Chapter 14 Situation in the East China Sea

(Thanks to the red-robed watchman for his support, in addition, strive for a red ticket)

Lin Jian and the others landed on Jeju Island from the Outer Harbor Cape, and Ge Changgen and Li Jian, the king of Danluo, came to meet him.

Ge Changgen's right arm was wounded, but it was no big deal, but Li Jian, the king of Danluo, was embarrassed. When they met at the beginning of the year, Li Jian had a beautiful beard under his chin, and he still had a bit of a king's bearing, and he was burned by the fire in the war, and his face was burned.

The Goryeo army that invaded Jeju this time was led by the governor of Haeyang-gun, Goryeo, Zhen Fengqin, and landed from Seonropo on the north coast of Jeju Island five days ago.

Zhen Feng originally forcibly asked for a garrison in Jeju, but Li Jian sent his son Li Gong to lead his troops to Xianlupo to garrison and negotiate with Zhen Feng. Zhen Feng pretended to discuss with Li Gong in front of the battle, used a warship to carry soldiers, and took advantage of the cover of Luo Yanling on the north bank to land from behind the formation and make a detour to attack Li Gong.

More than 1,000 elites of the Danluo Kingdom worked hard for a year, and sixty percent were lost in this battle; Li Jian's son Li Gong was strangled by Zhen Feng. After the victory of Xianlupu, Zhen Feng led his troops to attack Xiguipu City, the capital of Danluo State. Li Jian was defeated and led the remnants of the army to flee from the west coast to Jeju for rescue.

There were more than 5,000 people in the Shui Bu army that landed on Jeju Island in Haeyang County, Goryeo.

Li Jian only led less than 400 remnants to vote, in addition to the 400 soldiers in Jeju Sai, Ding Zhuang who urgently moved from the interior selected Jianyong, and Ge Changgen could use no more than 1,000 troops to defend Jeju Sai. At that time, the port had been blocked for the Goryeo navy, and Ge Changgen was forced to abandon the ship and withdraw all his troops to the shore to wait for reinforcements from Chongzhou.

Fortunately, Lin Jian was not slow to lead reinforcements, and Jeju Saicai was besieged for less than two days, except for the loss of all the warships, the casualties of the soldiers were not heavy.

"There are only more than 2,000 sailors in Haiyang County, and most of them have been defeated by our division before noon, so please send a water battalion warship to Seogwipo as soon as possible, and attack the remnants of its navy, so that you can cut off the way back......," Ge Changgen suggested.

"Okay," Lin Jian originally planned to lead his troops to Jeju to see the opportunity, but he didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to capture and kill the governor of Haiyang County of Goryeo just after he came over, and the Danluo Kingdom had completely broken with Goryeo, so there was no need for Lin Jian to worry about the position of the Danluo people, so he didn't hesitate at the moment and instructed Ge Changgen, "I will transfer a battalion of naval troops to you, and you can select more people who are familiar with the water potential on the west bank from Jeju Sai, and temporarily assign them to each boat as a guide, and go to Seogwipo to find and destroy the remnants of Haiyang \/...... navy."

Ge Changgen immediately drew out the sentinels, scouts, and sentinels who were familiar with the geography and hydrology near Danla Island from Jeju Sai, temporarily incorporated them into various ships, and in the afternoon, despite the injury on his right arm, he led a battalion of warships to Seogwipo on the north shore of Danla Island.

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In the afternoon, a waterway was cleared out of Jeju Saiwai Harbor, and nearly 5,000 soldiers from the Infantry Division's personal guard battalion and the Horse Army's cavalry battalion landed one after another and stationed in Jeju Sai.

At the beginning of the year, he made a contract with the Danluo people to take away a small piece of land from the west coast, the southwest foot of Sunrise Mountain, to build a plug and open a port. After nearly a year of continuous construction, this piece of land of four or five hundred acres, sandwiched between two hills, in addition to a small city with a circumference of 200 zhang in the center, a strong sentry fort of more than 30 zhang was built on each side of the hills.

