Boom! Boom!!

The thirty-six-pound cannon was roaring, and the cannons were rolling along Jianghua Island. The defenders of Jianghua Island were huddled outside the range of the cannon and did not dare to fight.

On the other side of Ganghua Island is Seoul, the King of Goryeo City.

The Beiyang Fleet bombarded Jianghua Island, shocking the entire Seoul!

Prince Wang Li Yan stood on the battleship Daqi, and saw the beating of Jianghua Island defenders, feeling complicated. He could feel the shaking of the ship when the battleship fired its cannon.

"Jianghua Island is still just a escort. If the Goryeo court does not send people to contact us, we will start attacking Seoul." Zheng Zhilong looked at the outline of Jianghua Island with a telescope and said.

"General Zheng, please don't attack Seoul. It is different from Jianghua Island. It has a large population. If bombarded like this, it is likely to cause a large number of civilian casualties." Li Yan pleaded with Zheng Zhilong.

"Reform is bloody. Using peaceful means cannot eliminate conservatives at all. We must use artillery to deter them and make them feel fear. If our Beiyang Fleet had not landed in to combat the downward strait coalition, the shogunate would not have been so afraid of us." Zheng Zhilong said.

"But Seoul is our homeland after all, and I don't want civilians to suffer casualties in artillery." Li Yan said.

"Blasting Jianghua Island is just our warning. I have sent a message that the royal court should welcome us to Seoul as soon as possible, otherwise we will first capture Jianghua Island and then attack Seoul." Zheng Zhilong said.

The Beiyang Fleet bombarded Jianghua Island for three days. King Goryeo and the civil servant group in Seoul were quarreling in the royal court about whether to support Jianghua Island, and did not send a support army.

On the fourth day, the Beiyang Fleet landed on Jianghua Island and forced a thousand Koryo defenders on Jianghua Island that day.

On the fifth day, the Beiyang Fleet began to land on the Koryo Peninsula and attacked the outer defenders of Seoul.

The Beiyang Fleet had only one thousand landing troops, while the defenders outside Seoul had tens of thousands!

"The fleet artillery is bombarding the enemy, and the entire army is ready. Once the enemy's formation is in chaos, we will immediately step forward to defeat the enemy." Zheng Zhilong personally landed on the shore to command.

This landing force had warships along the river to support the warships, with artillery on the warships first bombarding the phalanx of the Goryeo defenders, and Zheng Zhilong led the landing force to attack.

"Li Yan, if you don't stay on the battleship, what are you doing? This is the battlefield and you will die!" Zheng Zhilong pulled out his command knife and found that Li Yan came to the landing force with the landing troops.

"I want to experience my courage and courage. I will guide you!" Li Yan stepped onto the battlefield for the first time, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Zheng Zhilong was a little surprised: "No matter what your identity is, you are a soldier when you go to the battlefield, you have no eyes on the sword, and no one can blame him if he dies!"

"Yes!" Li Yan shouted hysterically by the bloody stimulation on the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of Goryeo defenders outside Seoul were bombarded by battleships along the river. When the situation was chaotic, the scattered soldiers led by Zheng Zhilong began to attack the positions of Goryeo defenders.

"Architecture!!" Zheng Zhilong ordered the scattered line to attack forward, and ordered the two smoothbore cannons that were ashore to protect the scattered line behind the scattered line.

One by one, the soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet wearing new military uniforms were holding the Dresse rifle, shooting while using the terrain to jump forward.

The Goryeo defenders used backward queuing and shooting formations and spear quadrons. The melee hit rate of the convex gun itself seemed weak in front of the strait line. The Beiyang Fleet soldiers who used new rifles gradually eliminated the Goryeo tribe, which had a fierce resistance during the movement.

The 10,000 Goryeo defenders on the periphery were defeated by the Beiyang Fleet soldiers with only one thousand people, and they never dared to go out to fight until the turtle retreated into Seoul.

As the prince of the Goryeo King, Li Yan, who stood on the side of the Jiuzhou Army, witnessed this battle with great strength. The number of people killed and injured in the Beiyang Fleet was only a dozen, while the Goryeo King's Army alone had more than two hundred people killed in the fight, and more were injured.

He began to understand that Zheng Zhilong came over and told him that the battlefield was dangerous because Zheng Zhilong regarded the war as a even-matched confrontation, but in fact the combat power of the two sides was very different. Li Yan had almost no real danger to Zheng Zhilong's side.

"We must let the civilian groups of Wangting see the gap." Li Yan picked up the muskets dropped by the Goryeo soldiers on the ground. They were France's 1777-type front-mounted smoothbore muskets, or one of the small batches of muskets he bought from the Kyushu Army at a high price.

The 1777-type muskets, although the Jiuzhou Army sold only a small number to the Goryeo Kingdom, the Goryeo Kingdom completely regarded these muskets as treasures and were equipped by the elite troops guarding the capital.

However, the 1777 rifle that they regarded as treasures has gradually stopped production in the Kyushu Army's arsenal. The Kyushu Army's arsenal production was the Dresser rifle, Gatling's hand-cranked machine gun and the development of better rifles.

On the seventh day, the Beiyang Fleet transported picric acid explosives from the supply ship and began to blast the gate of the royal capital of Koryo City!

Never seen the Goryeo defenders who had exploded with explosives were frightened by the explosion caused by explosives, and people in Seoul were panicked for a while.

On the ninth, a thousand soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet broke through the city gate and used bayonets to fight with the Goryeo King Division in street battle. The Goryeo King Division occupied half of the city where the palace was located, while the Beiyang Fleet occupied the other half of the city, and the two sides were in a stalemate. The Beiyang Fleet could not control the entire city due to insufficient troops, and the Goryeo King Division could only be forced to defend. Once they tried to regain the other half of the city controlled by the Beiyang Fleet, they would be defeated by the Beiyang Fleet.

"The Prince Wang is here, I will not kill him!" Zheng Zhilong took the banner of Li Yan to recruit the Goryeo army in the city, so that even if the Goryeo army surrendered to the Beiyang Fleet, there would be no psychological burden.

Although it can easily conquer Seoul, Zheng Zhilong has too few troops in his hands, and local troops supporting the capital outside the city are still reaching a steady stream. One thousand people can conquer, but it is not easy to defend.

Li Yan's flag was fired, and many troops in the city that were still resisting surrendered to the Beiyang Fleet and were recruited by Li Yan.

"Does we have our own troops anymore..." Jin Zidian and others gathered some of the remaining soldiers in the city, gathering about two or three thousand people.

With Li Yan's attractive flag facing the Korean military generals, the reinforcements who came to Zengzhang Wangcheng had to consider the issue of taking sides.

It is obvious that with the help of the Jiuzhou Army, Li Yan was going to break up with the king. When they came to reinforce, they had to choose who to support. If they stood in the wrong team, their life would be difficult!

The Li Yan army, supported by the Jiuzhou Army, was neglected by many military generals of the Goryeo Kingdom. Some reinforcements actually turned their flags and in turn helped Li Yan.

"His Majesty the King wants to negotiate with you!" Renzu Li Yu finally couldn't help but send envoys to ask for peace with Zheng Zhilong and others.
Chapter completed!