Chapter 363 Night Attack on the Naval Camp (1)
After interrogation, Li Guodong learned who was a shipbuilder. He ordered all the craftsmen to be taken away.
"Please, Jun Ye, the villain's home is here, the villain doesn't want to leave." A craftsman knelt on the ground and begged hard.
"If you don't leave, stay and help Jiannu?" Li Guodong sneered.
"Don't dare!" The man kowtowed repeatedly, "The villain just couldn't bear to leave..."
Before the words were finished, the sword flashed, and the craftsman's head rolled to the ground.
Han Dashan bent down and wiped the blood from the knife with the clothes on the body of the Goryeo shipbuilder.
"I don't even see it? This is the end if you refuse to leave!" Li Guodong shouted at the headless body of the craftsman.
Seeing the angry look on the face of the Goryeo people, Li Guodong opened his voice and said loudly: "Don't blame me for being ruthless! I took you away because I don't want you to be an accomplice in helping Jiannu!"
Someone said, "This general, our North Korea is devoted to the Ming Dynasty. The Tartars are here to bully us. You don't fight the Tartars, but you bully us? This is how your Ming Dynasty treats us?"
Li Guodong laughed: "If it weren't for our Ming Dynasty, you Goryeo would have been destroyed by the Japanese! Now the Tartars are here to deal with you, your army is vulnerable! Now the Ming Dynasty is internal and external troubles, so I don't have time to help you expel the Tartars, but I, Li, can guarantee that in the near future, we will definitely fight back and drive the Tartars out!"
The bloody headless corpse completely showed the cowardice of the Goryeo people. No one dared to say no, and they all honestly took the Zheng family's boat and left here.
When Zheng Zhilong saw that Li Guodong brought back more than 600 Korean shipbuilders, he stepped forward and asked, "Take back so many Korean people? Where are these brothers going to bring them?"
"I'm going to take it back to us. Brother Zheng, you know that we are a lakeside water village and also need shipbuilders. We can't leave these people to Jiannu."
"Six hundred people, grain and shipping costs are a total of 8,000 taels of silver." Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.
"You have to count the money again? Brother, I have hired your ship and the rent is given. Why do you have to count the money when you take people back?" Li Guodong cursed the unscrupulous Zheng Zhilong in his heart.
"Hahaha, you hired my navy to help you fight and transport your people. Now there are more than 600 more people. Eat, drink, defecation and sensation are all things on my boat. Of course, it has to be considered as a different money." Zheng Zhilong looked like a profiteer and was petty.
"That's too expensive, right?"
"It's not expensive. When I finally settle the accounts, I can give you a discount for my brother's sake."
Li Guodong roughly estimated that after this trip, he would have to give Zheng Zhilong at least 500,000 taels of silver! This transaction was a big loss! Before fighting Jiannu, when did he make money? Needless to say, fighting Jiannu on the grassland, he had great gains every time, and he could also open up the trade route of trade with the Mongolians, and he made a fortune every time. Even when fighting in Jingji and Shanxi, he did not lose money. The seizure not only offset the consumption, but also made a profit. However, after traveling to Goryeo, the seizure was taken away by Zheng Zhilong, and he had to pay for the military sending expenses himself. It was indeed a loss.
Who said that buying a boat is worse than renting a boat? By this calculation, the rent is more expensive than buying a boat.
The purchase price of a No. 1 Big Blessing Ship is only 5,000 taels of silver and 500,000 taels of silver, which is enough to buy a hundred No. 1 Big Blessing Ship. However, it is not easy to train the navy officers and soldiers, so it is useless to buy the ship at present. This time, I won more than 600 shipbuilders in Goryeo, and these craftsmen will still be useful in the future.
Zheng Zhilong's fleet sailed towards the Han River Estuary and sailed for one morning. At noon, the fleet arrived at the Han River Estuary and met with the fleet led by Shi Fu, who was patrolling there.
When he saw Shi Fu, Li Guodong learned something: Last night, the Qing army was on the Korean Navy fleet and attempted to attack Jianghua Island, but was retreated by Shi Fu, but the Qing army failed.
