What Ding Shan did not expect was that Wu Meng's more than a thousand soldiers had just a feint attack, but he did not expect that he would fight smoothly all the way. He had already attacked the city of Yizhou in just seven or eight days. If it weren't for unexpected situations, he might have really taken over Yizhou City.

In the past twenty days, Mao Chengfu led 2,500 men to conquer the city and land. Not only did he recover a large number of loud horses, but he also captured Jinan City and Tai'an Prefecture. He became famous for a while, and the name of the Tiance Army had spread among the loud horses in Yanzhou Prefecture.

The Tiance Army was so capable that it actually defeated Jinan and defeated the official army, even the legendary vicious Guanning Army. I also heard that the Tiance Army was treated very well and was expanding its troops. Many loud horses came from all over the place, wanting to join the Tiance Army.

There were also many loud horses near Yizhou. One of them, Wu Heng, the leader of the loud horse, and a brother named Li Lisan, was arrested for the strong man. Because he had the strength and knew how to respect Shangguan, he became a small leader, responsible for guarding the city gate.

Then Wu Heng disguised himself into the city to lobby, hoping that his brother would join the Tiance Army like him. Li Lisan was hesitant at first, but heard that as long as he could open the city gate at night and send a signal at the same time, he would not do anything else, and after the matter was done, he could become the squadron leader, which was the leader of two hundred people, so he agreed.

Then Wu Meng formulated a combat plan based on this, basically a replica of the raid on Jinan, raiding to the north of Yizhou City at night, waiting for Li Lisan to open the city gate to respond. Then more than a thousand soldiers and more than 500 newly incorporated people rushed into the city and took over Yizhou City.

The war started very smoothly. At the time of the emperor, Li Lisan did open the northern city gate as planned in advance, and Wu Meng also led more than a thousand Tiance troops into the city smoothly.

It seemed that everything went well, and it was another perfect raid. It was not a problem to take down Yizhou City, but things took a turn here.

Because in the city, there were not the Ming army defeated soldiers who fled in all directions, but the Ming army that had been fully equipped and had a strict military appearance, and had been waiting for a long time.

These Ming troops were not only equipped with a large number of bird guns, but also had many Folang machine guns, and their formations were quite complete. The key is that they did not seem to be temporarily organized at all, but seemed to have known that the Tiance Army was coming and deliberately waited here.

Needless to say, the result of the battle was 1,500 cavalrymen brought by Wu Meng, and the number of these Ming troops was at least 1,000, or even more. They were prepared for it. Wu Meng led his men to rush once, but he was in danger and could not get in at all.

At the same time, the troops who were dispersed out to capture other city gates were also beaten back one after another. Moreover, they heard the left-behind soldiers saying that a Ming army with more than 2,000 people was attacking the North Gate, trying to cut off the retreat of the Tiance Army.

Wu Meng also knew that he had been fooled and what was the point of continuing to fight. These Ming troops were not something that he could deal with by more than a thousand people. If he did not retreat quickly, the entire army might be wiped out, so he reorganized his team and retreated towards the city gate.

Fortunately, half of the people who stayed at the city gate were veterans, and both their combat will and combat level were quite good. When Wu Meng arrived at the city gate, the city gate was kept in their hands, and the Ming army was defeated in both attacks.

With Wu Meng's arrival, the Ming army who were preparing to attack the city gate had to retreat temporarily, but the main force of the Ming army following was indeed pressing step by step. Wu Meng, who was originally planning to wait for the dispersion of his troops, knew that they might not be able to return, so he had to lead his army to retreat.

After evacuating to a safe position, he arrested Wu Heng for interrogation. There was no doubt that this was a trap, and Wu Heng had the greatest suspicion. However, after interrogation, including interrogating his original subordinates separately, it was confirmed that Wu Heng had no problem.

After investigation, it took several days to find out that the problem lies with Li Lisan. This was completely a plan by the deputy general Su Zhi under Yang Yipeng, in order to annihilate all Wu Meng's troops.

Two days before their raid in the morning, Yang Yipeng's army of guarding the canal went north along the canal, and then distributed 10,000 troops, led by Deputy General Su Zhi, to enter the Yi River from Suqian and reach Yizhou City. They entered the city at night, and the news was very hidden, and Wu Meng and the others could not find out.

