At midnight, the violent explosion sounded throughout the entire Crab Bay, Suqian, Guan Zhen and other Ming generals rushed out of the house. What they saw was the level guarded by the Qi army. After the fire was soaring into the sky, but there was no one on the level. Both of them looked at each other. In a hard battle during the day, the Ming army attacked the level several times, but were forced back. It has to be said that the combat effectiveness of the Qi army is still quite considerable. Although the level is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Ming army has an overwhelming advantage over weapons. The bombardment of the ground and the explosion in the sky is always followed by a storm-like baptism before the infantry will attack. But that's it. After hiding in places where the Qi army might have hidden, after hiding, after surviving this attack, he started a hand-to-hand battle with the Ming army that rushed up. After a day.

Whether it is Suqian or Guan Zhen, they have no intention of launching an attack at night. Night attack is a double-edged sword, which can both hurt the enemy and himself. The level of the enemy has become the end of its strength, and tomorrow is when he dies, and they don’t want it too much.

But what they didn't expect was that in the middle of the night, Ming Ren did not move, and Qi Ren actually made a big move.

"Sading the Explosion?" Guan Zhen was a little confused.

Qi people also had a lot of gunpowder in their hands. When conquering the Crab Bay Claw Arm, the Ming army seized eight huge bronze artillery pieces, but no one was found in the gunpowder, and it was obviously taken away by Qi people. During the daytime attack, the two were worried that Qi people would use gunpowder to attack the siege troops, but what surprised the two were that no matter how hard the fight was, Zhu Ruofan did not take out a single gunpowder.

This made the two of them think that the Qi people had used up all their gunpowder to store them.

Although the gunpowder of Qi people is completely incomparable to the explosives of Ming people, and its power is also in the sky and in the ground, when the thing explodes, it can still kill people. Guan Zhen is much more familiar with gunpowder than Suqian. The gunpowder used by Qi people now is roughly the same as the first generation of gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty.

"Not like it!" Su Qian shook his head, and as he heard another series of explosions, he suddenly woke up: "Zhu Ruofan ran away!"

He jumped and issued an order loudly, and his personal soldiers rushed to the bases of each unit like sparks.

Half an hour later, Suqian and Guan Zhen both stood on the dilapidated level. There was no one here, leaving only the broken flags of the Qi people waving in the wind and cold wind. The two looked at the Avenue leading to Laizhou after the level. The road surface originally paved with cement no longer exists. The large amount of earth and rocks sliding down from the cliffs on both sides blocked the hundreds of meters of road.

Even at the most critical moment, Zhu Ruofan did not use gunpowder. It turned out that he used all the remaining gunpowder to bury all the remaining gunpowder on the mountains on both sides of the road to ensure that he could retreat safely in the end.

The unretreatable battle during the day made the Ming army think that this Qi army would definitely last until the end of the city was destroyed. No one expected that it would be like this. Suqian and Guan Zhen smiled bitterly. The mud, sand, soil and rocks blocked on the hundreds of meters of road were afraid that it would be impossible to create a passage without more than ten days to clean it.

"Damn it, there's really a time when we two overturned in the gutter this time, and we told each other and threw ourselves to death." Guan Zhen said angrily.

Suqian was also a little ashamed. To be honest, Zhu Ruofan had no reputation before this battle, and they had never heard of this person's name. However, after this battle, if others didn't say it, Suqian and Guan Zhen would definitely engrave the name of this person in their hearts.

"A group of defeated soldiers and generals can't escape even if they run away. Otherwise, I will send a team of people to chase them!" Guan Zhen said.

"Forget it!" Su Qian shook his head and said, "As you said, a group of defeated soldiers are already a loser, and it will not be a big victory if you chase after him. If that damn guy hurt us halfway and lose some people, he will really lose his life. Let them go, but let these people breathe for a while, and then the new and old accounts will be settled together."

Both of them looked at the dark night sky in the distance and fell silent.

Guan Zhen was just a verbal speech. Suqian made sense. When it comes to familiarity with the terrain, the Ming army could not compare with the Qi army at all. It was extremely dangerous to chase in the night.

When it was dim, some soil and snow on the ground suddenly started to move around five miles away from the checkpoint. A group of Qi soldiers led by Zhu Ruofan emerged from their hiding place. Looking at the empty rear, they were both lucky and disappointed.

Zhu Ruofan did set up an ambush halfway. If the Ming army came to chase him, he would take the opportunity to hit a target. Of course, with the Ming army's combat effectiveness, even if such ambush is won, I am afraid that there will be no few people left who can return to Laizhou City in the end. Now that the Ming army has not chased him, everyone can go back with all their tails, but they cannot achieve even a small victory in the defeat, which also disappoints Zhu Ruofan.

