Will the Qing army come yet? When will it come?
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, and hundreds of mosquito-killing lamps deployed in Fuldan City and the military camp area all went out. Caught off guard, everyone was covered in mosquito bites.
At this time, Liu Sheng was applying cooling oil on his forehead. This guy got a lot of mosquito bites on his forehead last night. When he got up in the morning, he looked like a rhinoceros.
And Zhao Xin, because he has been busy restocking weapons and ammunition in two time and space recently, he forgot to replenish fuel. So he started pouring diesel back and forth early in the morning; by noon, he finally got the two generators running again.
This incident made Zhao Xin very angry. In order to cope with the Qing army's attack, many internal affairs plans this year have all come to nothing! The oil development of Kuye Island, the issuance of new coins, the migration of refugees from Henan to the north, the transportation of coal from Ezo, and the land reclamation of Pingyuan Town, etc. Originally, Zhao Xin wanted to use some matches to open up markets in the south of the Yangtze River. Now it's 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 well. In an exploration team sent out a few days ago, two peasants and a horse got stuck in the swamp and could not be rescued. So the exploration team turned back to replenish supplies, planning 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 hundreds of animals.
According to Baman Gong, who serves as the guide, in the summer here, the plains are covered with swamps; in Manchu, these unfathomable swamps are called "Hatang". The most terrifying thing among them is the grassland with red puddles. The locals call this "red rusty water". When people and horses pass by, they have to step on the grass puddles. If they take a wrong step, they will fall in. Save everyone. Can't be saved. Judging from this situation, if you want to open up wasteland for farming here in the future, you will have to build canals to drain the water in the swamp.
"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 hit me with this big bump on my head, you still have to get a piece of land in Jiangnan." Liu Sheng said, pointing to the big bump on his head. Now I have him apply cooling oil and he looks shiny. This will affect his image too much when he goes out.
"Actually, the place in Ninggutana is quite good. As long as we can occupy 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 Go down the river, occupy Jilin City, and threaten Shengjing."
"I see what you want most is the workforce there."
"That's~ in this land of barren mountains and ridges, that's a big city."
The two of them were in poverty when 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 30 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 number of the headquarters in Jurgen City was connected to ten surrounding checkpoints. In addition, telephone lines were also laid out in Fuldan City and throughout the forward positions.
Zhao Xin was stunned after hearing this. Checkpoint A1 was located four kilometers south of Jurgen City, right on the edge of the Suifen River. I heard another shout on the phone: "Chief, we are a little short of 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 moving forward! I'll send someone over immediately!"
"yes!"
Zhao Xin put down the phone and shouted toward the door: "Jiuzang! Come in."
"Here!" Jiuzang opened the door and came in. He was the officer on duty today, and he was originally supposed to be at the headquarters, but when Zhao Xin arrived, he was asked to stay at the door.
Zhao Xin drafted an order at his desk, signed it himself, and handed it to Jiuzang. "Immediately send a platoon to checkpoint A1. Our patrol boat stopped two Qing army ships. They were kept under surveillance. They are not allowed to withdraw without my order."
"yes!"
When Liu Sheng heard this, he stopped covering his forehead and stood up quickly and asked, "What happened?"
"A-1 checkpoint reported that two wooden boats of the Qing army came 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: "Persuaded to surrender."
"Persuading you to surrender?" Liu Sheng was a little confused. We haven't even started fighting yet, but someone is trying to persuade him to surrender? As a former modern soldier, he still cannot understand the routines of the ancients.
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 could spy on our true and false status. Besides, fighting in ancient times does not mean that it must be a life-and-death fight. If we really want to take action, 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 that Baman Gong said before that it will start to rain in this area in July, the first snow will come in August, and the river will be covered with ice in September. That Fukang'an He and Agui were both scheming masters, not to mention Qianlong.
