In November, although the mountains were closed by heavy snow, there were still border tribes who came to Fuldan City to trade after the snow stopped.
From the mouths of some border residents, Liu Sheng learned that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had renovated cities and built camps in Ningguta and Hunchun.
When the news came back to Beihai Town, Zhao Xinxin said that the Qing Dynasty regarded Beihai Town as the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" and set up a large camp to block and siege it! He immediately ordered Serdan to lead a reconnaissance team to set off. After arriving at the Mongolian River Military Station, he waited for an opportunity to attack Hunchun
City investigation.
In a room that serves as a combat command room at the Beihai Town training base, a dozen young soldiers and Sheng Haizhou were gathered around a large table, making a simple sand table with great interest.
Although in another time and space, electronic sandboxes have become very popular, technology cannot be separated from people after all, so sandbox operations are still the main subject of military training.
The sand table made by Sheng Haizhou and others is square, with a wooden frame with a side length of three meters and a scale of 1:2000. The reference map is a satellite map of later generations "processed" by Zhao Xin, which is centered on Fuldan City.
An area of 600 kilometers each from east to west, north to south.
Zhao Xin's purpose is to let these children learn how to make a sand table first, and as for the differences between the actual terrain and the map, they can gradually modify it later.
After the sand table frame is installed, first spread a thick layer of sand on the bottom of the entire frame. After compacting and smoothing, use white cotton thread to stretch the net. Pull 20 white threads horizontally and vertically on the frame, then each white thread will
The side length of the square grid formed by the lines represents 30 kilometers.
The next step is to draw the direction of the river on the sand, mark mountains, roads, and lakes, stack them with materials of different colors, and then perform positioning operations in the grid drawn on the sand table according to the coordinates of the terrain map.
The young soldiers happily arranged materials made of sawdust and various colored chalks, and paved roads and built rivers on the sand table according to the area drawn by Sheng Haizhou.
For these future "staff officers", Zhao Xin's requirement is that only those who have mastered the "six meetings and five abilities" can be considered qualified. When Sheng Haizhou learned about Zhao Xin's requirements for staff officers, he was confused!
The main content of Zhao Xin's classes for Sheng Haizhou and the others now is to review every previous battle in Beihai Town. In addition to spending two hours in class during the day, he now has to spend another hour after dinner every day to teach Sheng Haizhou and the others.
Turn on the stove.
Fortunately, Zhao Xin studied statistics in college and can easily calculate and organize complex data, otherwise he would not be able to do it.
Sometimes when Zhao Xin thinks about it carefully, he feels that it is a long road! But everything must start somewhere.
"Where are Seldan and his team?"
"According to the news sent back by the radio, they have now arrived at the Mongolian River Military Station and are preparing to cross the Mongolian River early tomorrow morning."
Zhao Xin nodded and said nothing. He looked at the snow outside the window and said to Qianlong, just give it a try. The Tiandihui is about to rebel, let me see what you do!
Time has slowly arrived in mid-November.
On a stone road in the mountains north of Vladivostok, several people wearing fur hats and cloaks led horses and braved heavy snowfall on the slippery mountain road. In front of them, an ancient temple archway loomed in the wind and snow.
discernible.
When a few people came closer and looked up, they saw in the middle of the stone square were the five characters "Edict to build Wuya Temple", and there was a couplet on the pillars on both sides: "The arrow penetrates the Silla Flower Exhibition, and the lamp spreads to Linji."
"Hongkai Buddha Selection Site", and the horizontal inscription is "Xizhu Heritage"; looking at the inscription, it is engraved with the words "Built by Zen Master Fajing in the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty".
"Sir, Wuya Temple has arrived."
The leader of the group listened to the faint sound of bells and drums in the wind and snow, and thought that it had been more than 380 years since the temple was built here, and it was unknown how many generations of eminent monks had presided over it.
Several people climbed the stairs step by step until they entered the mountain gate. In front of the main hall, the ground was covered with snow, and a few awnings of decaying grass were exposed. A copper bell hung on the ancient cypress in front of the hall, with the names of the donors densely engraved on it.
The neighing of the horse alarmed a young novice monk. He ran out of the side hall wearing a thick cotton robe and looked at these strange visitors. When he saw the scabbards exposed under the cloaks of several people, he hurriedly retracted into the hall.
, came out after a while, and said to the person surrounded by a group of people: "This benefactor, the master of my palace invites the benefactor to come to the east wing to talk."
The leader wore a hood, nodded slowly, and said to the people around him: "You guys will go to the side hall to rest first."
A strong man looked troubled and said: "My lord, if there is a bad person in the wild mountains and mountains here, we will die without redemption."
"Noisy! Are there any evil people in this pure place of Buddhism? You don't need to say anything!"
After saying that, the man raised his feet and followed the young novice towards the back of the side hall. Several strong men looked at it and then winked at one of them. The man understood and followed him.
The one called "Sir" followed the novice to the door of the Zen room, took off his hood, revealing a very serious face of a middle-aged man, with a menacing look on his brows.
