Chapter 588
After receiving the news that he went to Zhenjiang again, Zhao Xing brought the old man from Dongjiang Town to Xianglu Peak, and came to Mao Wenlong's ancestral hall, and solemnly worshiped Mao Wenlong.
"The king's army has settled in the Central Plains on the north. I will never forget to tell my husband about his family. Mao Shuai, Brother Mao, I will pay tribute to you. I will tell you solemnly that the king's army has gone north and we have recovered southern Liao. Brother, I have temporarily realized your wish. Restoring Liaodong is just around the corner."
Looking up at Mao Wenlong's statue, his eyes were filled with relief.
Qian Qiancheng reported: "According to our Jinyiwei report, after Huang Taiji took down Qingjieli and forced our soldiers back to Tieshan, they no longer had any worries. They had begun to sweep the surroundings, and there was a trend of retreating from the entire army."
Zhao Xing nodded: "Huang Taiji is a tolerant person. When we have our soldiers in the cleaning, he insisted on retreating and fought with us. When Jinzhou was lost, he still refused to retreat, but he still insisted on fighting with us. When Fuzhou was lost, he still refused to retreat, but he still insisted on fighting with us. I expressed great admiration for his persistence and tenacity."
"But we also suffered huge losses." Qian Qiancheng couldn't help but feel sad.
Yes, in this war, not to mention the militia and reserve soldiers, just Qian Qiancheng's six thousand Jinyiwei died in battle.
If it weren't for the huge power of the rush, Pi Island would have been lost long ago.
But even so, Huang Taiji rushed through the strait and to Pi Island, occupying the east side of Pi Island, and nearly one-fifth of Pi Island's area.
Just one-fifth of the area is enough to allow the Jurchens and the Mongols to see what prosperity is. Just the things that the soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town had no time and could not take away were enough to make them feel that they had paid and they made money.
The most important thing is that Huang Taiji actually used almost all his men, not remembering sacrifices or losses, and insisted on the guards of Dongjiang Town, which were entangled in the strait, and fought for a day and a night.
However, his main force of Zhenghuang Banner, led by young general Du Du, stepped on the ice surface and braved the great danger of being wiped out and lost on the ice surface of the sea. He walked around for fifty miles and took a day and night to raid Pi Island from the south, seizing a huge material reserve warehouse in Dongjiang Town, which had no defense at all.
That warehouse was one of the three major warehouses that stored the materials that Pi Island froze for millions of soldiers and civilians. In addition, they captured the second largest warehouse that they raided in the snow and snow, the North Korean Warehouse in Luofengli. They obtained a total of no less than one million stones of grain, million stones of iron materials and iron sand, fifty thousand stones of copper sand, million pieces of linen, and various materials, which was enough to make Huang Taiji's three years of supplies sufficient.
The most important thing is that since Du Du boarded Pi Island, there was danger of surrounding the military and civilian retreat led by Zhao Xing, who guarded the strait, Zhao Xing had to order a hasty retreat and formed a second line of defense.
After a desperate battle and losing more than 10,000 people, the defense line was stabilized. The area that was busy and abandoned became Huang Taiji's fat meat. After he made him plunder again, he snatched one-fifth of the Pi Island into a piece of white land.
However, when everyone was in great pain, they asked Zhao Xing to send a letter immediately and ordered the three main forces of Mao Zhongming from Dongjiang Town to go all out to rescue Pi Island. Zhao Xing said no.
"It seems that we have paid a heavy price now, but we have taken over the entire Liaonan where the troops are empty. Relatively speaking, the price we paid for is too little than the Huang Taiji army in Liaodong."
Zhang Dake's attitude towards Zhao Xing was rated as that this brother was rich and heartless.
Zhao Xing explained to everyone sitting with his fingers: "He Huang Taiji thinks he has made money, but in fact I think I am the one who really makes a fortune."
"Just find a way for yourself." Here, only Zhang Dake dared to talk to Zhao Xing.
Zhao Xing is not embarrassed. Anyway, as long as he is not embarrassed, the embarrassing one is someone else.
"If I didn't let Huang Taiji rob my warehouse and occupy a part of Pi Island, my bait wouldn't be able to catch the big fish, Huang Taiji's main force. At that time, Huang Taiji saw that there was no benefit, and the southern Liaoning was in danger, so he would return to the army to deal with me to capture the three main forces in southern Liaoning. At that time, Mao Zhongming and the other three will be in danger, and it would be impossible to achieve such a great achievement."
No one refuted this point, everyone will settle the account.
But when Du Du sneaked into his rear warehouse across the sea, it was a matter of opinion whether Zhao Xing did it in advance or whether he was making the mistake on his face.
What the superior said cannot be questioned. Anyway, his mouth is under his nose, so he can say whatever he says.
Zhao Xing continued to explain his plan: "Although Pi Island is important, Pi Island is cramped after all. There are more than 500,000 people on Pi Island now. What is this concept? The concept is to make full use of the plan. The area of Pi Island is almost enough to reach five people on each acre of land. If we hadn't had the prosperity of business and the prosperity of industry, Pi Island would have been done."
This is the truth. Now the villages on Pi Island are densely packed and all the villages are almost connected. You can meet people when you walk anywhere. Otherwise, Huang Taiji only occupied one-fifth of Pi Island, which made him and his subordinates think that he had grabbed the treasure.
The villages are too dense and the Pi Island is too rich.
"But this is our limit, and it is impossible to develop again. Therefore, in order to accumulate the power of Restoration Liao, the small island is no longer possible. We must have a larger space, a larger population, and a larger ground plate to meet the foundation for our accumulation of strength."
Everyone looked at the expression of "You're right".
"Originally, I was planning to occupy a land, stabilize the land, and gradually advance, and compete with Huang Taiji for southern Liaoning. It would pay the lives of countless soldiers, consume our countless money, grain, materials and a lot of time. But Huang Taiji helped me a lot. When he raided us, I changed my plan and began to consider leveraging the force. So I refused Mao Zhongming's return to help and allowed him to take advantage of the situation to capture southern Liaoning. In order to restrain Huang Taiji and prevent him from feeling empty and dangerous in the rear, I hurriedly withdrew troops and competed for southern Liaoning with Mao Zhongming, so Du Du successfully attacked, so he let Huang Taiji board Pi Island. Let him feel that as long as he worked harder, he occupied Pi Island and captured me, he would achieve it. Therefore, he would rather let Liaonan not save him, and he would rather fight with me to the death."
Only then did Zhang Dake think that what Zhao Xing said seemed to be correct.
Everyone was so impressed by Zhao Xing.
Zhang Dake smiled bitterly: "Your strategy is really long-term, you really have vision, but the price you pay is too high. How much does it cost to have so many supplies?"
As a result, Zhao Xing laughed: "Old brother, don't you know what I have the most?"
"have no idea."
"What I have the most is money, we are not short of money."
Then he stood up and said to everyone with ease: "Okay, I guess Huang Taiji is already full and will not be willing to waste time with me anymore. It's time for him to withdraw his troops and we should regain the lost territory."
Just as he said this, before he finished speaking, Qian Qiancheng hurried in with joy: "Sir, Huang Taiji has withdrawn his troops."
Zhao Xing turned his face and his expression was: "I'm right, I'm right."
Chapter completed!