In Crab Bay, the second wave of fleet brought the follow-up troops of the former Western Army led by Suqian, which quickly strengthened the landing Ming army troops. When the second batch of troops arrived, Crab Bay had changed a lot, the bay had been completely cleared out, and the ships could smoothly enter the port to moor. The broken fortifications on the two clamp arms had also been simply repaired, but now they have become the patron saint of guarding Ming army ships.

In the bay, a large number of houses rose from the ground. Although they were just some simple wooden houses, they were enough for soldiers, which was much better than living in tents. The largest and best houses here were built into battlefield hospitals. No matter where the Ming army went to fight, the battlefield hospitals were always in the best conditions.

The steam engine rumbling, and the heating brought by the whole battlefield hospital was warm. Even the commanders of the army, Suqian and Guan Zhen, did not have such conditions. The two of them are still wearing thick cotton coats and are baking on the edge of the stove.

The battlefield hospital is still divided into two parts, with one part being injured soldiers living in the Ming army, and the other side being heavily guarded, while the Qi army living in the injured soldiers living in the Qi army.

Every day, some soldiers who were slightly injured were discharged from the hospital. The Ming army naturally returned to the team quickly. After the wounded in Qi State were discharged from the hospital, they would be immediately put into prisoners of war camps. Wherever they were, specialized people would educate, brainwash, and identify them, and then deal with them according to the situation.

For the Ming army, manpower is always very precious. Now the two neighboring counties on the left and right of Crab Bay have been ravaged by floods, and a large amount of manpower and material resources are needed to recover. Some officials have started this work again, but it is still difficult for them to move forward because there is no one to do these things, and the Qi people have almost escaped. These prisoners of war will be the main force in doing this work next, and then the Ming army is preparing to lure the fleeing Qi people back.

The Qi people who fled to Laizhou County were not having a good life. For Xu Junsheng, they were just a group of people who could sacrifice for the country at any time. They could not eat enough, wear warm clothes, and they could not help but live or die. They could still survive such a life because of their fear of the Ming people.

Unlike the Qi people in Changning County who had more or less knowledge of the Ming Dynasty, the maritime prefectures and counties like Laizhou were very afraid of the Ming people, because over the years, the Ming navy's invasion of the Qi people's seas has never stopped. I don't know how many people have seen pirates holding skeleton flags land on the boats and landed on the coast of Da Qi without restraint. After the raging force, they left swaggeringly before the Qi army arrived.

At first I really thought it was pirates, but later I realized that these so-called pirates were pretended to be by Team Ming**.

Of course, the propaganda machine of Qi will not stop slandering the Ming people. In their mouths, the Ming people are all devils who do evil. Now that the devil is coming, how can they not escape?

It certainly takes time to change such an image. The National Security Bureau is doing such a thing now. It only takes a small number of people who can come back with the courage to taste the sweetness, and naturally they will grow bigger and bigger like snowballs.

As the support troops arrived, there were bags of letters. At this moment, Suqian and Guan Zhen were also surrounded by the stove and looked at the letters at home with relish, just like those ordinary soldiers.

For soldiers who were on the expedition, being able to see letters from home is naturally their favorite thing, and for their families, being able to write letters from home to their relatives is not an extremely happy thing, because there are still some people who never have the chance to write such letters from home again?

As the first fleet returned, hundreds of ashes of dead soldiers were also on the way.

As Suqian looked at it, his face suddenly became gloomy. He suddenly reached out and punched a stool beside him to pieces, which scared Guan Zhen, who was smiling and reading the letter.

"What's wrong? What happened to the family?" Guan Zhen asked with concern.

Suqian's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he said in a deep voice: "Neizi wrote a letter to tell me that in Anyang, many scholars and corrupt scholars are calling me a general who is ignorant of the army and killed so many soldiers from his hometown. The family was harassed by these people. Some people wrote big words to post on the door at night, and some people actually poured feces on my door."

Guan Zhen was stunned, "Where did you start?"

Suqian smiled bitterly: "Those people don't know anything about it. Why do we choose the Crab Bay, which is the most severely defended, to attack? Choose any place to land. Can the Qi people still be covered with heavy troops on the Thousand Miles of Sea Frontier?"

"Where is the decision of the central government? We led the troops and just acted on orders. Why did you scold you?" Guan Zhen was a little funny.

"Do they dare to scold the emperor? Do they dare to scold the center? That is, they are familiar with me, Suqian, and many people also know my background. There will be no future troubles when scolding me!" Suqian snorted coldly.

