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Chapter 204: Winning the Five Islands

Li Guan blew his bow and shot an arrow. Every time he shot, he would hit one person.

The defenders on the fort wall did not dare to look up. Li Wei took the opportunity to lead the reconnaissance soldiers holding shields and carrying bamboo ladders to the city, and slamming the bamboo ladders onto the top of the city. The defenders on the city risked their lives to push them. Li Yan and the crossbowmen immediately fired arrows at the same time, and several defenders were caught in the arrows. Some of them even screamed and fell down the fort wall more than three meters high.

After repeated this several times, no guard dared to rise. More than a dozen bamboo ladders lined up, Li Wei held a shield in one hand, held a knife in his mouth, and climbed up the ladder. The defenders on the wall did not dare to rise, so they began to hold the stone and threw the torches directly down. Several reconnaissance soldiers were smashed off the ladder. Fortunately, there were shields in their hands, and there were no serious injuries except for the point of falling.

Li Wei was also smashed twice in a row. The third time he was crazy, and even threw away his shield. He held a knife in his mouth and climbed the ladder with both hands more smoothly. This time, he finally reached the top in one breath, and immediately jumped up. After taking the knife, he shouted and started slashing. A horizontal knife danced like a splattering wind, and could not get into the drip. In a blink of an eye, the two of them had been cut down continuously and stood firmly.

At this time, several warriors from the reconnaissance capital jumped up to the top of the city, and the archers on the top of the city shot arrows. Several soldiers of the reconnaissance capital quickly raised the round shield in their hands to form a small formation, blocking Li Wei. While the archers were raising the arrows, several people took down the triangular military spears from their bodies and threw them towards the archers. The flying knife throwing technique that had been hard for a long time finally showed their strength. Several archers were directly hit by the archers and fell to the ground.

More and more soldiers jumped onto the city. After the reconnaissance capital grabbed a position on the city, the jumping soldiers could finally easily climb to the city, holding up shields one by one. The swords and shields jumped out and swarmed up. The few defenders finally collapsed, and the people who were caught up temporarily threw their spears and lay on the ground begging for mercy.

Bang!

The huge fort gate slowly opened from the inside, and Shamen soldiers flocked in.

"Search the whole city immediately and clear out all those who continue to resist. The military police immediately sent people to maintain order, inspect military discipline, occupy warehouses and barracks." Li Guan ordered loudly.

At this time, there were only 200 garrison soldiers and 100 Jiading soldiers left in the fort. The deputy captain of Wuhu Fort led 300 teams to go with Feng Ming, but the remaining captains in the fort were already dead in the siege of the city. If it weren't for this, it might not be so easy to attack the city. Three hundred guards, more than 170 people died in battle, and more than 120 people were all surrendered and captured.

Li Yan's military order was issued, and there were military police patrols in the military police capital to inspect military discipline. Li Yan was worried that the burning, killing and looting after occupying the castle did not happen. According to his military order, the people in the reconnaissance capital were responsible for interrogating prisoners, searching documents and letters, and property on the island. The medical team of the army had begun to carry out battlefield medical treatment for the wounded, and the people from the logistics and logistics teams began to count the spoils in each warehouse.

Regarding the people in the fort, the families of the garrison and the merchants, Li Guan ordered that all of them be kept at home for the time being, and those who dared to go out to collude with each other immediately without mercy. For several villages outside the fort on the island and the shanty towns on the docks, Li Guan immediately sent someone to gather and take them all back to the castle.

"Sweep the battlefield and clean up the battle marks on the dock, it's best to be consistent with the original one." Li Yan was excited after taking down the castle so easily. If you really want to say it, you have to thank Feng Ming for taking away half of the military force on the island.

"Send someone to contact Meghan and the others. See how they are. If there is any need to worry, take people to reinforce immediately. Be sure to completely control Wuhu Island before dawn." At the beginning of the battle, after ensuring that Wuhu Fort could be easily captured, Li Chan sent Meghan, Julie, Wang Chong and Lin Wu to each take a few boats and hundreds of people to the other four islands of Wuhu Islands.

Less than an hour later, people sent people to reward each other and successfully captured and controlled the target islands. In addition to the small fortress on Beihuangcheng Island and Daqin Island for a brief resistance, Nanhuangcheng Island and Xiaoqin Island were almost bloodless, and several other small islands and reefs were directly occupied.

From the first moment of climbing to Wuhu Island to the end of occupying the entire Wuhu Island, it took less than two hours.

Megan strode into the fortress owner's mansion of Wuhu Fort, "General, Wuhu Island has been taken down. When will we go to reinforce me Aye?"

