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In the next half month, the surrounding area of Huangxian County was in full swing, and the sound of building siege equipment was everywhere.

Thirty or forty thousand people did it at once, and the efficiency was terrifying: the originally dense woods next to the Huangshui River were cut down in a matter of days. The houses in several surrounding villages were not spared - there was no one in the village anyway, the villagers either fled or were killed, and the last of them were captured by the rebels a few days ago and used as death squads...... With the combined efforts of both sides, the villages around Huang County have almost completely disappeared.

In exchange for these prices, a huge shield and a huge board car - or a rushing car? Nest car? In short, it was the kind of tall, bulky, front and top covered with thick planks, and with the help of the manpower hidden in it, it could cover the big guys who were close to the city wall with arrows and arrows falling on rocks at a time.

Due to the rapid development of firearms, now the bare wooden board can no longer resist the penetration of firearms bullets, but the Ming army is also very experienced in this - they nailed the quilts and cotton clothes collected from the surrounding villages to the board, and watering and soaking them during the battle can play a good protective role - this trick is still very effective against the devil's 38 cover during the Anti-Japanese War, and it is definitely more than enough to resist the firearms of this era, but it still can't withstand the artillery - even if it is an ordinary solid iron ball, it can penetrate with one shot. If the position of the fight is more coincidental, it is not uncommon to fall apart on the spot.

In addition, there are a large number of ladders to climb the city, these ladders are very long, far exceeding the height of the Huangxian city wall, and the horizontal logs on them are also very dense, and some even have handrails on the side - these ladders are to be built on the city wall to form a slope. In fact, the protective plates on those carts have a similar effect - if you can get close to the city wall, these large wooden planks will be directly built on the city wall and become a ramp, which can accommodate more than ten soldiers at a time to charge at the same time.

In the midst of this noise, the camp of the Qiong Navy had to be moved to another place - because the trees on this side of the Huangshui River had been cut down, and the Ming officers and soldiers naturally set their sights on the other side of the river. The defensive position of the Qiong navy happened to hold the ferry road, and if they refused to give way, the Ming army could only build another pontoon bridge or simply swim across the river.

Since the last meeting broke up unhappily, Shandong Xingying has not had any contact with this side, and now he even refuses to come forward, and only lets the people below try to solve it by themselves - it seems that in the minds of Zhu Dadian's gang of people, the toughness of the short hair is also a headache for them.

In the end, it turned out that a Sichuan army that was sent to cross the river to cut down the wood sent people to ask for help, said a lot of good things, and gave some Shu brocade specialties as gifts. Everyone here thought that there was no need to get along with all the Ming troops, so they agreed to move their nests. The relocation of the camp to a high slope close to the county seat of Huangxian County is also convenient for observing the scene when the Ming army attacked the city.

Unexpectedly, this action aroused the vigilance of the Shandong camp - since the first siege was frustrated, the officers and soldiers of the Shandong camp finally realized that this rebel army was by no means a soft persimmon, and its combat strength was definitely no worse than theirs. So before this, what happened to the Qiong Navy who only relied on less than 2,000 people to hold the official road and beat the rebels to the point of crying wolf?

As a result, through a series of investigations, especially the interrogation of prisoners, the officials of the Shandong camp had to reassess the combat effectiveness of the short-haired army. And the most impressive thing about the surviving rebel prisoners was the artillery of the Qiongzhou army. Its huge power was described in their mouths beyond words, what "as soon as the thunder god came out, the world was turned upside down", "a cannon eroded more than ten miles" and so on, so that those Ming officials also had to pay attention to it.

When the Qiong Navy was moving, the launchers of the two rocket launchers were disassembled and transported, which was not very conspicuous, but the twelve bronze cannons that were pulled forward and pushed back by several big green donkeys and dragged up the mountain with great difficulty could not be covered. After being transported to the mountain, although the muzzle of the cannon was towards the county seat of Huangxian County, even Zhu Dadian and other civil officials could see that since this two-wheeled cannon was so light to move, it would definitely be easy to turn around.

The officials of the camp immediately became nervous - they had not seen the importance of this hillside before, but when the Short-haired Army was stationed, they found that the artillery of the Short-haired Army could cover the entire Shandong camp on this mountain, how could this make - in fact, the rocket artillery of the Qiongzhou Army could also cover them before, but at that time the Shandong camp did not have this concept.