"Excuse me, Master. We encountered heavy snow on the road, so we came to Guibao Temple to take shelter temporarily. Just stay under the corridor and leave as soon as the snow stops."
In the Zen room, a loud voice said: "Donor, you are too polite! Although the corridor can provide shelter from the wind and snow, you are not someone who can bow your head under the corridor!"
The man frowned and looked up at the door. He saw the door of the Zen room was open, and an old monk wearing a hundred-year-old robe was holding a rosary and looking at him with a smile.
The middle-aged man raised his hands and asked, "May I ask how you call the mage?"
"The poor monk is clear."
The middle-aged man's eyes flashed and he said: "No worries, peace and purity. A thought of ignorance is trouble, a thought of innocence is truth. What a good name!"
The monk smiled slightly and raised his hand to invite in. The two of them sat down on the futon on the Kang in the Zen room, and the novice immediately brewed a pot of fragrant tea.
The middle-aged man looked around. The quaint quiet room was filled with cigarette smoke. In addition to a 5,000-volume Northern Song Dynasty Shu edition of the Tripitaka, there were also some collections of poems and inscriptions on inscriptions placed in the closet against the wall.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! On the incense table in the middle of the room, a seven-character ancient poem in Wei stele style caught his attention.
"The cool breeze and the autumn moon force us to clear up, and we carry a staff in our shoes to Huacheng. The ancient cypresses stand in the sky with twin shadows, and a lamp shines on the Buddha in the empty hall. But I am reciting Buddhist verses to interpret the public cases, and boiling the ice spring to stir up the worldly sentiments. I have been planning to take a break today.
, lean on the pillow on the Zen bed and let the cock crow.”
"Is this a poem composed by the mage himself?"
"The poor monk's humble work many years ago has been disgraceful."
The middle-aged man licked his beard and praised: "I met the Master by chance today, and I realized that there is real practice in Wuya Temple!"
Cheng Che said calmly: "If you are clear in nature, you will eat and drink when you are hungry and thirsty. It is nothing but good for the body and mind."
The middle-aged man's brows jumped after hearing this, thinking that this old monk was so awesome, and then he smiled faintly.
He is also a person who has read a lot of poetry and books. What Cheng Che said just now comes from "Cai Gen Tan". He only said the first half, and the rest is "He is addicted, talking about Zen and performing verses, always playing with his soul." That means being addicted to worldly fame.
Even if people talk about Zen and Taoism, they are just pretending to be noble and a waste of energy.
Seeing that the middle-aged man was not annoyed at all, Chengcheng immediately raised a cup for tea. After a while, he suddenly said: "Master Zhongtang, regardless of the wind and snow, trekked all the way here. I don't know why?"
This middle-aged man was none other than Qinggui, the imperial envoy appointed by Qianlong to inspect Jilin and Heilongjiang, and shoulder the important task of annihilating Zhao Xin.
Seeing Cheng Cheng's words, Qing Gui immediately said seriously: "I have heard for a long time that the master has great virtues, so I came here specially to ask the master to go to Shuangchengzi to persuade the imperial court to rebel against the bandits and calm down the war."
Chengche smiled slightly and said, "That's exactly what the poor monk means. I wonder when the master of the middle hall wants the poor monk to leave?"
Qinggui said: "Of course the sooner we leave, the better."
Since Qinggui took office in August this year, he ordered people to renovate Ninggu Pagoda and Hunchun's city defenses. At the same time, he took advantage of the Wulin Appreciation Meeting to announce to all parts of the northeast that trade with Zhao Ni was strictly prohibited.
Then, he recruited another 500 Sauron soldiers from the Eight Banners of Butha. In addition to the 3,000 soldiers brought back from Ili by General Jilin Mingliang, Qinggui's Sauron soldiers had increased to 3,500 at this time.
.And this is already the largest number of troops that Dashouwula Yamen can recruit at the moment.
Based on the transcripts of previous interviews with the redeemed Eight Banners generals and armored soldiers, Qinggui finally understood that the Beihai Town muskets could hit farther than the shotguns and were more powerful. In addition, the banging, continuous-fire cannons were the most powerful.
Sharp, whether wearing armor or not, as long as you get hit, you will either die or be maimed!
Are you still playing with bows, arrows and long knives? You haven’t even seen the figure yet, and the opponent will kill you with one shot!
Facing the powerful Beihai Town, Qinggui knew that it would be impossible to let the Sauron soldiers be as untrained in firearms as before. So he submitted a memorial to Qianlong in mid-September, requesting the training of the Sauron Firearms Battalion.
It is proposed that "with bravery and sharp guns, if you are a surprise soldier, you will definitely be able to defeat the enemy."
Qianlong hesitated for a long time, and in October, he finally agreed to Qinggui's request and organized the 3,500 Sauron soldiers into seven firearms battalions and equipped them with flintlock muskets.
Historically, in order to prevent the Sauron tribe's combat effectiveness from rapidly deteriorating, the Qing government did not allow the Sauron soldiers to live together with other troops to avoid laziness. In order to prevent the Sauron soldiers from engaging in agricultural production and reducing their combat effectiveness, the Qing government always based their numbers on the population.
A tax on mink and fox furs is levied; however, once the soldiers are recruited, the head tax on mink furs will be exempted.
(But the weirdest thing has to be Qianlong. In order to maintain the strong will of the Sauron soldiers to fight, he prohibited the Sauron soldiers from using shotguns and could only fight hand-to-hand with armor.)
Although he approved it, Qianlong still disagreed in his heart. In his opinion, military strategy was more important than weapons. Coupled with the generals and soldiers who were loyal to the king, they would be able to conquer everything.
However, in addition to the flintlock rifle, each bird gunner in the Sauron Firearms Camp is also equipped with a waist knife. As for the bayonet that should be equipped, forget about it.
The advantage of the flintlock gun over the matchlock gun is not the rate of fire or faster reloading, but the bayonet and firepower density. The dense line tactics are the reason for the strong firepower of the fusilier unit. In addition, due to the iron smelting of the Qing Dynasty The technology is relatively good and the barrel is well made, which makes the Qing army's matchlock gun more accurate than the flintlock gun.
Until the First Opium War, the only country where the Qing army had encountered the use of line flintlock tactics was Burma; however, even with the help of Britain and France, the strictly trained Burmese army was eventually killed by the Eight Banners cavalry wearing double armor. Throw away your armor.
For example, in the Qing-Burmese War, in the Battle of Awa, the Qing army faced the Burmese cavalry that was trained in European style. The Eight Banners of the Beijing camp used hard bows to kill a man and turned him upside down. The entire army of 4,000 people was wiped out.
Another example is the nine-into-ten chain square formation. Most of the previous opponents could not reach the firepower density of the Qing army. Moreover, Qianlong also imitated the flintlock guns captured from the Junggar battlefield and equipped them to the Tianshan Banner Camp.
It wasn't until Fukang'an crashed into Beihai Town that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties felt that the firepower intensity of the Nine-in-Ten Chain was still not enough. After Fukang'an closed his door to think about his mistakes and ended his hibernation, he personally found the priests from the Orthodox Church Office in Beijing. He asked how to increase the firepower density of the firearm array; and the priests gave him the idea of installing flintlock rifles on a large scale and conducting positional warfare.
However, Fukkangan did not know that for the European armies at the end of the 18th century, the line formation of the fusiliers was not as powerful as the priests said, with strong offensive, impact and defensive capabilities.
It was not until Napoleon stepped onto the European stage ten years later that he coordinated infantry and artillery attacks at the same time, forming a dense firepower network to maximize the lethality and trigger a military change in Europe.
In addition to training troops and building forts, another method Qinggui used was to send spies to investigate Beihai Town's defense and troop deployment. He was able to do this because of General Jilin's bright suggestion.
It is said that Qinggui attaches great importance to the large market opened by Beihai Town in Fuldan City. When he heard that everything was exchanged at Fuldan City Market, and even iron tools could be exchanged for animal skins, he immediately realized that this was When one's heart turns to the key point, if it is missed, it will not reach the navel.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At present, the territory of Beihai Town is still limited to the south of Xingkai Lake and the middle and lower reaches of Suifen River. If even all the ministries in the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang are lured by Zhao Ni with the benefits of cargo colonization, then The Qing court's cuckoo forest could only become a decoration.
Although he had issued a strict order, no one dared to go to Fuldan City in autumn; but when winter came and the mountains were covered with heavy snow, he couldn't control it at all.
He originally wanted to send armor soldiers to severely punish the tribes that had traded with Zhao Ni, such as the Zak Sulu tribe. But Jilin General Mingliang persuaded him that the matter should be slowed down and that he would just send someone to Mucheng next year to preach. You must know that the other side will go, and I will go too. Go! If we don’t take advantage of this moment to find out the details of Zhao Ni, how will we send our troops eastward in the future?
Jilin General Fucha Mingliang was fifty years old. He was a relative of the emperor, Fu Heng's nephew, and cousins with Fukangan. Faced with such a veteran general in the army, Qinggui agreed to his proposal after thinking deeply.
ask.
After that, a large number of Qing army spies went north and mingled with the caravans of various ministries preparing to go to Fuldan City. Those tribes who traveled long distances from the upper reaches of Heilongjiang to Fuldan City for food and salt dared to say "no". The Manchu and Qing Dynasties
The despotic power that is weighing on them is no longer just a day or two, but it is nearly two hundred years!
After finishing all this, Qinggui used another trump card, the religious card. He had long heard of the name of Zen Master Chengcheng of Wuya Temple, who came from the Linji sect of Tongxiu in Yulin.
Now that the imperial court is summoned, or perhaps out of compassion, he wants to calm down the world's swordsmen and invites him personally, I believe that Chengcheng will also come to help.
Qinggui's calculations were very loud. He felt that with a clear path and as long as he worked hard, he would naturally persuade some of Zhao Ni's people to surrender to the imperial court when they arrived at Fuldan City.
And as long as there is a start, there will be more and more loopholes in Beihai Town.