Chapter 180: Hong Chengchou is indeed the living devil, the bandit at the end of his rope
“Hahahaha… This mid-grade spiritual land, including the surrounding spiritual grass pastures within a radius of hundreds of miles, is all ours!”

“This time we have finally solved the problem of free-range spiritual beasts and war horses. How much trouble will it save for the soldiers who are taking turns to rest in the future?”

“Hehe! This is not as simple as just saving trouble! With this medium-sized spiritual grass pasture, our war horses will not degenerate, but will continue to grow healthily. Maybe a very small number of Jiao-scale horses will be able to undergo a blood transformation and become Dragon-scale horses!”

“If you ask me, this spiritual lake is the most valuable! In the future, our army will build a naval headquarters base here, which will be very convenient for the transportation of various military supplies.” …

About half an hour later, the fighting on the scene was over.

The soldiers finally lived up to expectations and, without the participation of Qi Refining Realm masters, successfully killed all the remaining third-level Earth Dragon Crocodiles.

The soldiers who stopped fighting were looking at the corpses of the huge ground dragon crocodiles. They were all smiling and talking about it.

More than three months have passed since the Restoration Army came out of seclusion. After this battle, they finally obtained a very good base.

It is a survival base where all current military and civilians can settle down.

For the Han soldiers and civilians, settling down is of great significance and it is the only hope that can make them feel truly at ease.

Once this goal is achieved, all the soldiers and civilians will experience a real change in their mentality: after being displaced for so long in this chaotic world, they finally have a home again.

In this respect, the Han people and the Tatars outside the Great Wall are completely different, or just the opposite.

The Tartars outside the Great Wall have no sense of a fixed home at all.

They have always lived near water and often organized large-scale migrations to find new pastures and water sources, seeking to survive while developing and strengthening the tribe.

Wherever they go, that is their home, and even the concept of home is very vague.

They often annexed other tribes, or were annexed by other tribes.

Since ancient times, they have been trapped in this unsolvable vicious circle.

As Li Dingguo announced that, except for the dozen level four monsters that had other uses, all the remaining dragon crocodile meat would be distributed equally to all the soldiers of the Renaissance Army, there was another round of thunderous cheers!

No wonder they were so happy, the monster meat distributed this time was not only all level three monster meat, but also precious monster meat with the blood of divine dragons!
There are actually very few demon beasts with dragon blood in this big world.

This time, the Fuxing Army was able to encounter a group of monsters with rich dragon blood in their bodies and was able to slaughter them all. It will be difficult for such a good thing to happen again in the future.

Even if we encounter this kind of monster group with strong blood of mythical beasts such as dragons and phoenixes in the future, it will be difficult to defeat them.

Basically, most of these monster tribes have a fifth or sixth level demon king in charge, and their combat power crushes most monsters of the same level.

Not to mention the current Fuxing Army, even if the Later Jin Tartars outside the Great Wall have already become powerful, they dare not provoke these extremely powerful tribes of monsters with the blood of various mythical beasts.

This kind of demon beast tribes with the blood of divine beasts mostly occupy those high-quality and top-quality spiritual lands. God knows how many fifth- and sixth-level demon kings they have accumulated over the years with the help of various top-quality natural treasures produced by these large spiritual lands?
Anyway, in terms of comprehensive strength, the current human side is definitely no match for the other side.

In other words, humans have various formations as their trump cards, so they can defend their current territory.

This kind of monster meat with rich divine beast blood is much more effective in helping human warriors increase their life essence and qi and blood power than similar ingredients such as spiritual rice and monster meat.

Even if every soldier can only get two or three pounds of earth dragon crocodile meat and drink a bowl of dragon crocodile bone soup, after a few days, many warriors will surely gain a boost in their cultivation.

A soldier at the first or second level of martial arts, if he is lucky enough, may be able to break through the bottleneck of his current realm and enter the next realm.

After the battle, under the command of generals at all levels, the soldiers quickly cleaned up the battlefield.

“Xiao Douya, you take the soldiers of the Xuanwu First Battalion and stay here to guard this mid-grade spiritual land for the time being.”

“Except for leaving you a medium-quality treasure ship, I will lead the remaining treasure ships and all the soldiers back to the naval base as soon as possible.”

Li Dingguo called Xiao Douya, who was admiring the beautiful scenery of the lake island, to his side and instructed her, “In half a month at the latest, the first round of large-scale relocation fleet will arrive at this medium-sized spiritual land.”

“The first batch of personnel will mainly consist of nearly 10,000 craftsmen from the Artisan Camp. They will bring enough supplies and building materials to carry out the planned transformation and construction of this island in the middle of the lake and the spiritual grass pastures around the lake.”

“According to my estimation, this round of planning and construction of a permanent large base will take about two to three months to be successfully completed.”

“Red plum!”

He looked at Hongmei in front of him again and instructed, “Your logistics department needs to do its best to collect various building materials for this round of large base planning and renovation in a short period of time. You can mobilize any treasure ship to collect them in all directions along the two sides of the river.”

