Chapter 1813 A two-pronged approach

According to Wang Tom's original idea, the Qing army should continue to be held by the Yalu River in order to buy more time for the construction of military bases in the rear and the raid on the Liaodong Peninsula. However, if the Qing army was not released into the DPRK, it would be difficult for Haihan to be justified.

They wanted to obtain more favorable conditions from North Korea, and it was not a wise choice to launch a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army on the banks of the Yalu River with limited troops. Therefore, after careful discussion with Qian Tiandun, they decided to set up this situation and first

They pretended to be in a falling out with North Korea, and then withdrew their troops from the Yalu River. After a part of the Qing army crossed the river to invade North Korea, they then turned back and cut off the shipping in the Yalu River to disrupt the Qing army's battle plan.

Of course, this plan could not be communicated to the North Korean high-level officials in advance, because the other party would definitely not agree to this kind of war plan that led the wolf into the house. Therefore, when the military accidentally intercepted a secret message sent to the Qing Dynasty by the ghost in Yiju officialdom at the border, they

He immediately took control of the relevant personnel and forged a fake secret message and sent it to the Qing army through the original channel to mislead the other party's judgment. The entire process was not notified to Seoul and was completely operated by Haihan himself.

After the two days of artillery battle, Wang Tom believed that the time was ripe. Taking the initiative to withdraw at this time would make the Qing army think that Haihan was unwilling to fight for it after falling out with North Korea. It would not appear too blunt and trigger the Qing army.

of doubt.

In order to show respect for the allies, news will be sent to North Korea tomorrow morning. Because the Qing army's offensive in Jiuliancheng was too fierce, the Haihan Army had to temporarily withdraw from this area. If North Korea delivers the news fast enough, then

This bad news should arrive in Seoul earlier than the news of the fall of Uiju. At that time, Qian Tiandon will hold talks with Kim Sang-heon and other senior North Korean officials to ask for more conditions from them - such as providing the Haihan Army with

More manpower and military spending.

By that time, the Qing army had entered North Korea, and the urgency of the situation did not allow the North Koreans to slowly negotiate conditions at the negotiation table. Even if the conditions offered by Haihan would be more harsh, the North Koreans would have nothing to do with it.

With no room for bargaining, the only option is to give Haihan more money in exchange for military aid.

Although they may not fully understand the intentions of their superiors in making this arrangement, the Marines still completed the evacuation task extremely well. By midnight, they had all evacuated to the troop carrier, and then slowly sailed downstream. The original execution was carried out upstream.

The Fujian Navy, which was on guard duty, played a rearguard role during the retreat. It was not until all the Haihan Navy ships left this section of the river that the Fujian Navy fleet slowly sailed past this area and was occupied by Haihan.

A place for a month.

Xu Yuzhuo still felt a little regretful. The fleet he led had been going up and down the Yalu River for so many days, but in fact it had never been involved in the real battle. The most important task was just to serve as a sentinel for the Haihan Army in the upper reaches of the river.

, occasionally had to be responsible for completing logistics and transportation errands, and had never set foot on the battlefield outside Jiulian City.

When Wang Tom ordered troops on Jianghua Island, Xu Yuzhuo was quite proud, thinking that this fully proved that the Fujian Navy was the most relied-upon and trusted ally of the Haihan people. But now both the Portuguese and Annan people have participated in the invasion of Liaodong.

During the battle on the coastline, his troops could only play a supporting role with no role in the Yalu River. Now they were about to evacuate the Yalu River before firing a single shot. This sense of gap still made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Of course, Wang Tom also explained to him why he should take the initiative to retreat from the Yalu River on the premise of taking the initiative, but this explanation was only limited to the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. As for the deeper reasons, such as Haihan's desire to withdraw from the regional chaos

Wang Tom will not elaborate on the interests he seeks for himself in the game. And Xu Yuzhuo is not dealing with the Haihan people for the first time. He knows very well that the explanation he gets is not the whole truth of the matter, but with the information he has

, it is indeed difficult to deduce the real purpose of Haihan’s repeated strategic deployment.

This time the Fujian Navy sent troops to the Korean Peninsula, it was certainly not a special trip to watch the excitement. Thanks to the influence of the Haihan Army, the Fujian Navy attached great importance to the actual combat capabilities of the troops. With the Haihan Army's expeditions to various places, it can both

Learn more practical tactics from the Haihan Army, which is also an excellent means of actual combat training.

