After the aftermath ended the land battle, he began to clean up the battlefield, pack up some useful supplies, and start disposing of the corpses.

The ashes of the enemy were scattered in the nearby Star Lake, and disappeared with the waves. The ashes of the mascot are packed in a separate urn, marked with name, address, contribution and other information, so that future generations can pay tribute and reward meritorious deeds.

When the battle for the defense of the lake embankment ended the next day, Yu Bo had also packed up and led the rest of the more than 1,800 people to prepare to move to Dongshan Pass.

There, there were still more than 500 wounded people recuperating, and as a qualified commander, he hoped to bring back a lot of everyone.

Now that the frontal battlefield is unclear, the fleeing enemy commander has a viper in front of him to intercept him, and a cavalry regiment to chase him back, and it is only a matter of time before he is destroyed, so he needs to rush back to the lake embankment to assist in the defense.

On January 8, a new wave of offensive began by the Combined Fleet.

"Beep, beep!"

The whistle sounded, and Guo San, who was in a daze, was woken up by Brother Niu's slap, and rubbed his slightly red and swollen forehead a little dazedly.

"Gather for dinner, hurry up, or you won't even be able to lift a gun today. ”

As soon as San'er was excited, he lifted the futon and went straight to the cafeteria, leaving Brother Niu, who was wearing pants, to be messy alone.

This kid didn't even take off his shoes last night!

"Quadruple gathering. ”

When the order came, Guo San was still holding two meat buns in his hands, and he was stuffing them into his mouth at this time.

"Today we have no support, no rotation, the third company was disabled yesterday, and we have to stand up to it today, and some people are afraid of death to stand up. ”

The company commander's delicate voice came, and the soldiers who were arranging their uniforms, stuffing things into their mouths, and wiping their blades suddenly stagnated, and then they were busy again, but no one was a bad seed.

"Of course, there is good news, this time we are not fighting alone, we are not alone with the help of auxiliaries and the help of catapults to attack the troop carriers of the Combined Fleet. ”

The company commander looked at the especially tired soldiers, and his heart was both proud and reluctant, after today, there were many people who would never see each other again.

"Finally, protect yourself, your squad leader will give specific orders to your various groups, let's go. ”

The four companies followed a platoon commander to the defensive station, and the night garrison made a brief handover with them, patted them on the shoulder, and then withdrew numbly.

"Brother Niu, how do you fight today?" Guo San asked with a burp after stuffing two meat buns.

"Shhhh Brother Niu saw the squad leader who came from behind and reminded Guo San in a low voice.

"Attention to the three of you in the sixteenth and twentieth defense areas, there will be five auxiliaries to assist you in defending the city wall today, and they will mainly stop the enemy from ascending the city by throwing stones, boiling water, and sleepers downward. Your task is to kill all the enemies who climb the city wall until all eight of you are killed, and pay attention to the two defense areas in front and rear, you have no support. ”

After the squad leader finished speaking, he walked towards the defense area next door.

Guo San was puzzled and asked, "Brother Niu, why did you change your strategy?"

Brother Niu smiled: "Boy, if you don't die today, your life will be saved, remember, don't do anything." ”

Brother Niu told Guo San again, he hoped that this kid could survive, so that his favor would be repaid.

The change of tactics has disrupted everyone's tactical deployment and combat rhythm in advance to a certain extent, and most of the preparations have been useless.

The artillery began to roar, only less dense and less frequent than yesterday, much to the delight of the people of the combined fleet.

"Commander, I'm afraid the mascot's supplies are insufficient. ”

"Hehe, tens of thousands of projectiles, and so many auxiliary material losses, auspiciousness should also reach the limit. ”

That ring is a little optimistic about the battle situation, which can't be blamed on him, normal people know that only a few tens of thousands of catties of steel consumption is enough to stop the auspicious steel supply for a long time.

"Then are we going to storm the city overnight and drag them down?" suggested the adjutant general.

The ring returned to his seat, staring at the real-time troop comparison chart between the two sides.

Everyone knew the habit of the commander, which was calculating the loss of the opponent's troops, and wanted to find the right time to place the last straw that broke the camel's back, so they all remained silent and waited for the result.

"Not today, there are not many auspicious armies, more than 2,000 are assigned to guard the east of the lake, and there are still more than 3,000 embankments. And they have a lot of reserves, and they will consume more than a thousand people today, and we will see tomorrow. ”

That ring has the qualifications to be confident, at least the current combined fleet has far more troops at its disposal than auspicious, even after today, they can still muster an army of more than 10,000 people.

"The auspicious artillery fire began to weaken, and the catapults also joined the battle group, which shows that they are really poor in donkey skills. ”

After the deputy general finished speaking, everyone echoed in due course, and there was harmony in the war room, as if only how to divide the spoils of war was left for them to consider.

The battle on January 8 started very early, stuck in the mascot's breakfast point, and some soldiers ate quickly and little, such a state in the face of fierce battles, it is easy to produce abdominal pain, breathing poorly, so in the initial defense, the mascot is very difficult.

All this is in the eyes of the people of the combined fleet, and their own sergeants have climbed to the top of the city several times, although they were driven down later, but they have convinced them of the idea of the ring, and the mascot is really at the end of the crossbow.

