The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 377 Ganghwa Island

In the original history, Hou Jin mobilized almost 3 people, crossed the Yalu River, bypassed the strong city without attacking, and drove straight in to attack Seoul.

But Ding Yi had a better choice. He used his navy to attack Seoul from the direction of Ganghwa Island. As long as he took Ganghwa Island, it was only a day's journey away from Seoul.

On April 4, Ding Yi left Zhao Dashan to guard Lushun, first transported Lushun's soldiers and horses to Phi Island, and left Xu Wei to guard Phi Island.

Then Navy Division 3 camped 2000 people on the island. The first batch of 84 ships transported 4000 people from Shen Shikui's department, and 3000 people from Xianghuailaijiachang Jiangang Department, a total of 7000 people.

On the 2nd, Ding Yi's fleet suddenly appeared near Jianghua Island.

With an area of ​​410 square kilometers, Ganghwa Island is the fifth largest island in North Korea. The island is rich in hills and fertile, rich in rice. Ginseng and fishing are also grown on the island. It is a good rear base for North Korea.

Although Ganghwa Island is only one kilometer away from the strait, the hydrological conditions are complex, the tide drop is large, and there are many hidden reefs. Therefore, whenever historical dynasties encountered foreign enemies, they would hide on the island.

When Mongolia and the later established Yuan Dynasty attacked Goryeo first, they all ran to Ganghwa Island.

In 1627, when Hou Jin attacked North Korea, King Li Ji still ran to Ganghwa Island. Later, North Korea and Hou Jin signed an alliance on Ganghwa Island.Taking this incident as an opportunity, the Joseon Dynasty promoted the Ganghwa Duhufu to the Ganghwa Left-behind Mansion, and promoted the Fushi to the Left-behind Mansion as one of the accompanying capitals of the dynasty.

Ganghwa Island has everything, and there is a huge granary, and it is rich in rice. Every time North Korea encounters an enemy country, it hides on the island. The longest loyal king hides from the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty. He stayed on it for a year. There is no food left After eating, you can see the abundance of stored grain.

If things go on like this, this side has also become North Korea's rear area, stockpiling grain and farming, and avoiding the enemy, all here.

After the first Jin invasion, their King Li Ji also hid here.

But they certainly never imagined that one day the enemy would attack directly from Juehua Island.

At this time, Zhang Shen, who was stationed on Jianghua Island in North Korea, was left behind by Jianghua and the general of the boat division, with more than 1000 soldiers and horses.

Back then, the attacking direction of Hou Jinbing was Jiachuanjin in the north of Jianghua Island, which was called Tianzhu, and the defense of the Koreans was relatively weak here.

After Zhang Shen came to the Jin army, he was asked to strengthen his military equipment. He also said with a smile: "It is said that captives cannot fly across."

Later Jin's success was partly due to Zhang Shen's underestimation of the enemy, and partly because the subsequent reinforcements encountered ebb and stagnated.

And Ding Yi chose to go to Guangcheng in the south, because his boat was too big to go in Jiachuanjin.

This side faces the sea, there are no hidden reefs, and Ding Yi's boat is bigger than Houjin's, so it is the best place to land here.

When the North Koreans are at war, most of their troops will defend here.

But there is no war right now, so when Ding Yi arrived that day, he looked through a telescope from afar, and there might not even be 100 people on the shore.

On the morning of the 2nd and the [-]th, when Ding Yi's huge fleet appeared on the sea, more than [-] small and medium-sized Korean ships in Guangcheng Port were quietly parked.

The sea is also calm and peaceful.

"There is a boat." Suddenly a North Korean soldier saw a boat on the sea, and then the shadow of the boat became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more of them.

When he saw clearly that it was a large wave of huge warships, the Korean soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and ran wildly.

"Woo" soon, a heavy horn sounded on the island, and the whole Jianghua Island suddenly jumped.

Zhang Shen was hugging his little mother in the left-behind mansion at this time, when he suddenly heard a voice and was startled.

"Who is so bold to blow the trumpet indiscriminately?" Zhang Shen cursed, and immediately sent his own soldiers to check.

After a while, the prosecutor Jin Qingzheng and his deputy Li Minqiu rushed to his residence and exclaimed: "There are so many warships on the sea to the south, boundless."

"What?" Zhang Shen jumped up: "Hou Jin is calling again?"

"It's not like Houjin's boat. Houjin doesn't have such a big boat."

"Could it be Japan?"

"It doesn't look like it, it seems to be from the Ming Dynasty."

"How is it possible, why did the Ming Dynasty attack us?" Zhang Shen was still discussing with them whose ship it was.

"Boom" the earth-shattering artillery sounded in the distance first.

Ding Yi has never been polite in wars, and those who can strike first will definitely not fight later.

Those who can defend will not attack first.

But this time he came to quickly attack Jianghua Island, and without a word, he ordered to fire.

Boom, boom, boom, more than a dozen relatively large warships lined up, and the artillery on the left wing took the lead.

More than 100 artillery pieces fired continuously, and the shells flew across the sky like meteors.

The North Korean navy was immediately stunned. At this time, a small boat was just about to leave the port. They wanted to ask who the other party was and why they came to our waters.

Unexpectedly, the ship was only tens of meters away from the port.

Puchi, a cannonball just hit the boat, tearing it into pieces in an instant.

Then the intensive artillery fire either fell on the shore or hit the ships in the port.

Because there has been no war recently, more than half of the navy ships here are parked in the port, which has directly become a living target.

After the Dongjiang soldiers fired three rounds of artillery, the port and the shore were a sea of ​​fire, burning everywhere.

Because Ding Yi's cannonballs like to burn red before firing them out. In this season, when they hit wood, they will basically burn up.

The North Korean army fled in all directions.

There are also those who are bold enough to control the artillery on the shore and try to shoot into the sea.

However, North Korea’s firearms are particularly dependent on the Ming Dynasty, especially saltpeter and sulfur, which have always been supported by the Ming Dynasty. Originally, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that 3000 catties of saltpeter and sulfur should be sold to North Korea every year.

Last year, because it was suspected that North Korea secretly accepted Kong Youde to go to Houjin, the Ming Dynasty was worried that North Korea would be the enemy of Houjin, and stopped the annual production of 3000 catties of saltpeter and sulfur, so North Korea was very difficult.

The guns here are less used, only a dozen shells in total.

Those soldiers fired a few shots at the sea to no avail, and were hit by the fourth wave of artillery fire, and the North Korean artillery immediately dispersed.

Ding Yi didn't care about it, and used the modern warfare mode, first fired eight waves of artillery on the shore and the port, and then covered it with a street spread.

Thousands of shells washed the south bank.

If he hadn't come to negotiate with North Korea, he didn't want to kill more North Koreans, and he was afraid that the fuzed shells would leak out. If he wanted to use the fuzed shells, the power would be even worse.

Even so, after his eight waves of artillery fire, there was no one within a hundred meters of the south bank. The North Korean soldiers were either killed or retreated one after another, not daring to stay on the bank.

Then some warships approached, and Shen Shikui's four thousand soldiers went ashore first.

In this era, no one has ever engaged in such a landing battle. From Ding Yi's soldiers firing the cannon to landing, the North Korean soldiers didn't know how to fight back.

They didn't react until they saw the warships of the Ming army approaching and soldiers and horses coming ashore one after another.

"Come on." A North Korean officer ordered, and a wave of North Korean soldiers rushed to the shore again in a panic.

When they rushed to the shore, they encountered the first group of Xu Erxian's troops to land on Pidao.

(End of this chapter)