"This is the main peak of Zhifu Island, Lao Ye Mountain. "Hao Wanqing is originally from Shandong, and he is the only landlord in the command team of the north, so the task of temporarily acting as a tour guide can only be undertaken by him. Fortunately, he had traveled here before the crossing, so he was not particularly unfamiliar with the situation of Zhifu Island.

"The last time I was in this place was three years before the crossing...... Well, it's been ten years since now! There is an idiom that says that things are people, but now the situation happens to be reversed!" Hao Wanqing revisited his hometown, and only then did he really feel the change and gap between time and space, and he couldn't help but sigh a little. There are not many buildings on Zhifu Island today, which are far less prosperous than the scenes he had seen before he crossed, and the people who originally lived near Zhifu Island have already fled from the war in the previous two years. At present, the houses, temples and other buildings found by the Haihan army on the island are all abandoned empty houses, and it is not known where the owners of these houses have fled and whether they will return here.

The northern foot of Lao Ye Mountain is a cliff that is connected with the north shore of Zhifu Island, and the terrain is extremely steep. The highest point of Lao Ye Mountain is nearly 300 meters above sea level, and when the weather is fine, you can overlook the sea surface within about 20 nautical miles, but this commanding height actually has a relatively limited effect on the Haihan garrison, first, because there is no strong sea armed force nearby, and second, the north shore of Zhifu Island is a rugged coast, and it is difficult to dock ships, even if a small boat arrives close to the coast, it is impossible to overcome the cliffs as high as tens of meters to send a large number of people to the island to fight.

Another very helpless reason is that this commanding height is located on the northwest side of Zhifu Island, which is more than ten miles away from the center of Zhifu Bay, and the observation effect is actually far inferior to those observation points with lower altitude but relatively close on the east side of the island. So apart from climbing up to see the scenery, this place doesn't usually play a big practical role.

It was Qian Tiandun who climbed the mountain with Hao Wanqing, but they came to climb the mountain as soon as they arrived at Zhifu Island, but they were not idle and had nothing to do, Wang Tom, Ha Lugong, Chen Yixin and Sun Changmi were in Zhifu Bay at this time to command and dispatch materials and personnel to land, and they were very busy. They came to this old man's mountain, Hao Wanqing was to verify the geographical information, and Qian Tiandun brought a radio station to test it to see if the signal strength of the highest point on the island was different from that of several other alternative locations, and finally to determine a place as soon as possible as a place to set up a radio antenna.

Qian Tiandun said with a smile: "Don't sigh here, what should you do in a hurry, you have to go down the mountain before noon when you finish it, or then the things arranged by the side will have to be backlogged!"

There were a total of six traversers in the operation headquarters this time, and each of them had many tasks on their shoulders, and there was no time to travel in the mountains and rivers. Fortunately, the preparatory work was sufficiently done in advance, and during the period from entering the Shandong territory to the landing, there was no resistance from the localities, and compared with the original combat operations in the Fujian Strait and Zhoushan, Zhejiang, to expel the original owner, this trip to the north can be regarded as a smooth sail.

As for the fact that Gao Qiao Nan had captured a group of Ming troops in Yantai Mountain, this was not a matter at all in the eyes of Qian Tiandun and others. Although Haihan did not want to offend the Shandong government, if the two sides were compared, it was more important to settle down on Zhifu Island smoothly. If the local Ming army stationed in the local area is not so willing to cooperate, the Haihan side will have to use it strongly, and the naval and land forces of the northbound fleet add up to more than 3,000 people, and they have been transferred here for thousands of miles, not just for pretending. This army will not be inferior in the face of any garrison in the coastal area of the Jiaodong Peninsula, as long as it gains a firm foothold and builds a defensive line on Zhifu Island, even if ten times the Ming army comes to attack.

Due to the lack of wharf facilities on the coast of Zhifu Bay, large ships with deep draft still cannot fully dock, so it is necessary to use small boats to take the gangplank as a pontoon bridge. The maritime department has been very proficient in the application of this temporary trestle, the gangplank and the lifeboat on the big ship have a buckle lock that can be easily connected, and it is very convenient to build a floating trestle with a width of two meters and a length of more than ten meters, and the load-bearing capacity is strong, even if the heavy equipment such as artillery is unloaded, there is no pressure. It's just that when the large army arrived at Zhifu Bay yesterday, it was too late, so we could only arrange some small boats to dock and unload people, and we didn't have time to organize the construction of a floating trestle.

