There is still one link left in the review of the war, and that is the Han and Tang Dynasty Protectorate.
North Amelia has entered a long winter.
Cold air from the Arctic Ocean rages across the flat land of the central region.
The earth covered itself with a layer of white quilt to protect itself from the cold wind.
The deciduous tree has stripped off all its leaves, leaving only a bare stem, looking like a dead pig that is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water.
Coniferous trees use their own secret weapons to still absorb the energy transmitted by the sun in such a cold winter.
The animals borrowed the quilts of the earth and hid underground and in tree holes, waiting for the arrival of the next spring.
However, there are still living animals active on the ground at this time.
These two-legged animals always rudely break the tranquility of winter.
In the Central Great Lakes Region, on the shores of Lake Cree, in a wooden fortress, soldiers of the 17th Infantry Regiment of the Royal Army of the Republic of Korea are hiding in the wooden huts of the fortress.
In the fireplace in the wooden house, the huge pine wood burned loudly, but it seemed that it still couldn't get rid of the bone-chilling chill.
Private Frank wrapped a blanket around his head. He felt like his ears were going to freeze off.
Rubbing his stiff hands on the blanket, Frank felt like he had found some sense again.
It would be nice to have a cup of hot coffee or a bottle of rum at this time.
But for a private, this is a luxury.
They began to enter the western part of the Canadian province in August and began to attack the yellow people.
At the beginning, they relied on their superior strength and heavy firepower to continuously capture two yellow strongholds.
Everyone grabbed a lot of things. There were even wine and women in the yellow strongholds.
Frank had tasted that clear distilled liquor, and after drinking it, his stomach felt like fire.
As for those women, they are as strong as the wine here.
Several veterans thought they could control it, but ended up injuring themselves. Originally, the commander wanted to keep a few women to help with laundry and cooking. In the end, they were all killed by those animals.
Frank didn't understand why these yellow women would rather die than submit.
If they catered a little, they wouldn't have to lose their lives.
Two consecutive victories greatly increased the confidence of the expeditionary force.
Before leaving the country, everyone still felt uneasy.
Everyone thought how powerful the Fuxing Army was in combat.
However, after a few battles, Frank could see that the combat effectiveness of these Renaissance troops was only average.
There is still a certain gap between them and their expeditionary force.
It's no wonder Frank and the others can't tell them apart. The militiamen on these farms also wear green military uniforms, although they are different from those of the regular army.
But in Frank's view, these people are regular troops.
In the eyes of Westerners, militiamen should not have uniform uniforms.
If they think carefully, they will find that the women here are also wearing this kind of green military uniform.
This kind of clothes in military camps or pioneering regiments is what they wear in daily life and work, and it does not mean that they are regular soldiers.
Frank is just a private. He doesn't know much information and can only act according to the orders of his superiors.
Sometimes he doesn't even know where he is.
I just feel like this place is full of primitive wildness.
There are basically no serious roads in the wilderness here.
Sometimes the army would encounter roaming brown bears while walking.
It was autumn at that time, when brown bears put on their autumn fat, so brown bears foraged more frequently.
Many of these expeditionary forces came to the New World for the first time.
Some people even developed a strong curiosity about this. They couldn't help but shoot and want to hunt these brown bears.
Frank still remembers the nightmarish beginning.
Then the cool veteran fired a shot at the brown bear.
As if it was a signal, intensive gunshots rang out all around.
Bullets tore through the treetops of the bush and flew toward Frank's team from all directions.
The officers shouted loudly.
Frank also raised his rifle and shot at the unknown enemies around him.
After they conquered two large strongholds, they never encountered these yellow people again. The strongholds along the way were deserted, and no one paid attention to the crops in the fields, leaving the autumn-fat animals to graze in the fields.
Obviously these people all ran away, which is understandable. The Yin army killed so many people, so the news could not have spread.
In order to search for these people, the commander of the Dayang Expeditionary Force had to send out several reconnaissance teams.