Originally, they were planning to attack Wu Meng's troops and caught them off guard, but Li Lisan's incident made them think of catching turtles in the jar, using Li Lisan to pretend to surrender, opened the city gate, let Wu Meng's troops enter the city, and then surrounded and annihilated them in the city.

However, they underestimated the strength of the Tiance Army and overestimated their combat effectiveness. The battle to regain the city gate was not going well and they failed to wipe out Wu Meng's troops.

However, even so, Wu Meng's troops were still severely damaged. The army of more than 1,500 people entered the city, and less than 800 people were left to withdraw. The rest were either killed in battle or injured or surrounded by the enemy, and there was no time to withdraw.

He reported this action to Dingshan, but was not blamed. Instead, he asked him to temporarily stop attacking, defend Feixian and Mengyin, and divide a small number of troops. He did not allow the Ming army to go north and just keep an eye on their movements. He waited to take down Yanzhou Prefecture and then turned back to deal with them.

On Le'an, the news is not that good.

Originally, Wang Lin was in charge and led a 15,000 White Lotus Army, as well as 30 Folang machines stationed in Le'an to disperse the Ming army's forces.

After paying considerable casualties in the first few days, nearly two thousand Ming troops were killed and injured by the muskets and muskets purchased from the Tiance Army, forcing the Ming army to temporarily slow down the offensive, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

Then Liu Yulie took over Qingzhou City and turned his focus to the Tiance Army. He drew 13,000 people from the Ming army besieging Le'an. Eight thousand were led by Chen Hongfan to the eastern part of Jinan Prefecture to prevent Mao Chengfu's troops from advancing eastward and threatening the rear of the army. He also waited for an opportunity to recover Jinan. The remaining 5,000 troops stationed in Qingzhou City to prevent the resurgence of the White Lotus Sect who had escaped to Linqu.

Wang Lin also tried to break through the blockade and contact the Tiance Army and Qingzhou, but he was not successful. The 5,000 soldiers and horses left behind had 2,000 elite cavalry, which were not something they could defeat. The waves of people sent were either blocked or surrounded and killed.

It was originally a matter of peace, but the two brothers Wang Haoda defected to the Ming army, which was a little different. Although they did not intend to attack Le'an before solving the problem of Tiance Army, they always had to play small tricks.

Their news blockade was pretty good, and the news of Wang Haoda's surrender of his two brothers has not been leaked, so Liu Yulie arranged for the left-behind generals to take advantage of this advantage and try to see if he could open the door of Le'an City.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be successful. Wang Haoda led more than 2,000 "defeated soldiers" and pretended to be pursued by the two hundred Tiance cavalry and asked to enter the city. When Wang Lin saw Wang Haoda, although he despised him, he still let him in.

As a result, as soon as he entered the city, Wang Haoda leaked his true face and counterattacked on the spot, controlling the city gate. The Ming army, who had been preparing for a long time outside the city, successfully entered the city. Le'an, who had been holding on for more than half a month, was then captured. Wang Lin was killed, and 15,000 troops were either killed or captured, and there were few fish that missed the net.

In contrast, the battle between Dongjiang Town and North Korea can be regarded as perfect, and everything is carried out according to the scheduled plan.

The small fleet that set out in advance, led by Pang Guoxing, led two infantry brigades, directly attacked Jeju Island. The North Korean garrison on the island was very small, and without any defense, it could not resist the attack of the navy.

Two of the Korean navy stationed on Jeju Island were sunk and five warships were captured. The defenders on the island did not expect a battle to occur. They only remembered to fight back after the infantry landed, but it was too late.

The garrison on Jeju Island was originally only a thousand men. Not only were the military equipment weak, but there were mostly old and weak. Faced with the two brigades of 1,300 people, the fully armed Tiance Army was unable to resist at all.

After a meeting, more than 400 North Korean soldiers were killed and defeated. Except for less than 30 people, the rest surrendered.

Then, the two brigades began to divide the work and cooperate. One brigade brought the craftsmen who came with the ship and these prisoners to build fortifications on the island, while strengthening the defense of the port to deal with the possible attack of the Korean navy.

Another brigade is close to other parts of Jeju Island. After all, Jeju Island is a large island with a length of more than 170 miles from east to west. It is impossible for more than 1,000 North Korean troops to be concentrated in the port.

Fortunately, the infantry divisions are all mixed troops, with artillery and cavalry, and it is no problem whether it is a surprise attack or a tough attack.

