In June of the first year of Chongzhen, the Hongmen disciples who were sent by Li Tianyang to the war-torn areas in the north returned in a dusty manner.

They were greeted by Mr. Huang Youran, who had sent them away, but this time Li Tianyang also showed up, and personally took time to wait with Huang Youran for the return of these traveling students.

There were 344 members of the team who went out, but only 318 people came back, Li Tianyang was completely prepared, but he still couldn't stop the cruel natural torture, 15 people died in the plague, and 11 people died in various accidents and diseases.

Compared with the high-spirited when they went out, the Bengang students who went out and experienced purgatory on earth now look a little more calm and wise, and their once out-of-the-box temperament always makes them seem active and light, but now fighting in front of Li Tianyang and them is extremely reassuring.

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back!" Huang Youran looked at the disembarking team members one by one with relief, and smiled kindly.

Li Tianyang stood aside and didn't say much, but his eyes were full of encouragement and relief.

In addition, Li Tianyang and the others did not set up any reception banquets and comfort banquets for these team members, but announced that they would rest for a week after everyone got off the ship, and then go to the personnel department to report and accept the new arrangements.

As for the students who unfortunately died on the road, Li Tianyang asked their classmates to hold a memorial service three days later, and posthumously recognized that they sacrificed for the Hongmen team and were eligible to be buried in the Xishan cemetery, so that their classmates were relieved, and they gave them an explanation.

Today's Hongmen disciples have long been buried in the Xishan cemetery as a great honor, although everyone is still afraid of death, but when it comes to the moment of life and death to sacrifice their lives for the Hongmen team, the first thing everyone thinks of is to be able to be with many martyrs, but it is not in vain to enter this world.

Li Tianyang has never changed much about the integrity pursued by the literati and warriors of this era, because this is a tradition of the Chinese nation, but the pursuit of profit in later generations is too heavy, but it has made future generations forget many of these beautiful integrity.

After settling down this group of graduates who had learned the last lesson from a distant place, Li Tianyang had already planned the next arrangements for these students, and they had a definite position that was in line with their studies according to the direction of their study.

The East Coast Clearance Campaign of the Bengang Alliance has continued, and according to natural common sense, the plains west of Dayuan Island should be easier to survive on, and there should be more tribes; On the contrary, between the narrow coastline and long mountain ranges in the east, there is a much denser tribal presence than in the west.

After several months of purging activities, batch after batch of indigenous captives who were tied up and escorted to Jilong Harbor, Li Tianyang was dizzying, both pleased with the results of the coalition soldiers, but also worried about whether more indigenous captives would be escorted over later.

The situation has gotten out of control a bit, and the results of the coalition fighters are certainly brilliant, but after the initial beach-grabbing landing, which caught the indigenous tribes around Daxing Port in the east by surprise, then the indigenous tribes on the eastern coastline, which were originally unrelated to each other and even hostile to each other, have begun to integrate and jointly deal with the coalition force of nearly 7,000 people.

Casualties began to mount, and the coalition forces were originally going out to capture as many natives as possible, so it was inevitable that they would show mercy to their men outside of the battle.

However, the group of indigenous warriors on the other side are fighting for the survival of their own tribe, and they will not show mercy to their opponents like the coalition army, they wish they could shoot through the opponent's vital point with an arrow and kill the opponent on the spot.

The coalition forces had the advantage in numbers, while the indigenous tribal opponents had no scruples or ideas, and as they began to join forces against the coalition forces, the casualties of the ranks began to rise, and the members of the tribes began to be a little overwhelmed.

The indigenous warriors have grown up with bows, arrows and spears since childhood, and the tribes that survive in the eastern coast and mountain ranges have a much worse living environment than the western plains, so these indigenous warriors are naturally stronger than the western tribes, just as the Laike tribe is stronger than the warriors of the Yushan and Zhuluo Mountain Society, which is an indisputable fact.

Nearly 7,000 coalition soldiers, in the eastern coastline for three or four months, have lost almost 2,000 people so far, this is still the coalition soldiers over the years by the Hongmen training team, plus these joint operations have some tacit understanding, the loss will only be so little.

Of course, behind the heavy losses was a more generous reward for the captives, and the spoils of these eastern tribes were not worth mentioning to the coalition forces at all, except for the population.

Perhaps the driving force behind the fight between the tribes in the past came from the survival pressure between the tribes, but now the Bengang Alliance has almost no pressure on survival after following Hongmen for a long time, and it is more from the subconscious crisis consciousness of the tribes.

In the past four months of purging, more than 23,000 captives have been transported to Hongmen Jilong Harbor alone, and this is only a third of the gains of the coalition forces to clear the eastern coastline, not to mention the existence of many tribes among the towering mountains.

The loss of the warriors is worth it in the eyes of the leaders of the tribes at this time, at least the benefit of ten to one just thinking about it makes the leaders of these tribes very excited, and even secretly they find Li Tianyang and persuade Li Tianyang to send more ships to Bengang, and the alliance is willing to integrate a team no less than the current number to come out to support the coalition team with a lot of losses at this time.

Li Tianyang stopped the crazy consciousness of these team leaders in time, and at this time, behind the coalition army's successive victories, there was actually a great crisis.

Now in order to take care of more than 20,000 captives in Jilong Harbor, Li Tianyang is very busy, for fear that one accidentally will cause a riot in this group of indigenous captives.

Outside of the battlefield, food has also become a major problem for the continuation of the war, before the members of the tribes brought their own food and grass to fight on the east coast, so that Hongmen was a great burden less, but as they cleared more and more captives of the indigenous population, the tribes' plan to provide for these captives fell through.

In the end, the heavy responsibility of providing rations for the captives once again fell on Hongmen, but although Hongmen had a lot of food, he could not endlessly feed so many of the suddenly extra captives; Moreover, after the members of the tribes distributed the captives, the food stored by their tribes was definitely not enough to support these captives, and in the end, they did not have to find Hongmen to purchase them, so Hongmen also had to leave some surplus grain to avoid a food crisis.

(End of chapter)