Knowing that Huang Han needed time to train his troops, Chongzhen was not prepared to use the "Red Banner Army" to go to Shaanxi to participate in the suppression of the Kou.

Due to the relationship between Huang Han and Zu Dashou, he was not prepared to let the "Red Flag Army" go to Liaodong.

Huang Hanle had no combat missions in the short term, and he used his precious time to enhance the combat effectiveness of the "Red Banner Army."

Sun Yuanhua is the governor of Denglai, Liu Zhilun is the governor of Shuntian, and Zheng Guochang is the political envoy of Beizhili, so of course Huang Han's life is nourishing.

In addition to the drift of the military department, the food and salary of the "Red Banner Army" did not dare to be deducted at all by officials at all levels in the Beijing Division, and Huang Han only needed to take out a part of the filial piety to all the immortals.

Before resigning, Liang Tingdong, in order to thank Huang Han for his reminder and strengthen his intention to retreat bravely, deliberately stood on the last shift, and approved a water battalion with a total number of thousands of soldiers under Huang Han.

The water battalion of the "Red Banner Army" consisted of several warships that were not frozen in the harbor when the original Juehua Island Naval Division guerrilla battalion was broken by the Houjin Army in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, as well as three No. 3 Fu ships and seven Cangshan ships supported by the Denglai Naval Division.

There were eighteen large and small sea vessels, and about 500 sailors and gunners, most of whom were old and weak.

What Huang Han wanted was the convenience of having a battalion, and he didn't care at all how many sea ships the imperial court would give, and he didn't mind that these ships basically had no combat effectiveness.

Because Shanhaiguan, Denglai, Dongjiang Town, Liaozhen, and Tianjinwei all have their own battalions, but the scale and the number of warships are vastly different, and I am afraid that only Denglai and Dongjiang Town have the ability to fight at sea.

The "Red Banner Army" is stationed close to the Liaohai Sea, and if there is no battalion, wouldn't it be a sigh of admiration? Therefore, Huang Han spent his time on the establishment, and it may not be easy for the court to test the actual number of troops in this battalion.

Due to the Ming Dynasty's use of troops in Liaodong, there were so many materials that needed to be transported, and Liaohai was originally a busy place for shipping.

There was an original government-run dock close to the port of "Tiger's Den" city, and later there was an accident on Juehua Island, a large-scale supply place outside the customs area painstakingly operated by the Ming Dynasty.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, there was a rare extremely low temperature, and there was a rare opportunity to run thousands of troops on the sea surface between Juehua Island and Ningyuan for more than ten miles.

Since Juehua Island was attacked by the cavalry of the Houjin Army, this area of water has never been frozen so badly in a year, and it is rare to even be completely frozen in the future, and it is absolutely impossible to run horses on the ice.

And the luckily Houjin army seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by mistake, how wronged should an island be attacked by 10,000 cavalry? And Daming is so unlucky, and Jiannu is so lucky.

So there is some fucking truth in saying "God bless the Qing Dynasty".

Juehua Island was raided, the water camp of Juehua Island was almost completely wiped out, and the historical records record that more than 2,000 warships and merchant ships anchored there were burned by the Houjin army, and the total cost of an average of four or five thousand taels of silver for large and small sea ships was lost, and the price of silver for sea ships alone may exceed 10 million taels.

This, of course, led to a sharp decline in the number of ships in need of repair and maintenance, and many government-run docks in Liaohai were abolished and private docks closed down.

In the year of Hongwu and Yongle, a ship with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons that could go to the ocean without equipment and decoration cost was only about four or five thousand taels of silver, but at that time, one tael of silver could buy four stones of polished rice.

Later, due to the rise in silver production and the existence of a surplus in foreign trade, a large amount of foreign silver poured into the Ming Dynasty, so the depreciation of silver was serious, and the price of polished rice had already passed the integer level of one or two silver and one stone, and the cost of the sea ship should be at least tripled in the year of the Apocalypse.

Huang Han did not use the original Qianhu to build the "Tiger's Den" city, but deliberately built it directly to the seaside close to the dock and port. This is very different from the castle built by the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the seaside castles of the Ming Dynasty are far away from the coastline, at least more than five miles, because of the long-term trouble, in case the enemy drives straight into the city from the sea, the city is close to the sea, and the artillery on the enemy ship can directly bombard the city, won't it break through the city in an instant?

Therefore, the vast majority of Daming cities have left depth when they are built on the seaside, and pirates must disembark and land for offensive and defensive battles to seize the city, which creates opportunities for the Ming army to encircle and annihilate the pirates who have come ashore.

Huang Han never cared about the artillery fire of the enemy ships when he built the "Tiger's Den" city, because he believed that the cast steel artillery he was going to use the advanced steel mold hollow casting method to produce was much better than the cast iron artillery commonly used in this era, and the firing range would be increased.

I don't know how many times more accurate it is to fire a heavy cannon from a stable battery than a shaky ship, and what about a few solid shells on a concrete battery? The casualties caused were not necessarily significant, and it was possible that the enemy ship would be sunk by a few solid shells that pierced the hold of the ship.

When it just froze, the "Tiger's Den" city became a large construction site, and last year the time was in a hurry, and only had time to build a single city wall, warehouses, factories, and some houses.

The shops, forts, city gate buildings, and Huang Han's own mansion were not fully opened.

When the spring flowers are blooming, it is also the time to build homes on a large scale, and it is the urban planning of Huang Han to ensure the quality and not be afraid to spend money, and to leave landmark buildings.

Grain is the root of life, in the last Ming Dynasty represents a fresh life, the "Red Banner Army" is not short of grain, that is because the grain lent out last year is back to the treasury at the end of the year, the autumn harvest is also good, and a lot of grain is in the warehouse, and in the winter to Karaqin also grabbed back a lot of grain and meat.

Huang Han has a lot of grain in his hand, and it is estimated that he will be able to balance more than 200,000 stone before the autumn harvest this year, and if this year's annual situation is not worse than last year's, it can be speculated that the grain stored before winter will reach a peak.

Therefore, it is especially important to store grain safely, and the first project to be done when the outdoor temperature rises to the point where construction is possible is to build a grain silos.

The east of the "Tiger's Den" city is close to the sea, and the foundation of the city wall is made of reinforced concrete mixed stone, and the city wall extends 80 steps east along the horse path of the city wall to connect a bunker-like building.

The height of the city wall is only about three or four zhang, generally between 11 and 2 meters, and this blockhouse next to the sea is as high as 10 zhang and 33 meters, and the top layer is used as a lighthouse during the day and an open fire at night to point out the direction of the seagoing ships.

When the glass factory was able to make a mirror by silver plastering the glass, Huang Han would cancel the smoky beacon-like way of transmitting messages, adopt concentrated lights to navigate, and also set up a simple light code to transmit information from a distance through telescope observation.

There were three more floors below the top of the bunker, each of which was to be equipped with four to eight guns, and at the bottom of the bunker was of course heavy artillery, for it was already a solid foundation of reinforced concrete, enough to carry the recoil of four thirty-two-pounder guns.

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