Xu Yuzhuo spat fiercely in the direction of Jiulian City in the distance, thinking that if there was a similar fighting opportunity next time, he would have to ask Tom Wang to fight anyway, otherwise it would cost a lot of military supplies to travel so far.

It would be a real loss to come here just to do odd jobs for the Haihan Army.

Although the Qing army received a "secret report" from North Korea in advance, they really did not expect that the Haihan army would actually withdraw so quickly. When the patrolmen responsible for monitoring the Haihan position in the early morning discovered that they were docked on the shore

The Haihan warships had disappeared, and there was no smoke as usual on the Haihan position, so I knew something must have happened here and quickly reported the news to Jiulian City.

Huang Taiji, who had just arrived in Jiulian City to supervise the battle just the day before yesterday, was also very surprised after hearing the news. In fact, he did not believe too much in the news sent by the spy earlier. After all, he had been dealing with Haihan for two or three years. He was deeply aware of the news.

Knowing that this opponent has many tricks on the battlefield and uses almost every trick, the so-called withdrawal of troops is most likely just a cover, and it is impossible to say that there is any other conspiracy.

But after two days of not particularly fierce artillery battles, the Haihan people really evacuated the position they had occupied for almost a month. This decisive performance shook Huang Taiji's original thoughts.

As the outside world expected, after Huang Taiji changed the Yuan Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, he chose North Korea as a soft persimmon to sacrifice the flag and as the target of the first battle of the founding of the country. According to his plan, the Qing army would concentrate its superior forces and attack in one fell swoop

North Korea advanced to Seoul as quickly as possible, forcing the North Koreans to surrender and cut off all diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty and Haihan.

Judging from the strength comparison between the Qing army and the Korean army, it is not impossible to achieve such a combat goal. Huang Taiji is optimistic that if everything goes well, the war will be over and resolved within three months.

With North Korea out of the way, the Qing army's main attack direction can be concentrated to the southwest in the future, and they can concentrate on dealing with the Ming Dynasty - and Haihan, which is a big trouble on the Liaodong Peninsula.

But it was a pity that his idea could not be realized smoothly. When he was still dispatching troops and gathering troops, the Haihan people came to his door and directly blocked the planned crossing point of the Qing army. Huang Taiji received the call

After the report from the front line, everyone was a little doubtful. Is it someone in the army who accidentally leaked the news? Or is it that the Haihan people have a dog nose and can smell the smell and find it all the way? Otherwise, why would it be too late and too late? I will take action against North Korea.

, this Haihan man suddenly jumped out to act as a stumbling block?

However, follow-up information was quickly sent to Huang Taiji. It turned out that the Koreans, unwilling to be humiliated, chose to invite Haihan to enter the country to help in the war. The special border between North Korea and the Qing Dynasty made it easy for Haihan to find the Qing army to fight.

The key parts of the plan were struck, and only two to three thousand troops blocked tens of thousands of Qing troops in Jiulian City, unable to move.

Since the heavy weapons of the Qing army have not yet arrived at Jiulian City, if they use their flesh and blood to attack the guns and cannons, they will avoid repeating the tragic situation in the Battle of Jinzhou. Therefore, Azig, who is taking command here, chose to remain silent.

It has been unwilling to take the initiative to fight. It was not until Huang Taiji brought a large number of heavy artillery that the Qing army finally cautiously opened up the battle formation and fought against Haihan. But unexpectedly, after only two days of fighting, the Haihan army voluntarily gave up.

We were in position and withdrew completely.

Even the most optimistic Huang Taiji did not think that he could win this position in two or three days, and was even mentally prepared to sacrifice thousands of people here. But the Haihan people always act so unexpectedly

, when the Qing army was finally ready for battle, they found that their opponent had just walked away. If he hadn't received the news beforehand, Huang Taiji would have really suspected that his opponent was trying to lure him into the trap.

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Of course, even so, Huang Taiji still did not dare to be careless at all, and sent out rangers to the upper and lower reaches of the Yalu River to search for traces of the Haihan Fleet, in case it was still ambushing somewhere on the river, waiting for his army to cross the river.

Strike halfway across.

Naturally, the Qing cavalry could not find the presence of the Haihan fleet on the Yalu River, because at this time the fleet had sailed out of the Yalu River estuary and met up with the Majesty-class battleships and logistics fleets staying here in the waters near Xindao. Except for a small number of reconnaissance cavalry,

They stayed on the North Korean side of the Yalu River to scout the movements of the Qing army. All other troops had withdrawn from the Yalu River, so that the Qing army could cross the river safely.

