When the last batch of supplies brought back from Liuzhou City landed and trained to be pulled to various warehouses, the month-long expansion finally came to an end. The reason why it is said to be the end rather than the end is because the tail of Liuzhou City has not yet been cleaned up, and the work of the two newly incorporated lands in Rong County and Liucheng County has not yet ended, but the large-scale military operations have basically ended, the construction of military fortifications such as Danyang and Chang'an Town has been basically completed, and the mountain villages have changed from strategic expansion to tactical defensive posture.

The harvest of this operation was still quite large, and the more than 30,000 stone of grain (about 3,000 tons) that were brought back alone allowed hundreds of boats to travel between the mountain village and Liuzhou City day and night, not to mention that various other supplies also occupied it. In order to find enough ships, the awl, who was responsible for water defense and transportation safety, and Qin Tian, who was responsible for the general logistics scheduling, used all the freight ships that could be found half requisitioned and half hired for the transportation of various materials, and later found that the river from Liucheng County to the mountain village was too small and easy to block traffic, so they changed to a large ship to go to Liuzhou to Liucheng County to unload the materials here for a temporary transit, and then moved by the small boat ants to slowly distribute to the mountain village......

From the material out of the warehouse to the transfer of the intermediate process, and then to how to divert the rear materials to the front line, and how to collect materials from the front line to the rear to transfer to the rear, etc., these seemingly tedious and tiring things have gradually been explored to control the loss of the middle way, and minimize the transportation of artillery shells to the infantry. The mistake of sending the fodder of the horses of the chariot and horse team to the pot of the front-line fighters occurred.

The expansion occupies new territory, so the next thing is to defend it, especially pay attention to the counterattack of the surrounding forces and the Ming Dynasty government.

In the first month, because the fortifications have not been repaired, and the battle in Liuzhou City and a large number of personnel transfer have taken away too many troops, so everyone is most nervous during this period to suffer from the opponent's counterattack, especially Danyang in the north and Liucheng in the west are the most tense, not only send a large number of mobile sentinels every day to investigate, the garrison troops in the town and the city are in a high state of combat readiness, ready to fight at any time; However, the most worrying double-line or even multi-front battle did not happen, but there were often such things as looking at each other from a distance at the mobile outpost, but maybe the other party's night reconnaissance personnel also knew that the firearms of these flower skin soldiers were powerful and did not dare to approach, so everyone squatted on the top of the mountain a few hundred meters apart...... I see you...... If you don't go, I won't go...... You approach, I retreat......

With the gradual completion of the fortifications, the end of the large-scale use of troops in Liuzhou City, the enhancement of defensive capabilities and the return of various combat units, the mountain village army, which had gradually gained a foothold, was only slightly relieved at this time. Any force that has missed the best opportunity** will be greeted by a rain of bullets and relentless artillery if they want to move troops at this time.

A few months later, the news from the caravan and intelligence team let everyone know that the mobilization of military units in this era was quite complicated and cumbersome, and most of the Ming Dynasty troops in Guangxi had been at ease for too long, and when the news of the expansion attack in the mountain village reached the nearby state capital, it took a lot of time just to gather troops to gather for defense...... At that time, the mountain village was most worried that the Qingyuan Mansion went down the river to support Liuzhou City, and finally did not happen, and it was learned from the intelligence information that as originally expected, the rapid continuous operation of the mountain village army and the rainy day against the sky siege not only disrupted the deployment plan of many people, but also frightened many people in Qingyuan Mansion, this Qingyuan Mansion can support Liuzhou City along the river, so these flower skin rebels can also drive their strange ships to bombard Yishan City, where Qingyuan Mansion is located!!

And the attack on Liuzhou City also made the fame of these rebellious people in the mountain village really reach a high peak.

In the past, officials, people, and businessmen of the state governments in Guangxi may know that there are a group of people in northern Guibei who are gathering people**, and the banner is the name of the Gutian Volunteer Army of the year, but ninety percent of the people have not taken these people to heart, and everyone naturally thinks that this is just a group of mountain barbarians who can't eat pulling bamboo guns and spears**, it won't take long, not to mention the army to collect, it is estimated that the state government can send some people and horses**. It's just that I didn't expect these mountain barbarians to not know which god they invited or the light of the gods, not only did they get stronger and stronger two years ago to kill the Gutian Institute, although everyone knows what kind of virtue those military guards in the Ming Dynasty are, which can be described in an ugly sentence, that is, pigs, that are also two or three thousand pigs with knives, guns and axes! It's just been dealt with by these mountain barbarian people?!

