Na Qitai put away his smile and gradually turned into a cold expression. He stared into Zhao Xin's eyes and said, "You also took in Yalha and Serdan?"
"Sir, don't you think it's strange that I call you that? I would like to ask, what did the Yalha family do wrong? He just met me on the island occasionally and exchanged some clothes, salt and iron pot, and you did this Yalha The Ha family was destroyed."
"This matter can be appealed to the court when you are ready to plead guilty."
"I'm sorry. We are not citizens of the Qing Dynasty, so we can't do this."
"In that case, I have two final questions."
"Please tell me. If you can tell me, I will tell you."
"Since you said you are not my Qing people, then where did you come from?"
"We are remnants of the previous dynasty who came back from overseas."
After Na Qitai heard this, his heart suddenly thumped. Just listen to Zhao Xin continue: "This place, including the Xila River, is the hometown of Gandusi, the slave of the Ming Dynasty. As Han people, is there anything wrong with us returning to settle on our own land?"
"Which former dynasty?" The answer to this question is so important to Na Qitai!
"What do you think?" Zhao Xin did not answer directly, but smiled and showed eight teeth.
Na Qitai was so angry at Zhao Xin's rogue tone that he suppressed his anger and asked, "How many of you are there?"
"I'm going to say tens of thousands, but you won't believe it, and of course I don't believe it either. So..." Zhao Xin shrugged and said, "No comment."
Na Qitai couldn't bear it anymore. He stood up suddenly and said to Anthony: "Priest An, let's go!"
"Sir, Deputy Governor, I have a few more words to ask them. Can you wait a moment?"
Na Qitai walked outside the awning and said without looking back, "Then you ask."
Priest Anthony asked Zhao Xin anxiously: "Your Excellency, I would like to know under what conditions you can release my two companions?"
Zhao Xin waved his hand and said: "You can't make the decision on this matter. Let your Irkutsk Governor, Ivan Yakobi, come and talk to me. But I am very curious about your identity. Why are you with them?"
"Your Excellency, I am a member of the Orthodox Church's mission to Beijing." Anthony wondered how this person even knew the name of the Governor of Irkutsk. Could it be that they were former subjects of the empire?
"Oh!" Zhao Xin suddenly remembered. "Do you know Macarius?"
"Oh God! You actually caught him?!"
"Thank us, I brought Father Ma back from a remote desert island to a civilized land."
Anthony said in his heart that I wish I could strangle you to death. If it weren't for you, why would members of our mission be placed under house arrest by the Qing emperor? However, he suppressed his anger and persuaded: "Your Excellency, I might as well inform you clearly that the Qing Empire has gathered tens of thousands of troops in the west. You can't defeat them."
"Oh? I might as well tell you clearly that we are not you, and this is not Yaksa; you were driven out as a group of invaders back then. And we are just returning to our homeland."
This is really a pot that doesn’t need to be opened!
Anthony's face turned blue with anger, but as a monk, he still bowed and begged: "Your Excellency, I have one last request. When you are defeated, do not use my companions as hostages."
Zhao Xin said with a smile: "No problem, this is no big deal."
Na Qitai left full of anger and the news he had found out. By the evening of the next day, Sadaji and Heiji, with four prisoners and one wounded man, finally returned to the Twin Castles. After they saw Liu Sheng, they immediately reported the whereabouts of Elu and the fact that the Qing army sent a large number of scouts to the Xila River.
Zhao Xin was shocked when he heard this. He had to go back and tell Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang about this. He gave Liu Sheng a few instructions and quietly slipped back to modern times while no one was paying attention. I rented a car and drove back to the ice-free port overnight. By late at night, he had appeared in Beihai Town.
At this time, in Beihai Town, Chen Qingsong was already on his way to the Fuljiaha River, where he would take a patrol boat to go north. Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang have already transferred their two battalions to the west bank of the river.
Zhao Xin first went to the office in the south of the square and saw that the lights were still on. Looking closer, Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang were arguing about something inside. When he knocked on the door, both people inside were startled.
"Why are you back? Are you done?"
"What are you fighting for? We just sent away the Manchu surrender group. I came back this time to tell you a situation." Zhao Xin sat down at the table and didn't care whose it was, picked up the cup and drank.
A surrender group? Are you still playing like this?
"Tell me, tell me. What is this ancient method of persuading people to surrender?"
"There's no trick, I just took the opportunity to spy on the news, but I ran away in anger. I'll talk about this later, I'll talk about the important things first. The Qing army sent more than a hundred scouts, divided into a dozen small teams, to Beihai This side of town is coming.”
