233 Epilogue

What is called a full load, now Wu Jie's is called a full load.

The harvest of half a month in the Qing Dynasty was finally cheapened by Hongtang, and it was personally delivered to Wu Jie by Dolgon, which became the cornerstone for Hongmen to continue to be strong.

If you want to conquer Guoshan City without knowing it, it is really not too simple for the Hongtang army with Geng Kong, Shi Shenming, Duan Qirui and other generals of the Great Qing Dynasty.

Just let these generals quietly write a few letters to the city, and at the same time send a few brave henchmen of the art masters to deliver the news, and make a promise that it would be easy to buy a few Han army leaders who guarded the city.

Not all the soldiers of the Han army were willing to work for the Jurchen barbarians, and the cold and bitter land of Liaodong was used as a living environment, but it was really not as comfortable as the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the south, not to mention that under the bribes of Wu Jie and their real money, there were a few people who would not be tempted.

In the dead of night, the Hongtang soldiers quietly entered Guoshan City, and without even causing much commotion, they served the Qing soldiers stationed in Guoshan City, and there was not even a single soldier who escaped to report the news.

Of course, the talents from Hongmen basically will not do that loss-making business, and the remuneration they pay is in exchange for the dozens of sea ships that have been managed to get together with great difficulty, and they can almost carry endless people and materials.

Almost ten generals moved Guo Shancheng away, not only did they not think about leaving anything for the Qing people, but they didn't even think about leaving anything for the Koreans who regarded them as rescuers.

Don't think that Hongtang came all the way this time, it was really to relieve the siege of the Koreans, the Koreans have an inextricable relationship with the Ming Dynasty, but with their Hongmen team, it is just a normal trade relationship, why would Hongmen really let their soldiers throw their heads and spill their blood for them to be invaded by the Qing Dynasty!

The seized materials and the North Korean refugees they received, Wu Jie never thought about returning them to the North Koreans from the beginning, but packed them up and sent them back to Dayuan Island, so that they could become a living force in the development of Dayuan Island and the cornerstone of Hongmen.

As for how the North Koreans will view the Hongmen people in the future and what they think in their hearts, it is not something that Hongmenren needs to worry about.

Wu Jie and the others didn't even have the slightest burden of human trafficking, in their opinion, if they hadn't rescued them in time, they wouldn't have been able to say that these Koreans who were tied up and escorted to Shengjing in Liaodong didn't know how many people would die on the way, and they didn't know what kind of abuse they would receive from the Jurchen barbarians.

At least in the area where they are located, the standard of living of ordinary people can be said to be the highest in East Asia, and far higher than the status and treatment of these North Koreans in North Korea.

Coupled with the forty or fifty thousand Koreans who had been sheltered by the Qing people who had plundered the Qing people before, this time Wu Jie and they came to North Korea once, and brought back a population of 1780,000 for Hongmen, including more than 10,000 Han soldiers in the prime of life.

During the two-day firefight, Hongtang invested more than 8,700 soldiers, and in the end, less than half of the soldiers were able to return safely, nearly 3,000 soldiers died on the battlefield, and more than 1,000 nearly 2,000 soldiers were seriously wounded and were carried onto the warship.

The mighty fleet of sea ships, under the noses of Dolgon and others, marched towards the vast sea with great might, leaving only Dolgon's back to go farther and farther away.

Dolgon watched the distant figure of Hongtang's fleet, his face was calm and terrifying, like a volcano that could erupt at any time, making his henchmen and generals around him hold their breath, for fear of arousing Dolgon's anger.

At the same time, in the huge fleet of the main force of the Hongtang fleet, Wu Jie and Shang Kexi's faces were also very uncalm, and they were shocked by the gains reported by his soldiers and the friendly Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

Before, they were busy entangled with the Qing people, and it was not until they arrived at sea that Wu Jie, who was finally idle, had time to take a good look at their results.

"Let's go, let's go home!!"

With so much wealth, the task given to them by Li Tianyang became insignificant, and immediately, Wu Jie waved his hand, pointed forward, and took this fleet of 100 ships to Dayuan Island, the base camp of Hongmen, which had been absent for several months.

As for the situation on the Korean Peninsula that is still fighting and confronting each other, they were stopped by Wu Jie and the others, and they didn't care at all about the impact they had on the war on the Korean Peninsula over the past few days.

Anyway, Dayuan Island is thousands of miles away from the Korean Peninsula, and at the same time, there is a huge ocean isolating it, even if the Korean Peninsula is shattered, it will not have much impact on Hongmen.

However, now the Koreans in Wu Jie's hands still think that Wu Jie is here to rescue them, and most of them are very obedient, if they don't take advantage of the world they cooperate with, they will loosen them back, and let this raw rice be thoroughly cooked and cooked, I am afraid that after the North Koreans react, because of the difficulty of leaving their homeland and other reasons, it will bring a lot of trouble to the huge fleet.

In fact, when Wu Jie and the others quietly conquered Guoshan City and blocked the way for the Qing people to go back and retreat, they had already had a great impact on the Qing people.

The Koreans now seem to be like weeds in the wilderness, even if they are allowed to strike hard by the Qing soldiers, it will not be long before they take root and sprout from some unknown corner.

After King Injo of Korea experienced the first hasty escape, King Injo, who had already let go of his skin, became more and more slippery in the next stalemate battle with the Qing army, and no longer allowed himself to be in danger, so that Huang Taiji's plan to capture the king failed.

The battle between the two sides, which had originally fallen into a stalemate, finally had an excuse to break away from the land of North Korea after the news of the instability in the rear was reported by the Dolgon vanguard.

Although the most important task of the war against Korea could no longer be achieved, the brutal and ferocious looting in the following months still made the Qing army make a lot of money.

Even if the Hongtang fleet had just taken a big advantage from the Qing army, compared with the materials and people that the Qing army had looted from the Korean Peninsula, the materials and population intercepted by Hongtang were only a drop in the bucket of the Qing people.

Because of these lootings, Huang Taiji could calmly face the questions of other banner owners in Shengjing, so although he knew that his personal expedition was a failed military operation, the far-sighted Huang Taiji still issued the order to retreat.

(End of chapter)