Li Guan was listening to reports from various departments. During this battle, during the occupation of the entire Wuhu Islands, Shamen Town suffered extremely minor injuries, with only seven people killed in battle, five seriously injured, and dozens of minor injuries. These little casualties are really not worth mentioning for the results achieved tonight.

Compared with casualties, the gains obtained tonight were amazing.

There are more than a dozen islands and reefs in Wuhu Island, and five of them are much larger than Li Guan’s Shamen Island. As the closest border island to Liaodong, it is also the last sea trade route supply point in Dengzhou. There are many merchants on the island, especially Wuhu Island, which has a large number of warehouses, brothels, restaurants, etc. Now, the logistics and supplies are under tight counting and counting. The specific numbers have not yet been released, but it is certain that the harvest is huge.

Li Yan looked up at Meghan and chuckled, "Why, you can't believe in Huang's family? He has more than 100 boats and more than 3,000 brothers, so he won't suffer any losses."

Megan concentrated Li Chan, "Why don't you send troops to meet with me Aye? If we go, wouldn't we just be able to encircle Feng Ming in one fell swoop?"

"No." Li Yan shook his head, "Danger Huang and I have a plan."

"Then what you mean is that we won't care?" Megan asked in confusion.

"Of course not, this is the case. I see you are anxious. Anyway, Wuhu Island has been taken down now, so you can't help you stay here. You can choose a few Clippers and take your 500 subordinates and 300 coaches to reinforce your father. Remember, after you arrive, you must follow your father's advance and retreat, so don't mess up our plans randomly."

"I understand." With Li Chan's consent, Meghan finally smiled, said nothing more, turned around and left strode.

Li Yan chuckled and shook his head, looking up at the officer waiting for the report and said, "You continue, have the seized materials counted?"

"It's almost done. There are hundreds of warehouses found in the Wuhu Islands, but most of them are privately owned by merchants, and only a small part of the warehouses belonging to Wuhu Fort. Most of them are grain, including the garrison troops and their families in the fort, which are about 15,000 stones a year. There is also a part of money, 8,000 stag, 20,000 pieces of silk, and 8,000 pieces of cloth. There is also an armory, with about 500 sets of various types of swords, guns, spears, bows and arrows."

Li Yan frowned slightly. Why is it just a little bit? Wuhu Island is a fort and two guards. It is not only larger than Shamen Town, but also has a much larger structure, but the amount of things copied is only such a little bit of inventory.

"Did the property of those officers and garrison soldiers be included?"

"Not yet, what has just been counted is the inventory in the warehouse. The seizures on the battlefield and the private property of the defenders have not been collected and counted."

"Now the fort has been almost wiped out. Next, the families of the garrison and servants will be identified and temporarily detained in the military camp. All their property will be collected and counted." The war is cruel. Whether it is death or surrender, Li Guan will not be too kind to them or their family. Everything will be based on the rules of the war. The surrendered soldiers and the families of the soldiers will become his prisoners. Among these people, they are well-conditioned, may be taken back to Shamen Town and then given a job. Most of the bad luck will be transported by Li Guan to Qingnipu and handed them over to Li Lingfu to exchange the required ore and other military supplies needed.

"General, how to deal with the warehouses of merchants on the island?"

Li Guan also felt a little headache. These merchants had huge property on the island, so they were a little unwilling to let Li Guan go easily. But if they were forced to search, they would be very likely to offend these merchants. Most of the people who could build warehouses in such places were the large maritime caravans, and each caravan was not simple behind them.

"In this way, I will send someone to check carefully. If it is the Feng family's property, then all the merchants who are close to the Feng family will be confiscated. As for the others, if it is the warehouses of foreign countries, they will be confiscated. As for other merchants, they can indicate to them that as long as they are willing to pay a sum of military expenses on their own, they will be protected by us."

"How much does this military expenditure ratio?" The officer lit up and asked with a smile with a squinted eye.

Li Guan pondered for a moment, asking these merchants to release some blood, but not to slaughter them too hard, which was not easy to grasp. He thought for a while and finally said, "Just count 10% of their goods. It is best to directly collect copper coins, silk, cloth, or food. In addition, be a little polite to these people, let them temporarily close their doors and stay at home and not go out."

After dealing with this matter, Li Guan was relieved. "Let's go to the military camp to comfort the wounded soldiers and let the logistics camp make meals immediately. Today, you can't drink wine. But kill more pigs, sheep, chicken, duck, fish and meat. The food must be rich, so that the soldiers can be comforted."

When Wang Chong and Lin Wu, who had just walked in from outside, heard this, they couldn't help but ask: "Sanlang, why aren't we leaving yet?"

"Yes, we have attacked Wuhu Island, brought in money, grain and equipment on the island, and left as soon as possible. Saburo, are you planning to occupy this island for a long time?"
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