Chapter 153 Vladivostok, a good place

The whistling north wind howled, sweeping in the dancing snowflakes.

On the Sea of ​​Japan.

Three schooners escorted six Big Bird ships sailing north.

This kind of two-masted schooner has actually begun to withdraw from the Ming Navy's battleship sequence, and is now used more as a patrol and reconnaissance ship.

The Big Bird ship produced at the Guangdong Shipyard has also undergone a series of optimizations.

The hull was strengthened, the sails were improved, and the ship became more slender to adapt to the waves of the ocean.

It is now the main trading ship used by the Ming Dynasty for ocean trade.

From Guangzhou when it was Japan, to the Free City of the Straits, and now even the Chinese merchant ships that are now active again in the Indian Ocean are basically these big bird ships produced in Guangdong.

The sail is easy to maneuver, the speed is good, and the load capacity is huge.

"The General Staff asked us to pay attention to the movements of the Russians, but looking at the map, the Russians are still in the further north. How could they come to Vladivostok."

“What a fertile soil!!”

Zeng Ada and Ye Tenghui also went ashore. The forts built with logs and rammed earth were covered with black soil.

"The Manchu Tatars who attack your mother, such a good place is left in ruins, a waste of natural resources! What a waste of natural resources!"

After the Qing Dynasty's control over society weakened at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of immigrants from Shandong and Hebei poured into the Northeast.

"Use 1,200 soldiers to drive a nail into the back of the Manchus. If Vladivostok can really be colonized, using the method of Borneo, large-scale immigrants can come here next spring, and then the Manchus will be cut off.

The way out!"

Zeng Ada said.

The chill in my body immediately dissipated.

Now these six big bird ships carry a Ming Army dragoon battalion with a reinforced artillery company and a mounted infantry company, as well as their weapons and ammunition, rations and war horses. At the same time, there are also 2,500 recruits from Liangjiang who are heading north together.

poor.

One thousand two hundred Ming troops landed and watched the surroundings with vigilance.

“Great place, great place!”

"Change the sled! Quick, quick, quick!"

He is the warship commander of this Vladivostok task force, Ye Tenghui, a descendant of the Lanfang Ye family.

After the boat docked, he immediately led a military officer and jumped out of the boat, and immediately fell into knee-deep snow.

Ye Tenghui took a deep breath.

A hot air balloon rose from the warship.

So Zeng Ada and Ye Tenghui looked all the way and felt the increasingly cold temperatures and the increasingly thicker ice on the coastline.

He was from Chaozhou, Guangdong, and when he came to this cold Northeast, he suffered a lot.

Therefore, the soldiers of this advance team have undergone special snow combat training.

It's freezing cold today. Thousands of people have been sent to such a bitterly cold place, and they don't know if they can stand firm.

"It makes sense for the emperor to occupy Vladivostok, right?" Ye Tenghui said with a frown.

After a short period of adaptation, more than thirty members of the advance team carried muskets and grenades on their backs and paddled sleds in all directions.

Zeng Ada held up a handful of black soil.

If the seedlings cannot be inserted early, the food of these thousands of people may have to depend on shipping supplies for at least two years, and the plan to expand the settlement of Vladivostok will be delayed by at least a year.

"Hurry, hurry, follow the coastline. From the map, Vladivostok is a bay!"

An hour later.

Now I heard that such a cold place actually has a coastline that does not freeze in winter.

Ada Zeng straightened up.

"Explore a ten-mile radius and sound the signal immediately if there is any abnormality!"

The black soil has not bottomed out either.

Dozens of ships docked far away on the sea, and a small Ming army team cautiously docked in a small boat.

It is enough to show the strong industrial strength of Ming Dynasty.

Without waiting for spring to warm up, or even before the harshest winter in Manchuria had arrived, we took a boat to go north, bypassing the Korean Peninsula, and heading towards the place marked on the map as Vladivostok.

In order to avoid snow blindness, this advance team was also equipped with goggles.

They now also have a flintlock rifle and conducted a ten-day assault emergency training before departure.

Zeng Ada also saw the coastline that was not blocked by ice through the telescope.

Zeng Ada and Ye Tenghui looked at each other.

Both commanders shouted.

Suddenly he shouted excitedly.

Next to him, there was also an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulders, but he was wearing a white navy uniform, and his face was a little solemn.

Historically, the Russians have coveted the Northeast region.

These equipment can be prepared for an army of thousands of people in a short period of time.

"Vladivostok! It's Vladivostok! Lao Ye!! Hahahaha!! Long live King Ming!! Long live 1!"

If the coast is still frozen when we arrive in Vladivostok, all the preparations made over a month ago will be in vain.

Just as the two were talking.

"Warships on alert! Hot air balloons take off!!"

At this time of year, most of the coastline in Manchuria is already frozen.

"Russian Cossacks have a large range of activities. They are nomadic tribes like the Mongols. It is not surprising to encounter Cossacks in Vladivostok."

After a while, he also yelled: "I saw the coastline! The coastline is not blocked by ice! Oh my God! This place really has an ice-free port!"

"Maybe," Ada Zeng said with a frown.

An excellent harbor appeared in front of us.

Although Zhu Daohua has now proclaimed himself emperor.

Two lieutenant colonels stood on the deck, frowning under the falling snow.

Quite a number of singles from Liangjiang signed up enthusiastically.

Therefore, when recruiting people in Yingtian Mansion and Songjiang Mansion.

In this era, occupation, reproduction of the population, and exclusion of foreign races are all done.

The lookout soldier who was looking out on the mast shouted: "The ice on the coast is shallow! The coastline! The coastline is not frozen!"

The fleet will have to return home and wait until the ice and snow melt next spring before heading north again.

Members of each advance team return.

In order to use it for winter operations in the outer Northeast, this mounted infantry battalion now has no choice but to give up its horses - after all, fighting on horseback in the Northeast's winter is risking its life.

Ye Tenghui climbed up to the top of the jib in three steps at a time, holding the rope in one hand and holding a telescope in the other to investigate.

Cheung Bao Tsai said loudly.

Zeng Ada dug down with a hoe, digging straight for one or two meters.

There was surprise and joy in his eyes.

"We're here! We're here!"

Inner Northeast finally became a Han territory like a Han province.

Zeng A on the boat breathed a sigh of relief.

soon.

Definitely one of the best cargo ship models of this era.

Under the advantage of population.

More than thirty members of the advance team put on sleds one after another and then stood up on the snow.

The steel helmet on the head is wrapped with a white wool snow cap.

Following Ye Tenghui's order.

But if this happens, spring plowing will inevitably be delayed.

Ye Tenghui also nodded: "It's better to be careful!"

It is opening up a living space for future generations.
To be continued...