Chapter 177: The Threat of the Sea

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At this time, the four towns of Osan had largely returned to peace, the temporarily mobilized militia had returned to their hometowns, the troops had also returned to their stations, and the newly acquired Osan Pass and Weiyuan Wangcheng had also been controlled by officials and defenders, and only some areas were still in a state of war, such as the northern area of Dingxi Town, which had been invaded by fishmen.

In the previous decisive battle that decided the fate of the four towns of Wushan, Buchen annihilated a total of 230,000 troops of the Weiyuan Qu family and the Western Expeditionary Army of the Beast Clan, and at least 20,000 of the 230,000 troops were taken prisoner, of which less than 10,000 were of the Beast Clan, and more than 12,000 troops were surrendered by the Qu Family.

Out of the consideration of waste utilization and the consumption of soldiers, Buchen issued these captives with relatively rudimentary armor and cold weapons, and drove them to the battlefield to suppress the fishmen.

Under the powerful artillery support of the Navy and the bayonet threat of the Marine Corps, these soldiers launched an extremely tragic fight against the invading fishmen!

The fishmen never left prisoners, and all the wounded soldiers of the Qu family and the orc clan on the battlefield were dragged back by them and gnawed into bone racks, and even their brains were dug out and eaten like watermelons!

The fish-man was so cruel, which naturally aroused the strong indignation of the Qu family and the beast clan's soldiers, so in order to avenge the tragic death, and also to let the fish-men taste the same pain, the soldiers also began to do the same thing to the fish-man wounded, they not only changed the method to cook the fishmen's meat and internal organs, but even the fishmen's bones were used to boil soup and drink......

Under such crazy mutual revenge, the number of fishmen and surrenderers on the battlefield decreased wildly, and it was only a little more than a month, and the fishmen took the initiative to retreat to the sea under the stimulation of huge losses, and the orcs

The surrender of troops with the Qu family also paid a huge price of twenty-one deaths!

Buchen got the news of the end of the war as soon as he returned to Zhenxi Mansion City on the way back, and while secretly talking about this tragic battle, he also extinguished the intention of continuing to torture these captive soldiers, except for those orc soldiers who would continue to go to various local mines to serve for free, those Qujia soldiers were ordered by him to be put back as ordinary people.

It's just that these Qujia soldiers were greatly traumatized in this series of wars, and in the days that followed, they caused extremely serious social problems in the four towns of Wushan.

Of course, that's all for later......

Right now, a somewhat tricky question is in front of Buchen, that is, why these fish people suddenly attacked! And why did the timing of these fishmen come so coincidentally, it was when the army of the beast tribe went west to the four towns of Wushan?!

If he doesn't figure out and solve this problem, I'm afraid that if he wants to lead a large army in the future, he will always worry about the comfort of the nest when he goes out of the Guandong Expedition!

So Buchen held a military meeting in the Empire State Building in virtual reality to solve the fish-man problem.

In addition to the middle and high-ranking generals of the army and navy, there were also officials from some government departments.

"Thank you for coming to this meeting on your busy schedule! I think you all know the purpose of this meeting, so you can express your opinions. After a brief opening remark, Buchen went straight to the point.

Vice Admiral Yue Shi Niang raised his hand first.

Buchen turned his gaze to her, nodded, and agreed to her request to speak-Yue Shi Niang was the most senior commander on the battlefield in this fish-man suppression campaign, and the army, navy, and surrendered troops present all obeyed her command, because of the line of stretching out, her speech priority was undoubtedly the highest!

"Lord, I found the survivors in the coastal area to understand the situation, and learned that there has been no fish-man attack on the coast of Dingxi Town for nearly a hundred years, and the fishermen can be sure that there is no large-scale fish-man tribe in the waters near Dingxi Town, but the fish-man attack has a huge scale of at least 20,000 people, which shows that the fish-man attack is very strange! I'm afraid that someone is secretly operating behind the scenes! Yue Shi Niang said with a frown.

