Kong Youde's army arrived overnight. When they arrived at Ludao Island, the sun had just risen. His fleet appeared at the end of the sea, bathed in the morning sunshine, which temporarily dimmed the sky.

Cover the sky and the sun, cover the sky and the sun properly.

Kong Youde's group actually only had about a hundred ships carrying sailors and land divisions, and the remaining nearly two hundred ships carried captured people in Shandong and their families - the so-called family members, what kind of family members could most of these Kuhaha people in Dongjiang Town have?

Most of them robbed ordinary women and started families after the rebellion in Shandong.

Kong Youde took a great risk by crossing the Yellow Sea at night, but their veterans in Dongjiang Town were originally soldiers who could do both land and water. The former Sun Yuanhua's firearms deputy general Wu Jinsheng, firearms battalion commander Pan Xue, and Guan Hongyi who were captured in Dengzhou

Cannon Officers Lu Zhineng, Cheng Miao and Gunpowder Bureau Officer Jia Zhiqiang were also the people who followed Sun Yuanhua and Xi Yi to practice the art of identifying the direction of ships at sea.

The dozen or so captured Portuguese soldiers were even more proficient at this. The leader, Carvalho, also served as the second officer of Portuguese armed merchant ships who specialized in observing wind direction, ocean currents, and calculating ship speed/latitude. Therefore, when they set off from Chengshanwei,

With only a compass and a few scattered islands, I crossed the Yellow Sea and arrived near Deer Island.

The above people were originally what Nikan wanted very much, but to his surprise, Kong Youde kidnapped them first.

The time has come to early September. Although the southeast wind is still playing a major role in the Liaodong sea at this time, the northeast wind and northwest wind have also begun to rise. For a while, the sea winds are turbulent, and people without certain navigation experience cannot quickly distinguish them.

Correct wind direction.

Both sides have telescopes in their hands, and they are watching each other's movements.

What Nikan was thinking was, "With a ship of this size and without a flag, it's probably the legendary Kong Youde rebel. Hurry and take your time and we'll still meet him."

What Kong Youde was thinking was, "Damn it, I didn't expect to encounter the Ming army here! There are also some turtle ships, most of which are Shen Zhixiang's troops who retreated here from Dengzhou."

What Geng Zhongming was thinking was, "Am I wrong? It should be absolutely foolproof. Sooner or later, the empty Dengzhou City will be discovered by the Ming army. Then they will swarm into the city, burn, kill, and loot, and live happily for a few days. Waiting for them

Knowing the movement we are waiting for, if we go south, we will be blocked by another group of people. How did we arrive at Deer Island so quickly?"

"what to do?"

Both sides are thinking about this issue.

"Mengzi, there are only seventy or eighty enemy ships. The most powerful ones are probably those turtle ships that cannot enter the oil and salt. We will start with fifty warships, with the family fleet in the middle, and the outer and rear of the family fleet.

Follow fifty warships and you will be safe."

"The destination we are waiting for is the land in Liaodong. If the enemy ships do not come up to fight, that's fine. If they come up to fight, they will not be able to come up for a while because of the fifty warships in front. When all the family fleets are on land,

At this time, you can either turn around and fight to the death with the enemy ships, or you can all go ashore to look for the nobles of the Jin Kingdom. You see..."

Kong Youde frowned, "It's not a fight to the death. All the family members are here. We need to cover you when we get ashore. I'll wait for more ships. Under the cover of fifty large ships, we will try our best to get closer to the mainland. Let's go ashore first!"

"

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Sun Long headed straight for Ludao with fifty warships, and Sun Jiaji also came up with thirty large ships.

What is different from history is that the Kong Youde rebels who defected to the Jin Kingdom at this time did not have red cannons on their ships. They only had Franco machines, Dafa Gong and other items captured in Qishansuo, Weihaiwei and other places, most of which were still bowl-mouth blunderbuss.

, blunderbuss, but according to the combat style of Dongjiang Town Navy, hand-to-hand combat is the right way.

Unlike the North Korean Navy, the ships of the Dongjiang Town Navy are very close to each other even at sea. Even so, the distance between them can still be passed by a large ship.

Originally, Sun Long wanted to confront the enemy ship on the sea. It would be easy if the enemy ship retreated in the face of difficulties. He would not be afraid if the enemy ship came up to fight.

For a moment, Sun Long's fleet gradually slowed down, but Sun Jiaji's fleet still formed a neat formation and rushed towards him.

"Mom, how dare you fight for your life with me? Speed ​​up and meet me!"

Just when the ships on both sides were about to enter combat, Nikan's mind suddenly flashed with the sight of the people in Dengzhou wailing and groaning under the Ming army's butcher's knife. For a moment, he almost gave an order to open the waterway to let them pass. In the end, it was

Reason prevailed.

In the waters near Ludao, Sun Jiaji fought with Sun Long, and finally, under Nikan's growing anger, Sun Long's fleet was completely annihilated, and Sun Long only escaped with his life.

However, Sun Long's battle ultimately provided a lot of time for Kong Youde's army to land smoothly. By the time Sun Jiaji's fleet caught up, they had already fled ashore.

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Thousands of hectares.

One of the three counties in Jeonju in the Kingdom of Korea, the other two counties are Buan and Geumje.

