open sea

Chapter 1030 Confrontation
On the ninth day of No.20 in the eighth year of Wanli, Chen Jiujing of Bordeaux and the army of Marshal Biron of France have been confronting each other around the right bank for seventeen days.

After the Baishan Battalion entered the city, the order to search houses for hidden weapons cast a haze on the city. Both the soldiers of the Baishan Battalion and the citizens of Bordeaux were extremely tense during this process. Under such circumstances, no one can guarantee No damage to tiles.

Especially when Chen Jiujing deliberately relaxed the restraint on soldiers, the bottom line of the generals of the Ming Dynasty was not to kill people, not to harm women and children, and not to rob the people. In order to raise military expenses, noble mansions and churches were not included.

In Chen Jiujing's words: "Whatever you like, get more, and [-]% will be handed over."

But Chen Jiujing has already discovered that his order not to harm women and children is superfluous.

In which city and fortress did the Baishan camp under its command, which has been fighting all over the Kyushu and four countries, be stationed? The local people were not scared to death by closing their doors and closed their doors. up.

What about Bordeaux?
When the troops entered the city, they only walked six street corners along the way, but they saw more than fourteen couples who had sex with each other in broad daylight on the street with dirt on the ground and dirt on the walls.

There are also foreign girls in low-cut dresses gathered upstairs, laughing and stretching out half of their bodies from the windows to wink at these neatly lined up soldiers.

Not to mention the shy North Korean soldiers, even the Jurchen warriors who were born on the banks of the Hulun River have never seen this battle. There are often people in the infantry ranks who just look up and move their eyes away. Those who don't drive and turn along the turn, and those who ride horses and go straight to the wall, are full of ugly appearances.

In order to protect the disadvantaged groups under his command, on the second day after the Baishan Camp entered Bordeaux, Chen Jiujing changed the "no harm to women and children" in the city entry regulations to "prevent foreign women from seducing" according to local conditions.

Chen Jiujing was laughed at by Margaret because of this. If Spanish women are passionate and unrestrained in Chen Jiujing's eyes, then the scene seen here can really be called shameless.

Anyway, the Spaniards don't behave like that on the street.

With the war looming, his soldiers needed to conserve their strength.

In the mansion in Bordeaux, the plastered white walls fell off in pieces due to damp and years of disrepair, exposing the red bricks inside the walls, and a dozen candles on the chandelier hanging from the ceiling were burning slowly and emitting a dim glow. Light.

Beside the wooden table, staff members from the Nanyang Banner Army followed the news of the scouts' quick report and summarized them into the sketches laid out on the table. They used a bristle brush dipped in red dye to push stones representing Marshal Billund's troops, simulating the royal army. route of march.

"It seems that Marshal Billon is in a dilemma. The day before yesterday, he advanced [-] miles to Bordeaux, and yesterday he retreated." Huang Xi pointed to the map and smiled at the generals on the left and right: "If this continues, he will never be able to reach Pau in his life."

Yang Ce was full of melancholy: "If I knew he was so timid, I should have attacked him and snatched the cannon."

"He's not timid."

Kang Gulu said in a low voice. The scouts are all his subordinates. He knows the enemy's situation best. He bowed his hands to Chen Jiujing first, then got up and pointed to the map to signal to everyone: "His strength has been increasing, and he will cross the Dordogne the first time." He, his strength is less than eight thousand."

"After crossing the river, the army formation has changed every day, and we have been scouting our troops. Now Billon has more than [-] troops, probably no less than us... The general really intends to be alone in this enemy's country? Why not attack first."

Chen Jiujing was noncommittal.

At this moment, the head guard ran over and whispered something to Chen Jiujing. He changed his face slightly, and said to Margaret who was sitting aside: "The envoy of Navarre is outside the mansion, and the Wang army is trying to occupy it." You are at the castle at Agen, where Henry is fighting them, two hundred miles to the southeast."

Agen was the fiefdom of Marguerite, not only between Bordeaux and Toulouse, but also the midpoint between the province of Guienne, the French royal family, and the Protestant rebellion.

Apparently, Bourbon Henry's attempt to meet Chen Jiujing was blocked by a partial division of Wang Jun.

Margaret walked out of the room quickly, and Chen Jiujing said to everyone: "There are too many castles in France. Now we are the defenders, and Billund is the attacker. Here we can get more food and grass. The decisive battle should be On the right bank or the left bank outside the city, never under the eyes of Peru, he dares not march, and I would like to know how long his food and grass will last."

As he said that, he laughed: "Our goal is to occupy Bordeaux. If he doesn't attack, we will always win; if he attacks, the same force can't capture the city at all, but we still win; A decisive battle with him in the field dozens of miles away from the city? He will attack sooner or later, and I think it will be soon, based on the minimum consumption, they will eat 1 pieces of dough a day."

What Chen Jiujing wanted to talk about was bread: "How long can they eat?"

The Ming army was different. Two Liujia flagships belonging to the Baishan Battalion, four Spanish galleons belonging to the Toledo Legion, six Calais ships abandoned by the Bordeaux garrison, and the Baishan Battalion, fourteen shark ships of the Han Dynasty, flying A mixed fleet of shark ships blocked the sea, and twenty armed merchant ships called at the port from Bilbao, Spain every ten days, bringing fish, shellfish, chicken and snail meat, wheat flour and rice to satisfy the army.

Since rice is not grown in the north, the rice has been transported more than [-] miles on the Iberian Peninsula alone, and the rice yield in Spain is quite low, so it is extremely precious.

But for Chen Jiujing, everything can be easily obtained with some silk and satin. The price may be high, but it is worth it.

"If you want to fight, now is the time. Navarre is fighting in Agen. Leave the scouts behind and lead the cavalry from the headquarters to help." Chen Jiujing said to Kang Gulu, who was already impatient with the long confrontation, and then turned Looking at Yang Ce, he asked, "I have seen the ditches on the right bank, and I have to say that Brother Yang is skilled in training troops. Your subordinates not only do a good job in earthwork, but also have the best endurance I have ever seen. Offensively, the first line of defense depends on Brother Yang."

Of course, Chen Jiujing also added: "I also hope that my brother will be careful of the epidemic."

Kang Gulu was pleasantly surprised, stood up and clasped his fists to accept the order, and then walked out of the mansion.

Yang Ce shook his head helplessly, he was very clear that what Chen Jiujing said was not a compliment to him.

According to the regulations of the Jiangwu Hall, every hundred households must dig a toilet when camping in the wild. The toilet can't be too close to the barracks, cooking warehouses and water sources, but it can't be too far away, and there must be shelters. Soldiers can't do it.

They can lose people when they march, and they will lose them when they go to the toilet. They can't be too close to the barracks, the place where the cook cooks, and the water source. His officers finally calculated that they could only dig every hundred steps in the trenches. A small toilet, simply do not let the troops out of the trenches.

It had just rained two days ago, and when Chen Jiujing was inspecting the fortifications outside the city, Yang Ce's long line of defense stinks.

The only certainty is that after this battle is over, the grapes on the right bank will grow well.

(End of this chapter)