In Laizhou, Xu Junsheng has now reduced all his strength to the vicinity of Laizhou County, guarding the narrowest section of the Honghe River and the main road entering the Honghe River Basin, and strategically abandoning other places. With the arrival of the five thousand reinforcements from Suqian, all the vanguard troops of the Ming Dynasty were all there. Suqian also had the power to expand outward, and the first ones to occupy were Zhangye County and Jiuquan County. After Xu Junsheng dug out two tributaries, they almost all became beach lands. Originally, these two counties were considered fertile lands in Laizhou, but now they have become uninhabited places for hundreds of miles.

After the Ming army entered these two counties, the first thing was to grab the passageway. In fact, over the years, because Qi had worked hard to develop the navy, these two counties were in the nearby counties and developed quite well. The most important thing was that their main roads were all cement-paved roads. What the Ming army had to do was to clear the silt on these roads. The workload was much smaller.

After clearing the road, the original land began to be renovated along both sides of the road. After nearly a month of hard work, tens of thousands of people finally sorted out a large area of ​​land.

These two tributaries are Tamsui River. After the flooding of rivers, these places have indeed suffered major disasters. But at the same time, the silt at the bottom of the river is also the best fertilizer. If it can be sown in time next spring, it can be foreseen that in the autumn next year, a bumper year will inevitably usher in the harvest year.

The troops in Suqian were mainly deployed in Zhangye and Jiuquan counties, while the area of ​​Crab Bay was handed over to Guan Zhen’s navy and marines. This also reflects the division of labor between the two different troops. Suqian was mainly attacking from land next, while Guan Zhen’s team had to go up the river along the Red River.

Suqian had already moved his central army to Jiuquan, but because the fleet escorted by Zhou Li once again sent a large amount of weapons, ammunition and various supplies, he rushed to Crab Bay. Unexpectedly, he saw these fresh things made by Xu Junsheng.

Of course, they did not take these seriously. Although there were some threats, the threat was not great. If this thing wanted to work, it had to advance to the Ming Dynasty warship. The problem was that they also had the ability to advance to the warship. If they were blatant, they would not have a great chance, and the only thing they could do was to attack.

"When will the Civil Affairs Hall send civil affairs officials?" Zhou Li, Suqian, and Guan Zhen were stuck in the warm room, drinking wine and chatting, and Suqian couldn't help but complain.

"Now, whether it is Zhangye or Jiuquan, more and more locals have escaped from Laizhou. To be honest, we soldiers are really not good at appeaseing these local people. It is obviously a good thing, but the big-headed soldiers under my command are sometimes stunned to do bad things with good intentions. A few days ago, which caused a Kuomintang official to come to cause trouble for me. He only pointed at my nose and cursed, saying that they finally mobilized these people back. If they were screwed up by us, they would sue us. Are you so angry or not?"

Zhou Li and Guan Zhen both laughed. They were both navy teams, but they didn't care about these things. They were so happy to watch Suqian get furious.

"How can I do it? It's just a compromise. When I come back, I should build a house for building a house. If I should give it food, I should say good things. If I should say good things, I should say good things!" Zhou Li's one-eye was shining, and he was so happy that he was laughing.

"Do you still want to say that you can't fight back if you fight, and you can't fight back if you scold?" Su Qian said angrily.

"That's OK, too." Guan Zhen laughed.

"I'm the winners." Suqian shouted.

"There is no way. We occupy this place. Then the people who came back are almost considered to be our Ming Dynasty people. Brother Su, I think that those national security officials and officials from the Supervision Department all see this."

"They have not entered the Ming Dynasty's household registration yet!" Su Qian said angrily: "What are the people in the Zhengshi Hall doing? If the civil affairs officials do not follow, I will leave without paying any attention. Whoever cares about them will go!"

Zhou Li and Guan Zhen looked at each other and laughed, knowing that Suqian was just an angry word. The officials in the rear had not yet come to take over. The responsibility for comforting the local area was lies with the military. If they really wanted to do it, they would eventually be held accountable.

"General Chen will not arrive next spring, so can't we try it out?" Suqian sighed: "Now we have 15,000 troops, plus gunboats and airships, which are enough to compete with Xu Junsheng."

"The fight is naturally not a problem." Guan Zhen shook his head and said, "The key is that the crisis on the Lai River has not been resolved. If we are prepared, we may not suffer much loss, but what about the more than 200,000 people on the south bank of Laizhou? If we fight too hard, Xu Junsheng can't hold on. If we really dig the dike and release water, don't you think we will take over a thousand miles of uninhabited Laizhou?"

