Two days later, Li Xiao's entire army returned to Chifeng Guard from the ocean island.

After the materials obtained were put into the warehouse and the rewards and pensions of the soldiers were rewarded and given, Li Xiao ordered the 3,000 Manchu soldiers to go to Tielong City to dig iron ore and work hard to reform as before. More than 1,000 soldiers from Shen Zhixiang's former Dongjiang Town were respectively entered the quarry, lime farm, brick factory, and cement factory in Chifengwei to do hard labor to redeem their previous crimes.

Then, Li Xiao ordered to take the two troops of General A and General B of Chifeng Camp to go to North Korea for emergency rescue. Only General C would be left to guard Chifeng Guard.

In addition, Li Xiao generalized the Manchu soldiers and horses that had already surrendered, that is, more than 900 Manchu Tartars who surrendered outside Jinzhou with Chata. The men and horses were all wearing the original Zhengbai Banner armor and formed a cavalry team, called the Manchu Cavalry Strip, with Ebilun as the chief general and Samushka as the deputy general, and they followed the army to fight against Korea.

Therefore, Chata, the former general of this group of Tartar, performed extremely outstandingly and hardworkingly in the last battle to capture the city gate in Fangshan County, and has now been promoted to deputy commander of the rampant sentry, which is also a very important position. After repeated consideration, Li Xiao decided not to change Chata's military position for the time being.

After being taken back from Jinzhou on the same day, these Tartars were taken to the Tielongcheng Iron Mine for labor reform. After more than a year of labor reform, sixty or seventy Tartars died during the labor reform process. The remaining nine hundred Tartars were reorganized on the spot to become auxiliary soldiers of Tielongcheng after the labor reform.

Because basically everyone in Manchurian Tartars had the ability to ride and shoot, they were all trained as reserve cavalry and trained every day. Now Li Xiao formed them into Manchurian cavalry whistle, which was very natural.

Of course, this Manzhou cavalry sentry, like Li Xiao's other troops, has a supervisory and supervision department composed of Han civil servants, in charge of military merit assessment, cultural education, military discipline inspection and other matters, so as to ensure that the army has two teams of combat and life, so as to divide the general's control over military and strengthen the actual grasp of grassroots military.

Moreover, in the past two years, these Manchu soldiers, whether during mining labor reform or as auxiliary soldiers, have received high-intensity brainwashing education from the supervisors every day. Now, these Manchu soldiers, who have long hair, dressed like Han people, and have daily living habits, are no different from Han people, are in their hearts, and have quite a few Manchu soldiers who have given themselves Han people's names.

With Li Xiao's permission, there were still many Manzhou soldiers. After becoming auxiliary soldiers and having a fixed source of living, like Chata and others, they took Han women as their wives, started a family and had children, and had no attachment to their hometown in Baishan and Heishui.

For the Manchus, a nation that had just left the state of ignorance, was illiterate and had a very primitive religion, it was very obvious that the effect was quite obvious to use the obviously advanced Han culture to infuse and change them, and destroy their original national imprint. Li Xiao even believed that these people could be faster in integrating into the Han people and becoming part of the Han people than in the indigenous people in Taiwan.

In fact, it is really difficult to dissolve, cannot be Chineseized, and is completely inactive, and even the people who always turn to the enemy are ethnic groups that believe in a certain religion. Of course, in the Ming Dynasty, the number of ethnic groups in a certain religion was relatively small. Now, because there are basically no people from a certain religion among his military and civilians, there is no need to consider this problem that makes him headache for the time being.

The appointed Ebilun and Samushka were both extremely happy and shouted to Li Xiao that they would do their best to fight for Lord Li to make new contributions.

In this way, the total force of troops heading to rescue was 30 teams of shield soldiers, 60 teams of spearmen, 600 sergeants, 600 heavy cavalry in Xuanhu, 600 flying kites, 900 Manzhou cavalry, 1,000 auxiliary soldiers, and a total force of 12,880.

