After the People's Army successfully occupied Qingdao, Xiao Jianjun, the commander-in-chief of the front line, had not yet arrived in Qingdao, so he ordered the frontline commander in Qingdao to immediately dispatch troops to various key areas of Jiaozhou Bay to complete the People's Army's comprehensive occupation of Jiaozhou Bay.

Although this battle was mainly fought in the Qingdao area, according to the "Lend-Lease Treaty between Germany and the Qing Dynasty", the area leased by Germany actually included the entire coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay, with a total area of about 5,500 square kilometers. This is also the general scope of the entire Qingdao urban area in the old time and space, and the Qingdao that is commonly referred to only refers to a peninsula area on the east coast of Jiaozhou Bay, that is, the area where the battle took place.

Even if the People's Army paid a heavy price, defeated the German army and occupied Qingdao, of course, it was to receive all the German leased areas, not only in the Qingdao area, so Xiao Jianjun ordered the army to seize the entire Jiaozhou Bay as soon as possible, so as not to have a long night and dreams, if it was occupied by the Qing army, it would be a little troublesome, although with the urine of the Qing army, it is not possible to dare to take the opportunity to seize Jiaozhou Bay, but it has to be guarded against, after all, now the traveler does not want to completely tear his face with the Qing court.

Luo Yue's battalion received an order to garrison the entire west shore of Jiaozhou Bay, that is, a narrow and long area from Yinghai Town in the north to Huangdao in the south, which was only 7 or 8 kilometers wide from east to west, but more than 30 kilometers long from north to south. It is also the largest area in the garrison area.

In the Battle of Qingdao, the combat attrition of Luo Yue's battalion reached 92 people, of which 73 were killed and another 19 were wounded, and they were unable to participate in the battle for a short time. After the Battle of Qingdao, the first battalion was also supplemented by 65 soldiers, some of whom were recruits who transported supplies from Tianjin, and a small number of local residents who were taken in Shandong, like five of the twelve people who were taken in in Laoshan were assigned to the first battalion.

Despite this, the number of troops in a battalion is now less than 400 people, and it is certainly not easy to garrison such a vast area. However, there is no way to do this, because there are only so many people in the KPA now, and the first battalion is the most combat-ready in the KPA, so it naturally has to undertake the most arduous task.

Of course, garrisoning is not the same as defending, it is just necessary to maintain control of the area. In addition, most of the areas where Luo Yue was to be stationed were wilderness areas, and the population was not large. In fact, the entire Jiaozhou Bay area is an underdeveloped area in this era, the population is very small, according to the household registration statistics of the Qing court, the Jiaozhou Bay area leased by Germany is 5,500 square kilometers, but there are only more than 80,000 people, even if there are some uncounted populations, but the total is only about 100,000 at most, and most of the population is distributed in the Qingdao area, the population on the west bank of Jiaozhou Bay is less than 20,000, roughly distributed in Yinghai Town, Hongshiya Town, The three regions of Huangdao, so as long as these three areas are controlled, and the traversers have advanced communication equipment, it is not a problem to communicate with each other.

Luo Yue stationed the three companies of the whole battalion in Yinghai Town, Hongshiya Town, and Huangdao, and the distance between these three areas was within 15 kilometers. The command also knew that the responsibilities of the first battalion were arduous, so it also allocated three warrior vehicles to facilitate the movement between the garrisons.

The battalion headquarters of the first battalion is set up in Yinghai Town by Luo Yue, the northernmost part of the first battalion garrison area, and the northwest corner of the entire Jiaozhou Bay area, the deepest inland area, with the largest population, about nearly 7,000 people, and the south is adjacent to the red garrison area, and the north is connected to Jiaozhou, which is an important node on the Jiaoji Railway.

The KPA's presence in the Jiaozhou Bay area did not provoke much reaction in the area. Not to mention the news of overseas Chinese, many locals don't even know about the incident of Germany's forced lease of Jiaozhou Bay, which is mainly because the news of this era is closed, and the Jiaozhou Bay area is not a developed area, so the news transmission is even more lagging behind. On the other hand, Germany has not leased Jiaozhou Bay for a long time, and has not yet established effective management in the Jiaozhou Bay area.

For the local ordinary people, in fact, life has not changed much, it is still those people who manage themselves, there are still so many rents, nothing has changed, and it doesn't matter whether this land is under the control of the Qing court or the Germans, anyway, just take care of your own life.

