Li Guodong frowned slightly, nodded slightly, and said in agreement: "Yes, if our people and Jiannu are one-on-one, they will be almost 550. But our cavalry only have 3,000 people, Guanning Iron Cavalry, only 3,000 people can reach our cavalry level, and the rest are vulnerable. On Jiannu, there are at least 30,000 elite cavalry like us! What's more, they have tens of thousands of Korqin cavalry! Now with Kong Youde and others under Mao Shuai, Jiannu is no worse than the Ming Dynasty in terms of firearms!"

Han Dashan suddenly thought of a solution: "Brother, we can send troops to help North Korea. If you report to the court, you said that Jiannu would send troops to invade North Korea. We will go to the Dengzhou navy to help and ask them to send us across the sea."

Li Guodong didn't believe that the court was willing to help North Korea: "The court is now going to wipe out the bandits, so how can we care about North Korea? If we report to the court, the court will only drag us to suppress the bandits, and it is impossible for us to send troops to rescue North Korea."

"Brother, I have a solution." Li Hong said.

"Tell me, what are your good plans?"

"When Jiannu fought in the east, the troops in the rear must be weak. We can join forces with Mongolia to attack Korqin with cavalry, then attack Liaodong, and take advantage of the opportunity to regain Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places!"

"Not right!" Li Guodong felt that this method was too risky. "Jiannu's eastern expedition to Korea must be dominated by infantry and firearms. Their main cavalry will inevitably stay in Liaodong. Looking at the Korqin grassland, not to mention that we have attacked Korqin twice, they are prepared for it. Whenever there is any disturbance, they will invite Jiannu cavalry to deal with us. If we go far away, wouldn't we be ambushed?"

"Did we just watch Jiannu destroy North Korea and then turn back to deal with us?" Han Dashan asked.

"Don't we have a navy? Wang Quan will have a navy. The main force of our cavalry does not move. As long as we do not collect firearms at night, take a naval warship and head south along the canal, enter the Yangtze River, go out from the estuary of the Yangtze River, and go north to Jianghua Island, and help the bastard slaves with one arm." Li Guodong said.

A few days later, Li Guodong returned to Shabeigou Village with an armed caravan.

Zhao Feng happened to take the caravan north to Shabeigou City.

When Zhao Feng was shocked when he heard that Li Guodong was going to the Touhu City Village to find Wang Quan and asked the navy to go out to sea to save North Korea: "General, if we use this plan, our army will be defeated!"

"What's the solution?" Li Guodong asked.

"We can't get out of the estuary of the Yangtze River!" Zhao Feng sighed, "If a small boat leaves the estuary of the Yangtze River, it will not be able to withstand the sea storm; if a large boat is a big boat, it will not be able to get out of the estuary of the Yangtze River! There are countless undercurrents in the shallows of the Yangtze River estuary, and if a large boat goes to the estuary of the Yangtze River, it will easily run into reefs and strand."

Only then did Li Guodong realize how sinister the Yangtze River Estuary was in the Yangtze River Estuary!

Today, Chongming Island is not the third largest island in China in later generations, but a row of continuous sandbars at the estuary of the Yangtze River. These sandbars will suddenly rise out of the sea and will collapse overnight and disappear into the water. There are countless reefs and shallows at the estuary of the Yangtze River, and the wind direction is even more uncertain. It is too dangerous to sail into the Yangtze River. In the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, Liujiagang, Taicang, once flourished for a while and became the busiest seaport in China at that time. But slowly, the silt of the Yangtze River silted Liujiagang, and the interval between the inability to pass through large ships to complete abandonment was not long.

"Then we didn't borrow troops from Zheng Zhilong last time, how did his navy enter the estuary of the Yangtze River?" Li Guodong asked.

"Zheng Zhilong sent all sailboats, which were shallow in the water and could sail against the wind and against the current. Those boats were not suitable for sailing in the sea. Zheng Zhilong asked the boat to transport the boat to the vicinity of the Yangtze River estuary, then released the boat and sailed into the estuary of the Yangtze River. In fact, they also took great risks for us. The wind direction and water flow at the estuary of the Yangtze River estuary have many changes, and the waterways are changing every day. If you are not careful, you will be buried in the surging river. Moreover, our navy, to be honest, is too small, most of them are sampans and cannot sail in the sea at all." Zhao Feng replied.

