It took the Qing army eight days to pass the Zhenjiang (Dandong) Bridge. This bridge was actually just a floating bridge. It was built by the Later Jin Dynasty when it last attacked Korea. The bridge during the Jin Dynasty had long been destroyed.

The last time North Korea surrendered, the Later Jin Dynasty withdrew, and North Korea did not dare to demolish the floating bridge. That time, Amin wanted to proclaim himself king in North Korea, but after returning, he was imprisoned by Huang Taiji.

This time, Huang Taiji attacked North Korea again, not only to plunder enough population, but also to completely solve the troubles of Pi Island, and to make the North Korean king surrender completely.

When Huang Taiji was elected as emperor, the Korean envoys stood up but did not kneel. The Qing Dynasty officials knelt down while the two sides fought and refused to surrender. After the ceremony, Huang Taiji was furious and believed that this was a manifestation of Korea's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and refusal to the Qing Dynasty.

This is also one of the reasons why Huang Taiji attacked North Korea.

If it were before, Huang Taiji might not have any thoughts about Pi Island. The Qing Dynasty had tried to fight at sea, but was killed by the Ming navy and abandoned his armor. However, Kong Youde's surrender allowed them to obtain a large number of warships.

As long as the problem of Pidao is solved, you can completely take action and attack Mingguo.

As the vanguard, Dorgon crossed the Yalu River and rushed directly to Yizhou (Xinyizhou). Because North Korea was invaded by Japan for ten thousand years, its vitality has not yet recovered and it is impossible to resist the attack of the Qing Dynasty. When the Yizhou defenders heard that the Qing soldiers were attacking, they hurriedly abandoned the city and fled, and did not dare to resist at all.

Dorgon captured Yizhou without any effort, and then rushed to Xuanzhou. In less than three days, he went down to Tieshan and then went south to attack Xuanzhou... Dingzhou... Dorgon attacked the city and captured the camps along the way, and the battle was very smooth. North Korea's troops were already weak, and North Korea did not have the fortifications that had been continuously built after two hundred years of construction. How could it resist the Qing Dynasty's troops?

On the eighth day of the second month, Dorgon captured Pyongyang. The King of Korea Li Ng sent his wife, children, and important officials to Jianghua Island and fled to Nanhanshan City by himself. When the Qing army heard the news, they rushed to attack, and Huangtaiji also led his army to Nanhanshan City to camp.

The Korean army came to rescue and were all defeated by the Qing army. Huang Taiji sent Dorgon to cross the sea with a boat to Jianghua Island, capturing the princess, children and ministers of the Korean king. Dorgon treated them with courtesy.

In early March of the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), Huang Taiji issued an ultimatum to Li Jue, demanding that North Korea surrender. Li Jue was at risk of internal difficulties and decided to surrender. The conditions were: to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty, and his eldest son stayed in Shenyang as hostages. Therefore, Huang Taiji set up a tent and built an altar on Santian Crossing the east bank of the Han River in Seoul, held a surrender ceremony, and established the "union of monarch and ministers" between the Qing Dynasty and North Korea.

On the tenth day of March, Huangtaiji was in charge of the army, and Li Ju led his ministers out of Wangjing to kneel down and sent him off. Then he asked someone to erect the "Santian Ferry Stele" in the southern Han Mountain City. The front of the inscription was engraved with seven large characters "The Merit Monument of the Emperor of Qing Dynasty" and the inscription on the underside of the inscription was inscribed with Chinese and Manchu.

Han annihilated Kong Youde and Shang Youxi. After Geng Zhongming and others arrived at Tieshan with the baggage troops, they stopped advancing south, but instead planned to attack Pi Island. The Ming army on Pi Island was unstable at this time.

In order to save money from finance, Chongzhen cut off 550,000 taels of military pay from Pidao officers and soldiers in nine years. In addition, the Ming army's logistics support was extremely fragile, and the military pay was deducted from one layer. The upper and lower levels were already poor, and the 550,000 taels of military pay was cut off. Since the first month of the tenth year of Pidao, several cases of officers and soldiers asking for military pay [***] have occurred.

