For those people in the Lion's Mouth Harbor, Hong Tao didn't kill them casually, but just burned down all their homes, and asked the captives to help them pack up all the fine and soft before burning, and those who were willing to follow the fleet to settle in Jinhekou went on the ship with the captives. But I said in advance that I would be a slave for at least a year, and then I would talk about something else. If you don't want to go, I'm sorry, my life is left to you, all the houses are burned, all the farmland is sprinkled with heavy oil, and even the woods on the mountains are not spared.

Then Hong Tao did something that most people didn't understand, he asked the people who chose to stay to expose each other as traitors, and expose all the Han people who were most enthusiastic about working for the Mongols, and then they could leave, otherwise let the axe soldiers kill them all. As a result of the revelations, five Han Chinese were also tied up with dozens of Mongolian officers, hanged on a gallows temporarily erected with broken ship masts on the dock, and banners were hung on them, all of which were written with slogans such as killing all the Mongols, killing all the traitors, and all the Han people rising up against foreign invasion, which was also Hong Tao's invention.

"Sir, why let them go? When the Mongols came, they would have to help the Mongols. I don't believe that there are only five people who are the traitors you are talking about, I think they are all and should be hanged! When everyone was on board and the fleet was slowly leaving the burning port, Swann had another problem, and he felt that Hong Tao was a little confused, and that he was being blinded by the common people.

"Silly boy, they are all Han Chinese, what's the use of me killing them all? What is the purpose of beating away the Mongols? Isn't it just that no other race is allowed to rule the Han people? I'm also Han, so I can't kill my own people, right? Hong Tao did not have a trace of joy of victory on his face, looking at the port that had been destroyed by his own hands. And the bodies hanging from the dock. My heart was full of depression.

"But didn't you just say that all those who helped the Mongols were traitors? Five more were hanged. Aren't they also Han Chinese? "Swan's emotional intelligence is not very high, if it were Compassion here, he would definitely not ask, even if he wanted to ask, he would wait for Hong Tao's face to look better before asking.

"How many Han Chinese do you think I let go live? They erected the gallows with their own hands, and also personally pointed out a few Han Chinese who helped the Mongols do things, and hanged them with their own hands. When the Mongols come back, will they still believe them? As long as the Mongols began to kill them. My purpose was accomplished. These Han Chinese will not settle all the accounts on our heads, they will hate the Mongols who killed their families, relatives, and friends. Hate this thing, it's hereditary, and it won't be cured for generations to come. If the Mongols don't kill them, they will also plant a seed of uneasiness in their hearts, because they have helped us and are sorry for the Mongols. Whenever there is an opportunity, this guilt will turn into fear, then hatred, and only by killing the Mongols. Their hearts will be at peace...... It's an unsolvable conspiracy, and I didn't invent it. I just took it and used it......" This time Hong Tao did not get angry because he was in a bad mood, but explained to Swan in detail what he was doing here, and finally tried to pluck him clean.

"My father said that you are more vicious than the big cannibals, let me learn from you, and be a person who kills people with your brains in the future, don't be like him, you only kill people with knives. What you just said is a trick to kill people with your brain, right? Swann didn't think about Hong Tao's purity or impurity, it is estimated that in his eyes, he, the principal, has nothing to do with purity. He is very interested in Hong Tao's knowledge of killing people without knives, and he is a little bit interested in Hong Tao as an example, and is determined to become a role model.

"You misinterpreted your father's meaning, he certainly didn't want you to become me, that would be disgusted with dogs. Once this kind of thing is done, there will be no peace in the rest of your life, and there are some things that can only be done and cannot be said. Today I tell you, just to let you know the cruelty of war, but if there is a problem that can be solved by other means, it is easy not to use war to solve it. Once war is chosen, there is no humanity to talk about, and this is a very helpless thing. Hong Tao turned his face back and stopped looking at the scene on the pier. Now he is telling the truth, this thing is really cruel and too political, it is not his intention, but he can't help himself. Sometimes things can only be done in the most reasonable way, especially in times of war. On the one hand, the life and death of your own people, and on the other hand, the life and death of your enemies, which do you care about? How to kill the enemy and disturb the enemy to the maximum seems to be the most humane.

No matter what others think, Hong Tao carried out his plan anyway, not only in the lion's mouth, but also had to do it again when he arrived in Jinzhou. Moreover, he did more thoroughly in Jinzhou, not only burning the shipyards and ports, but also arresting the prince of the Mongol kings who had come here to supervise the construction of the ships, and together with his entourage and dozens of local Mongol officials, all of them were brought to the docks and held a public trial.

