There was no movement in some places during the war.

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

And for the Rochefort garrison, which faces the estuary of the Cape Surak in Bordeaux, the border line does not even exist.

The city is only thirty miles west of the Atlantic coast and only 100 miles south of the fortress in Bordeaux that was blown up by Chen Jiujing. It was first built fortress to prevent the Romans from invading, and now it is a frontier position and a major coastal defense area to prevent the Ming army's attack.

But before the war came, this place was not important at all. It was just a shipping port that was stolen by Bordeaux. Including all the villages under its jurisdiction, there were less than 20,000 people who relied on the sea to eat the sea.

Since Chen Jiujing's warships often blocked Youyu in the coastal areas, Marshal Matien stationed 1,100 soldiers here and prepared twelve Franc cannons for shore defense.

The maximum range of artillery artillery was left on the shore, and of course the purpose was not to attack Chen Jiujing's ship, but to bombard and shoot the Ming army trying to land after the Ming army landed, and to rely on the city wall to defend and delay until friendly troops arrived.

Matiweng has no better way to deal with Chen Jiujing's soldiers who have strong field combat capabilities.

This winter is very cruel to both the residents of Rochefort and the garrison.

They were almost starving to death.

In the autumn, the small Ming army troops stationed in Bordeaux crossed the border as many as 77 times. Faced with France, which had experienced the Hundred Years' War and several religious wars, the capture of castles everywhere was very unfavorable to Chen Jiujing.

His supplies and supplies were mostly transported by Spain and the Ming Dynasty in the port of Daming in Spain. A Bordeaux city and nearby villages were already stretched to support his troops, and he could not gather troops for a long time and knocked down one castle after another like bulldozing.

What's more, attacking Jiancheng is something that only fools do, he just needs to block it.

As the saying goes, people have to eat, and if they don’t have food, they will naturally surrender.

It’s not that Chen Jiujing wanted to fight with the French endlessly, but that he was already in a difficult position to get off the tiger before he knew it. Xiyong Sixth Camp is a group of old hooligans who are good at lifting their pants and running away, but that’s not the case with Baishan Camp.

During the long period of occupying Bordeaux with the Baishan Camp as the main body, generals married and had children in Bordeaux in Bilbao, Spain, who had crossed the Pyrenees, unpopular wanderers on the Mongolian grasslands, hunters in the forests of the white mountains and black waters, and proletarian farmers in the bitter and cold land of the Korean Kingdom got married on this land. This is their foundation.

This incident was supported by Chen Jiujing from the beginning. He believed that this could effectively unite the local people, not to mention that the army he led would probably never return to his hometown.

Compared with North Asia, the land here is fertile, the facilities are sound, and the good traditional education of aristocratic serfs to educate the people. From this point of view, Chen Jiujing believes that the Ming Dynasty has great advantages.

In his understanding, the European feudal system was a product of extremely poor social level. There were no doctors, no yamen runners, and no patrol inspectors. The doctors were part-time jobs from barbers, and the patrol servants' work allowed the lords who had eaten free meals all day long, as well as the miscellaneous learnings of pilgrims and teaching children to read. The common people could not afford to hire a teacher, so they let the more idle monks do it.

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

Chen Jiujing took Bordeaux and immediately came up with a better governance plan to replace it, and no one had any objections.

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

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 needed to cross the border many times, and there was food that Bordeaux did not have, on the north bank!

When the Ming army crossed the border, the garrison troops initially fought with Huang Xi, Kanggulu and others, but later they couldn't defeat them, so they gave up and went into the city to avoid meaningless casualties.

It is not that it cannot be defeated in field battles or the military formations cannot be defeated. Except for Kangguru's armored horseback team, whether it is the Sixth Battalion of Xiyong or Huang Xi's Korean soldiers in military formations, equipment and combat effectiveness, it is impossible to lose or win or win.

But the supply of gunpowder is much worse.

The Ming army must have artillery support in every battle. The small troops of Rochefort garrison did not have artillery, and it was not realistic to carry artillery and charge with their bodies. Moreover, the ammunition used for their muskets was extremely limited. When they fought, the artillery was dull in the second battle. In the third battle, even the muskets could not be fired. How could the formation formed with a spear crossbow resist the muskets suppressing the shooting while solid bullets blasting through the front line? The Kangguruma team was trampled on them at any time.

They could only defend the city, and even patroled the city, they didn't dare to go five miles away. They handed over all the information, farmland, roads, and water conservancy facilities to Chen Jiujing.

The grain outside the city was cut, burned, and robbed. The grain stored in the city was reduced by one day. First, the people could not bear it, and the church released grain to provide assistance. Then the army could not bear it, and the nobles distributed grain to provide disaster relief. Then the church had no grain and the nobles had no surplus grain. There was still no ship transporting grain on the coastline that was eager to see.

The nobles of Rochefort unanimously believed that Chen Jiujing's fleet blocked the port near the sea, so they tried to build several large galleon warships, Calais, to support the royal fleet that transported the baggage, so that everyone would be saved.

But Chen Jiujing did nothing.

The purpose of the Bordeaux fleet patrolling the offshore was not to intercept the sea transport passage. Although Chen Jiujing wanted to do so, it would be difficult to block a sea as long as he did not capture the port these days. There was no port in Rochefort City, so how could Chen Jiujing block it? Do you want to occupy the entire coastline? He doesn't have that many ships.

His ship sailed at sea with the only purpose of defending against the attacks of the French fleet against Bordeaux. The only reason the nobles in Rochefort were starving and frozen was that no one was transporting supplies to them.

Although Chen Jiujing didn’t know the reason, in war, sometimes it’s not about who did more things right, but about who made fewer mistakes.

The French royal family didn't care about this, he could care about it.

More than a dozen Shandong immigrants from the New World each arrived across the river bank with the "North Asian Mercenaries". Follow the map to follow the map to find castles and manors that have been transformed into ruins in the war, and become new landlords on the border.

How to be a good landlord, these Shandong immigrants who have been trained on the Mexican border, Men Qing'er.
Chapter completed!