"That's it?" Wu Siyu disagreed. "We have so many cameras."
"Be careful and you won't make a big mistake. There are many women, old people and children here, and it will be difficult to deal with if something happens. Don't forget, this area is considered the land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, so people are more familiar with the situation in the mountains and forests than we are."
Zhao Liang nodded and said, "Don't worry. I'll make arrangements right away and notify every household and all departments tomorrow morning that they are not allowed to leave the town during this period and are not allowed to go up the mountains or into the woods." After saying that, he went out to look for someone.
Zhao Xin asked curiously: "What were you two arguing about just now?"
Wu Siyu explained: "Teacher Fang has made TNT. What I mean is to make a batch of grenades first..."
"What? TNT has been tinkered with? Teacher Fang is amazing! I'll go over and have a look tomorrow morning."
The next morning, in the chemistry laboratory on the east bank of the river, Zhao Xin, wearing a gas mask and protective clothing, studied the white flake crystals in the beaker for a long time, raised his head and asked Fang Hua: "Teacher Fang, what do you think of this thing?" Is it similar to methamphetamine?"
When Fang Hua heard this, his nose was almost crooked with anger. He rolled his eyes at Zhao Xin and decided not to explain to this chemical idiot.
In fact, there is a big difference between the two. Trinitrotoluene is a white or yellow needle-shaped crystal, while methamphetamine is a white or colorless crystal. The problem is that Zhao Xin doesn't understand. He has only seen the anti-drug propaganda photos in the street bulletin boards.
But Zhao Xin knows one thing: the modern arms industry is an extremely environmentally damaging industry. Water that is contaminated by TNT will turn pink. These pollutants are called "pink water" and the cleanup process is very difficult and expensive. At the same time, TNT is also a carcinogen and cannot be contacted directly.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xin said to Fang Hua: "Teacher Fang, TNT is a carcinogen, and it pollutes the environment when produced. Can we make ammonium nitrate, which can be used as a fertilizer and an industrial explosive? We need it to open mountains and build roads." "
Fang Hua thought about it for a while. Beihai Town's current capacity could not handle this kind of industrial wastewater, so he agreed.
For the current Beihai Town, the main purpose of dynamite is to open mountains and build roads, and it is really not used in other places. In this era, there were neither bunkers to blast nor tanks. If you really need to siege a city or capture a fortress, a few D30s can solve the problem. If that doesn't work, add mortars.
The day after Zhao Xin came back, traces of Qing army scouts were really discovered at the monitoring station. These guys did not jump into the trap set by Beihai Town as soon as they came up, but stayed on the outside for a day. They usually borrow ropes and other tools to climb up a big tree to observe from a distance, and then move on after they feel there is no danger.
However, when these people entered within three kilometers of Beihai Town, most of them could not go back. Wu Siyu specially mobilized three companies, and with the cooperation of the monitoring station, carried out an encirclement and suppression of these Qing army scouts. Henji and Yalha led several big dogs of the Serdan family and led the soldiers to search.
These Qing army scouts who were hiding in the mountains and dense forests were driven out by Beihai Town and had no choice but to choose their way out. In the end, only a few scouts who escaped from the monitoring range of Beihai Town managed to escape with their lives, and then rushed all the way back to Ninggu Tower to report.
Seeing this result, Zhao Xin was very satisfied with the monitoring network he had spent tens of millions of money on.
According to the previous plan, Deng Fei would not be able to return until July. In order to prevent the Qing army from attacking from the sea, Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang built a large number of hidden fortresses and two artillery positions along the dock. Zhao Xin left them some of the newly purchased PKM general machine guns.
It is said that the latest batch of arms purchased by Zhao Xin includes a large part of PKM general-purpose machine guns. If nothing else, it’s cheap! Brand new, priced at $350 each, it is strong and durable; the 7.62×54R bullets it uses can be used interchangeably with SKS.
After checking the situation in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin took the time to have a meal with the eldest lady of the Shen family, and then hurried back to the Twin Castles.
Two days later, Chen Qingsong finally arrived in Fuldan City and took over all the logistics work.
Another day later, Elu and Serdan's father and son rushed back one after another. Zhao Xin summoned Liu Sheng, Wang Yuanfang, Ding Guofeng and others to listen to their situation reports.
After Serdan waited for Elu to finish speaking, he began to say: "When we came back, the number of Qing troops in Hunchun had reached 3,000, all of whom were transferred from Ninggu Pagoda. The other commander-in-chief Fu was there. Three months ago, a large number of officials were sent to inform the villages and tribes in the Heilongjiang and Suifen River basins that we are a group of barbarians from outside the region who have seized the territory."
