When the two sides signed a series of agreements on the "concession", the North Vietnamese court was eager to exchange seemingly unuseful vacant areas for military assistance from Haihan, and did not pay much attention to the future impact of some of these provisions. After all, the ideologies of those in power were limited by the times and circumstances, and therefore they lacked strategic foresight in making decisions, but after a while, these provisions, which were once considered insignificant by the North Vietnamese court, are slowly beginning to play a role—something that makes the North Vietnamese government uncomfortable but helpless.

Even if Zheng Bai was dissatisfied with these decisions made by the imperial court, he had no way to change the status quo, after all, he was just a martial artist and did not have much influence in the court. Although Zheng Bai really wants to arrest all the people of the Ruan family, but now the Haihan people want to stand up to protect them, and even take out the "concession" as a shield, all Zheng Bai can do is to reflect the attitude of the Haihan people, as for whether the follow-up will start a fight with the Haihan, that is also the task of the civil official, and it is no longer within the scope of Zheng Bai's participation.

The only thing Zheng Bai felt fortunate about was probably that the Haihan people did not open their mouths before the war, and Hue would also be used as a concession - of course, this condition is more likely to be rejected by the North Vietnamese court, but if the Haihan people ask for a "special exclusive area" outside the city or even in the city, in fact, the possibility of success is quite high. If that happens, then the magistrates stationed in Hue will be in great trouble in the future.

However, Zheng Bai's worries were actually unnecessary, and Haihan's side never had the idea of occupying Hue City from beginning to end. Compared with the big cities of the same era, Hue's conditions are good, the city defense facilities are quite perfect, there is a vast arable land around the city to provide food, and there are waterways leading to the sea. However, in the eyes of the Executive Committee and the Military Commission, the location of Hue City is not actually suitable for the development strategy of Hai Han, it is 20 miles away from the coastline, and there is no natural harbor topography to develop large-scale maritime trade. Of course, if it is necessary to build a port city in a few seaport areas that are still in a state of wilderness in the short term, it can only be realized by the organization and operation of Haihan, and the North Vietnamese court must not have such great courage.

"Take a good look at this place again, after you leave Hue this time, you will probably not be able to come back for many years. On the dock outside Hue City, Wang Tom said to a group of South Vietnamese ministers who were about to embark on an unknown journey: "The court in the north does not want to see you in Hue again, in order to save your lives and family property, there is no way to do it, and we can only help here." ”

The Ruan clan members who were saved by the Haihan Militia this time were actually far more than those on the list that Yan Chujie handed over to Zheng Bai. The names on the list are all people who actually assisted the Hai Han militia during the attack on Hue, but in addition, there are many other black accounts that are not included in the list. Most of these people are family members of officials who were captured by the Haihan militia after the city was broken, some were separated from their families due to the chaos, and some were blocked in their homes before they had time to escape.

The next thing was very simple, in order to save their lives, these Nguyen clan people "took the initiative" to pay a valuable protection fee to the Haihan militia in exchange for the "freedom and security" promised by the Haihan people. Of course, even after spending money, the Haihan people still insist that they leave their homeland and leave Hue, and the so-called "freedom and security" only refers to the process of leaving Hue.

And just relying on this unplanned revenue, the Haihan militia recorded more than 300,000 taels of silver, nearly 20,000 taels of gold, and a number of jewels. Several high-ranking military officers even held a special meeting to discuss whether they should come forward to protect all the high-ranking officials of the Nguyen clan who were captured by North Vietnam, after all, these people still have quite a lot of various types of real estate in the people, and it will be a lot of money to sell them in the future.

Ruan Jinggui stepped forward and arched his hand: "Thank you Haihan chiefs for keeping your promise, after my Nguyen clan leaves Hue, I will ask you to take care of me!"

These Nguyen clansmen were not sent to the same settlement, and for safety reasons, the Haihan side would split them up and settle them in different areas. Some maritime merchants like Nguyen Ching Gui will be resettled in several newly opened ports in the south, while most of the others will be transported back to Hainan Island and assigned to various resettlement sites under the Executive Committee. As for the very small number of people who still have a certain amount of property after paying various expenses such as protection fees, resettlement fees, and transportation fees, and are unwilling to put themselves under the protection of the Haihan, the military also gave them another option, that is, to send them to the coastal areas of Daming to land. As for their future destination, it is completely left to their own devices.

On 30 March, the first ships carrying booty and Nguyen immigrants sailed out of the mouth of the Xiang River and returned to Sanya. The total value of the booty carried on this batch of ships alone has exceeded two million taels of silver, which is a level that the total harvest of several sorties of the Haihan militia in the past has not reached. Although communication with the base camp can only be communicated by a short telegram at present, several senior officers in the front command can basically imagine the members of the executive committee smiling from ear to ear when they receive the news.

