At noon on May 4, taking advantage of the high tide, the Siamese army retreated from Nansha Island.

On May 5th, as the Third Division of the Siamese New Army continued to rest and recuperate, Luocha Buddha sent its own Guards Regiment of 10,000 men, escorted by the Japanese and Spanish fleets, to land on Chongming Sand Island.

Although everyone had already judged from the battles in the past two days that Chongming Sand was actually a bluff and did not have many soldiers. But after the real army came ashore, they saw that the 500 Ming troops on the island had burned all the grain depots and even the forts.

There was no chance of an explosion. The leaders of the coalition forces still almost suffered from internal injuries.

"Your Majesty, I have found out that all three granaries on Chongming Sand Island have been burned. The three wells that have been discovered have all been filled with cement. On the flat land that has been developed on this island, we have not found anything.

There are living people. All ten turrets originally built on the island are intact, but all the shells have detonated..."

"Your Majesty, this morning we were ordered to send a small fleet to try to land on Sansha Island. As a result, there was no one on the island. All the forts were intact and the shells were detonated. The grain depots were all burned down and the wells were filled...

..."

"Damn it! I didn't expect the people of the Ming Dynasty to be so shameless! As a big country, they only sent so few troops to guard such an important place!"

That Ming Dynasty's grandson, that Kaiyang! How could you do this? This place is the only place where you can produce large ships now! You have sent a total of less than 10,000 garrison guards? What's more?

Sent out all the warships? Are you arrogant or do you look down on me?

I have devoted all my strength to fight you! Can you show some respect?

Of course, the emperor's grandson, who was thousands of miles away, could not hear the inner monologue of Luo Jia Pagoda. Even if he heard it, he would just roll his eyes and be done with it.

Who told you two to be in such a hurry to be unwelcome guests? I'm not busy dealing with domestic affairs, so I'm not ready to receive guests!

In the entire Ming Dynasty, except for the three newly reorganized military divisions of Henghai, Kuandian (Kunming), and Qingnian (Guangwei), there were only 800,000 soldiers in military towns and guards. Among them, almost 400,000 were on the Great Wall and Liaodong line.

There are still more than 100,000 people. It is said that they are distributed in various places in the capital, Shandong, and Henan. But firstly, I don’t know how many there really are of these soldiers. Secondly, their combat power... I didn’t look at the previous points.

In the days when the Wenxiang Cult rebelled, did the guardsmen of Shandong Dusi bravely fight with these rebellious believers, indistinguishable?

There are still 300,000 left, scattered in the ten southern provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the four provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi accounted for 200,000 because they were often involved in local chieftain rebellions. Most of the last 100,000 were gathered.

In Nanjing - what are the guards like here? I already learned a few years ago when I took inventory of military households in South Zhili.

In other words, in the entire south, except for the navy in Funing Town, the Qi Army in Wusong Town has the strongest combat capability. So, Lian Zhen, it’s really not that I don’t respect you, it’s just that you came too early.

The feast for the guests hasn’t even been cooked yet!

Putting aside the inner complaints of the two time-travelers. Now, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces, who have obtained Chongming Sand and Sansha, finally have a piece of land where they can have a good rest. But on this land, food and water sources are all gone—

-This is the first problem that needs to be solved before the commander-in-chief of this army.

Speaking of which, it has been more than ten days since we set sail from the island of Taiwan in late April. Of course, the food carried on the ship was enough - but the problem was that the fresh vegetables were either eaten or spoiled. Although

Navigators of this era have discovered that using some shelf-stable fruits and fresh bean sprouts can also supplement the human body with vitamins. However, it is of course best to have vegetables to eat.

What's more, the fresh water on the ship is starting to run out now - we finally managed to secure two large islands that can produce fresh water on their own, but all the wells on them were filled up. Although it is not difficult to dig new wells, this

It also takes time.

"Still no news about our supply fleet?"

"Back to the king, according to the rules we set when we set out, the transport and supply fleet should go out to sea in five days. Since they are not dragged down by the troop transport ship, they are faster than us, so if the wind direction is favorable, it should be yesterday or today

Arrive in the morning. But now our guard ships on the periphery have not seen any of our own ships."

"Hey, these incompetent guys." Waving his hands irritably, Luo Jia Buddha said: "Send one, no, three fastest communication ships, directly to Taiwan Island. Now, we need better supplies.

Boost our morale."

"yes."

After his men took the order and left, Luo Jia Fu Tu adjusted his emotions slightly, turned around and smiled at Alfonso and Yagyu Kanbei: "You two, what should we do next?"

"Your Majesty, next we will probably have to sacrifice some people and ships to find a route."

"Um?"

"Your Majesty, we have just sent manpower to survey the shipping route from Chongming Sha Island to Changsha Island. Strictly speaking, the distance between the two islands is not far, only about 15,000 meters. But there are many places between the two islands.

Not to mention the sand dunes and rocks, the Ming people also laid mines on the waterway..."

"Hey~~What about from Sansha Island to Changsha Island?"

"Well, Sansha is very close to Changsha, only four thousand meters. But the places where the two islands face each other, that is, the west side of Changsha Island and the east side of Sansha Island, are all wetlands. Our soldiers must not be in these places

Deploy or land, otherwise there will be no need for Ming people to fight, and the countless swamps there will swallow up many of our soldiers..."

"In other words, after we abandoned Nansha Island and could not land from the south side of Changsha Island, if we had to land from the north side of Changsha Island, we could only find a route between Chongming Sand and Changsha?

"

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is the only option. Otherwise, we have to go to the west side of Changsha Island and face the pincer attack on our fleet by countless cannons from Changsha Island and the Zhenhai Guards under the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty!"

"Okay..." After listening to Alfonso and Yagyu's analysis, Luo Jia Pagoda was extremely upset at this time: Why did the ship be filled with soldiers and sailors in order to save space as much as possible when heading north? I should have known better.

Just capture some local indigenous people on Hainan Island or Taiwan Island and let them go on a journey!

"Then issue an order to recruit death squads in the army and set out on the route..."

"Kings!"

"Asshole, didn't you see we were discussing something?"

"Your Majesty, I forgive you, but there is an urgent military situation that needs to be reported to you and your Excellencies immediately."

"What's up?"

"Our supply ships have arrived, but only one has arrived."

"what happened?"
Chapter completed!