Chapter 196: The Fall of Dongjiang Town

When Yu's army launched the operation to capture Fort Arthur, Shang Kexi was unprepared, during this time, he was taking advantage of the rare good weather to scatter most of his soldiers and civilians, digging ginseng in the forest to collect all kinds of wild vegetables and nuts, and also chopping firewood for wintering.

When a fleet suddenly appeared outside Fort Arthur, Shang Kexi was frightened half to death, and hurriedly ordered the gate of Fort Arthur to be closed, and the soldiers and civilians who were left behind went to the city to defend it.

Soon a group of soldiers and horses were unloaded from the ship to the shore, and the Fort Arthur was quickly surrounded, and after a stalemate between the two sides, the officers of the sea wolf invited Shang Kexi to negotiate.

Shang Kexi saw that this battle could not be fought, the black holes on the huge ships on the sea pointed directly at Fort Arthur, as long as the battle started, it was estimated that a platoon of cannons could forcibly demolish Fort Arthur, as long as this battle was fought, he and the soldiers and civilians in the fort would definitely die.

So in desperation, he could only negotiate with these nine-headed Jiao's people, and finally after secret discussions, Shang Kexi reluctantly announced his surrender, ordered the disarming of Fort Arthur, and handed over Fort Arthur to the hands of the so-called Nine-Headed Jiao.

And Shang Kexi was allowed to leave Fort Arthur with his family on the ship, and was sent to the island of Taiwan, Yu Xiaotian ordered Shang Kexi to treat him well, and did nothing else, so he relied on this time Shang Kexi "understood the righteousness" and took the initiative to lay down his arms, avoiding the two sides from meeting each other, and avoiding the senseless casualties of the soldiers and civilians in Fort Arthur.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian personally secretly summoned Shang Kexi once, and the two sides talked deeply for a day, and Yu Xiaotian found that Shang Kexi was also a person with a temperament, but he was also quite upright.

When asked about Shang Kexi's future plans, Shang Kexi proposed that he still wanted to work in the army, he had completely lost confidence in the Ming Dynasty, and now he had to choose to take refuge in Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian then agreed to Shang Kexi's request, sent him to Jeju Island, and entered the army of the sea wolf.

Later, Shang Kexi was really in the Northern Army, and he was thriving, and after a few years, because of his repeated military exploits, he was promoted to the level of major general and division commander, and finally retired as a lieutenant and general, returned to his hometown to retire, and ended up with a good death.

In addition, Shang Kexi surrendered to Yu Xiaotian, and was sent to the area of Dongjiang Town for a period of time, at the beginning of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when the Jiannu army stormed Dongjiang Town, secretly contacted many old departments of the Dongjiang Army, and took refuge in the Yujia army, so as to avoid almost all the Dongjiang Army, and finally were annihilated by the Jiannu Army, most of them surrendered to Jiannu and became traitors, and later became the pawns of Jiannu who entered the customs and slaughtered the Han people.

It is precisely because of the surrender of Shang Kexi and Kong Youde and others, as well as the previously captured Mao Chenglu and other old generals of the Dongjiang River, when Jiannu attacked Dongjiang Town, during this time, Yu Xiaotian made full use of it and sent a lot of people to travel between the various departments of the Dongjiang River.

In August, the sea wolf took control of Fort Arthur, and immediately spread the news that anyone who was willing to follow the nine-headed Jiao could go to Fort Arthur, as long as he followed the nine-headed Jiao, he could be fed and clothed warmly.

As a result, in just over half a year, tens of thousands of the more than 200,000 remaining soldiers and civilians in Liaodong fled to Fort Arthur and took refuge in Yu's army.

These people were temporarily transferred to Jeju Island, some of them stayed on Jeju Island to raise horses or cultivate fields, and some of them were reorganized into an army and changed their identities to become members of the Yu family army.

After Jiannu forced the surrender of Korea, the following year, at the beginning of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, he began to launch a fierce attack on Dongjiang Town.

The defenders of Dongjiang Town are now long gone, and they can't stop the attack of the Jiannu army at all, and the important fortresses of the Dongjiang Army such as Phi Island have fallen, and finally the entire Dongjiang Army has been completely wiped out, fortunately, at this time, many people have fled to Fort Arthur in advance to seek refuge, and when the Jiannu attacked, many people fled to Fort Arthur with their families to seek refuge, so that Fort Arthur in this half a year, obtained a large number of old departments of the Dongjiang Army and a large number of Han people in Liaodong.

In March of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the army of Jiannu attacked Fort Arthur, when the identity was revealed, Jiannu also tried to take Fort Arthur, and the sea wolf defenders of Fort Arthur immediately fired guns and cannons, and the Jiannu who tried to attack Fort Arthur was beaten on his back and turned over, and the army was defeated.

Jiannu only knew the power of the so-called nine-headed Jiao at this time, and the personnel of the sea wolf who had been doing business with them at this time came forward to mediate, saying that they and the nine-headed Jiao were also friends, and the nine-headed Jiao was just a group of pirates persecuted by the Ming Dynasty, just wanting to gain a foothold in Fort Arthur, and had no intention of being an enemy of their so-called Qing Kingdom, as long as the Jiannu army did not fight Fort Lushun, then the two sides could be at peace.