However, after the first gangplank was set up today, it was not weapons and equipment or other combat materials that were the first to unload the ship, but the horse carrier that did not have time to dock last night because it was dark. These well-bred war horses stayed at sea for one more night, and Harugong felt distressed, so he immediately arranged for the war horses to land first after dawn. Fortunately, these horses recuperated in the Zhoushan Islands for a few days, and the condition at this time was slightly better than when they first arrived in Zhoushan.

Judging from Ha Lugong's experience, these war horses only need to rest for two or three days and replenish some more concentrates to restore their physical strength to a better state. Of course, in addition to getting the horses ashore as soon as possible, there is also a very urgent task to organize people to build horse sheds.

Regarding this matter, Harugong did not intend to borrow from Qian Tiandun or Wang Tom, he was ready to leave it to his own subordinates. It's not that Ha Lugong knows that the army is busy unloading living and war materials, building barracks and other infrastructure, but that the size, space, lighting, ventilation, cleaning, etc. of this horse shed have special requirements, and it is really not safe for laymen to come to him. The soldiers of the cavalry battalion are all his own soldiers brought out by him with one hand and one foot, not only can raise and train horses, but even the rough work of building a horse shed has always been done by himself, and all of them are all-rounders.

In accordance with Harugong's request, the troops who landed early yesterday had temporarily set up several open-air horse pens on the shore with trees with thick bowls for the cavalry battalion to temporarily graze their horses. Today, after the cavalry had gathered their horses and pack horses into the stable, they each received tools such as axes, chisels, saws, etc., and temporarily acted as carpenters, and began to build semi-permanent stables in the places selected by Harukun.

Almost all of the troops selected by the Ministry of Defense to go north this time received short-term engineering training before departure, so that the Ministry of Construction did not need to recruit a large number of craftsmen to go north with the troops, and only needed to send a small number of technicians to act as foremen, and only by directing the soldiers to complete the infrastructure projects.

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"This is the main peak of Zhifu Island, Lao Ye Mountain. "Hao Wanqing is originally from Shandong, and he is the only landlord in the command team of the north, so the task of temporarily acting as a tour guide can only be undertaken by him. Fortunately, he had traveled here before the crossing, so he was not particularly unfamiliar with the situation of Zhifu Island.

"The last time I was in this place was three years before the crossing...... Well, it's been ten years since now! There is an idiom that says that things are people, but now the situation happens to be reversed!" Hao Wanqing revisited his hometown, and only then did he really feel the change and gap between time and space, and he couldn't help but sigh a little. There are not many buildings on Zhifu Island today, which are far less prosperous than the scenes he had seen before he crossed, and the people who originally lived near Zhifu Island have already fled from the war in the previous two years. At present, the houses, temples and other buildings found by the Haihan army on the island are all abandoned empty houses, and it is not known where the owners of these houses have fled and whether they will return here.

The northern foot of Lao Ye Mountain is a cliff that is connected with the north shore of Zhifu Island, and the terrain is extremely steep. The highest point of Lao Ye Mountain is nearly 300 meters above sea level, and when the weather is fine, you can overlook the sea surface within about 20 nautical miles, but this commanding height actually has a relatively limited effect on the Haihan garrison, first, because there is no strong sea armed force nearby, and second, the north shore of Zhifu Island is a rugged coast, and it is difficult to dock ships, even if a small boat arrives close to the coast, it is impossible to overcome the cliffs as high as tens of meters to send a large number of people to the island to fight.

Another very helpless reason is that this commanding height is located on the northwest side of Zhifu Island, which is more than ten miles away from the center of Zhifu Bay, and the observation effect is actually far inferior to those observation points with lower altitude but relatively close on the east side of the island. So apart from climbing up to see the scenery, this place doesn't usually play a big practical role.