"This is really an unheard of things for the ages. The attacker was threatened by his opponents who took them." Suqian sighed in a grief.

"Although the people of Qi are our enemies now, we were all a family more than a hundred years ago, with the same language and the same race, saying the same words and writing the same words. Xu Junsheng can do such things, and we can't do this." Zhou Li was helpless, "Let's wait. When the Guoan side is well arranged, we will take action at the same time. While launching a large-scale attack, we must solve the problem of Laihe."

"Can Guoan guarantee that their side will be 100% successful then?"

"No one can guarantee it, but you both know what kind of strength the court has invested in to solve this matter this time. If this is not solved, it can only be said that we have tried our best." Zhou Li spread his hands.

"In other words, my troops still need to be prepared for both."

"Yes. Haven't you been equipped with a blow-blown rubber boat now? At that time, the airship will keep ringing over the Lai River. Once there is a problem, it will send you a signal. You must prepare these rafts as quickly as possible, or occupy high places on the spot. As for those people, we can only say, do our best."

Suqian stood there for a while and sighed: "I really don't want to do the Xiangzhou incident in Chu State again. You haven't seen the tragic situation at that time!"

All three of them in the room fell silent.

"Drink, drink, do your best, and leave your destiny, and be like this." After a while, Zhou Li broke the silence and raised his glass.

The three of them clinked together, and with a tingling sound, when the three of them were about to drink it all, a shocking explosion suddenly came from outside.

All three of them were stunned.

"No way?" Almost in unison, the three of them exclaimed at the same time.

This kind of explosion sound is quite different from the sound of the explosives of the Ming Dynasty. They knew it at once that they heard it. This is the inferior gunpowder made by the Qi people. Of course, this is only compared with the explosives used by the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty first applied gunpowder, it was at this level.

But it was only during the day that such a suicide boat from Qi people was captured. At night, could they come to attack?

The explosion sounded one after another, and the three of them had no doubts anymore.

"Fortunately, I have made some arrangements during the day, otherwise I would have suffered a loss." Guan Zhen shrugged and said in fear.

"Xu Junsheng is worthy of being a famous general of Qi." Zhou Li was also very impressed.

The three of them rushed out of the house and climbed to the heights. The place where the Lai River flowed into the sea, the flames soared into the sky. You could vaguely see small boats rushing towards each other.

When he saw this suicide boat during the day, Guan Zhen ordered that after nightfall, he would push the cement boats here and break down, leaving only a small hole in the middle. On this night, the wind and snow were raging. The boats that sneaked into the night obviously did not expect the Ming army to have such a arrangement. He thought these boats were Ming army warships, so he rushed up and detonated himself.

In the Ming army camp, the bells were ringing, and the gunboats began to be dispatched. The warships did not move, but the armed merchant ships quickly started moving and formed a circle outside the warships. These armed merchant ships were usually equipped with a cannon and some crossbows and other combat weapons. The navy and marines also quickly mobilized some soldiers to board the merchant ship, holding the Ming Dynasty Style 1, and looking outside consciously.

The searchlights on all the battleships lit up, illuminating the entire bay.

There were at least dozens of canoes that had been coming during the day. Seeing that more than ten were broken through the blockade of cement ships and heading into the bay, Guan Zhen not only frowned.

The cannons on the armed merchant ships opened fire, but the accuracy of this cannon was not good, so it was difficult to hit the flexible boats of this thief. Fortunately, the shells fell into the water and caused huge waves, which made several of them overturned.

The Ming Dynasty Type 1 on the merchant ship was the first to fire, and the enemies on one boat after another were hit, and then the crossbow also rang.

In the bay, guns and gunshots sounded in one piece. A canoe broke through the line of fire alone and launched a final desperate attack on the armed merchant ship blocking the road ahead.

The crossbow machine was desperately shaking. The two people on the canoe were shot and fell softly, but the boat still rushed forward with inertia. Seeing the blue smoke rising from the boat, the soldiers on the armed merchant ship were shocked and ran to the other side. Before they could jump off the boat, the explosion sounded.

The merchant ship that was hit immediately jumped on the water surface, raised one side high, overturning the crossbow and cannons on the ship in an instant, and rolling into the water.

After the last explosion, the bay became silent, leaving only the light of the searchlight sweeping around the water. Zhou Guansu and the other two felt a little tooth pain when they watched this scene.
Chapter completed!