There were places in the war where there was no movement.

The border line is a dynamic line in the minds of commanders, but it does not exist for the people living on the border.

And for the Rochefort garrison, across the estuary from the Bordeaux Surak cape? The border line doesn't even exist.

Only 30 miles west of the Atlantic coast and 100 miles south of Bordeaux, the fortress destroyed by Chen Jiujing, the city was originally built to prevent the invasion of the Romans, and now it is the forward position against the Ming army and the coastal defense.

But before the war, this place was not important at all, just a maritime port that was stolen by Bordeaux, and there were less than 20,000 people around it, including all the villages.

Since Chen Jiujing's warships were often blockaded and paraded along the coast, Marshal Matthion stationed 1,100 soldiers here and prepared 12 Fran cannons for them to defend the shore.

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

There was no better way for Mathion to deal with the generals of Chen Jiujing's army, which had strong field combat capabilities.

This winter was brutal for both the inhabitants and the garrison of Rochefort.

They were dying of hunger.

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

He relied on Spain and the Ming Dynasty in Spain for his supplies, and a Bordeaux city and nearby villages and land for his troops were already overstretched, and he could not gather troops for a long time to tear down one castle after another like bulldozing.

What's more, it was a fool's business to attack the fortified city desperately, he only needed to blockade it.

Again, people have to eat, and if they don't have food, they will naturally surrender.

It's not that Chen Jiujing wants to fight endlessly with the French, but unconsciously he has already been riding a tiger and it is difficult to get down, the Xiyong Sixth Battalion is a group of old hooligans who are good at running with their pants on, but the Baishan Battalion is not like this.

During the long period of occupation of Bordeaux with the White Mountain Battalion as the main body, the generals and soldiers married and had children in Bordeaux with the local residents of Bilbao in Spain who crossed the Pyrenees.

From the very beginning, Chen Jiujing supported this matter, believing that it would 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 there is a good tradition of aristocratic serfs to educate the people, in this regard, Chen Jiujing believes that the Ming Dynasty has an advantage.

In his understanding, European feudalism was a product of a very poor social level, there were no doctors, no officials, no inspectors in the villages, doctors were part-time by shavers, and the work of inspectors was left to the lords who ate rice all day long, as well as miscellaneous studies such as entertaining pilgrims and teaching children to read.

Essentially, it's about the same as the tribes of North Asia.

Chen Jiujing took possession of Bordeaux, and he could immediately come up with a better governance plan instead, 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 burden the people with soldiers.

So the Ming army needs to cross the border repeatedly, and the grain that Bordeaux does not have, there is it on the north shore!

The Ming army crossed the border, and at first the garrison fought with Huang Xi, Kanggulu and others, but then they couldn't beat it, so they gave up, and in order to avoid meaningless casualties, they all went into the city and closed their doors.

It is not that the field battle cannot be defeated or the military formation cannot be defeated, except for Kanggulu's armored cavalry team, whether it is the 6th Battalion of Xiyong or the Korean soldiers of Hwang Hee, they are on par with the French in terms of military formation, uniforms and combat effectiveness, and there is no certainty of victory or loss.

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

The Ming army must have artillery support in every battle, and the small troops of the Rochefort garrison have no artillery, and it is not realistic to carry the artillery to charge the body, not to mention that the ammunition used by their muskets is also extremely limited.

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

The grain outside the city was cut, burned, and robbed before it was ripe, and the grain stored in the city was eaten for one day less, and the people couldn't stand it at first, so the church released grain to help; The army couldn't stand it anymore, and the nobles sent food for disaster relief; Then the church ran out of food, the nobles ran out of food, and there were still no ships carrying grain on the coastline that they were looking for.

The nobles of Rochefort agreed that Chen Jiujing's fleet was blockading the port offshore, so they tried to build several large galleys, the Calais, to support the royal fleet of carrying baggage, so that everyone would be saved.

But Chen Jiujing didn't do anything.

The purpose of the Bordeaux fleet to patrol the open sea is not to intercept the sea passage, although Chen Jiujing wants to, but as long as the port is not captured, it is difficult to blockade a piece of the sea in these years, and there is no port in Rochefort City at all, so how can Chen Jiujing blockade it? Do you want to occupy the entire coastline? He didn't have that many ships.

His ship sailed at sea for the sole purpose of defending against the attacks of the French fleet against Bordeaux, and the nobles of Rochefort starved and froze because no one was sending supplies to them.

Although Chen Jiujing doesn't know the reason, war, sometimes it's not about who does the right thing, but who makes fewer mistakes.

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

More than a dozen Shandong immigrants from the New World arrived on the other side of the river with their 'North Asian mercenaries', and according to the location assigned by the Baishan Battalion, they found castles and manors that had been turned into ruins in the war, and became new landowners on the border.

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

The new landlord group, with Shandong immigrants as the main body, Bordeaux natives as translators, and North Asian aborigines as mercenaries, looked at the stone axes held by their long-term workers and the flower cotton jackets on their bodies, and fell into deep thought, and they all made the same move—they set prices for French arquebuses, cuirasels, and plate armor.