It was already dark outside, but the lights inside Jingyi County were bright. Mo Ming, the commander-in-chief of the operation, the captains of the three ships, the commanders of the 102nd Company of the Army, and some miscellaneous officers who accompanied them sat together in the county prison and were discussing the next step.

The county prison house looks small, with few houses and is poorly built. After the orderlies lit up the high-end Russian candles and put on the lampshades, the whole space was a little brighter.

"Because it was late when we entered the city, we didn't have time to count a lot of supplies, and we don't know how many supplies we need in Ludao City. The 102nd Company and the 1st Independent Field Artillery Company are currently stationed in the warehouse next to the prison hall and serve as the anchor of the city. Liu Zhong's Eight Banners Battalion has now been dispersed into sheds to arrest scattered Korean sergeants, officials in the city, and Xiaoxiao who intend to cause chaos. Xiao Xi, the commander of the 102nd Company of the Army, reported to Mo Ming. Xiao Xi is a senior second lieutenant in the army, who has participated in the country's foreign wars, and was later transferred to the military headquarters as a staff officer. This time, the army formed the 102nd Company, so he was transferred as the company commander, and his deputy was Brown, an English immigrant who was the first to "follow the dragon".

"Well, the hostile forces in the city must be cleared." Mo Ming nodded and said, "Company Commander Xiao, I have appointed you as the commander of the security of Jingyi County, and now record my order, Jingyi County will implement a curfew at night from today until we evacuate, and if anyone who does not comply, it will be suppressed." That, the 102nd Company of the Army did not move, and all the defense in the city was handed over to Liu Zhong's Eighth Banner Army. Alright, go and carry out the order. Tonight is the first night we occupied Jeongui County, and there is no guarantee that some North Koreans who are unwilling to fail will jump out and make trouble. ”

"Yes!" Xiao Xi stood upright. Said: "The department will go to command." ”

"Zhou Dahe. I'll go to the staff office to get some paper and ink. Started writing a notice for the safety of the people. The contents of the notice of Anmin... Forget it, don't write a notice for Anmin, anyway, we can't afford to stay here for a long time. I've heard that Jeju Island is a place where North Korea exiles prisoners, so you can go to the prison and put up some notices pardoning these people as slaves. If no one can read it, let Sergeant Kim Tae-keung of the Navy bring a few Korean soldiers to act as interpreters, these people are full of natural hatred for the Li Dynasty, and this is exactly what we can fight for. Not. There is no need to go to the penal colony outside the city for the time being, and we will talk about it when it is dawn. ”

"Yes!" Zhou Dahe also learned from the army officers to salute, and then hurried out.

"Captains of the Navy, you better return to your ship as soon as possible, so as not to encounter a sneak attack by the enemy, although this possibility is very small. Tonight everything is quiet, and everything will be said after dawn. Mo Ming stood up and concluded.

On the night of May 5, there was no riot in Jingyi County, as Mo Ming feared, and on the contrary, most of the city was as silent as death, except for a few places where fierce resistance broke out and was quickly extinguished. Think about it too. The armies of the East Coast displayed their devastating attacking capabilities during the day, almost sweeping away the courage of the North Koreans. Now their large force had marched into the city, and in the evening many Koreans in the city saw the soldiers holding up their bird guns and shining bayonets. Of course, what shocked them even more were the groups of dark-faced Rakshasa ghost-like soldiers in bright armor, and some knowledgeable Koreans even recalled the Kunlun slaves of Middle-earth during the Tang and Song dynasties.

There were only a few hundred soldiers in Jingyi County, and a number of people were killed and wounded and a group escaped in the daytime battle, and there were few people left at the moment. If a few "righteous men" can come out to attack the army of these invaders at night, they are already very worthy of the favor of the Li Dynasty. However, according to the statistics of the soldiers of the 102nd Company after dawn, the so-called rebellion that broke out last night was more caused by some soldiers of the Eight Banners who broke into the large Korean households in the city to extort money and money and molested women. Fortunately, Mo Ming's deterrent effect on these people is relatively strong, otherwise these Eight Banners soldiers who followed the people on the east coast across the sea would have burned and looted like in the New China region.

Several Eight Bannermen who had openly insulted women were ordered to be taken back to their ships and confined to their ships, and at the same time they were disqualified from sharing the spoils of war in order to punish them lightly. Mo Ming didn't want to punish them too much, after all, he had to take care of the morale of the army, didn't he? Naturally, several of the rebellious families were uprooted, and hundreds of men, women, and children, all in solitary confinement, were to be sent to Rishiri Island to do hard labor and build a winter base for the fleet of people on the east coast.

After the statistics of last night and one night, the number of exiled prisoners of the Li Dynasty in the city was also preliminarily counted, and there were about 400 people. They were a little excited about the announcement of the East Coasters announcing the pardon of their slave status, but they were also a little suspicious, because they did not know the identity of these "East Coasters" and how long they would stay here, so they were more or less at a loss in their excitement.

