Chapter 1815 Who is faster?

The subsequent operations of the coalition forces were also very smooth, and it took only a short time to take control of Dazheng Town without any damage. Although there were a few large Manchu households in the town who did not have time to escape, when they saw the incoming attack

After the size of the coalition forces, they did not dare to use force to resist. As the rulers, the Manchus were unwilling to take the lead in the resistance, and the Han people had even less reason to resist.

After the Haihan Army came to the door, these wealthy Manchu families expressed their willingness to use their property in exchange for the opportunity to leave Dazheng Town safely. After all, they had long heard about the recent actions of the coalition forces near the Liaodong coast. In the villages and towns that encountered attacks

, as long as the Manchus who take resistance measures are killed or injured, and the entire population of the village and town will be shipped away by Haihan after the battle. If these Manchus want to leave here safely, they have to give up their money, food and property.

One path is available.

After receiving the report, Wang Tom did not order the extermination of all the Manchus here, but asked his subordinates to imprison them together and release them after the Haihan army evacuated Dazheng Town, so as not to let the nearby Qing army take control.

More immediate information on coalition forces.

As for the Han people in the town, the coalition forces will gather them and escort them to the seaside to board a ship and transport them to Haihan's own control area for resettlement. Although the population of Dazheng Town is only more than a thousand people, Wang Tom will not mind it.

Sparrows have little meat. If we can harvest this kind of food eight times out of ten times in a month, it will be a great help to the population growth of Haihan's colonies in the north.

Although Dazheng Town is not a prosperous place, after some looting by the coalition forces, there was still some harvest, which was barely enough to subsidize the military expenses of this operation. In addition, almost all the iron and bronze items in the town were also looted. These metals

Transporting the artifacts back for re-smelting would also be a huge profit.

Until the coalition forces withdrew from this place, the Qing army did not appear again. It seemed that the previous battle had made the Qing army give up the idea of ​​actively driving the coalition forces away from here. This made Ximang, who was holding his breath, slightly disappointed. He had originally been

It is hoped that the Qing army can fight back with bloodshed, and then the coalition forces will teach them a profound lesson.

"Want to fight against the Qing army? Don't worry, there will be many opportunities in the future!" Wang Tom sensed Ximang's unfinished thoughts and took the initiative to comfort him: "Don't forget, we will return to Korea to deal with the main force of the Qing army.

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Ximang sighed: "But by then, the Qing army will be far stronger than ours, right? Twenty times? Thirty or thirty times? Or more? Just thinking about it is very exciting. Maybe we shouldn't

Return to North Korea and continue to treat this place as the main battlefield!"

There was a hint of worry in Ximang's tone. Although he could probably understand Haihan's strategic intention to take the initiative to let the Qing army enter North Korea, he was actually not very optimistic about whether the Koreans could delay the Qing army's march south, which would be the next step for the coalition forces.

Action to gain more buffer time. If the Qing army's strength reaches about 100,000 as Haihan expected, then the huge disparity in strength will also greatly limit the coalition's tactical options. For example, such as moving far away from the fleet and going deep into the interior,

It will bear great risks, and the coalition forces may have to abandon most of their plans for land operations and can only adopt a more conservative response to control several major rivers in North Korea.

Wang Tom just smiled and said nothing. He and Qian Tiandun changed the original battle plan again and again. The main reason was mostly political factors, but he was unable to explain these deep-seated reasons in detail to Xi Mang. Although the revised

Although the operational plan has increased the risks of the operation a lot, the benefits to be gained from it have also increased, far exceeding Haihan's original plan.

Of course, before returning to the Korean Peninsula, the coalition forces had to make full use of the Qing's lack of defense and capture as many Han people as possible from its rule to enrich their control areas. Dazheng Town is one of these series.

The first stop for action.

The Qing army went to North Korea to burn, kill and plunder, while Haihan chose the Qing-ruled areas to attack. In fact, part of the combat objectives of both sides were the same, which was to plunder the population, money and food of the target area. But speaking of it, the coalition forces

The operational resistance is much smaller. After all, the coalition forces kidnapped all Han people from the Liaodong coast. To put it bluntly, they can be regarded as rescuing them from the fire pit. The resistance and resistance they need to face is not particularly strong, which is far better than that of the Qing army.

The situation in North Korea.

