With the return of Wang Yuanfang and the others, the four generals of the Security Department held a Zhuge Liang meeting behind closed doors for a whole day.
After listening to Liu Sheng's detailed description of the last battle, the three of them first expressed their envy and hatred. However, considering the unexpected situation when the Serdan family suddenly came to the island and the Qing soldiers followed closely, the three of them expressed their envy and hatred.
I can only express my understanding and hope not to miss the next time.
Before Zhao Xin left, he told Liu Sheng that according to the previous agreement with Daniel, the delivery of the goods would be in mid-February. In response to this situation, Liu Sheng requested that routine target training be stopped to reduce bullet consumption.
At the same time, the observation post in the northern part of Bear Island has been repaired. Currently, Lu Shoushan, Pan Xiucheng, Elu, and Sheng Haizhou are on duty in groups of four. After all, there are a lot of horses now, so that if there is a situation, they can pass the news
Also very convenient.
Liu Sheng said: "The four of us also have to participate in the observation post duty. Before Zhao Xin comes back, we will take turns to arrange the shifts, each of us for one day."
The other three nodded in agreement.
Wu Siyu proposed to organize manpower to start a comprehensive investigation of the southern part of Bear Island and pay attention to the icing situation on the ocean surface. After all, it is almost the end of February in the Gregorian calendar, and in another fifteen to twenty days, the seawater freezing period will end. Liu
Sheng decided to transfer Lu Shoushan and put him and Hengji, who was familiar with the local situation, in charge of this matter.
"Hey? Liu Sheng, what are you going to do with the dozen Qing soldiers you captured last time?" Zhao Liang suddenly remembered that there were still a dozen Qing soldiers imprisoned in a corner of the camp.
"Zhao Xin said that Chun'er took him to that or something, oh, Soulengji Island to dig for gold and work as a coolie." Liu Sheng said.
Speaking of the dozen Qing soldiers captured after the last battle, they are currently locked in wooden cages on the northwest side of the camp, one for each person. Due to the sufficient wood, the carpenters in the camp completed a dozen heights in one day
It was only a 1.5-meter wooden cage. At this height, the armored soldiers could only bow their heads and bend down if they wanted to stand up inside. It would be very uncomfortable to stand for a long time, so they could only sit.
A dozen wooden cages formed a circle, and a bonfire was lit in the middle to prevent these prisoners from freezing to death. However, a bonfire could only ensure that these people would not freeze to death. The so-called "fire warms the chest"
"The wind blows and the back is cold." After a few days, most of the prisoners suffered from frostbite.
Seeing this situation, Liu Sheng asked Li Ji to take cotton-padded clothes and distribute them to them.
As a result, in the following days, the prisoners who were well fed and clothed saw that the refugees who were guarding them were short, not strong, and looked honest and honest. So the fear at the beginning gradually became arrogant, and from time to time they became arrogant.
He yelled and cursed those refugees from the island country.
The problem is that except for Lu Shoushan and Pan Xiucheng, no one among the refugees understands Manchu. At first, everyone watched with interest, but later no one paid attention to it.
Pan Xiucheng came back from duty at the observation post one day and happened to hear the prisoners scolding him again.
He and Lu Shoushan had been enslaved by these armored men in Ninggu Pagoda for many years, and they had already gritted their teeth with hatred. So he walked to the wooden cage and glanced coldly at a few prisoners who were still cursing without saying a word.
, he took a wooden spear from the hand of a refugee who was responsible for guarding it, and stabbed it hard through the wooden cage with the unsharpened end.
Before Zhao Xin left, he told everyone that since these people have been captured, they should not kill them randomly. They are all for building physical strength, and it is always good to keep them to dig for gold.
Pan Xiucheng thought about the suffering and torture he had suffered over the years, and his attacks became even more insignificant. The space in the wooden cage was not big to begin with, so the cursed prisoners were in dire straits.
Even his front teeth were knocked out. In the end, he could only huddle in the cage with his head in his hands, using his back to bear Pan Xiucheng's anger.
After hearing the news, Liu Sheng and Sheng Haizhou did not immediately step forward to stop him. Instead, they watched for a while before slowly walking over and shouting to stop Pan Xiucheng.
