After a few people exchanged for a while, it was over. Liu Zhong was already silent, so he hastily said a few words and ordered Zhao Zhixiu to leave, Zhao Zhixiu wanted to say something more, but Liu Zhong waved his hand, and two black soldiers like wolves stepped forward to set him up, and after running out of the hall for a while, he directly threw Zhao someone on the ground, so that the staff of the dignified governor was not embarrassed.

Luo Tiansheng was stunned from the sidelines, but when he wanted to stop it, it was too late. After seeing Zhao Zhixiu get up from the ground with a face full of shame and anger, Luo Tiansheng's words that had originally come to his lips were swallowed back, and I am afraid that today's things will be difficult to be good. This Zhao Zhixiu represents the face of the governor, which of the officials at all levels is not polite to him when he goes out to do business? I was greatly humiliated here on the East Coast today, how can I have anything good to say about this time? I'm afraid that the first thing I will do after I go back is to send all the troops to the governor, and several ways will be suppressed to exterminate the armed forces of the people on the east coast.

This is a problem! Luo Tiansheng secretly glanced at Liu Zhong, who was going back to train his soldiers indifferently, sighed secretly, and then decided to send someone to report today's events in detail to Mo Ming, who was still far away in Ninghai Prefecture.

Mo Ming finally received the news two days later, when the messenger sent by Luo Tiansheng stammered to explain the ins and outs of the matter, Mo Ming was silent at first, and then said after a long time: "I am responsible for this matter, no wonder Liu Zhong." I've been negligent in formulating a diplomatic code for the Ming Dynasty, and it's useless to talk about it now. You go back and inform Liu Zhong, ask him to strengthen his vigilance, hold the camp tightly, and if there is a Ming army brigade to attack, he will immediately fly and report it. Also, Luo Tiansheng did a good job this time. There is a reward for going back. "Say it. Mo Ming took out a few yuan from his pocket. And he handed it to the messenger as a reward.

The messenger nodded, and departed with great gratitude.

At this time, with the efforts of more than 2,000 demolition troops, most of the city walls of Ninghai Prefecture have been damaged. The city walls in the Jiaodong area are different from other places, because the coastal area is mountainous, so it is extremely convenient to quarry, which creates the high quality of the coastal walls in Jiaodong. For example, the city wall of Ninghai Prefecture in front of you. The lower part of the city wall is made of stone, and the upper part is made of rammed earth in the center, and the outer layer is covered with bricks, and the end of the ground is extremely strong.

This caused a lot of trouble to the people on the east bank of the city wall, and as a last resort, Mo Ming ordered to bury powder kegs while digging the foot of the wall, and blew up a section of the city wall, which opened up the situation slightly. It's just that more than 2,000 people are too inefficient to tear down the city wall, and many of these looted Ming people are originally from Ninghai City, so you let them demolish their homes with their own hands. How efficient is this? What's more, recently, every night, there are always people who abscond in twos and threes. Even if the group sitting system is implemented, it cannot be stopped.

Faced with such a situation, Mo Ming had already had the idea of retreating. Especially after Luo Tiansheng sent someone to report that Zeng Hualong had noticed the actions of the people on the east coast here, it strengthened his determination to retreat. However, before retreating, the city wall of Ninghai Prefecture had to be completely destroyed. In the future, these people are going to surrender to the Tartars, and leaving a big city with complete city defense facilities so close to the Yantai fortress to the Tartars will not cause trouble for themselves? At that time, the Tartars will use Ninghai Prefecture as a base and organize a large army to attack the Yantai fortress, so that the people on the east coast will be stupid.

The order to retreat was quickly given. More than 2,000 Ming people who were busy were collected by the soldiers on the east coast, and sometimes Mo Ming wondered if what he saw in front of him was unreal, and the obedience of these Ming people was too good, and the will to resist was too low. There are more than 2,000 of them, and they have only 300 soldiers, but they can drive them to destroy their homes, what kind of obedience and numbness is this.

In his previous life, Mo Ming once saw an article about Jiannu's "Southern Strategy" several times during the Chongzhen period, and the first time the Ming people encountered this situation was the shock of the Manchu Dynasty and desperately resisted; The strength of the second resistance is slightly lower, giving people the feeling that they have the intention to kill the thief and have no power to return to the sky; In the last two times, the Ming Dynasty was almost gradually numb, and often tens of thousands of troops could not advance in front of hundreds of Tartars, as if they were waiting for the Tartars to finish robbing them before sending them away. It can be seen that the Tartars entered the customs and plundered the Ming Dynasty had a far-reaching impact, it destroyed many people's belief in resistance from the spiritual level, and the bloody people were killed in several Tartars entering the Kou, and the rest were ordinary people who were willing to be obedient to the people, and this is probably one of the reasons why the north quickly surrendered after the Tartars entered the customs.