It would be unrealistic to say that it would be unrealistic to let the Joan Navy move again, and the last meeting had fully demonstrated the arrogance of this group of shorthairs. Don't look at Gao Qi and use "thief nature has not changed" to describe them, but when those shorthair threatened to return to their old business, he was the most nervous.

However, these officials of the Ming Dynasty were also quite anxious, and after some discussion, they came up with a solution - the hillside area is quite large, and you short-haired can garrison troops, so it didn't take long for there to be an additional Ming military camp next to the Qiong naval camp, and the distance between the two sides was extremely close, almost back-to-back. And intentionally or unintentionally, this camp is blocked between the Qiong Navy and the Ming army camp, which means that even if they turn the muzzle, there is no shooting boundary, unless the camp is demolished first......

"I X"

Beiwei and the others were extremely unhappy about this, but they couldn't help it - it seems that the Liaodong Army didn't report the short-haired warning, or they didn't pay attention to it. In the past, only the Liaodong Army could threaten it, but now the main forces of the Ming Army have come over, and it is clear that they want to play close pressing, and it is not good to start a war seriously here.

Interestingly, it was actually the Sichuan army unit that was sent to play the role of this meat shield last time, perhaps because the camp officials felt that these Sichuan troops had a familiar face and were easy to talk to. Their commander was a general surnamed Wang, although the official position in the Ming Dynasty was only a small garrison, several levels lower than the general, the general Wang took the initiative to come to visit, said countless kind words, and sent a lot of Sichuan specialties - I don't understand whether they came out to fight or pull relations, and actually brought so many local products.

After that, the two armies became neighbors, watching each other every day. The Qiong navy was habitually vigilant, and this Sichuan army came by order, and they were even exempted from the pain of labor for this reason, and they stayed in the big camp every day without working - the same treatment as several vigilant troops around Huang County, and the Liaodong army, which seemed to be naturally superior in the marching army, these Sichuan troops were also stained with the light of the Qiong navy.

The general was very enthusiastic, and often invited Xie Xi and others to their camp for a banquet at dinner, but of course they all politely declined. However, although he did not go to eat other people's meals, every time he arrived, the commander here would climb to the watchtower of his camp and secretly use binoculars to observe what the opposing soldiers were eating.

The quality of the telescopes here is very good, so good that you can see what is in the big wooden barrel of food on the other side - you can see that the hierarchy within the Ming army is very strict, not only between officers and soldiers, but also between soldiers, and their food levels are also very different.

- The generals all ate in the tents, and they couldn't see it, but occasionally you could see the fine food boxes delivered from the small kitchen, all of which were lacquerware like works of art, and the contents of them were certainly not bad; After that came the cavalry and infantry chiefs, who were well supplied with wine and meat, and who were drunk every day; The next class is cavalry auxiliaries and infantry soldiers, with white-flour steamed buns and meat; In the lower tier, there are ordinary infantry and auxiliaries, with a mixture of white-flour steamed buns and black nests, sometimes supplemented by broth; Finally, there are the miscellaneous servants who have no formal military status, and their diet is very poor - a few black nests, plus a bowl of rotten vegetable leaf soup, unless the supply is very abundant, a little meat can be seen in the vegetable soup - the latter two grades are the most.

Although there were good and bad, on the whole, most of the Ming soldiers ate badly. Not to mention that the nutrition is reasonable, it is good to be able to fill the stomach.

"The food of the Ming army is really bad......"

In the eyes of Admiral Qiong, the logistics support of the Ming army is really scummy, but they don't know that they are the same in the eyes of the Ming army - because they did not consider setting up supply lines when they went to war before, and all the materials were carried with the army. Most of the main logistical tools of the attacking troops are used to load ammunition, and they are not so elaborate in terms of food, mainly all kinds of compressed military rations provided by the Ministry of Agriculture of Wunanhai, plus some soup and the like, and the types are very monotonous.

The taste of these rations is actually quite good, but the appearance is very inconspicuous, and the colors are varied: the color mixed with vegetables is green; Gray with seaweed or soybean flour, and potato flour or corn flour are yellow, and from a distance it looks like mold.

