Volume 8 The Battle of the East China Sea Chapter 9 The Beginning of the Great Voyage

The next morning, as soon as dawn, Li Feizhi arrived on the beach, and looked at the dozens of people in front of him with a strange expression, these people were the battle heroes who had climbed to the top of the city yesterday, and only a few people around were constantly carrying things to Gaogang City, and began to build simple facilities on the general dock. Being able to appear in front of the Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Force makes these people a little crazy, and how can they not be happy to know that this is going to be awarded a medal.

"Ahem!ahem!" Li Feizhi coughed twice, so that the attention of these dozens of people was focused on him, he knew that although Kong Ming was not present, he would definitely watch the whole scene through the magic mirror, so at this time, he must not make any other moves, and finish what should be done.

"Everyone is the elite of yesterday's war, the courage is unparalleled, the strength of the enemy, today I will take you to do a training, after the training, we will award medals here. Li Feizhi quickly finished speaking, and then immediately took off his own clothes, leaving only a pair of underwear, standing there, how could the others dare to hesitate when they saw this situation? The smarter ones quickly took off their clothes, leaving only a pair of underwear, and then followed Chief of Staff Li on the beach of the harbor, along the water, constantly running around, tossing for nearly half an hour, and in the hope of everyone, the medal was distributed to everyone's hands, so this unique award ceremony ended. As a result, there was a tradition within the expeditionary force of wearing only a pair of short training pants to exercise by the sea, which is said to have worked well, and this spread to the places where the expeditionary force arrived.

In the morning, Kong Ming took all the remaining personnel of the Marine Corps to Gaogang, and initially found out the situation around Gaogang. Although Gaogang is nominally a port, it is actually just a small fishing port. It's not too large, otherwise there wouldn't be just more than 5,000 people who don't enter the stream to form a city guard, and even the city guard is not counted, let alone a high-level martial artist. However, this is the first foothold of the expeditionary force, and it must be managed well, and at the same time, it must not be allowed to slow down the pace of the expeditionary force, this is for sure, Kong Ming cannot give up his rule over the entire Kong Ming Island for a small city.

"Commander, we've informed the Primordial side now. Let them transport the follow-up marines and some mercenaries here, and besides, the management officials sent by the empire are also on the ships of the next wave, and it is believed that they will arrive at noon. Tang Xiang said, in the expeditionary force. Although Kong Ming is nominally fully responsible, it is impossible for him to do everything alone. So there is a great deal of sharing. Kong Ming was responsible for the command of the battle and the pre-war plan, Li Feizhi was in charge of the establishment of the entire army and the training of personnel, and he also had to cooperate with Kong Ming to command the whole army during the war, while Tang Xiang was responsible for the entire logistics and post-war work arrangements. Only when a collective has a clear division of labor can it have a definite purpose and perform its own duties. Otherwise, it will cause great confusion and waste.

"Have those subordinate soldiers been recruited?" Kong Ming asked, this was a matter related to the whole plan, Kong Ming could not be sloppy.

"Some mercenaries above level 4 have been recruited from among the mercenaries who came to Coastal City to serve as city guards. Tang Xiang said. It was originally part of the pre-planning, but it was a little bit ahead of schedule.

"This is not a fundamental solution, I think we still have to choose some people from the local people who are more inclined to us to manage, so that we can save a lot of work and trouble. Li Feizhi said on the side, this is also a way, both practical and fast, but to dissolve these conquered people into a nation, it still takes a certain amount of time, ten years, twenty years, or even longer, but this is also the safest way, but also the most effective way, there is another is immigration, those who are not happy in the country, or want to live here, or want to create a world of people to move over, let them settle here, and then they can do their best to incorporate this place into the real land of the empire, and no one knows the hardships of this。 It's just that this is not the scope of Kong Ming's responsibility, he has always believed that these things should be done by professionals.

"Li Lao's idea is good, although we occupy here, but occupying the land is not the same as really occupying here, we must pay attention to this, let the local people choose some people from the city, form an organization to manage the city, our people to be the leader, in the key positions to use our own people, so that the two supervise each other, any problems, we must solve it as soon as possible, I don't want to cause more chaos because of our people's inaction here, if such a person is found, come one, kill one, and also have to judge, let the populace know that what these people are doing does not represent our empire. Well, first publish the laws of the Empire, and the people here will be treated the same as the people in the rest of the Empire from this moment on. Kong Ming thought for a moment and said.