But this situation is also suitable for people on the East Coast. Originally, they were arresting the Shunmin, and it was very troublesome to catch the thorns who were unwilling to surrender, and when these Shunmin arrived on the east coast, they just had to bury their heads and live their lives. The East Coast people have no hope of reshaping their three views and personalities anyway, and the focus of their work is on the next generation, and only the new generation of East Coast talents born on the East Coast are their key education objects.

On August 12, Mo Ming returned to Yantai Fortress with his troops and more than 2,000 Ming men and began to deal with the Ming attack forces that he might encounter. It's not likely, but it's better to prevent it from happening.

After the arrival of more than 2,000 Ming people, plus some homeless people who have recently come over, the total population of the entire camp suddenly exceeded 6,000 people (including more than 1,200 soldiers), which has greatly exceeded the capacity limit of the camp.

"There are only enough houses for 2,500 people, but now there are 4,900 people, and although we can make a batch of wooden houses temporarily, it is not appropriate to keep so many people here. I would suggest transporting 1,500-2,000 people to Blackwater Port or Rishiri Island, where they can build while waiting for the fall and winter to get on a ship to Australia. Xiao Xi, the commander of the 102nd Company of the Army, made a suggestion to Mo Ming.

At present, the camp area on Zhifu Island is small, and there are not enough houses, drinking water, or some logistical supplies. For example, there are only 1,600 residents in a large city like Blackwater Port, and there are only more than 500 people on Rishiri Island, and both places are in urgent need of a lot of manpower to invest in construction.

"It's fine." Mo Ming nodded in agreement, "Anyway, there is still a steady stream of displaced people coming over, and there will never be a shortage of manpower on Zhifu Island, and it is indeed right to transport a group of people to the rear." This matter should be done sooner rather than later, and today we will start selecting people to go to the rear, try to take the family as a unit, and the number will be as you said, 1,500 people, all of them will be sent to Blackwater Port. There are abundant resources of various materials, especially wood, and everyone will work hard, and they will still be able to settle down before the coldest time comes. ”

"Okay, I'll pick it up." Xiao Xi put on his military hat and walked directly towards the door.

"You don't have to go, I'll do this." Mo Ming stopped Xiao Xi and said, "I haven't been back to Heishui Port for a while, and I don't know how the road is being built over there, I have to go back and take a look." You stay here, preside over the overall situation here, and take care of that governor of Denglai, I am afraid that he will not want to come to attack us without a meeting, although he does not have any army at hand. ”

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Zeng Hualong returned to his residence with a displeased face, and everything he did in the past few days was really not smooth. Seven days ago, his staff member Zhao Zhixiu came back from Zhifu Island and told him how arrogant and lawless those people from the east coast were, and Zeng Hualong was annoyed when he heard it. These foreign Yi people are really becoming more and more presumptuous, before the Fran Ji people invaded and occupied Oyster Jingao, and then there were Hongmao Yi people harassing the coastal areas of Fujian, and now this new East Coast Yi people are even more excessive, and they have built a walled city directly on the shore of Zhifu Island.

Moreover, judging from his rude behavior, there are many extremely ugly black ghost slave soldiers under his command, which is really a great force. This time, he went to some of the famous squires in Deng, Lai, and Qing, and sent donations to them to restore the declining military affairs of Denglai—at least to build a combatable army in the vicinity of Dengzhou. But who would have thought that these squires were polite when they chanted poems and painted on weekdays, but when it was their turn to take real money, they pushed back and forth, which was really annoying! But I can't help them, these people are intertwined, many people can go all the way to Beijing, and a coastal defense governor with a positive fourth grade really can't cure them. If it is forced, both sides will be defeated and Sven will be swept away, but it will not look good.

But if there is no money, there are no soldiers to fight in Dengzhou, what should I do? Now the thieves gathered a large army in Dengzhou to confront the troops of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, and the consequences of the defeat of the Ming army were unimaginable. The army of thieves is galloping across Henan, and it is also close to Shandong, so there is no sense of security without soldiers at hand. Not to mention that there are still any Yi people on the east coast in this elbow land, and their ambitions will never be small; There are still a large number of bandits in the Jiaomi area, rampant in the countryside, poisoning the people, if he can't exterminate them one by one, this Denglai governor will not do it.

But there are only five or six hundred soldiers in this city now, and this little army is not enough to defend the city, how can we go to conquer bandits and razors? Denglai's defense is corrupted, and the Dengzhou battalion, Wendeng battalion, and Jiaozhou battalion are in dilapidation, which is really sad. Thinking of this, Zeng Hualong couldn't help but sigh for a long time, forget it, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, let's take it slowly. Not long after I first came, it was better to calm down, first rectify the defense in Dengzhou City, and then try to do anything else. The Jiaomi bandits and the Yi people on the east coast, let's let them be at ease for a while, anyway, now that the Ming Dynasty is on fire everywhere, it is normal to have a bit of bandits, as long as they don't try to occupy the big city, let's first talk to them about the well water and not the river water. The days to come will be long, let's see! (To be continued......)