"Ah!!h

The white knife went in and the red knife came out, and a dying Jurchen warrior was gone.

Five thousand soldiers recuperated and ambushed a caravan of no more than a thousand people, and it was almost impossible for the Hongmen soldiers to have a chance of defeat.

Although the Qing Dynasty had attached great importance to their camel caravan, and before the last leg of the border pass, it had already sent a Jurchen cavalry of 500 people to meet them, but in the face of the devastating combat strength of the Hongtang army, although the 500 Jurchen knights brought some trouble to the Hongtang disciples, they were still unable to stop the footsteps of the Hongtang army in the end, and they were completely annihilated.

For the sake of our people's eyes and ears, Geng Zhongming did not capture the prisoners, all the Jurchens who still had a breath and the caravan guys who betrayed the interests of the Ming Dynasty were directly cut off by Geng Zhongming in cold blood, and they didn't even give them a breath of life, and even the heads of those Jurchen knights who obviously had rat tails were collected by Geng Zhongming and put them in sacks, ready to be taken back to the Yamen of the governor of Shandong, and asked the soldiers of Dongjiang Town to take credit.

"Gone!"

Seeing that the battlefield was almost cleaned, Geng Zhongming waved his hand and asked the soldiers to quickly return along the original route with the captured supplies and war horses, at this time they no longer had to hide their whereabouts, and the Jurchen and Mongol tribes they encountered on the way back became the best trophies in their hands.

By the time the Jurchen army got the news and rushed over to avenge their dead tribal villagers, the Hongtang army had already arrived at the coastline of Liaodong, where the ships of the Hongtang fleet were already cruising on the sea, waiting for their triumphant return.

In the end, the Jurchens could only watch as the Hongtang fleet slowly disappeared into the depths of the sea with the supplies and gains they had obtained.

After that, the Hongtang army in Dongjiang Town gave full play to the essence of guerrilla tactics and the most powerful fleet in their hands, and inflicted far more trouble and losses on the Qing people than Mao Wenlong had caused when he was on Phi Island.

Because of their existence, most of the thirteen years of Chongzhen have passed, and the Qing people have not had the opportunity and energy to invade the border passes of the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, the central cabinet of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as relieved that they agreed to rebuild the layout of Dongjiang Town, and Dongjiang Town's actions are now so effective have long proved that the arrangements they made are correct and wise, etc., which is a rare good thing for the Ming officials who have been fighting against the Qing Dynasty.

Even if they want to establish a strong stronghold on the coast, but in the face of the powerful artillery force of the Hongtang Naval Division, the stronghold that was finally built was not easy to build, but in a few days of artillery fire, it became a pile of broken ruins, not to mention the money, but also consumed the original insufficient material reserves of the Qing people.

But it's not a matter of letting the Hongtang army destroy so indiscriminately along its own coast!

The Hongtang army is really too slippery, when the Qing people set up strongholds along the coast, they can infiltrate from time to time, run to the land of the Liaodong Peninsula and wreak havoc, if the Jurchens give up the garrison on the coast, I can't say what the inner belly of Liaodong will be stirred into by the Hongtang army.

Although Huang Taiji has been called the emperor, but the land that the Qing people can really cultivate is not too much, and the border passes are in turmoil all the year round, although the Ming people rarely dare to invade the territory of the Qing people, but the border area is still not a suitable place to cultivate, and it is easy to be destroyed.

There is a lot of arable land around Shengjing, but now the north is in the Xiaoice period, and the winter comes earlier and farther every year, so that even if the arable land of the Qing Dynasty is cultivated for grain, it is always impossible to guarantee a bumper harvest.

As the population of the Qing Dynasty became more and more numerous, it was impossible to feed such a huge population by relying on their previous nomadic lifestyle, and it was impossible for Huang Taiji's vision and foresight to stop the footsteps of their kingdom, and watch the more fertile land and population in the south, empty of the most powerful army of this era, but unable to make any moves.

Therefore, every year, Huang Taiji let their Jurchen Mongolian Eight Banners carry out looting operations, consuming the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and other colleagues to supplement the strength of the Qing Dynasty, while it did not forget to let the people under its command begin to change their way of life, and the population looted from the Ming Dynasty and Korea became the main force of their cultivation, making great contributions to the supply of materials, grain and grass for the Qing Dynasty.

Originally, the cultivated land was insufficient, but at this time, if the land in the coastal area of hundreds of miles was abandoned because of the harassment of Hongtang troops such as Phi Dao, this was something that Huang Taiji, who was interested in the world, did not want to see.

On the one hand, Huang Taiji sent envoys to contact the king of the Korean Kingdom and asked him to send troops to assist him in attacking Phi Dao, while deploying the most elite cavalry of the Jurchen Eight Banners in the heart of the city near the coast, waiting for the appearance of the Hongtang army.

In this way, there were countless battles in succession, and the Hongtang army and the Jurchen army had mutual contacts, and the Hongtang army suffered a lot of losses, and the Jurchen army also failed to please each other, and they fought with each other.

But in the final analysis, the Hongtang army still suffered some small losses, although they don't have to worry about their back roads being blocked, as long as they don't go deep into the hinterland of Liaodong, just operate in the coastal area, etc., with the Hongtang fleet pressing the formation, the Jurchen cavalry does not dare to approach, so as not to become the target of the Hongtang fleet.

However, the number of Hongtang's army is only 20,000 people, and in the case of repeated battles, there are battles that do not lose the soldiers, and now under the harassment of successive battles, there are only more than 12,000 soldiers left, although the losses caused to the Jurchens are greater, but there are not enough supplementary soldiers, which is the biggest problem of Hongtang's lone army.

Material supply, ammunition replenishment, etc., the Hongmen headquarters and the Ming Dynasty officials can provide enough consumption of Dongjiang soldiers, after all, it is only the supply of only one or two thousand soldiers, and the Ming Dynasty is decadent, but there is no problem with this capital, after seeing the results of Hongtang Dongjiang Town, the central cabinet and other bigwigs are naturally clear about the return on investment, and will not deliberately default on the supply of grain and grass to the Hongtang soldiers in Dongjiang Town.

However, the replenishment of this soldier is a bit troublesome, and it has become a headache for the officers and soldiers of Dongjiang Town.

(End of chapter)