And because the officers and soldiers of the Qiong Navy have always been the same, and they eat together, so when the generals of the Ming army climbed the watchtower in the Sichuan military camp and peeked at the dining scene here, the scene they saw was: the short-haired army was lined up in several rows, regardless of the size of the official position, each person could only receive one or two pieces of moldy steamed bread-like objects that were either yellowed or greenish for each meal, plus a spoonful of clear soup and little water that could reflect the figure of the person, and sat there little by little and broke it and ate it.

"Poor ...... It must be that the army has cut off food, and the leader wants to save face, and the people below are unlucky. ”

Perhaps it was this misunderstanding that caused the general surnamed Wang to send people to invite them to dinner many times, and then to no avail, and then hit the idea on the lower-level ordinary soldiers—they changed the place where the soldiers ate to the front of the big camp, and greatly improved the quality of the food. The staff team judged that this might be an order from the Shandong camp, because the watchmen found that the supply of supplies to the camp from the Ming army camp had increased considerably.

——After that, every time the meal arrived, at the gate of the Sichuan military camp, there were dozens of cauldrons lined up, the inside was steaming, you could see many large pork ribs or pig's head meat and the like churning inside, baskets of white-flour steamed buns were stacked at the door, and all the Ming troops could be used at will regardless of rank. The soldiers were eating and laughing, and from time to time they waved to the side of the Joan naval camp, and greeted them very boldly:

"Qiongzhen friends, come and try it" "White flour steamed bun bone soup, you can eat and drink as much as you want" when you come...... And so on and so forth.

Although at this time, the Qiongzhou army on the opposite side often looked at them with an idiotic gaze, but in the eyes of those Sichuan soldiers, it was regarded as envy, so their "performance" became more and more hard. And the dismissal of the first cadre is also very unhappy about this, the yin* action of the opposite Sichuan army is certainly like a clown, but since the establishment of the Qiongzhou army, when has it been so underestimated?

Fortunately, this unhappiness did not last long, and a few days later, the baggage team sent from Dengzhou arrived in the air. After counting the supplies delivered, Lao Ji decided to invite General Wang and his deputies from the Sichuan military camp opposite to have a meal - neighbors always have to walk around.

…………

"What is this?"

"Juice."

Faced with the not very good-looking face of the dismissal, the chef who was called out was a little strange, thinking that this thing was not raised by your short-haired uncles, why did you ask me instead?

Lao Xie shook the glass in his hand, and continued to ask with a cold face:

"Shipped directly from Qiongzhou Island?"

The chef nodded:

"Yes, there are several varieties in the big wooden barrels, would you like to try another one?"

"Fooling around"

Xie slapped the table and casually spilled all the liquid in the glass:

"How can the barrels be used to entertain guests - God knows how many colors and preservatives the farm guys put into them to replace them with freshly squeezed ones - right away"

“…… Be. ”

"Oh, by the way, and ice cubes to cool it down. You would make ice with chemical methods, right? ”

"Yes, but it's usually only made in small quantities for wine ......"

"Less nonsense, do it quickly"

"Yes, sir."

The inexplicable cook went down, and while walking, he said in his heart that Boss Xie is not good to serve today, is it because he is not happy in his heart - but then again, he is still in a treat?

Ao Sayang and the others who were accompanying him tried their best to hold back their laughter, and Lao Xie wanted Wu Nanhai to hear what he said just now, and he was going to fight with him - you would like to find artificial colors and preservatives for me in this era? After that, he pretended to shake the meat steak on the plate in front of him, and sighed to the general Wang on the opposite guest seat:

"This whale meat is not too fresh, it is definitely not as tender as the authentic veal steak - no way, the troops are out, the conditions are very poor, and I ask General Wang to bear with me."

"Uh...... It's okay, it's okay. It's already hearty, really, very hearty......"

The general and his entourage had long been dazzled by the white bone china and glass tableware on the table, most of which were unrecognizable, but they were beautiful in color and flavor, and with the exquisite utensils, they were more like works of art than food.

And the head of the Xie regiment, who has always been regarded as "arrogant and domineering" by the camp officials, also expressed great enthusiasm today, and until the end of the banquet, Xie Xi was still shouting there:

"Bring me two more bottles of red wine, and ask for a French-made ...... Yes, it was seized from the Westerners, bring it with the ice bucket, I want to have two drinks with Brother Wang."

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