After nearly ten thousand soldiers and civilians in Beihai Town were busy day and night, and everyone was bitten by mosquitoes, the defense system of Fuldan City was finally completed. Now that everyone is finally free, everyone is thinking about this matter.
By the way, if we don’t come, wouldn’t our whole life be in vain?
Last night, the two generators in the camp finally went on strike because they ran out of oil. Hundreds of mosquito killer lamps installed in Fuldan City and the military camp area all went out. Caught off guard, everyone was bitten all over their faces by mosquitoes.
Bag.
At this time, Liu Sheng was applying cooling oil on his forehead. The guy had been bitten by mosquitoes on his forehead last night. When he got up in the morning, he looked like a rhinoceros.
Zhao Xin, because he had been busy moving weapons and ammunition between the two time-spaces recently, forgot to replenish oil. So he started pouring diesel back and forth from early in the morning; by noon, he finally got the two generators running again.
This matter made Zhao Xin very angry. In order to cope with the Qing army's attack, many internal affairs plans this year were all in vain! The oil development of Kuye Island, the issuance of new currency, the migration of refugees from Henan to the north, the coal export in Ezo and Pingyuan Town
Land reclamation and so on, Zhao Xin originally wanted to save some matches to open up the market in the south of the Yangtze River. But it was all delayed! Just buying heavy oil and diesel would cost at least tens of millions.
In addition, the exploration work in the plain area on the south bank of Xingkai Lake is not going very well. In an exploration team sent a few days ago, two civilians and a horse loaded with supplies fell into the swamp and could not be rescued.
The exploration team turned back to replenish supplies and planned to go north again tomorrow.
In the Sanjiang Plain of this era, there were dense shrubs and dense swamps in summer, tigers, leopards, bears, and all kinds of animals.
According to Ba Mangon, who serves as the guide, in summer, the plains here are covered with swamps; Manchu calls these unfathomable swamps "Hatang". The most terrifying among them are the grasslands with red puddles.
The locals call this "red rusty water". When people and horses pass by, they have to step on grass mounds. If they take a wrong step, they will fall in and be unable to save them. Judging from this situation, if you want to go there in the future,
To open up wasteland for farming here, we must first build canals to drain the water from the swamps.
"We must not let go of the Qing court. After this battle, we must give it a heavy blow and seize the Ninggu Pagoda by the way." Zhao Xin muttered.
"That's right, even if you put this bag on my forehead, I have to get a piece of land in Jiangnan." Liu Sheng pointed to the big bag on his head and said. Now let him apply cooling oil, it looks shiny, and it is better to go out.
It affects the image too much.
"Actually, the place in Ninggutana is quite good. As long as we can gain a foothold, we can occupy Sanxing City to the north, and then control the entire Heilongjiang and Wusuli River basins. In summer, we can also take a boat directly to Kuye Island. To the south, we can follow
Go down the river, occupy Jilin City, and threaten Shengjing."
"I think what you want most is the labor force there."
"That's~ in this land of barren mountains and ridges, that's a big city."
When the two of them were having a hard time, a magnet phone in the headquarters rang, and Zhao Xin picked it up.
"Hello? Headquarters? This is Jiayi Post. Our patrol boats blocked two wooden boats nearby. There were more than thirty Qing troops on board. There seemed to be a senior official inside. They said they were going to Xila
He persuaded me to surrender!"
In order to transmit surrounding news in a timely manner, the telephone lines of the headquarters in Jurgen City are connected to ten surrounding checkpoints. In addition, telephone lines are also laid out in Fuldan City and throughout the forward positions.
Zhao Xin was stunned for a moment. Checkpoint A1 was located four kilometers south of Jurgen City, on the edge of the Suifen River. He heard another call from the phone: "Chief, we have a little manpower here, it's best to send a platoon over."
"Tell the people on the patrol boat to nail those two wooden boats and prevent them from taking another step forward! I'll send someone over immediately!"
"yes!"
Zhao Xin put down the phone and shouted toward the door: "Jiuzang! Come in."
"Here!" Jiuzang pushed open the door and came in. He was the officer on duty today and was originally going to be at the command post, but when Zhao Xin came, he left him alone at the door.
