Changsheng Island is not like the Yellow Sea Islands, there is also a situation where the sea is closed in winter, but the south of the island is about the inner current, so there is no problem in the middle island and the west island, and the freezing time in Beixinkou is not long, and it is much better than Juehua in the inner Bohai Sea.

At first, Yellowstone planned to build a wall with ice blocks, but then the progress was very slow, and the broken ice had to be reinforced by splashing water, and the weather was not cold enough to turn into ice, but it was too dangerous to wait until the weather to build an ice wall.

After the dream was shattered, Huang Shi had to take out some firewood to hit the foundation of the wall, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to stop collecting firewood and cut some large logs, which exacerbated the dilemma of lack of manpower.

"Three hundred meters long wooden wall, my lord, too long. Bao Jiusun couldn't help but complain, the soldier's body consumption is very large, and the food ration is planned: "Can you be sparse, don't be so dense?"

"No, we're going to pour water on the wooden walls and freeze them. Huang Shi watched as thousands of soldiers toiled in the cold wind, the fishing work had been suspended, and the temperature was getting lower day by day, and he had to dig the ice floe twice a day to prevent it from freezing: "Get some more firewood and throw it in, and build the wall anyway." ”

"My lord, this will not work. A few days later, Zhao Slowxiong and Bao Jiusun said together: "It is still necessary to fill the stones, then sprinkle the soil, and finally splash water, and the wooden wall will not have time to be repaired no matter what." ”

"If we had sandbags, it would be nice to collect sand and fill the wall roots. "Zhao Slowxiong's words are nonsense, there is not enough cloth on the island, and it can't be used to make sandbags.

The bitter north wind roared over Changsheng Island, and the black-blue sea rolled slightly, undulating with broken ice of various sizes, which was slowly blown through the strait by the current and wind. The dark clouds overhead are not thick, and you can still see the top of the white clouds illuminated by the sun, but the scenery next to Huangshi gives people a gray feeling.

Huangshi stood on the seashore, looking at the land opposite, there seemed to be no trace of a wild beast on a dry and cold big 6, and there was no snow to herald a new disaster year, and the winter wheat seedlings in the Nine Border Military Town were almost unable to hold on.

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"My lord, if we go on like this, we will be exhausted to death if we don't wait for Jiannu to fight. ”

When he reported to Huangshi, Zhao Slowxiong was already in tears. The time entered the end of the lunar month, and large pieces of ice floes continued to form in the south and north of the mouth, and Huangshi ordered the whole army to divide into several batches, dig ice every morning and evening, and never allow the ice to freeze. The current between the Strait of Changsheng Island is very fast, and coupled with the howling north wind, the ice floes are constantly washed away.

"Keep digging into the ice. "Yellowstone ordered without any emotion.

Since determining Changsheng Island as a base, Huangshi has always remembered the tragedy of Juehua in history, and always worried that this tragedy would be born on his own Changsheng Island.

In the historical Battle of Juehua, the Houjin army took advantage of the freezing of the sea to cross the natural danger, and 3,000 Guanning soldiers and nearly 5,000 military dependents were slaughtered. This was all because the Guanning army did not strictly implement the order, and the guards did not dig the ice in accordance with the rules and regulations, and as a result, the sea ice spread, freezing the ships on the shore, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians could not even flee to sea.

At the end of the month, the weather became colder, and Huangshi arranged for manpower to patrol, and once the shore was frozen, a team was immediately dispatched to excavate. In the middle of the night, they also sent people to patrol with fires, and chiseled with the knots, otherwise the ice would cover most of the strait overnight.

"Two more soldiers fell into the water today, one had frozen to death when it was salvaged, and ten more soldiers fell ill. During today's routine report, Yang Zhiyuan and his mouth were spitting, looking at Huang Shiban's face tightly, and the words of advice did not come out in the end

The construction of the wall was largely abandoned, the ground was frozen as hard as steel, and the Dongjiang soldiers, who lacked tools, could no longer dig up much earth and rock. Therefore, all the energy of Yellowstone is devoted to the ice chiseling movement, and once the existing ice on the shore sticks out of the water, it must be chiseled at the first moment.

"How wide is the unfrozen sea?"

"More than forty zhang, less than fifty zhang. "Fishing boats are dispatched every day on Changsheng Island to knock on the ice that extends on the east coast, and with the erosion of the current, half of the strait has not yet frozen.

"Very well," Huang Shi nodded, "I'll go see the doctor." ”

Huang Shi remembers very well that the defenders of Juehua Island allowed the ice to become thicker and thicker, and only after the Houjin army came to organize people to dig the ice all night, but they were tired all night and did not chisel it, Tianming was attacked by the Houjin army, and the exhausted Ming army did not form effective resistance at all.

The tragedy of Juehua must not be repeated in Changsheng!

Yellowstone stepped into the barracks where the sick were contained, and the soldiers boiling water saluted him, and the sick struggled to salute him. After the inspection, He Baodao secretly followed Huangshi out of the camp.

There were silver-gray clouds rolling in the sky, and the howling north wind made people almost unable to stand, and Huang Shi shouted to He Baodao: "Mr. He Qian, is there something wrong?"

"My lord," He Baodao shouted in a raised voice, although he was standing behind Huangshi, "I can't dig ice anymore, there are already one hundred and twenty people who have fallen ill, and almost ten have died." ”

"We didn't fix the shore wall, it's my responsibility, but for now we have to keep digging the ice!"

Once the ice is frozen thick, it can't be chiseled, and you can't count on luck. Huang Shi felt that his will was stronger than this ice, the mistake of the shore wall had been committed, and Changsheng Island could not afford to make another mistake.

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Today, Zhao Wanxiong, He Baodao, Yang Zhiyuan and all the officers came to the camp tent in Huangshi together, and when they were put in, they knelt on the ground together: "Dare to invite adults to sympathize with the soldiers." ”

Huang Shi stood up in shock and anger, and his voice trembled with anger: "Are you going to rebel?"

As soon as these words came out, Hong Antong behind him snorted, and several other family members also touched the handle of the knife and gathered behind Huangshi together.

None of the kneeling officers raised their heads to speak, which made Huang Shi even more angry: "The general's order will never be changed! Those who do not obey the order will be dealt with by military law." ”

There is still silence below,

"Stand down!"

"Stand down!"

"All stand down!"

Giving in now is a loss of prestige, and this is what you forced me to make--Huang Shi laughed angrily: "Left and right, beat them out for me." ”

Hong Antong immediately led a few family members forward, picked up the scabbard and stick and began to start, it was relatively light at first, but even a coward like Zhao Slowxiong did not retreat.

Seeing that Huang Shi's face had turned iron-blue, Hong Antong finally gritted his teeth and waved it down. Yang Zhiyuan in the front row was slapped in the face, and there was a blood mark immediately, Huang Shi saw that his body was crooked, but then he knelt straight again.

(End of Section 11)

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