When the Qing troops were attacking, they were in chaos when they heard the Qing army attack. A great victory in the south continued to come. After discussion, Du Du, Kong Youde and others decided to launch an attack on Pidao immediately.

In mid-February, Chongzhen heard that the Qing troops were attacking the court, so he ordered Zhao Yan to lead the Shandong Navy to aid Pi Island.

Zhao Yan received the imperial edict but remained silent. It was not until early March when the Qing Dynasty attacked Nanhan Mountain City that the General Staff believed that North Korea could no longer hold on and that the Qing Dynasty could not go further, so Zhao Yan ordered the army to advance to Liaodong.

The first fleet was divided into two routes, with three warships and ten warships, responsible for blocking the Yalu River. The other three warships assisted Li Ran’s Third Battalion of Shandong Army landing on a ship on Zhenjiang.

He also mobilized ten armed merchant ships, plus thirty merchant ships, sent 7,000 people from the First Battalion of the Liaodong Army's Infantry Battalion to reinforce Pidao and wiped out the Manqing Naval Division.

...On the fourth day of March, Kong Youde sent a navy to attack Pidao. The first battle was defeated by Pidao officers and soldiers, and hundreds of people were lost. Kong Youde then used the tactic of fighting east and west, and successfully sent 5,000 people to Pidao on the sixth day of March.

The general of Pidao, Shen Shikui, led his troops to fight and was defeated. He then left more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians behind and retreated to Shicheng Island. Deputy General Jin Yueguan fought to the death and refused to retreat, leading Pidao officers and soldiers to fight fiercely in the Qing army.

The fierce battles lasted for five days and nights, and both sides suffered heavy casualties, but this also made Kong Youde and others even more crazy. If they were unable to win this battle, they would lose their value of exploitation, and the Qing Dynasty would abandon them mercilessly.

At this time, the officers and soldiers on Pi Island were at the end of their strength, and Kong Youde suspended the offensive.

Jin Yueguan led the generals to the top of the city to fight fiercely. He was carrying three arrows and fainted on the spot. He was caught by his servants. Fortunately, he did not hit the point and woke up after one day.

"Have the reinforcements from Shandong arrived?" Jin Yue asked immediately after awakening.

"Sir, our messenger has been sent out, but the reinforcements from Shandong have not arrived yet."

"Damn, they really won't be saved if they see death." Jin Yueguan was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood. At this time, Pidao was besieged by tens of thousands of Han army Eight Banners and was already in a desperate situation, but Shandong reinforcements had not arrived for a long time.

In addition to the good relationship with Dongjiang when Yuan Keli was the governor of Denglai, Shandong's relationship became worse and worse in the future.

"Sir, let's retreat quickly! If you don't leave, it will be too late." A genius general said at this time.

"Take it aside. As long as there is still a glimmer of hope, I will defend it. Maybe... reinforcements will arrive." Jin Yueguan was angry, but still held the last glimmer of hope.

"Report, sir, I don't know what happened in the Qing army camp, but suddenly got upset." At this time, a soldier hurriedly ran in to report.

"Hurry up, help me to the top of the city." Jin Yueguan said hurriedly, and the left and right guards hurriedly helped him climb to the top of the city.

From a distance from the city, the Qing army camp stationed by the sea was in a mess, and many Qing soldiers were running around, but they were soon calmed down.

"What's going on?" Jin Yueguan asked in confusion.

"Sir, look..." The ginseng general beside Jin Yueguan suddenly pointed at the sea in the distance.

I saw dozens of large black dots coming out from the sea in the distance, swimming by the sea. Suddenly, a rapid whistling sound came from the sea in the distance, followed by orange-red light, dragging the thick smoke, and falling into the Qing army camp scattered and stars.

That's the Rockets!

