The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 499: Fortune and Misfortune, Intrigue and Deception

"Counterattack Liaodong?"

Huang Taiji thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's not the right time yet."

"The Restoration Army has two major armies and a naval fleet stationed in Liaodong, with a total number of warriors reaching 2.3 million."

"Among them is Cao Bianjiao, a talented general. If we face them head-on, our chances of winning are slim."

In fact, didn’t Huang Taiji want to counterattack Liaodong and take back his ancestral land and Shengjing City?

However, last year's change of mind allowed Li Dingguo to seize the opportunity and regain the Liaodong region in one fell swoop.

This resulted in the Later Jin clan not only losing 90% of their people, but also a large number of soldiers.

Although they successfully conquered the Goguryeo Dynasty and took some revenge, there were rebel forces everywhere in Goguryeo.

They usually hid in deep mountains and forests, and tried every means to fight guerrilla warfare, causing great trouble and hidden dangers to the Later Jin soldiers.

Once Huang Taiji led a large army to counterattack Liaodong, there would undoubtedly be chaos in Goguryeo, which might even affect the supply of military supplies.

More seriously, if he fails to do so, it will cut off Huang Taiji's retreat.

Unless Huang Taiji was sure of a successful counterattack on Liaodong, he would be willing to take a gamble.

But is the Fuxing Army now entrenched in Liaodong so easy to deal with?
If this were to be said, even Huang Taiji himself would not believe it.

"Whoosh!"

At this time, a figure leaped in from outside the Imperial Garden, came to Huang Taiji, saluted, and said, "Great Khan!"

The person who came was Aobai.

Half a year ago, after Huang Taiji led his army to capture Seoul of the Goguryeo Dynasty, he was ordered to lead 300,000 soldiers of the Plain Yellow Banner to the wild area north of Goguryeo to carry out an important mission.

Now that he had just returned to Seoul, he looked very happy. "I led a slave-catching brigade of 300,000 soldiers of the Plain Yellow Banner, sweeping all the way north from the north of Goguryeo. It took several months, and the results were very gratifying."

"During this operation, we destroyed hundreds of barbarian tribes and villages, large and small, and captured about five million young and strong men from the wild Jurchen tribes!"

"At the same time, a large amount of money, materials, and training resources were collected and brought back to the military camp outside Seoul for placement."

Oboi had never expected that his action would be so smooth and the results achieved would be so gratifying.

This made him, who was usually serious, look very happy.

"That's good!"

"Hahaha……"

Huang Taiji's eyes lit up when he heard this and he couldn't help laughing.

He stood up suddenly, walked to Aobai, patted his shoulder approvingly, and said with a smile, "With these young and strong Jurchens, the number of our Houjin people will double soon!"

"After conquering the Goguryeo Dynasty, we obtained a huge amount of cultivation resources. We were worried that we didn't have enough soldiers. You came back at the right time!"

"Aobai, your great achievement this time is crucial. It undoubtedly saved our Great Jin clan!"

This is not Huang Taiji bragging, but the truth.

After losing Liaodong, the number of soldiers and civilians under Huang Taiji dropped by 90%. Now, there are only about five million Later Jin people in Goguryeo.

Among them, more than three million are warriors and soldiers.

Fortunately, there were many young and middle-aged women in Goguryeo. The Later Jin soldiers who conquered Goguryeo, under the order of Huang Taiji, all adult men of the Later Jin, whether military or civilian, were assigned at least five Goguryeo women as wives and concubines, in preparation for multiplying their clan members and restoring the population.

Now that Huang Taiji has abundant food and supplies, he doesn’t have to worry about his clansmen not being able to raise their children.

This is different from the previous life of the tribe in the cold and miserable Liaodong.

Although the Later Jin clan was the overlord of Liaodong, they were extremely short of food and supplies and could not feed many newborn babies.

There is no way. Up to now, the Later Jin clan has not mastered effective farming skills and relies entirely on looting, hunting and grazing for a living.

This meant that although the Later Jin clan, which had previously occupied Liaodong, was powerful, its population growth was very slow.

But since Huang Taiji led his army to conquer the Goguryeo Dynasty and replaced it, this predicament will never return.

The people of the Goguryeo Dynasty have always admired the Central Plains dynasties and have been learning from the Han dynasties, and have made great progress to date.

In particular, the Goguryeo people's farming skills were about 80% of the level of the Han people.

There are at least 10 billion Goguryeo people in the Goguryeo territory occupied by Huang Taiji.

Even if young and middle-aged women only account for about 20% of them, that’s still 2 billion!

There were so many women of marriageable age in Goguryeo, more than enough for the Later Jin soldiers to share.

As for the remaining billions of young and middle-aged men in Goguryeo, most of them had mastered farming skills.