It was Qian Tiandun who climbed the mountain with Hao Wanqing, but they came to climb the mountain as soon as they arrived at Zhifu Island, but they were not idle and had nothing to do, Wang Tom, Ha Lugong, Chen Yixin and Sun Changmi were in Zhifu Bay at this time to command and dispatch materials and personnel to land, and they were very busy. They came to this old man's mountain, Hao Wanqing was to verify the geographical information, and Qian Tiandun brought a radio station to test it to see if the signal strength of the highest point on the island was different from that of several other alternative locations, and finally to determine a place as soon as possible as a place to set up a radio antenna.

Qian Tiandun said with a smile: "Don't sigh here, what should you do in a hurry, you have to go down the mountain before noon when you finish it, or then the things arranged by the side will have to be backlogged!"

There were a total of six traversers in the operation headquarters this time, and each of them had many tasks on their shoulders, and there was no time to travel in the mountains and rivers. Fortunately, the preparatory work was sufficiently done in advance, and during the period from entering the Shandong territory to the landing, there was no resistance from the localities, and compared with the original combat operations in the Fujian Strait and Zhoushan, Zhejiang, to expel the original owner, this trip to the north can be regarded as a smooth sail.

As for the fact that Gao Qiao Nan had captured a group of Ming troops in Yantai Mountain, this was not a matter at all in the eyes of Qian Tiandun and others. Although Haihan did not want to offend the Shandong government, if the two sides were compared, it was more important to settle down on Zhifu Island smoothly. If the local Ming army stationed in the local area is not so willing to cooperate, the Haihan side will have to use it strongly, and the naval and land forces of the northbound fleet add up to more than 3,000 people, and they have been transferred here for thousands of miles, not just for pretending. This army will not be inferior in the face of any garrison in the coastal area of the Jiaodong Peninsula, as long as it gains a firm foothold and builds a defensive line on Zhifu Island, even if ten times the Ming army comes to attack.

Due to the lack of wharf facilities on the coast of Zhifu Bay, large ships with deep draft still cannot fully dock, so it is necessary to use small boats to take the gangplank as a pontoon bridge. The maritime department has been very proficient in the application of this temporary trestle, the gangplank and the lifeboat on the big ship have a buckle lock that can be easily connected, and it is very convenient to build a floating trestle with a width of two meters and a length of more than ten meters, and the load-bearing capacity is strong, even if the heavy equipment such as artillery is unloaded, there is no pressure. It's just that when the large army arrived at Zhifu Bay yesterday, it was too late, so we could only arrange some small boats to dock and unload people, and we didn't have time to organize the construction of a floating trestle.

However, after the first gangplank was set up today, it was not weapons and equipment or other combat materials that were the first to unload the ship, but the horse carrier that did not have time to dock last night because it was dark. These well-bred war horses stayed at sea for one more night, and Harugong felt distressed, so he immediately arranged for the war horses to land first after dawn. Fortunately, these horses recuperated in the Zhoushan Islands for a few days, and the condition at this time was slightly better than when they first arrived in Zhoushan.

Judging from Ha Lugong's experience, these war horses only need to rest for two or three days and replenish some more concentrates to restore their physical strength to a better state. Of course, in addition to getting the horses ashore as soon as possible, there is also a very urgent task to organize people to build horse sheds.

Regarding this matter, Harugong did not intend to borrow from Qian Tiandun or Wang Tom, he was ready to leave it to his own subordinates. It's not that Ha Lugong knows that the army is busy unloading living and war materials, building barracks and other infrastructure, but that the size, space, lighting, ventilation, cleaning, etc. of this horse shed have special requirements, and it is really not safe for laymen to come to him. The soldiers of the cavalry battalion are all his own soldiers brought out by him with one hand and one foot, not only can raise and train horses, but even the rough work of building a horse shed has always been done by himself, and all of them are all-rounders.

In accordance with Harugong's request, the troops who landed early yesterday had temporarily set up several open-air horse pens on the shore with trees with thick bowls for the cavalry battalion to temporarily graze their horses. Today, after the cavalry had gathered their horses and pack horses into the stable, they each received tools such as axes, chisels, saws, etc., and temporarily acted as carpenters, and began to build semi-permanent stables in the places selected by Harukun.

Almost all of the troops selected by the Ministry of Defense to go north this time received short-term engineering training before departure, so that the Ministry of Construction did not need to recruit a large number of craftsmen to go north with the troops, and only needed to send a small number of technicians to act as foremen, and only by directing the soldiers to complete the infrastructure projects.

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