Chapter 638 The border line that has been rubbed out
Regarding the immigration work in the western region of the United States, Liu Mingyuan was mainly in charge, and the resources consumed were paid by Dong Shuheng's family.
Since it is his own family's future, Dong Shuheng will naturally not poach the country. In that case, his conscience will not go away.
At this time, the environment in central and western Canada was relatively harsh, and we could only rely on pioneering teams to develop it.
The current pioneer team has established a firm foothold in the central region.
The Renaissance Army and the Great Empire almost equally divided the Canadian area. Naturally, the Great Empire would not be willing. Conflicts between the two sides often occurred.
In early spring in the northern forests of Canada, the river ice has melted, but the weather is still bitingly cold.
An advance team was driving five wooden boats on the river. They were responsible for transporting supplies to a camp deep in the Indian-controlled area.
There are only a few dozen people in this team. The leader is Shi Yong. He has twenty Fuso warriors and ten Yin Di'an people under his command.
"Captain, please have a drink of water." Lying on the boat, Shi Yong enjoyed the rare sunbathing at noon. At this time, his deputy Chi Shang Jinnan came to Shi Yong's side with a water bottle.
"Thank you, Chishang-kun. This ghost place is cold and cold, just like the hell underworld." Shi Yong cursed. Shi Yong was very satisfied with this Fuso deputy. He has strong execution ability and a very discerning eye.
Son.
During this season, the ice and snow are melting, and the surrounding area is unbearably humid. This cold and humid environment can freeze the bones to the bone.
"Captain, we can reach the Xin'anqing settlement in one more day of driving," Chishang Jinnan said.
"After I get there, I will definitely bake on the kang for a few days."
"No, I will retire next year, build a piece of land here, build a farm, and marry a few wives. Ikegami-kun, please come with me, and then remember to hire a few Fuso workers for me. I am used to holding a gun.
I can’t do farm work.”
The boat was sailing down the river. The place they were going to was called Xinjiangning Fort.
Many places here do not have place names. In order to facilitate memory, the pioneering team usually uses domestic place names based on the location.
This New Jiangning Fort is located in the east. This big river was named New Yangtze River by the pioneering team.
In fact, this river is the Peace River in later generations. Its length is indeed not short. But it does not flow into the sea, but into Lake Athabasca in later generations.
This lake, which the Chinese pioneering team called Donghai Lake, together with the Yellow Sea Lake (Danu Lake) to the north, and the Beihai Lake (Big Bear Lake) further north, together form the current dividing line between the Chinese and British-controlled areas.
The occupation measures adopted by the Renaissance Army were to be both real and fictitious.
It is to concentrate the population on the dividing line and establish dense development points on the dividing line.
There are basically no settlements in the Rocky Mountain forests between the west coast and the eastern settlements.
There are only some transfer stations along the river.
Several east-west rivers are the main transportation hubs. These rivers are not always accessible and have strong seasonality.
Therefore, every spring after the ice and snow melt, there is a busy gathering of transportation materials.
The pioneer settlements in the central part of the country are now able to become self-sufficient in food.
However, ammunition, cloth, seeds, iron tools, etc. all need to be transported rearward.
These things have to be transshipped from the ports on the other side of the ocean along the northern part of the Pacific to ports such as Zhuzhou and Dongzhou. Then they are transported to various places.
Now the Baath Army has begun mining gold mines on the west coast.
In order to attract more people, Dong Shuheng even ordered to allow private individuals to go to the west coast to pan for gold.
In addition to the fact that the gold mined must be purchased by the government, there is no need to pay a penny in taxes.
This makes the West Coast area lively.
It’s just that there is little oil and water in central Canada, so ordinary people are not willing to come.
There are only pioneering teams organized by the government, which are like nails stuck here.
They took root here and through constant friction and struggle with the immigrants from the Great Empire and the local Yin Di'an people, a fuzzy boundary line was finally determined.
"Captain, don't worry, there are so many people in my hometown who want to come out to make a living! Then I will find some Fusang women as maids for you. If you like them, they can be used to warm the bed, hahaha!" Chishang!
Jin Man said with a smile.
"Okay, Chishang, you are a very good person."
"Bang..." A gunshot broke the conversation between the two parties.
"hidden!"
"Enemy attack!"
A crackling noise sounded on the ship.
"Captain, please don't get up, I'm going to take a look." Chishang Jinnan just instinctively pressed Shi Yong under him.
At this time, they all lay down behind the fender of the boat.
There are ten centimeter-thick baffles on the hull. This kind of boat is a unique shape in North America, and the baffles increase the protective performance.
During the enemy's surprise attack just now, five or six soldiers on guard duty on the ship were shot in the head on the spot.
At this time, everyone lay down, and the casualties were reduced. The enemy kept shooting from the river bank. The shots made the side of the ship crackle, and sawdust flew everywhere.
