"Fortunately, there are more and more good players from the Northeast now. Otherwise, many things may make us frustrated." Captain Liao Degong walked through the messy camp and said with emotion: "Just relying on these North Korean soldiers with weak combat power and extremely low vigilance, haha, let it go, nothing can be done."

This is a camp of a large army of the North Korean Imperial Camp. Because it is far from the defense system of the East Coast people, it has stationed about a thousand people so that they can have a certain self-sustaining ability when encountering the enemy. But what happened? The East Coast people still overestimated the combat effectiveness of these Korean soldiers. They were beaten by two or three hundred Qing army teams that they had touched. Thousands of people were defeated, with more than 300 casualties. Another two or three hundred people took advantage of the chaos to cross the Yalu River and ran to the mountains in North Korea. I don’t know if they were planning to become bandits or just sneak back to their hometown.

It can be said that this North Korean army has basically been destroyed! The backbone was planned, the backbone was shot dead, the equipment was greatly damaged, and there was basically no possibility of recovery. So, under the order of Captain Liao Degong, the remaining hundreds of Korean soldiers went to Jiuliancheng in shame and helped the people on the east coast to build the city and work as coolies - since you can't prove that you dare to fight and can fight, you are not worthy of continuing to enjoy the treatment of soldiers. It's better to be your master, which is good for everyone.

The collapse of the North Korean troops also declared a setback in the attempt of the East Coast people to colonize the outside world. The tents, food, clothing, and clothing carried by North Korean soldiers were burned by fires, and farm tools and supplies were also thrown everywhere. The livestock could be taken away by the Tartars, and those who could not be taken away were beaten to death and stabbed to death on the spot. It seemed that they were very hated that the East Coast soldiers and civilians who were reclaimed in Dandong and Kuandian areas should do their best to create difficulties for everyone.

Fortunately, this Qing army team came a little early. If they came later, when a large number of SD victims were arranged to farm, if they suddenly rushed over, they would definitely be very miserable, and it would not be just material losses! Now the Korean soldiers have just come to establish a front-end breeding camp. They have not yet established a stable foothold and have no time to do anything. They will directly defeat the Tartars. As a result, the casualties are all sticks, not SD victims, and they can barely be accepted by the upper class of the east coast - as long as the death is not one of their own people, it will be fine! Who would feel sorry for other people's children if they die?

Of course, then again. If the Qing army - it is said that the leader of the team is Chongnian, he is now quite famous in the East Coast Army, because he failed to catch him several times, and he is an indestructible Xiaoqiang - if he comes one or two months later, a large number of naturalized local soldiers from the northeast will come south here, and they may suffer a great loss. Therefore, this surprise attack on the Koreans is to some extent their luck, and this is not a joke.

"In the future, these Korean soldiers would let them guard the fortress. These wastes can even do this as a baggage force to transport food and grass, which is simply insulting the title of soldier." Liao Degong kicked away a scabbard scattered on the ground, then looked at a dark wooden pillar standing in front of him, and said with some depression: "Even the savages of Shandan who were transferred from the north are much better than them. The discipline of those naturalized local soldiers is indeed extremely poor, and they don't know how to fight against the enemy, but at least they dare to fight, and they have no lack of courage! In such a small-scale harassing battle, courage and the spirit of daring to fight are often better than Ji

The law is even more critical. The Koreans are really too short of these qualities, which is too disappointing! After the order was sent, the subsidies sent to the North Korean Imperial Camp Department this month (generally including canned food, cured meat and salted fish, machined flour, some silver and a small amount of medicine). If their new Commander Jiang Da had different opinions, he would come to me. I don’t believe it. He was so thick-skinned, and the soldiers were so embarrassed to ask us for subsidies. I don’t know what the North Korean Imperial Camp Department has been doing all day long, how the soldiers practiced it, and how their combat effectiveness was just like the local county soldiers. This is still a Mao Jing camp soldier. It’s really nonsense!”