Zhao Xin went to his desk and drafted an order. After signing it, he handed it to Jiuzang. "Immediately send a platoon to checkpoint A1. Our patrol boat stopped two Qing army ships. Keep an eye on them."
Now, you can’t withdraw without my order.”
"yes!"
When Liu Sheng heard this, he didn't even bother to cover his forehead. He stood up quickly and asked, "What happened?"
"A-1 checkpoint reported that two Qing army wooden boats had arrived and were blocked by our patrol boats."
"how many people?"
"They say there are more than thirty people. Why do you think they are here?"
"If you fart quickly, let it go!"
Zhao Xindao: "The one who persuaded you to surrender."
"Persuading you to surrender?" Liu Sheng was a little confused. Before the fight, people were trying to persuade him to surrender? As a former modern soldier, he still couldn't understand the ancient routines.
Zhao Xin chuckled and said: "I guess they thought we were idiots, so they wanted to do a courtesy first and then fight, and by the way, they wanted to find out our true and false status. Besides, fighting in ancient times does not mean that we have to fight to the death. If we really want to fight,
Food, wages, ordnance, and pensions are all necessary expenses. We should save them if we can. What if they think they can scare us away?"
Liu Sheng said: "Then you mean that the Qing army may not come?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "I heard Baman Gong say before that it will start to rain in this area in July, the first snow will come in August, and the river will be iced in September. That Fukang'an
He and Agui were both wily and scheming masters, not to mention Qianlong.
According to my estimation, there is a famine in various parts of the Central Plains. The scale of this drought is unprecedented, and the Qing court cannot bear it, so it should be a quick decision. Besides, we killed Hailancha before, and the Qing court can’t even control us now.
No one has figured it out. Didn’t Shen Jingdan say before that the Qing court’s edict thought we were idiots?”
Looking at the entire foreign military strategy during the Qianlong period, from Jinchuan and Jinchuan to the Battle of Gorkha and even the pacification of Taiwan, they all wanted to see people alive and see corpses dead.
Only by defeat and death.
Of course, the only exception was the Qing-Burmese War. However, the situation at that time was mainly due to the excessive non-combat casualties caused by the climate and soil. The soldiers were seriously war-weary, and the northerners were not adaptable to the tropical climate of Myanmar. Even Fu Heng, a bachelor of economics,
He couldn't afford the illness and died not long after returning to Beijing; and at that time, Xiaojinchuan rebelled again. For Qianlong, Xiaojinchuan was far more important than Myanmar.
Liu Sheng said: "Paralyze us and spy on the news?"
Zhao Xin nodded and said: "That's right! After spying on the news, it's time for the army to go out and fight quickly."
Liu Sheng said: "Then do we still need to meet? We can just go back."
Zhao Xin stood up, walked around twice, and said: "We still have to meet. Sooner or later we have to reveal our identities. This is also very important for us to seize the strategic location of Ninggu Pagoda."
"You really want Ning Guta!"
"Why not? I also want to take a yacht for a one-day trip in Heilongjiang."
"Okay, I don't know anything about politics. I just train and fight. What do you want to do?"
Zhao Xin rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Our trenches and positions have been dug, and we can't hide them. So we have to go to the river to talk to them."
In the boat on the Suifen River, Na Qitai looked at the strange gray boat not far away with lingering fear. He really wanted to fire a cannon and sink it. Unfortunately, he didn't dare and couldn't.
Not to mention that this gray strange ship was obviously much bigger than his Lu ship, the short-barreled iron cannon on the top of the other ship was really powerful. It could fire continuously, and its power was so powerful that Qitai had never seen it in his life, even his own.
The muskets on the bow of the ship were all blown away and fell into the water. That was an iron cannon weighing a hundred kilograms!
In addition, on the north side of the river, a dozen little men in colorful clothes were squatting or crawling, holding a blunderbuss in their hands, pointing at the two boats.
The width of the river here is only three to four feet. Once a fight breaks out, the people on the boat will not be able to escape.
To put it bluntly, it’s not that Qitai doesn’t want to run away, he just can’t run away!
Seeing the black muzzle pointed at them all the time, the members of the surrender group on the Luzhou boat lost the courage to resist. Everyone felt that their throats were dry and their legs were weak. While Qitai was panicking, he also felt quite strange. Just now.
The people on the gray boat said that they had broken into the territory of Beihai Town and wanted to stop the boat for inspection.
What the hell is Beihai Town? What he is most worried about is that this place is very close to Fuldan City, and there may be dangers.
At this time, one of the guards, Goshiha, came to Na Qitai's side and whispered: "Sir, this is not an option. I have an idea. Let's let the sailors sneak off the ship from the starboard side, dive over, and seize the other party's ship.
.”
"Pah!" Na Qitai turned around and slapped Goshiha on the face, scolding in a low voice: "You bastard, if you want to die, go find a rope yourself! You have also seen the power of that iron cannon, don't you think so?"
It’s impossible for me and the whole ship to be buried with you!”
Geshiha was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed in apology. Naqitai said coldly: "Go and ask them what they want to do? What do they mean by not letting us turn around and not allow us to land?"
Nageshiha walked to the bow of the ship, put his hands to his mouth and shouted at the patrol boat: "You will neither let us pass nor let us retreat. What do you mean?"
The Beihai Town sailor in charge of driving the ship turned on the intercom and said coldly: "Wait! Don't act rashly, bullets don't have eyes!"
After more than an hour of suffering like this, a sailor standing behind the gangway of the boat suddenly turned to Na Qitai who was sitting in the boat canopy and said: "Sir, they are here again!"
Na Qitai stood up and looked through the small window on the boat canopy. He saw dozens more people holding gunshots running out from the woods on the north bank of the river. They were all wearing colorful short clothes. These people
He quickly rushed to the river bank and pointed the gun at himself. Another person shouted loudly: "People in the wooden boat, please get off the boat!"
After waiting for half an hour, the two boats finally docked. When Na Qitai was helped by his subordinates to get off the gangplank, he held on to his official hat, adjusted his official robe, and said with a serious look on his face:
The people who got off the boat said: "Who are you, who dare to intercept the official ship? Didn't you see the yellow dragon flag on the bow?"
As the platoon leader, Mishi Lang tilted his head and looked at the Huanglong flag on the boat, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it before, and I don't recognize it."
"You!" Na Qitai's nose was almost crooked with anger, and he said angrily: "Who are you?"
"Didn't you say you were going to the Xila River to persuade you to surrender?" Miichiro rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "Our leader said there is no need to go to the Xila River, we can talk in Fuldan City!"
"What?! You have occupied Fuldan City!" Na Qitai's guess was finally confirmed. After being shocked, he immediately woke up and asked: "Are you the E people from the Xila River? Look at you
He speaks in Mandarin and looks like a Chinese like me, yet he actually acts as an accomplice to the tiger and is willing to be the E people’s lackey!”
Mishi Lang curled his lips and said: "Master official, we are not your subjects of the Qing Dynasty. Save your energy. If you have anything to say, I will talk to our leader later."
Before Na Qitai came here, he had heard that the E people were very powerful with their blunderbuss, and he said that if you have the ability, put down the blunderbuss and see if I can't kill you. He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then said in a deep voice: "
Okay, I’ll be waiting here!”
A quarter of an hour later, a dozen migrant workers from Beihai Town arrived with two carriages. They first found an open space, used tools to clear a flat space, and then began to unload things from the carriages. These people
First, we cleared an open space, built an awning that was exposed to the wind on all sides, and placed a round table, a few stools, a kettle, and a few cups.
Qitai and others looked at the migrant workers busy with disdain, and then saw that the tables and chairs were all made of logs. They said with disdain in their hearts: "Barbarians from outside the territory, how vulgar they are!"
After a while, a rider appeared holding a red flag waving in the wind, followed by Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng on horseback; behind them, a platoon of mounted soldiers.
Na Qitai looked at the pattern on the red flag. It was a white ring with many edges and a white five-pointed star inside. The space between the five-pointed star and the ring was painted black.
"What's this flag?" He turned to look at Anthony, who was standing behind him. The other person shook his head, indicating that he didn't recognize him.
After Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng dismounted, they exchanged military salutes with Mishi Lang and walked directly into the awning to sit down.
Yaichiro came over and introduced Na Qitai: "These two are our leaders. Please come over."
Na Qitai guessed that "chief" might mean leader. He looked at Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng a few times and found that the clothes of these two people were almost the same as those of the gun sergeants around them, except that the other's height was a bit scary;
He himself is considered a strong man, and he is only as high as the opponent's shoulders.
"Wait a minute!" Yachiro stretched out his hand to stop. "You can only bring one person over."
Na Qitai couldn't care less about being angry at this moment. At this moment, he just wanted to finish talking and take the boat back. In his eyes, people like Zhao Xin were just a group of barbarians who didn't know how to live or die! He motioned to the others to wait here and called Anthony to come over.
Under the awning.
Na Qitai clasped his hands behind his back, cleared his throat, and said with a serious face: "I, Na Qitai, the deputy commander of Ninggu Tower, come here to appease you and others in the name of the emperor." After saying this, he pointed and stood.
Priest Anthony at the back said: "This is the deputy envoy this time, Priest Antony of the Oros Kingdom."
Zhao Xin said nothing, Liu Sheng nodded, stretched out his hand and said: "Bring it here."
"What to take?"
"It's an imperial edict! Doesn't everyone in the imperial court have to have an imperial edict when recruiting people?"
"What a joke, what I brought is the emperor's oral edict."
"Oh, you can say whatever you want about co-writing."
"You guys, you have no regard for the emperor's constitution, you are really too presumptuous!"
Liu Sheng sneered and said disdainfully: "Fukangan was beaten away by us, and Hailancha was beaten to death by us. Do you still think we should be afraid of you?"
Qitai was so speechless that he couldn't say anything in his heart, so why didn't he say anything subtle?
Seeing this, Priest Anthony hurriedly said: "You two, we want to talk to your big boss. As a compatriot, I have a lot to say to him."
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng looked at each other and then said: "You two, let's get to know each other. I am the big boss of Beihai Town, Zhao Xin. His name is Liu Sheng, and he is my deputy."
"Oh?" Na Qitai raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhao Xinda: "Leader Zhao, who did you learn this Mandarin from?"
Zhao Xindao: "Mom, dad and teacher. Who else do you think I can learn from?"
"Are you a bannerman?"
"I'm sorry, I really am not. May I ask what your Manchu surname is?" Zhao Xin deliberately said a lot of nonsense to make the other party confused.
"Uh, my last name is my name." Na Qitai felt like he was back in Beijing chatting with the neighbors in the alleys. He was about to say it smoothly when he suddenly realized. Why should I tell you my last name?
"Pah!" Na Qitai slapped the table and asked, "Did you kill those 108 armored soldiers and 15 flag soldiers on Bear Island?"
Zhao Xin nodded. "Yes. I did it with ten people."
"What about the twelve missing armored soldiers?"
"Not only those twelve, but also the six hundred captured by Fukangan last time. They are all working as coolies in the mountains to atone for their sins."
"The people who occupy the mouth of the Xila River are not Oros?"
"I caught a few from the north, and they stinky."
"Were you responsible for what happened in Yangzhou?"
"There are many things going on in Yangzhou. Which one are you asking about?"
"Salt merchant Wang Jia and Shouma."
"The thin horse was snatched by the Mumen, and the Wang family Mumen really don't know it." Zhao Xin continued to act stupid. He even used the native dialect of the banner people.
Na Qitai suddenly raised his head and laughed loudly. He used laughter to cover up the anger in his heart. Who on earth made the emperor and a group of adults in the military aircraft department think that their opponents would be a group of Oros?! He looked at Zhao sideways.
Xin, I thought this guy might be from Beijing, and he is full of Beijing movies.
At this time, Anthony took the opportunity to ask hurriedly: "You said you captured two of my compatriots from the north?"
"Priests like you are working on the other side of the Sira River to atone for their sins."
"Oh my God! How can you mistreat God's messenger?"
Liu Sheng on the side suddenly said angrily: "Bullshit messenger! Who allowed you to build a church in the territory of the Ezo people and collect taxes?"
Anthony distinguished: "That is a barbaric land, which was first discovered by our people."
Zhao Xin raised his hand to stop him: "Stop it, priest. The Ezo people have their own king, and you are occupying their territory without the permission of the Ezo king."
"What conditions do you have to agree to release those two priests?"
"Work as a coolie for twenty years." Zhao Xin opened his mouth to lie.
"God, why do all the people you arrest have to do hard labor?" Anthony stretched out his hands and made the sign of a cross.