"Boom boom boom boom boom..." Amid a series of explosions, flames ignited everywhere in the Qing army camps, and the Qing army suddenly exploded, and many Qing soldiers were busy extinguishing the flames in the camp.

However, rockets kept flying from the sea. Although the distance was very far and the accuracy was a little short, it still caused fires to ignite everywhere in the Qing army camps.

Under the gaze of people, a huge fleet of ships with the moon flag appeared! It was a fleet of forty large ships, slowly heading towards Pi Island. Before they could dock, they continued to launch rockets to the Qing army camp by the sea.

"Reinforcements, Shandong's reinforcements have arrived!" A warm cheer suddenly erupted from the city wall.

Amid the cheers, the Manqing Naval Division, composed of fifty or sixty warships, moved out, and the cheers came to an abrupt end. Fifty or sixty warships rushed head-on towards the fleet that came to support.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the two sides met head-on at sea. Yan Shiliang, who led the fleet to reinforce Pi Island, ordered the armed merchant ships to fire their artillery. The sound of bombardment sounded, and several warships of the Manqing Navy were beaten to pieces and scattered.

The shelling effect was not very ideal. There were many warships in the Qing Dynasty, and it was too troublesome to use cannons to hit them. Yan Shiliang immediately ordered the ships to collide. Forty large ships faced the small warships in the Qing Dynasty, just like adults and children.

Forty large sailboats rushed around and sank more than ten Qing warships. The Qing soldiers who fell into the water struggled in the cold sea water, and they completely calmed down after a while.

The soldiers on the sailboat continued to fire rockets at the Qing Dynasty warships, and some soldiers simply took the rockets in their hands to launch them. After a long period of preparation, the arms warehouse in Longkou Port was already full of rockets, and they were transported after use.

The Qing army navy did not have any advantage in terms of ship size. Although there were some rockets called "Flying Sword" and "Flying Knife" in terms of firepower, they had very trashed lethality and few decent artillery guns. There were only more than one hundred heroic cannons on the land of the Qing army, and they were all very precious, so where could they equip the navy?

In addition to decent artillery such as the Red Armor Cannon, only the Fran cannon among the Qing navy was a little threat. However, it would be almost impossible to use the Fran cannon to sink any large sailboat. Although the Fran cannon has a fast firing rate, its power is relatively small. Even if it is hit by hundreds of shells, it will not sink, but it will cause casualties.

The fleet was transported by soldiers, so Yan Shiliang naturally did not allow this situation, so he asked the messengers to sing flags and let thirty troop transport ships enter the downwind, so as to avoid casualties caused by artillery bombardment.

Yan Shiliang, with ten armed merchant ships, was in the upper hand and attacked the Qing army navy.

The sound of cannons continued, and in addition to sinking, they also sank!

Most of the soldiers of the Qing army's naval soldiers were surrendered by Kong Youde. The northern government troops were not proficient in naval battles. After all, the sea was forbidden for many years, and there was no war at the sea, so naturally no one went to study naval battles.

Therefore, the Ming army in the north only had some superficial naval combat methods, although the naval combat weapons were relatively comprehensive. Such superficial means were naturally fine to deal with the previous Manchu Qing naval army.

But it is used to deal with the Shandong navy now, and it has no effect at all.

As soon as the artillery was fired, the navy under Kong Youde's troops were completely in a mess. Seeing that the Ming army's warships and artillery were so sharp that they had no hope of victory, they turned around and fled in all directions.

Yan Shiliang didn't chase him. He spent nearly half an hour to deal with the enemy ships in front of him one by one, and then began to gather the ships, arrange their neat formations, and head towards the Pidao Port not far away.

At the port of Pi Island, the Qing army had been on high alert and tried to prevent the landing of the first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army, but the Qing army's plan was once again lost.

The troops transport ship began to approach the pier. Ten armed merchant ships launched fire cover after driving. The shells and rockets roared and exploded among the Qing army, blowing the Qing army on the shore to the point of fleeing.

