"How many ships have come to investigate?"

Wu Jie looked at a few Jurchen Hulu who were wet and thought they had become prisoners, but they still stared at their Jurchen Hulu with their heads held high, and asked the reconnaissance company commander beside him in a low voice.

"This is already the third sea ship of the Qing army!"

"Hehe, it seems that the situation here has made the Qing army start to be suspicious."

Wu Jie and Shang Kexi glanced at each other, and then came to a conclusion.

Geng Zhongming and their army of the Great Clear Water Division have been at sea for so long, and there is no news at all, this is really unreasonable, anyone with a little brain can feel that something is wrong, let alone a battle-hardened veteran like Huang Taiji.

Fortunately, Wu Jie and their control over the news in Ganghwa Island was extremely strict, and the patrol ships of the Hongtang fleet were scattered outside the radius of Ganghwa Island for twenty miles, except for the birds and sea fish, no other living creature could approach or break away from Ganghwa Island, turning the entire island into a black hole.

Wu Jie and the others believed that even if the Qing army sensed that something was wrong, they would probably not know what was going on on the island, and they were more suspicious of Geng Zhongming and the rebellion of the two leading generals, or the ambush of the North Korean army, and it was almost impossible to think of the existence of Hongmen.

Of course, the crisis on Ganghwa Island will make the Qing army more cautious, but it will also bring trouble to Wu Jie and their snooping, and there will naturally be fewer flaws in the Qing army.

"Come on, it's still the same sentence, you can't let people get close to Jianghua Island, and after we complete the integration on the island in two days, we will be able to attack again."

Shang Kexi tried his best to reconnoiter the company commander, and continued to admonish.

"Yes!"

Anyway, it was a foregone conclusion that the other party would be suspicious, but after Geng Zhongming and his sailors surrendered to Hongtang, even if the Qing people knew about the strange situation on Jianghua Island, they couldn't come to the island with manpower to find out the news.

Small-scale ships were naturally sent to reconnoiter the Qing army, but just like the three previous sea ships, as long as they appeared in the field of vision of the Hongtang fleet, these sea ships that came to reconnoiter would only be sent to death from time to time; And more ships, even if the Qing army has the heart, it does not have the strength.

Wu Jie and his side seized the time to practice and integrate the Han army, and the Qing army, which was more than 100 miles away, also began to make frequent moves.

The Qing people really can't afford to delay, their kingdom is located in the north, they are experiencing the Xiaoice River period and are nomads, and the basic material reserves have always been more difficult than the Ming Dynasty in the rich areas of the south.

In previous years, the Qing people always invaded the frontier of the Ming Dynasty, all with the idea of nourishing the war with war, and seeking to obtain materials, accumulate resources, and strengthen themselves by raiding the border areas of the Ming Dynasty.

And this time, I finally had some accumulation, and I was able to mobilize 100,000 troops to come to North Korea to sweep away this henchman's trouble, and the price paid by the Qing people behind it should not be underestimated.

From the second day of the first lunar month of last year, the vanguard army to the tenth year of Chongzhen, the 100,000 army of the Qing people has been in the Korean territory for nearly two months, and every day is a very heavy burden for the emerging Qing Kingdom.

The original optimistic plan was to be able to make a quick decision and conquer the Korean class to return to the DPRK in a very short time, but who would have thought that this Korean would now see that the old man is indeed determined to fight with them to the end.

Relying on Namhansan Fortress, a city with geographical advantages, the Koreans were stunned to stop the Qing army under the Namhansan Fortress.

And North Korea is not as good as the Ming Dynasty in the south, and it rarely even uses money, and the only characteristic of the Koreans is that they can give birth, and the Korean Peninsula is just a small land, but the number of Koreans living in it is almost 10 million.

As soon as the population is large, they naturally need a lot of food, but in this worldly Korean kingdom, almost 80 percent of the people are butchers, slaves and other lowly occupations, and there is not much permanent production, while the ordinary people in some industries are less than 15 percent, and the vast majority of the rich industries are the Korean aristocracy.

The aristocracy had money and food, but because of their prominent status, most of the environment they lived in was in the city, and no matter how little money and food were used as bait, they could always hide in a safer place at the first time.

In this way, the Jurchens wanted to continue to implement the strategy of feeding the war with war, but they did not show the stage, and could only watch as the grain and grass they brought with them became less and less used, and gradually dried up.

After not taking advantage of the abundance of grain and grass, he hurried to conquer the Koreans and return home, just like this, the war situation will eventually develop in a direction that is not favorable to the Qing people over time.

If the family wealth that they had saved with great difficulty was buried in Korea, a place that was not worthy of their Jurchen conquest, even if there was a day when the Koreans would be conquered after a long time, it would be worth the loss.

Therefore, even if Huang Taiji and they already felt a little wrong at this time, but under the pressure of the actual situation, Huang Taiji and they could not continue to stalemate like this earlier.

"Dolgon's order!"

"The last general commands!"

"Give you 5,000 white flag elite cavalry, 10,000 Han troops, this trip north to Kaesong, be sure to take Kaesong within five days, and prepare food and grass for the army!"

Huang Taiji couldn't wait, and convened a military council on the first day of the second lunar month, changing his previous plan to go straight to the location of King Injo of Joseon, and began to prepare for the removal of a few untouched nails on the road in the future.

In this way, the general Dolgon was sent to attack Kaesong, an important Korean city that did not move on the way, because Kaesong is a large Korean city second only to Hanyang City, and the defense manpower in the city is naturally much less than that of Hanyang City and Namsan Fortress, which are the key points of defense, but at this time, the Korean rich gentry gathered in Kaesong are also no less than Hanyang City, which is enough to collect a lot of materials for the Qing army.

Second, Huang Taiji is really not worried that at this time, the strange Ganghwa Island in the west of Nanhan Mountain Fortress can make his own army of tens of thousands disappear quietly, and behind it is afraid that there is an opponent that Huang Taiji does not know about, if the Dolgon army is placed here in Kaesong, it can play a role in monitoring the movement of Ganghwa Island, cutting off the unknown enemy from the west, so that his side can safely launch a more fierce offensive against Nanhan Mountain City.

Huang Taiji has already figured out that in order to preserve the strength of the Qing army, he is more timid than before, and until now he has not been able to take the weak enemy of North Korea, but has put himself in a dilemma.

Rather than spending it in vain all the time, it is better to sacrifice more and take down the king of Joseon in one go, capture the king of Joseon, and return to the DPRK as soon as possible to accumulate resources is the right reason!!

(End of chapter)