1024 Phi Island Falls
However, most of the information sent by Shen Shikui is vague and difficult to judge. After Liu Pei waited for a few days, Shen Shikui finally sent a relatively detailed information.
Shen Shikui said relaxedly in the letter that the Qing army should have no intention of attacking Dongjiang Town. Because the Qing army mixed all the mobile forces and baggage, and slowly moved towards Liaodong.
This time, the Qing army captured a large number of people in North Korea, but also forced North Korea to provide a large amount of food and food. Judging from the formation of the Qing army, they attach great importance to this batch of materials.
But when Liu Pei saw this letter, he cursed him! He scolded Shen Shikui as a waste, only knowing how to play power and pursue power positions, but he couldn't even see the simplest paralysis tactics!
This time when attacking North Korea, Huang Taiji dispatched 100,000 troops. But where did escort food and grass require 100,000 soldiers to escort? Twenty thousand people are enough!
But now Huang Taiji mixed all the teams and baggage together just to make a detailed look. When Shen Shikui believed that the Qing army had no intention of attacking Dongjiang Town, it would be the end of Dongjiang Town!
Because the Qing cavalry was moving too fast! Once they moved, I am afraid that the Qing army soldiers would arrive first before they could receive the news from the front line!
Moreover, Liu Pei was sure that Huang Taiji must have concentrated all the usable ships somewhere, waiting to join the army. At that time, Huang Taiji will use the power of thunder to pounce on Dongjiang Town.
The facts were as Liu Pei guessed. When the Qing army was approaching the Yalu River, it suddenly distributed 50,000 cavalry and rushed to the mouth of the Yalu River. Just as the army approached the estuary, the fleet that had been prepared in the upper reaches of the Yalu River had already gone downstream and met them at the mouth of the Yalu River!
You should know that the Qing cavalry itself is very mobile and uses the local official roads to march, so it moves very quickly. However, it is different for the Ming army to stop at night. They have to cross mountains and ridges, not to mention walking paths, and some places have to hike over mountains and ridges. In this way, it will be even more difficult to send the information back to Dongjiang Town in time.
Shen Shikui is not a good general. His lifelong wish is to get high officials and generous salaries.
After he tried his best to get the position of General of Dongjiang Town, he became lazy. The result of his slackness was that all the soldiers of Dongjiang Town were relaxed.
In addition, these people knew that they were not opponents of the Qing army and believed that they were blocked by sea, so Shen Shikui did not place a checkpoint on the other side at all. This made the Qing army easily board the ship.
So it was not until the Qing army's fleet began to approach Pi Island that the soldiers guarding the island issued an alarm! But it was too late!
Shen Shikui was shocked by the news that the Qing army was invading a large-scale attack! He immediately sent his only fleet to try to block the Qing army. In fact, the fleet of Pidao was better than that of the Qing army in terms of quality of ships and the skills of soldiers in the boat, but the Qing army made up for these shortcomings with quantity!
The Qing army's navy's intention was to use all the combat ships to drag the Ming army's navy to cover other ships to transport soldiers to land.
The navy in Dongjiang Town fought very tenaciously! They kept breaking through the defense line of Qing army ships and trying to attack the fleet that transported soldiers. However, the Qing army was very crazy this time, and they were fighting with the Ming army navy with the determination to die.
Moreover, they learned from the last Pidao naval battle and nailed heavy wooden boards on the side of the hull to block the Ming army's firearms. The most important thing is that in this naval battle, the Qing army was not careless, but gathered all the soldiers inside the Qing army and North Korea's soldiers who were good at water battles, as well as ships that could fight, which greatly exceeded the Ming army's naval division in number!
The last time in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army tried to attack Pi Island, but they were too arrogant and tried to land on the island with very few fleets, but were beaten to the point of being beaten by the Ming army navy!
At that time, the Ming army naval forces fought fiercely with the Later Jin soldiers. The Ming army had a large number of firearms, a large number of ships, and was familiar with water wars. Therefore, they gave the Later Jin soldiers major killing and injury!" The "corpse-killing achievements" forced them to retreat from the island.
Then, more than a hundred large and large ships of the Ming Navy fought against the Qing army at Xuanchuanpu. According to the Koreans witnessed the battle situation: "The warships blocked the sea, and they advanced for days, and the cannon smoke blocked four times, which made the sound vibrate the world." It can be seen how fierce the battle was!
There was a general from the Later Jin Dynasty who had a ball of fire on his cheeks, his chin was broken, and he was wrapped in a headscarf and carried to Xuan.
Sichuan was dead. The soldiers were full of dead bodies. "The road was full of wounds, and it was unparalleled. The pestle and the braised squids floated, and the grass and trees were fishy."
At that time, Shen Shikui, the deputy general, was still the 12th and 19th days, and the Later Jin soldiers who attacked Shepu in succession, fought bloody battles. "The divine cannons were fired, the enemy formation was invincible, and many casualties were killed or injured." The Later Jin burned the bodies for several days, and there were heavy casualties!
Unlike the last naval battle, the Qing army had been preparing for this naval battle for many years and trained a group of naval divisions. In addition, there were also Korean naval divisions to help the battle, so although they were at a disadvantage, they were not defeated.
Although the Korean navy was unwilling to fight with the Ming army, their king had already surrendered to the Qing army and was on the battlefield, so naturally he could only fight hard! So for a moment, he actually withstood the attack of the Ming navy.
However, as time went by, the number of Ming Navy personnel was at a disadvantage became more and more obvious. When the battle reached night, the Qing Navy almost forced the Ming Navy to retreat with a 3:1 loss ratio and mastered the sea surface near Pi Island.
But the battle was not over until this time! The Qing army thought that it would be easy to take down Pi Island after landing, but unexpectedly, it was subjected to tenacious resistance from Shen Shikui and the Ming soldiers!
Shen Shikui first shot the Qing army with a powerful crossbow on the shore, causing a large number of casualties from the Qing army. The Qing army's bows and arrows were in no way available on the shaking ship and were always at a disadvantage! So it was not until afternoon that the Qing army paid a heavy price to gain a foothold on the shore!
In the days that followed, Shen Shikui used the mountains and forests of Pi Island to stubbornly block the Qing army's attack. This time, the Qing army did have the intention to completely pull out Pi Island, and the pure Jurchen Tartars were sent to the island to fight, without the Han army flags and Mongolians. There were even a large number of Baibayala soldiers.
In this way, Shen Shikui led the Ming soldiers to resist stubbornly on the island. Until a month later, the Ming army suffered all casualties and Shen Shikui also died in battle, and then he completely took down Pi Island!
Chapter completed!