On June 5, 1642, the East Coast Republic expedition fleet of China, led by Navy Captain Li Yi, quietly appeared outside the sea of ​​the Hamkyung Road Bay, North Korea. Then, the East Coast army composed of 200 Eight Banners warriors and 100 sailors suddenly landed on the coast between Yumbuli and Hong Yili, while the local North Korean officials and people knew nothing about the invaders who suddenly appeared on their territory.

After landing, the East Coast troops did not divide their troops, but gathered together to attack all the Korean villages they encountered, plundering food, livestock and population. The caught off guard was unable to resist at all, and a few mobilized North Korean troops collapsed on the spot under the volley of muskets. The bird guns they used were not the opponents of the 32-C flintlock rifles of the East Coast people. These North Korean troops who rushed to the scene not only did not rescue the local people, but instead broke themselves in.

On June 7, the East Coast army, which had been rampant in the local area for nearly two days, drove away a small amount of livestock, food, and about 300 North Korean men and women, walked to the coast. During this process, the local North Korean government no longer sent any effective troops to clean up the situation. Perhaps the Qing Dynasty restrained a large number of their troops, perhaps their mobilization ability was very poor, perhaps they did not pay attention to this matter at all, in short, they let the East Coast people retreat calmly with their spoils.

On June 10, the East Coast Expedition fleet arrived at three nautical miles south of Luojin Bay, on the Fukui line, and went ashore to plunder, killing one person and injuring three people, breaking several villages at the slightest cost of plundering more than 200 Dingkou, gold, silver, grain, and livestock.

On June 12, the "Zhenbo" appeared alone in the sea outside Jingcheng (the "Borang" returned to Heishui Port to transport spoils), sank three North Korean boats and captured dozens of sailors. The local North Korean government was in great shock.

On June 14, the "Zhubo" expedition ship, which had been wandering in this sea area, suddenly broke into Xingnan Port, North Korea and bombarded the enemy city. The local North Korean soldiers and civilians were in chaos. Three hundred soldiers on the east coast took advantage of the chaos to land, captured nearly 100 North Korean fishermen and dock workers, and looted a large amount of fur, herbs, grain and salt stored by North Korean merchants on the dock.

On June 15, the "Zhubo" that went south overnight raided North Korea's Wonsanjin, intercepted a North Korean fishing boat and bombarded its town. Local North Korean officials presented a large amount of gold, silver, livestock, food and dozens of boys and girls. The ships of the East Coast left the port.

On June 18, the returnee "Zhenbo" and the "Borang" that arrived again met at the Tumen River Estuary. Then the two ships went up the river and successively defeated several Korean villages and towns, capturing a large number of Dingkou and property. If it weren't for the insufficient water depth of the river channel and a large number of North Korean troops with thousands of people rushed over soon, Li Yi and the others would have taken their people to continue to rob here for a few more days.

From June 5th to today, 300 East Coast soldiers were almost uninhabited in the coastal areas of Hamkyung Road, North Korea. In this two-week continuous combat operation, the East Coast people defeated four large and small North Korean troops, the largest of which was about 6700 and the smallest of which was only more than 200. A total of more than 30 Korean soldiers were captured, and about 800 men and women were killed or killed. However, their casualties were only more than 200,000 tons of North Korean fishing boats, as well as more than 200,000 kilograms of grain, more than 80 pigs and sheep, a large number of valuables such as fur, gold and silver, medicinal materials, etc.

Since the East Coast canceled the Caribbean privateer operation a few years ago, this is the first organized pirate robbery by the maritime forces of the East Coast Republic in recent years, and the harvest is naturally extremely rich. At the same time, they also saw the extremely weak military force and local mobilization and organizational capabilities of the Lee Dynasty in the North. The North Korean army with extremely poor equipment and low morale is no different from the two-legged sheep in the eyes of the East Coast people. Even the Eight Banners warriors who belong to the Servant Army in the East Coast Army can easily defeat them. It can be said that if these North Koreans did not have any improvement measures, their coastal areas will be staged again and again.

