At the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, at the beginning of the eleventh year, Tokugawa Iemitsu had to admit that his military operation had failed, and he withdrew the remaining warships to their respective vassal states in a miserable panic, and strengthened the policy of closing the country, and issued a lock-off decree again, strictly ordering the vassal states to strengthen the coastal defense, prohibit anyone from colluding with the Han Kou, and severely punish once discovered.

However, this approach did not have much effect at all, and the smuggling fleets of the sea wolves came and went without a trace, and appeared like ghosts along the coasts of various vassal states, constantly attacking the coastal areas of Japan, in addition to robbing all the goods that could be robbed, but also robbing a large number of young women, and sending them back to the island of Taiwan.

In the past few years, these smuggling ships alone have brought back twenty or thirty thousand young Japanese women for Yu Xiaotian, although these women are really good enough to be stumbling enough, they really don't fall into Xiaotian's eyes, but they are still women after all.

As the saying goes, after three years of being a soldier, the sow is a sable cicada, for the Yu family's military generals, who have been soldiers for a long time but can't get a wife, let alone a young woman, as long as they are women who can give birth to at this time, even if they are more stumbling, they are still elated.

It's just that now Yu Xiaotian has not yet freed his hand, and he really went to Japan to slaughter this despicable nation, and when he freed his hand one day, it would really be the end of this bullshit Yamato nation.

In addition, in the Nanyang area, after the Sea Wolves' men and horses occupied the area of Ha Long Bay, they fought several tough battles with the officials and troops of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam for more than a year.

The Li Dynasty was suddenly attacked by such an invasion, and the area around Ha Long Bay was actually taken away by a group of people of unknown origin, and the Li Dynasty was now in a period of confrontation between the north and south Zheng and the Nguyen clan, and Ha Long Bay was controlled by the Zheng family, and the Zheng family was furious when they heard that the area around Ha Long Bay was being occupied, and immediately gathered more than 20,000 troops of the Northern Li Dynasty and launched a counteroffensive against the sea wolf army that seized the area of Ha Long Bay.

The first counteroffensive of the Zheng army of the Li Dynasty in the north caused a lot of trouble to the Sea Wolf Army that had just arrived here and had not gained a firm foothold, not to mention, the combat effectiveness of the Li Dynasty army was really not very weak, and they absorbed more of the ideas of the Western army in the conflict with the Nguyen clan in the south for many years, plus the Portuguese and the Dutch preached in Vietnam over the years, and some advanced firearms and military ideas were also introduced to Vietnam, so the number of firearms and equipment of the Zheng group in the north of the Li Dynasty was relatively large. It even far exceeded the westernization of the Ming army.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness is also quite good, the Seawolf Army only sent two battalions of troops, and the artillery did not unload to the shore in time for a while because of the arrival on the shore, and the landing Seawolf soldiers will be eager to expand their territory, and the troops will be scattered.

Fortunately, there were many naval warships of sea wolves stationed on the seaside, and after finding that the army was scattered and gradually driven back to the sea, the sailors on the ship were dispatched to reinforce the land, and lined up on the seaside, and bombarded the Li Dynasty army with heavy artillery on the ship, which dispersed the Li Dynasty army.

For this reason, the army commander who was responsible for the capture of Halong Bay at that time was also removed from his post by Yu Xiaotian and investigated, and was directly promoted from the major battalion commander to the lieutenant platoon commander.

The army officers who captured Ha Long Bay next learned the lesson of the first near-defeat, began to fight steadily, unloaded all the artillery from the ships to the shore, and acted together with the infantry.

The army of the Li Dynasty was very unwilling to fail for the first time, and then a few months later, it gathered 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses again, and counterattacked Halong Bay again.

This time, the Sea Wolf's army had gained a firm foothold, and the artillery was all in place, first relying on the offensive of those fortresses, and blocking the counteroffensive of the Li Dynasty army with superior firepower, and when the Li Dynasty army suffered losses and morale plummeted, they began to concentrate their forces and take the initiative to attack.

After more than a month of hard fighting, the Li Dynasty army was defeated by the infantry battalions of the two armies, and thousands of corpses were ambushed and fled from the battlefield.

At this point, the sea wolf also officially gained a firm foothold in the area of Ha Long Bay, and successively attacked dozens of estates of the surrounding Li Dynasty magnates, captured a large number of slaves, killed many people, and seized nearly 200,000 stone rice and a large amount of property.

According to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the officers and soldiers of the Sea Wolf treated these Li Dynasty slaves well, and after capturing them, they improved their quality of life, provided them with better treatment, increased their food rations, and made full use of the local Vietnamese traitors to promote the benefits of the Yu family army among these captured slaves.

In the face of the propaganda offensive and the improvement of the actual quality of life, these serfs of the Lê Dynasty in Vietnam actually did not have much loyalty to the official government of the Lê Dynasty.

The common people, thinking is very simple, who is good to them, who gives them enough food, they are willing to follow whom, these serfs are young and strong, after some brainwashing, they were trained into a group of new troops, to put it mildly, it is the Vietnamese traitor army, Yu Xiaotian personally named this Vietnamese traitor army, calling it the knife drawing team.