"Sister-in-law, they won't be in danger, right?"

"That won't be!" Su Qian sneered: "A group of corrupt scholars can just be happy and do something disgusting. The local government has sent soldiers to guard my house."

Guan Zhen smiled and said, "These people have read a lot of books, but why do they still understand nothing? Qi does have thousands of miles of sea boundaries, but most places have no strategic value. It is fine to harass them and scare them and cause some panic. If the army really attacks, what is the use of attacking? And those vital places, the people of Qi will naturally send heavy troops to guard them. How can they get it for nothing?"

Suqian smiled bitterly: "So they are corrupt scholars!"

The sea boundary of the Qi people was indeed very long and there were loopholes everywhere. However, the Ming Dynasty used the navy to drive straight in and out of his heart, so he naturally had to take the most important places so that he could hit the Qi people's seven inches. But if the Ming people knew about these places, the Qi people didn't know about them? Naturally, they would take strict precautions.

What made Suqian extremely depressed was that these people pretended to understand. Some people accused him of not attacking in a roundabout way? What a detour! Xu Junsheng mentioned turning all the hundreds of miles on both sides of the Crab Bay into mudflats. How to march? How to send logistics supplies up, let the soldiers travel hard in the mud, and then fight a hard battle with the Qi people? If you really want to do this, the Qi people will be afraid that they will laugh and find some good places to wait for their work, and easily let the Ming** team be defeated.

When a large army fights, how could it land there just wherever it wants? How could it be that tens of thousands of troops gathered like mountains of logistics supplies? How could it be that a person can be single-handed or a small group of people?

Their team sounds better, which is called being straightforward. To put it badly, it means going deep into the army alone. All logistics supplies are all on the sea and not maintaining a stable sea supply line. Once you go deep into Qi, the Qi people only need to cut off their logistics supply line, and they are waiting to be killed by Qi people.

It is precisely because of so many reasons that the army can only choose the safest line to move forward.

The most important area of ​​Qi State is the Honghe River Basin. If you want to attack this area, you must take down Laizhou and control the estuary of the Red River. Then rely on the combat power of the navy to go up the river, the army sweeps the left and right, and the navy maintains logistics supplies. Only in this way can you be invincible. Otherwise, how can you fight this battle? Do you really think that the people of Qi are all made of clay carvings and wood sculptures?

Log in from other places? People with a little military knowledge dare not think so.

Looking at Suqian's depressed expression, Guan Zhen was sympathetic and funny, and patted Suqian's shoulder and said, "Forget it, our Ming Dynasty did not sin against people because of his words. Although those people did a little disgusting, they did not hurt your family, and the local government had no choice but to take them. You can take this matter a little more. Otherwise, let your sister-in-law take her children to Yuejing and live for a while."

"It's all that. If you can't afford to offend, we can still afford to hide!" Suqian sighed, "I can only endure this tone. No matter what, this battle was indeed a little harder, with so many casualties and the dead were all soldiers of Anyang. It is also necessary for the locals to have resentment towards me, the commander of the army."

"Your Majesty said that the first few battles against Qi were the most difficult to fight, because now, Qi was the lean camel. Whether it was a military, a civilian, or an official, the spirit of the old empire was still there? As long as you win a few battles, they would know that they were no longer as good as before and were far from our Ming Dynasty. At that time, they would naturally have the morale of the army and the people were falling. At that time, they were afraid that they would be defeated thousands of miles away. We were advance troops and assault teams. It was not surprising that they encountered hard battles or difficult battles."

Suqian nodded, Guan Zhen was right. As long as Qi State suffered several consecutive defeats, after they realized the cruel reality, the discomfort of falling from a high place would magnify sharply and eventually collapse completely.

Since ancient times, naturally, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. A poor man has fallen into begging for food, or he has long had such psychological construction, so he will not feel too discomfort. But if a wealthy family suddenly falls into such a situation and can survive, it is really not certain.

The current Qi Kingdom is probably such a once rich man. Although his family is about to beg for food, he still insists on not wanting to lose face.

"I'll have a few drinks with you to get rid of your depression?" Guan Zhen said, looking at the depressed Suqian.

Su Qian shook his head and stood up, "I'll go to the battlefield hospital to see the injured soldiers. I hope I won't die anymore. Those people don't know. I'm much sadder than them for every soldier to die."

Looking at Suqian's somewhat lonely back, Guan Zhen shrugged. He was really helpless about such a thing.
Chapter completed!