Chapter 1449 Battle Report and International Relations

The soldiers who accompanied Liu Shang were very considerate, and promptly handed over some refreshing medicine, asking him to rub some on his philtrum to avoid being dizzy by the bloody smell. Although Liu Shang didn't like it very much,

It smells like medicine, but it's better than smelling the nauseating smell of blood all the time. I can only endure it for now.

This was the first time in Liu Shang's life that he saw this kind of mass grave where corpses were buried, and the visual impact was quite strong. However, he did not have any sympathy for these dead Hou Jin soldiers, no matter where they stood.

From the standpoint of Ming Dynasty or Haihan, Hou Jin can be regarded as a mortal enemy with no possibility of compromise. Moreover, the more tragic the defeat of Hou Jin's army, the greater the casualties, and the more benefits it will have for Liu Shang's homeland and the new master he is currently serving.

.If possible, Liu Shang would even hope that the plain would be filled with corpse pits and all the Houjin wild boar skins would be buried underground.

When Liu Shang came to visit, one of the corpse pits had been excavated. Several people were standing by the pit, in groups of two, throwing the corpses of the Hou Jin soldiers that had been transported on carts into the pit. Most of these corpses were

There were no heads. It was Chen Yixin who gave the order to cut off all the heads of the gangsters. He did not want to use the heads to scare people in Beijing, but to leave them to Shen Zhixiang's troops so that they could use these heads with obvious appearance features.

Go and ask for merit from the Ministry of War and the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, there are more than two hundred headless corpses thrown into the bottom of the pit, and a small hill has been built on top of each other at the bottom of the pit. Upon seeing this, Liu Shang had a strange idea in his heart. If Haihan followed the gourd's example,

, if such a base area is established in the Bohai Bay close to the capital, will it directly threaten the safety of the capital?

This idea naturally makes no sense, and cannot even be said to be an inference. The degree of military alert near the capital is by no means as fragile as Haihan thought. Military conflicts between the Ming Dynasty and Hou Jin Dynasty often involved the investment of tens of thousands of troops, and

Haihan's ability to mobilize two to three thousand men in a single military operation was already unparalleled. And from Haihan's perspective, he did not intend to intensify the relationship with the Ming Dynasty at this stage. For this reason, he even went to Liaodong to attack Liaodong.

With the puppet troops in Dongjiang Town, the Haihan fleet rarely went deep into the waters of the Bohai Bay close to Gyeonggi. These measures were taken to prevent the Ming Dynasty from being too wary of the existence of Haihan, so as not to affect the two countries in the future.

prospects for establishing diplomatic relations.

Liu Shang is in a sensitive department and is somewhat familiar with Haihan's policies, but he still subconsciously opposes Haihan and Ming Dynasty, believing that the conflict between the two countries will be the main theme of future relations. This is in line with the Executive Committee's

The views are actually somewhat different. The high-level officials headed by Tao Donglai actually hope to establish formal diplomatic relations and in-depth cooperation with Ming Dynasty. For this reason, it doesn’t matter if Haihan suffers a little loss, as long as Ming Dynasty can be opened in the future.

The gateway to commerce and immigration, no matter how much upfront investment it is, it is worth it.

Liu Shang believed that the Ming court would not compromise with Haihan on the ownership of territory and population. After all, at least 60 to 70% of the so-called Haihan Kingdom's existing territory originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and the citizens also had a high level of

The proportions are all immigrants introduced from the Ming Dynasty over the years. To put it bluntly, this so-called country is completely a parasitic attachment on the Ming Dynasty, relying on the nutrients of the Ming Dynasty to strengthen itself. It is not that there are discerning people in the Ming Dynasty court, naturally

If you can clearly see the interests involved, you are currently busy dealing with more difficult internal and external troubles, and you can't spare any time to deal with Haihan. How can you turn a blind eye to Haihan's past actions and pretend that nothing happened.

This difference of opinion is actually caused by the difference in status. The information that Liu Shang and the top executives of the executive committee can control are completely different, and naturally they have different visions. The level that Liu Shang focuses on is more specific interests.

and grievances, but the people in charge of Haihan have had hundreds of years of experience, and they naturally know that politics is not an unchanging rigid dogma, but a special transaction that can be bargained for. The royal family of the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court

No matter how proud he is, it is just a kind of political capital. When faced with an opponent like Haihan who has already taken advantage of him, Ming will not be able to put on the airs of a heavenly dynasty.

