Anju, this place is very important to the Lee Dynasty of the Korean Peninsula. The city is located on the south bank of the Chongcheon River. It has always been the political power of the Korean Peninsula and resisted military attacks from the north, especially the northeastern region.
When the Donglu people first attacked North Korea in the early years, the Koreans stationed heavy troops here and tried to resist. However, the Koreans overestimated themselves and underestimated the Dongji people.
The Dongjiu people led by Ah Min captured Anzhou in a few days, and then successfully fought their way to Seoul.
This year, as the Chu army continued to win major victories in the northeastern region, especially in the autumn, the Chu army regained large areas on the west bank of the Yalu River such as Phoenix City and Zhenjiang Fort, and pushed the front line behind the Yalu River.
The Li Dynasty also felt greatly threatened, and they began to accumulate heavy troops in Anzhou again.
As for Yizhou and other places farther north, they are too close to the Chu army, and it is easy to get dumped at the beginning of the war... Just like when the Dongji people first invaded Korea, the Koreans were deployed in Yizhou and other places. The military strength basically did not play any role.
This time, the Li Dynasty learned its lesson and did not deploy heavy troops in Yizhou and other places. Of course, this also had the concern of avoiding deploying heavy troops on the border and irritating the Chu army.
After all, Yizhou and other places still have a large number of Eastern captive troops.
In order to suppress and control North Korea, the Dongjiu people left some troops in this area. Later, after the Chu army's marines landed on Pi Island, in order to prevent the Chu army from landing on Tieshan Peninsula, thousands of Dongjiu people were stationed in Tieshan. troops.
This area belongs to the Li Dynasty in name, but is actually controlled by the Dongji people.
Even the North Korean troops deployed in this direction are under the jurisdiction and command of the Dongji people.
Under various conditions, the Li Dynasty's defense in the north was mainly concentrated on Anzhou.
Brigadier General Feng Yushu led his troops and successfully crossed the Qingchuan River under the cover of the naval fleet. He learned from the local people that there were approximately 20,000 to 30,000 North Korean troops in the city.
A mere twenty or thirty thousand people would not let Feng Yushu stop his attack!
He had fought with these Koreans several times, and the impact these Koreans had on him was that they were the same level as the Ming Army's Central Plains hinterland guards... their combat effectiveness was very poor.
There are not even long-barreled artillery, and there are very few short-barreled artillery. Firearms are still in the era of gun guns.
And the will to fight is not that good either.
If the Koreans were strong enough in combat, they would not have been beaten twice by the Dongji people before.
Not to mention that the Chu army felt that their fighting power was not very good, even the Dongji people felt that the fighting power of these Koreans was too weak.
When the Dongji people resisted the Chu army on the battlefield of Liaodong, they also mobilized a large number of Korean troops from the Korean Peninsula, numbering tens of thousands.
But the Dongji people have never sent tens of thousands of Korean troops to the front-line battlefield...
Why?
Because they were used as cannon fodder and the captors disliked them being in the way, most of the time these North Korean troops were recruited to transport logistics supplies in the rear and were mainly used as civilians...
Only when they suffered a complete defeat in the Liaodong battlefield and retreated to Yiju, Tieshan and other places, did the Japanese invaders deploy these Korean troops on the front line as the main force.
Because at that time, the Dongji troops who retreated to Yizhou were not many, and they only had one or two thousand people who could survive. They didn't have enough people...
The result was that more than 10,000 North Korean troops, together with a thousand Dongjiao, were beaten by four to five thousand men under Feng Yushu's command. The entire army was destroyed after a few days of resistance.
After these battles, Feng Yushu had a clearer understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Koreans.
The enemies of Anzhou are nothing to be afraid of!
In fact, this was indeed the case. Feng Yushu's troops successfully crossed the river under the cover of the navy, and then launched an siege operation with the 3rd Marine Regiment of the Navy.
There were actually no heavy artillery in the siege operations, only about a dozen 18-pound light mortars, and a few 48-pound mortars that were moved directly from naval battleships.
They still rely more on the lightweight two-and-a-half-pound field guns and five-pound field guns.
If this kind of firepower were used in the Jinzhou battlefield before, the Japanese would not even bother to come out of the anti-gun fortifications to take a look...
But Koreans are different!
They had never experienced such a battle, and they had not even prepared any artillery defense fortifications, let alone building a ring of sandbags on top of the city, digging trenches outside the city, and building a fortress outside the city.
As a result, after a shelling, the North Korean defenders on the opposite side were immediately at a loss.
If troops were deployed for defense at the top of the city, the shelling would be a lot of fun. Even without the Chu army's infantry attacking them, their troops on the top of the city would suffer heavy casualties.