On June 21, the east coast expedition fleet that had been back to the brim, anchored in the Hei Shui Port. The Eight Banners Warriors in the port were led by Mo Dayong to drive about hundreds of North Korean men and women to build the entire port town. Some of them were logging and processing wood, some were leveling the land and landing the swamp, and some were building wooden houses, docks and trestles and other facilities. The whole town was in full swing.

Looking at the Korean prisoners who were soaked in the cold sea to build a pier and trest, Lieutenant An was still a little moved and unbearable, but Captain Li Yi turned a blind eye. He had never done anything cruel when he squeezed the Xhosa and Malays back then, what was the point of driving the civilians to do some work? Besides, the East Coast people did not force them to death. They prepared quite a lot of shifts. Each group of people could be allowed to go ashore after staying in the sea for half an hour. Then the East Coast people would give them a set of thick, warm duck down coats and a bottle of strong liquor to drive away the cold. Moreover, their families could have enough food throughout the day.

"Hey, who are these people?" Li Yi suddenly stopped and pointed to some short, strong and sturdy men who were standing among the Eight Banners Supervisors.

"Sir, they are the indigenous people living nearby, and they should be the Hezhe people you often call." Mo Dayong, who had seen Li Yi get off the boat, ran over and answered loudly after hearing Li Yi's question.

"What are they doing?" Li Yi untied the saber on his waist, threw it to Sergeant Johnson, who was following him, and then found a tree stump and sat down.

"They came here shortly after you led the team a few days ago." Mo Dayong carefully took out a bag of Virginia tobacco, then lit Li Yi's pipe, and continued: "There were only a few guys dressed in hunters at that time. They seemed to be surprised by our existence, but they were not too hostile. I followed your orders and did not act thick with them, but temporarily maintained a good relationship with them. So, I took some duck down coats, liquor, salt, sugar and metal knife from the warehouse to trade with them. They were very happy and gave us a lot of skins and piled them on the table behind you."

Li Yi turned his head and looked at it, then shouted in surprise: "Good guy! Bear skin! Such a good look! This is... moose skin? There are otters, marten rats, fox skins, haha, they are all good things! Grandma, a bear, bring back the local area to make a marten rat vest for Samantha and a fox scarf for Sylvia. All my problems will be solved, haha! I bought it, and I still have the power to deal with some spoils. Johnson, keep the accounts, I don't take advantage of the public, I will give you money if I should give it!"

"Dayong, it's done well!" Li Yi patted Mo Dayong's shoulder hard and said with a smile: "For the time being, our strength here is still relatively weak, so it is necessary to win over and unite these natives. By the way, I see dozens of Hezhe people here. Are they hired by you?"

"Yes, I hired it at a high price of five kilograms of grain per person per day. They are all good hunters, with good physical fitness, hard-working and strong will. I recruited 56 people to help us supervise the work of these North Koreans." Mo Dayong grinned his yellow teeth and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm also wary of them, just let them still use their old weapons. But they look really simple and yearn for our goods. I think they can win them over for my use."

"Yeah." Li Yi did not comment. After taking a few puffs of cigarettes, he said: "We should show them appropriately our strength so that they can't resist, and then give them some goods to win over them. This will achieve the best effect. As for the quantity, it should not be too much. After all, our strength here is still very weak. If they have a large number, it is easy to turn against each other. Well, you have also attended the camp school of the South African garrison Army and have learned some courses. I won't say much, you can grasp the degree of this yourself."

Mo Dayong hurriedly replied.

"There is another boat for you." Li Yi pointed to a fishing boat that was shaking on the sea not far away, and said, "The captured North Korean ships have a tonnage of about 100 tons. They are hard sailboats, which you can use to fish. Well, after we leave, you'd better take the time to build a dock. After the port freezes in the winter, you can tow the fishing boat into the dock and place it in the dock to avoid damage."

"Sir, are you leaving now?" Mo Dayong asked. He had long known his destiny, that is, to stay here, build ports and cities to wait for the arrival of the next Eastern Coast Republic fleet. If there is plenty of manpower and time, it is best to find nearby coal mines and start preparing for mining. If these are done, then his performance can be considered excellent. With this evaluation and someone recommends it, he will have a great chance of obtaining the official nationality and military status of the Eastern Coast Republic of China - this is an extraordinary honor for the Eight Banners children and is the driving force for many people's lifelong struggle.
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