"Bang!" A cannonball exploded in the water. The sound sounded like a small-caliber artillery piece.
"Captain, there are many enemies. There are shooting points stretching for hundreds of meters on the river bank." Jin Nan reported.
He had just observed through the observation hole, and his hat had been knocked off by the enemy, and he was almost going to see the great god.
"Machine gunner! Where did the fucking machine gunner die?"
There used to be a rotating machine gun on top of the cabin at the stern of the ship, but for some reason it hasn't been fired yet.
"Captain, let me go take a look."
"Da da da..." At this time, a machine gun on a ship in front fired.
The hot bullets were shot into the trees on the shore. Branches, leaves and sawdust were also flying everywhere.
"Ahhhh..." Some Yindian people wearing animal skin clothes were knocked to the ground.
In the woods in the distance, there are still a few British manning a small artillery position.
"Bang..." A mortar shell fired from the ship hit the shore.
Although the fleet only has a few dozen people, its firepower is not weak at all.
At this time, the boat is moving downstream, as long as someone is at the helm, no rowing is required.
This allowed the crew on board to fully participate in the battle.
"Boom..." A cargo ship was concentrated by the enemy's small artillery. A hole was blasted in the hull.
Fortunately, the enemy also used small cannons, which were not very powerful.
The cargo ships of the advance team were all manufactured locally, and the materials used were sufficient. The most indispensable thing here is wood.
In addition, the river here is very fast and there are often rocks in the river. Therefore, the boats must be built extremely strong.
"Da da da..." Not long after Jin Nan left, Shi Yong's machine gun on the boat finally fired.
Machine gun bullets swept back and forth across the shore.
The enemy's firepower was finally suppressed.
Shi Yong exposed half of his head and looked toward the shore.
"It's the damn British again." Although the people I saw on the shore were all Yindian people, those people behind the cannons were definitely British.
Shi Yong saw a Yin Di'an wearing a feather crown gesticulating around.
He raised the rifle in his hand, took aim briefly, and knocked the opponent down with one shot.
Before joining the advance team, Shi Yong was a sharpshooter in the special operations team.
Shi Yong did not stop and fired five shots in succession until all five bullets in the gun were used up.
He didn't care about the others. There were a total of five or six soldiers on his ship.
Shi Yong pressed his back against the cabin, took out the bullet and pressed it into the gun chamber.
This is not the first time that they have been attacked by the other side.
In the past two years, on both sides, you have sneak attacks on me, and I have sneak attacks on you. Such small-scale battles happen from time to time even in the cold winter.
The polar bear battle flag used by the advance team has long been hated by the British in North America and the Yintian people under British control.
Standing up again, Shi Yong, under the cover of his machine gun, shot three enemies again.
"Ah!" A scream came, and the machine gunner fell down after being shot. Gu Ai
After a while, the machine gun fired again, and it turned out that it was Ikegami Jinnan himself who took over the position of machine gunner.
He skillfully operated the machine gun and continued to shoot at the shore.
"Boom!" A cargo ship loaded with kerosene was hit by an enemy's small cannon.
The kerosene on the ship was ignited.
Several soldiers on the boat could only jump into the cold river water, but they were in danger.
Either he was shot by the enemies on the shore, or he was swallowed by the cold river water.
Finally, the gunfire gradually weakened and the fleet had left the enemy's ambush circle.
"Jin Nan, are you okay?" Only then did Shi Yong have a chance to breathe.
"Captain, it's okay, nothing serious." The position of the machine gunner on the ship is the area that the enemy machine gunner takes care of.
"It's good that he's not dead. If he were to die, who would be better off with all the money I've saved over the years? Damn it! I should have married a few women earlier and had a lot of children," Shi Yong said.
"Let each ship report the number of people on board and see how many are still breathing."
After a while, Jin Nan came to Shi Yong with one arm hanging.
"Baga, next time we must kill all these British guys. The losses this time are very serious, captain, one ship is missing, and there are only fifteen people left." The golden man in Chishang cursed these British guys,
While reporting to Shi Yonghui.
"Did you see the totem of the Yin Di'an tribe just now?" Shi Yong asked.
"I saw the captain, and the opponent was using a deer totem." These Yin Di'an people in the north all have the habit of totem worship, and almost every tribe has its own totem.
They usually carve wooden sculptures and use a pole to hold them in the ranks during battles.
The advance team relied on this to distinguish the various tribes.
The advance team is notorious for taking revenge.
Any tribe that dares to provoke the advance team will be destroyed.
They also hope that through this method, the Yin Di'an tribe will no longer continue to mess around with the Great Empire.
The Renaissance Army also treated the Yin Di'an tribe well.
The original grizzly bear tribe has now developed into the largest tribe in the northwest forest area.