Anyway, Hong Tao didn't expect the people here to understand all the Mandarin of Compassion. Probably means that the Mongols are fighting in the east and west, starting wars, and slaughtering cities everywhere, and now they are attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, which is too hated by people, and has made people angry! As a messenger of world peace, he did not like it, so he came to condemn the heavens, the earth, the stars and the moon to punish these warmongers and strive to maintain world peace.

Those who want to draw a line with the warmongers and want to avoid the punishment of heaven can take a knife and stab these Mongols on their bodies, and then they can wash away the sins on their bodies, and the heavenly soldiers and generals from the South China Sea Divine Kingdom will not harm you and your family, take your own belongings, and go wherever your family loves, and you can go to the Kingdom of God if you want. If you don't want to clear your sins, then I'm sorry, you are the accomplices of these warmongers, they will be hanged on the dock, and you will have to be beheaded!

Is there anyone who does not bow his head in front of the butcher's knife? No! Anyway, Hong Tao didn't see one. The local people surrounded by the Mamluk cavalry numbered in the thousands, hundreds of families, each of whom elected a representative, and all of them took knives and went to the Mongols who were tied to the dock to stab, and then watched the hundreds of Mongol officials, soldiers, and the prince and something, beheaded, burned to death, and finally dozens of the highest officials were hanged alive on the dock.

"Every year today, the Divine Council sends a ship back here to check everyone's sins for a year, as long as you bring a Mongol head, you can exchange it for ten dollars, and if you bring three Mongol heads, you will get a ticket to live in the kingdom of God, everyone is the same, repent!" Before leaving, Mercy howled for a long time on the dock with a trumpet, shouting and pasting a few notices on the gallows. Exchanging the heads of the Mongols for money and the living environment, this is also a method, it doesn't work or not, Hong Tao doesn't worry about it, this thing has no cost, and a whaling ship is sent to stop by every year to take a look. If someone does do this, it must be rewarded with propaganda, and as for the small amount of money that is rewarded, it is a method that can pit the Mongol rulers against the locals, and the more the two sides distrust each other, the more likely it is that something will happen.

The fire in Golden State burned all night, and was not extinguished when the fleet left the next morning. The people who had drawn a line with the warmongers had long since fled with their families, and the once bustling port city was in ruins.

"Sir, after the count, there are 6 families and 31 people who board the boat from the lion's mouth, and 4 families and 18 people who get on the boat from Jinzhou, and the rest have run away...... Less than 10 percent of the shells were consumed, but 30 percent of the gunpowder and heavy oil were already used. There were also thirteen wounded, five of whom were accidentally wounded by our own shells, all Mamluk cavalry. When the fleet recircled the lion's mouth and turned north, Mercy, who had temporarily acted as the fleet's statistician, went into Hong Tao's captain's room with a booklet to report on the gains and losses of the past few days.

"Tell Langya, gunpowder and heavy oil are saved, this is the beginning, what will the city burn after it is all used up? When destroying again, you can choose the key points, such as wells, water sources, etc., and skip the farmland first. Hong Tao was locating the next target on the chart, he had no interest in this work, it sounded like harassing the enemy's rear, but in fact, most of the people were facing ordinary people, and there was no joy in war. But if he doesn't do it, he can't do it, and at the moment he can only inflict these blows on the enemy, and there is no other way. And this work had to become a daily routine, and I had to do it once or twice a year, until the top of the Mongol Empire was in a hurry. Either you will give me all the coastal areas to clear the wilderness, don't make any salt works and shipyards, and shrink into the inland and don't come out, or you will have to mobilize heavy troops to protect these coastal targets, choose one of the two!

Beginning in early December, Hong Tao's fleet sailed northeast from Lion's Mouth, and began to circle along the Liaodong Peninsula to the Bohai Bay, never letting go of villages as long as they found them along the way. Salt works, fishing docks, and fishing villages are all within the scope of the attack, and as long as it is the coastline where the fleet passes, it is not allowed to see a place with more than 100 people. By the end of December, the fleet had arrived off the coast of Tianjin, leaving behind the butt a piece of scorched earth, even the cities of Jinzhou and Laizhou, which were dozens of kilometers away from the coastline, were also captured, and all the Mongolian ethnic groups in the city were hanged in a prominent position. He can now memorize the crusade written by Hong Tao backwards, he can give an off-script speech, and he also paints his voice and color, with emotional color, which is a little demagogic. (To be continued.) )