In Phi Koh, a large number of houses and military camps have been built, and a large number of refugees have fled in large numbers, far exceeding the number of residents in the past.

After the winter, the weather is gradually cold, Phi Dao and the coast of the Houjin side are separated by eighty miles, so there is no need to worry, but there is only one river surface separated from the Yalu River estuary in the direction of North Korea, a few arrows away, these days after the snow is cold, the sea begins to freeze, Mao Wenlong ordered the displaced people who came to take refuge in Phi Island to go to the Jiangkou to dig ice, it is necessary to chisel the frozen Jiangkou, so that it is impossible for the Houjin cavalry to make a detour from the direction of North Korea and attack the island.

In fact, at this time, Mao Wenlong had too few soldiers and horses in his hands to effectively control the area of Kuandian and Yizhou Tieshan, and after a few years, Phi Dao did not have such worries.

The sound of ping-pong ice chiseling has been non-stop, at least more than 10,000 people stand on the ice and keep chiseling, the homeless people generally lack tools, Mao Wenlong has not had too many utensils in his hands, he can only ask people to sharpen the wooden stick for these people to keep chiseling, only a small amount of iron tools are used in key places, the population of the island has increased recently, the homeless people can only dig the burrowing house, usually starving, before the ice can also find some turtle eggs, catch some seabirds, sea fish, all the non-staple food has been cut off recently, people can only drink a bowl of weak every few days, the physical fitness is very weak, In the constant sound of chiseling ice, there were already people falling on the ice.

When a man falls, he is immediately forced to stand up, and so on until it is useless to shout and whip, and then he is dragged to the shore, when he is already dying, and he is almost not far from death.

And such people are actually dead people, on the other side, there are hundreds of corpses that have died in the past few days, because they can't take care of it for a while, the corpses are piled up on the seashore, and there are also corpses of dead homeless people everywhere on the island, and there are constantly human wails.

Mao Wenlong's face was pale, and he stood by the sea, constantly observing the situation in front of him.

Some of the homeless people could not bear such suffering, and some refused to cut the ice, and it was useless to drink and scold and whip, so they were set up by the soldiers and beheaded with swords.

Others tried to escape from the ice, when a continuous sound of bowstrings was heard, shooting the fleeing homeless to death.

Zhang Pan, who had already made war exploits and was mentioned by Mao Wenlong as a thousand households, couldn't bear it, and said to Mao Wenlong on the side: "My lord, why don't you let him go?" ”

Mao Wenlong glanced at Zhang Pan and said: "If these people are ordered to go by themselves, the rest will either want to leave, and some will not obey the order, there are tens of thousands of people on the island now, and there may be more people in the future. ”

Zhang Pan listened to Mo Ran, he knew that there were pros and cons to the influx of displaced people, the advantage was that he could have a large number of manpower, whether it was reclamation or hunting, fishing, or digging ginseng, manpower was endless, these people had abandoned their homes and businesses, as long as there was a way to live, they would obey orders no matter what, and the other was that they could choose soldiers from a large number of strong and strong, and dare to escape from the Houjin control area, one was unwilling to be ruled by foreign races, and it was also possible that they had enmity with the Jurchens, whether it was the former or the latter, they were all brave people. Even if the whole family escapes, if the backbone is a soft egg, it is unlikely that they will choose to escape.

Mao Wenlong said again: "Ci is not in charge of the soldiers, Zhang Pan, remember!" ”

Zhang Pan lowered his head and responded: "Yes, my lord, the last general remembers." ”

Chen Jisheng flattered on the side: "My lord sees it clearly, no wonder I can lead us to make such a great achievement, and after the adult opens the town, it will definitely be expected to be a marquis." ”

After Mao Wenlong's meritorious service, he has been from the guerrilla first to the general, and then to the deputy general of Guangning Town, there have been rumors recently, the imperial court is quite interested in setting up a military town behind Hou Jin, not for the frontal battlefield, but also for the merit of containment, after the opening of the town, Mao Wenlong is the general soldier!

In the past two years, from the garrison to the capital, and then to the guerrilla, all the way to the general army, Mao Wenlong has no real background in the DPRK, nor is he a family general, such a promotion is undoubtedly a miracle.

Recently, Mao Wenlong's prestige has risen sharply, whether it is an old subordinate or a new general who has recently joined his ministry, most of them respect him as a celestial.

"Hmph." Mao Wenlong snorted coldly and said, "Denglai has no ship yet?" ”

Mao Chenglu said: "I haven't been on the ship for more than ten days. ”

Mao Wenlong sneered and said to Chen Jisheng: "The general soldier of Kaizhen who starved himself to death, this dynasty has not yet passed." ”

Chen Jisheng said with a smile: "The North Korean side sent another 200 stone of grain, but it really can't be done, and the last general will lead the troops to discuss with them again." ”

Mao Wenlong smiled "haha", but there was no smile on his face.

The small people of the Korean country are poor, the national strength is very weak, the border counties are also poor to death, Mao Wenlong is forced by soldiers, and the materials squeezed out are also very limited.

In Xiong Tingbi's tripartite arrangement, Denglai is also an important party, and if Mao Wenlong wants to really gain a foothold in the area around Phi Dao, it is impossible without the support of Shandong.

