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Chapter 24 Slightly

Cui Mingxiu is a traditional Korean military officer. Although he has never experienced a large battle, he has been familiar with military books since childhood. He knows that the cavalry led by his command is a clutch and requires a wide terrain to exert his power. So he forcibly suppressed his desire to attack and waited quietly for the Japanese pirates to walk out of the port building complex.

Kawaharada Binge was also calm. He led two-thirds of his soldiers to line up on the streets, while the rest of the soldiers entered the shops on both sides of the port to rob. According to the command of the commander, Kawaharada team could use goods outside Jeju Castle at will, including food, cloth and money, but were not allowed to kill or set fire. Kawaharada Binge also cherished the opportunity for this robbery.

In terms of political status, in the entire Kawaharada team, only Kawaharada Hiewe is a formal citizen of the United States, and the rest of the retainers and the Party were all sojourners. Kawaharada relied on his qualifications to build Yuling Island and assist in colonizing land, and received a large amount of rewards from the Yongning administrative region. However, this down-and-out Japanese samurai, like the Chezhidan in Nanyang, had an extremely eagerness for land, so most of the rewards chose land. Now in Vladivostok and Hokkien, he owned tens of thousands of acres of well-developed mature land, and his retainers and Party under his command, in addition to receiving commissions from the United States according to standards, also received rewards from Kawaharada Hiewewe. However, unlike the traditional Japanese rewards, the retainers only obtained land but did not conquer the people. Apart from farming themselves, they rented it to immigrants. However, as more and more immigrants own their own land, many of their land were abandoned.

At present, Kawaharada's Hoei clan's way of survival is to make continuous military achievements and obtain land rented by renting public slaves, and money can also be rented by slaves. Therefore, the whole team all hopes to rob enough wealth.

Jeju's commerce is not prosperous, and the most prosperous trade is the tribute horse season, so the port is not rich. After collecting more than two hours, Kawaharada Eige obtained a total of more than 4,000 taels of silver and cloth, porcelain, and grains worth only 3,000 taels of food, and various types of staple food and miscellaneous grains are about 1,000 stones.

Kawaharada Hiroe was very satisfied with this. He knew that after the matter was completed, there would be rewards, and the purpose of this plunder was to make himself more like a pirate and Japanese pirate.

"Kawarada Team, stand up and set off!" Kawarada Toei ordered the whole team to have lunch and gather troops to continue to set off. The targets of this robbery were affiliated manors and villages outside Jeju Castle, which was the property of local tyrants in Jeju, and I think it would be more abundant.

Jeju Island is very hot at the end of June. Kawaharada Hitoe chose to set out in the afternoon to avoid the hot weather. There are many houses made of mud bricks and volcanic rocks on both sides of the road, but more of them are all kinds of land. Rice cannot be grown on Jeju Island, and the surrounding land is mainly sorghum, buckwheat and barley.

Suddenly, the sound of conch's sight came from the front, and it looked a little hazy through the sorghum field and bushes.

"It's an outpost, I must have encountered the enemy, Lord!" Heizaburo bowed and said. Kawaharada Hirata observed the surrounding terrain and found that it was all flat countryside without any barriers. On the south side were tall sorghum fields and on the north side were low buckwheat fields. He immediately pulled out his sword and said, "Go north and line up to meet the enemy!"

The Kawaharada team quickly walked into the buckwheat field in the north, and in the sorghum field, Cui Mingxiu was commanding hundreds of officials to clear the sorghum with sickles and hoes, and opened the passage for the cavalry to attack.

Not long after, a scout with arrows stuck in his body came over. Kawaharada's face changed slightly. He sent five people, all of whom were confidant Huang, but only one came back. The scout said, "What are the enemy's about 300, all of them are cavalry, moving from that forest to the sorghum field!"

When Kawaharada Hitoe saw the woods, he was at the bend of the road. He thought that the Koreans were going to ambush themselves, but they were discovered, so he moved to the sorghum field to facilitate the room for maneuver and exert the impact of the cavalry.

"Line up in the south!" Kawaharada Hitoe looked at the sorghum ears in the depths of the sorghum field and kept shaking and falling. He knew that the enemy had accumulated strength and prepared to attack, so he quickly ordered.

Kawahata quickly formed the formation, the central army had 300, more than half of the raiders and spearmen, with the raiders in front and the spearmen behind. The spearmen used nearly four meters of spears. After tilting, the musketeers could be protected behind the spear front, and the two wings were Japanese samurai and spearmen to prevent the enemy from attacking sideways.

