Chapter 89 Qing troops land on the island
Early the next morning, we had breakfast. Eleven modern members were called together by Zhao Xin and held a meeting.
The entire content of this meeting is to prepare the formation of Beihai Town's guard force.
At the beginning of the meeting, Zhao Xin proposed that as the number of people increases and men, women, old and young mix, it is inevitable that there will be individual people with ulterior motives or spies from the Sendai clan among the refugees. Therefore, the entire Beihai Town must implement military measures at present. management.
The first requirement of militarized management is institutionalization, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, and all the details of the refugees' lives are included.
Chen Qingsong was responsible for drafting this part of the system. After all, he has been engaged in management work for many years, and his writing skills are not even a little better than those of others here.
Wang Yuanfang and Liu Sheng proposed to select 210 people from the more than 4,000 refugees on the first boat; these people would be organized into 24 squads, eight platoons, and two companies together with the 30 original refugees. . Not including the cooking squad, each company has 110 people.
These two companies will serve as the initial guard force of Beihai Town and will be trained by a six-person team from the Security Department.
As for the content of the training plan proposed by the six-person team of the Security Department, it completely copied their own basic training outline during the recruit period. Taking into account the refugees' fragile physical fitness and little knowledge level, the entire training period was changed from ninety days to one hundred and twenty days.
Regarding the recruit training subjects, after a plenary discussion, some adjustments were made to the original training content, from basic physical training to mastering Mandarin, doctrine learning, queue training (individual queues and squad queues), basic tactical movements, rescue and Hygiene, and ultimately weapon handling, these seven parts must be completed.
After the first phase of training for new recruits, the second phase of targeted combat training begins.
And if more than half of the people fail to complete the training cycle after the end of the training cycle, then a second retraining session is necessary. The period of retraining is halved to sixty days. If you still can't complete it after the sixty days, then carry out targeted individual training.
As for those who are really useless or sneaky, Zhao Xin's opinion is to send them to Soulengji Island as supervisors. Nowadays, talents are precious. Even if they are really not good enough, they still have some basic knowledge. It would be a shame to leave it unused.
According to Wang Yuanfang's suggestion, the combat readiness training subjects in recruit training will be moved to the second phase of training.
As for the grenade throwing item, the twelve time travelers unanimously decided to discuss this later.
This thing might kill someone; besides, there are not many grenades at all.
At the end of the meeting, Zhao Xin pointed out to everyone: "The composition of our future military force will be based on the farmers recruited to Shandong next year. The current island country refugees can only be used as temporary supplements in the early stage.
We should not treat these island country refugees as cannon fodder. They are all future residents of Beihai Town. This needs to be clear to everyone.
In the previous ambush battle on Bear Island, although we had deeply buried the eliminated Qing soldiers, there were more than a hundred people after all! Therefore, the Qing army patrolling coastal islands will find out sooner or later. Everyone must maintain the utmost vigilance.
Regarding the local aborigines, I will discuss with Liu Sheng and others individually after the meeting how to deal with them. When you go out to the camp, you must let someone from the security department accompany you. Remember!
At the same time, the Tsarist Russian exploration companies located in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north have made contact with the Matsumae Clan in Hokkaido. Therefore, in our future defense plan, we must take into account the southward movement of the Russians. "
The contact between the Tsarist Russian Exploration Company and the Matsumae Domain of Hokkaido that Zhao Xin mentioned must have started eleven years ago.
In 1773, the second year of the reign of the island nation, a large fur trader named Pavel Rebedov Rastochkin came into contact with the Ezo people from the south through fishing activities in the far northeast. So he keenly felt that the South might still have opportunities to obtain huge profits.
Then, he used his private property and the sponsorship he received from other nobles and businessmen to purchase and equip a warship; and through the recognition of the local commander in Kamchatka, he became a captain of the Tsarist Russian Navy.
In 1778, after the failure of the first two expeditions, Rastochkin's fleet finally successfully sailed to Kunashir Island for the third time. Led by local Ezo guides, they made contact with the Matsumae Domain and started negotiations.
For fear of causing trouble, the Matsumae clan stated that trade issues could only be discussed in Nagasaki, but they would not pilot the other party to Nagasaki.
At this time, Pavel Rebedov Rastochkin owed huge debts and was no longer able to carry out the next expedition. He returned to St. Petersburg and reported the details of his trip to the authorities.
Although this operation placed a heavy debt burden on him personally, it was highly recognized by Catherine II, who believed that this failed operation was a good start for future activities in the Far East.
Since Zhao Xin will take Hong Tao away tomorrow to purchase supplies, before leaving, Zhao Xin designated that in addition to the security department that will continue to be in charge of Liu Sheng, other tasks such as medical care, veterinary medicine, agricultural land reclamation, and camp construction will be handled by Chen Qingsong as the temporary director. Responsible for the relevant personnel deployment will be arranged by him.
