Chapter 068: 200,000 Stones
Pi Island is located in the Bay of Korea to the east of the Yalu River Estuary, also known as the Dongjiang River. Pi Island is 15 miles east and west and 10 miles north and south, and basically no plants grow on the islands.
At this small island, nearly 100,000 people from Liaodong who fled were gathered. Most of these people were family members, and those with boats had already fled to Shandong, while those without boats had to stay on the coast. After Mao Wenlong captured Pi Island, he immediately gathered the coastal people, and the number quickly reached this terrifying level.
Without the court's relief, 90% of these people would starve to death.
"Brothers, Jiannu invaded our Liaodong, killed our comrades, let everyone divorce their wives and children, and fled here. Now there is no food, and we will sit like this and wait for death, and the end of the day will be starved to death." Mao Wenlong stood among the military and civilians and shouted, "For the sake of the current plan, everyone wants to survive, they can only grab the food from Jiannu, pump their tendons, peel their skins, and make their blood debts pay for their blood."
"Blood debt and blood repayment."
"Blood debt and blood repayment."
Countless people shouted, and the atmosphere had been successfully incited by Mao Wenlong.
"Okay, follow me to fight." Mao Wenlong shouted loudly. Then he boarded the ship with more than 100 people and prepared to attack Zhenjiang (Dandong).
Not long ago, Mao Wenlong had just led Mao Chenglu, You Jinghe, Wang Fu, Chen Zhong and other 197 warriors to go deep behind enemy lines and first recovered more than 2,000 miles of coastal islands including Zhu Island, Ocean Island, Changshan Island, Guanglu Island, and Guanglu Island. He captured and tied up the officers of the Jin Dynasty Island Shou Island in the future, Hu Kebin, Ren Guangxian, He Guoyong and others.
Not long ago, the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty (now Dandong City, Liaoning Province) was found to have gone to Shuangshan to scoop up the people who refused to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty. The city was empty, so he discussed with his student Wang Yining, and took Chen Liangce, the central army of Zhenjiang as his internal response and led more than 100 people to attack Zhenjiang at night.
The ships set off and after more than three hours of driving on the sea, they completed the landing easily. The Later Jin army had few troops and had no way to patrol the coast, and there were loopholes everywhere.
More than a hundred people touched the outside of the city and raised fires in the city as agreed.
A torch waved a few times outside the city, and soon a torch was waving on the city gate. After a while, there was a shout of killing sound around the city gate, and the city gate suddenly opened.
"Kill!" Mao Wenlong shouted loudly and rushed towards the city gate.
Zhenjiang was empty at this time, and more than 100 people rushed into the city very smoothly, and then fought fiercely with the small number of Later Jin troops.
The soldiers led by Mao Wenlong launched a rush towards the Later Jin army with no chance of life. How could these Later Jin troops block such a situation?
As a robbery gang, they usually run away if they can't beat them. Seeing that the situation is not good, the Later Jin army in the city blew oil and fled everywhere in panic.
Mao Wenlong did not pursue him closely, but instead killed the government office. He successfully captured the guerrillas of the Later Jin Dynasty, his son Tong Fengnian, his nephew Tong Songnian and others.
The battle lasted less than half an hour before it ended. Mao Wenlong, who had taken down Zhenjiang, immediately sent people to attack Shuangshan. The Later Jin army in Shuangshan would never have expected to be attacked and was caught off guard. He left more than fifty corpses and fled in a panic. The Later Jin guerrilla Miao Yizhen was shot to death by an arrow while running away.
Mao Wenlong, who had achieved great victory, quickly gathered all the useful things in the city and then quickly transported them to Pi Island.
After quickly transferring supplies, Mao Wenlong immediately gave up Zhenjiang and could not defend it with his strength.
When I returned to Pi Island, I saw starving everywhere on the island, and many people had starved to death. This time I found thousands of stones of food, but this was still a drop in the bucket for the people on Pi Island.
A very cruel question was placed in front of Mao Wenlong. There were so many people on the island that they could not be saved by just a little food. These people who were so hungry that they could not fight against the Later Jin Dynasty at all. If the food was divided, the group of people who could fight would starve to death.
If you want to form a stronger combat power, you can only keep this batch of food and distribute it to soldiers who can fight. Without food, this is the most worrying issue for Mao Wenlong at this time, and he can only watch the people starve to death and helplessly.
"This time we have achieved a great victory, and immediately report to the court as quickly as possible, exaggerating the gains. I hope the court can give us more money and food." Mao Wenlong discussed with student Wang Yining.
"Will there be any problems with false reports of military achievements?" Wang Yining asked worriedly.
"No matter how many of him are! People are about to starve to death now." Mao Wenlong opened the Dongjiang River, and the court did not give him any money and food, so he just supported it in one breath. It was impossible for the people on the island to save them all, but a little more food can save more young and strong people.
"And before, we may not be valued by the court. Only by reporting the military achievements can we attract the attention of the court." Mao Wenlong could see clearly about the affairs in the officialdom. After all, he has not been in vain in Liaodong for so many years. Apart from his courage, he is not a brainless person.
"Okay! Then double the capture of Jiannu's head?" Wang Yining asked.
"Okay, that's it." Mao Wenlong nodded.
The two of them finished their discussion and then sent the news to Ningyuan as quickly as possible by ship. Governor Sun Chengzong was working in Ningyuan at this time.
