Yalu River Ferry.

"Autumn is finally here..." Dorgon looked at the woods covered with pine needles and sighed. At his feet, a man in a North Korean official robe was holding his feet warming his arms, while roasting his wet boots on the fire. When he got off the boat, he stepped on cold water and the boots were in the water.

The man's name is Gurmahun, and the Korean name is Zheng Mingshou. He was originally just a letter, but he followed the right master and was also a person like the second emperor in the North Korean regime, so Kim Ji-dian dared not provoke him.

Soon, the sound of horse hooves came from the direction of the ferry. Gurmahun put on his boots on Dorgon and ran over to lead the gray high-headed horse. The shoulders were 1.55 meters high. It was a rare horse in the east. It originally belonged to the United States Army task force camp, but was lost in the battle. Gurmahun obtained it and gave it to Dorgon filial piety.

When Dorgon saw the horse, a hint of joy flashed across his pale face: "This horse is strange, it is not as weak as shipping."

"What the master said is that this horse was obtained from the island barbarians. The island barbarians' horses are often transported by sea. It is probably a habit, and it doesn't matter if they cross the Yalu River." Gurmahun said, kneeling there as a stool, allowing Dorgon to get on the horse.

Gurma hurriedly walked straight to the camp on the south bank of the river. The closer it was winter, the weaker Dorgon was. Gurma was so careful that he could not afford it if something happened.

The camp is hidden in the valley, storing a large amount of food and resettled many troops. According to Dorgon's idea, when North Korea freezes in winter, he will lead his army south across the Datong River and recover the entire territory of North Korea.

The reason for this decision was that in addition to the increasing strength of Dorgon's troops, Dorgon had already felt that the United States was about to retreat. The cooked duck in North Korea had been gnawed and could not even squeeze out oil. With the nature of the island barbarians, they naturally wanted to retreat. Dorgon followed Fulin's personal expedition to Liaodong last year. Following the island barbarians and not fighting for a while, it could also be called expelling the island barbarians. This is very important to Dorgon's prestige.

"Gurmahun, how have you moved your territory in North Korea?" Dorgon asked casually.

Gurmahun hurriedly said, "When I go back to my master's words, the 20-mile coastal shoreline from Datong River to Yalu River have been moved to Liaodong, and I promised to be slaves there to be slaves. Since there were no slaves along the coast, those hateful island barbarians have come to harass me less. When they got ashore, they could not catch people or animals. Even the house was burned, and they were not caught, but were famined, so they came less."

"This method is good. The former Ming Dynasty prohibits the sea and the sea. The more bans the sea, the more bans become more and more chaotic. With this method of moving the boundary, it is less harassment from pirates and island barbarians. However, this method is useless to the Eastern Fan. Whether it should be implemented along the coast of the Qing Dynasty needs to be measured." Dorgon pinched his temple and said.

The relocation of the boundary and ban on the sea is effective for the army that Lu Jianguo who dared not go ashore to fight against the Qing army, and is of little significance to the United States. Of course, the more important thing is that the United States currently occupies Liaodong instead of just guarding islands. It is extremely convenient to enter and exit the mainland, and it has become a trend of sea and land. It cannot dig out a sea or build a city wall in the hinterland of Shandong.

"What the master said is that we must drive the Dongfan Island Barbarians out of our Qing Dynasty first, and then ban the sea." Gurmahun said intriguingly.

"How about the shipyard?" Dorgon asked again.

"It has been built in Yizhou. It has a large scale and the ship craftsman is ready-made, but it is not enough. I just need to catch it when my master beats away the island barbarians in North Korea. But there are too few barbarian craftsmen who build that kind of centipede ship. I also have to ask my master to get more from Nanyang." Gurmahun said.

Today, the Qing Dynasty has realized the importance of the navy and has begun to build large-scale sailing warships for inland rivers and shallow seas. It can be said that it has achieved initial results. After nearly three years of construction, the Yangtze River Navy has already added 14 ships and dozens of fast crabs. At the beginning of the year, it went downstream from Nanjing and fought several battles with the Jiangnan River Fleet in the Chongming area. Although there were wins and losses, the United States fleet went deep into the Yangtze River channel like the change in Jiangnan, and it was difficult to cut off the canal transportation.

