Chapter 1112

Raid and Disturbance Operation

Chapter 1112 Raid and Disturbance Operation
Among the combatants of the Navy, there are also special combat units that have specially received amphibious operations, which is the Marine Corps conceived by Wang Tom.He has always wanted to form an infantry unit dedicated to amphibious assault operations, but due to the limited number of troops and military investment, its scale is also very limited, and it is impossible to have infantry, artillery, reconnaissance, Comprehensive arms such as corps, engineering corps, and communications corps can only perform some near-shore reconnaissance missions or cooperate with army operations at best.However, because the main purpose of this operation is maritime reconnaissance, the fleet is not equipped with special army troops to accompany the expedition, so if it is really necessary to land and fight, Tom Wang probably only has two companies of infantry available, and the heavy weapons are only available. There are only a few field three-pound guns, and the firepower output is relatively limited.

Although Tom Wang was confident, he didn't want his soldiers to take unnecessary risks. He couldn't help hesitating at the moment whether to let it go or continue to pursue the victory. He ordered the fleet to cruise around the harbor first and complete part of the task of scouting the terrain. Besides.I might as well take this time to reorganize my thoughts and weigh what to do.Anyway, the opponent has no warships available in this area, and it is definitely not something that can be done in a short time if they want to call in reinforcements from other places. There is no need to worry about what tricks they can play right now.

Even if the Hou Jin Army can transfer another batch of warships from other places as quickly as possible, it will be difficult to keep Haihan's fleet.However, before leaving here, Wang Tom still hopes to learn as much as possible about Hou Jin's local garrison situation.If you want to obtain information in this regard, you don't necessarily have to launch a real attack on Zhongzuo City. In the previous battle, four enemy ships were destroyed, and there will be more or less prisoners. Pulled out a lot of valuable information.

Wang Tom quickly straightened out his thinking and ordered the fleet to station at Lushunkou today.However, he did not choose the coast near the Zhongzuo City as a berth, but chose the southern coast of the Huowei Peninsula, which is just opposite the Zhongzuo City across a bay.If the Hou Jin army wanted to detour from land to launch a surprise attack, they would have to detour for about [-] miles, during which time they would have to cross the river and climb mountains to reach the Tiger Tail Peninsula.

Tom Wang left a few ships to patrol outside the waterway in and out of the harbor, just in case the Jin army really has warships coming from other places in the future, they can also block it a little bit, so that the Haihan navy parked in the harbor has time to enter the battle position .

The logistics supply ship "Yugong No. 47" sent the first batch of [-] prisoners of war to the temporary camp in Huhuwei in the afternoon. The Houjin officer who supervised the battle either died in battle, or dived to escape, and no one has been captured yet.

This result made Wang Tom a little disappointed. These surrendered troops who were monitored and restricted by Houjin obviously did not have much authority, and their knowledge of the military situation was probably very limited.He personally went to see the group of captives, all of them were ashamed, and he didn't seem to see any senior officers in armor among them.

However, some sharp-eyed people realized the extraordinary status of Wang Tom, who was embracing him, and immediately shouted in the queue of prisoners: "The villain has a military report!"

Wang Tom nodded, and immediately his subordinates brought this man in front of him. Before the soldier kicked his knee, the man plopped himself on the ground: "My lord, the villain knows the situation of the gold thief army, please return me!" My lord, give me a chance to live!"

Tom Wang said, "Who are you?"

The man quickly responded: "The villain is Pan Yan, the chief executive of the Dengzhou Navy. Last year, he was coerced by Kong's rebels and came to Liaodong. Unintentional, I hope you will forgive me!"

"Take him back to the headquarters for questioning!" Tom Wang gave the order succinctly.Since this guy is a low-level officer, he may have more information than ordinary soldiers, but he can hear what news he has.As for his identity, he didn't intend to explain too much to the prisoner, and it might be easier to tell the truth if he mistook him for a general of the Ming army.

Although the clothes and equipment of the Haihan army are quite different from those of the Ming army, they have the same standard. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that this is a regular army rather than a civilian army. Who else can Daming have?Although Wang Tom's appearance was quite different from the full armor of ordinary Ming army generals, in Pan Yan's eyes, he couldn't think of any other identity for him.

