Although it has just entered winter, there are snowflakes floating in the sky, and the wind is blowing the snowflakes between the sky and the earth. It's like being shrouded in fog, making it difficult to see things dozens of feet away.

In front of the long trench of the Qing army, a cluster of branches hung with snowflakes and deer, and the canopy of the tree was facing the enemy like a long wall to guard the Qing army in the rear.

The Manchu soldiers in the long trench can often only look out of the trench, and can barely see the position of the branches and deer, if the wind is stronger, even the branches and deer will be blocked by the wind and snow, and they can't see the world clearly.

In the wind and snow, the slaves in the long trench were staring at the outside of the trench, and in the long trench, the soldiers who sat in the trench were all sitting around piles of bonfires and sitting on thick straw, although the wind and snow blew into the shack next to the trench from time to time, but it was still extremely warm here.

They chatted while holding their hands, because they were in a shack, so they didn't wear hats, and on their bare heads, the palm-sized money rat tail was extremely eye-catching, but they all spoke Korean, these people were Koreans, before that, most of them were untouchables in North Korea, but now they are the green battalion soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor gave them their identity, their current status is even much higher than that of the Chinese people, and naturally they are also full of gratitude to the Manchu Qing.

Just when they were roasting the fire in the shack, suddenly, there was a disturbance in the long trench, and Park Yiman and others, who were roasting the fire in the shack, ran out one after another. I saw Huang Taiji, who was wearing a suit of armor, accompanied by Ahdan, Jin Xindali and others, and even took the initiative to ask for warmth, only to let those green battalion soldiers kneel down with gratitude and swear to serve the emperor.

"Is it cold?"

Looking at Park Yiman and the others, Huang Taiji asked.

"No, it's not cold."

"How can it not be cold? On such a cold day, I feel cold, Jin Xindali, double the straw and firewood to the soldiers in the long trench, the weather is cold and the ground is frozen and can't freeze them! ”

The emperor's concern made Park Yiman immediately burst into tears, and Huang Taiji asked when he saw this.

"What's wrong with you? What are you crying about? ”

"Your Majesty!"

Park Yiman, who was kneeling on the ground, said loudly.

"Back then, the villain had served for the military household in the mountain city of Nanhan to block the emperor, it was also winter, the villains didn't even have a cotton coat, so they lit the fire to keep warm, but the adults said that the fire for heating would expose the truth, and ordered several people to be beheaded...... And now the emperor not only blames us and others, but also gives out enough firewood and straw, and the villain ......"

I really didn't know what to say, so he kowtowed again and again.

"The villain must swear to serve the emperor ......"

Looking at the green battalion soldiers kneeling together, Huang Taiji, who had already achieved his goal, just smiled slightly, and then said.

"Get up and speak, you are my soldier, can I freeze and starve? As long as you are serious about your errands, the Great Qing Kingdom will definitely not treat you badly! ”

After Jin Xindali translated the words, he pointed to the opposite side of the long trench and asked.

"You tell me if it's the Ming army on the other side."

"Emperor, Emperor, yes, the opposite side is the Ming army, now there is wind and snow, I can't see clearly, at most only two miles ......"

Following the emperor's side, Pu Yiman only felt a little trance.

The emperor actually came to see them in the long trench, and even asked him if he was cold...... Such kindness is really incomprehensible!

Ming Army!

Standing on the edge of the long trench, Huang Taiji's eyes stared at the wind and snow in the wilderness, and there was only one question left in his heart - is Zhu Ciying on the other side?

Huang Taiji on the other side?

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang didn't know that at this time, standing in the trench, he was using a telescope to observe the last ray of light, observing the front, although the wind and snow blocked the view, but he could still vaguely see the Qing army's defense line.

In the wind and snow, you can vaguely see several deer bards standing upright on the wilderness, and behind the winding trenches, you can vaguely see the artillery fort baskets, the earth forts are solid, and the deer bards are densely covered......

Staring at the long trench of the Qing army, Zhu Guoqiang's expression looked a little dignified, and later generations only thought that trench warfare was invented by Europeans, but they knew that the Ming army was the ancestor of trench warfare, and it was the most commonly used tactic of the Ming army to take the trench as the city and defend the city with the trench. The Manchus were also good at trench warfare.