According to my estimation, famine is currently occurring in various parts of the Central Plains. The scale of this drought is unprecedented, and the Qing government cannot bear it, so it should make a quick decision. Besides, we killed Hailancha before, and the Qing court still doesn’t even know who we are. Didn't Shen Jingdan say it before, the Qing court's edict thought that 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 is the Qing-Burma War. However, the situation at that time was mainly due to the excessive non-combat attrition caused by the climate, water and soil, and the soldiers were seriously war-weary. The northerners were not adapted to the tropical climate of Myanmar at all. Even Fu Heng, a bachelor of economics and strategic science, could not afford to fall ill, and died not long after returning to Beijing. ; and then Xiaojinchuan rebelled again at that time. 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 identity. 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 the opponent. Unfortunately, he neither dared nor could.
Not to mention that this gray strange ship was obviously much larger than his Lu ship, the short-barreled iron cannon on the top of the other ship was really powerful. Not to mention the ability to fire continuously, the power was so powerful that Qitai had never seen it before. Even the muskets on the bow of his own boat were knocked off and fell into the water. It 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, he just can’t!
Seeing the black muzzle pointed at them, the members of the surrender group on the boat lost the courage to resist. Everyone felt their throats were dry and their legs were weak. While Na Qitai was panicked, he was also quite strange in his heart. The people on the gray boat just now 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 was most worried about was that this place was very close to the city of Fuldan, so it might be a disaster.
At this time, a personal guard, Geshha, 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!”
Goshiha was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed in apology. Na Qitai said coldly: "Go and ask them what they want to do? They don't let us turn around and don't let us land. What do they mean?"
Nagoshha walked to the bow of the ship, put his hands to his mouth and shouted at the patrol boat: "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 awning, and saw dozens more people holding bird guns running out from the woods on the north bank of the river, all wearing colorful short clothes. These people rushed to the river bank quickly and pointed their blunderbuss at themselves. Another person shouted loudly: "People on the wooden boat, get off the boat!"
After waiting for half an hour, the two boats finally docked, when Na Qitai was helped off the gangplank by his men. He held up his official hat, adjusted his official robes, and said with a serious face to the person who just called them to disembark: "Who on earth dare to intercept an 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, I don't recognize it."
"You!" Na Qitai said angrily, his nose almost crooked with anger, "Who are you?"
"Didn't you say you were going to the Xila River to persuade us 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 suspicion 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 a slut for 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 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 will wait here!"
A quarter of an hour later, a dozen migrant workers from Beihai Town arrived leading two carriages. They first found an open space, used tools to clear a flat space, and then began to unload things from the carriage. These people first 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. Then they saw that the tables and chairs were all made of logs. They said with disdain in their hearts: "Barbarians from outside the territory, they are so vulgar!"
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 behind him, who shook his head and said 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 was considered a strong man, and he was only as high as the opponent's shoulders.
"Wait a minute!" Yachiro stretched out his hand to stop him. "You can only bring one person with you."
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 are just a bunch of barbarians who don't know how to live or die! He motioned for the others to wait here, called Anthony and walked 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. The priest Anthony at the back said: "This is the deputy envoy this time, the priest of the Oros Kingdom, Anthony."
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?"
"It's a joke, what I brought is the emperor's oral instructions."
"Oh, you can say whatever you want about co-writing."
"You, you have no regard for the emperor's constitution, you are too presumptuous!"
Liu Sheng sneered and said disdainfully: "We beat Fukangan and Hailancha to death. Do you still think we should be afraid of you?"
Qitai was so blocked that he couldn't speak. Why didn't he say anything subtle in his heart?
Seeing this, Priest Anthony hurriedly said: "You two, we want to talk to your big boss. As a fellow countryman, 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. His name is Liu Sheng, and he is my deputy."
"Oh?" Na Qitai raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhao Xinda: "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 talked nonsense to make the other party confused.
"Uh, my last name is..." 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 what he said. 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 people?"
"I caught a few from the north, and they stank."
"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's family and Shouma."
"The thin horse was snatched by the Mumen, and the Wang family Mumen really don't know it." Zhao Xin continued to pretend to be 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 resentment in his heart. Who on earth made the emperor and a group of adults at the military aircraft department think that their opponents would be a group of Oros? ! He looked askance at Zhao Xin, thinking to himself that this guy might just come from Beijing and he was 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 the Messenger of God?"
Liu Sheng on the side suddenly said angrily: "Bullshit messenger! Who allowed you to build a church on 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 other people's 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 a sign of the cross.
