The day after arriving in Wula, Jilin, Fukang'an, Hailancha and Duerjia interrogated An Lin and Woteshan in the second hall of the office.
Just An Lin, Fukangan didn't even bother to talk to such a person. Durga was the one asking questions throughout the whole process. Basically nothing useful was asked.
When the shackled Ute came up, the atmosphere in the hall changed.
"The sinner Wu Teshan knocks to see Commander Fu, knocks to the Navy Gate, and knocks to General Feng En."
"Wote Mountain, you know your sin!"
"The slave is guilty! The slave has betrayed the emperor's trust. The crime is that he underestimated the enemy, and the crime is that he neglected his duties."
Fukang'an said calmly: "Tell me clearly the whole story. If you dare to miss a word, please think carefully."
"I don't dare to deceive you even a little bit." Wu Teshan then started to talk from the beginning, and it took an hour to finish.
Fukang'an closed his eyes and listened as if he was concentrating. He pondered for a moment before asking, "Where are the short boots that Yalha and the village chief changed?"
"The slave later went to the village of Yarha to search, and the village chief gave the pair of boots to the slave. The slave didn't know anything about it after he was accused and imprisoned."
At this time, Durga said quickly: "This is the evidence of the Qin case and has been collected." After saying that, he asked Goshiha to get it.
Not long after, the pair of black short boots as evidence were placed on a tray and presented.
Fukang'an felt it was dirty, so he just covered his nose with a handkerchief and asked Nagoshhati to watch it closely. He looked at it for a while and then said to Goshiha: "Go find some water, remove all the dirt on the shoes, and wash the soles as well."
Geshiha went down with his muddy shoes, while Fukangan returned to his seat and sighed to the kneeling Wu Teshan: "I have no right to deal with your matter. I'll just wait for the emperor's decree. It's just a neglect." The four words "errand" can never go away!"
In his opinion, Wu Teshan was really unlucky, and his subordinates were implicated in their incompetence. But Tuomohuoguo is dead, so he can only be allowed to top the tank.
As soon as he finished speaking, the shoe-washer outside the hall, Goshiha, ran in excitedly with his shoes in hand, knelt down and said: Marshal! There are words on the soles! "
As soon as Fukangan and the other three heard this, they quickly stood up and walked down the hall.
As soon as Nagoshha saw it, he quickly lifted up his shoes and turned the cleaned soles upwards.
"Oil, field, specialization, use?"
The three of them looked up at each other, looking at each other.
Hailancha asked in confusion: "Commander, I understand the word 'special', but what does the word 'oil field' mean?"
Fukangan also looked confused.
Duerjia patted her head and said, "Is it possible that the owner of the shoes is called 'Oil Field Expert'?"
Fukang'an frowned and recalled it, and after a while he calmly chanted: "In order to repay the flowers, I will be less melancholy, and I will live up to you in this life."
ah? Hailancha and Duerjia were stunned. Why did the commander recite a poem?
Fukang'an explained: "The person who wrote this poem is called You Wei, which is exactly the oil of three points of water."
Duerjia looked very excited after hearing this. She, a big boss, actually guessed it right.
However, who is this "oil field expert"?
Fukangan looked over and over again for a long time, and then asked Hai and Du, "Don't you see anything from these shoes?"
How could Hailancha and Duerjia understand this? They had no problem at all with killing people with knives. Seeing the commander asking questions, both of them shook their heads.
Fukang'an took a warrant from the big case, pulled the shoe and said: "Look at the upper of this boot, it is made of fine cowhide. Look at the stitching, it is dense and neat. In addition to the tribute , I have never seen such workmanship. As for the soles of these shoes, I have never seen such a thick tendon base."
"But..." He pointed with his order to a label with red characters on a black background on the side of the shoe. After thinking for a while, he said, "This character looks like English writing."
Hailancha was stunned. The Oros hadn't been found yet, so why did an Englishman show up again? Is this "oil field expert" still a foreigner?
"Commander, do you think you should report this to the emperor..."
