Until waking up in the morning, everyone was still having a heated discussion about the harvest after the Battle of Weidongguan, and the most heated discussion was nothing more than the two topics of team upgrading and the formation of an army in the East China Sea.

On a strategic level, these two things complement each other, and the simultaneous appearance of these two rewards has undoubtedly brought a qualitative leap to Donghai Town.

After last night's actual test, the C-rank Donghai team gained half a month's stay time, although it was not as long as Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi expected, but it was also a full week longer than before. This advantage was striking until other teams known as "heroes of all stripes" by the Dongzhou Imperial Court completed similar tasks.

If they hadn't miscalculated, it was possible that this series of similar missions would have been released to Team Nine at the same time, and they were all long-term missions for two months. And in the case of the population shortage of the nine towns, it is very debatable how many teams dare to start a war more than a month in advance like the East China Sea team.

In order to verify this idea, Sima Fuqiang also made a special call to Zhan Musi, and the confirmed result was that the Tianshan team had also received a similar task. Jamus's plan was to amass as many troops as possible, and to launch a military operation against the rebels in the eastern part of the county a week in advance.

It can be said that this idea of the Tianshan team is very representative, if it were not for the collective efforts of the three stinkers, Sima Fuqiang originally planned to do the same.

So let's assume that each team completes this task two to four weeks later than the East China Sea team on average, and during this period, the time flow rate of the entire Lizhou region is twice that of the other teams, which means that the East China Sea team has two to four weeks more development time than these teams. This advantage may not be felt by mediocre people in the real world, but for the East China Sea territory that has begun to enter the development of the good surname, it is an immeasurable wealth of time.

For the current East China Sea team, time is the population, and time is the strength of the army. The Donghai team is well aware of this, and in the nearly two weeks they were stranded in Dongzhou after taking Weidongguan, thousands of displaced people from the direction of Weixian poured into the Donghai territory, far more than the displaced people from Xinxian County who came through the Jiulong River at the beginning.

According to these people, the rebels in Weixian are all bandits, good at grabbing but not good at giving, and have no way to govern the local area. Under their jurisdiction, the current situation of Weixian County is even worse than when it was under the control of the Dongzhou Imperial Court. The excellent living environment of the East China Sea Territory is famous, and I heard that nearly 1,000 displaced people in Xin County have successfully moved and settled in the East China Sea, which has long made the poor refugees in Wei County yearn for it.

It's not that the refugees in Weixian don't want to go into exile in the East China Sea early, but because the only passage between the two places is Weidongguan, how can the rebels let them pass. However, I heard that the newly established "Eastern Navy" defeated the rebels of Weixian and occupied Weidongguan. As a result, the last obstacle to their migration to the East China Sea has been removed, and these refugees are eager to pour into the East China Sea territory.

For this situation, the people in the dream of the East China Sea team are mixed, and the joy is naturally that the population problem that has always been scarce in the East China Sea territory will no longer be the shortcoming that affects the development of the East China Sea, and in the future, whether it is the head tax or the supply of troops in the East China Sea, it will no longer be a problem. The worry is that there are so many displaced people who are mixed in with the good and the bad, and who knows how many rebel spies or saboteurs are mixed in with them.

In order to deal with possible problems, from the beginning of the appearance of the first batch of displaced people in Weixian County, Sima Fuqiang asked Wu Qiang to disassemble the five eight-bull crossbows at the head of the Dongwei Pass wall into parts and store them for storage, and re-erect the original winch crossbows, so as not to let the rebels discover the secret weapon of Donghai Town.

At the same time, on the grounds that there were no bandits in the East China Sea territory, they demanded that all the displaced people surrender their self-defense weapons. The vast majority of the displaced people accepted this request, because in fact they did not have weapons, and at most they could defend themselves with a wooden fork or a wooden knife.

And those who carry weapons and refuse to hand them over, I'm afraid that they are the spies of the rebels, and the people in the dream will not embarrass them, but just let them think about when to hand over their weapons and when to let them pass. Once the displaced people enter the East China Sea territory, they are not allowed to go back to Wei County, so as long as they are unarmed, even if there are rebel spies mixed in, they will not be able to make any trouble.

