Dragon Sea Empire

When Huang Lue brought his troops to the city of Guangning, he was in a very happy mood: the Chinese army on the South Road had already reached the city of Guangning, while Zhao Tie was still besieging Wang Huazhen. It seemed that his own troops were about to take the lead. Ning's plan no longer exists.

Sun Degong and others offered the city to surrender, which was credited by the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Domestic Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These two have been fighting for credit for this.Several of Sun Degong's subordinates had been in contact with the business department of Zhonghua Company many years ago.However, since there has been no large-scale war between the Ming army and the Chinese army in the Northeast, these people have been lurking, and then played a role in the Battle of Xiningbao.Many military secrets of the Ming army were disclosed by Sun Degong's subordinates, but Sun himself turned a blind eye, obviously thinking of stepping on two boats.

After Huang Lue led the team into the Acropolis of Guangning, he immediately sent people to the Governor's Yamen in Liaodong.It was the only place in the city where people were still resisting.

Fang Zhenru, governor of Liaodong, Wang Xiangqian, governor of Jiliao, and Gao Bangzuo, who was in charge of politics in Liaodong, were all here, and the soldiers and family members of their direct subordinate battalion were still stubbornly resisting.

Sun Degong's soldiers attacked several times, but were all repelled.After Huang Lue led the team here, he immediately asked someone to persuade them to surrender. As a result, one of Sun Degong's subordinates who persuaded them to surrender killed the arrow that was always shot by the yamen at the gate.

Huang Lue saw this scene from a distance, and said with a sneer: "You have a good backbone, but what's the use of this? Order! Push the five field artillery here before evening, and if the people inside don't surrender, they will fire the cannons. to the governor's office."

Sun Degong was startled when he heard this: "General Huang, this is the governor's office..."

"So what? They want to be loyal to their duties, and I'm just helping them!" Huang slightly slashed at him, and Sun Degong retracted his neck and dared not make a sound.

Before evening, five six-pound bronze field cannons fired exploding shells and exploded brilliant fireballs. The Liaodong governor's office was razed to the ground by several rounds of artillery fire. Dozens of civil and military officials in Liaodong died under artillery fire.

The news of the fall of Guangningcheng quickly spread throughout Liaodong through the Chinese Army's military order system, and quickly spread to all coastal areas through the Chinese Army's communication ships.

When the news reached the capital, it was already ten days later than the people in the Jiangnan area knew the news.

Huang Lue's troops and Zhao Tie's vanguard cavalry joined forces at Zhenning Fort west of Guangning. The more than 2 Ming troops under Wang Huazhen who were surrounded by Zhenwu Fort had become completely alone, with no hope at all.

The Chinese army surrounding Zhenwu Fort had not yet launched a general attack. They just dug a ring of trenches around the main fortress of Zhenwu Fort, completely blocking all external connections of the Ming army.

The Chinese army had no plans to attack the city, and both Zhao Tie and Zhang Pan decided to encircle rather than attack.Now the Chinese Army has basically wiped out all the Ming Army troops north of Shanhaiguan.They don't need to spend manpower and material resources in places like Zhenwu Fort.

Captain Francisco Barreto now independently owns a merchant fleet and owns shares in the Chinese company. He also moved his family to Taiwan and married a Chinese wife.Captain Barreto Jr. is already wealthy, whether in China or Portugal, he can be regarded as a rich man.

During these days, he actively responded to the call of the Liaodong Chinese Army and offered to lend his fleet to the Chinese Army as a transport ship.He personally supervised his three schooners and ran back and forth between Juhua Island and Lushun several times, transporting a large amount of munitions for the Chinese army.At the same time, he also bought a large amount of spoils from the Chinese army on Juhua Island, making a lot of money.

On this day, Captain Barreto received a direct order from Zhao Tie, the commander of the Liaodong March, at the anchorage of Juhua Island: he was asked to go to the coast of Fuzhou to pick up a group of people on board, and then go directly south to Taiwan Port.

Captain Barreto left Chrysanthemum Island unhappy, because he did business here very smoothly, and the Chinese Army Logistics Department sold the spoils at an extremely low price. Any goods he bought here would be transshipped to southern China or the Nanyang region. Can make a fortune.Now, the business on Chrysanthemum Island is at its peak, and winter is not yet here. Before the strong north wind blows on the sea, there is still time to continue negotiating a few deals.However, as Yin Feng and the earliest Western collaborator of the China United Company, Barreto Jr. attached great importance to the good relationship with the Chinese Army.Therefore, he still put aside the few deals that had not been negotiated, and took the boat to Fuzhou.

His three boats are new-style schooners that were launched last year, respectively from the Taiwan shipyard and the Cavite shipyard on Luzon Island.Since his ship was a new ship with good performance, the task he was assigned was very important: to transport 300 Chinese military cadets back to Taiwan.