Once the city wall is pushed down, the Chu army commandos outside the city will come up and kill them in minutes...
This is a dilemma. It's not about going to the top of the city, nor is it not about not going to the top of the city.
In this dilemma, the city's defenders quickly collapsed, and the Chu army's commando boarded the city without much hindrance.
Next, a large number of Chu troops were like tigers rushing into the flock of sheep. They still had these war thoughts decades ago, and the North Korean defenders were defeated, and the city was fully captured without much effort.
It is worth noting that with this combat effectiveness, the Chu army's infantry plate armor finally got rid of all the embarrassments in the past, and then played a powerful role...
A group of people in the commando team were wearing plate armor and iron cans, holding a shield in one hand and a Suifu pistol in the other. They killed the one on the opposite side with a snap, then replaced it with another Suifu pistol, and killed another one with a snap...
After firing two rounds from the pistol, he replaced it with a stainless steel one-handed waist knife and went up to fight.
This is almost the best representative of traditional heavy infantry in close-range melee. Even if the Koreans on the opposite side have some armored soldiers, they cannot stop them at all!
This time, these grenadiers were able to kill happily and regain the feeling of the Chu army's heavy commandos in the past!
You must know that before, the so-called heavy armored infantry in the Chu army were rarely able to play like this.
During the previous battlefield in Liaodong, the firearms equipment rate of the Dongdu people was not low...the artillery included various field guns, old-style short-barreled guns, and the muskets included imitations of the matchlock guns of the Chu army, as well as old-style shotguns.
Their main force, as a whole, adopted the same hot and cold weapons, equipment and tactics as Hong Chengchou did at that time.
In the face of this kind of army, the traditional so-called heavy infantry has great limitations and is basically useless in field battles. It also has great limitations in melee battles.
One can only look for a sense of superiority in an enemy with almost no new firearms and a relatively weak fighting will.
Therefore, the superior performance of the heavy infantry in this battle of Anzhou probably did not affect the determination of the empire's senior officials to completely eliminate these heavy armors.
Even though these heavy armors are new plate armors, they seem to have outstanding protective capabilities, but in fact they are of very limited use.
Artillery and new firearms cannot withstand it... If it is against cold weapons such as bows and arrows, the protection is too much. Only by resisting old-style fire gate guns can it have a better effect. No more, no less is just right.
According to the plan of the army's top brass, armor will be optionally equipped in the future.
If the opponent is an enemy who is not very good and uses a lot of cold weapons and bows and arrows, then everyone has a set of light half-body armor, which is mainly used to defend against bows and arrows.
If the opponent is an army equipped with a large number of firearms, such as new matchlock guns and field artillery... In addition to increasing the weight of the soldiers, the armor will not have a second effect, so there is no need for any armor, just wear ordinary military uniforms on the battlefield. .
In this concept, there is no room for heavy full-body armor.
Therefore, this battle on the Korean Peninsula is very likely to be the first display of the Chu army's heavy full-body infantry plate armor, and it will also be its swan song!
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After capturing Anzhou, Feng Yushu reported victory to the rear as usual, and then continued south, successfully capturing Pyongyang, Huangzhou, Pingshan and other cities along the way, and finally fought all the way to Seoul!
The monarchs and ministers of the Li Dynasty had already fled to Ganghwa Island once again, and continued to send envoys to ask for permission to express their willingness to submit to the Li Dynasty...
However, what Feng Yushu wants is not the surrender of the other party, but the province of North Korea!
Therefore, I have no interest in their so-called surrender and other proposals. Therefore, if the other party wants to surrender, it is okay, and then they will surrender completely and unconditionally.
And in this way, the Li Dynasty on the opposite side will not give up.
But they knew that after the Chu army moved south, they had already set up administrative agencies behind them. If they surrendered completely and unconditionally, it would be equivalent to giving up resistance and allowing the other side to annex them.
This is not what they want.
What they want is to preserve the state system as much as possible through negotiation. Just like before when they surrendered to the Eastern captives, they can recognize themselves as the boss, pay tribute, and remain the boss of the peninsula behind closed doors.
After sending envoys time and time again and being rejected, they gradually became desperate.
Especially when Seoul was captured by the Chu army, and then the ground troops of the Chu army, with the cooperation of the naval fleet, began to land on Ganghwa Island.
The Li Dynasty is completely desperate!
Seeing that the country's subjugation was inevitable, they finally chose to surrender to save their lives. Otherwise, when the Chu army really landed on Ganghwa Island, they would not be able to survive.