Moreover, Sima Fuqiang also asked Zhao Meng to lead a team of 100 people back to Donghai Town first, on the one hand, to escort the rebel prisoners of war, and on the other hand, to go back one step earlier to inform Elder Tuwu to prepare for receiving refugees from Wei County. As for some of the refugees from Weixian County, Sima Fuqiang sent a secret letter to Elder Tuwu, and after these people were dispersed, they were distributed to various villages, and the aborigines of the East China Sea territory were responsible for supervising and reporting suspicious people.

No matter how many rebel spies are mixed in with the refugees, it is not a problem for the dream people who have summed up the experience of the previous number of people for thousands of years, and the promulgation of a mature household registration management policy in the East China Sea Territory can bind these people to the villages to which they are assigned.

In general, the influx of refugees is more beneficial than disadvantageous to the East China Sea territory, which lacks population resources, and Sima Fuqiang is not worried at all, he is worried about the problems of the East China Navy.

After Wu Qiang's registration review, there were not a few rebel soldiers and refugees from Weixian who were willing to join the Eastern Navy, but their quality generally did not meet Sima Fuqiang's requirements. Less than 50 of the grassroots officers who were able to reach the elite level and sell the Eastern Navy showed that the quality of the rebels in Weixian was low.

Among these people, there are only two people who can be appointed as middle and high-ranking officers who have reached the C rank, and one of them is the lieutenant who surrendered voluntarily, and his loyalty has yet to be examined, and it is too early for him to lead a force of more than 100 people on his own. The other candidate is a hunter among the refugees in Wei County, whose true identity and reliable surname have yet to be investigated, and he is also not immediately able to entrust him with important tasks.

Therefore, at this stage, the Eastern Navy is only in name, and in fact it is still the structure of the town guard.

After the test of the Battle of Weidongguan, it can only show that Wu Qiang and Zhao Meng have the ability to lead a small force of about 500 people, and once the scale of the East China Navy exceeds 1,000, the ability of these two people needs to be further improved. And several veterans of the town guard under the two of them, after the baptism of these battles, being able to lead a team of 100 people at this time has also reached the limit of their ability, and they all need to continue to recharge before it is possible to go further.

Generally speaking, as long as the size of the Eastern Navy exceeds 1,000 people, there will be a situation of ineffective command, and not only will the combat strength not be improved, but will also form the disadvantage of not being able to lose the tail. In the coming week, the three stinkers discussed the solution of the solution of the battle to take the initiative in the coming week, taking advantage of the great opportunity of the Lizhou capital army led by Li Wei to contain the main force of the rebels, and leading the Eastern Navy to attack the scattered forces of the rebels everywhere, and further improve the quality of soldiers and middle and senior officers.

In the next seven weeks, the East China Sea team had four chances to enter the power dream, which was converted into Dongzhou time, which was a full two months, enough for them to launch two or three small-scale battles to further improve the tactical literacy of the East China Sea. Zhang Wei even considered selecting some elite soldiers from the reliable veterans of the Eastern Navy to train them to form a short and concise reconnaissance unit.

Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi both agreed with Zhang Wei's idea, but there was only one precondition, that is, only those who were identified as having no command ability could be selected, after all, the East China Navy now needs a large number of commanders who can take charge of themselves, and that is the foundation of whether the East China Navy can thrive.

As for the other thing Dong'er mentioned at that time, the requirement to hold Weidongguan for at least a week was actually not a task issued by the Dongzhou Imperial Court or the Dream World, and the Weixian rebels really did not have the ability to launch a counterattack within a week. A week after the Eastern Navy took Weidongguan, Li Wei led the Lizhou army Shi Shiran through Weidongguan, entered the territory of Weixian by the way, and began to encircle and suppress the rebels.

According to Li Wei, Weidongguan will become the rear of the Lizhou army in Yuwei County, so although the Donghai team won this checkpoint, its ownership still belongs to the Lizhou capital. At this moment, because the Lizhou Army is going to enter Weixian to fight, the Eastern Navy can temporarily "borrow" this pass, and then need to return it to the jurisdiction of Li Wei.