A buzzing and familiar voice came from the sky. Zhu Ruofan waved his hand and everyone immediately got into the woods on the side. The Ming army airship had left him with too profound reflections these days. He could come up with some ways to deal with it. However, this guy who flew in the sky almost made people unable to hide. Whether it was on the Crab Bay Claw Arm or on the later levels, he suffered a lot from this guy.

If these guys flying in the air discovered their group, they would never mind throwing a row of bombs on them.

The airship in the air was not flying high. If there were some powerful crossbows at this time, Zhu Ruofan felt that he could severely damage these guys, but unfortunately, these heavy guys would not be able to take them away when they were escaping. He could only hide in the woods and watch an airship flying towards Laizhou.

"Let's go back, go back to Laizhou, and compete with the Ming army again." Zhu Ruofan shouted to his subordinates.

The Ming army ignored the escaped Qi army. Now they had more important things to do. After several days of hard work, the navy finally cleared a passage in the bay that could be entered by merchant ships. However, it would take some time for the large warships to enter the bay. At this moment, transport ships finally entered the port, broke down on the berth that had been repaired and could barely docked, unloaded the ship's supplies, and then started the anchor and returned to sail. Next, they had several trips to run.

The materials on the shore were piled up like mountains, and engineering teams began to be busy as soon as they got off the ship. This time, these engineering teams witnessed a tragic war with their own eyes. Many people are still shy about their hearts. When they are in the rear, war seems relaxed or even romantic to many people. Only after experiencing the war personally can they know that war is always cruel.

The Crab Bay War lasted for nearly half a month. The number of casualties of the Ming army alone exceeded 2,000, and the number of casualties of the Qi army was several times higher. Above the sea, there were floating corpses floating everywhere. Of course, they were basically from Qi. Regardless of the casualties of the Ming army, they would be taken back immediately.

When we stepped ashore, among the cleared ruins, countless wounded soldiers from Qi were sitting or lying there in despair, trembling in the cold wind. Some doctors and nurses from Ming Dynasty were treating these people under the protection of soldiers.

The order of treatment is to get minor injuries first and then serious injuries. The reason is very simple. The conditions are now extremely simple. In order to prevent minor injuries from becoming serious injuries, they naturally have to treat them first. As for those seriously injured patients, whether they can survive to the end depends on their luck. If they can persist until the Ming army builds the battlefield hospital, they may be able to save their lives.

The current field hospital is still on a large merchant ship. It is not enough to treat Ming soldiers, so naturally they will not waste their money and go to treat Qi people.

The next task of Suqian is to establish a defense line in Crab Bay, prepare for the counterattack of Qi, and expand outward, build barracks and warehouses that are enough for tens of thousands of troops to enter, and make all preparations for the entry of the army commanded by Chen Zhihua. However, as the current situation seems, the possibility of the Qi people counterattacking seems not great. But what makes Suqian scratch his head is that in addition to the area near Crab Bay, the two nearby counties have now become muddy mudflats and swamp areas. Of course, an army of tens of thousands of people cannot be squeezed into a small area like Crab Bay. The larger the number of troops, the greater the depth it needs. The first thing he has to solve is this problem.

"I didn't expect Xu Junsheng to be so vicious before." Suqian looked at the map, "There are so many rivers of all sizes in Laizhou. If he dig one today and one tomorrow, we will not be able to do anything."

"Laizhou has a large population and has flooded these two counties. I am afraid that Laizhou has already complained, so he still dares to dig it?" Guan Zhen was a little unbelievable: "He really dares to dig it again. If he believes in the locals in Laizhou, he will rebel against him first!"

"If a person wants to perish, he must first make him crazy." Zhou Li frowned and said, "This Xu Junsheng is almost crazy. I am not worried about him digging other places now, just afraid that he will dig the Lai River!"

Pointing at a striking river mark in Laizhou, Zhou Lidao, he was a navy general and was most sensitive to these rivers.

"Impossible!" Guan Zhen said astonished: "What is left in Laizhou for this dig?"

"Digging the southern bank, the essence of Laizhou will be fully transformed into the country. Although they have suffered heavy losses, we will be miserable." Zhou Li said: "This scorched earth policy, killing one hundred enemies and losing one thousand of them, has not been done in history."

While several people were discussing this, Chen Zheng from the Navy and Marine Corps suddenly ran in and whispered a few words in Guan Zhen's ear. Guan Zhen was stunned and said, "Let him come in."

"Who?" Suqian asked.
Chapter completed!