The temporary headquarters is a large tent set up on the coast of Huhuwei Peninsula, and there are dozens of tents being set up next to it for the soldiers who have landed.The few marine infantry in the fleet have been sent out to station on the nearby high ground to map the terrain and serve as guards. Currently staying in this camp is Wang Tom's guard platoon and dozens of sailors who are setting up tents.Most of the people on the battleship have to stay on board so that they can quickly enter the combat state when a sudden situation occurs.After all, this place is still in an enemy-occupied area, and even if the current situation is dominant, it cannot be too relaxed.

"Since you are also a soldier, let's talk about the information you think is valuable! Whether you can make up for it depends on your performance!" Tom Wang said as he motioned for his subordinates to give Pan Yan a folded ponytail and let him sit. Next say.

"Yes, yes, the villain understands, thank you for your seat!" Pan Yan responded tremblingly, and then began to tell the information he knew.

As Wang Tom saw, the small city on the north bank of Lushunkou, which originally belonged to the Zuoqianhu Office of Jinzhouwei, the capital of Liaodong, was acquired by the Houjin army last year, and it was here at the beginning of the year. The navy and land armies were deployed, among which the navy was coerced to defect to Liaodong last year as the main force, and Pan Yan was one of them.However, because his family was not in Dengzhou, he came to Liaodong alone, and he didn't have any burdens to worry about. He only worked for Houjin purely for his own survival.

These descended soldiers from the Ming Dynasty did not suffer any abuse, but their freedom of movement was extremely strictly controlled. They were usually confined to the barracks, and they were not allowed to go out at will, let alone go out to sea.Before the emergency military situation happened today, the group of them hadn't been on a ship for about a month. If they didn't need to go to sea to fight, then basically there would be a routine patrol mission every [-] to [-] days. And there will definitely be Hou Jin's supervisor team on board.Of course, this arrangement was not to lighten their burden, but the Houjin people simply couldn't trust them who had surrendered, and they were afraid that they would flee back to Shandong regardless of their carelessness after sailing out to sea.

This kind of unscientific training arrangement and the intentional dismantling and separate deployment made these former Daming navy who defected to Liaodong unable to maintain a high combat effectiveness. The hasty response just now has fully exposed their current strength.According to what Pan Yan said, the naval troops were divided into three or four parts, which were deployed in several ports on the Liaodong Peninsula, while the main force was reserved near the Jinzhou Acropolis, which is the waters of Dalian Bay in later generations.This news made Wang Tom feel a little relieved. The straight-line distance from Lushunkou to Jinzhouwei is more than a hundred miles. Even if the local Houjin Shoujun wants to ask for help from Jinzhouwei, the reinforcements will definitely not be able to arrive in a short while. Before Jinzhou Wei reacted, the fleet he led should have left here.

Almost all the troops of the Ming Dynasty deployed here at Lushunkou had fought in the previous sea confrontation, and the battle was exhausted. This result will probably make the Hou Jin army in the city of Zhongzuo very panicked.After all, within a radius of a hundred miles, there is only such a stronghold where the army is concentrated, and now the opponent has already wiped out about one-third of the local troops before they even landed. It will inevitably be a little frightening.

"Your battalion of sailors only left four blessing boats. The Haicang boats and Cangshan boats are gone. There are 510 people in the first battalion, so there should be about 300 people. In other words, Hou Jin who was stationed in the city of Zhongzuo The army only has 700 people?" Tom Wang noticed this detail keenly when he heard this.The four warships defeated by the Haihan Navy should have a rated crew of about 300 people. Pan Yan mentioned that they accounted for one-third of the local garrison. From this, we can quickly infer the remaining local Houjin troops. up.

As soon as Pan Yan heard that Tom Wang was so familiar with the establishment of the navy, he was even more sure that the opponent should be a general of the Ming army, and he quickly responded: "Your Excellency is very predictable, there are two golden men stationed in the city of Zhongzuo. According to records, there are about 600 soldiers, plus their family members and Han people, there should be about 2000 people. Now that the navy has been defeated, the gold thieves in the city must have driven everyone into the city to defend the city. "

The Niu Lu of Hou Jin is a grassroots organization with three hundred ding as the unit, integrating military and government, serving the people in peacetime and serving as soldiers in wartime.Each Niulu is divided into four Dadan, and each Dadan is jointly managed by two officials, Zhang Jing and Pashiku, one Wen and one Wu.And these three hundred Ding are not generalized, and are divided into three types according to their status: Aha, Armored Man and Banner Ding.Aha is a slave, mostly Han and Korean, and the armored men are foreign tribes who surrendered to the Jurchen, and their status is slightly higher than that of the lower class.As for Qi Ding, she is a pure-blooded Jurchen, and her status is relatively higher.

