Stepping on the ground under his feet hard, and exhaling a breath with white mist, Xiao Lang rubbed his hands.

Just crossing a strait, the climate seems to be much colder. He looked back and saw that on the sea, a large number of heavily armed soldiers were slowly climbing the small sampan through the guò climbing net, rushing to the beach in batches, and quickly assembled under the leadership of the master chief. Capture various points in order to open up landing grounds.

Although the landing site here in Lushun is also a good natural bay, the port facilities are extremely poor, far worse than those in Weihai. There were basically no docks for large ships to moor directly, and there seemed to be a long trestle bridge deep into the sea, but it had long since burned down, and now only half of the wreckage and some charred black wooden piles remain. The troops could only be brought ashore in batches, and there was no interference compared to the landing operations in enemy-occupied areas.

"Fortunately, the first batch didn't bring heavy equipment, and if it did, it couldn't be transported...... It seems that the delivery of a large number of supplies will only be done after the dock trestle is repaired. ”

Chen Jun, the leader of the engineering team who landed on land with Xiao Lang, also looked around, wondering how to start the work. It was the first time he had come back, and although he had already estimated all kinds of difficulties, he still secretly gasped when he saw the scene, and said in his heart that this should not be the navigator leading the wrong course, right? This is like a port controlled by someone, and it is no different from the wilderness?

In fact, as long as the people who have been to Lushun in later generations see the boat bypassing the narrow and winding Tiger Tail Beach, as well as the landmarks such as Cockscomb Mountain and Golden Mountain on both sides, they can confirm that this is definitely Lushunkou. Once the Beiyang Navy Division was stationed, it is another place full of humiliation and sadness in Chinese history.

Of course, during the Ming Dynasty, it did not carry such a heavy history. But it is also about to witness a tragedy - if it were in real history, Lushun would have fallen long ago, Huanglong committed suicide, and the Dongjiang Army was wiped out. Later Jin no longer had any elbows in the coastal areas of Liaodong, and from then on he could safely use troops in the direction of Ningjin and Mongolia.

However, now because the initiator Kong Youde suffered a big loss in Dengzhou, his strength was insufficient, and his offensive was slow, and he was not able to take this fortified city for a while. But it was also a matter of time before -- the combat effectiveness of the Dongjiang Army was still the same as that. The "Wuzhen Chaoha" troops led by Kong Youde were completely unhindered on the battlefield. The only thing that caused them trouble was the harsh environment in the area.

Before Xiao Lang and others set off from Weihai, they asked the Liao refugees who had fled from the floating sea, and the current shape of Lushun judged by studying the "Goldfinger Historical Materials". Of course, the "Goldfinger" information is very inaccurate in this regard, and can only be used as a reference.

However, no matter what kind of side understanding is not as good as personal experience, at this moment, standing on this land. Feeling the sea breeze from the Liaodong Peninsula, whether it was Xiao Lang or Chen Jun, as well as several other traversers from the Qionghai, a special emotion appeared in their hearts.

- What a great place! Just walk a little further to the shore, and when you get out of the sandy area, the ground is covered with black humus. Whatever you plant, you should have a good harvest. This is still on the seaside, if you go inland, presumably the soil quality will be better, the so-called "black soil in the northeast is so fertile that you can grab oil", it is really not blowing.

It's a pity that there is a dead silence in this land that should be full of vitality and vitality right now. There are no signs of planting other than weeds and trees. When Xiao Lang kicked a hard object that looked a bit like a stone from under his feet, he could even tell that it was supposed to be part of a human skull. But they were thrown into the wilderness without being buried.

After a while, the locals finally appeared—they had run away at the sight of a stranger, like frightened rabbits. At this time, I saw that these uninvited guests were not Manchurian soldiers, but mainly because Chen Jun had people raise a banner of the sun, moon and golden dragon representing the Ming Dynasty, which dispelled the doubts of those people and made them bold to show up - speaking of which, this is also Xiao Lang's problem: he has never had a good impression of the Ming Dynasty, so he is not allowed to hang the Ming Dynasty flag on the ship, otherwise people don't have to run at all.

The locals looked at this lander with curiosity, which was completely different from any army of this era, and everyone here was also observing them, including Xiao Lang, who had already been here once, - the last time he came, he had quietly landed in the night, and after observing the terrain, he had secretly left, and he had not met with the locals, let alone negotiated, so it was the first time he had seen a real local garrison at this time.

Merely......

"Can you the fuck call it an army?"

More than one person raised this question-according to the previous reports of the refugees who fled to Weihai, saying that all the people on the Lushun side were soldiers, and all of them belonged to the members of the Dongjiang Army, and they could go to the battlefield. But at this time, what everyone saw was a group of out-and-out old, weak, sick and disabled. Among them, most of them are elderly and children, and occasionally a few younger ones are either disabled or female, and there is not a single young adult in sight.

