat during the battle, so the number of prisoners in his hands was definitely much greater than that in Dorgon's hands.
After careful calculation of this business, we have an advantage, so we dare to arrange such a transaction.
They could have captured more Qing soldiers, but during the counterattack, the Japanese army was too excited and killed most of the wounded soldiers on the spot...
If I had known that wounded soldiers could still be sold for money, Abe Shige would have informed the people below that the order was over. Now I have lost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. How sad this is...
Regarding the battle, after inspecting various battlefields, Jiexuan said that the result he could accept was ten thousand, which meant that the Japanese army could exchange two million taels of silver from the Ming court.
An additional 300,000 taels of silver were added to the high-reward title bounty for killing the Qing army, totaling 2.3 million taels, plus pensions. In the end, it was worthy of the Japanese army's hard fighting in recent days.
The amount of money was huge, and Jie Xuan didn't have it in hand. He needed to go to Tianjin to collect it after the battle was over. Abe Shigetsu had no objection. After all, it involved such a large amount of money, so he had to treat it with caution.
As for whether Ming Ting would default on the money and refuse to pay, Abe Shigetsu was not worried. Once this happened, it would not be a matter that he could interfere with. It was also related to the vital interests of General Tokugawa.
As long as the Ming Dynasty believes that the Japanese country is still needed, especially if the Japanese army continues to fight, the prerequisite for the two sides to cooperate again is to settle the debt at once, otherwise it will be difficult to negotiate the following matters.
I heard that the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty eliminated a large number of moths in the early days of supervising the country, and the national treasury reached an unprecedented level of enrichment. It may be as much as fifty or sixty million taels of silver, which means that paying this "small amount" is not enough. What's the matter?
The crown prince of the Ming Dynasty is a smart man, and will not let the Ming Dynasty fall into the unfavorable situation of being passively beaten again. The Japanese army is undoubtedly a good helper for the Ming court.
Only a small amount of money is needed to contain the Qing army, which is currently beyond the reach of the Ming army. Since both parties need each other, it is logical to achieve long-term cooperation.
"Did you get it all together?"
"Go back to your lord, we've got it all!"
"That's good!"
Dorgon didn't know the temperament of the Japanese army, and he didn't dare to entrust it to himself. If he offended the Japanese general and sold all the prisoners to Manming, he would be too passive, and the Qing Dynasty would also be implicated. arrive.
So all the silver carried by the army, including the belongings of Beizi Shuotuo, as well as the silver coins carried by the Jinzhou garrison with red flag Mele Zhangjing Sangguli and the Lushun garrison with red flag Mele Zhangjing Lausa who fled, were ordered to be handed over. .
In total, I finally collected one hundred thousand taels of silver. I hope that the other party will not increase the price of the land, otherwise I will not be able to raise more silver in a short period of time.
The Japanese army had already sent people to notify them in advance. They had a total of 625 people in their hands, priced at 100,000 taels, and demanded the unconditional release of all Japanese prisoners in custody.
Considering that the quality and quantity of the chips in his hand were at an absolute disadvantage, Dorgon could only choose to accept this unequal condition with resignation after thinking about it many times.
One hundred thousand taels were exchanged for two Niulu officers and soldiers. At worst, they could be used to enter the customs and steal one hundred thousand taels of silver.
To use the saying of Goumanzi, it is to tear down the east wall and mend the west wall. In short, the Qing Dynasty will not suffer too much.
Human life is important, and he must be redeemed first. At this time, he can't care too much.
According to the agreement, both parties settled the money and goods at the foot of the mountain.
The Qing army brought fifty boxes of silver, two thousand taels each, for a total of one hundred thousand taels, plus all the Japanese prisoners.
The Japanese army took the prisoners to the foot of the mountain, and those who could not walk were carried down, and they were quickly counted.
After confirming that both the person and the money were correct, the two parties conducted the transaction on the spot.
Dorgon was afraid of being bombarded by Japanese troops, so he deliberately observed the movement ahead two miles away.
However, the whole set of transactions was smooth, and there was no such thing as being alone.
After the prisoners returned to the camp, Dorgon found that many of them were injured, and no one was unscathed at all.
According to the truthful reports from the prisoners, the Japanese army said that you get what you pay for, and your prince bought discounted goods, so...
Dorgon immediately became angry after hearing this. The Japanese army was obviously dishonest and deliberately harmed the Qing warriors!
It's useless to be angry at this time, they have already sold out.
What I took out here was real gold and silver, not iron ingots.
Dorgon deliberately deceived the Japanese soldiers and wanted to reveal to them that he had additional Japanese prisoners in his hands.
But then I thought about it, what should I do if the opponent still had a large number of Qing warriors in their hands?
No one knows how many Qing warriors the Japanese army captured. If the other party has a back-up plan, wouldn't it be self-defeating?
In particular, I heard that all the slave soldiers who stayed in Lushun City surrendered to the Japanese army. This should not include many.