Under the intimidation of the Later Jin soldiers and the temptation of food and clothing, most people had to swallow their anger and honestly reclaim wasteland and farm the land.

As a result, although Huang Taiji and the Later Jin clan who occupied Goguryeo were driven out of Liaodong by Li Dingguo's Restoration Army and suffered heavy losses to the military and civilians, they ushered in an opportunity for explosive development.

With billions of Goguryeo people working as their slaves, the Later Jin clan would not have to worry about the problem of food and supplies for the next hundred years.

As long as we keep creating people and developing, there will no longer be the shackles of population explosion.

There is no shortage of young and strong women in Goguryeo, and there is no shortage of food. It is conceivable that Huang Taiji's current development potential is undoubtedly far beyond the Liaodong where he once occupied.

But potential is potential, and it will take at least twenty years of hard work and development by a generation before we can truly reap the rewards.

Like the Fuxing Army, what Huang Taiji lacks now is time, enough time for the large number of new descendants of the next generation to grow up.

At this time, Li Dingguo would definitely not leave any time for the remaining remnants of the Later Jin Dynasty.

Huang Taiji, who was considered a peerless hero, knew very well that if he wanted to restore his combat effectiveness as soon as possible, he must at least achieve the goal of blocking the invasion of Goguryeo by the Fuxing Army.

The only effective way to resolve this deadlock is to improve the cultivation and combat effectiveness of the tribe's soldiers as much as possible, and to go to the vast land in the north to capture a large number of wild Jurchens and integrate them into the Later Jin tribe, so as to fundamentally solve this extremely difficult problem.

In the vast land of the Far East, there are countless wild Jurchen tribes, and their total population is at least ten times that of the Later Jin tribe in its heyday.

As long as he could capture tens of millions of young and strong Jurchen men and women in the wild and integrate them into the Later Jin clan in the next one or two years, Huang Taiji would even be able to restore a stronger foundation than the previous Qing Dynasty.

In addition, there are now hundreds of millions of young and middle-aged women in Goguryeo who are reproducing offspring for the Later Jin soldiers. To be honest, in addition to worrying about the genocide war that Li Dingguo might launch at any time, Huang Taiji's ambitions are greater than before.

This is also quite normal.

The food crisis was completely resolved. At least 2 billion young and middle-aged women from Goguryeo became reproductive machines for the Later Jin soldiers, and billions of Goguryeo people were farming for the Later Jin people. This undoubtedly fueled Huang Taiji's ambitions.

If they can stop the offensive of the Fuxing Army and give Huang Taiji twenty years of peaceful development, the Later Jin clan will surely rise again, and even surpass the Qing Dynasty which was destroyed not long ago.

However, would Li Dingguo give Huang Taiji so much time to grow and develop? That is definitely impossible.

This issue was not only clear to Li Dingguo, but also to Huang Taiji.

Therefore, sending Oboi to lead the Plain Yellow Banner Army to the north to capture a large number of young and strong Jurchen men and women in the wild became a top priority.

Only in this way can the crisis of genocide be resolved as soon as possible.

If Goguryeo had not just been conquered, the people's livelihood was not stable, and the country was full of Goguryeo resistance forces, Huang Taiji would have sent at least half of his soldiers to participate in the slave-catching operation in the north.

Huang Taiji was so happy that Abai brought back such a huge surprise!
"Turg!"

"Haug!"

Huang Taiji immediately called the two men over and ordered, "Leave the city immediately and go to the Zhenghuang Banner camp to deal with and distribute the millions of captured Jurchen young men and women!"

"We must replenish the original Eight Banners headquarters in the shortest possible time, then start training new recruits, and then go to the surrounding deep mountains and old forests to complete actual combat training, and turn the reorganized Eight Banners headquarters into an elite army!"

"Li Dingguo will not give us too much time to recover and develop. It will probably take at most one or two years before the Fuxing Army will attack in full force!"

"At this critical moment of life and death, if we slack off even a little, we may face the crisis of genocide!"

"Only by firmly defending Goguryeo can our Later Jin clan have a future and accumulate enough strength to counterattack and destroy Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army!"

"Any soldier who dares to hinder the reorganization of the Eight Banners Headquarters will be killed without mercy, no matter who they are!"

"Aobai, you will be responsible for supervising the execution of the various departments!"

At the critical moment of life and death of the Later Jin clan, Huang Taiji had obviously made up his mind to catch some typical cases to take action against.

This was also his helpless choice.

The development speed of Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army was much faster than that of the Later Jin clan.

This is true in all aspects.

Huang Taiji, who had completely recognized the power of the Fuxing Army, was very clear about this point.