Liu Shang couldn't imagine some of the top secrets that the Executive Committee knew and even things that hadn't happened yet. Naturally, he couldn't view the relationship between the two countries from the same height, and there was no way he could come to the opposite conclusion.

According to the conclusion he reached, the military's aggressive military tactics will definitely further widen the rift between the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and may even arouse excessive fear from the Ming Dynasty, which may be counterproductive to the wishes of the Executive Committee.

However, since the superiors have given him the task of compiling battle reports, he can only think of it according to the military's wishes. In fact, Liu Shang is not sure now, whether he wants Haihan to go to war with Ming Dynasty or to continue peace.

coexistence.

If there is a war, even if the Ming Dynasty has superior territory and military strength, it will be difficult to destroy the Haihan army that moves freely on the sea. If it wants to overestimate its capabilities and fight a naval battle with the Haihan, it will be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth. No matter how you look at it,

It is difficult to have a chance of completely defeating Haihan. And if the Haihan Executive Committee follows the path of the Haihan Executive Committee, and the two sides establish diplomatic relations and then Haihan openly enters the Ming Dynasty to engage in business, trade and immigration activities, then the Ming Dynasty will be poached even faster than now.

Several times faster. When the time comes, the invisible losses Haihan will cause to Ming Dynasty through various blood-sucking methods may not be much less than direct war.

Of course, Liu Shang soon realized that these two possibilities lead to the same goal. No matter what, Ming Dynasty will be the one who suffers the consequences. When encountering such a terrifying opponent as Haihan, it is indeed difficult for Ming Dynasty to gain the upper hand.

Opportunity. For Ming Dynasty, the only good thing is that Haihan did not intend to use war to plunder Ming Dynasty. The method adopted by the Executive Committee was more covert and made it more difficult for Ming Dynasty to resist.

"Director Liu, it is indeed a bit bloody here. Do you want to walk around?" The accompanying soldiers saw that Liu Shang's face was not very good-looking, so they thought he felt uncomfortable seeing such a bloody scene, so they kindly proposed.

suggestion.

Only then did Liu Shang come back to his senses from his thoughts, forced a smile on his face and said, "It's okay, let's see again."

Part of the reason why he looked bad was because he thought about the gloomy future of the Ming Dynasty, and part of it was because he saw the bloody scene in front of him. Looking at the corpses of these Hou Jin soldiers, they were like slaughtered animals, and several masked butchers

The head is cut off with a knife, and then the migrant workers lift the headless corpse and throw it into the burial pit. It is indeed an uncomfortable feeling in the stomach. And the hill of human heads gradually piled up next to it is definitely

It is a terrifying sight that people will never forget after seeing it.

Liu Shang calmed down a little and said to the soldier leading the way: "Besides here, is there any other place we can see?"

The soldier responded: "The corpses of senior enemy officers killed in the battle and the captured flags and weapons are all stored in another place. Do you want Director Liu to take a look?"

"Okay, let me help you, little brother, to lead the way." Liu Shang really couldn't bear to stay next to this corpse pit for a long time. He didn't want to make trouble for himself. It was enough to understand the general situation.

A moment later, Liu Shang saw another scene in a tent somewhere in the Haihan camp. The bodies of several Houjin officers who were killed in the battle were stored in thin-skinned coffins. Even the common people within a few dozen miles around Lushun

There was no coffin shop, let alone a coffin shop. I didn’t know where the logistics department got the coffins. Liu Shang couldn’t help but marvel when he saw it.

Liu Shang glanced at several corpses and couldn't help but asked curiously: "I heard that the enemy's general Yangguli also died on the battlefield this time. This man seems to be the brother-in-law of the thief Chief Taiji."

, which corpse here is his?"

The soldier explained: "We searched carefully after the war and did not find Yanguli's body. He must have been taken away by his soldiers after being shot. The leaders also felt very sorry for this."

Liu Shang responded regretfully: "If we can take this old man's body back and hand it over to the Pidao Army, maybe Shen Shikui can be promoted to the third level and directly join the Ministry of War as a minister, even if he is granted the title of Marquis, it is not impossible.

"

For a person with such a prominent status as Yangu Li, the Jin Army would naturally not abandon his body on the battlefield. Therefore, although Morgan was almost certain to kill him, they still failed to snatch his body.

Although the Pidao Army could report their merits to Dongjiang Town in the name of Dongjiang Town, there is ultimately a lack of evidence. They can only receive awards after Hou Jin breaks the news on his own. However, how can they admit Hou Jin's position?