"General, when Jiannu attacked the city in Liaodong, what he was best at was to besiege the city with a long trench, our army defended the city with a trench, and Jiannu built a trench to besiege the city, besieged it with deer and long trenches, and then besieged the city with a small number of troops, and then sent reinforcements at the heavy siege point, and now Jiannu defends the city with a trench, and our army may as well attack the city with a trench......"

Zu Zepu explained on the side.

"Siege with a trench is ...... as it should be"

Nodding slightly, Zhu Guoqiang continued to observe Jiannu's defense line.

Behind several deer ditches zigzagged for miles, and in front of those ditches there was an earthen breastwork, which was still faintly visible despite being obscured by snow. It looks inconspicuous, but this earthen breastwork is in an excellent defensive position for the Manchus - they can stand behind the wall and reload and shoot.

If they attacked, the soldiers would first face the canopy of the deer in front of the breastwork, and they would have to pass through there before they could approach the Qing army, but between them and the Qing army, there was still a section of wilderness tens of meters.

But whether it is through the deer barricade or through the wilderness, you must face a rain of bullets fired by musketeers behind the trenches.

And there is more than one such long trench!

Behind this long trench, there is also the second line of defense of Jiannu - the same Luqi plus trench, two successive sieges, enough for any army in the front-loading era to suffer heavy losses in the attack, not to mention the front-loading guns, that is, the trenches of the First World War, and those Europeans can only dance the dance of death in front of the trenches.

"Choi Hyo-il."

"The lower official is here."

Cui Xiaoyi, who was wearing a Ming-style military uniform and a cuirass, stepped forward.

He is a Korean military general, but he has the military position of the Ming Dynasty, two years ago, he crossed the sea into the Ming Dynasty, first went to Dengzhou, and lobbied Chen Hongfan, the chief soldier of the navy, Chen Hongfan did not use him. Originally, in history, he was supposed to go to Ningyuan, and then Wu Sangui left him to appoint him as the president of Qianzong to participate in the Songjin War. He once wanted to attack Liaoshen, and his strategy was to claim that he would lead the boat division to attack the Manchus, and the Manchus would inevitably guard against Haikou, so that Liaoshen was empty. But the Manchus did not fall for the scheme, and later killed his entire family.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Cui Xiaoyi once bitterly persuaded Wu Sangui not to ask for help from the Qing army, but Wu Sangui did not listen. Subsequently, the Qing Dynasty defeated Li Zicheng, took advantage of the victory in Beijing, and was congratulated by the court in the Wuying Palace, ordering the world to shave his hair. Cui Xiaoyi, who was the general of Wu Sangui, did not congratulate or shave his hair, but went to the tomb of Emperor Chongzhen, cried day and night, and died of hunger strike for ten days.

Such a person is absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty. However, history has undergone some changes here, after Chen Hongfan refused to accept him, he went to Jinan, originally wanted to visit the son of the German clan who broke the 100,000 army of Jiannu, but by chance, he went south with the prince to help the army, and also participated in the Northern Expedition at sea, and has always won the trust of Zhu Guoqiang.

And this trust is precisely because of his loyalty to Daming.

Putting down the binoculars, Zhu Guoqiang asked.

"This used to be all paddy fields, right?"

"Yes, General, even the long trenches under our feet are all paddy fields, Lord Shizi, you see ......"

Cui Xiaoyi picked up the trench with his hand and pointed to the trench with some ice crystals and said.

"The soil has been frozen, the soldiers have spent a lot of effort digging trenches, if it is another half a month, it may not be able to dig, when the time comes, the soil will all be frozen, now only the surface layer is frozen more than a foot deep, now can barely dig moving, in a few days, it really can't be dug up."

Permafrost, according to common sense, should not appear in this part of North Korea, but in this era, under the special environment of the Xiaoice period, not to mention the appearance of frozen soil in North Korea, even in the winter of Shandong.

It is this harsh climate and environment that led to the fall of China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, as a person from later generations, Zhu Guoqiang has a particularly deep understanding of how cold this winter is. It is precisely because he never dares to ignore all this, so when this season comes, he will seem a little conservative.

After all, the most important thing for him now is to play steadily, and steady and steady means victory.