And they are also willing to set up the place of trade and trade with the Great Qing Kingdom in Fort Arthur in the future, after Huang Taiji learned about it, he thought about it again and again, but he didn't know that the nine-headed Jiao was actually the same as those sea wolves who did business with them, and now the soldiers who went to fight Fort Lushun sent back the news that the men of the nine-headed Jiao were quite powerful, and the guns were extremely sharp, and the soldiers and horses they attacked Fort Arthur suffered heavy casualties.

In addition, when they were defeated, Nine-Headed Jiao's subordinates did not go out of the city to pursue, which also seemed to be in response to what the sea wolf lobbyist said, Nine-Headed Jiao and a group of pirates just wanted to gain a foothold in Fort Arthur and use Port Arthur as their lair, and Nine-Headed Jiao's group of pirates were actually enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the nine-headed Jiao and their Qing army can't gnaw it, and the nine-headed Jiao group has no intention of being their enemy, in addition, they also make it clear that the nine-headed Jiao group will still be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the future, so Huang Taiji finally had to acquiesce to this fact, and assigned the area of Port Arthur to the control of the nine-headed Jiao group, but the two sides drew a clear line, and in the future, the well water will not interfere with the river water, and no one can invade the other party's jurisdiction.

And Jiutou Jiao's side, when he heard the news, even if he agreed, the two sides also made an agreement and signed it, and it was as if it were real.

In fact, Jiannu is not as awesome as many people rumor, before the guns of the sea wolf, they were still raised by their mothers and fathers, and they will still die if they are hit, but the Ming army was too scummy before, so that after defeating the battle, not to say that they are scum, they can only say how strong the Jiannu army is.

So much so that when the Qing army entered the customs, as soon as the Ming army met the Qing army, before it fought, its momentum weakened a little, and if this battle could still be won, it would be strange.

As soon as the guns rang out, the Jiannu generals immediately fell to the ground, and after a few rows of guns, the Jiannu army immediately collapsed and began to turn around and flee from Fort Arthur.

Compared with the enemies they usually encountered, how could they not find out how strong the Jiannu army was, at best, they would hold on for a little longer, and they would be killed more! I really didn't see how fierce they were!

Even those Liaodong soldiers and civilians hiding in Fort Arthur were very surprised when they saw this scene, the Jiannu army, which they usually regarded as a flood beast, was beaten so badly after arriving under the hands of these nine-headed Jiao, what heavy armor in front of the firearms of the nine-headed Jiao, it was like paper paste.

Those usually fierce and vicious Eight Banner soldiers, in front of the firearms of the nine-headed Jiao's subordinates, like scarecrows, were knocked down one by one, and as soon as the cannon passed, Jiannu's team opened a bloody alley, or was bombarded and killed, it turned out that Jiannu would also be afraid, and when they encountered soldiers and horses that were more powerful than them, they would also run like rabbits.

Such a scene made those Liaodong soldiers and civilians who were bullied by Jiannu have a feeling of raising their eyebrows, and they also have a strong sense of security.

When they were contained by the men and horses of the nine-headed Jiao to Fort Arthur, when they heard that the Jiannu army was coming, there was a great commotion among them, for fear that the people of the nine-headed Jiao would not be able to stop the Jiannu army, and they were so frightened that they were scared and urinated, but they did not expect that under the first battle, the Jiannu was defeated so quickly, so miserable, in just half an hour, they were killed and injured by the men of the nine-headed Jiao, and two or three hundred people were injured, and the rest of the Jiannu soldiers were suddenly scattered, and they fled from the battlefield and withdrew from the distance.

At this time, these Liaodong soldiers and civilians can be regarded as knowing the power of the nine-headed Jiao, and their hearts can be regarded as completely put in their stomachs, and they no longer worry about their safety.

And the Liaodong soldiers and civilians who were contained found that these nine-headed Jiao minions were well-trained and well-equipped, and they didn't look like pirates at all, but more like a well-trained elite soldiers and horses.

In addition, these subordinates of the nine-headed Jiao were very strict with the execution of military orders, and they all acted according to the orders of the leaders, saying that they would fire together, and there would never be any chaotic situation, so some people began to doubt their identities.

But suspicion is suspicion, this is a good thing for these Liaodong soldiers and civilians, now they are already disappointed in the Ming Dynasty to the extreme, many people have long ceased to regard themselves as the people of the Ming Dynasty, in their opinion, they are just people abandoned by the Ming Dynasty, so many years, they have not looked forward to the Ming Dynasty to recover Liaodong, nor have they received much assistance from the Ming Dynasty, and they are alone in Dongjiang Town, they are not fed and clothed all day long, and the hardships of life are forced to the extreme.

Everyone has the idea of counting two days a day, waiting for the end of their own end, because they don't know when the army of Jiannu will rush over, and the butcher's knife will fall on their necks, they have long had enough of this kind of precarious days, and now although they are only sheltered by a group of pirates, but what is this?

(Continue to ask for monthly tickets, continue to thank the Moxiao Chunfeng brothers for their rewards, and of course every Kashgar brother's reward)