The news of the expeditionary force's capture of Gaogang spread throughout the empire for the first time in thousands of years, and it was said that there were more lands waiting to be conquered by the expeditionary force, and many people saw opportunities in them. Whether it is an official, a businessman, or an immigrant, it is a good choice.

In the imperial palace of the empire, all the ministers and the emperor gathered together, they were discussing the affairs of the entire Kongming Island, and Yun Haifeng, because of Kongming's relationship, also rejoined these people, this was originally a political zhì, after all, this Kongming is now fighting in the front, although Kongming does not have much good impression of the Yun family, but this is the place where he was born after all.

"Your Majesty, we should first send a provincial governor to Gaogang to take up his post immediately, so that he can govern the place while General Kong Ming has conquered the territory, after all, this is also what was said in advance. The prime minister said cautiously, although he is the prime minister, but due to different positions, as long as the new emperor takes office, then it is a matter of time before he steps down, so now his every word is cautious, for fear of offending anyone. The only one who can make him bow his head is the one who sits on top, but now it is different, he is about to step down, and he can only repair some relationships, so that after stepping down, someone will fall into the well.

"Hmm, who is better in that faction?" the emperor said slowly, this was the division of another piece of cake, and a new round of court battles began, but they finally decided on one candidate: Feng Jiaming. This is one of the Empire's capable ministers. He will set the real tone for the occupation that will follow. This is necessary, because Kong Ming is a military talent, not a strong hand in governance, and if Kong Ming is allowed to share the pressure from above, then the speed of the expeditionary force will be slowed down. For Kong Ming, who was about to conquer sixteen islands, time was a qiē. There's no way he's going to put his energy on that. What's more, if Kong Ming intervenes, maybe this qiē will be even worse.

In the command cabin of the aircraft carrier, Kong Ming was looking at the information sent by Sima Wei, and now the main force of Kong Ming Island has been eliminated, and the remnants of the armed forces in various places have begun to recruit personnel to try to oppose the empire's rule over Kong Ming Island. It's just that in some places it's louder, in some places it's quieter, and in other places it's completely silent. Through guò information, Kong Ming learned. Under the rule of the Demon Shark, in fact, the people on the entire island are not doing very well, because these people of the ruler are originally the descendants of the Demon Beast, so the style of acting is almost all based on the behavior of the Demon Beast, survival of the fittest, and the rebels have long been killed, which is why the main force of the Demon Shark was eliminated by the expeditionary force, and the entire island can no longer find a navy and army that can compete with the expeditionary force, because the main force contains many strong people who have been forcibly recruited by them, and now on Kongming Island, the strong people above the sixth level almost do not exist, of course, there are still some of those who serve the Demon Shark, but there are few people in the people。

"Elder Li, if we use an official document now, can we quell the resistance on the entire island?"

"It's hard to say, but one thing is certain, that is, if we explain, then there will be very few people who resist us, on the contrary, if we don't explain, there will be more people who resist, and the more people who know, the less resistance there will be, and the more people who don't know, the stricter the resistance. Li Feizhi is worthy of being a veteran soldier, although he has not experienced these things, but he has obtained some answers from some lessons from other countries. However, what he didn't expect was that there was a former leader of the rebel army in front of him, because Kong Ming had fought there for more than a year when Harvey invaded the Chu State, and it could be said that he knew the feelings of this kind of occupied people best.

Sima Wei looked at Li Feizhi strangely, and his eyes made Li Feizhi a little unbearable.

"What's the matter, did I say something wrong?" Li Feizhi asked strangely, you must know that early this morning, he arrested those people who were squatting in the city yesterday, and then, in the name of awarding awards, plus he took the lead in running naked for half an hour, and now every time he sees people looking at him, it is like talking about his appearance, and his heart is in a sensitive period.

