Outside the snow-covered Youzhou City,

Han Zhongyan looked at the towering ice-covered city walls and the frozen moat, and felt a breath of depression in his heart, and he was able to completely exhale.

But at this time, less than tens of thousands of people were left behind him; others were all stranded on the road along the way because of various reasons such as falling behind, missing or injured, or staying in the broken strongholds, or they really couldn't walk.

As for the wealth, most of the baggage and carriages have been used as burdens and have to give up.

The dozens of miles of road they returned to actually became a dilemma that they had walked for seven or eight days. The Huai army cavalry almost desperately came out of the wind and snow, and disappeared into the wind and snow.

In the first two days, he could still deal with it with ease, and even sent cavalry to counterattack, or cooperate with the infantry to detour, trying to entangle the opponent and pull him into the close-knit infantry battle.

He even used the backward baggage convoy to make an ambush on the spot; unfortunately, the other party never gave the Pinglu army the opportunity to get in close combat, and would rather stay away from a distance, use the firearms he held immediately to radiate and harass them, or use portable flying fire thunder and horse-drawn fast cannons to bombard their camps and outer patrols.

Only when the small troops are alone will they come forward and shoot in a row, then throw bombs close together, and then sprint and slash and slash before leaving. Therefore, these ambushers were in vain and frostbite, and many people's fingers and toes were frozen.

Then, with the continuous continuous battles, the fatigue and tension gradually accumulated, among the teams who were walking and going, there was a local collapse for the first time, and the established camp roar occurred on the same day.

As time went by, Han Zhongyan realized that things were not good; compared with the limited damage caused by the enemy cavalry harassment and attacks, various inconspicuous frostbite and cold diseases continued to increase suddenly, and it was still increasing day by day, and gradually became a great burden to this army.

Therefore, he had to make a decision to go to the nearest city, and stay away from the wind and rest for a short time in Renqiu Town; however, the small and narrow city could not accommodate and meet the needs of these army's heating and food and clothing, and before they could live for a long time, all the storage was quickly eaten up.

So he had to leave a small number of soldiers and wounded soldiers to "defend the place" together, and then calculate the distance and distance, and run to the next large stronghold. However, these strongholds also had limited ground capacity and insufficient warehouses, but they had to leave people and horses to eat to share and reduce the burden.

In this process, there were still many attacks from the horses from Huaiqi, and people began to take the initiative to escape from the team and flee halfway.

All honors and persistence began to collapse under the threat of survival; but he still brought back most of the people, and most of the generals were replaced by his own.

Those possible deadly members or unstable factors were trapped in disguise in the name of cutting off the rear and leaving the back, and so on. In this way, after he returned to Youzhou City, he would have more confidence and opportunities to face in the collective accountability and attacks he was about to face.

Although the war he led was defeated, most of the core forces were intact;

In the current situation, it is necessary to unify all forces from all sides with iron fist and power to the only voice and will, so that the millions of soldiers and civilians in Pingludao can be led through the difficult years after the demise of the Northern Dynasties.

And a trustworthy force is the best support and guarantee for achieving this goal and Jingyan...

Under the clear sky again, I sat in the courtyard surrounded by curtains, basking in the sun with two children in my cradles. This is also a rare time for parent-child time.

While reading a book, I held small toys such as ragdoll bells and other small toys in my house, teased Hatsune and Ayanine, and read articles and matters for the babies, so that they could familiarize themselves with my voice and appearance.

As an extra-staff nanny, Schrödinger, a cat who is already quite big, jumps over from time to time and has a lot of fun between two shaking cradles;

Occasionally, he used his claws to fiddle with his gadgets hanging on the petition and made a crisp jingle sound; he waved his big furry tail up and down to avoid the pink little hands he grabbed from inside, and raised his head and whispered loudly, and combined with the cheerful screams inside.

Everything is so warm and comfortable, just like the briefing of the new naval construction project in my hand, making people feel happy and accessible.

Since Yizhou returned, the naval construction in Huaidi has begun to enter the fast lane of a certain shipbuilding under additional resources. Because of indirect control of the situation in Yizhou, I have also been able to gain a lot in the process of discovering local specialties and resources;

In addition to the developed coal mines and local products such as camphor, tung oil, raw lacquer, lemongrass, etc., it also includes characteristic cypress trees that are basically produced only in the central mountain range of Yizhou Dadao (later known as Taiwan flat cypress); it is said to be a shipbuilding talent second only to nanmu and teak. The wood skin is delicate and solid, with extremely small shrinkage, and the processing surface is extremely smooth and delicate, and has good nailing properties, so it has a wide range of uses;

However, it has been controlled by the offices headed by the Chenghai tribe for a long time. As a specialty and profit-making industry, it has monopolized the channels of export and sales for generations.

This time, a lot of ready-made large materials were found in Xiongshan, Dongning and other places, which were all accumulated after being dehydrated in the past dynasties and can be used to sell and shipbuilding old materials.

In addition, Yizhou itself also has a certain ability to build ships with local materials, mainly concentrated in the hands of several coastal princes led by Yuwen Fan; although it is limited to civilian ships and merchant ships with less than one thousand materials, it is also a significant benefit to the civilian production capacity of our Huai Town; in this way, I can also exchange the shipbuilding capacity on the Jiaodong Peninsula, and specialize in the construction of military ships and naval warships with higher quality and confidentiality requirements.

Therefore, Liuhoufu is currently in several major ports in Mizhou, Laizhou and Jiaozhou. Seventeen large and small sea ships are being built at the same time among various dry and wet docks. The largest one has a load of 3,800 pieces, and the smallest one has a load of 1,500 pieces.

This does not include the inland water ships and near-shore patrol ships that are camping earlier.

In addition, in order to meet the needs of these marine armed forces, at least hundreds of guns of all sizes are being cast during the casting period, mainly short guns for marine naval battles and mortars suppressed on the other side. The overall construction period and cost will be slightly lower than those of the standard military-style heavy guns, field guns, mountain guns and cavalry guns.

As the saying goes, it is better to let the ship wait for people than to let people wait for the ship...

And outside the ridge, Beijiang Road and Dongjiang Road,

With the successive meeting of the Northern Expedition troops, the tens of thousands of rebels who were hastily gathered together to defend the war can only retreat step by step, along the small river (Pearl River) and lose the city like a fallen land and flowing water.

When the rumbling guns of the attack began to sound on the edge of the Ming Inner for the first time, there were shouts of various slaughtering troops from all walks of life.

"We should first enter the army that restores Guangfu,"

"Everyone is promoted to one level, and the reward is three times more."

"Captained one of the chief leaders of the rebel party and gave him the title to his descendants..."

"The children of gold and silk will take it away."
Chapter completed!