In fact, the North Korean Beijing Army soldiers have been guided by the East Coast Officer Advisory Group over the years. Originally, Liao Degong and others were quite expecting it, and they thought they could help, right? But the cruel facts hit many people in the face. The North Koreans were indeed unbearable to fight. No matter how many military advisers they sent or how much military equipment they provided, it was basically a waste! These guys probably would not burst out in combat until the brink of the country and the seeds were destroyed, right? They could not rely on fighting in battles in normal times. They might as well grow food, medicinal materials, fruits, raising livestock, and cultivating seeds for the East Coast people. You are good at this.

When the young staff members who followed Liao Degong laughed at these angry words, they seemed to be well-known for their jokes about the weak combat power of the Korean soldiers. These staff members probably often used the North Koreans as jokes after dinner. Therefore, when Liao Degong ordered the North Koreans to cut off subsidies to show poor punishment, they all took it for granted.

However, if the stalls opened by the East Coast people now in Liaodong are missing thousands of Korean soldiers, the force will indeed be quite tight. After all, the elite 7th Mixed Battalion went to Jiaozhou last year, and most of the cavalry corps were transferred back this year to stabilize the situation in the newly occupied areas of Laizhou Prefecture. At present, the Qing army there is frequent activities, and it seems that they are using some method to put pressure on the East Coast people to give up - at least delay - the colonial activities on the right bank of the Yalu River. Therefore, in addition to half a brigade of the Cavalry corps (like almost a thousand cavalry), and part of the 4th Division of the 4th Division (Chen Quanzhong, the commander of the Fourth Division, sent two thousand people to cross the sea to aid, showing his "filial piety"), there are only Shandan soldiers from the north.

In this part, there are a total of 5,000 people in total at this stage, which sounds quite a lot. However, considering that the people of the East Coast have a heavy reclaiming task, needing guards and many places to control, and also having to keep a quick response force, these 5,000 people are really not enough. After sprinkling pepper powder everywhere, there are not many people on hand, which makes the troops everywhere short of troops and a little passive.

Therefore, in the original plan of the East Coast people, the five thousand Korean soldiers were quite effective, and they had also relied on their superiority to squeeze and force a small group of Qing troops to withdraw. Unfortunately, if their performance was quite good at the beginning and were just average, the performance of these Korean soldiers can only be described as a mess, which is very puzzling. When the Korean officer explained this, the Korean army was not used to going abroad for a long time, and after staying in foreign countries for a long time, they were easily homesick. In addition, most of these Korean soldiers came from southern Korea, and the customs there were relatively extravagant and weak, and they could not stand the hard life of the wild land of Liaodong. It was understandable that they were pressed on the ground by the Tartars when their army was dispersed.

"North Korean soldiers are not trustworthy now, they cannot be reused!" After picking up a blood-stained family member from the ruins - perhaps a letter written by a North Korean officer to his family - after taking a look at it casually, Liao Degong put his hands behind his back and sighed, "Adjust adjust the deployment, and the unimportant strongholds of the Sixteen Villages around Zhenjiang Fort, Jiuliancheng, and Kuandian Sixteen Villages (the sixteen small wooden villages built by the East Coast people on the east coast) should be left to the North Korean soldiers to guard. The more important and the key nodes are the ones, our soldiers will guard them, otherwise they may even make jokes later. By the way, we will stop trying to expand outward for the time being, and first reclaim all the wastelands within the control area."

It is said that people on the east coast have been farming in Liaodong for some time, and even built two counties, Dandong and Kuandian. The above two counties have absorbed more than 60,000 victims from the West Si Prefectures of SD and reclaimed them in areas with fertile soil on the right bank of the Yalu River. Except for a small part of the materials required, most of them - especially grain, seeds and livestock - are supported by the Kingdom of Korea on the other side. For this reason, it has even caused small famines in Hamgyong, Ping An and Huanghai. The food has also risen again and again. The Korean people are so miserable, but who cares?