One city and two forts shield Jeju Port on the inside.

On the periphery of Jeju Port, a defensive stone wall was also built.

In the early morning, Zhen Feng led Haiyang's infantry to attack the defensive stone wall.

The cost of each load of raw silk produced in Hailing Province did not exceed 20 taels of silver, but merchants from Kyushu and Honju came to Jeju to buy it, and each load of raw silk was worth 400 taels of silver.

The silk produced in Chongzhou is limited, and the raw silk and silk in Pingjiang Mansion are almost monopolized by a few families headed by the Chen family.

In this way, in the past year, Chongju also shipped 300 quintals of raw silk to Jeju to sell. In addition to the cost and freight, the profit of 300 quintals of raw silk is more than 100,000 taels of silver, which is so high that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

It was from the sea trade that he built Jeju Fortress, which became the second fortress on Danla Island to be defended by a walled city other than Seogwipo, the royal capital of the Danna people.

The rapid rise of Jeju City, the Danluo people were not unsuspecting, but the Goryeo Haiyang County Governor Zhen Feng killed the Danluo people, which also made the Danluo king Li Jian have no other choice than borrowing troops from the Huaidong Military Division to drive the Goryeo people out of Danluo Island?

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It will be night, and the inner harbor of Jeju will be completely cleared and the water camp warships will be moored in.

Previously, except for more than 600 soldiers and auxiliaries of the two sentinel water battalions led by Ge Changgen, there were no other garrisons in Jeju.

When Lin Jian returned to Chongju from Jinhai in March, some of the Haishang and Sun and Zhou tribesmen who had moved south from Hejian Province went south with Lin Lian, and some of them chose to settle in Jeju.

There were more than 200 households in the first batch, and then some were added one after another, and now there are more than 300 households in Jeju City, which is the earliest resident in Jeju City.

The Jeju households set up Lijia, which is Zhou Guitang, a distant brother of the Zhou Guangnan brothers, who is forty years old. He is coarsely literate and capable, and in his early years, he also went to sea to sell and accumulated a lot of net worth. It's just that he was unlucky, he capsized two boats in succession and escaped his life, but he had no money to spare, and he owed a lot of debts.

When he passed Jeju, Zhou Guitang saw that Jeju had an opportunity and offered to stay in Jeju, and Lin Jian appointed him as Lizheng.

The construction of Jeju City is still short, and everything needs to be streamlined and fast. Houses were also built between the city and the port. The main city is only more than 200 zhang, about 500 steps in circumference, placed inland, only the walled city system.

The three-storey brick building facing north and south is the core building of the main city. In front of the building is a school field that covers an area of ten acres, and the two sides are ancillary buildings such as barracks, stables, granaries, armories, etc., and the main city is narrow, and it can only be used for nearly 1,000 people to be stationed in the cavalry battalion and the guards accompanying the forest.

After Lim landed at Jeju Port, he quickly adjusted his deployment in Jeju.

The Jeju garrison was all incorporated into the second water battalion, and although the warships were burned, many warships of the Goryeo navy were also captured. They were familiar with the hydrogeography around Jeju and were responsible for defending the waters around Jeju Port, and selected scouts from them to monitor the movements of the Haiyang Army in the north.

In addition to the sentry fort and defensive stone battalion on the southwest side, a battalion of armor soldiers was drawn from the guard battalion to defend it, and the remaining 3,000 soldiers of the guard battalion camped along the open space between the headland and the main city; The sentry fort on the east side was allocated to Li Jian, the king of Danluo.

There are more than 30,000 people in Dingkou on Danluo Island, but Li Jian is the monarch of a country. Haiyang Governor Zhen Feng returned to Seogwipo, and Li Jianneng resumed jurisdiction over most of Danluo Island.

Jeju Island is located on the eastern mouth of the strait between Goryeo and Kyushu Oshima, and the surrounding currents form a countercurrent from the west to the north, the south to the east, and the north to the west. Ge Changgen led the water camp to attack Seogwipo, and entered the strait between Jeju Island and Haiyang County to go against the current, and the speed was not fast, and if there was a situation, it was also the land scouts who sent back the information first.