As for the equipment, of course, they will not be equipped with advanced weapons, mainly armed with spears, single knives and bows and arrows, and the combat method is also the training method of the infantry phalanx, which in a relatively short period of time, so that it has a certain combat ability and has become an auxiliary force of the local sea wolf garrison.

These sword-drawing teams are usually responsible for maintaining local law and order in the occupied areas, protecting some strongholds, and also monitoring and suppressing the rebellion of the locals in some occupied areas.

Because these traitors were suddenly promoted from serfs to soldiers of the sword drawing team, their quality of life has improved greatly, they have eaten much better than before, they live in clean barracks, and they are full of energy, which really helps the local sea wolf garrison.

The Li Dynasty was still unwilling to lose the area around Halong Bay, and before the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, it once again gathered more than 30,000 officers and troops to launch a counterattack on the area around Halong Bay.

Before the start of the battle, Yu Xiaotian sent an additional infantry battalion equipped with wolf's tooth rifles to Ha Long Bay, and an additional standard field artillery company.

Moreover, the local garrison also replaced a batch of newly produced wolf's tooth rifles, so that they had stronger combat capabilities, and even the most loyal sword drawing team also gave some care, equipping them with 300 monkey version of the South Japanese smoothbore guns.

The strength of the two sides formed a one-to-three, the sea wolf one, the Li Dynasty army three, and more than half of the sea wolf side, all of which were locally organized and trained sword drawing teams, which were used as cannon fodder.

This battle was more exciting, the sea wolf did not even shrink in the various strongholds to fight, directly took the initiative to attack, met the Li Dynasty army, the sword team as the auxiliary, the sea wolf infantry as the mainstay, as soon as the two sides fought, the Li Dynasty army was cut like rice overturned a large piece, and suddenly began to collapse.

With an order, the sword drawing team immediately began to charge, and started a close battle with the Li Dynasty army, and the Li Dynasty army suddenly collapsed completely, and was chased and killed by the sea wolf army for dozens of miles.

If it weren't for the fact that the Li Dynasty army didn't know where to get dozens of war elephants, which frightened the sea wolf's generals, the weather also began to turn bad and it began to rain.

The sea wolf soldiers ended the pursuit and withdrew to the occupied area, and after this battle, they captured thousands of Li Dynasty soldiers and captured countless materials, and the Li Dynasty army was completely disabled, and then had to give in and send people to Ha Long Bay to negotiate with the sea wolves.

The sea wolf did not have the strength to eat the entire Li Dynasty in one bite, so he accepted the conditions they proposed, extorted them 50,000 taels of silver, and assigned Halong Bay, Hongji Port and other places to the sea wolf control zhì, and divided the dividing line, which is equivalent to acquiescing to the actual control of the sea wolf in the local area.

As soon as the sea wolf gained a foothold in the Halong Bay area, it immediately sent people to start exploration work in the Hongji area.

The Hongji Coal Mine is buried in a shallow underground and fully equipped for manual open-pit mining, so the Seawolf immediately began to send prisoners into the mine to start excavation.

Moreover, the Seawolf now has a large reserve of gunpowder, and directly blasted the surface soil layer with gunpowder, ordering the prisoners of war to peel off the soil layer, revealing the coal seam below.

Even the worst slave miners could dig at least 500 kilograms of coal in a day, and soon at the end of the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Hongji Coal Mine began to produce large quantities of coal.

Yu Xiaotian sent a group of craftsmen to Hongji, cut wood on the spot, use the local timber resources, build a hollow-shaped wooden track at the place where the local coal mine leads to the wharf, and load a batch of small mine carts produced on Taiwan Island in advance to Hongji.

These sites were put into use after the local carpenters made the wagons and installed them, because of the use of bearings, these minecarts were relatively light to run on the tracks, although they needed to be pulled by human or animal power, but they were still much easier to transport than ordinary ox carts.

A small minecart can carry half a ton of coal almost at a time, and 50 minecarts can be put into the zigzag track every day, and each minecart can transport charcoal back and forth three times a day, and more than 70 tons of coal can be transported every day.

This is just the beginning, the number of minecarts is insufficient, and after continuing to invest in minecarts and manpower in the future, Hongji Coal Mine can easily output hundreds of tons of coal per day, which is almost enough to meet Seawolf's current demand for high-quality coal.

If more wooden tracks are added and more manpower is invested, it is not impossible for the coal mine to produce 1,000 tons per day in the near future.

The most important thing is that after subduing the Li Dynasty, the Li Dynasty opened up the grain trade with the sea wolf again in accordance with the provisions of the peace treaty, and the Li Dynasty alone can provide hundreds of thousands of stone of grain to the sea wolf every year, which has played a great role in the sea wolf obtaining a stable food supply.

(Special thanks to the Eagle Warriors for their tip!) Calling for commuter pass support again! This month's monthly pass is not powerful! Hehe! ）