Among the coalition forces currently moving north from the south, except for the independent regiments still stationed in North Korea, almost all other troops participated in this operation commanded by Wang Tom. Even Jinzhou specially sent more than ten sailing ships to Guanglu

The island is waiting for orders and is responsible for transporting the captive people back.

If the efficiency of the operation were to compete, the Qing would naturally be unable to catch up with the Shanghai Han, and Wang Tom also hoped to use his country's strengths to defeat the Qing in this battle for people. Huang Taiji suddenly found himself one day.

North Korea's population grab is not as fast as its own population is losing its population abroad at the same time. That will surely be a very interesting thing.

Due to the large number of people kidnapped from Dazheng Town, the coalition forces stayed here for one more night and took two days to move all the people in this area to the sea. Of course, for this reason, the refugee camp on Guanglu Island had to

Work overtime to expand, otherwise even if Liu Shang, a local veteran, is in charge of directing refugee reception affairs, it will be difficult to cope with the sudden arrival of a large number of refugees.

After dealing with the Han refugees in Dazheng Town, the coalition forces once again took a boat to go to another place that the Portuguese fleet had visited before - Zhuanghe. There were many villages and towns in the Zhuanghe River Basin, but the Portuguese acted in a hurry last time.

They only attacked the settlement closest to the coast. This time, based on the confessions of local refugees, the coalition forces will raid the Zhuang River and Xiaosi River basins. As long as they do not run into the Qing army, Wang Tom is very optimistic.

It is estimated that the coalition forces can harvest at least about 3,000 people in this area.

In order to prevent the Qing army from dispatching troops to the east coast of Liaoning, the Haihan garrison in Jinzhou also began to become active, and under the command of Chen Yixin, it began to exert pressure on the north.

On June 15, the Jinzhou garrison suddenly moved out of the defense line, formed an artillery array that had not been deployed for a long time, and destroyed several Qing army fortresses with several hours of artillery bombardment.

Although the battle method of shelling the fortress is quite large, the consumption is also huge. In half a day, one-third of the ammunition reserves of the Jinzhou defense line were consumed. However, the effect achieved was in line with Haihan's expectations.

The local Qing general Geng Zhongming believed that Haihan might want to take advantage of the main force of the Qing army to attack the Korean Peninsula to seek a breakthrough in Jinzhou, Liaodong. He quickly ordered the troops deployed nearby to gather in the direction of Jinzhou to prevent himself from spending time.

The fortress defense line, which took more than a year to gradually build, was breached by the Haihan Army in one fell swoop.

In fact, the troops currently stationed near the Jinzhou defense line are not the elite of the Haihan Army, but the army troops transferred from the south last year. These troops are more than capable of defending, but they do not have the strength to attack the Liaodong Peninsula alone. To make this

The purpose of this proactive stance was to prevent the Qing army from worrying about the large-scale looting taking place on the Liaodong coast. For this reason, Chen Yixin did not hesitate to use a large amount of ammunition to create the illusion that Haihan intended to attack the Liaodong Peninsula, forcing the opponent to concentrate their forces on

Golden State Line.

Of course, if such a situation makes the Qing army unable to restrain itself and wants to pull out from behind its defense line for a confrontation, then Chen Yixin is also confident that he will use a large number of artillery to teach the opponent a profound lesson. However, Geng Zhongming showed restraint and did not

He did not attack rashly, but only strengthened the garrison strength of his own defense line. As for the emergencies from all over the Liaodong coast, Geng Zhongming didn't care so much at the moment. After all, his task was to guard the gate of Jinzhou, not the entire Liaodong Peninsula.

The long coastline, regardless of whether Haihan's multiple blooms were a conspiracy or another purpose, as long as he made sure that the line of defense in front of him was not breached by Haihan, everything would be fine.

While Haihan was making aggressive moves in the Liaodong Peninsula, the Qing army was also advancing the front line in North Korea. After capturing Longchuan in one fell swoop, the Qing army continued to march southward and advanced into Yanzhou.

Although Yanzhou has the word "zhou" in its name, it is actually not a big place. The level of city defense is almost the same as that of Longchuan, but the size of the garrison is slightly larger, reaching more than a thousand people.

Even though the Qing army had as many as 3,000 men in the vanguard battalion, it still seemed a little weak.

The military general stationed in Yanzhou is named Li Xun, but his origin has no direct relationship with the Li family that currently rules North Korea. But Li Xun is also a ruthless person. When he received the news that the Qing army was crossing the river, he ordered

The north and west gates were blocked with bricks and stones. The east side of Yanzhou City was built against a mountain, so there were only three gates in the north, west and south. After blocking two gates, only the south gate remained.