As Yin Feng's early partner, Barreto Jr. was also one of the first batch of foreign shareholders of the China United Company, and he was a member of the Chinese Army that the Chinese Army could trust.Therefore, Yin Bin, Zhao Yi, Li Jigong and other young trainee officers all came to his ship and headed back to Taiwan.Along with them were some militiamen from the Ryukyu Pioneering Regiment and some wounded from the Second Division.The battle in the Liaoxi Corridor has not yet completely ended. The Ming army in Zhenwubao is still struggling, but the Chinese army is already preparing for the end of the war: there will be no more big wars.Yin Feng discussed with the staff of the old battalion for a few days and reached a consensus: the Ming court had spent all the financial, material and military resources it had accumulated in the past five years in the great war caused by the offensive and defensive battle of Xining Fort.At the same time, the She'an Rebellion was raging in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, and the weather in the north continued to suffer. For the time being, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to have the ability to fight a war again. The signing of a peace agreement between the two parties is imperative.

As a result, this group of people, including the student army, was the first group of troops to leave the battlefield in western Liaoning and returned to Taiwan on Captain Barreto Jr.'s boat.

Barreto was quite surprised when he spotted Yin Bin among the young soldiers on board.He often visits Yin Feng's home and is familiar with his family.Especially Yin Bin, he was often brought by Barreto to play with the children of those Dan people sailors in the sailor school when he was a child-Barreto was a teacher of the sailor school back then.So after the ship sailed, he quietly called Yin Bin into his captain's cabin.

"Hello, Uncle Barreto." Yin Bin greeted Barreto in Portuguese.

Putting his hands on his chest, Barreto bent down and bowed in the European manner to meet the royal family: "Your Highness, it is my honor to meet you."

After finishing the polite words, Barreto quickly pulled Yin Bin to sit down, looked him up and down, and then asked in pure Chinese: "My Prince, why are you here? Could it be that you participated in this Xining Fort event?" Battle?"

Yin Bin nodded proudly and triumphantly: "You are right, I have been in the fortress for a whole month."

"My God! Does the honorable master of the ship know about this?"

"Of course, my father hopes that I can fight on the battlefield like ordinary soldiers."

Little Captain Barreto couldn't understand what Yin Feng meant, nor did he understand Yin Bin. He crossed himself on his chest and said, "God bless you, it seems that you are doing well in the fortress? You don't seem to have suffered any injuries... "

Speaking of these things, Yin Bin became depressed, sighed and said: "Don't mention it, I will be depressed when I talk about this! It's not fair! These days we haven't fired a single shot, and we haven't shot a single enemy. In, doing nothing all day!"

Little Barreto was a little hard to understand: "What's going on? Didn't it mean that the fighting was very fierce? All troops in Liaodong have been mobilized..."

Yin Bin didn't know that the emergency deployment of troops in the entire Liaodong area was related to himself, he just lamented his unbelief: "You don't know, whether it's Zhang Pan or Uncle Zhao, or Uncle Lu of the cavalry brigade , all of us student soldiers are not allowed to go to the battlefield, but let us guard the warehouse. We can only listen to the artillery fire outside the city, and we can only be a janitor.”

The young Yin Bin was still at the age of "a young man who doesn't know how to feel sad", while the little Barreto had already understood what happened to Yin Bin, and laughed, and could only say a few words of comfort to him.

The fleet quickly passed the mouth of the Bohai Sea and came to the surface of the Yellow Sea.Originally, these three schooners carrying a large amount of goods were supposed to go directly south to Taiwan, but because there were hundreds of militiamen from the Ryukyu Pioneering Regiment among the people on board, the fleet of Barreto Jr. had to make a detour Go to Ryukyu.

As a result, just before they arrived in Ryukyu, the fleet had an accident.

It was supposed to be the season of northerly and northeasterly winds, but suddenly a southeasterly wind blew up on the surface of the Yellow Sea, and then the wind and waves became bigger and bigger. It was already difficult for ships to sail against the wind, so they had to start zigzagging against the wind.

Soon, the sea roared, and the sea and sky line between the sky and the earth were all covered by dark clouds, and heavy rain poured down.

The captain stumbled to find Barreto Jr. and said, "Boss, bad luck, it's a typhoon!"

Little Barreto has been running on the sea all year round, and he has already seen that the weather is not right. He frowned and said: "I think so too. This is probably the last hurricane this year, and we just caught up with it." Hey, there is one more person on board..." Junior Barreto shook his head, and then made up his mind: "Give up all the canvas that is too late to recover, and cut off the cables! Close all watertight compartments, and now we can only obey God's arrangement! "

"Matsu Mazu bless you!" said the Chaozhou-born captain, and turned to make arrangements.

The typhoon swept across a large swath of the sea north of Taiwan and south of Japan.Human ships were not as good as children's toys at this time. God played with these wooden ships wantonly and blew them alive from the coast of Ryukyu to the north to the coast of Korea.

Three days later, when everything on the sea calmed down, Barreto Jr., who was proficient in East Asian sea routes, exclaimed: "We have arrived in Korea!"

The three schooners of Barreto's fleet, which were tormented by the hurricane, have been dispersed, and only Barreto's ship, the schooner merchant ship Yin Bin and others were on, drifted outside this section of the coastline. .