Hou Taiji had already received the news of Yue Tuo's defeat, and he was more shocked than angry. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, it was a very sure thing to send 10,000 people to attack the Dongjiang area, but it suffered an unprecedented defeat. How did the Dongjiang Army suddenly become stronger, and it was able to defeat Houjin's team in such a short period of time, and also caused such a large number of casualties in Houjin, the reason here must be clarified.

Yue Tuo told the whole process of the battle with an uneasy mood, Huang Taiji listened carefully, asked some details from time to time, and let Yue Tuo retreat after the incident, which surprised Yue Tuo, Huang Taiji withstood the pressure from other Houjin nobles and did not punish Yue Tuo, in Huang Taiji's opinion, Yue Tuo did not make any big mistakes in this operation, all the failures were due to the change of the Ming army, and the muskets and artillery they used became extremely sharp. At this stage, Huang Taiji could not think of any effective means to restrain the Ming army, and a Ming fleet with powerful artillery appeared on Phi Dao, and it became very difficult to conquer Phi Dao. Huang Taiji could only endure and wait for a better chance to take revenge.

There was naturally jubilation in Dongjiang, this great victory that had never been seen since the establishment of the Dongjiang military town boosted the morale of Dongjiang, and at the same time consolidated Zhang Chu's position, under the dual effect of the fact of the battle and the continuous education of the instructors in the ranks, the soldiers of Dongjiang already believed that Zhang Chu was the only one who could lead them to victory.

Taking advantage of the momentum of victory, Zhang Chu found a suitable place on the land opposite Phi Dao and established a Ming stronghold, which had a port and a fortress with a large number of artillery and fire support from the naval fleet. The Houjin people will have to pay a huge price if they want to uproot this stronghold.

With this stronghold as a support, the security forces continued to expand their activities and sent small forces to harass the territory of the Later Jin, and the Han people in the northeast were encouraged by the victory of the Dongjiang River, and their attitude towards the Later Jin people also hardened. There were even people who picked up guns and started revenge on the Houjin people, taking the heads of the Tatars to the Dongjiang River to exchange weapons and silver.

Huang Taiji had no choice but to send people and horses to clean up everywhere and be busy extinguishing fires, and the Dongjiang area involved most of Huang Taiji's energy. The Houjin people had no choice but to shrink their area of control, and the security forces regained a foothold on land.

Of course, Zhang Chu's purpose was not to occupy a little more land in the northeast, Zhang Chu sent people into various villages within the sphere of influence of the security army, organized the Han people in the villages using the armor protection system, and established a militia to issue weapons and guns, so that they had the ability to resist the attack of small groups of thieves, and through the transmission of information through beacons, the villages could support each other, and if a large group of Houjin people came to attack, they could also give early warning.

Chen Jisheng and other old people of Dongjiang formed the Dongjiang Trading Company, which was active in various parts of the Northeast, trading with the local Han people, transporting grain and weapons, and collecting ginseng, leather goods and other products in the Northeast. The security army defeated the attack of the Houjin people, the North Koreans were very sensitive to this matter, and immediately sent people to the Dongjiang River to secretly contact Zhang Chu, although the DPRK was forced to form an alliance with the Houjin, but the heart still has a deep sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty, there was a Ming army appeared on Jeju Island and said that it was to help North Korea fight against the Houjin, the Korean king Li Liang was still skeptical, this time appeared in the Dongjiang River is also known as the security army team, and defeated tens of thousands of Houjin people at once, and the Koreans have confidence in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Chu's reply was even more heartening to Li Liang, who reiterated that the security forces would take on the responsibility of being the suzerainty of Korea and would send troops to help when the Later Jin people plundered Korea.

Zhang Chu said that he would not only verbally express his goodwill to the DPRK, but also use practical actions to improve the lives of the Korean people, and that Zhang Chu knew very well that trade between the DPRK and the Ming Dynasty had been cut off for many years due to the blockade of the Later Jin, and that Zhang Chu would increase the supplies to be transported from Denglai to the DPRK this time, and exchange the cotton, silk, gunpowder, and iron tools from Dengju with the DPRK's horses and timber.

The envoy of Korea was excited about the large amount of supplies that Zhang Chu wanted to provide, with these things at least the Korean royal family could live a good life, but when he discussed the terms of barter with Zhang Chu, the envoy was worried again, Zhang Chu insisted that the transaction between the two sides should be carried out in the form of free trade, and the price was determined by the merchants, although this seemed very fair, but it was very different from the way of tribute that the envoy hoped in his heart, and the envoy also understood that it was very different from before, and it was impossible to exchange less for more in the form of tribute. However, the DPRK is now very poor in supplies, which will greatly reduce the trade volume between the two sides.

After the envoy explained to Zhang Chu, Zhang Chu was also very embarrassed, the tribute method can only be carried out by the imperial court, and Denglai's financial resources are limited and can only help North Korea here.

Zhang Chu, who was full of apologies, decided to express himself to North Korea, and finally agreed to send a small team of men and horses into the border area between North Korea and Daming, this team of people and horses will recruit local North Koreans to form a team to resist the Hou Jin, and then gradually grow stronger, used to defend North Korea against the invasion of the Hou Jin people, North Korea in addition to providing a small amount of food, weapons and armor and other important materials for this team are provided by the security forces.

The DPRK envoy was very satisfied with this. After the Later Jin people became stronger, they became more and more arrogant towards North Korea, often blackmailing in various names, and even robbing, and North Korea did not dare to resist under pressure. According to Zhang Chu's method, this team used the name of the security army, which could not only attack the small group of Houjin people, but also prevent the Houjin from becoming angry with North Korea. The Korean envoy went back to report the results of the negotiation to Li Liang with satisfaction, and Li Liang was also very happy, and arranged for a minister who was close to him to manage the trade with Denglai, which gave the royal family an additional channel to get rich, and there were security forces in front of Li Liang to feel much safer.

Also full of joy is the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs and palace maids in the Forbidden City rarely see Emperor Chongzhen smiling for a long time, and Emperor Chongzhen's heart is full of joy these days.

It was Zhang Chu who brought joy to Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in Shandong, and for the first time Emperor Chongzhen felt that the money he had spent was worth it. Chongzhen was frightened by Zhang Chulian with a million taels of silver and materials, his heart was very unsteady, afraid of being deceived by Zhang Chu, Yuan Chonghuan said that five years of Pingliao, he paid money and goods, in exchange for Houjin into the customs in Beijing to loot, Sun Yuanhua said that he was going to train the new army, 800,000 taels of silver was taken, as a result, Kong Youde rebelled, only this Zhang Chu is still more reliable, take money to do things unambiguously, this poor man is born to have benefits, agree to appease the rebellion in Shandong, take more than 100,000 taels of silver to kill thousands of Houjin peopleAlthough this time it costs a lot of money, and a million taels of blood came out at once, but the results are also huge, this counteroffensive Lushun has not yet begun, and there are results again, the Dongjiang victory eliminated nearly 10,000 Houjin soldiers at once, and this result is all evidenced by heads, there is no falsehood, if such a battle is fought a few more times, it will be over, which is much more real than Yuan Chonghuan's five-year Pingliao, so Emperor Chongzhen has confidence in becoming the master of Zhongxing, and the only thing he has to think about is how to reward Zhang Chu. (To be continued.) )