The next morning, Zhao Xin left in a hurry with Hong Tao, and they would return in a week.
Also coming back at the same time will be the ten heavy-duty draft horses.
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Time goes back to mid-March of the 49th year of Qianlong's reign.
Emperor Qianlong, who was stationed in Yangzhou, received two memorials from the Military Aircraft Department and Qinggui at the same time.
After reading the two memorials, the seventy-three-year-old Qianlong compared them with each other for a long time, and then called He Shen, who was accompanying him on the southern tour, to inquire carefully.
Subsequently, Qianlong clearly pointed out in the edict sent to the Military Aircraft Department and the Jilin General Mansion: "... Banner residents Yaerha, Serdan and others dared to escape by taking advantage of the opportunity and killed officers and soldiers. The crime was extremely abominable. Two offences." After escaping, he will have to hide along the way, even to Bear Island; or sneak into the mountains and forests, it is not certain. I have sent an order to Qinggui Governor to order the civil and military personnel Bian to seize and seize them, and carry out the law as usual. Don't go far away and slip through the net."
At the end of March, as the mountains of ice on the coast near Hunchun gradually melted, the Qing army's water camp in Hunchun finally began to dispatch.
This time, five large boats (four-plank boats) and three small boats (three-panel boats) were dispatched, carrying a total of 500 armored soldiers. Led by Hunchun Xie Ling Wu Teshan, they landed on Xiong Island.
Each of these five large boats carried one bronze cannon and two odd cannons; the small boats carried only one odd cannon.
In mid-April, Tuoketonga, who had been camping across the Xiongdao Strait for more than a month, received a letter from Hunchun in advance. According to the agreed time, he took a dozen small fishing boats recruited and carried armored fishing boats. Two hundred soldiers landed on Bear Island in batches. The landing times of the two teams differed by only two days.
So far, 700 Qing troops have gathered on Bear Island, which covers an area of less than 100 square kilometers.
Putting aside the haunted Wuteshan, Tuoketong'a, who was sent from the Jilin General's Mansion, believed that under the encirclement and suppression by such a powerful force, the fugitives on Bear Island would not be able to escape!
Ninggu Pagoda, which is six hundred miles away, and Jilin General's Mansion, which is thousands of miles away, are both anxiously waiting for the Hunchun investigation report.
As soon as these Qing troops landed, regardless of fatigue, under the leadership of the leaders of each team, they began a large-scale search of the entire island from the west and north, east and south.
First, after crossing the strait, Tokotonga's team found two destroyed wooden houses in the woodland south of the beach.
Through the analysis of some traces left in the wooden house, at least ten people once lived here.
Immediately afterwards, in the afternoon of the same day, a group of Qing soldiers under the command of Wu Teshan searched southward and discovered the site left behind after large-scale logging on the southwest side of Bear Island.
The leader who led the search team looked at the vast expanse of tree stumps left behind after logging, and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
How many people would it take to do this!
The leader did not rush to lead the team south to continue the search. Instead, he dismounted and carefully inspected the wooden piles and counted the number of felled trees.
These Qing troops discovered that almost all the felled tree stumps had been sawed off, except for ax marks. Moreover, the cuts on many tree stumps that can only be hugged by two people are smooth, indicating that these large trees were sawed off at once! It was obvious that these people who cut trees were not only equipped with axes, but also with very sharp saws.
All findings prove that these people on the island had a large amount of high-quality iron tools. The leader of the team speculated that these unknown people must also be equipped with weapons of good quality.
The Qing troops did not dare to go any further to continue the search, but immediately went back to report to the Xie Ling Wu Te Mountain. After Wu Teshan heard this, he was also secretly frightened. But even so, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately gathered his troops and continued the search to the southwest.
In the evening, a fan-shaped search of part of Mount Ute finally found traces of large-scale camping in the narrow strip of land on the southwest side of Bear Island.
Because the size of the camp previously arranged by Zhao Xin was a square with a side length of two hundred meters, and some not-so-deep trenches were dug outside the explosion-proof wall. So even though we cleaned up during the evacuation, there were still a lot of traces left behind.
Wu Teshan looked at the ruins of the camp in front of him in surprise, his hands going numb. How many people have lived here? !
The Qing soldiers dug around in the grass with knives or guns, trying to find more clues. The search continued until dark, and the Qing soldiers with torches could no longer see clearly, so they stopped.
The cautious Wuteshan did not dare to camp independently. He had already sent sentries to look for Tuoketong'a. After getting in touch with the other party, Wu Teshan decided to cooperate.
After the two teams met, they spent the night in fear and continued their search the next day.
After checking back and forth for several days, Wu Teshan and Toktonga finally confirmed that all the people on the island had disappeared.
However, the results of the search still shocked them. Judging by the felled trees and the size of the abandoned camp, at least three hundred people once lived here.
But where did those people from Tomohogo go?
(End of chapter)