Those people were dressed in extremely tattered clothes, looking at the style of the Ming Dynasty's military uniforms and mandarin duck jackets, but they had long been dilapidated, and the fabrics that should have been red had all faded, leaving only a thin layer on the outside, and the inside was stuffed with hay to keep out the cold. And what is even more surprising is that they don't have shoes on their feet! I just saw that everyone here felt a chill on the soles of their feet - you must know that it was almost winter by this time. On the Weihai side, when the weather is cold in the morning and evening, there will already be frost on the ground, let alone here. Xiao Lang: They were wearing waterproof big leather boots, and they felt cold when they stepped on the ground in Liaodong. And there are so many people in front of me, not a single one wears shoes, all of them are standing barefoot in the muddy ground, God knows how they can afford to eat.

The men had no weapons in their hands, only baskets, cloth bags, and the like, with a faint hint of shells, mussels, and edible seaweed, which they had apparently been searching for food here. However, judging by the mostly empty containers, the gains are limited.

Xiao Lang and others had a deep understanding of the food shortage of the Lushun garrison in advance -- whether they listened to the accounts of the refugees who fled or recorded them according to historical documents, they all deeply portrayed the embarrassment of the food supply of the Dongjiang Army during this period. Historically, the defeat of the Dongjiang Army was not so much the defeat of the enemy as the abandonment of the Ming Dynasty - for an army that lacked the ability to support itself, if the rear could not provide sufficient support, especially food supplies, then it was only natural that the army would lose its combat effectiveness.

Therefore, Xiao Lang and others had already planned for this before sending out their troops: after the first batch of covering troops landed along the landing, the second group of small boats that came over were not entirely infantry, but carried a large number of bamboo baskets. The basket is full of sesame oil and sesame baked cakes, white flour steamed buns and other foods. It was all done by Wu Nanhai's logistics department in charge before boarding the ship, and it was specially heated on the boat just now, and it was still steaming hot until it was dragged onto the beach.

The appeal of these foods is far more effective than the Ming banner - when Chen Jun and the others raised the Ming Dynasty banner just now, those people were just watching from a distance. But when the first basket of steamed bread and baked cakes was dragged ashore, and they didn't even need to be greeted here, those people all took the initiative to surround them. Under the management of the soldiers of Qiongzhen, a crooked line was formed and began to receive food in order.

Just as order began to be in order on the beach, Xiao Lang finally met the other party's contact officer—he had sent a liaison officer as soon as he landed just now. That person was originally a member of the Lushun Dongjiang Army, and he was still a petty officer, who fled to the mainland not long ago, and originally thought to go to Dengzhou, but drifted down the river to Weihai.

Most of those who managed to escape to the mainland would never return, but this one was an exception - he said that he did not go to the mainland to escape, but to find reinforcements and return to Liaodong. Whether these words were true or not, at least they were in Xiao Lang's mind, so Xiao Lang took him with him when he sent out the army and asked him to act as a liaison between the two sides.

With the help of locals, the efficiency really improved a lot, and soon the liaison officer came over with a tall man who looked like an officer. The reason why it can be seen that he is an officer is because the man has a helmet on his head, which should look like the model used by an officer. But he didn't have any armor on him, so he put on a tattered mandarin duck jacket, which was not as good as the liaison next to him - the latter was bare-ass when he climbed the Weihaiwei beach, but because he refused to join the Qiong Navy, the logistics staff had to find him a set of Ming Dynasty military uniforms to wear - there were quite a lot of such uniforms in the Weihaiwei warehouse. And because no one wore it, it was all new, and the old man looked much more imposing than the one next to him, even though the latter was far more powerful than he was.

So the officers of Qionghai Town from Hainan and the generals of the Dongjiang Army of the Ming Dynasty met in such an environment, and in any case, the two sides were comrades fighting under the same banner. Although Xiao Lang looked down on the officials of the Ming Dynasty, he still had a lot of respect for these Ming Dynasty soldiers who fought on the front line in Liaodong, so he stepped forward to solemnly salute the army, and the other party had already returned the salute with a fist. After exchanging names and ranks, Xiao Lang's self-proclaimed position of "Commander of the First Battalion of the Third Regiment of the Qiong Navy" was of course inexplicable to the other party, and the name reported by that person also surprised Xiao Lang.

-- He claimed to be Shang Keyi, a general of Huang Long, the chief officer of Lushun. Xiao Lang was surprised and asked, and sure enough, he heard that he also had a brother named Shang Kexi, who was currently the deputy general of Guangludao. And there are many brothers in their old Shang family, in addition to Shang Kexi stationed in Yu, there are still Shang Kejin, Shang Lovely, Shang Kehe, Shang Kefu, Shang Kewei and so on, most of them are under the command of Huanglong. But several have died in the years of war, and their father Shang Xueli has died in the battle with the Houjin soldiers.

Thank you to the reader Uncle Yajima, I really didn't expect to have a friend to reward.

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