Before the news of the annihilation of the Tianxiong army reached the capital, Emperor Chongzhen had just received the good news of Hong Chengchou, and he had defeated Li Chuang again, and now there were only a dozen cavalry left around Li Chuang, and the destruction was just around the corner. Chongzhen, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, was also in a rare mood, and ate two bowls of rice at dinner. However, soon after, the Tianxiong army was destroyed, and the news of the collapse of the Guanning army that had come to King Qin (in fact, they fled without a fight) reached Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen had to make the decision to recall Hong Chengchou, in Chongzhen's opinion, since Li Chuang had only a dozen people left, transferring the army back, leaving only a small number of troops, should be enough to eliminate him.

The Jianxuan army continued to plunder in all directions, and it was not until the beginning of the second year that it began to slowly retreat northward, and the Qinwang army, including Hong Chengchou, only dared to slowly follow the Qing army for almost a day's journey, and then constantly sent "good news" to the imperial court to restore a certain place.

The base in Jinghai became tense again, this time it was different from the last time, the entire port was frozen, although the displaced people collected these days were used to carry out large-scale ice chiseling, but due to the severe cold weather, it was often chiseled a little during the day, and at night, it was frozen again. So now that the entire harbor is actually reduced to a berth and a narrow channel to the ice-free area farther away, it is completely impossible to maneuver cruisers full of heavy guns along the coastline, and lighter warships to maneuver along the Haihe River, and even the originally safe coast direction has now become a place that needs to be heavily fortified.

However, Guo Huaiyi was not particularly worried about the defense of the Jinghai stronghold. This is because the defenses of the Jinghai stronghold itself have been strengthened. More cannons were thrown into the Silent Sea, and at the same time, the ice carved out of the sea was also put to use, and they were built along the coast to form two snow-white bastions in the north and south. Behind the trench of the main fortification, a two-meter-high and two-meter-thick ice wall was also built with sea ice, and now the trench has really become a trench in the original sense. With dozens of artillery pieces and thousands of flintlock muskets, Guo Huaiyi and Lu Xi'an both felt that even if Jian Yan pressed up the tens of thousands of people who entered the customs at one time, they would be able to withstand it before the ammunition ran out. As for running out of ammunition, since there is still a road to the open sea, it will never be possible to run out of ammunition until the building is dead.

Guo Huaiyi, who made great contributions last time, has been promoted to deputy chief soldier by the imperial court, of course, the deputy chief soldier of the imperial court now, and even the chief soldier are much cheaper than before. According to the rules, more than 100 heads, especially 40 heads of the Eight Banners, should be able to exchange a lot of silver, but because Jian Yan has not left yet, this money has not been sent to Guo Huaiyi.

And Lu Xien, the actual commander of the first Jinghai stronghold, could not have received any reward from the Ming Dynasty, but in the model army, his position was promoted. Zheng Sen reorganized the original factory protection team into two regiments, and Lu Xien became the commander of the first regiment of the Model Army in Jinghai. Of course, what followed was a quadruple increase in his salary in one fell swoop.

Lucien's morale was high for this, and he spent all day hoping that the barbarians would pass through the Silent Sea once more, and once again smash their heads in front of his defensive line.

Lucien, however, was doomed to disappointment. At the end of January of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Manchu army reappeared near Jinghai.

"This is where the Dutch stronghold?" Standing on a high ground in the distance, Dorgon looked out at the Silent Sea stronghold and asked Hauge, who was following him.

"Yes. But there are more things than last time, such as the ice wall, although it is not high, but it is not so easy to climb, and the cannons and muskets of those Dutch are not comparable to the tattered Ming army. There are a lot of them, they are powerful, and they are particularly accurate. The shield car can't stop it at all. Hauge said, feeling a little embarrassed.

"You said that the last time you went, there were at least fifty cannons on the opposite side? Now that so much time has passed, I'm afraid there will be more cannons. And with such a long period of time, I'm afraid that all the valuable goods in it have been shipped away. Dorgon said.

"What other merchants can there be today? If the goods in it are not moved to other places to be sold, they will quickly become liquid cash, and will they still be moldy? "After dealing with Yuri for a while, Hauge also knows a little bit about doing business.

"It's a hedgehog. If there are enough people inside, and they dare to fight as hard as the Tianxiong Army, and thousands of people don't die, I'm afraid they won't be able to gnaw at all. Dolgon sighed as he looked at the Silent Sea stronghold.

"It's just a hedgehog, and there's not much meat yet." Haug spat the ground.