As soon as Serdan said this, everyone present laughed. He took out his cigarette bag, lit it, and continued: "This is not the most important thing. Every year from May to June, there is the annual Ulin appreciation in Deleng Enmu City. The fees of various departments in Heilongjiang and Wusuli River are The Yaka people, Hezhe people, Xibo people, and Oroqen people all go there to pay the head tax and go back in exchange for grain, rice, and cloth.
According to the information I got, Marshal Fu sent people to Deleng Enmu City in early May. It was said that the ministries were not allowed to have any private contact with us.
In addition, since the beginning of March, he has recruited more than 2,000 people in the Hunchun area, called "retreating barbarians". They are all good hunters from each village. Before I came back, I heard that there were still many people on their way to Hunchun. "
Wang Yuanfang on the side said: "This Fukangan is quite shady. He doesn't let the border people have contact with us, so the border people think we are stupid. Secondly, he recruits the border people to die as soldiers. Even if we win, these border people are against us." We no longer have a good impression of him. It will be even harder to win over him again in the future."
Ding Guofeng interrupted at this time: "Why don't you let Brother Serdan go to various villages to help lobby?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "No. He and Yalha are now on the Qing court's arrest list. Fukang'an definitely didn't have good things to say when he sent people to preach." After he finished speaking, he turned to Serdan and asked: "Really?" What's going on?"
Serdan said solemnly: "When I came back, I took a look at the situation at Karen Station along the way. The 460-mile trail from Hunchun to Karen, Mongolia has now been widened a lot. Two carriages can go side by side. Question. From Mongol Karen to..."
Liu Sheng interrupted: "How far is it from Mongolian Karen to us?"
Seldan didn't even think about it and immediately replied: "Four hundred miles. It has been repaired for almost three hundred miles now."
Zhao Xin asked: "How many people are building roads?"
Serdan said: "There are seven to eight thousand people."
Zhao Xin nodded and then said to everyone: "Now the situation of the Qing army is basically clear. Our A Zhongtang and Marshal Fu have mainly done four things since they came to Jilin. They mobilized troops and built roads. , notify all ministries and send scouts to investigate.”
Liu Sheng added: "There is also persuasion to surrender."
Everyone was happy when they heard it.
"Based on the reports from Serdan and Erlu, it seems that they have the last step left, which is to build the road. A hundred miles, thousands of people will build it, and it will only take a few days. I estimate that the Qing army is already on the way. We It’s time to take action.”
After the meeting, the twin castles started preparations for combat. Each company began pre-war briefings and announced combat missions.
Ding Guofeng's mission was to lead Elu's squad and a battalion of Sheng Haizhou's troops forward fifty miles in the southwest direction to perform battlefield cover tasks and lure the Qing army into preset positions.
Wang Yuanfang's team has the most important task. He will lead Serdan's team, Jiuzang and Huji's two battalions to the west across the Suifen River, and then south to the southern foot of the Mulingwoji Mountains to hide and wait. After the Qing army arrived at the Twin Castles, they quickly crossed the Lat River and occupied the Mongolian Karen Station to the west, cutting off the Qing army's retreat route.
The most critical thing for Wang Yuanfang and the others is to maintain constant communication with the Twin Castles in order to achieve accurate action time. Adequate supplies, a set of radio antennas and a Polaroid PRC-2090 shortwave military radio have become essential items to carry.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng led the remaining three battalions and set up their positions here, waiting for the arrival of Fukang'an's army.
On the tenth day of June, Wukanbei, who had been raised for nearly a year, paid the head tax of a mink skin in Delengenmu City, took the grain, rice and cloth, and boarded the Kailu without hesitation. Yaksa warship heading to Ninggu Pagoda. He was accompanied by seventy Hezhefiaka and Oroqen hunters.
The recruitment order issued by Fukang'an deeply ignited the deep-seated revenge anger in Wukanbei's heart. When officials from the Qing court announced the conscription order, Wukanbei was the first to stand up and respond.
Although the "Oros" entrenched in the Sira River may not be the same group of people who attacked his home, Ukanbe still wants to go. He vowed to use the hard bow in his hand to teach the blue-eyed, high-nosed intruders a lesson and avenge his wife and children.
Poor Ukanbe didn't know that he had the wrong opponent entirely. Zhao Xin, who was thousands of miles away, didn't know that a border resident far away from the Heilongjiang estuary would come to him for "revenge."
When the torrent of war begins to surge, no one knows where they will be swept!