The next day, Pang Guoxing took this squadron and left Jeju Island, heading towards the southern waters of Jeolla Do and Gyeongsang Do, and then acted as a "Japanese pirate" attack.

On September 8, the Navy Squadron landed in Busan, and the leader was naturally the Independent Third Battalion, which is now the Dongyang Battalion, battalion commander Li Tiangang.

After a trip to Jiangnan, the Dongyang Camp now has more than 500 serious "Japanese troops", and the remaining 1,300 Han soldiers, who have also been disguised, looked no different from Japanese pirates from a distance.

The attack process was very smooth. Five Korean warships were resurrected on Jeju Island before, and they were used as facades, pretending to be the North Korean navy and tricked the defenders into approaching the port, and then the Third Independent Battalion landed directly and attacked Busan City.

With such unprepared circumstances, the defenders of Busan were caught off guard. Moreover, seeing that the invaders were fierce Japanese pirates, they had no courage to resist. In less than an hour, Busan City was completely captured.

As for the fleeing North Korean soldiers and people, they didn't pay attention to it, and they just needed to spread the news of the "Japanese pirates attacking".

The choice to land in Busan was not Li Tiangang's decision, but the attention of the squadron leader Pang Guoxing, who was to create panic to the greatest extent, because the attack on North Korea by Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Wanli period began in Busan.

That time, the North Korea was almost destroyed, and the North Korean kings ran to Yizhou. In the past, the Yalu River was the Yalu River. If the Ming Dynasty had not sent troops to rescue them, their last small territory in the north of Pelean Road and the south of Jeolla Road would have been defeated.

The Koreans call it the "Renchen Japanese riot", which has a great psychological impact on them. Pang Guoxing naturally knows how to use this point and use the Dongyang Camp to take the lead to create an illusion that the Japanese country has gathered a large army again and attempted to capture North Korea again, which will make them panic to the greatest extent.

Not to mention that it is really useful, and the effect is even far more effective. On the fifth day of taking Busan, the reconnaissance news came back. North Korean King Lee gathered a 50,000 army around Seoul and prepared to lead the imperial army to fight against the invading Japanese and recapture Busan.

When Li Tiangang heard this news, his stomach hurt.

It is a huge joke that he can actually allow the King of Korea to lead the army to attack a city with less than 2,000 troops.

This Korean king is useless. After going back, I can blow a wave in front of my companions. As a battalion commander, I can force a king to fight in person. What a glory this is. At the same time, the team's team leader Pang Guoxing was admired by the commander of the squadron.

The soldiers below, including the Japanese army, were not afraid of this news, but were excited. Some people even thought that if they could capture or kill the Korean king, this life would be worth it.

At the same time, they were not idle, and began to prepare for battle, strengthen the defense of Busan City, and prepared to fight with the army brought by Li to see what they were like.

However, they didn't plan to fight to the death, and they couldn't stop it, so they retreated from the tunnel and then were taken over by the navy's squadron to harass other cities along the coast. Anyway, there were so many cities, so there was no need to stare at Busan. If they could involve North Korean troops, they would have completed their mission.

On the other hand, on September 3, the fully prepared naval main fleet, led by Xu Wenyi, rushed towards the swaying Dongjiang Town with great momentum.

The initial progress was quite smooth. The troops on more than ten islands, including Chenghuang Island, Daqin Island, Xiaoqin Island, etc., were willing to join the Tiance Army and took these territories under their command on the first day.

Then the troops were divided into two groups, one by one, and led by Zhang Hua to find the main force of the Tatar Navy, which was the former Tianjin Navy Fleet led by Geng Zhongming.

In addition, along the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula, heading eastward. There were only 300 troops garrisons along the way on Dashan Island, Xiaoshan Island and Ershan Island. When they saw the huge fleet of the Tiance Army Navy arrived, they had no intention of resisting and surrendered directly.

But when we arrived at Guanglu Island, we encountered trouble because the one stationed here was Shang Kexi. Moreover, Guanglu Island is not a separate island, but more than 200 islands including Guanglu Island, Dachangshan Island, Zhanzidao, and Ocean Island. There are garrisons on more than ten large islands, as well as two remaining fleets under Shang Kexi, but they were all incorporated into the Dongjiang Navy.

Xu Wenyi also tried to persuade him to surrender, but it was useless to Shang Kexi. He was determined to serve the court and refused to surrender to death, so he could only rely on war to resolve the problem.
Chapter completed!