The recruits of the "Red Banner Army" have been training for more than half a year, and they are now conducting actual combat exercises, and the subject is to land on the beach and establish a beachhead and then continue to extend and seize the cities where the enemy troops are entrenched.

Huang Han was transferred from the cavalry battalion three months ago Wang Zhanpeng to be reappointed, and he became the commander of the engineer battalion.

The composition of the engineer battalion was selected from the military service, and now there are two generals plus one hundred generals led by Wang Zhanpeng, a total of about 800 people.

Wang Zhanpeng now takes a hundred brothers to study blasting almost every day, because the head of the family told him that the city will be attacked and defended in the autumn, and the unit that has made the first contribution at that time may be the demolition group of the engineer battalion.

The reason why Huang Kezao, Xiang Chengliang, and Liu Zaiqi were accompanied by Huang Han as praise paintings was because they were literate and flexible, and now they are all participating in the training of two general sappers to quickly build pontoon bridges, docks, and lookout posts

The carpenters did not have any advanced skills in making wooden pontoons as a carrier for building pontoons, that is, they chose small density such as fir and poplar wood, soaked in tung oil and dried in the shade to make a flat cylinder.

The designed pontoon weighs 80 pounds, and a person can carry it to run, and the buoyancy is 240 pounds, which can be used as a life-saving tool at sea, because the pontoon can completely cause two or three people who fall into the water to not sink to the bottom.

The pontoons were fastened with fasteners, chains, and anchors, and covered with prefabricated wooden planks with anti-skid grooves, which were quickly passed by infantry and military service pushing wheelbarrows.

In order to allow the cavalry to adapt to the cross-sea attack, there has been no interruption in the navigation of men and horses during this time, and the adaptability of people is very strong, and there are many fewer people who are seasick after living completely on sea ships for a period of time.

However, many war horses could not adapt, and the situation of hundreds of Arab war horses was much better, and it is possible that these war horses were transported to Daming by sea ship for long distances.

The Arabian war horses that cannot adapt to navigation should have died in the long journey of trafficking, and the successful landing on the land of the Ming Dynasty should be the strong horses.

Although Huang Han wanted to make the battle for Dalinghe City abortive, and united with the official imperial history and gave the matter to the upper and lower levels of the matter to hope that the imperial court would not build Dalinghe City, but unfortunately it was wishful thinking, and the construction of Dalinghe City was still started at the end of April.

But there is a little deviation from history, more than two months earlier, that is, because the Ming Dynasty concentrated in Jinzhou at the end of the year more than 30,000 troops than in history, people eat horses and chew how much grain and grass are consumed every day

These grains and grass are all transported from the customs for thousands of miles, and the cost is not incomprehensible, and after the construction of Dalinghe City is completed as soon as possible, and the defense system is improved again, the guests can be released back to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible, and they will be able to save expenses.

It is also due to the large number of soldiers in Jinzhou, so there is a lot of hoarded grain and grass.

Huang Han's recital was public, and Sun Chengzong certainly knew the content, and whoever built Dalinghe City must be responsible for it, and he had to ensure that this city could be defended, which more or less attracted his attention.

The first thing to do in defending the city is to have soldiers who dare to fight, and to have food, water, and charcoal.

Because the city of Dalinghe was built twice and destroyed so the foundation is still there, the Ming army sent 30,000 or 40,000 horses to camp on guard, including 7,000 white pole soldiers, 30,000 or 40,000 people and soldiers to participate in the construction, the speed is much faster than in history.

When the city wall reached a certain height, Sun Chengzong ordered Zu Dashou to hoard grain and grass, reserve coal and firewood, and make preparations for long-term defense.

He told Zu Dashou very clearly that Huang Han, the general of Yongping, asserted that the construction of Dalinghe City by the Guan Ning army was a waste of money and money, because they did not have the ability to defend the city.

Zu Dashou heard Huang Han's name and hated itchy, knowing that this son looked down on him so much, Zu Dashou's soldiers were even more angry, he secretly swore: "Don't you think that after repairing Dalinghe City, the Guanning Army can't hold it, Lao Tzu has to run Dalinghe City as solid as gold." ”

Guan Ningjun was very attentive this time, because everyone knew that the Dalinghe City under construction was their garrison, and if the rebate of the project money was too much, leaving a tofu scum project, wouldn't it be a joke with his own life

Therefore, there was a deviation in history, a city with quality and quantity was growing taller at an astonishing rate, and Jiannu did not know what the considerations were, the Ming army started to build Dalinghe City a few months earlier than in history, and they did not react accordingly.

In this way, by mistake, the Ming army was lucky enough to get more than four times more construction time than in history, and finally the city was completed.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Cunren and other generals led 15,000 Guanning troops to garrison the newly built Dalinghe City, which is no different from history.

The slight difference is that the rest of the Ming army and the people evacuated safely after completing the task, and there were fewer 15,000 laborers who had no combat effectiveness in Dalinghe City, and more grain reserves that could last for about half a year.

Huang Han always paid attention to the progress of the construction of Dalinghe City, worried that Jiannu would still lead tens of thousands of horses to fight a fierce battle within a few days of discovering that the Ming army had started to repair the city.

Unexpectedly, there was a deviation in history, Dalinghe City was actually completed, and now the white pole soldiers have been evacuated and returned to Shanhaiguan.

The "Tiger's Den" city is only more than 80 miles away from Shanhaiguan, and it is very convenient to contact.

Although her men and horses are less than 400 female soldiers, it is impossible to enter Shanhaiguan directly without the official document of the military department or the superintendent.

Qin Yanyi only brought two personal soldiers to ask to enter the city to visit her brother, which was approved, and she met Ma Xianglin at the Baipole Soldier station.

At the end of last year, 7,000 white pole soldiers went to Jinzhou to garrison, and it was not until this year that the construction of Dalinghe City was completed, and they were transferred back to Shanhaiguan to garrison, and now they have only been back for less than ten days.

Ma Xianglin was unable to attend his sister's wedding due to military affairs, and he was very upset.

Now Huang Han is not only a righteous brother but also a brother-in-law, and he got the meeting gift that Huang Han asked his wife to bring to his eldest brother, which was a clairvoyant mirror as a gift.

Military clairvoyants are made of brass, basically no decoration, gift clairvoyants are made of sterling silver to paint mountains and rivers after gilding, which is of course the masterpiece of jewelry masters headed by Peng Jiawang.

There is no officer who doesn't like telescopes, and General Ma Xianglin is no exception.

When he saw the clairvoyant mirror, he immediately took the car and ran to the city wall of Shanhaiguan to look at the mountains, and found that this good thing could clearly distinguish which battalion the messenger who came on horseback seven or eight miles away was wearing.