"Staying the Goryeo Navy is a disaster after all, and they must be destroyed as soon as possible." Li Guodong said to Zheng Zhilong.
"Some parts of the river surface are frozen, and there may be ropes and underwater stakes in the river. It is not easy for our foreign fleet to enter. If we want to destroy the Goryeo Navy, we can only send you ashore. The rest depends on your own." Zheng Zhilong replied.
In the next few days, Zheng Zhilong's fleet patroled the seaside and sent small boats to the shore to spy on the enemy's situation. Because Dorgon's Qing army had been following the Goryeo Navy, Li Guodong could not find a chance to start.
Five days later, the opportunity finally came, and the boats that were moving on the shore came back to report: Dorgon's Qing army left the Goryeo Navy and went to reinforce Yuetuo.
"It should be that the Goryeo's army of kings has arrived, and the Goryeo's navy has not had the opportunity to go out to sea to attack in the past few days. Dorgon rushed to reinforce Yuetuo's side." Li Guodong judged.
But Li Guodong, who has always been steady, will not only regard judgment as military information. He ordered Han Dashan to take more than a dozen Ye Busuo to spy on the enemy's situation.
Han Dashan brought more than a dozen men to the night and landed on a small boat. After getting ashore, he changed into the uniforms of the Eight Banners Army, disguised himself as a scout cavalry in the Qing army, and went to the Goryeo Navy Camp and the Qing army camp to explore military information.
On the afternoon of the same day, Han Dashan came back and reported the military information to Li Guodong: "The captive chief Dorgon did go to reinforce Yuetuo, and the Goryeo navy all hid in the river."
"If you don't take action at this time, when will you wait? Tonight!" Li Guodong gave the order decisively.
Han Dashan drew all the layout maps of the Goryeo Navy Camp and the location maps of the ships parked by the river. These elite soldiers were shot by the elite Jiannu, and dealing with the Goryeo people was like a burly man armed to the teeth bullying the baby.
After it got dark, Zheng Zhilong's fleet sent a transport ship to take Li Guodong, a hundred elite soldiers and two thousand infantry landed ten miles south of the Han River Estuary.
At night, the sea water near the beach was frozen, and the boat approached the shore. The Zheng family sailors dug up the ice layer so that the boat could get ashore. However, the ice layer near the Han River Estuary was not thick in winter, and it was not as cold as the Yalu River Estuary. The boat leading the way quickly broke through a waterway and sent Li Guodong and others to ashore.
"People are taking care of you, we will send you here. We will pick you up here tomorrow morning." Zheng Cai, who was in charge of sending Li Guodong ashore, bowed and said goodbye to Li Guodong.
After Li Guodong said goodbye to Zheng Cai, he led his soldiers to the shore covered with thick snow. Looking around, it was covered in silver. Although it was night, the visibility was very high. The nearby hills and fields were all in Li Guodong and others' eyes.
Han Dashan had already drawn up the road to the Goryeo Navy Camp. According to the road on the map, it was about fifteen miles to the Goryeo Navy Camp. Li Guodong and his group were wearing white helmets and white armor, and white cloaks, which were integrated with the snow. Even the Qing army scouts and whistle cavalry could not find them, let alone the Goryeo who were extremely vigilant.
If the 40,000 Korean troops were attacked by Matafu, they could be defeated miserably, and that was the Lu Division. Li Guodong's 2,100 troops were not inferior to the Qing army, and he was not as good as the Baijia Bayala soldiers, but he would not lose to ordinary Qing soldiers.
More than 2,100 people walked in the snow for an hour and a half, and arrived outside the Goryeo Navy camp late at night.
The Goryeo Navy, who had suffered two defeats a few days ago, were all buried in the camp. They never dreamed that someone would land and attack them, and the Ming army was the one who attacked them.
In the Goryeo Navy camp, most people were already lying in the warm bed and fell asleep. Braised in the tent, making the tent warm as spring. In the central army's tent, several Goryeo officers were drinking with steaming dog meat.
"When the Tartars are coming, we have to secretly eat dog meat. If the Tartars see it, they may even kill people." An officer complained.
Chapter completed!