In Wang Tom's eyes, this amount of troops is not too much of a threat. No wonder the opponents dare not deploy a defense line on the coast outside the city. Pulling out such a small number of people will not have much deterrent effect except to expose their own strength. .However, he did not forget the cavalry ambushing in the woods outside the city, and continued to ask Pan Yan, "Then how many cavalry are there in these two Niu Lu?"

This time, Pan Yan was stumped, he shook his head fearfully and said: "The villain really doesn't know the exact number of gold thief cavalry, but there is a horse farm in the north of the city, and according to the local horse breeders, there are at least three or four hundred horses."

Wang Tom thought that if he could find a way to get these horses back to Zhifu Island, then Harukon would wake up laughing even if he fell asleep.It's just that the horse farm is located in the north of the city. If you want to play horses, you have to take down the Zhongzuo City first. This action is not small.Calculated according to the number of horses, this place has at least one or two hundred cavalry strength, which should not be underestimated.You must know that in the cavalry battalion under Harugong, there are only more than 200 elite cavalry that can really go into battle. Of course, the Haihan cavalry relying on advanced weapons must far exceed the post-golden cavalry in terms of individual combat effectiveness.

There is no cavalry establishment in the army led by Wang Tom. Even if the cavalry deployed by Hou Jin here is not large, it is a big threat after all. Wang Tom dare not send infantry to land at will.Wang Tom thought for a while and then continued to ask: "Then do you know what other post-Gold Army strongholds are on the coast near here?"

Pan Yan responded: "According to the news that the villain has heard, the gold thief did not build their own stronghold in Jinzhouwei. They all used the forts left by our Ming Dynasty. It's just that the villain is not from Liaodong, and he is not very familiar with this place. If so My lord captured the gold thief captives, maybe I can ask for more details. With my lord's fleet, I can go anywhere in the Liaodong Sea, so there is another way, if I can contact the Ming army stationed at Phi Island, I will definitely find it. A way to fight gold thieves."

"Phi Island? There is still the Ming army there?" Tom Wang has heard of Phi Island, but after going north this time, he has not received any information related to the place.

Phi Island is located in the bay east of the Yalu River Estuary, just at the junction of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula.Although the area of ​​this island is small, its location is very important. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was once an important military stronghold for the Ming army to contain Houjin in the northeast.

At the end of 1622, Ming general Mao Wenlong led his army to move into Pidao. In the following year, the imperial court set up Dongjiang Town here to govern Shenmi Island, Guanglu Island, Zhangzi Island, Shicheng Island, Ludao and other places east of Lvshunkou with the skin as the center. An island controlled by Ming Dynasty. "History of Ming Dynasty Mao Wenlong Biography" records that the imperial court "accumulated to the left governor, hung the general's seal, bestowed Fangjian, and set up an army to control Pidao like the mainland" to Mao Wenlong.After the fall of Liaodong during the Tianqi period, North Korean envoys could not go to Daming by land, and basically had to pass through Pidao instead by sea.And after the Liaodong Han people fled to North Korea, many people also flocked to Phi Island, a place still nominally belonging to Ming Dynasty, to seek refuge.However, due to the limited arable land on this island, it is difficult to afford the supply of food and salaries, so it can only rely on Denglai, Tianjin and North Korea to provide food support.

In 1629, Mao Wenlong was executed by Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, and Chen Jisheng, the deputy general, took over. In the following year, Liu Xingzhi launched a mutiny to kill Chen Jisheng, and formed a secret alliance with the later Jinhuang Taiji.But this guy didn't succeed in this. A year later, another mutiny occurred in Pidao, and Liu Xingzhi died in the rebellion.After that, Huang Long, the governor, went to Pidao to take over, but the mutiny did not stop there, and the third mutiny occurred in the same year.

After that, Huanglong moved to Lushun, and cooperated with Shandong to attack Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng and others who launched a mutiny in Dengzhou.But in 1633, after Kong Youde led the Jin army to break through Lushun, Huanglong was defeated and committed suicide.Shandong is too busy to take care of itself, and this Pidao has become a forgotten place.

(End of this chapter)