The navy formed by Wang Quan was just an inland water navy. The big ship could not sail out of the estuary of the Yangtze River and could not come back even if it went out. The small boat was too small, and it was a small inland water boat. When it arrived at the sea, it could not even hold up the wind and waves.

"It seems that I have to borrow troops from Zheng Zhilong and borrow him from the Navy. Zhao Feng!" said Li Guodong.

"exist!"

"You go to Fujian to find Zheng Zhilong, and you will borrow it for the Navy. Let's go to Danluo Island first, and then to Jianghua Island. If Jiannu attacks North Korea, we will take Jianghua Island and use this island as a base to join forces with North Korea to deal with Jiannu."

"No!" Zhao Feng retreated.

Li Guodong also ordered He Xing to travel to Datong and told Wang Kun about Jiannu's preparation to send troops to North Korea. He also gave Wang Kun several gifts, including two bottles of carefully packaged perfume and two strings of necklaces made of large pearls.

He Xing presented a gift and said to Wang Kun: "Eunuch Wang, we want to use the imperial navy to help us go out to sea to save North Korea. I hope Eunuch Wang can bring this to the capital."

"General Li is so polite! General He, go back and tell you General Li, and say that you should rest assured. If you ask our family to bring you, you will definitely bring him." Wang Kun smiled happily and accepted the gift.

After leaving the Military Supervisor's Office, He Xing went to the Governor's Office of Xuanda and reported to Yang Sichang that the Qing army was going to attack North Korea.

For the next period of time, Li Guodong continued to supervise the construction of artillery and artillery vehicles.

In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen was listening to Chen Xinjia who had just returned from Xuanfu to report the situation. Chen Xinjia returned to Beijing, on the one hand because his mother passed away and was about to resign and go home to mourn. On the other hand, he came back to report the situation to Emperor Chongzhen. Wang Kun and Yang Sichang handed over the memorial provided by Li Guodong and Jiannu who was preparing to attack Korea to Chen Xinyuan to return to Beijing for memorial.

"Chen Aiqing, Jiannu wants to attack North Korea. Is this matter true?" Emperor Chongzhen asked.

"Your Majesty, General Li has repeatedly provided military information to the court, and it is true every time, and this time should be no exception."

"Then General Li wants to use the imperial navy to send him to North Korea to help North Korea resist Jiannu?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, General Li is just thinking this way."

Emperor Chongzhen turned to look at Wen Tiren who was standing aside: "Wen Aiqing, how should this matter be decided?"

Wen Tiren stepped forward, lowered his head and lowered his hands and said, "Back to your Majesty, since the Wuqiao mutiny, all the Dengzhou navy have been taken away by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi. Our army has no strength to cross the sea to protect North Korea."

Speaking of this, Chongzhen was even more furious: "Yuan Chonghuan is a sinner! This man killed Mao Wenlong without his own attack, which led to the collapse of the Dongjiang army! If I hadn't lost Mao Wenlong, how could there be the Kong Youde rebellion? This rebellion caused heavy losses to our Ming Dynasty. The new firearms and the Dengzhou Navy all fell into the hands of Jiannu! One of them grew and the other was declining, but our army's strength was weakened, but Jiannu strengthened! If Mao Wenlong was there, how dare Jiannu dared to invade our Ming Dynasty, how dare he attack North Korea?"

Wen Tiren said: "Your Majesty cut off Yuan Jiushu, which is really satisfying! The people in the capital are fighting to eat Yuan Jiushu's flesh."

"Two beloved ministers, although Yuan Chonghuan has been killed, the losses he has caused are irreparable. Now that North Korea is in trouble again, I, the Ming Dynasty, can do nothing." After losing the Dengzhou Navy, although Chongzhen re-established the Dengzhou Navy, the scale was no longer as large as before, and even the power to control the sea was lost.

Chen Xinjia reported: "Your Majesty, General Li intends to use the Fujian Zheng Zhilong Navy to go north. Zheng Zhilong Navy is powerful. If he goes to North Korea, he will help North Korea with one hand. If necessary, he will rescue the North Korean lord. Secondly, he will destroy the Jiannu Navy and thirdly, he will threaten the Jiannu's nest."

"I can issue an edict to let Zheng Zhilong Navy go north and cooperate with Li Guodong to destroy Jiannu Navy!"

Chen Xinjia said worriedly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you will issue an edict to let Zheng Zhilong go north, and the censors in the court have something to say."
Chapter completed!