"I don't think it's urgent. Just a few words are not enough. Let's report it. The emperor should be anxious again."
Fukang'an nodded in approval and said: "Durga is right. These few words alone cannot prove anything and make the people in the court suspicious for no reason. It is better to wait a few days and find the Oros people."
As the saying goes, if Zhao Xin knew that the labor protection shoes he bought could allow Fukang'an to see so many problems, he would have destroyed the words and labels on the soles; as for the stitches, there is really no way to destroy them. You can't give someone a bunch of scraps of leather and a thick sole, and then tell them, "Please go back and sew it yourself."
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Three days later, Fu Ankang and Hailancha reviewed the Jilin General's Mansion garrison at the school grounds outside the city.
At this time, a total of 1,818 Eight Banners Manchu soldiers were stationed inside and outside Jilin City, 350 Eight Banners Mongol Barhu soldiers, 60 Xibo soldiers, 120 Han soldiers, 288 internal leaders, 80 forwards, 2,732 heroic cavalry, and Han army shotgun leaders. 48 people were urged and 626 were shotguns and knights.
It is said that since Qianlong succeeded to the throne, the Manchu and Qing armies have been equipped with a large number of firearms, but their performance is not as advanced as that of Western armies. Compared with the British Army in the same period, the gap is not as big as imagined.
After the Manchus entered the customs and reached the Kangxi era, the army's combat mode generally used artillery to open the way first; after the artillery attack, the cavalry and infantry began to charge.
However, with the large-scale use of troops in the northwest and southwest, now, the Manchu army has been equipped with various types of blunderbuss, guns and artillery. According to later statistics, about one-third of the Manchu Qing troops used firearms, but the inland green battalion troops who accounted for the vast majority still used cold weapons to fight.
During the Second Battle of Jinchuan and Jinchuan, the battle to pacify Huojizhan in the northwest, and the battle against the Burmese invasion, the Manchu and Qing troops' combat methods had undergone fundamental changes, and large-scale firearms exchanges had become the norm.
In the nearly fifty years since Qianlong took the throne, the senior Qing generals led by Fu Heng, Zhaohui, Agui, and Fukang'an were not fools. Among them, a considerable number of the troops led by Zhaohui and Fukang'an were All were equipped with artillery imported from Britain.
Especially Fukang'an, who was assigned by Qianlong to try imperial cases in Guangdong before heading north this time. During this period, the direct gap between the Qing Dynasty and Western firearms was already noticed. After he came back, he suggested to Qianlong to upgrade firearms.
However, the elderly Qianlong was most worried about the leakage of firearms to the people, which would then affect the Manchu rule, so the matter was ultimately left unsolved.
At this time, the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners outside the Pass were guarding the border, especially because the Qing government often recruited Sauron troops to fight, so their bravery had not subsided.
After the grand review, Fukang'an specially inspected the Han army's gun cavalry; Hailancha's focus was on the forwards and Xibo soldiers. This "forward" was the Bajala white-armored soldiers before the Manchus entered the customs.
When the Eight Banners Han Army fired their cannons, the school grounds were filled with smoke and gunshots were heard loudly. Fukang'an saw that the cannon soldiers were heavily arrayed and fired several times without any chaos, so he couldn't help but nod in approval.
After the firecrackers came the artillery demonstration. The guns of the local Han army's artillery troops were mostly odd cannons (large guns), majestic cannons, and double-jet cannons.
After the local artillery unit in Jilin completed the drill, the generals brought by Fukang'an from the Beijing Firearms Battalion fired successively including victory artillery, nine-section ten-percent artillery, and red-coat artillery.
Among these artillery pieces, the most advanced is the "Nine Sections and 100% Cannon". This cannon is divided into nine sections, plus a section at the bottom of the cannon, all made of bronze, with screws on each section. The gun is six feet nine inches long and the entire gun weighs 798 kilograms.
