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There are no salt fields here.
There are only the Great Wall and villages.
The Great Wall near the beacon tower,
Only a dozen or so Han soldiers were stationed there.
They fled immediately after being shelled.
They followed the Great Wall,
They ran towards the beacon tower further east.
This place is fifty li away from Huacheng Pass, where the Jurchen soldiers were stationed.
Zhao Li and Song Jiang led their troops,
Quickly seize the beacon towers,
They continued rushing forward along the Great Wall.
They captured three beacon towers in succession.
They captured more than twenty miles of the Great Wall.
The Dengzhou and Laizhou troops finally stopped charging.
They were panting heavily from exhaustion.
Relying on the defensive fortifications of the Great Wall,
They waited for the enemy, thirty miles away, to gather their troops and attack.
The army on Shamen Island where Xia Yuqing was stationed
Then they followed the Great Wall that their allies had already occupied.
They searched for local residents in the areas on both sides of the Great Wall.
As long as all the people are taken away...
The garrison here cannot collect grain on the spot.
From now on, we can only transport grain and fodder from Huacheng (Jinzhou).
On the beach, in the valley,
Fires broke out one after another.
Those were soldiers from Shamen Island burning down civilian houses.
"Third Brother, there's a big village over there!"
"Go over and have a look."
There is a small river on the eastern foot of Tieshan Mountain.
Xia Yuqing discovered a village along the river.
But all the villagers ran away.
Moreover, judging from the condition of the houses...
One-third of the houses are already abandoned.
It is estimated to be influenced by the chaos at the end of the Liao Dynasty.
After searching for a while,
No one was found.
However, an iron smelting workshop was discovered halfway up the mountain.
They also found gold panning tools by the river.
"There's gold here!"
The soldiers were overjoyed.
Although the spoils of war
All of them need to be submitted.
Then it is distributed collectively.
But the more valuable the spoils of war handed over,
The greater their military achievements, the more impressive their records.
Xia Yuqing immediately met with the other two squad leaders for a meeting.
Each determined its search direction.
Before long, clues were discovered.
The people here fled with their money, grain, and livestock.
Footprints will inevitably be left behind.
Some people even dropped their belongings in their panic.
More than thirty soldiers from Shamen Island,
They searched all the way into the mountains.
They were ambushed.
The villagers were carrying homemade swords.
They charged toward the soldiers from both sides of the mountain path.
However, they had no bows and arrows.
There was no armor either.
"Formation, formation!"
When Xia Yuqing shouted,
The soldiers had already moved closer.
Completely unexpected by the villagers,
The soldiers of Shamen Island who were ambushed
Facing an ambush force several times their size,
Instead of being terrified and fleeing,
Instead, they calmly and swiftly formed a battle formation.
Having experienced the physical phenomenon of "survival of the fittest".
They were already used to being ambushed.
Quickly closing in and launching a counterattack has become instinctive.
Chapter 1946 Defeated General
Archers took cover within the formation and fired arrows.
The spearmen protected their teammates.
The harpoon operator was not dismissed.
They kept pushing away the villagers who tried to rush into the formation.
The battle lasted only a few minutes.
More than one hundred villagers
They were routed by more than thirty soldiers.
Dozens of prisoners were captured in succession.
Xia Yuqing asked, "Can you understand what I'm saying?"
No one answered.
"Hold his hands down!"
Xia Yuqing pointed to a prisoner.
Cut it down with one sword.
The little finger broke off.
Amidst screams, Xia Yuqing asked again:
"Can you understand what I'm saying?"
Without waiting for the other party's reply,
Another slash came down.
The prisoner cried out in terror, "I can understand! I can understand!"
But it was too late.
Another ring finger was cut off.
Guided by these prisoners,
Xia Yuqing quickly located the villagers' hiding place.
But still no one was there.
And they fled in a great hurry.
Much of the food could not be taken away in time.
"Chase!"
Half an hour later,
They caught up with the villagers.
Those people, driving their livestock and carrying money and grain, could not walk fast.
"General, spare your life!"
A middle-aged man,
He led many villagers to kneel down.
Xia Yuqing said, "As long as you honestly come back to Shandong with us,"
"They won't kill people indiscriminately."
"Yes, yes, I will definitely be honest."
The middle-aged man quickly expressed his opinion.
This village,
There were four or five hundred people.
This is extremely rare in the sparsely populated Liaodong Peninsula.
Xia Yuqing inquired carefully,
Only then did I realize it was because of iron ore and gold ore.
They do not have to pay taxes.
However, a certain amount of pig iron and placer gold had to be handed over to the government every year.
After descending the mountain,
The soldiers began setting fire to civilian houses everywhere.
The middle-aged man pleaded desperately.
Surprisingly, from a house,
They took out a basket of books.