Last fall, Dandong County, which had developed earlier, harvested more than 7,000 tons of rye, wheat, oats and other grains. In addition, corn, potatoes, soybeans and other "meals" also harvested almost the same number, and could feed quite a lot of people - at least the more than 60,000 people who were placed in Liaodong could barely make a living, provided that the Blackwater area sent more salted fish or cured meat to reduce their consumption of grains - the military farming achieved great success, and the North Korean government on the other side probably also breathed a long sigh, thinking that these three tricks should be able to take a breath this year. The Dongchao Tianshang soldiers who had food should not be too cold to them and needed to be overly concerned.

Dandong County has achieved such success in land reclamation, and naturally this news cannot be hidden from the nearby Tartar court, so they became particularly impatient. This can be seen from their frequent dispatch of troops and generals, intending to destroy the foundation of the East Coast people here. Unfortunately, the painful terrain and transportation conditions in eastern Liaodong limited their ability to dispatch troops on a large scale. The east coast army is not as weak as the Koreans back then. Huang Taiji's feat of bringing more than 10,000 people through Liaodong and entering North Korea is difficult to replicate, and it is not

People dared to replicate because if the troops were stationed in Zhenjiang Fort, even the front line of the city, the army that could not be supported was at risk of collapse. Therefore, they could only send a large cavalry with the largest scale and hundreds of people to harass them. However, the effect could only be said to be average, which posed a certain threat to the East Coast people, killed some people and destroyed some supplies. However, with the resolute resistance of the East Coast cavalry and Shandan warriors, they could not win and drove away the East Coast people, which made the Qing court extremely helpless.

This time, Chongnian led a team of 300 horses to raid a North Korean army that was leading out to establish a military outpost - which will become a village in the future - was also the product of the Qing army's anxiety. They are now extremely sad that they could not completely drive away the people on the East Coast, and they were extremely disappointed that the thieves in the yellow-clothed thieves had gained food in Dandong and then gained a foothold. They were extremely angry that the people on the East Coast were still trying to expand the reclaiming area. Therefore, after careful investigation, they raided Dandong County and destroyed the people on the East Coast. They also beat the thousands of Korean soldiers to the point of rolling and crawling, cultivating their own self-confidence.

However, their success this time was just a matter of taking advantage of the carelessness of the East Coast people. It was impossible to say that the East Coast people were hurting their muscles and bones. It was impossible to tell me that the lost materials, food and livestock were not allowed to be "reimbursed" to the Kingdom of Korea the next day. At most, Liao Degong could only make the East Coast people more careful and step by step in the future. If you want to drive them away, it is still far from it!

Since it is impossible to drive away the East Coast people who are on the right bank of the Yalu River like psoriasis, the strategic disadvantage of the Qing Dynasty is destined to become more and more serious. Especially when they are about to use the whole country to carry out the southern expedition and completely eliminate the separatist regime in the south - if the East Coast people had not restrained a large number of Qing troops in SD and Jiangnan, they would probably have been able to withdraw more troops and supplies from the southern expedition - it would be very bad to be nailed behind, but what can I do? After thinking about it, while continuing to harass the East Coast people and delaying their pace, they can only strengthen the defense work in key areas, and there is no other way!

Captain Liao Degong, who has been appointed as the highest person in charge of Liaodong, has no concern about what the Qing court thinks. What he is doing now is how to use his limited troops to better protect the land reclamation work of 60,000 SD victims in Dandong and Kuandian counties. As for taking the initiative to attack the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty to expand his territory, he did not accept it after all. He thought that everything should be stable, and gain a foothold in Liaodong, and successful farming is victory! Let’s talk about what’s next, everything needs to be done step by step!

In late July 1668, after Liao Degong adjusted the military deployment of Dandong and Kuandian counties and destroyed the Qing army's several harassment operations on the two places, several ships loaded with black water, meat fish, equipment and supplementary soldiers (mostly naturalized Shandan earth soldiers) also slowly approached the sea outside Zhenjiang Fort, which made Liao Degong smiled happily - with these supplies and personnel, the Tartar court had no choice but to do anything to him.
Chapter completed!