Finally, she was able to go home. Li Fugui, carrying a heavy bag, wiped the sweat from his head with a hand towel. After drinking the bitter, thick tea soup in the kettle, he couldn't help but remember the gentle heart of a woman when she was preparing to wear clothes, and her little faces that were looking forward to the excited faces of her children. She felt her tired and numb steps became firm and powerful again.

This time he went out with the army, which was extremely hard and risky. As an auxiliary service between the main combat troops and the armed civilians, they needed to undertake and engage in a large number of tedious affairs on the battlefield during the march;

From the army's journey through mountains and rivers to build bridges, to the camps and building up bases and laying positions, to the battlefield rescue and transportation tasks during the war, corpses burial and sanitation prevention during the post-war cleaning of the battlefield, and other hard and tiring work such as corpses and sanitation during the collection of spoils;

Once you have free time, you have to pick up crossbows and muskets, participate in specific patrol and stronghold garrison tasks, and even assist in the regular army order to transport and escort. At the same time, you have to correspond to the most common Northern Dynasties infiltration and attack troops on the plains. Therefore, the various war losses and non-combat casualties caused by this may not necessarily have fewer troops in the main combat; but those who can persist in the end have good returns and gains.

In addition to various battlefield allowances and rewards, as well as post-war compensation measures, Li Fugui also earned himself a temporary 59th Regiment of the Jiansheng Army. His subordinates' military status and identity were considered a small leader;

Although it is very likely that the temporary organization will be disbanded immediately after returning to Huaidong, it also means that he can put on the blue-gray uniform (without military ranks and other signs) unique to the second-line troops of the Huai Army, and enjoy the envious eyes of others and the rights to exempt him from daily chores.

More importantly, he has the right to recommend his children to enroll, which also means he hopes on the next generation and thus changes his destiny and origin. Although most people's vision and pattern cannot fully recognize these things.

Although the road back is not easy to walk, the flood of the Yellow River also affected and affected the downstream areas and the coasts of various water systems. Therefore, there are quite a few submerged villages, towns and even cities. The only thing that can be thankful is that due to the continuous war, these places are only empty, with no population left, and the land is also deserted for many years. Therefore, the substantial losses to the rear areas are quite limited;

What is really troublesome is the damage to the road and bridges, which has greatly delayed the process of the team. The engineering troops in Jiansheng Army continue to be required to repair and fill them in one after another. Sometimes they have to drain the accumulated water from the flooded roads, collect enough gravel and sand, and temporarily harden the road surface.

Despite this, compared with the long journey of Lao Shi's expedition, the route and time of return were undoubtedly shortened a lot; therefore, it only took him three days to arrive from Sishui Pass to the frontier fortress established by the Huaidong Army as he escorted the captives and other populations.

After all, the scope and territory under the current Huaidong Town are different from the previous scale. This time, taking advantage of the trend of the second Northern Expedition of the State Dynasty, relying on the restored Wuzhang River and Baigou canal transportation distance, as well as the grain stations and patrol strongholds established along the way, the boundaries under the actual control of Huaidong Town were actively pushed westward within the range of the Jishui River to the north and the Huai River to the south.

It occupied several states in one breath, and extended the roads and strongholds to the territory of Haozhou and Caozhou, which belong to the eastern part of Henan Road and is not far from the road. Because, in addition to a few low mountains that are not connected and connected, and several hilly areas, most of the remaining plains are plains, which are also an important part of the Huanghuai Plain.

This is also part of the essence of the Central Plains that has been known in history as "thousands of miles of fertile land". After the Heluo Plain where Dujidao is located was reflowed by the Yellow River flood, it became even more important.

Therefore, relying on the forced settlement and household registration of the local people, the Northern Dynasties, which were originally exhausted during the first Northern Expedition, was able to regain and maintain a considerable population and army after reoccupied these places.

Although these armies have not had a good combat effectiveness, they always lose more and win less in the confrontation between Huaidong, and even lose their troops and places; after the Huaidong army retreated, they recovered tenaciously after a period of rest and recuperation, which shows the potential and resources of their place.

In a sense, as long as the performance can be stabilized, these places will be more competitive in agricultural production potential than the six core states of Huaidong with mountainous and hilly heights.

Therefore, according to the subsequent layout and plan of the two lieutenants and one lieutenant under the Central Army, the first thing is to rely on the terrain of mountains, rivers and rivers on the spot, and use a series of north-south beacons and outposts, forts and villages, to plan to establish the most basic boundary line.

Therefore, after the expeditionary army arrived at Jiyin City in Caozhou, a large amount of resources and manpower were kept on the spot as a supplementary force for local follow-up management and construction.

The 59th Regiment of the Jiansheng Army where Li Fugui and his team were also quickly received new orders and choices, whether to dismiss each and return to the rear, or to stay and participate in the subsequent Yanbian construction;

After much thought, Li Fugui finally chose to stay, but did not return to the east as the brigade of troops continued to return; then in the 41st Battalion of the newly compiled I-Character, he was responsible for supervising and spurring the newly acquired captive captives of the northern country and the newly attached population, and engaged in and carried out the follow-up construction of water conservancy along the border fortresses and roads.

Of course, after the power of the Northern Dynasties was defeated, the pressure they had to face was greatly reduced. The main threat was the bandits who were scattered in the local area after the defeat, gathered in the countryside and even surrounded and captured refugees who were driven by hunger and cold and drove on the road.

Li Fugui also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to save more confidence in the future for his newborn son, so he could only temporarily give up the urgency of meeting his family in the short term...

Compared to the various joys and excitement of the teacher coming home, when I reach my level, what I have to deal with is a mixed pattern of good and bad news.

The sea trade in the rear is still shrinking. Whether it is the Japanese, the Shinra, the princes of Andong, the Yizhou, or the Cantonese, there are almost all kinds of bad news that are sluggish or turbulent, so it is basically a situation where the outflow is greater than the entry;

Because, even if Huaidong's trade output has decreased, the corresponding demand for input products and resources has not decreased at all. Even due to the turmoil, the import reserves have to be increased to correspond to the worst possible situation in the future.

Even overseas vassal trade, which is a long-term source of raw materials and commercial dumping areas, including Borneo and Luzon in Tokaido, the three continents of Luzon, has seen a two-way shrinkage in export and market demand due to the expropriation policies and financial means introduced by the state and the DPRK this year.

But it is ironic that Huaidong's local agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, mining and smelting industries have ushered in a new wave of growth in production capacity, which has greatly diluted the various resource consumption caused by this dispatch;

Of course, the main growth momentum is still concentrated on the subsequent business potential of Yanbian prefectures that have been developed for many years, as well as the newly expanded areas such as western Liaoning, eastern Liaoning and Jeolladao, and began to get on the right track in a relatively virtuous cycle.

Through the past years, both direct or indirect and tireless human trafficking and capture activities, Huaidong used many means and strategies to gradually get rid of the initial negative comments such as "large land and sparse population" and "large-scattered areas" and "large-scattered areas" and allowed labor camps and stewardship land to exist in every corner within the effective control range.

Therefore, even if you expand your territory slightly westward, you can still control the situation with the accumulated population foundation.

In sharp contrast here is Andong Road opposite the Bohai Sea;

The chaos situation where the civil strife and collapse of the Anton Daluo family finally evolved into the current state of the southern part of Andong Road in the continuous drought in the Liaohe River Basin. Even the vassal families in various places that were mixed into a mess had to stop and temporarily calm down. Almost every day, a large number of sub-filling people fled to the controlled area of ​​the Liaodong Peninsula.
Chapter completed!