From Phi Dao to Liaoxi, the sea area is long, and it is dangerous to pass through many coasts controlled by Houjin, and cross the sea to Dengzhou, which can be reached in a few days, and the fishermen here in Phi Dao originally had many people from Shandong.

If Shandong can continue to supply supplies, then it is needless to say, Mao Wenlong is here to train troops to fight, but the facts are obviously not the case, now Denglai's support for Mao Wenlong is not enough, the center of the court is the same, Mao Wenlong's military exploits and the actual effect of capturing the island to contain Jin has not been fully reflected, and the imperial court does not pay enough attention to him.

"My lord, a ship is coming."

At this time, a personal soldier touched his forehead with his hand, looked at the sea in the distance, and shouted excitedly.

Everyone looked over and saw a shadow of a sail on the sea.

"Okay, great." Chen Jisheng said with a smile: "I just said that there was no boat coming, but the boat came, everyone can live more comfortably recently and have a good year." ”

Mao Chenglu snorted and said, "I don't know how many things to send, but there are more wolves and less meat here!" ”

Everyone has the same worry, now there are more people on the island day by day, there are also more people in Yizhou and Tieshan, I am afraid that there are more than 200,000 people, at this time, everyone did not expect that the islands along Phi Island and other places in Uiju and other places, the number of Liao people who finally fled over exceeded one million!

Compared with those Shunmin in Liaoyang and Shenyang now, these Liaomin are indeed hard-boned.

The ship became bigger and bigger, and eventually became a very obvious image of a hard-sailed boat.

"This is a big ship of thousands of materials!"

Chen Jisheng's face changed a little, although he was flattering, he had deep seniority in the army and reacted quickly, so he immediately shouted: "The Chinese military camp is on guard!" ”

The Chinese military camp is the elite of Mao Wenlong's personal soldiers and Jiading, and the best armor and weapons are equipped with this battalion, and the training is also the most, almost every few days, it is already quite an elite soldier.

Hearing the order, hundreds of battalions of soldiers rushed to the shore with weapons in hand, and the people who dug the ice did not stop, but most of the soldiers who supervised the work looked over here, and did not care about whipping people for a while.

Mao Wenlong's face was also a little grim, he wasn't afraid of what this ship could do to Phi Dao, no matter how big this ship was, it would be able to capture Phi Dao?

Mao Wenlong was worried that if this was really a Jiannu ship, it would mean that the chieftain had also begun to pay attention to the sea, no matter how the ship came from, once a Jurchen sailor appeared on the sea, it would be a devastating blow to the morale of the Phi Dao side.

The Shandong side did not have much interest in supplying Phi Dao in the first place, and once it was attacked, I am afraid it would be difficult to see the Shandong ship again.

As the ship got closer, the final appearance of the crew was clearly visible.

People gradually breathed a sigh of relief, and there were no heavily armed Jurchens with shaved hair on the ship, but Han Chinese dresses, and even so, Mao Wenlong did not order to relax his guard.

"In Xia Chengfang, dare to ask Lord Mao if he can be on the island?"

Someone on the boat called, Mao Wenlong looked at it intently, and after a while, Zhang Panxian shouted: "It's Cheng Fang, and the shopkeeper of Yusheng!" ”

Chen Jisheng also stroked his beard and smiled: "Yes, that's right." ”

That night, he went to He Yusheng's branch in Guangning to carry weapons, and Chen Jisheng, Zhang Pan and others followed, even Mao Chenglu and others, who also recognized Cheng Fang.

"Why is he here?" The worry in Mao Wenlong's heart disappeared, and in its place was doubt.

The sea surface around the mouth of the river has frozen, but the direction of the big ship is not frozen, but there are also a lot of ice blocks and a shallow layer of thin ice on the sea, fortunately, the hull looks very heavy, easily break through the thin ice, and smoothly dock on the trestle.

When Cheng Fang jumped off the boat, Zhang Pan and others had already greeted him.

"Become a shopkeeper," Chen Jisheng said with a smile: "Why did you suddenly come by boat?" ”

"Sailing?" Cheng Fang smiled: "I don't have such skills. ”

Cheng Fang pointed to the group of men standing on the side of the ship, and said with a smile: "That short black face is Captain Zheng, this ship is under his helm, and I am only a guest on the ship." ”

"Oh, I see." Chen Chengsheng looked at the lucky boat in front of him, this ship is a rare big ship on the water surface of Liaodong, generally the local sailor ships in Liaodong are only half the size of this boat, or even smaller, Denglai's boat is almost half smaller, and the fisherman's boat is only one-third of this boat.

Zhang Pan said on the side: "I don't know what happened to the shopkeeper coming to our desert island?" ”

Cheng Fang said with a smile: "Back to General Zhang, I was ordered by the owner of my family to send some food, weapons, medicinal materials, and some cotton jackets. ”

"Huh?" Chen Jisheng opened his mouth wide on the side, looking incredulous.

Zhang Pan was also very surprised, but he immediately hugged Cheng Fang's shoulders and said very happily: "This is simply a charcoal in the snow, become a shopkeeper, you have solved our urgent need!" ”

Cheng Fang said with a smile: "I don't dare to take credit, this is what our proprietor means, a shipload is worth tens of thousands of silver, how can I have such power." ”

Zhang Pan didn't care about this, he had been dealing with Cheng Fang anyway, and he dragged Cheng Fang away at the moment: "Go, see us adults!" ”