The one the beaten prisoners saw was one of the two big leaders they saw after the surrender that day. And next to the big leader was the little man who cut off his companion's arm with a knife. In the spirit of a good man, he will not eat.
Principles who were suffering a loss in front of them all kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Liu Sheng asked Sheng Haizhou to ask the refugees in charge of the guards who were making trouble. The guard didn't understand Manchu, so he didn't know who was cursing, so he identified all the prisoners who had shouted loudly.
Liu Sheng ordered that since these people have the strength to curse in the street, they should starve them for two days first. When they become honest, they will be given food.
Two days later, Liu Sheng saw that the prisoners who had been stripped of their cotton armor were hungry and freezing, so he asked the women in the kitchen to bring some rice balls with salt.
After Liu Siting and Director Liu Da arrived, they saw these prisoners of the Qing soldiers with bruises on their noses and swollen faces, and were covered with chilblains. They immediately felt sympathy. So they took Hong Tao to find Zhao Xin and demanded that these people be released and treated.
Zhao Xin did not give in at all on this matter. He sneered and said to the two of them that these people are afraid of power but not moral. They only believe in violence and coercion and do not know how to appreciate kindness. Now if you are too nice to them, you will get kicked in the nose.
Face. The angry Liu Siting continued to argue, but was pulled away by Hong Tao.
As a result, these prisoners of the Qing soldiers continued to live in prison without knowing the way forward, hoping that the leader of Hunchun would send troops to rescue them.
On the Hunchun side, since the more than 100 armored soldiers led by Tuomo Huoguo disappeared without a trace, Hunchun assisted Ute Mountain to march 600 miles away on the 22nd and 27th of the first lunar month.
Ning Guta once again sent an emergency report, reporting the situation and requesting military support from Ning Guta.
There are only three of the eight garrison banners in Hunchun City, namely Xianghuang, Zhenghuang and Zhengbai. Most of the troops of Xianghuang Banner were taken away by Tuomohuoguo and have not returned yet. The whereabouts of more than a quarter of the garrison troops are unknown.
, making Ute Mountain feel like sitting on pins and needles all day long.
At this time, he could no longer care about the family members with yellow flags who came to the house and made noise every day.
On the 22nd of the first lunar month, he sent four ten-man teams from the Zhenghuang Banner to search the northeastern area in different directions. Five days later, there was still no news.
What Ute Mountain could foresee was that if something unexpected happened to Tomo Huoguo and his team, he, as his direct superior, would be blamed. Under such pressure, Ute Mountain no longer dared to send out a large team of people to search for them.
, he could only ask for support from Ningguta’s deputy capital Tong Anlin.
After Ninggu Pagoda, six hundred miles away from Hunchun City, received successive urgent reports from Hunchun, Deputy Commander Anlin also felt that something was wrong with Hunchun and that something big might happen. He immediately reported to Six Hundred
Thirty miles away, the Jilin General Mansion sent an urgent report, requesting that 300 cavalry soldiers be sent from Ningguta to Hunchun (Note 1) to find out the truth of the matter.
Two days later, Qinggui, who was in Jilin Wula (Jilin General's Mansion), after listening to his staff report Ning Guta's submission, also had a premonition that the situation was serious, so he ordered his staff to send a message to Ning Guta and Hunchun on his behalf, agreeing.
In response to Ning Guta's request, he sent a letter to Wenning Guta and Hunchun, ordering them to report at any time the progress of the investigation into the whereabouts of the yellow flag in Hunchun.
Afterwards, Jilin General Qinggui activated the "Flying Six Hundred Miles Express" (Note 2), and reported the situation to the Ministry of War in the capital, 2,300 miles away, through the Northeast Road Station system.
So, starting from the 25th of the first lunar month, the exchanges of letters, messages, and messages between Jilin Wula, Ningguta, and Hunchun became more and more frequent. Many people's eyes were attracted by this matter, even those in Shengjing.
They all began to discuss this matter privately (Note 3).
In early February of the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, a sentry team responsible for searching for Tomohuoguo's whereabouts finally arrived at the small fishing village across the Xiongdao Strait.
