At the same time that Luo Li led the Left Route Army to start in Jinzhou, the wharves in Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Weihaiwei also began to be busy after April 13.

A large number of large and medium-sized troops gathered in these three places began to act one after another, carrying various equipment and supplies, and appeared on the docks in various places.

Groups of soldiers will pass through the trestle bridges, board the sea boats, all kinds of materials are loaded into the sea ships like a stream, even mules and horses, are also loaded into the specially modified sea boats.

The first batch of Dazhong troops who crossed the sea to fight will be used as the right hook of this battle of Liaodong, slamming into the eastern part of Liaodong, so that Jiannu can't care about each other.

Such a large-scale sea-crossing operation is an unprecedented adventure for a large and medium-sized army that has only carried out a few small-scale landing operations, and compared with ordinary land operations, sea-crossing operations require better coordination, and the slightest carelessness will lead to great chaos.

For this reason, Xiao Tianjian thought twice about it, and finally asked Li Xin to personally command the sea-crossing operation in Dengzhou, and also dispatched a large number of experienced staff officers from the General Staff Headquarters of the Military Department to help him command the sea-crossing operation of the Right Route Army.

Prior to this, Li Xin convened the chief and deputy generals and staff officers of the Right Route Army in Dengzhou to discuss the pre-war plan for several days, and also carried out the work on the map and several performances, using several islands in the Changshan Islands as the location of the exercise, ordering the Right Route Army to participate in the battle, and with the cooperation of the Northern Maritime Division, two landing exercises were carried out in late March and early April.

After 13 April, all units made preparations before departure, and the naval division carried out a final inspection and refurbishment of the ships participating in the battle, thus meeting the requirements for departure before the operation.

On the fifth day after Luo Li began to lead his troops to fight in Jinzhou on 13 April, that is, on 18 April, Li Xin personally presided over the ceremony of killing animals and sacrificing flags and sacrificing the sea god in Dengzhou.

The entire first wave of loading and departing from the morning began until dark, the first wave of 10,000 Chinese troops and the required materials were all loaded, with an order, Denglai, Weihaiwei three docks sounded a sound of cannons.

The ships of the naval division fired a salute, and the land division who saw them off on the dock also fired a salute, and all kinds of sea ships raised their naval flags one after another, and slowly raised their sails and anchors, and slowly sailed away from the trestle under the drag of the sampans, and then adjusted the rudder and sailed out of the harbor.

The seaports in the north are far less than those in the south because of the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sea and geographical reasons, and the facilities are not as perfect as those in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, and the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

In this way, although there will be a two-day delay at sea, the unity of action can be achieved, so as long as there is no storm at sea, there will be no major problems in this operation.

When the naval division set off from all over the place, the local people went to the port to see them off, such a scale of the fleet, in a hundred years in the north has never been seen, each departure port gathered more than 100 ships, the mast is like a forest, the sail covers the sky and the sun, which attracts the people to cheer.

The people of the north for more than 10 years ago, really suffered from the scourge of Jiannu, and now the new establishment of the Dazhong Dynasty, the north finally began to gradually stabilize down, the common people all hope that the Dazhong Dynasty can completely solve the scourge of Jiannu, this time, especially the people in Shandong, in order to support the Dazhong Army to cross the sea and the northern expedition to Liaodong, in addition to enthusiastically joining the army, the local people also contributed to help the Dazhong Army transport various materials, and greatly supported the Dazhong Army to cross the sea.

Now seeing the huge fleet of ships and ships of the Dazhong Army leaving, many people are crying, kneeling on the ground and praying for the officers and men of the Dazhong Army that they will be victorious and successful.

Li Xin originally wanted to follow the first fleet to set off and go to Phi Island to personally command the battle, but under the persuasion of the generals, considering that more troops and horses would be mobilized for the sea-crossing operation in the future, Li Xin had to hand over this honor to Diao Zhenglai to be responsible, and at the same time let Xiao Rufeng, commander of the Northern Naval Division, assist him to coordinate the combat operations between the naval division and the land division.

God is finally beautiful, after entering April, the wind direction on the sea gradually began to blow the southeast wind, which is very conducive to the action of the sea division boat, three large-scale fleets after the departure, sailed to the east of Liaodong by the wind and waves, on the way did not encounter a big wind and waves, and finally six days later, the three fleets began to converge in the waters of Zhangzidao.

After two days of convergence, the army and sea division fleet first swept the waters of Zhangzidao, landed at Zhangzidao, and after a short rest of a day on Zhangzidao, it immediately continued to sail north.

Although Jiannu has captured the ships of the Ming army over the years, and has a little sailor strength, Jiannu has never paid attention to sailors, at best, it has ordered some ships to cruise around the seaside to check the merchant ships sailing to Liaodong, and basically no new ships have been built.

Over the years, with the decay of old ships, many ships have become unusable, so at sea they simply cannot cause any trouble to the large Chinese naval fleet, and they do not even have the ability to detect the large Chinese military fleet.

In this way, the first batch of soldiers and horses of the Right Route Army to cross the sea and fight, after a voyage of more than ten days, finally appeared on the sea outside Phi Island.