"Maintain the continuous offensive intensity, continue to increase the lack of manpower, and expand new offensive points to the west, and we will drag the mascot to death. ”

At the sound of the ring's command, the Fourth and Fifth Fleets of the Combined Fleet began to break away from the array, and after traveling some distance north, they began to turn westward.

All of this was naturally in the sight of Wang Xuan and the others, and they also knew the other party's intentions, but they were not in a hurry.

"Lord, we can only go to the reserves. ”

Having said that, Wang Yu's face did not look decadent, but looked interested.

"Well, pull a few men and run over, only hit the boats and not the people. ”

"Okay. ”

The Fourth and Fifth Fleets happily opened up a new battlefield, and at this time, on the lake to the west, twelve auspicious river warships were lined up, and the sailors were training for combat readiness.

The supply ships were supplied with meat and vegetables at the Xishan Military Port in Hubei, and since the advent of freezing technology, the food of these sailors has been enriched, and the life on the water for more than ten days has not been boring.

The most important thing they need is freshwater fish, each boat has no less than a dozen fishing rods, and they can catch a large number of fish from Xingyao Lake every day, and sometimes they can even catch hard-shelled turtles and other rare supplements, which are the benefits of the injured and sick.

More than ten days of life on the water did not wear down everyone's will, inland river sailors are not good, how can they become sailors who ride the wind and waves, forge ahead?

Although Zhao Qiang didn't say it, everyone knew that the inland water army was the reserve of the auspicious navy, and only the best could be selected into the navy, which was the game that the brave should participate in.

As the saying goes, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a qualified soldier, and the same goes for sailors.

Although Xingyao Lake is not small, it can only be overshadowed compared to the sea of stars.

Moreover, the Navy has several major missions, each of which haunts them and makes them unforgettable.

The most basic thing is to open up overseas living space for auspiciousness, islands, continents, as long as auspicious food, will never give up, this is a big event to open up the territory, let people glorify their ancestors, which is not rare.

Far away, it is to open up dumping places for overseas goods.

With the growth of auspiciousness, but also with the further deterioration of the relationship between auspicious and Daxia, the profits of auspicious goods sold to the mainland will be lower and lower, although the inland nobles are inseparable from these luxury goods, they will continue to test the bottom line of auspicious to lower prices, in order to achieve a new balance, which is what auspicious people, especially Wang Xuan, do not want to see.

In this case, the mascot could only trade with Hu Yue and the Western Zhou by sea, which was bound to open up new trade routes.

Xingyao Continent is the first commodity dumping ground of auspiciousness, based on the mainland, spreading outward.

A further mission is ideological colonization.

Great Xia will not import slaves to Jixiang without restrictions, and the land of auspicious projectiles cannot accommodate much population, so assimilation and appeasement are the only ways to increase the population of Jixiang.

As long as the overseas territory is large enough and wide enough, the auspicious population will continue to expand.

This kind of expansion is not an immigrant expansion, but a brainwashing expansion, and there is an essential difference between the two.

All the things that Wang Xuan promoted in this world came from the cognition of the previous life, or the cognition of socialism.

He was not a racist, but he liked the unity of the nation.

As time passed, everyone gradually touched the corner of his thinking.

Immigration expansion can only get superficial prosperity, but it does not get inner recognition. It's just a castle in the air, a rainbow in the rain, and they fly separately when disaster strikes. They can only share riches and riches, but they cannot share weal and woe.

This is not what Wang Xuan wants, so he wants to introduce slaves, and the proportion even exceeds that of the free people, which is the first step of brainwashing expansion.

The new freedmen need time to understand this new system, to adapt to this new system, and even more to compare the living conditions under various systems.

Wang Xuan is not afraid of comparison, but he is afraid that someone will make trouble from it, so he wants to use heartfelt slaves to restrain the unstable social contradictions in the early stage, and the longer the peace, the more beneficial it will be to the auspicious model.

Ideological colonization is the ultimate goal of auspiciousness, having overseas colonies, or permanent territories is the foundation for auspicious to set foot in this world, only with enough strategic depth, mascot can have enough time and space to lay out this world.

With these, Jixiang has enough confidence to challenge the rotten nobles of Great Xia.

Only a few members of the cabinet vaguely guessed some clues, and the others did not know.

"Dingding......

"Prepare for war, prepare for war, enemy ships are coming, enemy ships are coming. ”

Small fishing boats scattered in the distance conveyed the news of the invasion of enemy ships to the river fleet in a relay manner.

"How's the situation?" asked Zhao Qiang.

He had lost weight, and now he was still blaming himself for the loss of the wooden battleship, and it was difficult for him to pass this level.

"A large fleet of warships, a fleet of fighting ships, a total of about forty or so. The observer reported in the language of the flag.

Zhao Qiang and his staff officers did not know the intention of the enemy ships, and their only way to communicate with the military headquarters was the signal flag on the south lake embankment.

The sentry ships of the river fleet will be inspected every half day, but so far, the blue naval flag has not been changed, which means that everything is currently in the plan, and all Zhao Qiang has to do is wait patiently.

"Quick, send someone to see if there is any change in the flag on the south side. ”

The half-day window period is the key to affecting the timely delivery of orders, and at this moment, Zhao Qiang can no longer sit back and wait for the sentry ship to come to give orders, he has to take the initiative to attack.

Subsequently, two small sentinel ships disguised themselves as fishing boats and hurried south.

I only hope that the news can come in time, and the mascot can't afford to hurt Ah.