At this time, among the several villagers in the fishing village, two of them had guessed some clues before and were so frightened that they packed up their belongings and moved away. The remaining three families all had elderly people and children, so it was not convenient for them to leave in the winter.
No matter how the soldiers asked these three fishermen, they all said that Master Zuoling heard people shouting and shouting from the military camp outside the village that night after he landed on Bear Island, and no one from each family dared to come out. But early the next morning, Zuoling
The leader then led the team and set off. As for where they went, who knows?
Two days later, another team of sentry riders also arrived at the fishing village guided by clues.
After exchanging clues with each other, the leaders of the two sentinel teams agreed that there was something strange on the Bear Island across the strait. Inquiries from fishermen showed that no one had ever seen Tomohogo come from a bear.
Returning from the island, the so-called departure of the brigade was all guessed by the fishermen from the movements at night.
The two of them did not dare to slack off and took their men to the southernmost point of the cape. They looked at the situation on Bear Island across the ice. After looking for a long time but there was no sign, a leader suggested that he lead the team to Bear Island.
Check it out and return within half a day; if you don't find anything, you have to look elsewhere.
As a result, there was no news about this ten-man team after they landed on Bear Island.
Another team leader who had been waiting for a day on the other side of the strait finally decided that the strange thing was on Bear Island after not seeing his companion come back. Looking at the densely forested island that was once uninhabited and only inhabited by bears, the team leader
The leader felt chills all over his body and his heartbeat quickened. It seemed that there was a man-eating beast or a devil lurking on the island, with his mouth wide open, waiting for him to come to his door.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he did not dare to stay for a second longer. Then he led his team to leave here overnight and hurried back to Hunchun, preparing to report to the leader.
In the woods in the northern part of Bear Island, Wang Yuanfang, commanding Pan Xiucheng, Elu and a group of islanders, had finished cleaning the battlefield and were now arranging to transfer the captured horses and the bodies of the Qing soldiers. Zhao Liang and Wu Siyu were holding the Qing army's
The standard weapons looked strange. In this small-scale battle, the three of them finally caught up.
Liu Sheng, who came later, felt relieved after asking about the bullet consumption this time. However, he was worried that if the Qing soldiers came with another hundred and eighty people, the four generals of the security department would have to be replaced by archers.
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(Note 1: In the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, the garrison strength of the Eight Banners in Ningguta was as follows: the deputy capital unified people, two assistant leaders, thirteen assistant leaders, twelve defenders, twelve knight cavalrymen, and two commissioned knight cavalrymen.
Twelve people, four people in the writing style, four people in the commissioning style, four people in the commissioning department, one person in charge of the warehouse, two people in the warehouse style, two assistant instructors, three people in the station style,
The Eight Banners Manchu leader has 104 troops, 40 forwards, 1,256 knights, 24 bowsmiths and blacksmiths, and one official camp leader.)
(Note 2: When it comes to "Fei Zhe", we must first mention the postal system of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty's Ministry of War established the Chai Jia Qing Li Division, which was in charge of the country's horse administration and postal system. Seven officials were appointed to take charge of the country's post roads.
Post station. At the same time, two specialized agencies were set up near the Donghua Gate of the imperial palace. The Manchu and Han ministers jointly managed the capital and post offices in various places. Post men, post horses and victory reporting offices were also set up to send and receive official documents and military intelligence.
Before the Qing Dynasty, the post system of each dynasty could travel up to four hundred or five hundred miles a day and night; while the Qing Dynasty's horse delivery system could travel up to six hundred to eight hundred miles a day and night at the fastest.
When Kangxi put down the rebellion of the three feudal lords, the distance from the northwest to the capital was more than 5,000 miles, and it only took nine days to reach the capital by Kuai Ma Communication. Later, when Kangxi sent Shi Lang to regain Taiwan, the land distance also reached more than 4,800 miles. Similarly,
The information will be delivered to Kangxi's case within nine days.)
(Note 3: Shengjing was the final hub of the Northeast Road post station system in the Qing Dynasty. All memorials and messages from the area north of Shengjing to the capital had to pass through here.)