For Li Wei's statement, the people in the dream were quite angry, but Dong'er proved the true surname of his statement, because it was the will of the imperial court.

In this way, the expansion path and portal of the East China Sea Team were pinched in the palm of Lizhou's hand, and it was necessary to act according to people's faces. Even if you have the ability to read one day, if you want to break through the Weidong Pass and enter the Wei County, you have to attack this pass again, which is really not a happy thing.

Although it really came that day, the East China Sea team didn't care about tearing up their faces with the state capital, but according to Sima Fuqiang's habit, this kind of thing must be planned in advance.

"It's simple, there's a famous saying that says, 'The strongest fortress is always broken from within.'" Therefore, we can take advantage of the fact that the tail east pass is controlled in our hands for a few days, and open a small back door to this pass. This is another stroke of genius by Zhang Wei.

Accepting Zhang Wei's method, Sima Fuqiang immediately asked Wu Qiang to select some reliable veterans from the Eastern Navy, and secretly dug a tunnel under the wall of Weidong Pass, so that when this pass was in the hands of others in the future, the Eastern Navy could take it again without much effort.

The three stinkers secretly laughed about this for days, imagining each other's expressions when they stole back from Li Wei's hands one day.

Under the conspiracy of the three of them, the nine towns of Dongzhou quietly embarked on the pattern of separating the princes from this moment. Sima Fuqiang's ambition, Huang Zhi's popularity, and Zhang Wei's aggressiveness, the three stinkers are about to set off a storm on the Dongzhou continent.

But before that, their top priority was to face the dream of war on the first night of the seventh week-the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties that had been separated for two weeks.

======================== the dividing line between dream and reality======================= as an exiled party, when the Donghai team re-entered the main line of the Sui and Tang dynasties in October 618, they appeared in the mountains and forests on the outskirts of Xingluo City, where they had left last time.

Due to the new defeat of the Wagang army at the hands of Wang Shichong, a Sui general who guarded the eastern capital of Luoyang, this place has fallen under the control of the Sui army. At this time, Li Mi had already gone to Chang'an to surrender to Li Tang, while Xu Shiji, the "former master" of the East China Sea Army, commanded the remaining territory of the Wagang Army and sat in Liyang (present-day Jun County, Henan), 300 miles northeast of Luoyang.

Sima Fuqiang, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately led his teammates all the way to the northeast to join Xu Shiji. According to his estimates, in a few days, Li Yuan will come to take over the old realm of the Wagang Army, and Xu Shiji, who is deeply loved by Tang Gaozu, will soon soar to the top of the throne, and be named the governor of Liyang, the Duke of Britain, and the general of the Right Wuhou, and given the surname Li.

This large string of glory is unique for a newcomer who has just joined Li Tang's camp, and Sima Fuqiang only hopes that the Donghai team can also take advantage of this shareholder to ascend to heaven and fight a few battles less.

By the time they arrived at Liyang, although it was still a little late, they finally got some soup and water after the feast delivered by the officials. I didn't expect to see the people of the East China Sea team again after more than a year, and the young man who should be called Li Shiji at this time was very happy, and immediately gave the people of the East China Sea the corresponding official positions within the scope of his authority.

The most amazing thing is that Sima Fuqiang won the title of the second Ningyuan general, which is exactly the same as that conferred by the Dongzhou Imperial Court, and it can be regarded as his fate with this position. And Huang Zhi finally got over a general's addiction, although he participated in one battle less than his teammates, but with his innate advantage of "social" skills, he was also awarded the title of Ranger General.

As for the other dream people led by Zhang Wei, they were also awarded the rank of captain below the sixth grade, which can be regarded as a great joy.

Subsequently, Li Shiji arranged a task for the East China Sea team to go to Shaanxi Shallow Water Plains to support Li Shimin, who had been fighting hard with Xue Ju and Xue Rengao father and son for four months.

"Hehe, it's the first battle of the founding of the country again!" Sima Fuqiang naturally knew the beginning and end of this battle.

(To be continued)