The Jiannu soldiers guarding Phi Island suddenly saw a large number of sails appear on the sea around them, and then countless boats began to converge towards Phi Island.

It's a pity that their resistance really made the Dazhong army feel ridiculous, and the Qing army on the entire Phi Island only had a dozen cannons in total, of which only four Hongyi cannons were placed, and they were placed far away from the coast, so they couldn't stop the landing of the Dazhong army at all.

Two Western-style sailing boats newly built at the Dengzhou Shipyard and several reinforced sand boats served as artillery ships at this time, and they came directly to within 100 meters of the sea, and carried out an artillery bombardment of the Jiannu army on the island who were trying to resist.

Dozens of guns of all kinds on the ship were fired at the same time, and the earth and rocks on the shore were flying all of a sudden, and the Jiannu soldiers who had just been assembled were beaten up in an instant, and fled to the center of the island with their tails between their legs.

Immediately, sand boats or fortune boats filled with the soldiers of the Dazhong army immediately began to dock, and the soldiers of the Dazhong army staggered to the beachhead, and quickly formed a formation and began to advance towards the island.

Although the voyage of more than ten days was a kind of torment for the personnel of the land division, many people began to get seasick after boarding the ship and going to sea, and vomited a mess along the way, even including the commander-in-chief Diao Zheng Diao, who was the first batch of commanders to go out of the battle, was also dizzy on the ship and could not find the north, and when it came time to land, Diao Zheng could not effectively stand on the handsome ship to command the operation, so he could only temporarily transfer the command to the Northern Fleet Death Order Xiao Rufeng to temporarily take charge.

By the time many of the land divisions arrived at Phi Dao, they were completely dizzy and had no combat effectiveness, so they could only let some soldiers who were not very seasick land as vanguards.

However, even so, with absolutely superior forces and superior firepower, the attack on Phi Dao by the Dazhong Army proceeded very smoothly; under the cover of naval guns, two battalions of marines were to take the lead in landing, and after opening up a landing ground, a large number of men and horses began to disembark and began to extend their operations toward the island.

The entire Phi Island landing battle lasted less than a day, and the entire Phi Island was completely controlled, and more than 1,000 Jiannu soldiers on the island were all wiped out in half a day under the fierce artillery fire of the Great Chinese Army, except for a small number of prisoners left for interrogation, Diao Zheng gave an order to kill the remaining hundreds of prisoners, all of whom were killed on the seashore, and the corpses were thrown directly into the sea to feed the fish.

As Xiao Tianjian originally envisioned, the entire attention of the Jiannu army was focused on the Jinzhou area, and they basically did not think much about the coastal defense in the Liaodong area.

Therefore, the first batch of large Chinese troops who crossed the sea to fight were able to easily control Phi Dao, not to mention that the area of Phi Island is not large, but for the large Chinese army, it is particularly important to take this place first.

After all, this time, the Right Route Army of the Great Chinese Army mainly relied on crossing the sea to fight, and it took about 10 days to arrive on the way, and during these 10 days, especially the soldiers and generals of the land division, there would be serious seasickness, and it was obviously too difficult for them to make a direct landing operation.

Therefore, the large Chinese army needs to obtain a forward base, let the soldiers on the ground to rest and recuperate, and only after recovering their physical strength can they cross the sea to continue landing operations, otherwise it is impossible for the soldiers and horses who cannot even walk steadily on the road to win a big victory.

The conquest of Phi Island made a good start for the Right Route Army, and then a large number of men and horses were unloaded on Phi Island, and all kinds of supplies accompanying the ships were also immediately unloaded on the island, and after the unloading of the fleet, two-thirds of the ships immediately began to return under the leadership of Xiao Rufeng, and returned to the starting place to load the next group of fighters.

Diao Zheng stayed on Phi Dao to direct the next move.

In just a few days, the first batch of soldiers and horses of the Right Route Army, with the cooperation of the navy, swept the islands outside Xuanzhou, and successively captured Sumeru Island and Yuncong Island near Phi Island.

After three days of rest, the soldiers of the land division recovered from seasickness, and one by one they became vigorous again.

Diao Zheng also regained his demeanor as a general, and after sweeping the island, finally in early May, he led his army to cross the sea again by boat, and rushed straight to Tieshan and Xuanzhou.

At this time, the Jiannu army in Tieshan and Xuanzhou had already received the news that a large number of Dazhong troops were crossing the sea, but because they did not prepare in advance, they could not confront the Dazhong army at all.

Although the Iron Mountain Defender led his troops to resist to a certain extent, but under the fire of a large number of large Chinese troops, their resistance was quickly disintegrated, and the entire Iron Mountain City only lasted for one day, and then it was declared that it was conquered by the Great Chinese Army, killing more than 1,200 Jiannu Army without taking prisoners, and the Great Chinese Army only paid the price of less than 20 casualties.

After Diao Zheng led his troops to capture Tieshan and Xuanzhou, Diao Zheng left the two marine battalions of the Navy in Phi Dao and Tieshan as guards, responsible for guarding Phi Dao and Tieshan, which will be their logistics supply base for a long time in the future, and he immediately led the remaining more than 7,000 soldiers and generals to set off from Tieshan and attack Zhenjiang Fort southwest of the Yalu River estuary.