However, of course, the officials and local squires are much better informed than ordinary people, they not only know that the Jiaozhou Bay area has changed hands now, but also have heard about some overseas Chinese, and know that this is a group of descendants of the former dynasty living overseas, but they are of Chinese ethnicity, and the war is very powerful, even the foreigners have been defeated by them, and now they have driven out the Germans, and replaced the German rule in the Jiaozhou Bay area.

But these officials and local squires are not very afraid, because no matter who rules here, if they want to effectively manage this piece of land, they must rely on the management of their own grassroots, because during the reign of the Qing Dynasty, no matter how the local officials are, the local officials and squires are almost immobile, which is also a characteristic of ancient China, that is, no matter how the local officials change, the local grassroots level is always in the hands of the officials or local squires. Every local official must have a good relationship with the local officials and squires, otherwise he will not be able to play in the local area. In Chinese history, due to the difficulty of getting along with local officials and squires, countless people were squeezed out by local officials and squires.

Of course, if you encounter honest and upright officials like Bao Zheng and Hai Rui, you may be able to kill a few local officials and squires who have done evil, but they are also powerless to shake the entire local officials and squire class.

Even if it is a change of dynasty, as long as it is not a massacre without any strata such as "Yangzhou Ten Days, Yongding Three Massacres", even if the new ruler must rely on local officials and squires to manage the grassroots of the new dynasty, and the local officials and squires often take advantage of the trend and become the cornerstone of the new dynasty's rule.

After the Germans leased Jiaozhou Bay, although the local officials and squires were also nervous for a while, it didn't take long to find that the Germans also needed to manage the place by themselves. They also need their own group of people to manage the place well.

When Luo Yue led the army to Yinghai Town, the local officials and squires took the initiative to organize some people to meet Luo Yue's troops, and also gave 200 taels of silver, 50 stone rice, 10 jars of wine, 20 chickens and 2 pigs, which was considered a gift of Jinjian.

This is also another major feature of this era, when the army is stationed in a certain place, the local government will send some money and food gifts. And after the army gets these gifts, as long as it is not an army with too poor military discipline, it will generally not be invading the place, and to put it bluntly, it will be a loss of wealth and disaster. However, there are only more than 1,000 households in Yinghai Town, with a population of 6 or 7,000, so it is indeed not easy to come up with so many things.

When Luo Yue met with the local officials and squires, he only said that he was ordered to garrison the west bank of Jiaozhou Bay, and that this area would be taken over by the People's Army in the future, and asked them to obey the orders of the People's Army, and then he did not say anything else. After all, Luo Yue was only a soldier and was not responsible for local administrative affairs, so the Tianjin Executive Committee would naturally send administrative officials to manage the local government in the future. The task of the army is only to guarantee the actual control of the KPA in this area. As for these gifts, Luo Yue politely declined, saying that the People's Army had discipline and could not accept these gifts.

These local officials and squires could not help but be surprised, they had seen local officials who did not accept gifts before, although the Qing Dynasty had been corrupt to the end, but after all, there were still a few local officials who maintained a clean style. The army that does not accept gifts has indeed never been seen. Of course, it is not excluded that Luo Yue is pretending to be arbitrary, this kind of thing has not been uncommon before, many local officials are polite, and they have repeatedly shirked the gifts they sent, and they must accept them until they seem to be unable to refuse, and they still have a helpless look on their faces when they accept the gifts, as if they are unwilling.

So the local officials and squires repeatedly begged Luo Yue to accept these gifts, and finally everyone knelt in front of Luo Yue, claiming that if Luo Yue did not accept these gifts, then he would not be able to kneel up.

Seeing that he really couldn't refuse, Luo Yue had to promise them that rice, wine, chickens, and pigs could be accepted, but the silver would never be accepted, and the things he received must be paid to these local officials and squires at the market price corresponding to the silver.

When the silver of the white flowers was stuffed into his hands, these local officials and squires were really stupid, and then they knew that Luo Yue was not pretending, but really not accepting it. Therefore, I had to take the silver back with me.

On the way back, the people were quite excited, because generally speaking, most of the officials who did not receive gifts were good officials, or at least not bad officials, and most of the troops who did not receive gifts were also good, so the day would be much better.

But all the magistrates and squires were not happy, and their views were just the opposite of those of the common people, because according to past experience, those officials who did not accept gifts were often officials who were difficult to deal with, so what about the army that did not accept gifts?

Stationed in the localities is only the first step, and it is necessary to show the actual rule over the localities and to maintain patrols in the garrisons, which is also a manifestation of the presence of the KPA. In addition, it is also possible to learn more about the actual situation of some places through patrols, at least to figure out the local roads and villages. Therefore, the very next day, the People's Army began patrolling the coastal areas on the west coast of Jiaozhou Bay in turns.