For the military, the biggest gain from this war is not how much supplies and money are captured, but the expansion opportunities that will be obtained from it. The military's various plans for arms expansion and warfare have always been rejected or cut in half by the executive committee members in the name of "excessive budgets" and the like, but the fact that Hue sent troops to Hue this time proved that the CMC's development method of "feeding the war with war" is quite feasible. When I go back this time and submit a report on the expansion of the army to the Executive Committee, I believe that the Executive Committee members will no longer be able to prevaricate under the old pretext.

Even for practical reasons, the next expansion of the Haihan militia is imperative. After the Haihan war, there were four more ports to be built in the Indochina Peninsula in one go, and one of them was Cam Ranh Bay, a military port that the military had coveted for a long time.

In the expansion of military power in Indochina, the soldiers will not only come from the local area, but a considerable part of them will come from the Sanya region. According to the principle of serving in other places, soldiers recruited from the Indochina Peninsula will serve on Hainan Island in turn, while soldiers recruited from the Daming region will be sent overseas to serve one after another. If nothing else, the vast majority of the first garrisons of the four new ports will be troops from the Sanya Military Region.

However, the militia troops who participated in the battle of Hue did not immediately withdraw with the cargo ships, because although the fall of Hue symbolized the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime, the battle for the unification of Annam did not end there. In the Quang Tri region, south of Dong Hai and north of Hue, there were at least a few thousand remnants of South Vietnamese forces holding Quang Tri City. In the offshore area south of Hue to the southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, there are at least a dozen states and counties that are unaware of the changes that have taken place in Hue. The two sides must also agree on the next military action, in other words, everyone must settle the previous accounts. Then think about whether to fight together in the next battle.

"General Yan, our army has not yet sent an observation group to your army last month, and the accounts of this last month ...... In the following I think there are some debatable points. This cruising trip cost 8,000 taels of silver a day, on what basis did it come from? How can this be confirmed?"

"Oh? General Zheng can't trust our army's accounts? So in General Zheng's eyes, our army's credibility is not enough? We sent more than 20 ships to patrol the waters off Hue every day to block the ships sent by South Vietnam, and the soldiers went out early and returned late every day, and had to carry out tasks at sea for six or seven hours.

When it comes to the huge military expenses involved in this operation, the generals on both sides insist on their own words and do not give in to each other. If it weren't for the fact that everyone was wearing military uniforms and their tone was solemn, this scene really smelled of haggling among vegetable market vendors.

According to the figures provided by the Haihan side, the North Vietnamese court had to provide more than 180,000 taels of silver for the Haihan militia for this operation. At Zheng Bai's strong request, the Haihan side made a slight concession, deducting the rent of the four southern ports for the first year, and said that it would make some economic compensation for the release of thousands of South Vietnamese troops by North Vietnam, and reduce the overall cost by about 10%.

However, even so, 1.8 million compared to 1.6 million was no real difference to the already poor North Vietnamese court. At the beginning, Zheng Bai originally planned to use the confiscated property in Hue City to offset the military expenses needed by the Haihan militia, but the actual situation was too different from the assumption, and it was only one day late to enter the city, and most of the property in the city was swept away by the Haihan people. Zheng Bai used tens of thousands of people to loot in the city for five days, and the money he got was only more than 300,000 taels of silver.

Zheng Bai's pre-war estimate was no less than two million taels, and the difference in the actual number was so large that he couldn't accept it. Such a small amount of money, not to mention repaying the military expenses of the Haihan people, even if it is to pay the imperial court, it is far from enough - on the side of Thang Long Mansion, Zheng Jie, the king of the Qing capital, is looking forward to the capture of Hue City, and after repaying the military expenses of the Haihan people, he also left a few money into the treasury. However, now it seems that this qiē is just a delusion, and it is difficult for Zheng Bai to imagine whether Zheng Jie will be so angry that he vomits blood when he receives the report a few days later.

Out of practical considerations, Zheng Bai certainly hoped to continue to cooperate with the Haihan militia, which could save a lot of consumption of the North Vietnamese army. However, although the combat effectiveness of the Hai Han militia was good, the military expenditure was too high for North Vietnam to bear. Zheng Bai is not the Minister of Finance and has no authority to make decisions, so all he can do now is to keep the price of the military expenses that need to be reimbursed as low as possible, and then report the figures to Thang Long for a decision. Of course, no matter how much the final amount of this money is, no matter whether Thang Long Mansion can be paid off at one time, it must still be admitted, otherwise Zheng Bai does not dare to guarantee that after the Hai Han militia evacuates Hue, he will simply choose to go north from the sea to the Red River Delta and go straight to Thang Long Mansion. Since these madmen have the means to demolish the inner and outer walls of Hue City, I am afraid that the fortifications of Thang Long Province will not be able to stop them.

Although Zheng Bai wanted to continue to cooperate with the Haihan militia to clear out the remnants of South Vietnam, Yan Chujie's attitude was also very clear, if the previous accounts were not settled clearly, then the Haihan militia would not participate in the follow-up military operations. And the time limit given by Hai Han to North Vietnam was also very short, only five days - this was not enough for Hue to make a round trip to Thang Long, not even a one-way trip.

