On October 20, 1646, it was sunny and the northwest wind was force six.

Somewhere outside the city of Yantai Fort, hundreds of North Korean men "hired" from the port of Busan are intensively building a polyhedral structure. The building had to have several sides, each of which was a masonry wall with a raised structure, and each wall had a small opening that appeared to be used as a shooting hole. At the top of the building, a small penthouse was built, with parapets around it, and a south-facing diagonal drape at the bottom, apparently to counteract the recoil of the guns and allow for quick reset. All in all, from the perspective of the traversal, this is a standard turret. That's right, the famous devil turret.

At present, almost half a year has passed, and only two of them have been completely repaired on the east coast, and three more are under construction. These turrets are about seven or eight hundred meters away from the south wall of Yantai Fort, and are within the range of most of the artillery on the city. If they insist on demolishing the turrets that are being built by the people on the east coast, then they will probably have to be prepared to die thousands of people and 800 people.

Therefore, after being bombarded into slag by the artillery at the head of the city on the east coast at the beginning, the Qing army died of the idea of demolishing the artillery tower of the people on the east coast, because it was not a way to fill it with human lives all the time, and it was necessary to bomb the camp after a long time. In addition, Haoge has already returned to Beijing with some of the Eight Banners, after all, he is a dignified prince, and now he is like showing the gate to Yantai, how can this be embarrassing! If you don't go home again, you will be robbed by Dolgon. Fools stay here! Hauge left. The rest of the people turned a blind eye. The people who stayed here to watch the gate were all hard-working people, and they had no chance to go to Jiangnan to make a fortune in the flower world, so if they wanted to fight with the yellow-clothed thieves with their heads again, why bother?

After Haoge left, the peace guards who stayed here only had 2,500 Eight Banner cavalry in their hands, and only more than 30,000 foot soldiers in the hands of Li Shutai, Ke Yongsheng and others. At the same time, Chen Jin, the governor of Denglai in Dengzhou, also had more than 10,000 troops and was ready to help. A total of more than 40,000 soldiers and horses wanted to suppress the East Coast army, which already had tens of thousands of soldiers. Even with the help of the city wall that has been built now, I'm afraid it's not enough to see.

Therefore, in May of this year, when the East Coast people first began to build the artillery towers, the Qing army completely stopped after being hit by the fierce artillery fire of the East Coast people twice, and just watched numbly as the East Coast people vigorously built one artillery tower after another. I don't know where these yellow-clothed thieves got so many bricks and stones, and where did they get so many artillery, one turret has enough 6-8 guns, and these five turrets are thirty or forty, what a loser.

What is even more depressing is that these five turrets clearly form crossfire. The difficulty of the attack was too high for the Qing army, which basically only had cold weapons. Alas. It's really sad to die, the yellow-clothed thief wants to do what the turret wants to do, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it, but there is no way to restrain it! In particular, the two artillery towers that had been built, each of which had fifty or sixty men who dared to fight, and the Qing army, which lacked heavy weapons, could only look at the towers and sigh.

Forget it, everyone is a hard-working person, in this place where birds don't every day blowing cold wind, watching the gate, from time to time you can still hear a few thunders (cannon sounds), life is so hard, why bother working hard. You don't see the peace lord of the Manchurian nation, borrowing wine all day to drown his sorrows, feeling sorry for himself because he can't go to the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River to garrison, and there are many rebellious words in his words, and his heart is very resentful! And the adults are not very active in attacking the yellow-clothed thieves, do you expect us to be full and brave the cannons to take the turret? Phew, there are only two meals of millet porridge and two taels of pickles all day long, so you can work so hard! Let's go where it's cool!

In this way, the people on the east coast of the Yantai area maintained a strange balance with the Qing army, and this was exactly what Mo Ming was happy to see. The people on the east coast built artillery towers, and then gradually expanded the area of Yantai Fort, so as to finally break through the blockade fortress laid by the Qing army, so that the chain that attempted to make Yantai Port an isolated island completely invalidated.

Pei Qin and Wang Jiazhong stood on the tower of Yantai Fort, respectfully waiting for Mo Ming, who was holding a telescope to observe the construction of the turret, to give them a lecture. They were called here in the morning, and they basically knew what was going on, and they were going to be sent to the East Coast headquarters! Neither of them had room to oppose this decision, and in fact did not have the courage to oppose it. Mo Dashuai has been crisscrossing the Far East for many years and is becoming more and more powerful, and now few people dare to disobey him in front of him.

For being sent to the east coast country, which is said to be thousands of miles away from the sea frontier, Pei Qin, a Gansu man, actually didn't have much resistance in his heart. He doesn't have anything to worry about in Daming, the old brothers who have come together for many years are basically in the standing team now, except for a few people, most of them are not small, they are all rough men who have no worries, and they can leave by patting their butts. Of course, rough men are not cold-blooded animals without feelings, and they are still a little sad about leaving this mother country where they were born and raised, because they all understand that they may never have the chance to come back again in their lifetime, which makes many people sad.