The atmosphere in the buckwheat field became tense. The musketeers used fire sickles to light the fuse. The lead bullets the size of a thumb and gunpowder were stuffed into the barrel. The bullet rod was impacted and compacted and blocked. The bracket was inserted into the land. Heizaburo was on it. At this time, he walked around in front of the formation with a rattan pole in his hand, loudly announcing military discipline, and demanding that he fire after receiving the order.

The chaos in the sorghum field lasted for a long time, and it became quiet for a while. As the sound of horns sounded, the sound of horse hooves became heavier and louder from far to near. Soon, more than 300 cavalrymen rushed out of the sorghum field. The cavalry were all wearing armor and shouting in their mouths. It can be seen that they were all veterans, facing the solemn battle formation.

Kawaharada Hiroe grinned and said, "It seems that the enemy has been fooled!"

Cui Mingxiu's cavalry ran out of the sorghum field and saw the solemn military formation. He felt a little hesitant, but the enemy's fancy clothes and armor made him feel that the formation was not that scary, and the enemy was completely unrestrained, not even a fence. Cui Mingxiu gritted her teeth and ordered her to rush straight to the enemy formation for a moment. The cavalry rolled in like a torrent. Kawaharada's Uei laughed and shouted: "Except for horses and armor, these Koreans are not smarter than those barbarians!"

A burst of laughter broke out in the crowd because they had defeated the enemy troops who had forcibly rushed into the formation several times in the north. Cui Mingxiu's cavalry quickly approached. Heizaburo estimated the speed of the enemy cavalry and ordered the contrailers to fire at fifty steps away. The gunshots were like beans, crackling and crackling, forming a wall of smoke in front of the array to isolate the enemy and us. These Korean war horses that had not experienced the battle formation were disturbed by the stimulating smell of explosions and gun smoke. The originally tight cavalry formation was somewhat omitted.

"Spikeman, resist the horse!" Kawaharada Hitoe roared loudly.

The spearman behind him picked up the hidden four-meter spear from the buckwheat field and pointed it in front of him. Two layers of spears aimed at the Korean cavalry. The sharp spear edge emitted a cold light, and all of this was hidden in the smoke of gunpowder. Cui Mingxiu didn't expect that there was a spearman in the middle array, and rushed straight towards him. The war horse hit the man in front of the formation and turned over, and he was entangled for a while.

The warriors on both wings bent down and rushed into the formation from the understone forest, slashed the horse's legs with a slashing sword, knocking down one war horse to the ground. The musketeers also pulled out the sword and drilled into the melee crowd, stabbed the North Korean Tooth Soldiers' armor with a short sword to reap their lives.

"Spike forward, move forward!" Kawaharada Hitoe roared loudly, motivating his subordinates. The spears kept assassinating the cavalry in the rear and slapped their war horses, causing more chaos. The battle immediately became white-hot. The corpses overlapped in the buckwheat field, and the injured groaned in pain under the trampling of both sides of the enemy and us. The melee lasted for a quarter of an hour. The cavalry that lost its power began to face the dilemma of insufficient manpower. North Korean fang soldiers on the front line often faced two or three spearmen, and were quickly stabbed to death or dismounted.

When the spearmen on both wings surrounded, Cui Mingxiu, who was already injured, had to order a retreat, leaving more than a hundred corpses and a larger number of war horses.

Kawaharada Hitoe sat in the wheat field, blood staining his ancestral armor red. Although he only killed one person in this formation, the high tension and full roar made him exhausted. The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield and rescuing the wounded. The seriously injured were all given relief, and the minor wounded were gathered and given medicine to be given. The recruits who had experienced the war for the first time knelt on the ground to be glad to survive the disaster. The veterans searched for wealth on the corpses of the tooth soldiers. They found a guy pretending to be dead, tied the straw coat to him, poured oil on him, and performed a Japanese torture-the straw coat dance.

"Let them stop!" Kawaharada Hitoe drank all the water in the water bag and said to Hirasaburo.

"Yes, Lord, this is too cruel. If the people of the United States know, they will definitely be furious again." Heizaburo said.

Kaharada Hiewe waved his hand indifferently. This is on the battlefield, where there are so many rules, so he will not bother to please the old men in the command. Here, only by getting the favor and loyalty of the soldiers can we survive. Kaharada Hiewewe said: "We have important things to do if we find out the confession and make trouble."