Li Xiao followed and ordered the remaining 10 more broken ships to rest in Longkou Port, and asked Lin Dazhuang to bring craftsmen to repair them on the spot. He only brought the other 34 ships to ship troops to North Korea.

The former two generals of Dongjiang Town, Jin Riguan and Chu Jigong, were appointed by Li Xiao as captains of the two captured No. 1 lucky ships. The two were highly valued and were very grateful in their hearts and expressed their loyalty to Li Xiao repeatedly.

It was not until this time that Li Xiao finally squeezed out a little time to reunite with his family.

When he returned home, his son Li Cheng, who was almost one year old, was toddled in the small garden of Li's mansion under the guidance of his mother Zhu Mei and his maid. When he saw Li Xiao coming, the little guy called Daddy timidly under the maid's teasing.

"Son, Daddy, I miss you so much." Li Xiao smiled and picked up Li Cheng, hugged him in his arms, kissed him left and right, full of fatherly love.

‘Husband, I haven’t seen each other for more than four months, but my husband has lost a lot of weight.’” said the princess Zhu Mei, who was standing by, gently stroked Li Xiao’s cheek and said in an extremely distressed tone.

"It's okay, it's just a journey back and forth, and I've been working hard." Li Xiao looked back at her with a smile and said softly: "As a big wife, you have worked hard and hard for the family during this time when I was not in Shandong."

Zhu Meixian smiled and said, "It's okay, since my husband went to Taiwan, there has been no major issues at home, and I can still handle it. By the way, now Wan'er's sister Xiao Jing'er is getting more and more beautiful and cute. It's time for my husband to go and see them."

Li Xiao nodded, then chatted with Zhu Mei for a few intimate words, and then went to Zu Wan'er's place.

When he entered the room, Li Xiao saw that the nurse was feeding his daughter Li Jing, while Zu Wan'er was sitting around, chatting with the nurse one by one.

Seeing Li Xiao come in, Zu Wan'er's face was extremely happy. She rushed over happily like a girl, hooked Li Xiao's neck, and murmured to express her thoughts about her long separation.

"Li Xiao, do you know that when you are not here, Wan'er misses you every day." Zu Wan'er whispered: "I haven't come back for so long, I thought you have a good relationship in Taiwan."

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Oh, Wan'er's little temperament is coming again. Do you think my husband is going to Taiwan for a trip? Since I went to Taiwan, everything has been complicated and I am busy every day. You still say this to me."

Zu Wan'er tangled Li Xiao even tighter and said in a sweet voice: "Oh, I'm joking with you, you're taking it seriously. Li Xiao, do you know that since you went to Taiwan, I have burned incense and prayed for you in front of the Bodhisattva every day to ensure your peace in everything."

Li Xiao gently kissed her: "I don't know Wan'er's feelings, your husband, I just joked with you just now."

Li Xiao was entangled with her for a long time before he picked up Li Jing, who was already full of milk from the nurse and was yawning. Looking at her pink and beautiful daughter in her hand, Li Xiao couldn't let go of her.

After chatting with Zu Wan'er for a long time and coaxing Li Jing to fall asleep, Li Xiaofang left the room of the mother and daughter.

Finally, Li Xiao went to the room of his concubine Zhuo Naxi.

As soon as Li Xiao entered the door, he had no time to say something and was immediately hugged by Zhuo Naxi.

Two crystal tears slid from the corners of her eyes. Before Li Xiao could speak comforting words, Zhuo Naxi's hot and hot lips were tightly pressed against Li Xiao's lips.

Li Xiao picked her up and walked towards the bed.

After three full times of being as flirted with her, Li Xiao, exhausted, hugged her smooth body tightly and fell asleep in her room.

Li Xiao slept after returning from Taiwan, and had a rare good night's sleep.

The next day, after preparing all the food, replenishing freshwater, ammunition, and as many as 30,000 individual soldiers' thunderheads and other supplies, the fleet, which had only rested for one day in Longkou Port, immediately set off again, headed straight eastward, and headed straight towards North Korea.