If they don't seize the last chance of one or two years, the demise of the Later Jin clan is inevitable.

"Yes!"……

Everyone at the scene was awed and solemnly accepted the order and left.

After a while, Huang Taiji was the only one left in the royal garden of the Goguryeo royal city.

He sat quietly on the stone bench in the pavilion, thinking for a long time, and then went back to the imperial study to meditate and practice.

In the battle when Shengjing fell during the Qing Dynasty, all of Huang Taiji's concubines died tragically, including his most beloved Dayuer and Zhezhe.

Of course Huang Taiji was very sad.

But being sad won't help.

However, now that he had conquered the Goguryeo Dynasty, he set an example by taking in more than a dozen Goguryeo beauties into the palace, which filled the emptiness in his heart.

Several concubines are now pregnant, which is a good start for the subsequent population explosion of the Later Jin clan.

……

When the slave-hunting team led by Oboi made huge gains and returned to Seoul, in the southern waters of Goguryeo, a large fleet consisting of more than 300 treasure ships was sailing eastward at a high speed against the wind and waves.

The seven-clawed golden dragon flags hoisted on the tall masts of each treasure ship showed that this was the large fleet of the Restoration Army.

"Commander-in-chief, three hundred miles ahead is Goguryeo's Tamra Island."

"According to my observation from high in the sky just now, this large island is under the control of a remnant army of the Goguryeo Dynasty and has not been captured by Huang Taiji."

"Apparently, before Huang Taiji's army arrived, the main fleet of the Goguryeo Dynasty had already collected a large number of treasure ships and retreated to Jeonra Island."

He Guang, the deputy director of the Military Intelligence Department, landed on the deck of the flagship Dabao Ship riding a level 6 early stage black eagle. He jumped off the bird's back, came to Li Dingguo, who was standing with his hands behind his back at the side of the ship, and reported to him.

"There are a lot of Goguryeo soldiers and civilians on the island, with more than one million combat soldiers and over 100 million civilians. They are also heavily defended, so they are a tough nut to crack."

"Otherwise, they would not have been able to hold on to the last territory of the Goguryeo Dynasty."

"There are two ports on the island, each of which has hundreds of treasure ships of various levels moored."

"There are four top-grade treasure ships, more than a dozen high-grade treasure ships, and the rest are medium and low-grade treasure ships."

With a level six early stage black eagle as a mount, He Guang was able to observe the enemy situation in such detail.

Li Dingguo first obtained three big black eagles from the old house of the Fan family in Jiexiu. After six years of careful breeding and reproduction, the herd has expanded into a small population of eighteen big black eagles.

The first three big black eagles were all black eagle mates that were recruited from the outside world.

The two strongest black eagles were cultivated with various top-level treasures provided by Li Dingguo and Wan'er. Recently, they were given the Three Lights Divine Water nurtured by Wan'er's natal artifact Jade Purifying Bottle to accelerate the cultivation of two tea leaves of the top-grade innate spiritual root Dahongpao.

Without any suspense, after each of them took a cup of innate top-grade spiritual tea, the two big black eagles successfully broke through from the peak of level five spiritual birds to the early stage of level six.

Currently in the Renaissance Army, there are a total of eleven sixth-level spiritual birds: three great golden eagles, one great white crane, three great goshawks, two great black eagles, and two bald eagles.

The last two bald eagles came from Zheng’s army and were seized by Li Dingguo using his natal divine weapon, the cauldron.

These eleven level six spirit birds provided the Restoration Army with help beyond imagination.

As for the fifth-level spirit birds, their number is nearly a hundred.

But this is still a long way from forming a truly powerful air force.

The sky in this big world is too dangerous. If the spiritual birds that have not reached the fifth level do not reach a certain scale, there will not be much safety guarantee when they are used to form an air force. It is easy to encounter top-level monsters and bird groups and be besieged.

In addition, the size of the Renaissance Army is too large and the territory it occupies is too vast. The level 5 and level 6 spirit birds it possesses are not enough to equip each department and the commanders of each legion, so they naturally cannot be used to form an air force.

To achieve this goal, it will take a lot of time and luck.

"Ah."

Li Dingguo nodded and said to He Guang and the generals around him, "Our destination is just ahead. Everyone return to your command posts and prepare to attack Jeonra Island."

"The enemy sounds pretty strong, but they are no match for the soldiers of the Fourth Fleet."

"Unlike the war against the Later Jin Tartars and the white barbarians, this time we only need to kill all the enemy warriors."

"As for the ordinary people of Goguryeo, they have always admired our Han culture. We can identify and cleanse them and then educate them for our own use."

Different enemies will naturally be treated differently. Li Dingguo will not treat them one size fits all and will naturally treat them differently.

(End of this chapter)