When all the preparations are in place, it is time for the Hongtang army to show its talents.

On the coastal route between Dingzhou and Yizhou, Wu Jie and his men carefully selected landing sites, and it took only half an hour for the 4,000 Hongtang soldiers to land on the shore.

And in the mountain road only dozens of miles away from them, a Qing Dynasty team escorting 20,000 or 30,000 Korean people and countless supplies, cattle and sheep was slowly marching towards the rear.

The fierce and vicious soldiers of the Qing Dynasty brandished the leather whip scabbard in their hands, made a loud shout in the air, and then struck the staggering Korean people, slapped on the flesh and crackled, accompanied by the wails and begs for mercy of the Korean prisoners.

In the face of the sudden Hongtang army, the Qing Dynasty army, which was responsible for transporting supplies and prisoners, was suddenly defeated.

The location was a carefully selected valley area, and under the condition of outflanking the left and right, including the Qing Dynasty escort team and the Korean people in a series of strings, tens of thousands of people were stunned to make dumplings by thousands of people in Hongtang.

This is not an unexpected result, the drudgery of escorting the materials of the Korean people is basically the responsibility of the Han army, plus they think that they are safe and worry-free in the rear, and their armaments are slack, in the face of the Hongtang army, almost everyone is in chaos at the first time, and no effective resistance is organized on the spot, and they are quickly defeated and captured by the Hongtang army.

Those stubborn Jurchen middle and low-level leaders were the primary targets of the Hongtang army, and whenever they found a small-scale team gathered, Hongtang's elite team rushed up as soon as possible and scattered and defeated them.

Under this repetition, thousands of Qing escort troops were soon killed or became prisoners of Hongtang, and after an hour and a half, Hongtang's army had already begun to clean up the battlefield.

Many of the Koreans who were trapped by the Qing people with ropes and bamboo poles finally escaped from this valley by taking advantage of the fierce battle between Hongtang and the Qing people.

However, more Korean people are trembling and lying on their stomachs, not daring to move, waiting for the final victor to stand up and continue to enslave them.

In this regard, after this deliberate battle, the Hongtang army harvested more than 40 carts of large and small materials, and more than 23,000 Korean people and Han troops surrendered.

Less than an hour later, the Hongtang army took these captured supplies and populations and marched in the direction they landed, where twenty or thirty sea ships were already waiting in addition to the dozens of warships of the Hongtang fleet, packing these people and materials back to Dayuan Island, the base camp of Hongmen.

Such a scene appeared several times on the Qing Dynasty transportation line between Guoshan City and Kaesong, and each time Hongtang carefully deployed and thundered attacked, they would always return with a full load, until the Qing army on the side of Guoshan City found that the transportation back to the material population was getting smaller and smaller, and they felt that something was wrong.

At this time, Hongtang had already gained a lot, and the number of North Korean people intercepted alone had reached almost more than 100,000, and by the time the guard general Guo Shancheng reported their doubts and worries to Dolgon, Wu Jie and the others had even wanted to withdraw their troops.

At this time, Wu Jie and Li Tianyang's original intention of sending them to North Korea were very different, originally Li Tianyang just wanted to understand the real combat strength of the Hongtang army in actual combat, and at the same time find trouble for the Jurchens.

But now Wu Jie and the Jurchens have really fought only a handful of times, but they use the excellent maneuverability of their Hongtang fleet at sea to take advantage of the fire and loot when the Qing people and the Koreans are at war, desperately searching for resources and human resources for the Hongmen.

Wu Jie and Shang Kexi thought that they had made no mistakes in their decision-making on the battlefield, although they deviated from the original intention of gifting Li Tianyangdi, but they also provided Hongmen with a huge amount of resources and manpower, which was more valuable than asking the Jurchens to trouble.

Dolgon is really angry, it has always been them who use cavalry mobility in the frontier of the Ming Dynasty, as if they were in a no-man's land, so that the Ming people are exhausted.

Now it's a good thing, they Jurchens have tasted the means they have imposed on the Ming people, after increasing the number of people and dispersing the size of the transport team, one moment they heard that the squad in the southwest direction was attacked, the whole army was annihilated, and the squad in the west encountered the enemy in the next moment, and lost more than half of the personnel!

In the end, after the failure of the change, Dolgon could only gather a huge transport team again, while sending messengers to report to Huang Taiji, and on the other hand, he personally went into battle, with 3,000 cavalry and thousands of Han troops, to transport the largest batch of supplies and manpower in the direction of Guoshan City.

There was nothing to do all the way, perhaps because he felt that the gains outweighed the losses, and the team personally escorted by Dolgon did not find the existence of Hongtang's army until the city wall of Guoshan City appeared in front of him.

Dolgon, who breathed a sigh of relief, finally put down a lot of his heart at this time, and the Han soldiers who were standing guard at the city gate nodded and ran over to greet Dolgon, but were stopped by Dolgon's personal guards, and after a few slaps, these city gate guards went back in disgrace.

Looking at the crowd at the gate of the city pouring into Guoshan City, Dolgon always felt that something was wrong, he didn't believe that the other party would let his group go so easily, and he didn't even arrange a simple harassment team, which was not like the attitude of the enemy.

"Why don't you see your city guards?"

Suddenly, Dolgon found that something seemed to be missing in front of him, but the Jurchen Zuo Linggu Mountain, who was originally stationed in this city, was nowhere to be seen.

"General Hui, General Gushan contracted a cold a few days ago and is recuperating in the city, so he couldn't come to meet the general!"

A Han army general was called over and replied humbly.

"Bastard thing, what is infected with the wind and cold, it must be that these days in this world of flowers have lost their eyes, and they have neglected their business!"

In fact, since they began to trade with Jin merchants and Hui merchants, and began to accept the culture and customs of the Han people, they have inevitably begun to hatch and degenerate: such as the pursuit of extravagant enjoyment, immersion in wine and meat pools, and drunkenness and gold addiction, gradually became popular among the Jurchen children of the Qing Dynasty.

Although leading generals like Gushan are under pressure from leaders like Huang Taiji and Dolgon, they will not be as unscrupulous as the local disciples, but in private, this kind of enjoyment mentality has already begun to corrupt their warriors' hearts.

(End of chapter)