A general was killed by the enemy on the battlefield, and he had to find ways to use excuses such as being seriously ill to save his face.

But without Yangu Li, the corpses of the other unlucky ghosts are not ordinary people. They include the corpse of Jia La E Zhen Er Tengyi, plus Er He and Mu who were killed by Hai Han before.

Tebu, since last winter, Haihan has killed three Jia La E Zhen in Liaodong. As for the lower level Niu Lu E Zhen, at least a dozen have died. This record has surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty.

The record of enemy kills accumulated over the past few years will also shock the court when Dongjiang Town hands over this record to the Ministry of War.

As for the banners, weapons and other items of the Hou Jin Army, there is nothing outstanding in Liu Shang's opinion. These things are far worse than those of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention those of Haihan. After all, the Hou Jin Dynasty was only known as the Jurchen Jurchen of Jianzhou in the past.

There is still a big gap between the nominal tribal civilization and the farming civilization in Middle-earth. These trophies can also serve as physical evidence, used by Dongjiang Town to prove to the Ming Dynasty that they defeated the Hou Jin Army in Liaodong.

Authenticity.

Haihan had carefully discussed with him what to do in Dongjiang Town and paved the way step by step. Now all he had to do was submit physical evidence to the Ming Dynasty. After Liu Shang saw these things, he applied to Chen Yixin and wanted to see him.

Meet the commander of the Pidao Army to learn about the next process of reporting merit and rewards to the Ming Dynasty.

The reason Liu Shang wanted to learn about these things was because the battle report submitted to Sanya Victory Fort would also mention the impact of this battle on Dongjiang Town and the Ming Dynasty, and this was one of the focuses of the Executive Committee's great concern.

Haihan's support and sponsorship for Dongjiang Town for two consecutive years may be rewarded by this Liaodong battle report.

After listening to Liu Shang's report, Chen Yixin immediately granted him the authority to decide on his own work methods and to have unrestricted contact with necessary personnel in the Liaodong occupied area, so that he could collect the information needed to write a battle report.

Chen Yixin also specially assigned a war horse to Liu Shang to facilitate his traveling between various places in the occupied areas.

Liu Shang was also a man in charge. After receiving the horse, he walked twice outside the racecourse to get familiar with the horse's temperament. Then he immediately rode the horse to Jijiabao where the Pidao Army was stationed to find Shen Zhixiang.

Although Shen Zhixiang had met Liu Shang, he didn't actually have a clear understanding of Liu Shang's official position. But since he saw that the other party came with Chen Yixin's warrant, he was naturally very polite and knew all the questions Liu Shang raised.

, endless words. He knew that for Haihan, there were no secrets worth keeping in Dongjiang Town, and the best way to hold onto Haihan's thigh was to try his best to satisfy Haihan's needs.

Whether it is the Haihan Army using the name of Dongjiang Town to send troops to Liaodong to start a war with Hou Jin, or whether it is asking Dongjiang Town to report merits to the court to facilitate things in Liaodong, as long as it is what Haihan wants to do, Shen Zhixiang will try his best to complete it. As for Haihan,

If a Han official wanted to know about the merit reporting process, he would of course explain it without reservation.

"After Mao Shuai died, most people in Dongjiang Town took the route of Shandong Dusi to report their merits to the Ministry of War. However, there was chaos in Shandong a few years ago, and they didn't care about Dongjiang Town at all. Even supplies and military pay were cut off, so they no longer counted on that.

What can Bian do to help?" Shen Zhixiang sighed: "Fortunately, your army helped us after coming to Liaodong. Otherwise, given the situation of starvation and death everywhere on Pipi Island, I am afraid that we may not be able to survive until now."

Liu Shang heard that what he said was a little off topic, so he coughed dryly and said: "General Shen, let's talk about repaying merit first."

Shen Zhixiang nodded and thought to himself, didn't I take this opportunity to express my loyalty to Haihan? Why was he impatient yet, but said calmly: "Director Liu reminded me. After I cooperated with Haihan in Dongjiang Town,

So I managed to find someone in Gyeonggi and spend money to clear the way, and now I can send the documents directly to the Ministry of War, without having to go through a big detour from the local area."

Liu Shang asked curiously: "Is it General Shen's own intention to do this, or is it our arrangement?"

Shen Zhixiang did not dare to hide it and responded honestly: "The leader of your army made a verbal suggestion. After discussing it with my uncle, I thought it was feasible, so I did it."
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