When a regime has the means to control the township without relying on Haoqiang, it will naturally become an enemy and an existence that will be eliminated cleanly and quickly.

This made the landlords everywhere both ruthless and fearful of him like a tiger.

Therefore, when it was possible, they spared no effort to confront Chen Xian, but when Chen Xian really came, they surrendered one after another because of fear.

In the face of the mighty fortresses that fell one by one, Chen Xian was also very helpless, in such a situation, he could not engage in indiscriminate slaughter, if he did that, it would inevitably make it very difficult to clean up the place in the future, not to mention the sacrifice of soldiers, just the waste of materials, the cost of time made him unbearable.

Don't forget, Mu Huali is only one of Genghis Khan's generals, Genghis Khan's hundreds of thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry are galloping on the land of Central Asia and Europe, and Chen Xiancai only defeated the 30,000 iron cavalry under Mu Huali's command.

Once Genghis Khan returned from his western expedition and hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry poured into North China, even if Chen Xian could defend it, he would be exhausted and waste a lot of time and energy.

The peak of the Mongol Empire was that after their westward expedition, in the course of the westward expedition, the Mongol Empire obtained a lot of resources, their weapons and equipment were greatly improved, they obtained excellent war horses in Central Asia, they conquered a large number of nomadic tribes in the Eurasian steppes, and the army became stronger.

Chen Xian must completely control North China before Genghis Khan returns east, block the Mongols to the west of the Taihang Mountains and the north of the Jingbei Mountains, and turn the vast North China Plain into his own inner line, and at that time, control Hebei, Shandong, the Goryeo Peninsula, the Liaodong Peninsula, and most of the Liaohe Plain, Chen Xian, who has a population of 20 million, has the capital to confront Genghis Khan on the Great Plain of Western Liao.

To defeat a nomadic empire like Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire that has evolved to the top on the steppe, it will require a huge amount of resources like a bottomless pit, and if you don't control the whole of North China, the Mongols with sufficient manpower only need to pour into Chen Xian's fortress group every autumn to burn wheat fields, so that Chen Xian will be exhausted and his vitality will be greatly damaged.

Therefore, Li Shi and Yang Miaozhen's victory, although unexpected, is very crucial, buying more time for Chen Xian, if Chen Xian can keep me for this time, then he can build a solid strategic defense line before Genghis Khan returns to the east.

Of course, this unexpected victory could also lead to Genghis Khan's early return to the east, which is unpredictable.

All Chen Xian can do is to hurry up, faster!

For the Hebei Haoqiang who surrendered, Chen Xian reserved their net worth and lives, and allowed them to take away all the finances they could, and the stockade and land must be left behind.

The heroes who were driven out of their fortresses were forcibly relocated to various cities in Shandong by Chen Xian.

Just when Chen Xian, Li Shi, and Yang Miaozhen were attacking North China, the Liaohe Plain was also full of artillery fire.

After Chen Xian left, Zhang Bai followed Chen Xian's plan and made steady progress, using water transportation to build a simple fortress belt on both sides of the Liao River, approaching the eastern part of Haizhou.

Except for the turrets at the four corners, the other walls of these improvised forts were all made of straw bags filled with sand and soil, and the cheap cast-iron cannons on the turrets formed a crossfire to block the known city walls, and the heavy artillery on the top of the turrets far exceeded the range of field guns, making these extremely rudimentary-looking forts almost impossible to conquer in this era.

The fortress belt is distributed within twenty or thirty miles on both sides of the Liao River, avoiding some low-lying areas, and there are simple wharves built on the bank behind each of the fortress groups.

These forts were guarded by militias mobilized from Goryeo, who were both defenders and laborers for building forts and clearing land.

Seeing that Chen Jun was building a fortress under his nose, and after enduring it for more than three months, Yeluliuge finally made a move, it turned out that he had been waiting for Yan Pingtao's reinforcements during this time.

Yeluliuge and Wanyan Pingtao gathered an army of 100,000 in Haizhou.

With Wanyan Pingtao and the superior forces to strengthen his courage, Yeluliuge finally made up his mind, poured out of the nest, and together with Wanyan Pingtao, led an army of 100,000 from Haizhou, and rushed towards the fortress area where the base camp of Zhang Bai's army was located.

The Leng Bao area where Zhang Bai is stationed is about 50 miles away from the mouth of the Liao River, where the land is fertile, and the terrain is slightly higher than the opposite bank, which can be moistened by the Liao River and is not easy to be flooded by the Liao River, which is very suitable for reclamation.

There was originally a Bohai village here, which was slaughtered by Zhang Bai's light cavalry.

The low-level farmers and slaves of the Goryeo Kingdom who were obedient could be tamed with a little favor, but Chen Xian knew that this set would be difficult to work on these half-farming, half-herding, half-fishing and hunting, wild and untamable tribesmen on the Liaohe Plain.

At this critical time, Chen Xian could only give Zhang Bai an order to clean up thoroughly.

After destroying the Bohai village here, Zhang Bai chose this place as his second key business after the Liaohe estuary.

After three months of hard work, the forts have been basically completed, and the Goryeo militia has begun to reclaim the land.

Because Chen Xian stipulated that 30 percent of the newly cultivated land would be given to the agricultural companies that developed it, and half of the 30 percent of the shares must be given to every employee of the agricultural company equally, and the other half would be given as a floating reward, so the enthusiasm of the Goryeo militia involved in the labor was quite high, because these militiamen were also the agricultural workers of these newly formed agricultural companies.

Once Chen Xian gained a firm foothold in the Liaohe Plain, each militia member involved in the construction would receive at least four or five acres of agricultural shares. According to the law formulated by Chen Xian, this share is permanent, and the annual dividend of four or five acres of land can almost make a family of three barely make ends meet, and it can be passed on from generation to generation!

In this era, such a family business that can be passed down to the family, not to mention making people work hard, it is enough to work hard.

Wanyan Pingtao knew that if he wanted to cut off Chen Xian's hand that went deep into the Liaohe Plain, it was useless to just knock out a few fortresses, Wanyan Pingtao had seen the dense castles on the Shandong East Road Plain, and he couldn't understand how Chen Xian did it, and built so many castles in a few years, but this did not prevent him from knowing that if they targeted Chen Xian's castle, I am afraid that when they die, they will not be able to clean up these castles that seem to grow on their own.

Before leading troops to support Yeluliuge, Wanyan Pingtao had taken the risk of pretending to be an Orion and sneaked close to Chen Xian's fortress to observe carefully.

After seeing those fortresses, Yelu Pingtao swore that he would never attack them.

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