On 3 April, the Hai Han militia, which had not waited for a confirmed response from the North Vietnamese side, began to organize the evacuation of Hue. Zheng Bai was really happy and worried when he saw this scene, and the joy was that these tossing guys were finally leaving Annam - the Haihan militia had extremely high requirements for logistics and supplies, and almost all the poultry and livestock within thirty miles of Hue were used as food supplies for the Haihan militia at their request, and if they didn't leave, Zheng Bai would probably have to send tens of thousands of people under his command out to hunt and fish.

On the other hand, after the departure of the Haihan people, the battle to clear the remnants of South Vietnam will inevitably slow down. After the withdrawal of the Hai Han militia, the corresponding sea transportation capacity will also be greatly reduced, and in the future, there will only be limited sea transportation capacity to support the North Vietnamese Army's clearance operations, and just maintaining a long supply line will require too much energy and materials for the North Vietnamese Army. If nothing else, Zheng Bai estimates that he will probably spend most of the next half a year in the non-stop march and battle.

On 8 April, the militia returned to Sanya by boat. Despite missing the celebrations of the second anniversary, the Executive Committee mobilized the people of Sanya to welcome the troops back to the port area. This welcome event was also the largest in the history of the militia army, and all the members of the executive committee and more than 10,000 people came to the port area to welcome the militia army returning triumphantly.

Nearly 2,000 fighters and nearly 1,000 civilians were dispatched to the Sanya area during the operation, of which 174 were killed and more than 60 were seriously wounded and disabled. But judging by the brilliant results achieved, such a number of casualties is enough to be proud of.

Yan Chujie, Qian Tiandun, Qiao Zhiya, Wang Tom, and others, who had made meritorious contributions in this operation, were all publicly commended by the Executive Committee at the welcoming ceremony on the wharf, and the internal promotions of the Central Military Commission will be announced at a later date. On behalf of the front-line command headquarters, Yan Chujie read out the names of all those killed in battle at the welcoming ceremony, and on the spot issued pensions to their families and commendation orders jointly issued by the Executive Committee and the Central Military Commission. All those killed in the war will be posthumously awarded personal second-class military merits, and their bones will be put into the martyrs' cemetery, and their families will be taken care of in terms of work, house purchase, and children's education.

After the completion of these face-saving projects, the Executive Committee held a welcome reception for the officers who had crossed the expedition at Fort Victory. In addition to the insiders, the participants also invited many foreign businessmen, business representatives in Sanya, and of course, official representatives of the Ming Dynasty such as Luo Shengdong were also indispensable.

The main reason why these outsiders were invited was that the Executive Committee wanted to use this victory to promote force, to deter people, and at the same time to give more confidence to those pro-Haihan forces and allies with relevant interests, so that they could understand how terrible the Haihan militia was.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Tao Donglai stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, please listen to me." ”

After the venue was quiet, Tao Donglai continued: "I believe everyone knows that we are here today to pick up the dust for our militia soldiers. But where they went to fight, what the process was, and what the result was, I'm sure most of you probably don't know very well. In order to let everyone more intuitively understand how our militia is fighting for the interests of Haihan outside, we have specially arranged a small program this time, please sit in place and do not move around at will. ”

Tao Dong clapped his hands after speaking, and the lights in the room went out, and just when the people present were confused, they saw a light curtain on a wall, which reflected the scene when the Haihan militia left Shengli Port in February. Seeing such a scene, some people immediately exclaimed, and some people who had seen it knew that this was the secret technique "Dianying" exclusively mastered by the Haihan people, so they immediately explained in a low voice.

This shot is supposed to have been taken on a warship on a certain expedition, dozens of large ships sailing out of the harbor one after another, lining up in a line, dragging a fleet of ships several miles long at sea.

The next camera turned, and several Haihan warships were seen chasing a sailing ship on the sea. At this time, Wang Tom's voice sounded at the scene: "This is our cargo ships chasing South Vietnam, these cargo ships are purchasing supplies for South Vietnam in the territory of Daming, but most of them were intercepted by us on the way back." ”

Soon the camera shifted to the landing of the fleet, and Tom Wang explained: "This is our landing at the mouth of the Xiang River in the east of Hue, about 20 miles from Hue City. The next scene made the onlookers' blood run into a pang as more than a dozen artillery pieces lined up on the riverbank, bombarding dozens of boats on the river. The boats were shot and caught on fire, with the South Vietnamese soldiers on board jumping into the river to escape while the boats slowly sank into the water. It was the first time for many people to see the real war picture, and with the rumbling sound of artillery released from the speakers at the scene, many people were trembling and almost wanted to escape. "This is our naval division unit that annihilated South Vietnam on the banks of the Xiang River. Of course, for them this is a sailor, for us it is nothing more than a pile of broken wood floating on the surface of the river. Tom Wang's commentary was full of disdain for the South Vietnamese sailors and pride in his own militia, and although the tone was arrogant, it was taken for granted in the eyes of the spectators—under the fierce artillery fire of the Haihan, was it not just a pile of broken wood?