This day was the second day of April of the 10th year of Chongzhen.

The final destination Li Xiao is going to is Ganghwa Island in North Korea.

Ganghwa Island, known as kanghwa-do in Korean, has an island area of ​​about 410 square kilometers, making it the fifth largest island in modern South Korea. Its island is across the sea from Seoul, the capital of South Korea (when Lee's Korean period, the capital was named Hanyang), and is separated by a 1-kilometer strait. The Mani Mountain (???) in the south of the island is the highest peak on the island, 468 meters high, with a gentle hilly terrain, fertile land, abundant in rice and other agricultural products, and is also the main ginseng cultivation area.

Li Xiao asked the fleet to sail straight to Jianghua Island because Li Xiao knew that in the history of his previous life, Jianghua Island was an important place for the Korean royal family to escape from the Qing army during this Qing invasion.

In real history, since the Qing army invaded Korea in early December of the ninth year of Chongzhen, it successively attacked Yizhou, Dingzhou, Guoshan, Anzhou and other cities, and quickly fought to the Linjin River, which was only one river away from the Korean capital Hanyang. Seeing the Qing army coming so fiercely, the Korean King Li was shocked. In the entire capital, "the upper and lower levels were panicked and did not know what to do. The capital was literati and the wise and crying." In order to protect himself, Li Ju hurriedly led his army to leave a chaotic capital, which was depressed and frustrated, and avoided the nearby Nanhan Mountain City, to wait for the arrival of the king's army to send the princess, princes and his wives, concubines and children from relatives and ministers to Jianghua Island for refuge.

Not long after, Jianghua Island was captured by the Qing army. All 76 people, including the princess, princes, royal families and family members of the ministers, were captured by the Qing army. Seeing that all their relatives and family members were captured by the Qing people, the Korean King Li Yu was frightened and finally had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. From then on, he paid tribute and became a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and completely cut off diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the history known in the previous life as a reference, the most important thing about Li Xiao going to Jianghua Island this time was to rescue the Korean royal family who were trapped in a heavy siege, and then use this as a breakthrough to eventually change the history of North Korea's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The warm sun shines brightly and the sea waves roll. Under the shouts of large groups of seagulls, Li Xiao's fleet slashed the waves and went eastward. He was very excited.

Since Li Xiaojun's Security Department has not yet been set up in North Korea, Li Xiao has not been able to understand the Qing army's dynamics in a timely manner. His current military operations are entirely based on the historical basis of his previous life.

So, what is the real situation of the Qing army now?

In fact, although the Qing army's advance was delayed by nearly three months compared to the real history, the entire battle process was not much different from the advance route.

Since the Qing army entered North Korea, it has been siegeing cities and plundering land, and has made rapid progress. In less than a month, the entire invading army advanced to the border of the Han River. Then, the vanguard troops crossed the river to fight, and defeated tens of thousands of Jeolladao reinforcements outside the capital Hanyang City, which can be said to have won consecutive battles.

King Lee Seung of Korea was very scared. In order to prevent all the royal family from being trapped in the capital by the Qing army, he took his eldest son Li Li and a group of officials and generals to retreat to the nearby Nanhan Mountain City as in history. The princess, princesses, second son Li Yu, royal family and official wives quickly took a boat to Jianghua City on Jianghua Island.

When Li Xiao won the victory from the Ocean Island and returned to Chifeng Guard, the Qing army had just captured the capital of Korea, and then burned, killed and plundered it. It is said that more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians were abducted from the capital Hanyang alone.

After the capital of the Korean king was defeated, the Qing army became more and more arrogant, like a crazy wild beast, burning, killing, looting women, capturing and capturing the people, and committing countless heinous crimes.

At this time, Huang Taiji, who was proud, saw that the Korean army was defeated one after another, and the emperor and his ministers could only retreat and fear the war and had no fighting spirit, so he decided to force his submission to him.