Of course, the combined fleet did not enter a state of vacation because of this. Although it gave up the battlefield on the Yalu River, Wang Tom did not intend to let the coalition forces just idle. The fleet will go to Shicheng Island near the Liaodong coast to rendezvous with the Portuguese fleet and the Annan fleet.

, and then seize this opportunity to play some big games on the Liaodong coast.

Earlier, Wang Tom had also worried that the coalition forces blocking the way on the Yalu River and launching high-frequency raids on the Liaodong coast would cause the Qing army to give up the idea of ​​invading North Korea and instead transfer troops to the coastal areas to prevent coalition plunder.

But now that the Qing army has transported a large amount of heavy weapons to the banks of the Yalu River, and it is clear that they want to remove the dock position at Haihan and then cross the river into North Korea. Wang Tom does not need to worry about playing too hard on the Liaodong coast and the Qing army will turn back. Now

Although the passage to the south was freed up and handed over to the Qing army, Wang Tom would not let it go easily.

After confirming that the Haihan Army had completely evacuated the Yalu River Basin, Huang Taiji issued the order to cross the river without hesitation, so that hundreds of large and small ships hidden in the upper reaches of the Gehe River could return to the Jiulian River section as soon as possible. But let

What made the Qing army a little depressed was that Haihan set up many explosive devices at the dock position. The Qing army that went to take over the dock encountered a series of mine attacks. Not only did more than a hundred people die, but the entire dock facilities were also blown up seven times.

It was so messed up that it would take several days just to repair the trestle where the ships docked.

But this situation made the Qing generals feel a little more at ease. They believed that this just showed the determination of the Haihan people to leave here. The other party had even destroyed all the dock facilities. Looking at this situation, at least they do not plan to return here in the short term.

Coming.

But it is not that no one thought that if the Haihan people made a comeback, they could try to capture the repaired Jiulian City Pier again. After all, fighting on the Yalu River, the Qing army was basically unable to resist the offensive of the Haihan fleet. So there is a rough and tumble.

Azig specially ordered that while repairing the pier, he also began to build coastal defense forts on the shore to prevent the Haihan fleet from returning to the carbine and still have no means of defense and counterattack.

Jin Sangjiu, who originally served as a military observer in the coalition fleet, has been cut off from communication channels with the outside world at this time, because according to Haihan's request, it is currently the so-called "quiet period" and the fleet must prepare for the next raid.

Fully concealed, any communication with the outside world is not allowed.

It is naturally difficult for Jin Shangjiu to understand such an arrangement. In his opinion, it is clear that they have taken the initiative at Jiuliancheng Pier. Even if they cannot withstand the Qing army's offensive, the coalition forces can retreat to Weihua Island or Yiju territory, as long as the fleet blocks it

On the river, no matter how many ships the Qing army had, they could never hope to cross the Yalu River. But the Haihan people actually withdrew quietly in the middle of the night, leaving the Yalu River wide open.

Without witnessing it with his own eyes, Jin Sangjiu could completely predict the situation after the Qing army crossed the river. With more than 3,000 troops stationed in Yiju, how could they withstand the offensive of tens of thousands of Qing troops. And the troops from the south of Yizhou

Yongcheon, Yeonju, Tieshan, Seoncheon, Jeongju, Anju, Suncheon, and Pyongseong all had the same garrison strength as Uiju. Only Pyongyang City had tens of thousands of garrison troops. How long could this area hold back the Qing army?

, Jin Shangjiu is not optimistic about this.

But now that Wang Tom said that the coalition forces would "open up a second battlefield" and "find a more effective way to attack the Qing Dynasty," he could only believe it temporarily and pray that Haihan would not abandon North Korea.

While the coalition fleet rushed to the Liaodong coast to assemble, according to the prior arrangement, Qian Tiandun delayed for one day before informing the North Koreans of the withdrawal of the coalition fleet from the Yalu River. Kim Sang-hyun was thunderous after hearing the news and hurriedly left Seoul.

Rush to the construction site by the Datong River to find out why the Haihan people suddenly retreated without a fight.

"The local support for our army in Yiju is very limited. It is difficult for our army to hold the Jiuliancheng pier for a long time, and some warships also need maintenance and ammunition replenishment." Qian Tiandun explained patiently to Kim Sang-heon who hurried over.

The reason: "As we all know, your country has no suitable place that can provide maintenance and repairs for warships, so we can only send the fleet back to Jinzhou first. But Mr. Jin can rest assured that we will complete the supplies as soon as possible, and then repair the warships nearby in the Liaodong area.

The Qing Dynasty launched a war."
Chapter completed!