Frank's 17th Royal Infantry Regiment was originally an elite infantry team, so it became one of the reconnaissance groups exploring the road.
This sudden ambush made the soldiers panic.
But they were an elite army after all, and the long march quickly gathered together.
The commander began to send small groups of infantry to counterattack in all directions.
Suddenly, the gunshots all around disappeared. Soon the soldiers also stopped shooting.
Frank was lucky enough to survive, and the team he sent to fight back withdrew, and the enemies who were ambushing around disappeared like ghosts.
They didn't even see a body.
In this ambush, their entire regiment suffered more than 300 casualties. The dead could just be buried on the spot, and the chaplain accompanying the army would just recite sutras and that would be it.
But those injured are in trouble and need specialized people to take care of them.
The regiment leader quickly reported the situation to the main force.
The commander of the expeditionary force dispatched supporting troops.
But these people didn't show up for several days.
In order to find these people, the 17th Infantry Regiment had to act alone.
Just when the Seventeenth Infantry Regiment thought the enemy had disappeared.
These people showed up again.
They launched a sneak attack on the Yin army's camp one night.
They first used mortars to bombard the Yin army's camp. Then the infantry quickly approached the camp.
At this time, the soldiers in the camp came out of their tents one after another.
The infantrymen of the pioneering regiment fired wildly at the camp from all directions.
Seeing those soldiers falling to the ground after being shot in panic, the old hunting captain Xiang Yong grinned and laughed.
Ever since they came south from Great Slave Lake, their team of two thousand people had been living in the open.
Fortunately, these are all children of the pioneering group, and everyone is familiar with the environment here.
They can set up a semi-permanent camp in the woods in one night.
Dozens of people worked together to dig a rectangular pit about one meter in the ground.
Then use logs and branches to build a superstructure more than half a meter high on top.
A barracks that can accommodate dozens of people was built.
Xiang Yong and the others set up many temporary camps like this in the woods.
Some camps even stock some food supplies.
He wants to prepare for the coming winter.
Having lived here for several years, Xiang Yong knows that the weather here is terrible. Winter starts when winter comes, and the time is different every year.
Maybe just a sudden snowstorm can make the entire land enter winter early.
The people of the Yu State seemed to know this. After marching northward in the central lake area for half a month, the commander of the Yu Army began to direct the army to retreat backwards.
Zhao Xu naturally couldn't let these Yu people withdraw like this.
He ordered the commandos sent by the pioneering regiment to make full use of the terrain to launch attacks on the Japanese people. They would slow down the enemy and prevent them from evacuating before winter came.
The commandos of more than a dozen pioneering regiments appeared and disappeared, making it difficult for the Japanese to find their targets.
The commander of the Yin army could only try to gather his troops together.
But it turned out that the reconnaissance team they sent out to explore the road lost their support. One was separated by the pioneering team.
The 17th Royal Infantry Regiment was unfortunately surrounded by a pioneer regiment's stronghold.
Although there are still wooden houses and some supplies here, a heavy snowfall completely prevented them from getting out.
Even if the pioneering regiment released the siege, the 17th Infantry Regiment could not get out. Marching here in the winter, the harsh environment alone was enough for them to endure.
"Ah, no, I want to go home." A slovenly Yin Army soldier suddenly shouted frantically.
Recently, several recruits have suffered mental breakdowns and gone crazy in public due to the excessive pressure caused by being closed in wooden houses for a long time.
Frank ignored the man and hugged his head tightly with his arms.
Now they don't even know if anyone is around them outside.
But the group leader did not dare to take risks. Everyone was worried that if they walked out of this camp, they would never come back.
At least there is still a house here, with a fireplace and a fire pit.
Frank felt like he was going crazy. Aren't those people afraid of the cold?
Of course, the people in the pioneering group were also afraid of the cold.
So they won't besiege the city foolishly in the cold wind.
They built a nest not far away, burned a fire, and took out the food they had prepared in advance from the forest.