So... on December 17, the seventh year of Chengshun, the Chu army passed a small battle. The army only sent 5,000 troops, and the navy only sent more than 4,000 marines. With the cooperation of the previous squadron, the Lee Dynasty on the Korean Peninsula was successfully destroyed...
When General Zuo Yingzhe, commander of the Third Army, received the good news from Feng Yushu, he thought he had seen it wrong, so he opened his eyes and took a closer look!
Damn it, if you weren't careful, a gang under your control had destroyed the Li Dynasty!
Zuo Yingzhe supported Feng Yushu in attacking the Koreans, but Zuo Yingzhe never thought that he could kill the Li dynasty in one go, beat them painfully, and completely sever the vassal relationship between the Koreans and the Dongji people in order to solve the problem on the Yalu River. The eastern part is dangerous, so that our side can concentrate on fighting deep into the hinterland of Northeast China in the future.
This is Zuo Yingzhe's main purpose.
Of course, it is also a purpose to expand the empire's territory by hundreds of miles. After all, we can't fight in vain, so we can at least get some territory back.
It's just that he didn't expect that Feng Yushu would be so ferocious. In just half a month, he was able to beat the Li Dynasty to the point where they surrendered unconditionally, surrendered their household registration, and voluntarily abdicated...
Then Zuo Yingzhe hesitated. The kings of the Li Dynasty had already announced their abdication, surrendered their household registration, and handed over the Korean Peninsula. But should the empire directly accept it and rule these places directly?
You can't blame him for being hesitant...but the higher-ups have never said they plan to destroy North Korea and directly establish a province!
However, Ji Dehua, the governor of Liaodong, was so courageous that after hearing about this, he directly shouted that the Korean Peninsula should be directly included in his Liaodong Province.
Language and culture barriers, long distances, etc. are not a problem in his opinion...
If a whole set of integration policies such as changing clothes and binding hair, burning books and changing schools, and immigration and intermarriage are applied, the Korean Peninsula will become the territory of China since ancient times in less than ten years.
Zuo Yingzhe was not as big-hearted as him. Furthermore, Zuo Yingzhe was not a civil servant, he was just a general... In the past, the Li Dynasty was a vassal of the Eastern captives. The Third Army attacked North Korea while attacking the Eastern captives. That is natural.
But what to do after the war is a matter for the civil servants.
So Zuo Yingzhe ignored it and ordered Feng Yushu to control the situation on the peninsula first, and sent two second-class divisions to assist.
The other side directly dispatched a clipper to urgently report the relevant news to Jinling.
When Luo Zhixue learned that Wang Shi had captured the Korean Peninsula, captured all the emperors and ministers of the Li Dynasty, and forced them to hand over their household registration lists, he was stunned...
This time it made him wonder if there was something wrong with his memory. He couldn't remember that he had given the order to attack the Korean Peninsula and engage in a war of national annihilation!
Xu Zhixian, the military minister of staff, was also quite speechless: "The frontline soldiers did not expect it to be so easy. They were in the process of chasing the Dongzhao people and broke through Seoul without much resistance. In order to survive, the Li family I begged and presented my household registration list!"
Although Xu Zhixian couldn't figure out why a country was suddenly wiped out on the front line, as a military boss, his stance must be firm and his attitude must be resolute.
Since it was the Li dynasty that was destroyed in the process of chasing the Eastern captives, then the credit must be recognized.
Anyway, the Chu Empire and the Korean Dynasty were legally in a state of hostile war, and it was reasonable to destroy them.
After Luo Zhixue heard this, he pondered for more than ten seconds. Although it was a bit unexpected, he was still prepared to acquiesce to the result and decided to give corresponding rewards.
Because it seems that a country was destroyed, but the most important thing is that in this series of battles, there was no case of sending troops privately and disobeying orders.
Feng Yushu, according to the order of the Third Army Headquarters, crossed the Yalu River to pursue the remaining Japanese soldiers. Subsequently, the Third Army Headquarters gave Feng Yushu an additional order to continue to encourage Feng Yushu to launch an attack southward.
It's just that the Third Army Headquarters didn't expect Feng Yushu to be so good at fighting and the Koreans to be so scumbag...so that Feng Yushu defeated the Koreans in one fell swoop.
That's why this unexpected situation occurs.
Therefore, meritorious soldiers must be rewarded, and they must be rewarded heavily.
As for how to deal with the Korean Peninsula, how else to deal with it, the Li family has already abdicated and dedicated the household registration list. The Korean Peninsula will naturally become the territory of the empire from now on.
Let the imperial study room discuss how to set up local administrative agencies later.
Whether it is directly established as a province or placed under the jurisdiction of Liaodong, the Korean Peninsula will be the direct territory of the empire from now on!