Lin Jian entered the main city of Jeju and first summoned Rizheng Juguitang to inquire in detail about the situation in Jeju and the areas around Goryeo, Kyushu, and Honju.

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After the Goryeo Peninsula was unified by the Seo dynasty on the left side of Samhan 200 years ago, the border was pushed to the Cheongcheon River. At its peak, the Fusang Dynasty in the south was engaged in a confrontation between the North and the South, and there was no threat, and the Goryeo people had beaten the Donghu people all over the ground to find teeth. In the north of the Qingchuan River, Tokugawa, Changqing, Anshuo and other cities were built, and a military division was set up on the front line of the Qingchuan River, and the troops were as high as 150,000 at one time.

After the Yuan clan seized the power of the Central Plains and fixed the capital of Yanjing, they regarded the two Liao as feudal screens, and entered two large-scale battles with the Goryeo people who had entered Liaodong. As far as the battles are concerned, there were victories and defeats of each other, but the national strength of Goryeo crippled these two battles, and they retreated to the Cheongchon River and bowed down to the vassals.

In the past 30 years, after the rise of the Donghu people and the acquisition of Liaodong, in order to solve the threat of the rear wing and avenge the grudges of the year, after the battle of Chentangyi, they quickly gathered troops and invaded Goryeo from the southeast of Liao.

The Donghu people crossed the Cheongchon River and captured Goryeo Seogyong Pyongyang.

In addition to paying tribute, Goryeo also ceded all the cities north of the Qingchuan River to Donghu, and removed all the garrisons between the Qingchuan River and the Datong River and moved them back to the south......

The state system of Goryeo is similar to that of Daewol, there are two capitals, and after the capture of Pyongyang in the west of the capital, there is only Hanyang Province, which is located in the middle of the Goryeo Peninsula and has 121 counties in nine counties. Haiyang-gun is one of the nine counties of Goryeo, located at the southwestern tip of the Goryeo Peninsula, and Danra is across the sea from it.

Although the Danluo Kingdom is small, it has always belonged to the same subject state of the Dayue Dynasty as Goryeo, and Goryeo wants to annex Danluo, but there is no chance.

After the Yue Dynasty lost the Liaodong land, it lost substantial containment of the Goryeo, and the Goryeo people became greedy for Danluo. Goryeo once sent envoys to Yanjing to ask for a decree on behalf of Danluo. At that time, the Dayue Dynasty needed Goryeo to contain the Donghu people in Liaodong, and the Danluo Kingdom was too inconspicuous, so it granted Goryeo's request and made Danluo a vassal state of Goryeo.

After defeating the Donghu people and bowing to the Donghu people, in the past two or three years, Goryeo still wanted to find a balance, and the only way to completely annex Danluo was to do so.

The Huaidong Military Division of the Daeviong Dynasty built a port in Jeju, but it was just an excuse for the Goryeos.

Kyushu, to the east of Danra Island, is more than ten times larger than Danra, but it is divided into four feudal kingdoms of Tsukushi, Osumi, Hyuga, and Hizen. To the east, Honshu Island is larger and about the size of the entire Goryeo Peninsula, but there are more vassal powers facing each other within the territory.

There are many pirate forces on the islands between Kyushu, Honju, Jeju and the Goryeo Peninsula, or on the fringes. These pirate forces were unwilling to subdue the luxury family and crossed the sea to the east, there were also pirate forces that secretly supported and plundered enemy territory by the Fuso domain and the Goryeo people, and there were also relatively simple pirate forces composed of bankrupt wandering samurai......

Although the navigation skills of the luxury family are not as good as those of Chongzhou, it only takes four to six days to cross the sea from Changguo to the earliest. Once the news spread that the Huaidong Military Division was building a port on the west coast of Danluo, it was impossible for the luxury family not to intervene. Or it has already intervened, but the situation here is quite complicated, and the Huaidong Military Division has not yet been able to arouse vigilance.