However, after the Dong'ans announced that they would hand over some of the captured Korean officials, sergeants, and big families to them for their custody, they suddenly came back to their senses one by one, holding the wooden sticks handed to them by the Dong'an, and staring at the old men who had oppressed them from above. The slightest disobedience was a severe beating, and the people from the east coast next to them just looked at them with a smile and did not stop them. Without artificially creating some class contradictions among these people, how can the people of the East Coast effectively divide and rule these Koreans?

All kinds of warehouses in the city have also been counted, with a total of more than 5,000 yuan of gold and silver, more than 600,000 catties of grain (including large household storage), hundreds of livestock, more than 1,000 swords, guns and spears, more than 80,000 arrows, and even more than 10,000 catties of gunpowder.

In addition to these materials, there were a large number of captured people: more than 400 Korean officials and their relatives who did not escape, more than 1,200 Korean soldiers and their relatives, more than 300 Korean families who resisted and were reduced to slaves, and the rest were about 900 Korean households who acted as obedient people. If you add in the pardoned 400-odd Korean exiles, the total number of people captured this time is a staggering 3,300 people!

After the statistics came out, everyone looked at each other, and Mo Ming slapped the table excitedly, and said loudly: "If it hadn't escaped a little during the war, it is estimated that the captured population would have been even larger!" Now, with my order, Liu Zhong's Eight Banners and First Battalion immediately went out of the city to search for those nearby Korean villages and towns. The 2nd Company of the Army immediately drove the Korean people in the city to repair the city defense facilities to prevent the North Korean brigade from killing! ”

As soon as the order was given, the crowd began to get busy. First of all, more than 700 officers and men of the First Battalion of the Eight Banners led by Liu Zhong began to clear the Korean villages and towns around the county seat of Jingyi with a batch of large four-wheeled freight wagons that had been assembled nervously. The 2nd Company of the Army was stationed in the city, and with the help of more than 400 former Korean exiles who had just turned into masters, they began to repair the city's defenses while carrying supplies and personnel to three large ships moored in the sea.

The entire transport operation lasted for several days. It was not until May 8 that after the "Zhuhai" and "Baobab" filled with 2,000 people in the cabin left and returned to Heishui Port, the First Battalion of the Eight Banners led by Liu Zhong finally swept through the four fields and returned to Jingyi County. Perhaps the surrounding Koreans had gotten the news and fled inland, or perhaps the population of those villages and towns was already small, so Liu therefore Zhong only plundered more than 600 people and a small amount of grain and livestock.

Looking at the North Korean ponies looted back by the Eight Banners Army, Mo Ming pursed his lips. To be honest, he looks down on these North Korean horses, they are short and intolerant of heavy loads, so what's the use? It's better to trade Mongolian horses from the Jurchens of the East China Sea! As a result, he was not even interested in going deep into some of the pastures set up by the Koreans in the Hallasan area to collect horses. It seems that some Andalusian, Turkmen and Finnish horses will have to be brought here from the mainland to improve the pedigree of these Korean horses. But this is all for the future, and the most important thing now is how to transport these loot back to Blackwater Port, after all, thousands of newly captured North Koreans gathered in such a small county town, and after a long time, something may happen, and even if nothing happens, it will be very troublesome in case of an epidemic.

After adding the group of people who were captured by Liu Zhong, the number of Koreans gathered in Jingyi County at this time had reached 2,000. A large number of grains, livestock, and materials were piled up in the city, and people ate and chewed horses, and they had nothing to do every day, and they cried and cried from time to time, which made people feel annoyed when they looked at it. Therefore, Mo Ming simply asked Lieutenant Chen Tumu, the captain of the "Fubo", to also load a batch of food, supplies, and about 1,000 North Koreans towards Heishui Port. After going back to unload the supplies, he went to the dockyard to maintain the ship, and notified the three ships including the "Breaking Wave", which had almost been repaired and maintained, to come over and take over. Chen Tumu was naturally indispensable, so after loading the population and supplies, the most rearly east coast ship anchored in the sea off Jingyi County also left and returned to Heishui Port.

After the "Fubo" left, Mo Ming simply asked people to close the city gate, in addition to opening the door regularly every day to go out of the city to cut forage for feeding livestock, fetch water and chop firewood, and then the baby city guarded itself all day long, waiting for the arrival of the next batch of ships. At this time, there were already some sneaky North Koreans outside the city who were investigating the situation, and Mo Ming didn't care about them. There were more than 1,100 elite soldiers on the east coast at the head of the city, eight cannons, and food and supplies were abundant, and he really wanted to see which way the immortals were impatient and dared to take the initiative to attack them! (To be continued......)