"Chief of Staff, now that you have such a person in front of you, you might as well ask him what he thought at that time. Sima Wei reminded him carefully, but Li Feizhi at this time was so sensitive that he still didn't hear anything in Sima Wei's words.

"Joke, we are all regular Huayuan people here, where did we come from?" Li Feizhi said without thinking, but as soon as he finished speaking, he felt two eyes looking at him, only to see Kong Ming and Sima Wei both looking over.

"What, am I wrong?" Li Feizhi still didn't react, it seemed that he had been immersed in the morning physical training for too long.

"Hehe, no, I once led an army of Chu to deal with the Harvey people for a period of time when the Harvey Empire occupied the Chu State, at that time, I didn't feel this way too obviously, I just felt that I would clean up these bastards well, so as to save them from being too arrogant. Kong Ming said lightly, when talking about the bastard, Li Feizhi felt a chill in his heart, at this time he finally remembered, in front of him was a former rebel leader of the Harvey Empire, and the person who once made a mess of the Harvey Empire, what is there better to understand their thoughts than asking this kind of peer? Maybe you can only ask the person concerned.

"Oh, what should we do in that case?" Mr. Li finally humbled himself.

"Next, send out flying cavalry and immediately post a notice to all the cities and villages on the entire island, explaining that the original owner of Demon Shark Island has committed many injustices and so on. Collect the evidence of their crimes and other things, make it all public, and paste it everywhere, and secondly, sue them, from now on, this is the territory of the Huayuan Empire, and they are also the subjects of the empire, and they enjoy the rights of the subjects of the empire, and we will establish power here. Before our people come, keep the original qiē unchanged, if there are rebels and riots, the qiē will be suppressed, and after we come. All that has happened before, except, of course, the most heinous ones. The rest of the qiē are no longer pursued. In the meantime, we will recruit sailors here. Kong Ming thought for a moment and said.

"Is that okay?" asked Sima Wei, which seemed too simple.

"Actually, these are not easy at all, because everyone will plan for their own future, the rule of the Demon Shark has fallen, they need a master, and we provide this convenience. Because only we can save them, as for some other groups of people who resist, these people will be treated separately, and some of them are against the Demon Shark. Some of them were persecuted by local officials, and some of them were hard-hearted, and these people had to be treated separately, but unfortunately I could only think of it here. Li Feizhi said, it is true that this kind of thinking is ordinary people, and it is very good to be able to think of these.

"Well, that's it, draw up a draft at once, the number of words is small, the expression should be clear, and it should be consistent with the habits here, after showing it to me and the chief of staff, and then send it out, we will occupy this place without blood. Kong Ming muttered.

This is generally the case with every war, not that every place needs a war to be taken, and not every place can be captured after every battle. More often, many cities do not have the ability to protect, they can only prevent some monsters or thieves, and they can't protect against the attack of the army at all, so more often it is concentrated to fight a few battles, and the enemy's main army can be crossed, and you can seize a country, this is the normal state of war, otherwise every city will experience war, not only for the local destruction of the strict zhòng, but also on both sides do not have so many troops, usually the losing side in order to be able to reassemble more troops in order to achieve victory, they will correspondingly retreat a number of cities, and give them to the victorious side, and only in this wayOtherwise, defending city by city, not only can they not concentrate the army, but they will also consume their limited army in this way, and the enemy's losses will be minimized, so in addition to buying time, no commander will defend city by city. Therefore, often at such times, the commander of an army will send some envoys to various places to recruit surrenders, which not only improves efficiency but also avoids unnecessary losses. Because the main force on the entire Demon Shark Island has buried Kong Ming at the bottom of the sea, on this island the size of half a province, there are only ten main cities in total, Gaogang is just a small town, not even a city, and there are not many troops stationed in these ten main cities. In the information obtained by Kong Ming, their combined strength will not exceed 200,000, that is, the average of each city is 20,000, because although it is located in the East China Sea and is rich in resources, there are many fewer people, so this is also the largest number of troops that the island can collect now. They no longer have the strength to fight, and now as long as Kong Ming opens enough prices, they can make these city lords and city guards surrender, and as for the future, we will talk about it later.

Sure enough, within three days later, the ten cities, except for the original capital of Suyi City, did not surrender, and the other cities sent envoys to Kong Ming to present a surrender table to express their submission.