After nearly ten minutes of bombing, the troop transport ship approached the dock. It was very easy to land at such a port. The large sailboat could dock directly. If it landed in a shallow, many assault boats would have to be brought. Teams of soldiers jumped onto the ground with weapons and quickly formed a line of defense at the dock to cover their comrades behind them to get ashore.

In order to prevent the Qing army from rushing up and disrupting the chaos, the ten armed merchant ships behind began to continue shelling, forcing the Qing army to a safe distance.

The Qing army on the shore was at a loss. Just as they were waiting for the orders from their superiors, they found that Kong Youde had actually run away.

When Kong Youde saw the brigade of sailboats appear, he felt that he was not in line. At this moment, only Zhao Yan from Shandong would reinforce Pi Island.

He and Zhao Yan had a grudge against killing their father.

He also heard about the strong army in the Shandong army. Therefore, no matter what the situation was, after the navy attacked, he fled directly to Tieshan on a warship.

He still has 20,000 Han troops in Tieshan, and most of the firearms are in Tieshan. As long as he preserves his strength, he will still be able to make trouble in the future.

"The reinforcements are coming, his grandmother's reinforcements are really coming." The Pidao official army on the top of the city couldn't help but feel awesome when they saw the reinforcements landing.

Jin Yueguan was so excited that he shed tears. He saw him yelling regardless of his injuries: "Brothers, reinforcements sent by the court have arrived, follow me out of the city."

"Sir, you can't go, you still have injuries on your body." The two sect generals next to you quickly dissuaded, "Sir, let the officials go!"

"Okay, you bring five thousand people with you and go out of the city to kill the Tartar soldiers!" Jin Yueguan noticed that he had already had a lot of color on his body, so he had to let his generals go out of the city to kill him.

Two generals rushed down the wall excitedly and quickly summoned the people in the city. After five days of fierce fighting, the city's official troops suffered heavy casualties, but there were still more than 10,000 people. The main reason was that the city wall was seriously damaged and could not bear it.

In less than a quarter of an hour, five thousand people gathered.

"The reinforcements have arrived, and everyone follows me to rush out of the city and attack the Tartars."

"Kill!"

"Reinforcements are here, kill!"

The city wall opened and more than 5,000 mermaids came out one after another. The sound of killing was shocking. When he heard reinforcements had arrived, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city was greatly boosted, as if they had been stimulant.

A sense of confidence to win is filled with my heart.

In contrast, the Qing army outside the city watched the navy flee and flee, and the attack on morale can be imagined. Without the navy, it was even more unstoppable than fighting against the water.

Swimming across the sea? That's too whimsical. In such a cold day, the cold sea water can completely turn them away without a stick of incense.

Just when they were so chaotic that they didn't know what to do, news that caused them to collapse completely spread.

Kong Youde actually left them and ran away.

With the fact that the dragons were headless and the morale was low, something that made the landing Liaodong Army's First Battalion stunned. The five thousand Ming troops who came out of the city were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, rushing left and right among the 20,000 Qing army formations without any resistance. Many Qing troops even threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.

After all, these eight Han banners were just teams that had just been raised, most of them were recruits, and most of the elite troops with Kong and De stayed in Tieshan.

These new recruits have no New Year's death at all, let alone how can they resist a high-spirited army in such a low morale situation.

"Kill." You Xuefeng, the battalion commander of the first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army, roared and led a thousand spearmen who had just landed ashore to pounce on him.

A chaos has begun!

However, it was easy to distinguish between enemies and friends. The Qing soldiers had their heads shaved and had only a small braid on the back of their heads. The braid was very small and could only meet the standards if they could pass through the small hole in the middle of the copper coin.

The soldiers of the First Battalion had no good impression of these Han army Eight Banners with braids on their heads. If these whip soldiers surrendered slowly, they would ruthlessly cut down with a hand axe.
To be continued...