Buchen nodded, he basically knew these situations before the meeting: "Shi Niang, who do you think the forces behind the fish people will be?" ”

"It's hard for me to say for sure." Yue Shi Niang's brows furrowed even tighter, "It stands to reason that because of the inability to communicate, neither the undead nor the beast clan can control the fish people. Therefore, if you want the fish-man to assist the orcs or the undead in battle at a critical time, that person or force must have more powerful power and transcendent identity! ”

"Great power, transcendent identity?" Buchen smiled bitterly, with the above two points, he can still make the fish-man bow down and obey orders, in this world, he only knows one force, that is, the "true god" of the orcs!

As an intelligent species that was re-established to rule the earth after the extinction of the old humans, the fish people naturally revere the "true god", after all, the other party is their creator, isn't it?!

It's just that Buchen doesn't intend to tell his subordinates about the information about the "true god" or the "destroyer", because this is too shocking and sensational, and it will undoubtedly frighten his subordinates, and it is inevitable that some people will commit suicide in despair in the future, or spread defeatist sentiments, and it is necessary to block the news about the "true god"!

So, Buchen decisively changed the topic: "So, if the fish-men attack again in the future, how does the navy plan to deal with it?" ”

Yue Shi Niang glanced at Buchen a little strangely: "Lord, don't you already know who is behind it?" ”

Buchen rolled his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: A woman's sixth sense is really terrible!

"I do have a guess." Buchen nodded, he didn't intend to hide this, "It's just that the enemy is too far away, we can't reach it for the time being, and there's no point in talking about it, it's just a waste of time!" ”

"Is that so?" Yue Shi Niang and her second brother Zuo Heng Yan exchanged a look, and the latter shook his head slightly, so Yue Shi Niang did not ask any more questions, but answered the question raised by Buchen just now: "Lord, according to the information we have, I personally think that this fish-man attack did not have a clear goal, but just immediately selected a location to attack." Therefore, the target of the attack in the future may not be Dingxi Town, maybe our coastal areas are within their attack range. ”

Buchen tapped the table with his knuckles: "Then this problem is a bit serious!" ”

"That's right, and if the Navy wants to deal with such a threat, it will undoubtedly take care of one at the expense of the other." Zuo Heng Yan took over the conversation.

Buchen frowned and thought about it, then turned his gaze to Lieutenant General Gu Yousheng: "Yousheng, do you have any way to defend our long coastline?" ”

Gu Yousheng didn't answer in a hurry, but thought for a while before he said: "Lord, this range is too big, even if we let all the army go to the coast to deploy defenses, it is estimated that it will not be useful, and a weak and thin defense line is not much stronger than nothing!" ”

Buchen nodded, Gu Yousheng's words were very reasonable: "Then there is no way for the army?" ”

"I can't say that." Lu Yousheng smiled bitterly and said: "You can mobilize the masses in the coastal areas, establish an efficient cordon, and then hoard the main force of the army on the second line to do mobile defense, where there is police, go to suppress!" ”

"That's a good idea!" Buchen's eyes lit up, mobilizing the masses or something is his forte!

"It's just that, my lord, this requires you to complete the political reform of the other three towns, otherwise the government will not go to the countryside, and nothing can be achieved by relying only on those gentry who are full of resentment towards us." Li Linshu, Minister of Civil Affairs, a representative of the government affairs department who attended the meeting as an observer.

This really stumped Buchen, Gu Yousheng's method is good, but the far water can't quench the thirst of the near! He will not be able to complete the reform of the political system of the other three towns in a short period of time! Even if you add that little factory to it, you can't do it!

"What should I do?" Buchen scratched his head.

"Lord, it's not okay to build fort defense in key coastal areas!" Liu Junquan, Minister of Construction, said.

"Bad idea!"

Before Buchen could reply, another army boss Chen Ying categorically vetoed: "The fishmen all come up from the sea, and they don't take surface ships at all, and the artillery is only useful for surface ships, and it has little effect on the fishmen in the sea, and if the distance is close, even the firing angle will be lost." ”

Gu Yousheng also echoed: "In addition, this can bring some defensive effects to important coastal cities at most, and it is useless to remote fishing villages and small ports!" ”