On the sixth day of March, the Beihai Fleet left its home port of Dengzhou and headed for Liaodong, three days later than Zhu Youjian's departure from the capital.
From Dengzhou to Liaodong, the waterway is only three hundred miles away. In the middle of the waterway, there is a relatively large island called Huangcheng Island. Huangcheng Island is almost located in the middle of Dengzhou and Lushun, and the distance between the two places is one. Hundred and Fifty Miles.
The North Sea Fleet has been active in the area of Huangcheng Island for a long time. They have opened two dedicated docks, which can load and unload some light cargo, and can also carry people on land.
Wei Xin used all the transport ships and recruited some civilian ships, but the North Sea Fleet can only transport 20,000 people and equipment at a time, that is, only two marine divisions can be transported at a time.
When they set off in the morning, the North Sea Fleet dispatched half of the transport ships to sea, transporting only the Second Marine Division and equipment.
The transport ship has been modified to travel 50 miles per hour. With a tailwind, the speed will be faster. At noon, the transport ship will arrive at Huangcheng Island under the escort of the battleship.
The two piers on Huangcheng Island immediately became lively. More than 10,000 soldiers from the Second Marine Division brought their own equipment and began to land from the two piers.
The wharf was very gentle, and the soldiers quickly landed ashore.
The soldiers and sailors on the fleet and transport ships also went ashore for lunch. They did not stay and returned immediately. When returning to Dengzhou, although it was headwind, the transport ships were empty and the speed did not drop much. Soon after dark, they returned to the Dengzhou Wharf.
In the early morning of the next day, all the warships and transport ships set off. They were loaded with the personnel and equipment of the First Marine Division and the Third Marine Division.
At noon, the fleet arrived on Huangcheng Island, but this time, the fleet did not stop on Huangcheng Island, but went straight to Liaodong.
At dusk, the fleet approached Lushun Wharf.
When the battleship and transport ship were half a mile away from the shore, two small sentry ships sailed out of the fleet and slowly approached the dock.
There were only messy withered grass on the pier, and some unknown wild stalks.
"Myna...Brother!" There was a call of turtledove from the sentry boat.
"Myna...Brother!" The same voice came from the grass on the shore.
"Quick, dock."
The two sentry boats approached the shore slowly, and a dozen or so soldiers held the flintlocks in their hands tightly, staring at the chaotic grass on the shore.
The soldiers filed ashore and approached the grass.
With a "wheeze", two soldiers emerged from the grass, both of them wore rings made of withered grass. "Brothers, how did you come here? We were hungry in the grass for a day."
"Thanks for your hard work. The transport ship will be docked soon. Let's go and have a good meal!" The leading soldier approached the guardian on the shore, "How about? Is there a slave nearby?"
"Brother don't worry, there hasn't been a single slave building all day."
"That's good," the leading soldier turned his head and said to the soldier behind: "Send a signal to welcome the army to land."
The soldier returned to the sentry ship, lit two torches and semaphores.
The fleet speeded up and entered the port of Lushun.
The Lushun Wharf is almost at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. To the east, there is a natural narrow waterway directly connected to the sea. At the end of the waterway is the Lushun Wharf. There is an extremely spacious internal water that can berth a large number of ships.
The Lushun Wharf has not been developed yet. Wei Xin just sent someone to survey it secretly. The wharf has not been cleared, and the speed of the soldiers landing is still very slow.
The soldiers who landed earlier immediately penetrated into the grass to protect the Lushun Wharf.
However, there was no female cavalry in the nearby soldiers. Judging from the large number of weeds, the female cavalry must rarely come. Their main opponent in the Liaodong Peninsula is Mao Wenlong’s Dongjiang Army, but the living space of the Dongjiang Army has been severely squeezed. Under pressure, Mao Wenlong can now only move around Pidao, Zhangzidao, Ludao, and the area near the mouth of the Yalu River, occasionally landing secretly to grab some food for the army.
The Jurchens deployed a whole blue flag in the area from the Liaodong Peninsula to North Korea. In order to prevent the Dongjiang army from obtaining supplies from the land, they also implemented a policy of stiff walls and clear fields. All places 30 miles away from the sea are not allowed to live or farm. Jurchen The cavalry used the advantage of speed to patrol the open area of thirty li. As long as they encountered Han Chinese, whether it was Dongjiang Army or not, they would be killed.
Lushun is located in this uninhabited area of 30 miles. There were originally some Jurchen cavalry patrolling, but after the court stopped supplying Mao Wenlong’s Dongjiang Army, the Dongjiang Army could not get enough food supplies in the south, so it had to move to the outside of the Yalu River. On the island, the Jurchen cavalry gradually stopped patrolling the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula.
The North Sea Fleet happened to take advantage of this gap and quietly logged in here when there were no Jurchen cavalry near Lushun.
The transport ship and some warships returned to Huangcheng Island overnight, preparing to transport the Second Marine Division of Huangcheng Island to Liaodong.
The Marines who had landed had already eaten dinner on the transport ship, and they immediately launched their actions: Li Changshan, the First Marine Division, immediately took advantage of the night to go north and headed straight for Jinzhou, while the Third Marine Division, Lin Fucheng, temporarily Guard Lushun and prepare to go north. Once the Second Marine Division arrives in Lushun, they immediately reinforce the First Marine Division.