The Pioneer Regiment base located on the banks of Great Slave Lake in the north also uses sleds on the ice to continuously transport supplies to the front.
Inuit Gedian accepted the employment of the pioneer group and became a sled driving support staff.
The climate in the south of the lake is already very friendly to people like them who live in the Arctic Circle.
Gedion settled his family in a settlement at the mouth of the river. They no longer had to venture to the far north this winter.
They go to the far north coast every winter to hunt seals, not because they like it, but because they have no choice.
In the past, the Yin Di'an people in the south would hunt them down when they saw them.
Now the Yin Di'an people in the south will either be conquered by the Renaissance army or wiped out.
A new order has been established, and many Inuit people have chosen to join the Baath Army.
This way they have a safe place to overwinter.
Families could settle around the pioneer group and rely on the food they exchanged for furs to survive the winter.
Those young and strong hunters can go to the north to hunt in groups and obtain the fine furs in winter without worrying about their families.
Or, like Gedian, helping the pioneer team with errands can support the family.
Gedian wore thick reindeer skin clothes, with his arms and knees thickened with seal skin, and he led his sled dogs to continuously transport food supplies along the ice.
The commandos will also replenish their supplies nearby. They look for brown bear caves, look for deer in the forest, and use all means to fill their stomachs.
The Yu people were unable to move forward. Except for the main force led by the commander, the other troops were divided and surrounded at each point.
When their supplies are used up, these Chinese people will feel ashamed without a fight.
"Frank, it's your turn to go on duty." An officer walked up behind Frank and kicked him awake.
Frank was still dreaming just now. He dreamed of spending Christmas at home. He was a little angry when he was suddenly woken up, but because of his timidity, he did not dare to attack.
He groggily wrapped the blanket around himself, then picked up his gun and walked outside.
It was already the middle of the night, and it was the coldest time outside.
The moment he opened the door, the biting cold wind blew towards Frank like a knife.
Frank suddenly trembled, and a layer of white frost grew on his long eyelashes.
His fair skin was even paler, and his lips were purple from the cold, making him look like a vampire.
Frank walked unsteadily because he was wrapped in a blanket.
The camp is surrounded by a three-meter-high wall built of logs filled with earth.
There are watchtowers at regular intervals on the fence.
Frank's place of duty was in these watchtowers.
Seeing Frank coming, the sentry in Watchtower F seemed to come to life immediately, picked up his rifle and ran to the barracks.
There is a brazier lit inside the sentry tower, making it warmer inside than outside.
But it's still colder than inside the barracks.
Frank found a corner and sat down. He was very worried about his future.
I originally planned to join the army and earn some money so that I could buy the ten acres of land I rented from my family.
If that's not possible, you can also get a piece of land here in the New World at a discount, and then you can take your parents over.
In the Great Empire, life for people like them is also very difficult.
After a while, there was a slight noise outside, and Frank thought it was his companion coming over.
There are two soldiers on duty in each watchtower.
Frank didn't move. On such a cold night, not even the enemy would come out.
At this moment, a figure flashed into the sentry tower.
The moment the gate to the watchtower was opened, Frank smelled the smell of tanned animal skins.
He raised his head and saw the face of a Yin Di'an man.
The sudden appearance of a strange face made Frank's heart beat suddenly, and he instinctively raised his musket.
But Yin Di'an moved faster, and a short spear was thrust straight into his throat.
Frank wanted to shout a warning, but there was blood gurgling from his mouth, but no sound came out.
Around the camp, figures climbed in from the three-meter-high wall.
This is the arrival of soldiers from the Arctic advance team of the Renaissance Army.
This kind of early winter weather poses no threat to them. Even in the winter in the Arctic Circle, they can come out to fight.
The animal skin clothing they wore protected them well.
The combination of cold weapons and hot weapons allows them to exert greater combat effectiveness in extreme weather.
The special personnel composition allows the soldiers in the advance team to work well with each other.