The next morning, Song Tao sailed from Phi Dao with a large number of sea boats. The shadow of a black sail converged on a small pier on the southern coast of Iron Mountain.

The sailors were all officers and soldiers of the naval division of Dongjiang Town, who were deceived by Liu Xingzhi into going to Phi Dao and had been detained for several days. Most of them were Ming troops who were unwilling to surrender.

Song Tao asked a group of ruffians from overseas legions to come to the captured Ming army and communicate with them. The soldiers of the overseas corps are all veterans of Donggang Town, especially the ruffians of the Jeju Island Non-commissioned Officer Training Camp, who used to be middle and lower-level generals in Donggang Town.

Many of them were familiar with these captured Ming soldiers, and some of them had a good relationship before. The Ming army of Dongjiang Town on Phi Island was very surprised when they saw the ruffians of the overseas corps. They found that these veterans of the Dongjiang River had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The soldiers of the overseas corps found the Ming army they were familiar with, and sat together in groups and chatted. There were people from overseas regiments everywhere who were foaming at the mouth and blowing loudly, which made a group of Ming troops in Dongjiang Town stupid to hear it.

In fact, they are not bragging, and most of what they say is the truth, but they hide the stubble of overseas corps training. Those Ming soldiers in Dongjiang Town, looking at these former comrades-in-arms and colleagues, found that they seemed to have changed as if they were different people.

Look at the armor on people's bodies, look at the spiritual heads of people, clean up one by one, their faces are full of red light, and their gestures are full of heroic military temperament. Look at the torn clothes that I have worn for a few years, it is simply a flower child.

When I saw the soldiers of the Overseas Corps who were former comrades-in-arms again, they were also shocked in their hearts. They didn't feel that they had changed anything before, but when they saw those Ming troops in Dongjiang Town, they suddenly had a feeling in their hearts that things were wrong.

Looking at the groups of Dongjiang Ming Army in front of them, who were in tattered clothes, yellow and thin, and depressed, they suddenly realized that they didn't expect that they had changed so much now. Before they arrived at the Far East Company, they were no different from the Ming army in Dongjiang Town, weren't they all like Hanako.

Suddenly, a sense of pride rose in the hearts of the soldiers of the overseas corps, and they didn't feel it when they were in the Far East training camp before, but when they returned to Dongjiang, they realized how much they had changed.

Looking at the envious eyes of his former comrades-in-arms and colleagues, the hearts of these soldiers of the overseas corps were not to mention how happy, so they had more vigor to blow hard, and they unscrupulously showed off their experience in the Far East.

Zhao Si was also surrounded by a group of Ming troops from the Dongjiang River, listening to this guy bragging here: "Do you know what we eat every day?" Saying it scares you out, hehe...... We had enough white rice for three meals a day, and we could eat a few pieces of meat at noon, and in the days before the expedition, each meal was big fish and meat, and we could also get a tea jar of wine in the evening. ”

When a group of Ming soldiers from Dongjiang Town heard this, they were all dumbfounded, swallowing and foaming vigorously. Is this fucking raising soldiers, or raising uncles, eating such good things every day, even the landlord's family can't do it. Someone asked enviously: "Lao Zhao, do you deduct money there?" ”

Zhao Si pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Our master said, who dares to deduct the salary of our Far Eastern Army and turn against them." Do you know how much silver Lao Tzu saved after he arrived in the Far East? Hey...... When I first went, there was only one battle, and Lao Tzu divided a dozen taels, who the hell cares about that little bit of silver. Now Lao Tzu has land on Jeju Island, and the general also gave Lao Tzu a North Korean girl, and Lao Tzu is about to have a queen, haha......"

After listening to Zhao Si's words, these Dongjiang Ming soldiers suddenly went crazy, their eyes were red and red, and they didn't have any heavenly reason. People eat fragrant and spicy food over there, and let's eat bran vegetables here. What worries them the most is that people are still dividing the land and girls, how can they compare these days.

"Lao Zhao, Lao Tzu saved your life back then, what the hell do you say, you have to pull your brother, count me brother begging you."

"Yes, yes, Lao Zhao, we used to be brothers who worked side by side together, you can't bear to watch the big guy mix into this bear, and we will follow you in the future."

There are such scenes everywhere on Phi Island, Song Tao thought that it would take a lot of effort to mobilize these Dongjiang Ming troops, but what he didn't expect was that the next day these Dongjiang Ming troops cried and shouted and begged them to join the Far East.

Song Tao was a little blinded, now is the time to employ people, with the addition of these Dongjiang Ming Army, there is no need to worry about no one to operate the boat, and the thousands of war horses can be transported away.

Because of the urgency of time, Song Tao released the thousands of Ming soldiers who were imprisoned on Phi Dao. All kinds of ships on Phi Island were also requisitioned by Song Tao, and two or three hundred boats sailed mightily to the opposite Iron Mountain.

Although there are more than two or three hundred sea ships, it is not an easy task to transport these thousands of war horses. After so many ships are loaded, these war horses are also tight, fortunately, the distance is not far, if you pull so many horses on the sea for a few days, the horses on the ship will have to die a lot.

All the officers and men of the Combined Fleet and the thousands of Ming troops in Dongjiang Town on Phi Island were all mobilized, and it took nearly 10,000 people a day just to load the ships, and it was not until it was dark that the horses and supplies of the Tartar camp were loaded.