“I will draw a complete set of planning and construction drawings for you within half a month, and then you just need to follow them.”

“We must hurry up and complete these tasks, so as not to delay the normal progress of spring plowing and sowing.” “No matter what, this year we must complete the problem of self-sufficiency in various grains, vegetables, fruits, poultry, etc., so as not to be strangled by the enemy to death by the neck of our Fuxing Army.”

“Compared to these things, the expansion of our Renaissance Army is not a big deal even if it slows down a bit.”

He knew exactly what was the most urgent matter.

At present, a stable and vibrant rear area is the top priority for the Fuxing Army this year.

“After the completion of this large-scale construction and development work, our Fuxing Army will have only one strategic goal next year after dealing with the remaining Tatar tribes along the Jialu River outside the pass: to go all the way north and occupy the huge salt lake 40,000 miles to the north at all costs!”

“Only in this way can we solve the problem of military expenditure, construction funds, and the source of salt for our own use for the development and expansion of our Renaissance Army in the next few years!”

It is impossible for the soldiers and civilians of the Fuxing Army to always eat from the same pot as they do now. This situation cannot last long.

People are selfish, and any egalitarianism will eventually become a joke.

This is the inevitable law of historical development and cannot be changed by human will.

If you want to truly transform into a major force, all aspects of the future need to be on the right track.

Otherwise, the Fuxing Army will never be able to truly grow and become strong enough to wipe out the Later Jin Tartars and those white barbarians in the West in the future.

“Yes! Commander-in-Chief!”…

After Li Dingguo finished speaking, Xiao Douya and Hongmei obeyed his orders solemnly.

After growing one year older this year, Xiao Douya has gradually become more sensible. He has started to learn from Hongmei in many aspects and has made great progress recently.

Half an hour later, Xiao Douya was left with the soldiers of the Xuanwu First Battalion to guard this medium-sized spiritual land. Li Dingguo and Hongmei, along with the other soldiers, had already boarded the ship.

“Dudu…”

As the navy soldiers blew their unique horns, more than 20 treasure ships successively collected their anchors and cables, sailed away from the shore, and soon sank into the depths of the misty Spirit Lake and disappeared…

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At the same time, in the northwest of Shanxi during the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had led a large army to confront the alliance of bandits consisting of hundreds of thousands of people in Yangcheng.

Here, various battle flags are fluttering, whistling in the northwest wind.

Hong Chengchou was a shrewd man, well versed in military strategies. He certainly would not push these bandits into desperate situations.

He adopted a formal strategy of surrounding three sides and leaving one side open. He led tens of thousands of elite officers and soldiers under his command to surround the west, north and east of Yangcheng, leaving the south gate open for the enemy to break through.

As for giving the other party a way out, Hong Chengchou would never do that.

Cao Wenzhao’s strongest cavalry of the Ming Dynasty had been deployed thirty miles away from the south gate of Yangcheng.

Once the enemy is forced to break out due to crises such as food shortages, internal strife, etc., Cao Wenzhao’s elite troops will be the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

In order to gain an absolute advantage in the upcoming siege, he left Cao Bianjiao and his 300 elite soldiers near the central military tent.

This is not only to ensure that they are not attacked by enemy masters who might sneak into their camp or launch a decapitation operation, but also to intimidate their own arrogant soldiers and generals.

Are you kidding? The best general in the world is right beside me, listening to my orders. Who dares to disobey me?
Any soldier who dares to disobey military orders will be beheaded in public.

When it comes to knowing how to use people and having a sense of the overall situation, Hong Chengchou can definitely be ranked among the top three in the Ming Dynasty!
If it were not for the rebel alliance’s chief leader Wang Jiayin and the dog-headed military strategist Luo Rucai, who were both rare geniuses, they would have gathered the scattered rebel armies of the two provinces to northwest Shanxi before Hong Chengchou’s army arrived. Hong Chengchou would have adopted the method of defeating them one by one and quickly eliminated these bandits one by one.

Even so, he had implemented a three-way encirclement, a swift advance, a combination of land and sea, and a quick-fight tactic during this period of time, and had forced all the bandits into Yangcheng, completing the strategic encirclement plan!
The bandit leaders, Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong, were both masters of the early fifth level of martial arts. With their high prestige, they were able to subdue the rebel soldiers who came to form an alliance. They also completed the formation of thirty-six battalions of elite troops, and were able to barely block Hong Chengchou’s aggressive offensive.

Hong Chengchou, who had long ago ordered Cao Wenzhao to use the strategy of cutting off the source of the problem, was now assured of victory and was just waiting to reap a great achievement that would allow him to rise to a higher level.

If nothing unexpected happens, with the great achievement of suppressing bandits this time, and with some gifts to a few cabinet ministers, the post of governor of Qin province, if nothing else, will be within reach.

At that time, Hong Chengchou was considered an important official in charge of a province. He had finally become a real high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, and bringing glory to his family was just around the corner.

(End of this chapter)