By summer, the Green Camp in Jiangnan had already dared to climb Chongming Island and besiege Chongming Fortress. In terms of navigators, it was already a consensus among the high-level members of the Qing Dynasty to learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians. Now, Dorgon planned to imitate the same thing in Liaodong and North Korea. According to the plan, he built a sail fleet in Niuzhuang, Liaodong and Yizhou, North Korea. The former aimed to seize the power of the Bohai Sea from the Beiyang Squadron of the United States, while the latter was to accumulate strength and have the ability to threaten Jeju and Jiaodong. Dorgon's strategy was good. In the big bathtub of the Bohai Sea, sail warships were more suitable than sail warships, and the islands along the Yellow Sea coast were also the world of sail warships.

"Where is the wood?" Dorgon asked again.

Gurmahun was intrigued: "Master, don't worry, our logging teams are everywhere in the Yalu River and the tributaries. The materials are absolutely sufficient. The iron materials are also prepared by Jinzidian. There are fewer artillery items, and they have to come from Beijing. Now the shipyard has built two ships, and it is almost time to get the guns in full to train."

Dorgon asked in surprise: "Where did you get the dry wood?"

Gurmahn wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "When my master said, I heard from those foreign craftsmen that this kind of centipede ship does not use much material. The key is that the wooden boards must be thoroughly dry. I thought, if the newly harvested wood can be used, it will be only two years. How can those slaves be idle? I went from Yizhou to demolish some houses and demolished the beams and pillars of several temples, so that these ships were built. Although the wood is not completely used, it can be practiced and the navy can become an army as soon as possible."

"A good slave, what a good slave, he is much more attentive than those southern barbarians. The Qing Dynasty is just a good slave like you!

You are doing a good job. I think you can only stop doing things. This time, North Korea has lost many big headscarves, and there are really few people. You are the left-wing political affairs and assisting Jin to take his own advice." Dorgon said happily after hearing the news about Gurmahun.

Gurmahun knelt down with gratitude, and Dorgon said, "I am not panicked about the southern expedition to Hanjing. The river has not yet frozen yet. But the shipyard in Yizhou has to go and see it. Tomorrow, you will go and see it with me."

At dusk, Zhanzidao.

Wumu climbed Zhanzidao at the mouth of the Yalu River and saw that the fortress on the shore was covered with flesh and corpses. He crawled inside and rushed over. Wumu watched a veteran from a task force smoking cigarettes, snatched it and threw it into the water, complaining: "Your army is so rough in their work."

The veteran didn't know Wu Mu's identity, grinned, pointed to the Manchu soldiers squatting in the corner of the wall, and said, "No means can be used to suppress these Tartars."

Now Umu has completely drawn a clear line with the Army. He is the new commander of the Marine Corps and the deputy admiral of the Navy. It is no longer the situation where both sea and land are taken advantage of.

"Sir, the Tartar boat is here, look..." the veteran grinned.

Wumu pulled out his pistol and hid in the fortress. A small boat came from outside. The people on the boat asked in Manchu: "What's the situation?"

The veteran kicked a trembling Niu Lu Zhangjing beside the wall, and the Manchu soldier stood up: "Everything goes well."

The two of them answered, and the ship was sailing towards the North Korean side downstream. For at least six hours, no ship would come again to patrol. Wu Mu ordered people to send a signal. Soon, more than twenty ships, eight Gallen warships, and fourteen North Korean galley transport ships arrived from the coast of Liaodong.

The fleet full of 3,000 marines and 600 naval crew members then rowed and drove into the main channel of the Yalu River, heading straight to the upper reaches of the Yalu River. This was originally a plan by the Navy to destroy the shipyard set up by the Qing Dynasty in North Korea. However, with the order of the head of state, a land war battalion stationed on the ocean island joined in. Umu took over the command and turned into a joint operation. This time, not only was it necessary to destroy the shipyard, but it also had to cut off the transportation line of the Qing army, and isolate the Manchu Navy in Pyongyang from the Qing army in Liaodong.

Wu Mu got on the ship, took over the command of the fleet, and said to the captain beside him: "Tell the slaves, let them speed up the paddles, and arrive in Yizhou before dawn, and I will give them freedom!"

There were a series of low roars coming from the cabin below, but Wu Mu, who turned around, was not as confident as before. He folded his hands and muttered his prayers to the sky for seven or eight years: "Please bless all Bodhisattvas, don't show the moon tonight."