They have a population of tens of thousands.
Grizzly Bear has an army of thousands of servants in his hands.
They also send a certain number of troops to the advance team every year.
They exchanged their furs or worked for the Renaissance Army in exchange for food for the winter.
Life is much more stable than before.
At least the grizzly bear is content with his current life.
He is like a big contractor. The Pioneer team recruits Yin Di'an people through him.
The grizzly bear then divided the matter among the subordinate tribes under him.
In this way, his status as a Grizzly Bear is unbreakable.
Now he has eighteen wives and more than twenty children.
He couldn't support so many wives and children before, but now he can support them no matter how many children they have.
"Jin Nan, you should go and take a rest. The road behind is relatively close to the Xin'anqing settlement, so there should be no more ambushes."
Because there were fewer people, the combatants had to help the boatmen sail the boats during the rest of the journey.
After a night of sailing, the fleet finally arrived at Xin'anqing the next day.
This is a pioneering point located at a river bend.
The settlement is built along the river. The side facing the river is the dock, and the other three sides are surrounded by civil structure walls several meters high.
The so-called civil structure fence refers to using thick logs to drive into the soil, leaving a space of more than one meter in the middle to fill with soil.
There is a deep ditch two meters away from the outside of the wall. The excavated soil is piled in the corner of the wall.
This is equivalent to raising the fence.
Using soil to create a slope with a slope outside the wall can also increase the anti-cannon performance of the wall.
Two turrets were built on both sides of the pier mainly to prevent enemies from attacking by boat.
Shi Yong saw some Yin Di'an people who were attached to the settlement cleaning up the battlefield outside the settlement.
Apparently there was an attack here too.
"Old Wang, why are you here being attacked too?" After getting off the boat, Shi Yong met Wang Qian, the person in charge of the settlement.
"Isn't that right? There are more than five hundred Yin Di'an people, and the British are behind them to provide artillery support. These Yin Di'an people are very well equipped. Damn, even the Yin Di'an people now use breech-loading guns."
Wang Qian cursed.
"Old Shi, were you ambushed on the road?" Wang Qian also saw the bullet marks on Shi Yong's boat.
The two of them lamented in sympathy with each other.
The defensive battle on Wang Qian's side was easier, but some Yin Di'an servants died.
Unless the British brought in heavy firepower, the pioneering team's defense facilities could not be defeated by provoking the Yindian people.
After a day of repairs in Xin'anqing, repairing the ship, and putting down some supplies, Shi Yong led the team and continued downstream.
Further downstream, the forest is not so dense, and many places are swamps and grasslands.
Fortunately, Shi Yong and the others did not encounter another ambush.
This time when the team came out and was ambushed, Shi Yong must regain his position.
There was an advance team of a large group in Xinjiangning City. Shi Yong delivered the things and told them about the ambush.
"Captain Shi, you said it was the deer tribe that ambushed you?" Captain Zheng Tingyuan asked.
"That's right, Captain Zheng. They won't raise totems indiscriminately." Shi Yong replied.
"The Deer Tribe has always been attached to Fort Smith. Do you think there is a possibility that they deliberately provoked us and asked us to attack the Deer Tribe, and then the British were waiting for me to ambush." Zheng Tingyuan analyzed.
"It's possible, Captain Zheng, then should we let them go?" Shi Yong said angrily.
"Of course not. What I mean is that we need to figure this out. If the British ambush us at the Deer Tribe, we can just capture Fort Smith. This British stronghold is stuck between us and Huanghai Lake.
In between. It also relies on the Great Slave River, which has always threatened our communication with the north."
"Okay, I think it's okay. I'll lead the team to investigate." As long as he can get revenge, it doesn't matter where he fights or how he fights. He doesn't want to remain a coward before retiring.
The central Great Lakes area where the Renaissance Army's pioneering teams intersected with the British immigration strongholds is a transitional area between forests and grasslands.
There's a lot of swampy no-man's land here.
The Renaissance Army relied on these swamps to reclaim farmland and establish settlements.
The land here is very fertile, but the weather is cold and only one season of cold-resistant crops can be grown each year.
Fortunately, there is as much land as you need here.
Otherwise, the Renaissance Army would have to keep losing money by building so many settlements.
The western part of Canada was not originally part of Dong Shuheng's plan.
To be honest, occupying this place is currently a thankless task.
Having offended the Great Empire, there is still little gain for the time being.
Although gold mines have been discovered on the west coast, the benefits brought by this are not enough for the resources invested in fighting against the Great Empire.
But now it seems that it is all worth it, even if domestic development is slowed down.
Because this place eventually entered the hands of the Chinese.
This place may become independent in the future because it is too far away from the mainland after all.
But it is the Chinese who live on this land, and it is the Chinese who can finally enjoy the benefits brought by this fertile land.
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