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Chapter 466: Interlude in the Northbound

There are only more than 200 Han households living in the narrow Kemo Fort, and more than a dozen Eight Banners are responsible for managing them.

The action to capture Kemo Fort was very smooth. Under the leadership of their respective teams, the two Ming soldiers took less than half an hour to capture the fort. During this period, they killed all the Eight Banners Banners who were caught off guard and dared to resist. All the Eight Banners Banners were imprisoned.

Zhang Wenyao's troops encountered some trouble on the way north, the largest Zhenjiang Fort. After losing more than ten people, they wiped out more than 30 Jiannu left behind. Since then, they divided their troops all the way north and successfully captured Danshan Fort, Changmo Fort, Yongdian Fort, and now Kemo Fort.

The fortress north of Zhenjiang Fort is not large in size. There are some families or seven or eight households and eight bannermen. The heads of the family are all old or disabled bannermen. Cheng Ding has been ordered to gather in Shengjing, so the resistance encountered by the Ming army is very weak, and no soldiers are killed in the battle, only a few are slightly injured.

The Ming soldiers now have experience. After entering the fortress, they will go directly to a good house with a gatehouse.

Needless to ask, it must be the house of the bannerman’s house. The Han Baoyi family is all wooden doors, and there is a very obvious difference between the two and the other.

After capturing the Kemo Fort, Zhang Wenyao sent people to contact Liu Guoneng, who was dozens of miles west, and then set up the military camp to the north of the Kemo Fort, waiting for Liu Guoneng to lead his troops to meet.

Within two days, Liu Guoneng led his troops to Kemo Fort, and in addition to his original subordinates, he also brought nearly a thousand young and strong Han people. For a while, the people around Kemo Fort neighed, causing the Han people in the original fortress to come out with their families to watch the fun.

"Uh, Lao Liu, what are you doing? Why did you bring so much burden? How much money did you get this time? Well, I have to send someone to the place where we treasured last time and then bury it. This time, we are getting rich!

Well, after all the fights, except for leaving some military rations for taste, the rest were assigned to the robbers that were captured. Then, they told them that if anyone who was willing to return to the Ming Dynasty would go south and flee to the territory of Zhanzidao. How could you still think about expanding your army?"

As the season enters mid-April, the weather gradually becomes warmer, and the south wind blows gently [      Fast update] makes people feel the smell of early summer.

Zhang Wenyao, who was impatient with heat, took off his armor and sat on a chair under the shade of the tree in a short dress. He looked around at the group of soldiers chatting in three or five under the shadow of the camp, and asked lazily.

According to the instructions issued by the Ministry of War before the war, every time a fortress was captured, the Ming army would have to give the local Han people a coat and explain it to the local Han people, and ask them to bring the rations to the Ming army landing site, and then ask the ships waiting there to transport the people to several islands in the sea to wait for the next resettlement by the court.

The purpose of this is to prevent the Ming army from fighting in Songjin in an unfavorable manner, and the Eight Banners can still use the Coat to continue working hard for them after they retreated.

As long as the Han people have run away from their clothes, the Eight Banners who are not good at producing will become more and more difficult.

Because the crops in the fields are about to mature in more than a month, many Han people do not want to leave immediately, but want to wait until the crops are harvested before leaving. Many Han people even do not want to return to their hometowns.

The Ming army did not take compulsory measures to order them to leave. After all, the main task of the army was to fight, and they were not interested in wasting too much energy in this kind of thing.

"Well, I thought about it on the way. If we fight Hetuala and then fight Shengjing, it would be less than 5,000 people. We should gather more people, and maybe we can come in handy, at least we can strengthen our momentum.

Well, Lao Zhang, you have been here for several days, why don’t you send people to the surrounding forest to pick up some wild animals to open meat? This dog, the sheep in the fort have all rushed to Shengjing, and the cow has to be used for the people to plow the fields. I haven’t had meat for many days, and my mouth has faded out!"

Liu Guoneng, wearing a gray cloth robe, stood with his hands on his hips, raised his head to stare at the bird's nest on a tall and straight poplar tree, looking as if he was about to climb up to serve it.

He led his three thousand men to guard the rear with Zhang Wenyao, heading west first, and then turning north, in order to prevent any fish that escaped from Zhang Wenyao from running out to report to Liaoyang to the west.

There were several slightly larger forts along the way, such as Shucheng, Tangzhan, Phoenix City, Dadi, etc. Although there were not many Jiannu stationed in it, they were all regular troops and had fierce resistance. After more than a hundred casualties, they only broke through these forts one by one.

"You need to say it! Well, I sent three teams to the forest this morning. I guess I was about to return. I could eat meat by night, hehehehe!"

Zhang Wenyao smiled proudly.

He arranged three teams of 150 people early in the morning, with bows, arrows, muskets and shields, and led by several hunters in the village to the mountains and forests in the east. It was already late afternoon, and he probably would have a lot of gains.

In this era, let alone the deep mountains and forests in the Northeast, even the mountains and forests in the Central Plains of the Mainland are numerous. Now, when there is no concept of protecting animals, the establishment of military areas will hunt, and some wild animals can still run?

"Lao Zhang, you are doing this really well! I'll give you a bowl tonight! By the way, why didn't you see Ye Jianjun?"

Liu Guoneng smiled at Zhang Wenyao who was smug.

"What did Lao Liu say?! I'm going to pay a bowl of respect?! Hahahaha! Lao Liu, you insisted on it! How did you get it? Is there a lot? Where to put it now?"

Zhang Wenyao sensitively captured the keywords that Liu Guoneng said, and his originally crooked body sat up straight, stared at him with his big mouth and laughed a few times before asking repeatedly.

"Uh, you can't be quiet! Uh, why did you ask Ye Jianjun? Isn't you just afraid that he will see it? I dare not ask him to know! Uh, I told you, I brought people to capture Phoenix City a few days ago, and found a few jars of fine wine from the cellar of a wealthy Jiannu family. Uh, I was reluctant to eat alone, and I kept them all, just waiting to have a drink with you!

The wine is hidden in the tent, and we two find a place to drink! Hehehehehe!"

"Okay, Old Liu! Well, Old Zhang, you are so fond of him! He seems to have never drunk alcohol in half his life, but he is so greedy!

By the way, you just asked Ye Jianjun right now? He was a noble man who grew up in the capital since he was a child. He had never seen the appearance of hunting in the mountains. This time he volunteered to lead the team to the mountains.

Well, I have already told those bastards to protect the military supervisor. Now we will wait for the evening to eat meat!"

While speaking, there was a bustle outside the camp gate in the distance, and three teams of soldiers who were hunting in the mountains returned to the camp.

Not long after, Ye Tianxian, who was also proud, walked towards the two of them with a brisk pace. The two strong soldiers followed behind with a piece of wood as thick as a bowl on their shoulders. A thick black-haired wild boar was tied with a rope at the bottom of the wood. The mane stood upright like a steel needle and was covered in blood.

"Old Liu, Lao Zhang! Have you seen it? This was killed by someone with a pistol himself! It weighed 200 kilograms! This is the largest wild creature I have ever hunted this time! I told you two that this is the first time I went into the mountain to hunt!"
Chapter completed!
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