Chapter 198 Halong Bay Counterattack

At the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, at the beginning of the 11th year, Tokugawa Imitsu had to admit that his military operation had failed. He tragically withdrew the remaining warships to their respective vassal states, strengthened the policy of closing the country, and issued a lockdown order again, strictly ordering the vassals to strengthen coastal defenses and prohibit anyone from colluding with Han pirates. Once it is found, it will be severely punished.

However, this practice has little effect at all. The sea wolf's plundering fleet has disappeared, appearing on the coast of various vassal states like ghosts, constantly attacking the coast of Japan. In addition to all the goods that can be robbed, a large number of young women have plundered them back to Taiwan Island.

In recent years, these plunder boats alone have sent back 20,000 to 30,000 young Japanese women for Yu Xiaotian. Although these women are really handsome enough and really do not fall into the eyes of Xiaotian, they are still women after all.

As the saying goes, after three years in the army, the sow Diao Chan, for the military generals, can't get a wife for a long time, let alone a young woman. At this time, as long as she is a woman who can be raised, even if she is more embarrassed, they will still be happy to rob.

It's just that Yu Xiaotian hasn't freed his hands yet. He really went to Japan and slaughter this despicable nation. When he frees his hands one day, it will really be the end of this bullshit and the nation.

And in the Nanyang area, after the sea wolf captured the Halong Bay area, over the past year, they have fought several hard battles with the officers and soldiers of the Vietnamese Li Dynasty.

The Li Dynasty was suddenly attacked like this, and the area of Xialong Bay was actually taken by a group of people of unknown origin. The Li Dynasty is now in the period of confrontation between the Zheng and Ruan clan in the north and south. The Bay of the Xialong Bay is controlled by the Zheng family. When Zheng heard that the area of Xialong Bay was seized, he was immediately furious and immediately gathered more than 20,000 northern Li The North Korean army launched a counterattack against the sea wolf army that seized the area of Halong Bay.

The first counterattack of the Zheng army of the Northern Li Dynasty caused great trouble to the unstable sea wolf army. Not to mention that the combat effectiveness of the Li Dynasty was really not very weak. In the years of conflicts with the Ruan clan in the south, they absorbed more of the idea of fighting by the Western army, coupled with the Portuguese The Dutch have preached in Vietnam over the years and introduced some advanced firearms and military ideas to Vietnam, so the Zheng Group in the north of the Lebanese dynasty has a large number of firearms equipment, even far exceeding the Westernization of the Ming army.

So the combat effectiveness is also quite good. The sea wolf army only sent two battalions. Because the artillery did not unload on the shore in time after arriving at the shore, in addition, the landing sea wolf soldiers will be eager to expand their territory, resulting in the dispersion of troops.

As a result, after the first battle, the Li army actually returned the two battalions of sea wolves and almost rushed back to the sea. Fortunately, many naval warships stationed by the sea wolves at the seaside. After finding that the army's troops were scattered and gradually being driven back to the seaside, they deployed the sailors on the ship to reinforce the land and lined up to the sea. The heavy artillery on the ship bombarded the Lebanese army, which dispersed the Lebanese army.

For this reason, the army commander who was responsible for capturing Halong Bay at that time was also dismissed by Yu Xiaotian and directly moved from the battalion commander to the lieutenant platoon leader.

Next, the army officers who captured Halong Bay received the lesson of the first almost failure and began to fight steadily. They unloaded all the artillery from the ship to the shore and cooperated with the infantry to act together. In addition, they captured many local people of the Li Dynasty and built fortresses on the spot. The method of gradual encroachment began to steadily expand the territory.

The first failure of the army of the Li Dynasty was very unwilling. A few months later, it gathered 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses again and attacked Longwan again.

This time, the sea wolf's army has gained a firm foothold, and the artillery is all in place. First, relying on those fortress offensives, it blocked the counterattack of the Lebanese army with superior firepower. When the Lebanese army suffered losses and the morale plummeted, they began to concentrate their troops to take the initiative to attack.

After more than a month of hard fighting, the army of the Li Dynasty was defeated by two army infantry battalions, and thousands of corpses escaped from the battlefield.

So far, the sea wolf has also officially gained a foothold in the area of Halong Bay, broke through dozens of surrounding powerful estates of the Li Dynasty, captured a large number of slaves, killed many people, and seized nearly 200,000 stones of rice and a large amount of property.

According to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the sea wolf officers and soldiers treated these slaves of the Li Dynasty well. After capturing them, they improved their quality of life, provided them with better treatment, increased their food rations, and made full use of the local traitors to promote the benefits of the family army among these captured slaves.

In the face of the propaganda offensive and the improvement of the actual quality of life, these Vietnamese serfs are actually not loyal to the government and court of the Li Dynasty.

The common people think is very simple. They are willing to follow whoever is good to them and gives them enough to eat. These young and strong serfs have been trained into a group of new troops after brainwashing. To put it badly, it is the traitor force. Yu Xiaotian personally named this traitor force and called it Knife drawing team.

