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Chapter 1182 New Landlord

There are places in war where nothing moves.

The border line is a dynamic line in the mind of the commander, but for the people living on the border line, this line does not exist.

And for the Rochefort garrison across the river from Bordeaux-Soulac Cape?Borders don't even exist.

The city is only [-] miles away from the Atlantic coast in the west, and only a hundred miles away from the fortress of Bordeaux that was blown up by Chen Jiujing in the south. It was originally a fortress built to prevent the invasion of the Romans, and now it is a forward position to prevent the attack of the Ming army. And coastal defense powerhouse.

But before the war came, this place was not important at all, it was just a shipping port that was robbed of the limelight by Bordeaux, counting all the villages under its control, there were less than [-] people living by the sea around it.

Since Chen Jiujing's warships often blockaded and swam in the coastal area, Marshal Matteon stationed [-] soldiers here, and prepared [-] Francois machine guns for them for coastal defense.

The maximum range of the artillery was kept on the shore. The purpose of course was not to hit Chen Jiujing's ship, but to bombard and shoot the Ming army trying to land on the coast after the Ming army landed, and to rely on the city wall to defend in the town, delaying until the friendly army arrived.

Mattion has no better way to deal with Chen Jiujing's generals who are very capable in field combat.

This winter has been cruel to both the residents of Rochefort and the garrison.

They are starving to death.

In autumn, a small group of Ming troops stationed in Bordeaux crossed the border as many as 77 times. Facing France, which had experienced the Hundred Years' War and several religious wars, it was very unfavorable for Chen Jiujing to capture castles all over the place one by one.

Most of his supplies and luggage depended on Spain and Daming's transshipment at Daming Port in Spain. The city of Bordeaux, nearby villages, and land for his troops to garrison were already stretched, and he couldn't gather troops for a long time to tear down one castle after another like bulldozing.

What's more, attacking a strong city recklessly is something a fool would do, he only needs to block it.

Still the same sentence, people have to eat, and if they have no food, they will naturally surrender.

It wasn't that Chen Jiujing wanted to fight the French endlessly, but that he had been riding a tiger without knowing it. The Sixth Battalion of Xiyong was a group of old hooligans who were good at pulling up their pants and running, but Baishan Battalion was not like this.

During the long period of occupation of Bordeaux with the Baishan Battalion as the main body, the generals and soldiers in Bordeaux married and had children with the local residents of Bilbao, Spain who had crossed the Pyrenees. Hunters in the forest and proletarian farmers in the bitter cold land of the Korean Kingdom made their families on this land, and this was their foundation.

This matter has been supported by Chen Jiujing from the very beginning. He believes that this can effectively unite the local people, not to mention that the army he leads will probably never return to his hometown.

Compared with North Asia, the land here is fertile, the facilities are sound, and there is a good tradition of aristocrats and serfs to educate the people. From this point of view, Chen Jiujing believes that Ming Dynasty has an advantage.

In his understanding, European feudalism is a product of extremely poor social standards. There are no doctors, no yamen servants, and no patrol inspections in the village. , as well as entertaining pilgrims and teaching children to read and write. The common people cannot afford to hire teachers, so they let more leisurely monks do it.

In essence, it is similar to the tribes in North Asia.

Once Chen Jiujing occupied Bordeaux, he could immediately come up with a better governance plan to replace it, and no one had any objections.

Once you regard this as your own land and the people as your own people, things will be much more difficult.

He had to find more food, and as long as he found more food, he could try not to add the burden of raising soldiers to the people.

Therefore, the Ming army had to cross the border many times. The food that Bordeaux did not have, was available on the North Shore!
When the Ming army crossed the border, the garrison troops fought Huang Xi, Kang Gulu and others at first, but they were really unable to fight, so they gave up and went into the city to avoid meaningless casualties.

It's not that they can't fight in the field or in the army. Except for Kanggulu's armored cavalry, whether it is the Sixth Battalion of Xiyong or the Korean soldiers of Huang Xi, they are on par with the French in terms of army formation, armor and combat effectiveness. Losing is winning.

But in terms of gunpowder supply, there is too much difference.

The Ming army must have artillery support in every battle. The Rochefort garrison has no artillery. In the third battle, the muskets could not even be fired. How could the formation formed by the spears and crossbows resist the suppression of the muskets while the solid bullets blasted through the front line?

They could only guard the city, and they didn't even dare to go five miles away for patrol outside the city, so they gave up all the intelligence, farmland, roads, and water conservancy facilities to Chen Jiujing.

The food outside the city was cut, burned, and robbed before it was cooked, and the food stored in the city became less and less every day. First, the people couldn’t bear it, and the church gave food to help; then the army couldn’t stand it, and the nobles distributed food. Disaster relief; then the church ran out of food, the nobles also had no food leftovers, and there were still no food ships coming over the coastline that was waiting to be pierced.

The nobles in Rochefort agreed that it was Chen Jiujing's fleet that blocked the coastal waters of the port, so they tried to build several large galley warships, the Calais, to support the royal family's fleet to transport supplies, so that everyone was saved.

But Chen Jiujing did nothing.

The purpose of the Bordeaux fleet patrolling the open sea is not to intercept the shipping channel. Although Chen Jiujing really wants to, it is difficult to block a piece of sea these days as long as the port is not captured. Rochefort does not have a port at all. How can Chen Jiujing block it?Do you want to occupy the entire coastline?He doesn't have that many boats.

The only purpose of his ship sailing at sea was to defend the French fleet against Bordeaux, and the only reason why the nobles in Rochefort were starving and freezing was because no one was sending supplies there.

Although Chen Jiujing didn't know the reason, but in war, sometimes the comparison is not about who does more right things, but who makes fewer mistakes.

The French royal family can't take care of this, but he can.

More than a dozen families of Shandong immigrants from the New World arrived on the opposite side of the river with 'North Asian mercenaries'. According to the location of the Baishan camp, they found castles and manors that had been ruined in the war, and became borderlines. new landlord.

How to be a good landlord, these Shandong immigrants who have experienced the Mexican border, Men Qinger.

This group of new landlord groups, mainly composed of immigrants from Shandong, Bordeaux natives as translators, and North Asian aborigines as mercenaries, looked at the stone axes held by their long-term workers and the cotton-padded jackets on their bodies. They fixed prices for French matchlocks, breastplates, and plate armor.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)