Jinzhou is guarded at the narrowest part of the Liaodong Peninsula, with a width of only ten miles from east to west. After landing from Lushun, the Marine Corps must pass through Jinzhou before landing in Lushun.
It turned out that there is another strategic location to the south of Jinzhou... Nanguan, Nanguan and Jinzhou, one south and one north, guarding the narrowest part of the Liaodong Peninsula, but Mao Wenlong’s main force of the Dongjiang army is all concentrated on the first line of the Yalu River. The real man is in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula and has no rivals. Nanguan, as a military town, has gradually been abandoned. Now only the Han people who are farming nearby have built residential houses here.
When Li Changshan passed through Nanguan, the nearby Han people thought it was Jurchens who came to grab food, but they didn’t have a war horse. The Han people discovered that the clothes and weapons in their hands were also very different from the Jurchens. .
Li Changshan did not give the Chinese people an opportunity to inform the public. The First Marine Division crossed the crowd. They established a complete horizontal defensive line in this narrow place to restrict the people to the south.
The weak Chinese people did not resist, they were used to obedience, and the Marine Corps flintlocks did not fire.
Seeing the common people leaning against the haystack, Li Changshan suddenly realized that he had asked the common people, the Jurchen soldiers in Jinzhou City, there should be three Niu Lu, that is, nine hundred people.
"You grow food for the Jurchens, you are against Daming, and you should cut everything." Li Changshan looked at the Han people with fearful eyes, "However, this general will give you a chance to redeem your sins, as long as each of you gives us. Throw twenty scarecrows, and I will forgive you for your sins."
"General, is this true?" a bold citizen asked Li Changshan.
"Does this general deceive you? Besides, do you have a choice? I can punish you now."
"General..."
"Quickly, this is your only opportunity to redeem your sins. Don't ask more, hurry up."
The people obviously did not fully believe in Li Changshan, but under the pressure of the flintlock, they demonstrated the fine tradition of obedience.
In one afternoon, the Han people gathered more than 8,000 scarecrows. In order to show their sincerity, these scarecrows are all well-made. If they look at night, they look like real people.
At three shifts, Li Changshan's First Marine Division surrounded Jinzhou City with a thunderstorm. In order to alarm the defenders in the city, the Ming troops from all four gates lit torches and beat gongs and drums as if they were about to attack. .
The defenders in the city were shocked. How could there be such intensive gongs and drums in the middle of the night? Could it be that the Chinese people rebelled
The Han people have always been weak. As long as they are allowed to live, they can endure everything. Even if their wives and daughters are occupied, they will only drop a few sad tears. After drying the tears, they turn around and go to work. They may rebel. Sex is extremely small, but apart from this reason, the defenders really can't think of other reasons.
Torches were also lit on the city, and Jurchen soldiers on all sides looked outside the city, and the first-hand information was quickly concentrated in the hands of their Jialai Zhenban Ye Yuehao.
"Uh, really, the torches outside the southern city gate are very concentrated, and the soldiers are silent. They are obviously well-trained. It looks like there are no fewer than five thousand people."
"Er Zhen, there are also at least five thousand soldiers outside the West Gate."
"Uh really, outside the East City Gate, the torch flickers, it seems that an attack is about to be launched."
"Er Zhen, outside the North City Gate, the torches are distributed in a large area, but very sparse, maybe they are deliberately deployed as suspects.
"You can see clearly, whose army is it?" Banba Yue snarled, and just got up from the bed, he didn't even have time to put on his small clothes, and put on a leather robe and leather armor. Now he feels The cold wind was drilling into his leather robe.
"Er Zhen, it may be the Ming army, but none of them are wearing the Ming army's light armor, Ao, they are flying the sun and moon banner."
"The Sun and Moon Banner? That's no doubt the Ming Army, did they come from the sea?" Ban Yeyue frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly realized.
"Uh really, it's very possible that they don't have horses, they are all infantry."
"It must have come from the sea."
The battle drums of the Ming Army were like one after another. Every drum beat hit the hearts of the Jurchen soldiers. Although they were silent, tens of thousands of Ming troops descended from the sky, and they were still full of fear.
"Uh, what should I do?"
"What is it? The Ming army is surrounded by three and missing one. The North City Gate is obviously their weakness. They just want the city." Ban Yeyue roared like a Han, gently stroked his thick beard, thinking deeply. "Even if there are heavy soldiers outside the city, it doesn't matter. We are cavalry. As long as we go out of the city, it is like a fish swimming in the sea and wolves in the grassland. The infantry of the Ming army can only follow behind and eat farts."
Banba Yuero really didn't panic. His three Niu Lus were all cavalry. Cavalry vs. infantry has always been undefeated. Even if the situation is unfavorable, you can just leave. However, the Ming army was besieging the city with an army of 20,000, and his three Niu Lu clearly could not be held. Now that the city has lost all contact with the outside, he must break through the siege at night.
"Er Zhen, the Ming army has begun to attack the city from the east gate."