The total area of ​​the three counties of Wanqing, Buan and Geumje is less than 3 million acres, but it is the largest plain area in the southern part of the Korean Kingdom. The rice area is as high as 2 million acres. It is the most important granary of the kingdom, second only to Pyongyang. Due to

This place is in the south, and the rice yield per mu is much higher than that of Pyongyang Prefecture, so it is more important to Li Zhu than Pyongyang Prefecture.

One day in mid-September, a large group of ships suddenly broke into the Wanqing River in the north of Jeonju.

In this era, after the Imjin Japanese Rebellion, with the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the relationship between Japan and North Korea gradually improved. For ordinary Koreans, the possible emergence of powerful enemies on the sea should not be a problem.

exists.

Ordinary people didn't care at all that such a large group of ships broke into the Wanqing River - they were all ships flying the flag of the Ming Dynasty, and they should be heading to Quanzhou Prefecture.

The reason why people in Quanzhou think this way is that the people in charge of the military in Quanzhou are two Ming people - Qiulu and Qiudi, the sons of Qiu Shuijing, the Ming general who stayed in Korea during the Imjin Japanese Rebellion.

After the Qiu brothers took charge of the military affairs in Quanzhou, they secretly traded with merchants in the Songhu area of ​​the Ming Dynasty. For a while, ships from the Ming Dynasty continued to ply the Wanqing River and Dongjin River in Quanzhou.

However, it was rare to see so many ships, but they were accompanied by turtle ships and wooden house ships that were common in the Korean navy. So the people were relieved one by one - the navy of the imperial court had joined forces with the Ming Dynasty to do business.

Since the Tang Dynasty, North Korea has always been a vassal state of the Unified Dynasty of the Central Plains. Due to the poor land, it was unable to build magnificent cities, and most of them were just adobe walls.

This is true for Quanzhou and its three counties. They all have low earthen walls. The tallest one in Quanzhou is only one and a half feet high, and the three counties are only one foot high. Most of the cities in North Korea do not have moats.

If the enemy wants to use all their strength to attack, they can attack them in one go.

The strange thing is that this fleet of about a hundred ships of mixed types did not go straight to Quanzhou, which is close to the mountains, but went directly to Jindi County to the north of the Wanqing River. At dawn, when the city was close to the south of the Wanqing River,

When the gate just opened, the soldiers of the fleet suddenly took control of the south gate and then the entire city.

Unfortunately, there were only 200 soldiers in Jindi County, and the fleet almost fell down at once.

After taking control of Jindi County, the fleet immediately controlled the four city gates, allowing entry and exit into the city. At the same time, they released all the prisoners in the prison, allowing these people to open the county government's granary and move all the rice that had just been harvested there.

On board the ship.

Not to mention, the fleet distributed 30% of the rice to the poor families in the city, and the city was filled with joy and scrambled to carry rice to the fleet.

After evacuating Jindi County, the fleet followed the same pattern and moved north to control Yishan County and emptied the grain warehouses in Yishan County. Finally, the fleet returned to Wanqing County on the seaside and moved all the grain and grass in the county.

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Just like the Ming Dynasty, the people who had accepted the food and property from the fleet did not dare to stay in North Korea anymore. They all asked to go with the fleet. The fleet weighed it again and again, and finally agreed.

So, after strengthening dozens of large ships, the fleet headed south with tens of thousands of stones of rice, and arrived at Jeju Island a few days later.

This fleet is naturally the Nikan fleet heading south from Deer Island.

These tens of thousands of stones of rice are the winter food for the Han and Korean people who have moved here.

By the time the Qiu brothers from Quanzhou arrived at Wanqing County with their troops, the fleet had already sailed away.

Jeju Island.

Today, Jeju Island has become an extremely lively place.

Compared with other places in North Korea, Jeju Island is a special place.

First of all, in terms of production, this place does not produce rice, but it is rich in buckwheat.

At the same time, this place was the largest horse farm in the Kingdom of Korea and a place for making bows and arrows. The criminals who had been exiled were either serfs who planted buckwheat, herder slaves who raised horses, or craftsmen slaves who made bows and arrows.

However, with the arrival of Aslan Khan, Jeju Island is undergoing some changes.

Bows, arrows, horses, and farming continue, but the words "××SLAVE" have been removed from the heads of the relevant personnel, and they have all restored their status as civilians. This alone makes most people on the island burst into tears of gratitude to Nikan.

From July to September, about 20,000 Liaodong Han households have moved to Jeju Island. If such a large number of people compete with the Koreans for food, it will inevitably cause chaos.

However, there was no trouble on the island.

After Nikan took control of Jeju Island, he immediately asked people to widen and heighten the cities of Jeju Ministerial Palace, Daejong County, and Jeongui County. After the expansion, all Han people lived in the cities.

The relocated Han people also became the main force in construction projects.

One more thing.

Jeju Island is actually a volcanic island, and the island is covered with thick volcanic ash. Under Nikan's suggestion, the craftsmen of the island's Ministry of Industry have produced soil cement mixed with volcanic ash, lime, and clay.

With the addition of soil and cement, the widening and heightening work of the three major cities went extremely smoothly. By the time Nikan's fleet arrived, the reconstruction of the three cities was almost completed.

On the tail of the southeast wind, Nikan's more than two hundred turtle ships transported several groups of Han people to Vladivostok. However, after September, the north wind on the sea gradually strengthened and the south wind gradually weakened. Want to continue the large-scale

It is no longer possible to transport Han people there.

There is no airtight wall in the world, and Nikan's occupation of Jeju Island was finally detected by Huang Taiji and Li Zhu.
Chapter completed!