Zheng Zhilong listened to Huang Han's suggestion and stated that he would take the archipelago east of the Strait of Malacca and establish a base camp with a three-year planning cycle.

Huang Han pointed out that the territory seized by Zheng Zhilong is, of course, Singapore in later generations, not only to take that island, but also to occupy all the nearby islands such as Batam and Bintan, and to encroach on the Malay Peninsula when the strength is enough.

He also told Zheng Zhilong that there must be no aborigines left behind when he takes a piece of land, and his heart will be different if he is not of my race, and there are many Han people, so there is no need to leave the local aborigines and become a bane in the future, and he can completely immigrate from Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi.

Huang Han only proposed not to leave the natives, and as for Zheng Zhilong's handling of it, he didn't ask at all.

If Zheng Zhilong was merciful, he should have loaded the natives on a ship and transported them to another island, if he didn't want to bother, it would be very bloody.

A few days after Hwang Yong sailed again with his fleet, the countdown to the attack on Pyongyang's defense line began.

Half a year has passed, and many of the guards in the "Red Banner Army" system, which has sufficient money, food and population, have been turned into regular soldiers.

Since the replenishment of cavalry could not catch up with the needs of forming a new battalion, Huang Han decisively ordered the formation of ten infantry battalions, which could only be regarded as a second-class regular battalion, with no more than 3,000 people, which was enough to lack a thousand cavalry commanders.

The plan formulated by the Zan Painting Department was a two-pronged approach, with the cavalry and guard battalions to be used in a concentrated manner, led by the general of the conquest, out of Kaesong and directly approaching Pyongyang, with more than 40,000 troops.

Since the "Hangang Province" requires a large number of laborers to work quickly, this dispatch did not recruit the army to serve as a laborer in principle, but brought with them 50 thousand guards and 22,000 people from 20 guards on the Kaesong front.

Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu, Yang Guoen, Shen Ming, Huang Long, Yu Fei, An Xiaole, Gao Zhongyi, Zheng Xuewei, Liu Sihai and other civilian and military generals led the Marine Corps of the Navy Division and the second-class infantry battalion that had just been assembled at Phi Dao, with a total of more than 50,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 troops from the garrison to form the Yalu River Army.

Their first goal was to seize Uiju and control the middle and lower reaches of the Yalu River.

The battalions directly under the generals such as Yang Guoen, Huang Long, and Zheng Xuewei also lacked cavalry thousands, and the cavalry was in the Kaesong Front at this time, under the personal command of the general Zhengjiao.

On 1 August, the Kaesong Front Army started fighting on time, and the cavalry used intensively pursued and intercepted more than eighty percent of the sentry horses arranged by the Qing army on the road that had already been well reported.

On the first day of the war, the Kaesong Front advanced 120 li and encamped at the foot of Jeongfang Mountain, about 100 li from Pyongyang, where there was a city abandoned by the Qing army.

What is the Korean name of this place Huang Han didn't bother to ask, and directly named Zhengfang after the mountain, which will become a county seat.

In the afternoon of the next day, the artillery fire of the "Red Banner Army" began to bombard the positions in the south of Pyongyang, and on the same day they broke through the perimeter, and the resistance encountered was still not worth mentioning, and a large number of Han and Korean soldiers raised their hands and surrendered.

In addition to supervising the war, Jiannu and Tartar also tried in vain to drive the servant army to work hard, and even the Jiading Inspector sent by Kong Youde refused to choose to slip away for the burial of Jiannu, and the Qing army took the initiative to surrender to the unknown.

That night, Duoduo saw the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry sent to supervise the battle in the military camp outside the city, but these people were not able to run back, and dozens of people were countered when they stopped the Han and Goryeo armies from surrendering or fleeing.

It seems that the trench system arranged by Kong Youde could not stop the sharp offensive of the "Red Banner Army" at all, and Duoduo refused to be trapped in the city, so he decided to listen to the advice of the fourteenth brother and led the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to leave the city and the trench net and station in the wilderness.

Duoduo immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare for the evacuation of Pyongyang City, bring supplies and gold and silver treasures, pull all the war horses and pull horses, and by the way, requisition all the war horses of the Han army.

In the evening, Kong Youde received an order from Duoduo to concentrate on the use of war horses, and the reason was high-sounding.

The Manchu and Mongolian cavalry could not give up their mobility to drain the city of Pyongyang, and he had to lead the cavalry to camp ten miles outside the defensive system, and the purpose of this was to concentrate on the use of cavalry to raid and attack the Ming army in the trench net.

There was no need for cavalry to guard the trenches and cities, so in order to ensure that everyone in the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry had war horses, they concentrated on using war horses.

What about liars! Kong Youde's IQ is more than eight years old, of course he doesn't believe it, knowing that Duoduo pulls people out of the inner line and deploys them on the outside line, the primary purpose is not to kill the enemy, but to facilitate him to leave when he sees that the situation is not good.

How can you blackmail five or six thousand war horses and pull horses for nothing? Bargaining was a must, and Kong Youde demanded that the garrison in Pyongyang receive all the supplies in the city and take over the defense.

As long as Duoduo left the dangerous place, he didn't think about setting fire to the city for a massacre, because Dorgon specially reminded him not to do anything to the end, the hatred was too big, and the "Red Banner Army" would be in trouble if they chased after it regardless of losses.

He agreed to change his guard and completely put everything he couldn't take away at the disposal of Kong Youde.

Early the next morning, Duoduo withdrew from Pyongyang with 13,000 Manchurian cavalry, 7,000 clothed minions, and bannermen, a total of 20,000 people, and 35,000 war horses and horses, loaded with military supplies, grain and grass, and marched north for 30 miles before setting up camp.

Duoduo did not rush away, he had more than 20,000 horses to carry grain and grass in his hands, which could ensure that 20,000 people would not go hungry for a month, and he still had illusions, also because the mobility of the Manchurian cavalry gave him confidence.

He believed that the whole cavalry contingent of 10,000 chose to retreat, and the "Red Banner Army" did not have to fear sending cavalry to pursue it.

The general who led the troops could not look ahead and backward, and if Duoduo fled at full speed to the upper reaches of the Yalu River on August 1, the Yalu River Front would really not be able to intercept those many cavalry.

After all, the vast majority of the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry were double-seated, and the horses were in good condition, and it was not a problem to gallop for one or two thousand miles for three or five days in a row.

However, Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu and other civilian and military generals did not consider Duoduo's 13,000 men and horses in their plans, and they turned around and fled without encountering an attack.

Knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, Song Pengfei, Sun Chuanting, Chen Qiyu, etc. have been studying the personalities of Qing army generals during this time.

Jiannu has often pressed the Ming army to win victories over the years, and he has not been completely frightened by the "Red Flag Army", and he will not become a frightened bird.

I think that Duoduo is also a master who has been fighting since he was a child, and he is not completely ignorant of military affairs like the Ming prince, how can he be willing to give away this vast land near Pyongyang?

Sun Chuanting and others judged that Duoduo could not slip away as soon as the fight began, and he always had to work hard to do something to suit his personality.

Therefore, the Yalu River Front was not in a hurry to advance in the direction of Pyongyang at all, but attacked the city along the Yalu River, with the simple purpose of blocking Duoduo's retreat and striving to intercept all 13,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry.