Chapter 263: Too Many Treasure Ships, Great Harvest of Grain
“Buzz!”…
“Bang!”…
Compared with Li Dingguo and the golden eagle, it was Wan'er who boarded a top-notch treasure ship faster than him.
She held a pair of huge drum-shaped and golden hammers, and through the sharp perception of her strong spiritual thoughts, she killed the enemies one by one, although they were injured but not dead.
As a martial arts practitioner at the fifth level of Qi Refining, her body movements were extremely fast. She performed the Yunlong Nine Turns Technique, leaving a trail of afterimages as she flew around on this top-grade treasure ship.
During this period, there were some enemies hiding, who were quickly found and killed by Wan'er.
The enemy's large fleet that attacked this time did not include ordinary Han boatmen and sailors.
The Ye family's large fleet came for a long-distance attack this time, and even the miscellaneous tasks such as operating the ships were all performed by warriors.
It can be said that the Ye family came to Lingshan Island for revenge this time with the determination to win.
Unfortunately, this large fleet, which gathered half of the Ye family’s military strength, seemed to have come all the way here to die.
Without even seeing the enemy, their own large fleet had already been destroyed by wave after wave of concentrated fire.
As for the large fleet of white Hu people, the sailors and boatmen who operated the treasure ships were almost all ordinary white people.
After all, the Portuguese population is limited, and the trenches are too far away from the Portuguese mainland. It is already very good to be able to gather half of the nearly 20,000 soldiers in this large fleet as cultivators.
They also came with full of hope, but sadly fell into Li Dingguo's trap. Except for the four core generals who were rescued by the pair of bald eagles, the rest of the soldiers, except for less than ten officers in the Qi Refining Realm who managed to escape by diving, were truly wiped out.
Regarding these ordinary white Hu people, Wan'er only remembered one sentence Li Dingguo said: Those who are not of my race must have different hearts!
Only the dead white Hu people are truly good people.
Therefore, Wan'er did not regard any living white Hu people as human beings. Any white person she saw on the treasure ship, regardless of whether he was a cultivator or not, would be smashed to death with a hammer!
It took her less than a quarter of an hour to clean up the treasure ship.
At this time, all the large treasure ships left by the enemies floating outside the harbor of Lingshan Island were surrounded by their own fleet.
Teams of fledgling naval officers, under the command of a third-level martial arts general, formed a military formation and flew to the large and small treasure ships left behind by the enemy, launching a bloody cleanup.
All the treasure ships of the two fleets left by the enemy, if they had the ability to escape by jumping into the sea, would have already jumped into the sea and dived away.
The remaining survivors were all wounded soldiers who were seriously injured, had lost their ability to move, and could not even jump into the sea to escape.
There were also some ordinary white Hu people's boatmen and sailors who remained, but because they were ordinary people, they did not have the ability to survive by jumping into the sea.
Although they begged the soldiers of the Fuxing Army to spare their lives, under the strict military rules and discipline, the soldiers resolutely carried out the order to kill without mercy issued by Wan'er earlier.
The enemies, who had no power to resist, were quickly killed and their bodies piled up on the deck.
After the soldiers have finished cleaning up all the treasure ships here, the corpses will be pulled to a nearby deserted island and buried in a pit.
In the process of carrying out the cleanup, the soldiers also encountered resistance from some seriously injured enemy warriors, but how could these seriously injured enemies be a match for the Renaissance Army soldiers who were marching in formation?
These dying enemies' resistance was futile and without causing even the slightest ripple, they were surrounded and killed one after another.
Although the naval officers and soldiers of this Restoration Army have not experienced real close combat in this war, they have seen blood, which is of great benefit to their growth.
After all, the total number of enemies who died on the treasure ship was at least more than 30,000. It would not be an exaggeration to say that there were corpses everywhere.
While Li Dingguo and Wan'er each cleaned out two huge, top-grade treasure ships, the rest of the enemy treasure ships were also cleared out by tens of thousands of naval soldiers.
At this time, under the leadership of Liang Liping, a group of clerks and a large number of logistical personnel were taken to the treasure ships left behind by the enemies by their own treasure ship, and they were busy registering all the spoils of war and registering military merits.
The victory in this battle was quick and decisive, making the soldiers smile and be extremely happy.
Although not much wealth and supplies were obtained this time, just these dozens of large treasure ships, the spiritual weapons on the ships, and the nearly one million various magic cores stored on the enemy's treasure ships, are already a huge fortune, and it is the kind that is difficult to buy even with money.
When all these tasks were completed, the naval officers and soldiers of the Restoration Army divided half of their manpower and happily drove the newly captured treasure ships of various sizes back to the large harbor pier of Lingshan Island.
The first major battle with the enemy was a complete victory. For these new recruits, the most important thing was that they eliminated their fear of the enemy and gained very good practical experience, which was of great benefit to their future growth.
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"Liang Liping, inform everyone that we can start the plan to collect refugees from the coastal areas of Qilu, which we have been planning for a long time."
The next morning, Li Dingguo came to the meeting hall of the military building and ordered Liang Liping, "The vast majority of the Ming official armed forces in the land of Qi and Lu have basically been abolished."
"After last year's rebellion by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Li Jiucheng, the situation on this land is now no worse than that in the three northwestern provinces."
"I will order Wan'er to lead the navy soldiers to attack all the sea areas within a radius of ten thousand miles in the near future and occupy all the thousands of islands of various sizes." "Among these coastal islands, there must be many islands that can be used for immigration to create good living areas and fortress ports."
"We now have more than 10,000 craftsmen of various kinds, and there will be even more craftsmen in the future. We can easily build islands that are suitable for our use and use them to accommodate a large number of refugees."
"I will also set up a protective formation for these islands that will be used for refugees to settle down in the future. I will also increase their safety to the highest level, prevent the enemy from coming to cause trouble, and let the people settle down as soon as possible."
Li Dingguo's plan is to build an island chain with Lingshan Island as the core in the next few years, and to completely transform his own navy into a major maritime force with profound foundation, firmly establishing itself in this sea area.
In the future, by taking a certain point to lead the whole, and then gradually expanding out, this newly built Renaissance Army can grow steadily and rapidly.
Originally, he was thinking of leading his navy south today, taking advantage of the situation to pursue and wipe out the white barbarians in the trench in one fell swoop.
However, after seeing the two bald eagles and two cranes of the enemy, they realized that they were currently unable to actively attack these powerful forces with deep foundations.
Since it is impossible to completely annihilate the enemy, it is better to try to accumulate strength temporarily, and then launch an attack after you are fully confident, so as to minimize the chance of failure.
Li Dingguo had no choice but to make this choice.
The current Renaissance Army hasn't even had time to train in military killing formations, so how can it have the strength to proactively launch a frontal attack against those hostile forces?
This must wait until the soldiers' proficiency in practicing the military killing formation has improved to at least the minor success level, before they can unleash the power of fighting above their level.
"Yes! Commander-in-chief."
Liang Liping quickly agreed and said, "I will arrange it right away and have all departments start preparing to start our plan to collect and bring in refugees as soon as possible."
"Now that we have so many large treasure ships, Wan'er said today that we will increase the scale of selecting naval officers and soldiers, in order to make full use of these large number of treasure ships that are being repaired and renovated by the shipyard as soon as possible."
"Once all these treasure ships are put to good use, I estimate that it won't take more than three months to collect and bring in three million refugees from the coastal areas."
"If the plan goes smoothly, it won't be a problem to collect and bring in five million refugees this year."
"We are only entering the midsummer season now, and there are still five months until the end of the year, which is enough time for us to complete this round of mission plans."
"Oh, and on Lingshan Island, there are a large number of farms that are being worked diligently by more than 100,000 people. All kinds of food and crops are growing very well, and a big harvest will begin soon."
"According to the initial estimates of the logistics department, the large amount of food that will be harvested will be enough to feed three million people for a year!"
"In this way, the biggest problem that hinders us from collecting refugees: the problem of food supply, will be completely solved!"
"After all, there is still this year's autumn harvest."
"With the island protection formation in place, this year's autumn harvest will definitely not be worse than the summer harvest."
What Liang Liping is most happy about now is not that the Renaissance Army has completely annihilated the invading enemy and seized a large number of treasure ships and magic cores, but the huge harvest of grain and other crops that is about to be obtained!
With a large island protection formation and several large five-element spirit gathering formations, the various crops grown on Lingshan Island will not be affected by the bad weather outside at all.
Moreover, the various crops on the island grow much better than those in the outside world.
There are hundreds of large farms scattered across all coastal areas of Lingshan Island, growing a large variety of food crops that are growing well.
Most of the crops, including a large amount of rice, will soon be ready for a summer harvest.
Liang Liping, who was originally worried about where to purchase large quantities of food, now breathed a sigh of relief.
Without food, there will be no stability. Food is the people’s first necessity.
This is an eternal truth.
Without sufficient food to be self-sufficient, any major force would find it difficult to develop rapidly, and it would be easy for the enemy to strangle it, putting it in a life-and-death dilemma.
Now it's all right. This extremely difficult problem will soon be completely solved.
All the soldiers, including Liang Liping, now smile every day and feel truly at ease.
After the rush to harvest and plant various crops is completed, Lingshan Island, which has stored a large amount of food, can go to the coastal areas with confidence and carry out a large-scale collection and introduction of refugees.
Truly have food in your hands and be at peace with yourself.
(End of this chapter)