He ordered the Qing army to fully encircle Nanhan Mountain City, cut down wood and line up the city, and garrison around the city, so that the food and grass in the city were cut off. The Korean monarchs and ministers who were trapped in the mountain city were even at the point where they had to kill horses to satisfy their hunger.

All the troops of the king-supporting army such as Jeolla Do and Zhongqing Do were defeated by the Qing army one after another. The Korean monarch and ministers were like turtles in a jar, trapped in an isolated city and had no choice but to do anything.

When the situation was in danger, Li Jue changed into casual clothes and climbed to the south gate of Nanhan Mountain City to watch the Qing army's military situation. When he saw the Qing army besieged on all sides, with iron armor and swords under the city, he couldn't help but sigh and stagger down.

After defeating various reinforcements from North Korea, the Qing army raised a white flag on the Wangyue Peak outside the Nanhan Mountain City, with the words "Supreme" written on it, and then shot an archery letter into the city and wrote a letter to Li Jue, asking him to surrender.

Li Ju was frightened and crying. He wanted to surrender but was afraid, and replied to Huang Taiji: "The siege has not been resolved, and the emperor is angry and cannot surrender lightly. The ancients had those who worshipped the emperor on the city, but they were not abandoned because of courtesy, and the military power was also terrible..." Seeing that the North Korean side was still entangled in the details of surrendering from the city, Huang Taiji was furious and ordered to attack the city with artillery to show his military power. At the same time, Abatai led a side army to attack Jianghua Island.

Huang Taiji planned to capture Jianghua Island and capture all the royal family at the city of Nanhan Mountain, so that the crying and persuading surrender of these royal family became the last straw that broke Li Jue.

Abatai accepted the task with great enthusiasm.

In fact, when he came outside Hanyang City, Huang Taiji considered that Li Yu might transfer some of his wives, concubines, children and ministers to Jianghua Island. So he ordered Prince Cheng Yuetuo, Beizinikan and others to quickly transport a group of shipbuilders from the Qing Dynasty, and then assigned them a large number of capable Han troops and captured Korean people. They logged and built ships on the edge of the Ruoyang River, thinking that they would use it to capture Jianghua Island.

In less than a month, the Qing army had built ten Tong Keshen-style ships, ten North Korean horse-style ships, and eighty boats of various types. Then, the Qing soldiers towed the built ships to the ferry to Jianghua Island with small cars and began to officially prepare to attack Jianghua Island.

Commander Abatai drew 4,000 troops from the Manchu province from the various flags, plus 2,000 Mongolian troops from the Inner Vanguard, and 3,000 Han troops from the Ma Guangyuan, the troops from the Angbang Zhangjing, formed an army of 9,000, and took ships to attack Jianghua Island.

The Korean navy deployed defenses on the left and right wings of Jianghua Island, with more than a hundred warships. Seeing that the Qing army crossed the sea, they immediately began to attack Qing army ships from both sides.

Because of the Qing army ships, most of them were equipped with large and small artillery transported by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming from Liaodong, and the firepower was very strong. Therefore, the Korean navy could not stop the Qing army's attack at all, but was defeated and fled. The Qing army eventually broke through from the central government of the Korean navy at a very small cost of casualties and finally successfully landed on Jianghua Island. (Note: This naval battle description generally follows the real historical records in "The Record of the Li Dynasty". After reading it, the author also sighed very much that the Korean navy, which had defeated the Japanese pirates in the Mingliang naval battle, was defeated so much by the Qing army, which was always weak. It is really speechless. It can be seen how corruption and regression of the Korean navy in the late Ming Dynasty.)

Abatai, who led his army to the island, was extremely proud. After transporting the supplies and simple siege equipment transported on the ship to the ashore, he immediately ordered the Qing navy to block the strait and block North Korean reinforcements.

He personally led his nine thousand Manchu, Mongolian and Han troops to continue to attack the low and dilapidated Jianghua Island City in the center of the island. The last retreat of the Korean royal family, with the intention of taking action and capturing him in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!