As for the equipment, of course, they will not be equipped with advanced weapons. They are mainly armed with long guns, single knives and bows and arrows. The combat method also adopts the training method of infantry phalanx, which makes them have a certain combat capability and become the auxiliary force of the local sea wolf garrison.

These knife drawing teams are usually responsible for maintaining local security and protecting some strongholds in the occupied area. In addition, they are also responsible for monitoring and suppressing the chaos of some local people in the occupied area. At the same time, they are also responsible for mixing them with the local people, monitoring the situation of these ordinary people, and arresting those detailed works sent by the Li Dynasty.

These traitors were suddenly promoted from serf to soldiers of the drawing knife team. Their quality of life improved greatly, and they ate much better than before. They lived in clean barracks and were full of energy, which really helped the local sea wolf garrison.

Li Chao was still unwilling to abandon the area of Xialong Bay. Before the end of ten years, Chongzhen gathered more than 30,000 officers and soldiers again to launch a counterattack against the area of Xialong Bay.

The sea wolf got the news in advance. Before the start of the war, Yu Xiaotian sent an infantry battalion equipped with wolf tooth rifles to Halong Bay, and also added a standard field artillery company.

Moreover, the local garrison has also replaced a batch of newly produced wolf-tooth rifles, making them have stronger combat capabilities, and even given certain care to the most loyal knife drawing team, and equipped them with 300 monkey versions of the South Japanese smoothbore guns.

The forces of both sides formed one to three, the sea wolf one, the Li Dynasty army three, and more than half of the sea wolves, all of which are locally trained knife drawing teams and are used as cannon fodder.

The battle was more exciting. The sea wolf did not even huddle in various strongholds to fight. He directly took the initiative to attack and met the Li Dynasty army, supplemented by the knife drawing team, and the sea wolf infantry was the main. As soon as the two sides fought, the Li Dynasty army was turned over by a large area like cutting rice, and suddenly began to collapse.

With an order, the knife drawing team immediately began to charge and start a close battle with the army of the Li Dynasty. The army of the Li Dynasty suddenly collapsed and was chased dozens of miles away by the sea wolf army.

If it hadn't been for the end, the army of the Li Dynasty didn't know where to get dozens of war elephants, which scared the sea wolf soldiers. In addition, the weather began to deteriorate and began to rain.

Only then did the sea wolf soldiers end the pursuit war and withdraw to the occupied area. After this battle, they captured thousands of Li Chao soldiers and captured countless materials. The Li dynasty army was completely disabled. Next, they had to be soft and sent people to Ha Long Bay to negotiate with Sea Wolf.

At present, the sea wolf does not have the strength to eat the whole Li Dynasty, so it accepted their conditions and blackmailed them of 50,000 taels of silver. In addition, it has placed Halong Bay, Hongji Port and other places under the control of the sea wolf, and divided the dividing line, which is equivalent to acquiescing to the actual control of the sea wolf in the local area.

As soon as the sea wolf gained a foothold in the area of Halong Bay, it immediately sent people to start exploration work in the Hongji area.

Hongji Coal Mine is buried in the shallow ground and fully equipped with the conditions for manual open-pit mining, so the sea wolf immediately began to dispatch prisoners and enter the mining area to carry out excavation work.

And the sea wolf now has a large reserve of gunpowder, which directly blew up the surface soil layer with gunpowder and ordered the prisoners of war to strip off the soil layer, exposing the coal seam below.

Even slave miners with the worst physical strength can dig out at least 500 kilograms of coal in a day. Soon, at the end of ten years of Chongzhen, Hongji Coal Mine began to produce a large amount of coal.

Yu Xiaotian sent a group of craftsmen to Hongji to cut wood and use local timber resources, built a zigzag wooden track at the local coal mine leading to the dock, and shipped a batch of small mining vehicles produced in Taiwan Island in advance to Hongji.

These sites were put into use after the local carpenters made the carriages and installed them. Because of the use of bearings, these mining vehicles are relatively light on the track. Although they need to be pulled by manpower or animal power, they are still much easier to transport than ordinary ox carts.

A small mining truck can load half a ton of coal at a time, return the zigzag track every day, put 50 mining trucks into it, and each mining truck can transport charcoal back and forth three times a day, and can transport more than 70 tons of coal every day.

This is just the beginning. The number of mining vehicles is insufficient. After continuing to invest mining vehicles and manpower in the future, the daily output of coal from Hongji Coal Mine can easily reach hundreds of tons, which is almost enough to meet the current demand for high-quality coal by Sea Wolf.

If wooden tracks are increased and more manpower is invested, it is not impossible to produce thousands of tons of coal here in the near future.

The most important thing is that after subduing the Li Dynasty, the Li Dynasty opened the grain trade with sea wolves again in accordance with the provisions of the peace treaty. Every year, the Li dynasty alone can provide hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to sea wolves, which played a great role in obtaining a stable food supply.

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