The slave soldiers were worthless, Dorgon had no money, and he didn't care about the life or death of these people, so he simply chose to ignore them.
Taking this into account, Dorgon felt that he was not afraid of causing trouble, and the matter was over.
The cowardly anger I feel here can only be vented to Man Ming. At least Gou Manzi is determined not to be able to defeat the Qing warriors.
At the same time, the Japanese troops began to board ships and leave in batches. Some of them retreated to the northern part of the Myoshima Islands to rest and recuperate, while the other part rushed to Gwanglu Island to connect with the Japanese troops stationed on the shore of the island in order to annihilate the remnants of the island in one go. Qing army.
This battle is over, and the task of collecting the corpses is left to the Qing army on the opposite side. The Japanese army is too lazy to dig holes. If they feel that they still have more to do, they can come back next spring.
After the bodies of the Japanese officers and soldiers who died in the battle turned to ashes, they were put in barrels and brought back to the mainland for burial. Bonuses and pensions for all the soldiers in the service will be distributed subsequently.
Originally there were 3,000 Japanese troops on Guanglu Island, but the Qing army had about 1,500 troops. The Japanese did not have an absolute strength advantage, so they never launched a strong attack.
After the battle in the Laotieshan area ended, about 10,000 elite Japanese troops boarded the warships of Zheng Zhibao's fleet and began to attack Guanglu Island.
After the two units were united, their strength was at least six or seven times that of the enemy, supplemented by a large number of artillery of various types. In particular, Luo San also brought his mortar battalion to the island to assist in the battle. They have an absolute advantage in firepower.
The top general of the Qing army on the island, Melezhang Jingma Futa, tried to resist with the help of 348 banner soldiers and more than a thousand slave soldiers.
Although Ma Futa learned from Tan Ma that the opponent had received a large number of reinforcements and that his chances of winning had suddenly plummeted, he still had a sense of luck and still led his troops to resist.
The only advantage that the Qing army could rely on before was the cavalry. However, after the Zheng fleet continued to transport war horses and horse warriors to the island, the number of Japanese cavalry on the island also reached 500.
Although it is impossible to go deep alone, it is absolutely no problem to cover a large number of ashigaru troops to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the enemy on the island.
Guanglu Island is not small, but when it comes to Potian, it is only an island of more than thirty square kilometers, which is exactly the same as two Laotieshan areas.
However, the Ming-Japanese coalition forces had absolute advantages in terms of military strength, firepower, and warships. With tens of thousands of people conducting large-scale cleansing operations on the island, and large-scale arson on the mountains, the Qing army simply did not have much room to dodge.
Melezhang Kyungma Futa led more than a thousand Qing troops to fight with the Japanese troops who came to suppress them. After losing nearly 300 people, he found that there was no chance of winning, so he fled.
However, they soon encountered another group of Japanese troops coming up from the flanks. After a second battle, the Qing army only had about half of its original number, and the rest were either dead, escaped, or captured.
Three days later, two generals, Cao Shaozhong and Bai Dengyong, led a counterattack against the remaining Eight Banners soldiers and captured the injured Ma Futa alive. They used him as a surrender certificate and led their troops to beg for surrender to the Japanese army.
The Battle of Guanglu Island came to an end. Thirty-five Eight Banners soldiers were captured, and the number of surrendered slave soldiers reached 296, including two Jia La Zhangjing and four Niulu Zhangjing.
Only twenty-one Japanese soldiers died in the battle. The main reason was that the mortar battalion played its due role. It usually opened fire suddenly from a distance of two to three hundred steps, and a large number of grenades caught the Qing army off guard.
The forced charge consumed a large amount of troops. After realizing that the blind charge was fruitless, the morale of the Qing army dropped instantly, and they could only flee in confusion, and were subsequently killed by the Japanese army.
The entire Liaodong Peninsula campaign lasted seventeen days, including four land battles and three naval battles. In the end, if there was a tie at Laotieshan, the Ming-Japanese allied forces achieved six victories and one draw.
The Japanese army had three wins and one draw, the Denglai Navy won one battle and one battle, and the Zheng fleet won both World Wars.
In total, 16,794 enemy soldiers were killed, 407 were captured, and 1,535 surrendered.
The naval battle destroyed 312 Qing warships, large and small, captured 44 warships, 27 merchant ships, and recruited 86 fishing boats. It almost wiped out the Qing maritime power along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula on the east and west sides. null.
Whether it is a land battle or a naval battle, the strategic goals set in advance are achieved. Especially in naval battles, within ten years after the battle, the Qing army could not recover at all, because the experienced sailors had either been fed to the fishes or captured.
A certain prince said that at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he was ordered not to go into the sea, but this time it helped him realize his long-cherished wish in advance, so that the braid could not even eat fish!
After returning triumphantly from Guanglu Island, General Abe Shigetsuji, Denglai Naval Chief Mao Yuanyi, Imperial Envoy Minister Jie Xuan and Zheng Zhibao all sailed to Tianjin by ship, then switched to water transport, and then arrived in the capital...