However, since the superiors have decided to transfer their second brigade back to the east bank as a whole, they have nothing to say as small and big soldiers, they can only obey orders. Now everyone understands what the situation of the Ming Dynasty is, the Qing army has now entered eastern Zhejiang and southern Jiangnan, and it seems that these two provinces will also be completely lost, and the trend of unifying the whole country is becoming more and more obvious. Although King Chuang's troops are currently fighting the Qing army in the Huguang area, the 200,000 soldiers and horses are cramped within a province, and they are in a dilemma. If it weren't for the fact that the people on the east coast sent speedboats to send King Chuang some longbows and arrows accumulated by the Koreans on Jeju Island, in addition to half selling and half giving away 1,000 spears, 200 armor collars and 400 muskets, I am afraid that their situation would have been even more difficult.

This Daming can't stay anymore! In this way, it is also a good place to leave this place completely and go to the East Coast Country. Life there should not be bad, just look at the envious gazes of the soldiers from the east coast of Yantai Fort. These people came to Daming across the sea, and the earliest one who came here has been stationed here for almost three years, and now we are going back before them, which is really laughable.

That's it, just go! I heard that when I went there, I would first divide five acres of fertile land and a set of yards, and even a daughter-in-law, and there would be such an official mansion in the world that thought about us and other small people? But looking at the expressions of those colored soldiers, it doesn't seem to be fake, could it be that there is such a good thing? Then I'll have to burn incense! Although it is a daughter-in-law who is so ugly that she is dead, she is a woman after all, and she is good at giving birth and working, and she will marry me and give birth to a few babies to pass on to the next generation; I am more diligent, and when I farm the land and raise two pigs in my spare time, if the government is not ruthless in tax collection, then the small life will definitely not be wrong, and it is better to be worse than to fight and die here!

The officers and soldiers from the Shun army are accustomed to wandering, and their overall attitude towards leaving the Ming Dynasty and going to the East Coast Country is reluctant, with a hint of longing for a new life. The attitudes of the descendants of the Japanese samurai and the people of Shandan are similar, and they even have a slight sense of excitement, they are very happy to leave here and end their military career as if there is no end in sight, and they can't wait to fly to the fairyland-like land where everyone is said to be able to eat meat.

As for the gang of bandits and bandits in Qingzhou under Wang Jiazhong's command, this time they left Jeju Island, which had just settled down for a long time, and embarked on an unknown journey, which was simply killing them. How cool it is to bully men and women in Jingyi County, those North Koreans are respectful and respectful when they meet them, which makes them too addicted to the uncle. What's more, it has been less than a year since they occupied Jeju Island, and many officers and soldiers have already married, which makes it much more difficult for them to leave Jeju Island.

But no matter how difficult it is, you have to carry out orders, this is no joke! That Mo Dashuai is not a good man and a woman, and the consequences of disobeying his orders can be imagined with his toes, maybe one day he will be hit by the gang of ghost slaves of the Black Domain, and then the big guys will be escorted to the east coast as slaves one by one, and this will be the end of everything. Now I can pack up my things and board the boat quickly, and if I go, I can still divide the land and the house, and if I don't have a daughter-in-law, I can also share my daughter-in-law, if I toast and don't eat and drink, then I will be the same as those former Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers in the Heishui Coal Mine, and I can't do it at all!

In short, this is a very tangled matter, after thinking about it, Wang Jiazhong finally admitted it, persuaded the generals who came to him to get ideas one by one, and then took these people to do the ideological work of the people underneath, and finally pulled the tiger skin of the people on the east coast, which was barely done.

Eight squadrons of the 2nd Brigade of the Advance Brigade, plus two supplementary squadrons drawn from the 3rd Brigade, a total of 2,500 men; Wang Jiazhong's army originally had 1,500 soldiers, but during this period of time on Jeju Island, some Ming and North Koreans were forcibly recruited into the army, and now it has barely expanded to 2,000 people. The two parts together have 4,500 people, and it makes sense to transport them back to the mainland.

It is said that when Peng Zhicheng wrote to Mo Ming, he asked him to send four or five thousand people to the mainland to deal with the possible outbreak of an armed conflict with the Spaniards. Regarding Peng Zhicheng's instructions as an army veteran, Mo Ming asked himself that he couldn't do it at present, after all, he was his biggest backstage, and he still had to give enough face. Therefore, without hesitation, he made the decision to dispatch the ten squadrons of the Forward Brigade and the Wang Jiazhong Division of the Jeju Third Division.

"It's all right, right?" Mo Ming put down the binoculars on his chest, suddenly turned around and asked.

"No problem." Pei Qin and Wang Jiazhong replied in unison.

"Then organize people to board the ship, don't rub it in." Mo Ming left a sentence, and then on the guard (to be continued......