The New Year has passed, but the entire Daheng has no meaning of spring, and the Beijing is still cold and windy, not to mention the boundaries of Liaodong.

The North Bay is adjacent to Liaodong, and the waters in the north are frozen - this is probably one of the reasons for shouting about Port Arthur, and it is not used at all. Those deep-water ports are better to say, the northernmost Liaodong Bay is simply frozen tightly, and the gun trucks are afraid that they will not be able to crack if they are pressed over.

There is a small island thirty miles away from Ningyuan City, called Juehua, eighteen miles away from the shore, it is a place to hoard military rations, and there is only a thousand households guarding it, all of which are sailors.

As soon as the sun was sinking in the west, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old scout slipped over on the ice, and a long shadow crossed the ice, shouting as he slipped away: "Mr. He, our ship is frozen again!" ”

The little boy was quite unstable, along the shore, running and sliding all the way, and when he came to the shore, he did not stand firmly, and a dog gnawed mud and fell in front of his own general flag.

The general flag named He Jiuqi handed him a big white eye, stood on the shore, and put his hands in his sleeves: "Lu Shiyi, the year is over, and you still kowtow?" - What are you fooling around? Biao? ”

Lu Shiyi was wrapped in a fat jacket, like a bear, and he didn't wear armor. I struggled clumsily on the ground for a long time before I got up: "General Flag, are we still going to scuttle the boat?" Otherwise, don't chisel, chisel every day and freeze every day. This is so frozen, even if the boat is chiseled, we can't go, and we can run to Ningyuan City to deliver food immediately. ”

"Alright, let's go. I'm going to tell Senno-sama about it. He Jiuqi shrank his neck by the oncoming wind, continued to hold his hands, turned his head and scolded and walked towards the city, "This fucking weather." ”

Lu Shiyi followed behind He Jiuqi, turning back three times along the way, looking around with a clairvoyant mirror as if he had nothing to do, looking at it, and suddenly howling in his throat: "General Flag!" ”

He Jiuqi was quite impatient and turned back for the first time: "What's the matter?" You kid......"

"General Banner, I just saw a soldier! A group of black rumbling is not the flag of our Daheng! Lu Shiyi didn't wait for him to finish, he interrupted He Jiuqi's words regardless of it, and his face was indescribably solemn.

He Jiuqi: "What!?" ”

Lu Shiyi panicked, and stuffed the clairvoyant mirror into He Jiuqi's hand: "Cavalry! Go to the sea! ”

The conditions on Juehua Island are harsh, the weapons and armor are not complete, not to mention the Hongyi heavy artillery, even if it is Weiyuan Breaker, there are only a few on the ship, and the fingers and toes of the firecrackers in the city can be counted. Moreover, even the armor is not complete, there are only a few sets of fish scale chain mail often worn by the Heng army, and most of the soldiers only have a pair of cotton armor.

In previous years, regardless of winter or summer, Liaodong Bay was a moat, and landlubbers could compare to the sailors who grew up on the edge of Liaodong Bay, so there was no need to be so troublesome, but this year it was ......

He Jiuqi put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, his hand was already numb by the cold wind, he dropped Lu Shiyi, pushed it to the place where Qianhu was stationed, and shouted: "Go to the drum tower!" Drumming! I'm going to find Senho-sama. ”

Juehua Island is a big place with a big nail, there is only one grain city on the island, two or three steps to the end, the north gate rushes to the port, the south gate faces the island, there is no door in the east and west, the barracks of thousands of households are built according to the city, even the drum tower is just a high place with a drum, and the rest of the dwellings are scattered all over Juehua Island. If there is a real fight, let alone weapons and armor, there is not even a city wall to lean on!

The ice surface of Liaodong Bay is unobstructed, and the military clairvoyant mirror can be seen as far as twenty miles away, and the horses on the ice are slow, and they still have a little time to prepare.

Lu Shiyi and He Jiuqi were divided into two routes, and they rushed all the way in a hurry.

Lai Hongyuan, a thousand households of the Thousand Households Office on Juehua Island, was checking the accounts in the Tunliang City when he suddenly heard the sound of drums and was suddenly startled. As soon as he turned around, he saw He Jiuqi who had fallen into the city.

He Jiuqi was a little panting, his mouth was intermittently emitting white air, and he choked himself for a while, but he didn't speak.

Lai Hongyuan kept the alarm in his heart, and ran to He Jiuqi in two steps: "This is an enemy attack?" Uryanha? ”

He Jiuqi coughed and couldn't speak, so he could only nod desperately, and finally coughed with tears in his eyes before he held back a sentence: "Eight or nine is not far from ten." ”

Lai Hongyuan only received a battle report three days ago, saying that Wuliangha had suffered another defeat under Ningyuan City, and nearly half of the 100,000 troops had been lost.

An extremely ominous premonition rose in Lai Hongyuan's heart - Wu Liangha not only wanted to cut off the supply of grain and grass in Ningyuan City, but also because he had been hit hard, he had nowhere to express his resentment, so he came to find a soft persimmon to pinch!

He immediately made a decision and ordered: "Lao He, take your people to lead the people into the city first." All the rest, come with me! ”

The people on Juehua Island rushed to the city with the drums of urging their lives, and the "son" and "mother" cried together; A whole thousand soldiers of the Thousand Households put on their armor and picked up their swords and soldiers like crazy, and stood on the island in a row, and the scattered sailors could not even make up a set of armor, and they looked like three or two sparrows in front of the Wuliangha Iron Cavalry.

The sailors on the island have been military households for generations, and the teeth of the veterans are crumbling, and the "Changding" who died of his father has just taken out the appearance of a teenager, and everyone rushed to the ice with the long knife in Lai Qianhu's hand.

The bay, which had been a moat, formed an open plain, clean and unsheltered—too conducive to cavalry warfare.

The black-pressed cavalry crushed the sunset and approached with the night, and Lai Qianhu was in front of him, and a pickaxe knocked into the thick ice.

The only chariots in the whole city were all lined up in front, and the sharp arrows were mounted on the crossbows, and the rest of the people frantically copied the guys in their hands to dig away the ice, and chiseled out an "ice trench" from the smooth and mirror-like ice.

Lu Shiyi, who had just been arranged to beat the drum, jumped on the horse, and there was only a soldier with a small flag by his side, who hugged the horse's neck in the face of the night and the northwest wind, and was filled with tears by the cold wind.

He didn't care about the north wind blowing his face, gritted his teeth fiercely, and flew out with a clip of the horse's belly.

In the direction where he turned his head and didn't look, tens of thousands of iron horsemen came by stepping on the ice......

"On the seventeenth day of the first month of the seventh year of Changzhi, Wuliangha led tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Juehua Island from the ice. The defenders of Juehua Island dug fifteen miles of ice as a trench and lined up to defend it with chariots. The defenders were all sailors, with neither armor nor weapons, and their strength was not enough to sustain. The defenders have two gates, twelve birds, and the ice is windy, and they are not used. Although outnumbered, they also held on to the battle, and fought fiercely until the eighteenth, when the rain and snow, and the ice trenches were closed, and there was no way to continue. The Uliangha army landed at the mouth of the Yan. ”