The day after the expeditionary force sent the order to the Quartet of Kongming Island, Feng Jiaming, the first governor of Kongming Island, came to the ship where Kongming was located outside Gaogang. The two also met for the first time, and they almost didn't know anything about Feng Jiaming and Kong Ming, Li Feizhi knew a little bit about it, and Tang Xiang and him were close friends. In this layer of relationship, it is also a reason for the consideration of the top management of the empire, because Feng Jiaming almost always deals with Tang Xiang, so the two of them who get along may have more topics.

"Governor, welcome. Kong Ming said directly when he saw Feng Jiaming, Feng Jiaming's position is one level lower than Kong Ming, according to the official rank of the empire, Kong Ming is a first-grade official, and Feng Jiaming is a second-grade official, and there seems to be only one level difference in the middle, but it is actually two levels, because there is also a deputy first-grade level in the middle. If it is according to the system, Kong Ming does not need to come out to greet him, but Kong Ming still came out, not because of any nonsense such as thirst for talent, but because Kong Ming really has no habit of waiting for people to come at home, not to mention that this person is here to take over Kong Ming Island, as an island named after Kong Ming, it is very normal for Kong Ming to come out to receive it, of course, the most fundamental reason is that Kong Ming knows that he can finally throw this big burden out, which makes him quite comfortable, and he has been very sad about this matter in the past two days, according to his words, it is not a human job。

"Hehe, the commander is too polite. Seeing Kong Ming greet him at the bow of the boat, Feng Jiaming was quite happy, which directly showed Kong Ming's concern about this matter, of course, Kong Ming didn't think so. In the next time, Kong Ming told Feng Jiaming some news about Kong Ming Island, and then said goodbye directly, he handed over everything to Tang Xianglai to hand over to Feng Jiaming, so that the words were clearer, after all, Kong Ming was a complete layman for internal affairs, and he would not pretend to understand to join in the fun.

"Brother Tang, this boss of yours is really difficult to serve. After Kong Ming left, Feng Jiaming said that he thought that after Kong Ming greeted him, he would discuss the affairs of the island with him, but Kong Ming sat down and said a few words and left, letting Tang Xiang talk to him, although Tang Xiang's official position was half a level older than him, but the two were quite good friends, so there was no shying away from saying these words.

"Hehe, Brother Feng is wrong, except for Kong Ming, who is a little domineering when he is fighting, he is not a good talker at other times. Tang Xiang said. His words were really beyond Feng Jiaming's expectations.

"Oh, if that's the case, why didn't he explain the matter directly to his face, but let Brother Tang say it?" Feng Jiaming asked strangely, under normal circumstances, a person like him who has just arrived, the chief officer present will explain some things clearly to him, and some people are even as thin as a hair, but Kong Ming is good, and he left directly after a polite two sentences, in his opinion, he may even pretend to be polite two sentences.

"Hehe, we will be together for a long time in the future, you will slowly know his character, he is not avoiding you, but since he took Gaogang, except for sending people around to post notices in various cities and towns, all other things are handled by me, he doesn't even ask, he is really not too good at construction. Tang Xiang said with a smile, Feng Jiaming's reaction was not beyond his expectations.

"Then how could his fiefdom be built so well?" Feng Jiaming said strangely, when he came, he passed through Binhai City, and saw that the buildings were all newly built, and the wide streets made him feel like he was late to see each other, but the reality directly made him a cold water, and Kong Ming didn't seem to want to see him.

"Hehe, I'm more aware of this, after all, I've gone through the whole process of this. ”

So the two of them directly began the handover and discussion of the work, the two talked about the evening, only to negotiate the preliminary matters, and the new capital of Kongming Island also re-selected the place, in Mingcheng, and the coastal city across the sea, so that it is not only convenient for the two places to contact, but also to have better exchanges with the inland, more importantly, there is a natural deep-water port, and Mingcheng has issued a notice, willing to return to the Huayuan Empire. That night, the headquarters of the East China Sea Expeditionary Force arrived in Mingcheng with more than 100,000 marines and stationed there. (To be continued......)

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