During marching, all sections of the gun body can be unscrewed and transported separately; during combat, they can be quickly installed on the gun carriage; in the middle of the gun carriage, a rotating rod is also installed to adjust the height of the muzzle.
Fukang'an was very satisfied with Jilin's firearms garrison. He only said one word, "Reward!"
After hearing this, all the Eight Banners soldiers in the whole school burst into cheers. Everyone heard that Commander Fu was generous, so after thanking the emperor for his kindness, everyone shouted in unison, "Commander Fu will be a prince forever!"
Two days later, Fukang'an sent an imperial envoy to the garrison in Jilin and mobilized 550 Eight Banners and Han Army shotguns and valiant cavalry, 50 forwards and 1,200 Eight Banners valiant cavalry to sail north along the Songhua River to inspect the border wall. It is also one of his tasks as an imperial envoy.
The border wall in the northern part of Jilin is not the national border of the Qing Dynasty, but the dividing line with the Mongolian "Gorros Front Banner". The main purpose of its establishment is to prevent people from entering Jilin from Mongolian territory to poach, poach ginseng, and smuggle fur goods.
There are four side gates on the side wall of the entire Jilin General Mansion defense area, starting from Bayan'e Fulomen in the south of the Tuoerni River, a tributary of the Songhua River, in the east, and ending at the Weiyuan Fort Gate in Bultukuxi in the west, with a total length of 622 miles. The side wall is made of pine wood, four feet and five inches high. A trench is dug outside the fence, one foot wide and one foot deep.
For more than ten days after that, Hunchun and Ningguta reported every two days, but there was no news.
Fukang'an was impatient with nothing to do all day long in Jilin City. He received copies of edicts from the Military Aircraft Department and memorials from various places. At this time, the Hui rebellion in Gansu had already occurred.
The Hui rebellion in Guyuan and Tongwei, Gansu occurred on April 15th, and its leader was Tian Wu, an imam of the Fuqiang Protestant Church. The slogan of the Huijun uprising claimed to be revenge for Ma Mingxin, the imam of the "Zhehe Renye Sect" who was beheaded in the 46th year of Qianlong's reign.
The newspaper copy also mentioned that Xi'an Deputy Governor Mingshan had led his army to suppress the rebellion, but Fu Kang'an knew that Mingshan was an idiot, and Bubai was the one who saw the ghost.
Seeing that a war in the northwest is imminent. Fukang'an finally decided to personally lead his troops south, and in the name of inspection, rushed to Ninggu Tower to take charge.
At the end of May, I just arrived at Ninggu Pagoda. Before his butt was even hot from sitting, Fukangan received an urgent report from Hunchun. He quickly called for Hailancha and his generals to hold a military meeting.
Hailancha rushed back to the camp inside the city from outside Ningguta City. As soon as he entered the commander's tent, he asked loudly: "Commander, I heard that I found it?"
"Found it! It's at the mouth of the Xila River! Hunchun's navy passed Solenji Island and headed east, and saw the boat from a long way away!"
Fukang'an pointed to the location of the mouth of the Xila River on the wooden map in the commander's tent, and said: "This place is covered with dense forests and crisscrossed by river branches. The ship is parked in the bay near the mouth of the river. The report from the Hunchun Navy said, The ship was blue and white in color. It was huge and had never been seen before. However, they only saw two white masts and no sails. I guess the ship was damaged and docked, and the Oros people were going to land to cut wood and repair it. .They won’t be able to leave for a while!”
"Commander, please tell us what to do!"
Fukang'an said solemnly: "Don't worry, the investigation news from the land has not come back yet. It is not clear whether Yarha and Serdan are with these people. I will write a troop deployment order later. , add an imperial envoy defense and let the North Korean navy dispatch."
"North Korea?" Hailancha and the generals were stunned.
"We have the North Korean Navy waiting for orders around Solenji Island to block the group's retreat at any time. When the news from the land arrives, you can lead the army over the land. Let's conduct an amphibious attack and encirclement to completely eliminate the enemy. Destroy these people!"
"The handsome and wise man!"
(End of chapter)