Perhaps it was Lao Tian who was really standing on Wumu's side. After entering the mouth of the Yalu River, dark clouds covered the moon. The villagers who had been forced to move away for dozens of miles nearby were long ago by Gurmahun. When they went deeper into the upper reaches of the Yalu River, the fog became thicker and thicker because the weather turned colder. By the morning of the next day, the fog had not dissipated, and the scout ship turned on the signal and had arrived at the Qing army ferry.

Wu Mu whispered to the fleet commander Han Yusheng, "Leave the fleet to you, go to the shipyard, you can do it first, and we will respond, do you understand?"

Han Yusheng nodded quickly, and eight warships went to the shipyard about ten miles upstream, while Wu Mu led his army to land downstream of the ferry. His target was the barracks in the valley two miles deep in the ferry. The roaring river in autumn hid the sound of the paddles of the Gale ship. Han Yusheng could almost hear the Qing army on the shore. Before the smoke dissipated, the fleet passed by. From a distance, he saw the shipyard hidden in the port yard, and two large Gale ships were anchored on the shore. Han Yusheng said: "Crash and sink them first!"

The thick and powerful horn of the Gareboat Swordfish pierced the surging yellow river surface and rushed straight to the enemy ships in the distance. The sound of oars on the Swordfish attracted the attention of people on the shore. Many people ran out of the low house, with North Korean boatmen and Manchurian Tartar soldiers mixed together. Han Yusheng immediately ordered: "Prepare the cannons, load the shotgun, hit them first and then clean the deck. As soon as the musketeers opened fire, they all rushed up!"

In the early morning, Dorgon woke up from his sleep. Last night he had a dream. He dreamed that the Qing navy attacked Dongfan land and burned all the island barbarian ships in the harbor. When he woke up, he saw Gurmahun's face and remembered the shipyard that this slave mentioned yesterday. Dorgon was very happy. He was willing to believe that last night's dream was related to the shipyard in Yizhou. Perhaps the navy ships that burned Dongfan port were built from here!

Dorgon, who woke up, rode the horse and took a hundred of them to the shipyard. Halfway through, he heard the rumbling sound of cannons. Looking from a distance, the shipyard was already shrouded in a sea of ​​fire. The piles of wood burned with raging flames. Dorgon was furious: "Gurmahun, what's going on?"

Gurmahun, who was whipped, hurried to inquire. Dorgon was extremely anxious. At this moment, a slave rushed from the ferry and said, "Master, the sentry discovered the landing island barbarian from the downstream. Please evacuate quickly!"

Dorgon shouted: "How thorough is this king? There are 250,000 stones of rice in the camp, which are reserved military rations. If there are no these supplies, how can the King of Japanese in the Winter south to conquer the island barbarians!"

"Rule the direction of Yizhou, quickly leave the city to provide assistance, don't worry about the shipyard, and provide full assistance to the food camp." Dorgon issued an order and returned to the camp.

At the ferry, Wumu had just sent the Marines of the transport ship to the shore. When he heard the news of the arrival of the assistance from Yizhou, a school official of the Marine Corps asked for a fight and said, "Sir, let us block them. We must not let the Qing army unite, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with."

I just captured a few sentries and knew that there were 2,000 new Manchu soldiers in the camp. If the Yizhou garrison and the original grain and grass camp were added, there would be more than 7,000 Qing Dynasty coalition forces and many cavalry, which was really unfavorable for our side who only had Marines.

Wu Mu smiled: "If these miscellaneous people go to Yizhou, I can't do anything about them. Now they all enter the food camp and they can't escape. I will send orders to the whole army line up and not block them. See if there are more Qing troops going in. Today I want to burn the rat nest, and the more rats, the better."

The Marine Corps waited for an hour, and then thousands of people came from the shipyard and entered the camp. The scout sent by Wumu reported: "Sir, the camp is full of food, clothing, and a large amount of forage. The Qing army used tents and wooden houses as houses, all of which were combustible."

Wu Mu grinned and said, "Then look at the power of the firebird."

With the issuance of Umu's order, the transport ship anchored on the river adjusted its hull and dropped all anchors. After the mooring was stable, no one was waiting to get off the ship. The canvas covered on the deck were lifted. Rockets were already mounted on the rocket guide rails. There were more than 200 on a ship, a total of fourteen. There were no fire protection preparations on the ship. In fact, these ships had been used as disposable items.
Chapter completed!