"Stop," Huang Shi cried out sadly, and then added: "The general's order has never changed, and it is useless for you to kneel here." ”

Zhao Wanxiong endured the severe pain and shouted: "My lord, the military spirit is no longer stable!"

Seeing that Huang Shi did not reprimand categorically, He Baodao also shouted: "My lord, it's not that the humble rank doesn't do his best, but there are already twenty soldiers who fell into the water and froze to death. Hundreds and fifty people have fallen from the disease, and more people are dying every day, and the soldiers are already in an uproar.

"I said that if we don't insist on digging the ice, the officers and soldiers of the whole island will be worried about their lives," Huang Shi walked up to them, bent down and said in hatred: "Why don't you understand such a simple truth, huh?"

"We'd rather fight Jiannu and die than freeze to death without even seeing the enemy. He Baodao's eyebrows raised, and the grievances on both sides poured out: "My lord, it's not a day when the soldiers are complaining, I have scolded and beaten, and I really can't be suppressed anymore...... My lord, we are all loyal to you, so we have come here to speak. ”

Huang Shi also sneered and asked: "Liaodong's military regulations clearly say that ice chiseling is the rule of the coastal battalions, and others can do it, why can't you do it?"

"My lord, the military regulations were formulated a hundred years ago, who knows if it really works, the soldiers all say that ice chisel is against God. Zhao Slowxiong's courage also came up.

"Yes, I am not afraid of building slaves, but I don't have the ability to go against God," He Baodao also shouted: "How can the legs of the praying mantis be twisted past the trunk of an elephant? ”

Huang Shi stood up straight, sneered and said, "Since the military regulations are there, it means that they are feasible." Are you bandits? You dare not even carry out military orders, and you can't even control the soldiers, and you still want to go to the battlefield to kill Jiannu because of this ability? Ridiculous, I really want to laugh to death. ”

"We are not bandits!" Yang Zhiyuan, who had always respected Huang Shi, did not know where the courage came from, and he also raised his head angrily, and Huang Shi saw that there were already tears in his eyes.

"We were originally the elite of the Quang Ninh Army Headquarters, and we traveled thousands of miles from Quang Ninh to Lushun, and we followed our adults all the way, and we never regretted our deaths. Dare to ask your lordship, can there be bandits who can do it?" After Yang Zhiyuan finished speaking, he looked at Huang Shi angrily, and shouted in a hissed voice: "Digging ice has caused nearly a percent of my soldiers to fall, but there is still no mutiny, dare to ask my lord, besides my fire battalion on Immortal Island, which army can do it?"

In addition to being in the dead ground, the best feudal armies could only endure one or two percent of casualties without collapsing. Many times in history, the Ming army suffered only a few hundred casualties, and tens of thousands of troops began to disintegrate, and finally the whole army was wiped out. Even the most elite Houjin army of this era, its field casualty endurance was not worth mentioning for modern armies, but it was invincible at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The Huangshi Department is the iron rod that he brought out single-handedly, and countless hardships and crises have made their cohesion even higher than that of ordinary generals, otherwise such a high loss rate in a peaceful state would have completely confused the army. These men desperately crushed the soldiers, trying to accomplish what they thought was almost impossible, but they were still beaten - and now Yellowstone understood their anger.

For a while, the atmosphere in the camp was as cold as the weather, and Huang Shi felt that he had a problem now, and he also knew what he was wrong with - using feudal means to control the officers would naturally not be able to get the modern army......

Huang Shi stood with his hands in his hands for a long time, and when he spoke again, his eyes looking straight ahead also became fascinated: "If I say that a rogue can travel thousands of miles, do you believe it or not?"

"Don't believe it!" shouted the officers at the same time, and they all let go.

"If I say that this tributary did not travel thousands of miles, but 50,000 miles, would you believe it or not?"

The kneeling officers looked at Huangshi like a madman, their mouths wide open, and they couldn't speak.

"I can also tell you that this tributary is on a journey of 50,000 li (well, Huangshi is wrong, he confused the kilometer and the li), and he doesn't even have to burn and loot to maintain his morale. Yellowstone looked down at his men, his expression calm and serene, showing no hint of lying.

"How can there be such a thing?" Zhao Slowxiong reacted first: "Is this still human?"

Huang Shi viciously threw down a sentence: "I don't think so!"

Ripping off his cloak, Yellowstone strode to the door—"It's cold outside, I should be ashamed." He fastened his helmet tightly and walked towards the beach without looking back, leaving the stunned officers and soldiers in their tents.

The hot breath from his mouth had condensed into ice on his beard, the strong wind had blown Yellowstone to pieces, and the thick wooden stick he had carried on his shoulders had now been used as a crutch.

"Your Excellency...... My lord......" There was a distant shout from behind, and he didn't look back.

In Huangshi's memory, there was a persevering and unyielding army in China, and the average level of that army was probably not much higher than that of all peasant armies or rogues, and it was certainly not from a regular army like the Huangshi Ministry, which had a systematic officer system and authority.

Yellowstone didn't know if they were right, but he always felt that it didn't explain the army's tenacity in the face of difficult situations—it wasn't that simple.

There are a few small things in Yellowstone's impression of not having read many books:

-- In order to fight the economic blockade, the Central Soviet District ordered the thatched pits to be scraped to boil salt. After this salt is cooked, everyone is reluctant to eat it, so who wants to eat it...... Jude took the first bite, and since then he has only eaten this salt.

-- When crossing the meadow, ordinary soldiers give a pound of rice...... Party members give eight taels of rice.

-- Many parents are reluctant to keep their children......* to give their sons to their fellow villagers.

"Since I can't get my subordinates to be happy with me, then I have to at least share their hardships......"

Huang Shi accidentally fell, but then quickly got up and continued to move forward, although it is unbelievable to the people of this era, but Huang Shi believes that the army can be stronger and more tenacious: "This is the army, we are so far apart that I don't expect to be able to reach half of them, as long as there are thirty percent I am very satisfied, and I should be able to dominate the world." ”

......

"This is Duncan, a Jesuit recommended soldier. ”

Zhang Zaidi and Jin Qiude returned, and brought back a foreigner with a long nose, a Westerner with gray-blue eyes, a magical mustache, and a set of Chinese-style clothes.

"Rest well and drink plenty of hot water. Huang Shi had just recovered from a serious illness, and his expression was still a little sluggish, and he stretched out his hand to the foreigner: "Welcome, Your Excellency, Sir." ”

When they returned to Changsheng Island, there were ice floes on the north, west, and south sides, and they couldn't find a place to go ashore. Jin Qiude put his hand on the fire and roasted it, and shouted: "I didn't expect that Beixinkou has not yet frozen, and there are still bare rocks and shore foundations. ”

Without waiting for Yellowstone to speak, Duncan picked up the stubble: "General, with all due respect, I don't understand why the general is digging ice where, the place where we landed on 6 is not a good port." ”

"It's a defensive need. Huang Shi smiled and explained the current situation, the failed plan to build an ice wall, and the last resort to dig the ice.

"Thirty percent of the soldiers have fallen ill?" Jin Qiude was stunned when he heard this,

"That's right, Jin Qiude, you go to see Zhao Slowxiong in a while, he is already talking nonsense. ”

Duncan also became very strict: "Are you still digging ice?"

"Exactly, my Immortal Island is as safe as Mount Tai. ”

(Section 12)

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