Li Ming, Song Tao, and Zhou Cheng were studying the next plan next to the map of the temporary headquarters. Li Ming pointed to the location of Lushun on the map, raised his head and glanced at everyone, and then said solemnly: "Wang Yaodong got in touch with us on Ocean Island, and Liu Xingzhi did not attack Ocean Island with the Dongjiang rebels. In the past few days, many of the defeated soldiers and Liao people of Changshan Island have fled to Ocean Island.

Judging from the intelligence they fed back, Liu Xingzhi's rebels moved quickly, and with the help of the Tartars, they had already taken all the big islands of the Dongjiang River. Now that they have sailed west, I suspect that their next target might be Lushun. It's not been a day or two that Tartar has been thinking about Lushun, and this time he definitely wants to win Lushun in one go. ”

Zhou Cheng thought for a while and said: "It seems that the Tartars have made a lot of determination this time, it is estimated that there will also be Tartars coming over from Jinzhou, and together with Liu Xingzhi's Dongjiang rebels, they will form a north-south attack on Lushun, so that Lushun will be in danger." Let's hurry up, once the Tartars capture Lushun, we will be passive. ”

Song Tao sneered when he heard this: "Hmph...... If they really go to Lushun, this battle will be easy to fight. We blocked them at the mouth of Lushun, and came to close the door and beat the dogs, so as to save the trouble of chasing them around at sea, and even the Tartars from Jinzhou were wiped out at one time. ”

Li Ming nodded and said: "No matter what, we can't let the Tartars take Lushun, we set off immediately, first swept the Dongjiang rebels and Tartars on the sea, and then easily destroyed the Tartars in Jinzhou." Then he returned to Phi Island and swept the tartars on the north bank of the Yalu River, completely hurting the tartars. ”

Because of the urgency of time, Li Ming set sail overnight with the combined fleet, and a landing ship, two landing craft, and five sailing boats sailed away from Phi Dao and headed for Lushun. The other two sailing ships of the fleet remained on Phi Island, and the next morning he would take hundreds of sea-going ships and thousands of horses and supplies to Ocean Island.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens rose in the northeast. In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), Nurhachi captured Shenyang. The Ming court adopted the "tripartite arrangement strategy" of Xiong Tingbi, the right attendant of the military department, and implemented joint defense by sea and land. The so-called "tripartite arrangement" is to appoint the commander of the economic strategy to be stationed at Shanhaiguan to control the three sides of Guangning, Tianjin, and Denglai, and strategically do the overall defense of the infantry, cavalry, and naval divisions.

Focusing on Quang Ninh (Beizhen), the three armies of Mabu were assembled to prevent the Eight Banners from advancing westward; In Tianjin and Denglai, ships and sailors were set up to control the northern coasts of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, to contain the enemy from the flank, and then cooperate by land and water to counterattack the Manchurian flag soldiers and recover the lost territory in the courtyard. In this defense system, the relay ports of Dengzhou, Laizhou and Tianjin, which surround the Bohai Bay, are Lushunkou.

The strategic location of Arthur Port is very important, connecting Denglai Haiphong in the south, Beijing-Tianjin gateway in the west, foreign aid to North Korea in the east, and Houjin in the north and south. For the Ming Dynasty, guarding Lushunkou was related to the rise and fall of the imperial court. The capture of Lushunkou by the Later Jin can relieve the worries of the army entering the customs and conquering the Central Plains. This special strategic position of Lushunkou determines that it is a strategic place that the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty are bound to compete for.

Huang Taiji also wanted to take advantage of this time to pacify the Dongjiang River and take down Lushun in one go. However, Lushun is not easy to fight, not to mention the dangerous terrain, and it is also close to the coast, and then you can get the sea support of Dongjiang and Denglai.

Although in 1625 it was captured by the Houjin and the city walls were destroyed. But in recent years, it was repaired by the Ming army, and Houjin sent troops to attack three times in vain. Lushun firearms, artillery, food and ordnance were very sufficient, although Liu Xingzhi's rebels and Jinzhou's Tartars attacked from both sides, but they could not be broken in the short term.

Liu Xingzhi's rebel fleet was anchored in the bay of Lushunkou, and then went ashore to join the Tartars' camp. In the past few days, nearly 10,000 Tartars and Liu Xingzhi's rebels have surrounded Lushun Castle on the north and south sides of the Golden Mountain.

The rebels in Dongjiang Town unloaded dozens of generals' cannons from the ship, hundreds of bronze and iron furlong machines, bowl-mouth guns, and tiger squat cannons of various sizes, and bombed the head of Lushun from morning to night, posing a great threat to Lushun.

Huang Long stood at the head of the city in Lushun, and watched with a solemn expression as the Tartars under the city retreated again. He stayed in Lushun for a few days, and the city of Lushun was already in shambles.

In the face of the treacherous battle situation, Huang Long was calm and calm, and repelled the attacks of the Tartars again and again in the past few days. But this time, with the artillery support of Liu Xingzhi's Dongjiang rebels, the Tartar offensive was very fierce, and the city head of Lushun was also mixed with casualties.

He knew that if there was no support, Lushun was afraid that he would not be able to hold it. With the support of firearms, the Tartars are simply like a tiger with wings, although they have thrown a lot of corpses under the city of Lushun in the past few days, they are still attacking frantically. R1152