The prisoners were interrogated and received satisfactory confessions. Kawaharada Hoe learned that the fang soldiers who had just attacked them were the most elite troops of the Koreans on the island. More than half of the troops who died in battle lost their combat effectiveness and could no longer be considered a threat. The prisoners also confessed that they had a private North Korean horse farm south of Jeju, with about thousands of horses inside.

Kawaharada Hitoe rushed to the horse farm and selected six hundred horses from it before nightfall. Half of them were used as horses for riding and half were used as mules and horses, and brought all the spoils back to the port. Many of his team were proficient in riding skills and organized a cavalry of a hundred people, which controlled the surrounding area of ​​Jeju City.

Back at the port, Kawaharada Binge did something that Kim Yunche had never expected. He took out most of the seized food and money to recruit official slaves outside Jeju City. After three days, he gathered thousands of people, and then led this mob to sweep away the surrounding villages and manors. The team expanded like a snowball. This was no longer a solution to the army on the island of Jeju. Kim Yunche had no choice but to ask for help again. This time, Kim Yunche not only asked for help from the Shangguan of Jeolladao, but also wrote a selfish letter to his uncle who was in charge of politics, asking the dispatch of the mainland army and the navy to join in the aid.

At the same time, Kim Yunche ordered the entire Jeju island to be on alert. All soldiers from all towns and beacon towers retreated into the county town and stood guard and waited for assistance. On the same day, all the information was summarized and delivered to the fleet outside Jeju. After confirming that everything was developed according to the plan, Lee Dechan, the front-line commander in charge of the Jeju Island battle, ordered the entire army to land.

Lee Decan has a very old experience in Hezhong. He participated in the establishment of the Yongning Chief Executive District and was deeply trusted by the Chief Executive. This time, he was conquered North Korea. As a Korean, Lee Decan was transferred from the tedious work of Vladivostok and praised the painting of Jeju Island.

According to the plan of the commander, except for the smoke bomb of Kawahata, the navy was responsible for capturing the rest of Jeju Island. In the first wave alone, two land battalions and cavalry, artillery and engineers were dispatched, with a total of more than 7,000 battalions, and the combined fleet officers and sailors were no less than 15,000. However, this army that had just entered combat readiness was changed by the sudden Chaozhou Incident. At this time, all the personnel were transported to Chaozhou Prefecture, and Li Decan had to temporarily form another army.

Under the command of the command, the surrounding war zones supported one after another. The Yongning Administrative Region supported a task force. This was originally planned to be invested in the Beiyang War Zone. There were about a thousand people, all veterans, all good at cavalry and shooting. If the Beiyang War Zone was not the core war zone in the planned area, there would not be a task force. The other troops came from Sijiao Mountain and were a supplementary corps, with about 2,500 people, all of which were recruits who had just completed eight months of training and were army troops. At this time, they could only be brought to the battlefield. Li Decan didn't feel anything wrong. Anyway, the Korean soldiers were weak and unable to fight, and it was not difficult to conquer the city and land. He only needed soldiers to cooperate with his administrative team to control the island and complete occupation and early rule.

The mixed advance troops chose to land from the southwest of Jeju Island. Their target was Dajing County, the second largest port of the Kingdom of Korea on Jeju Island, facing directly to the East China Sea. This location was chosen, except that it was one of the three cities in Jeju, because the commander planned a port in Dajing County to facilitate shipping between Yongning and the base camp.

The advance army actually appeared outside Dajing Port twelve days after Kawahata's team landed. The prefecture chief had already learned about the invasion of the Japanese pirates and brought all the people and some official slaves outside the city into the city. However, he never expected that a fleet of more than 70 ships would attack. The prefecture chief did not order a counterattack, because all the adult males under his command were not half of the advance army. The war soldiers who fought were not fighting were not enough to catch up with the soldiers collected from various towns and beacon towers, as well as the local wealthy family servants and slaves, which totaled only 600. Even if the temporary armed righteous soldiers were included, there were only more than a thousand.

The advance army landed calmly, and Li Decan sent someone to persuade the surrender, but unexpectedly received a rejected reply. In desperation, he had to order swords and soldiers to face each other. As the main force, the supplementary corps were all landslides, and they would spit into a group as soon as they got ashore. Large-scale siege battles were impossible. Li Decan sent sailors to the ashore, recruited thousands of official slaves, carried the eighteen-pound cannons on the warships to build a fort.
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