"They have so many cannons, if they can take down those cannons, it will be a big piece of meat." Dorgon looked at the colony and said.

"I've heard Yuri say that when the Tessie army is fighting, it has a way of destroying artillery quickly. I'm afraid of killing and injuring a lot of people, and then grabbing unusable scrap. Hauge said.

"Do you want someone to test it?" Dorgon asked.

"If you want to be tempted, you go." Hauge said, "If you are tempted, you will probably get nothing but a nose." ”

When Dorgon heard this, he looked at the wall of ice, which shone a little in the sunlight, and sighed, and said, "This trip has already made a lot of money, unless they themselves come out of the tortoise's shell, or forget it." ”

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Lucien watched with joy as the barbarians' armies appeared in view, and then watched with great disappointment as the barbarians faded away. Lucien even mobilized all his soldiers to shout at the barbarians, but to no avail. Still, Lucien found an opportunity. This time, the army that was fully invested in the customs was only tens of thousands, but the number of people who were plundered was as high as hundreds of thousands. Yue Tuo, the commander of the Right Route Army, died on the road because of smallpox, so the two armies joined forces, and the combined population of the two sides was four or five hundred thousand, and these people were also driven by the Qing troops to pass not far from the stronghold.

Obviously, it is impossible for tens of thousands of Manchu troops to disperse and surround these hundreds of thousands of people, basically the Qing army is divided into two groups one after the other, and these refugees are placed in the middle, and as for the middle, a little light cavalry is arranged to guard them, so as not to let these people escape. Because it is necessary to pass through the Jinghai stronghold, in order to avoid the interference of the Dutch in the Jinghai stronghold. The Manchus left more than 200 cavalry to intimidate the "Dutch" in the Jinghai stronghold, lest they come out to cause trouble. In the eyes of the Manchus, leaving behind about 200 armored cavalry was enough for the Dutch in this stronghold not to dare to act rashly.

Just as Lucien looked at the main force of the barbarians in the distance and was full of chagrin, more coerced refugees appeared in his field of vision.

"Guo, Guo, you see, there are so many Chinese there, they have been kidnapped by barbarians, I think we should kill them and get them back. And the major general also wants us to do this, Taiwan needs more immigrants. Lucien pointed to the refugees.

"The Major General does hope that we can take the opportunity to save these people. But he also said let's do what we can. The enemy's main force is not far away yet, so I suggest that we should wait a little longer and let the enemy's main force go further. And that cavalry was always a nuisance. Guo Huai thought for a moment and replied.

"That cavalry is not a problem." Lucien said, "They alone cannot defeat our model army." ”

"They're going to drive the crowd in the opposite direction to us." Guo Huaiyi said again.

"It's useless, the crowd is definitely not moving as fast as we can move. And if they were to drive away the whole crowd, it would only cause more chaos. In the chaos, we will be able to pull out more people. Lucien replied disappreciatively, "But the enemy's main force is indeed still a little too close." We do have to wait. ”

"Report!" When Lu Xien was discussing with Guo Huaiyi, suddenly a fifteen or sixteen-year-old young soldier came over, raised his hand and gave Lu Xien a military salute. Lucien also waved his hand and asked back, "Chang, do you have anything to do?" ”

"Commander." The young man's eyes widened, and his voice trembled a little because of excitement, "All the soldiers of Company A of our A company ask you to fight, and ask for your permission to attack those Jianqi and save our compatriots!" This is a petition for all of us. ”

As he spoke, the young man surnamed Chang took out a roll of white cloth and handed it to Lucien. Lucien took it, and when he saw that it was a roll of bandages, he unfolded it, and it was full of bright red names.

Looking at this letter of invitation, Lucien frowned and said, "Second Lieutenant, I prefer to write in the blood of the enemy rather than in my own blood. ”

The young man surnamed Chang said excitedly: "Regiment leader, did you promise us to attack?" ”

"Yes, but not now, we'll have to wait. Wait for the best time. Often, you and they are educated and should understand this. In addition, you have wasted war supplies for no reason, and I will write this down. Lucien smiled and said, "Alright, you can often go back and arrange for your soldiers to prepare, and when the time is right, I will ......."

"Report." There was another series of reports. Lucien turned around and saw several teenagers all raising their hands in salute.

"You're probably here to hand me in the petition too, are you?" Lucien asked as he returned the salute.

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The refugees kept passing outside the stronghold, and in the blink of an eye, almost an hour had passed, and the refugees outside were still endless. At this time, behind the ice wall, the infantry of the Model Army was also nervously preparing for their first active attack against a strong enemy.