Just when many people thought that the imperial court would send a large army to conquer under the wrath, but the reality was the same as Deng Shifeng's estimate, the tense war in the north made the Ming Dynasty political axe no longer have time to take care of the chaos in the small mountain nest in the south, so many people were thinking about it - give this mountain barbarian another two years first......

It's just that these mountain barbarians reappeared in people's field of vision and news two years later, which made people feel a little incredible, these mountain barbarians not only captured the richest large area of land in the north of Liuzhou Mansion, but also pushed the cannon to bomb Liuzhou City......

Among the rebels from all walks of life who gathered in Guangxi to rise up, it was not without precedents for the rebels to take down the city, and the rebels in Datengxia once captured the city of Wuzhou, and even crossed the border to Guangdong for a turn, and Guilin Mansion was also washed twice by the rebels in Gutian...... However, in these siege battles, the rebels usually take advantage of the advantage in numbers, and also take advantage of the shortcomings of the lack of defensive strength in the outer city and the low city walls, if they really encounter a ten-meter-high city wall like the inner city of Guilin, that is, the royal city where the king of Jingjiang is located...... The rebels can only return with a feather.

Although in the battle report of the prefect of Liuzhou, the prefect led the army and the people of the whole city to resist each other, and the Liuzhou city was full of blood, and even once could only be trapped in the inner city to resist to the death, but the people with the eyes had already skipped these nonsense of sticking gold on their faces and found the key words behind it - the loss of tens of thousands of stone grain and a number of treasury silver and various materials...... Nima, who do you coax? People probably didn't take a fancy to your head at all, and they were busy looking for money for food......

As for why other officials confirmed that Liuzhou City was really defeated, instead of embezzling the silver and letting the rebellious people bear the black pot like Guilin City? The reason is very simple: it is very simple to swallow silver, after all, the refining of official silver is relatively pure, dense and small, even if 100,000 taels of silver send a few more personal soldiers to run a few more times, the whole process is easy to keep secret; But tens of thousands of stone grain is not something that the soldiers can handle, and there are many people who handle it, plus they still need to find a large number of means of transportation, it is easy to leak more than the loss......

In the end, after the news that Liuzhou City was attacked by the Flower Skin Army spread, the disadvantage to the mountain village was that at this moment, it was like a growing ostrich, and it could no longer use something to shrink its huge body into the eyes of more caring people. Of course, there is a bad side, there is naturally a good side, the good side is that the reputation of the mountain village has been fought out with this battle, in the past, if even Guangxi itself only a small number of people knew about the Gutian flower skin chaotic people, then now it belongs to the whole Guangxi is spreading their news, and various versions of the rumors have spread throughout Guangxi with the caravan and local officials......

However, compared with the rebels in the north, the benefits of this fame spread cannot be directly benefited by manpower; The peasants in the north who really can't get by can go looking for the "big army", and the northern provinces that have become a pot of porridge are now completely uncontrolled, and everyone wants to go wherever they want, as long as you have food and strength! And Guangxi on the southern border is here...... There are still a large number of petty local officials who "fulfill their duties" and do such petty officials as the inspection department, and strictly control the flow of population when exploiting passers-by and merchants on various roads......

Of course, it is not without benefits at all, since the First World War, the shadow of the famous tree, the officials and soldiers of the state capital adjacent to the land under the rule have taken the move of retreating, which not only gives the area under the rule of the mountain village a rare peaceful space, but also facilitates the gradual penetration of the mountain village to push its own buffer zone outward...... It's stupid to have a cheap and don't take advantage!

Deng Shifeng doesn't pay much attention to fame, which can only be listened to but watched but not eaten, or he is not uncommon with this little fame now, don't forget that his ambition is the whole planet! After the end of the military operation in Liuzhou, he was busy with various affairs, especially the semi-controlled city of Liuzhou because of an unexpected meeting, and Deng Shifeng devoted a lot of time and energy to handling the work from military affairs to government affairs and even intelligence departments.

Judging from the current situation, the prefect is still very "sensible" to express an ignorant attitude towards the people stuffed in by Deng Shifeng, and Deng Shifeng does not ask too much, and he does not touch the fat shortage that the officials are all coveted by, but only tries to ask his students and personnel to be familiar with the situation of Liuzhou City and find out the future management model.

Because a large number of people can not be stationed into the city at once so as not to be seen through by those who are interested, for the safety of these personnel, Deng Shifeng not only equipped a small number of security personnel around them, but also secretly laid out two companies of troops in the area of Butterfly Ridge Linjiang, ten kilometers upstream of Liuzhou City. They will take a small boat and rush to Liuzhou City as fast as possible to protect those who have been dispatched...... (To be continued.) )