The gate can still be entered and exited. Li Xun simply let the people in the city decide where to stay. Until yesterday night, he ordered the remaining south gate to be blocked. The soldiers and civilians staying in the city now plan to fight with this

The city coexisted and perished.

The Qing army that attacked here followed the pattern of attacking Longchuan before and came again, hoping to capture the small city as quickly as possible. However, this time they failed to break the city easily. The Korean defenders in the city used

Gong Ya made his attitude clear to the invaders outside the city. Before the Qing army could attack the city, they had already dropped more than twenty corpses outside the city.

The Qing generals who led the troops did not stop there. They still sent two Niulu to continue attacking the city. However, their preparations were too hasty. After several siege ladders were put up on the top of the city, they were all used by the defenders to roll stones with wood.

It was smashed, and in the end we had to withdraw our troops before making plans.

The morale of the defenders in the city was greatly boosted after they repelled the first wave of Qing offensive. Li Xun ordered the demolition of the houses in the city close to the city wall, and moved heavy objects such as bricks, stone beams, etc. onto the city wall to serve as logs and rolling stones.

He also ordered people to kill pigs and sheep to reward those who participated in the war.

But before sunset that day, Azig led ten thousand troops to arrive outside Yanzhou City. After Li Xun saw the enemy military formation outside the city from the top of the city, he did not say anything for a long time. Even the most optimistic person,

After realizing the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves, it may be difficult to have much confidence in defending this small city.

Early the next morning, the Qing army once again launched an attack on Yanzhou City. This time, the cavalry-based vanguard battalion was not the main force of the attack. Under the cover of trebuchets and bows and arrows, about two thousand Qing troops attacked from the west.

Yanzhou City, and after a brief stalemate, they attacked the city. In the hand-to-hand fighting, the Korean army's combat effectiveness was obviously inferior to that of the Qing army. From launching the attack to breaking through the city defense, the Qing army only took a cup of tea.

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Fortunately, Li Xun had blocked the city gate from the inside the day before yesterday. Although the Qing army had attacked the city and gained a foothold, it was still unable to quickly send troops into the city. Instead, the defenders took the initiative to distance themselves and then covered the city.

After shooting two waves of arrows, the Qing army threw more than a dozen corpses on the top of the city.

But this casualty did not move Azig, who saw hope of destroying the city. He waved his riding whip and dropped three more impressive infantrymen on the battlefield.

When the number of Qing troops on top of the city exceeded one hundred, the defenders finally could no longer hold on to the defense line and had to retreat step by step into the city. As more and more Qing troops climbed over the city wall and entered the city, the decline of the defenders gradually became apparent.

Although Li Xun was brave, in a war involving thousands of people, personal force could not change the direction of the battle. After fighting for a while, Li Xun was injured and exhausted and was captured, and then the defenders fell into a leaderless state.

, was quickly suppressed by the Qing army separately. However, the Qing army also soon discovered that Yanzhou was actually an empty city. The people in the city had already fled, and there was not much food left.

When Azig heard about the situation in the city, he became furious and ordered Li Xun and more than a dozen of the garrison officers to be beheaded in public display. If it were not for the fact that the army would need a lot of labor to continue its southern expedition, he even wanted to order the soldiers of Yanzhou to be beheaded.

All prisoners were put to death.

The Qing army's attack on Yanzhou took far longer than expected, and the casualties also reached three digits. It was the first slightly difficult and tough battle they encountered after entering North Korea. However, Huang Taiji demanded that the Qing army attack Yanzhou as quickly as possible.

The army continued to advance southward at a rapid speed, so after Azig ordered the disposal of the prisoners here, he led his army to continue advancing and attack Iron Mountain, thirty miles away to the south.

Before sunset that day, Tieshan was taken away by a wave of Qing troops. There were also many people here who had just fled from Yanzhou in the north yesterday. Unexpectedly, they were only delayed in Tieshan for one day, but they still could not escape the fate of being captured.

Although the Korean army stationed at Tieshan resisted, due to their limited strength, they did not cause much trouble to the Qing army. In the end, more than 500 defenders left the battlefield and fled to nearby Xuanchuan.

The Qing army captured three small cities in three days after crossing the river. The advance was not unsatisfactory, but the population, money and food they obtained from North Korea were still not as good as Haihan's gains in Liaodong.
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