Just when Mao Wenlong asked someone to send the victory, the military and civilians on the island suddenly discovered a fleet of ships appeared in the distance.
"Look! A ship is here."
One person shouted, and then a group of military and civilians looked at the sea in the distance. The fleet was far away, and it looked like a dozen black spots, which were not very real.
The military and civilians looked complicated, with expectations and nervousness on their faces.
"Is it the Tartar boat?"
"Or some caravan came?"
The military and civilians speculated that after hearing the report, Mao Wenlong immediately ran over with his people and looked at the fleet coming in the distance with a calm expression.
"Sir, did Jiannu send troops to take revenge after he learned that we were attacking Zhenjiang at night?" Mao Chenglu looked at the fleet on the sea with great vigilance, and the knife had been pulled out.
Mao Wenlong looked at the fleet traveling in the distance, suddenly smiled and said, "Nonsense, where is Jiannu's ship? Does Jiannu have such a big ship?"
Mao Chenglu looked at it and saw that the fleet that was coming could see much clearly. They saw that they were very ships. Jiannu must not have such a large ship.
"So many big ships! There are at least two thousand materials for these ships!" Wang Yining looked at it for a while and couldn't help but exclaim. Of course, there are also maritime merchants in the north, but it is very rare to have so many big ships.
"It seems that some big caravan is coming. Take out all the valuable things on the island and prepare to trade with the caravan. Send a ship to negotiate with the caravan." Mao Wenlong saw the fleet in the distance and thought that some big caravan was coming, so he hurriedly ordered to the left and right.
"Yes, sir."
This fleet has twelve large ships, at least two thousand large ships. There are more than a dozen "small boats" of seven or eight hundred materials around these large ships.
The soldiers on Pi Island have sailed to that fleet, hoping that the fleet can dock to Pi Island for trading, so that the military and civilians of Pi Island can exchange for some supplies.
"Sir, look, what is that?" Wang Yining suddenly shouted excitedly. Everyone hurriedly looked at it, and saw that there were flags on the coming fleet with the 'Denglai Naval Division' written on it.
"Ah! It's the imperial ship." Mao Wenlong shouted out in surprise.
"The imperial ship is here, the imperial ship is here." People ran around and told each other, and the residents on the island were excited to wave their hands to the fleet and cheered loudly.
The fleet that arrived was the "Denglai Navy Division" formed by Yuan Keli in Denglai. Amid the cheers of the military and civilians of Pidao, the fleet was docked on a simple dock under the guidance of Pidao ships.
I saw the boat ladder lowering, and a group of soldiers in red clothes walked down. Everyone was stunned. Which unit is this? Are they wearing red military uniforms?
These are naturally the soldiers in the Beijing camp, but these soldiers in the Beijing camp were bumping all the way up the sea, and their faces were not very good.
Then a young eunuch walked down.
"Where is Mao Wenlong?" the young eunuch asked loudly. Mao Wenlong hurried forward, "It's Mao Wenlong."
"Mao Wenlong received the order." The young eunuch proclaimed, and Mao Wenlong and the surrounding soldiers and civilians quickly knelt down.
"The Emperor Fengtian Chengyun said: Since the fall of Liaodong, the capital Mao Wenlong has never forgotten to serve the country and kill the enemy, gather the people of Liaodong. He has inspired the people of Liaodong with his sincere heart. He specially ordered Mao Wenlong to set up a formation in Dongjiang and promoted him to the general of Dongjiang Town. He also ordered the imperial horse supervisor to seal Zhang Yan as the military supervisor of Dongjiang Town. I respect this!"
"My minister Mao Wenlong received the order." Mao Wenlong respectfully accepted the order, stood up and asked the young eunuch: "My father-in-law, who are you?"
"Sajia is the chief of the imperial horse supervisor Zhang Yan. The emperor asked me to come and supervise the army." The young eunuch replied that Zhang Yan was transferred to Dongjiang Town to supervise the army by the emperor this time, but there was no one available to the emperor. Or the responsibility of the military supervisor in Dongjiang Town was heavy, and most people could not trust him. They could only transfer the more reliable Zhang Yan from the Tax Bureau to the military supervisor in Dongjiang Town.
"So it's the military supervisor." Mao Wenlong hurriedly bowed, but his expression was not very good. He was worried that the military supervisor would command randomly.
"Don't worry, General Mao, this time, Sa's family supervised the Dongjiang army, only cared about money, grain, military discipline, and how to march and fight was General Mao's business, and Sa's family didn't care about it." Zhang Yan saw Mao Wenlong's concern and then smiled.
Mao Wenlong's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he quickly asked Zhang Yan: "Since you are in charge of money and grain, can you ask the emperor to allocate some food? Now the people on the island are full of corpses."
"The Emperor has known that this time the Sa family is sending food to the soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town." Zhang Yan said.
Mao Wenlong was surprised when he heard this and asked quickly: "How much food is there?"
"Two hundred thousand stones." Zhang Yan replied.
"What? Twenty, 200,000 stones?" Mao Wenlong was almost frightened to the ground after hearing this number. He originally thought that he would be grateful to the court's urination ability to have 10,000 stones. Then he was ecstatic and quickly confirmed: "But there are really 200,000 stones?" PS: The first update on Monday, today he made the list, crying and shouting for votes.
Chapter completed!