Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 283

In November, although the mountains were covered by heavy snow, there were still border tribes who came to Fuldan City to trade after the snow stopped.

From the mouths of some border residents, Liu Sheng learned that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had reorganized the city and built camps in Ningguta and Hunchun.

When the news was sent back to Beihai Town, Zhao Xinxin said that the Manchus were treating Beihai Town as the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" and that they had blocked and besieged Beihai Town!He immediately ordered Seldan to lead the reconnaissance team to set off, and after arriving at the Mongolian River Military Station, wait for the opportunity to reconnaissance to Hunchun City.

In a room serving as a combat command room at the training base in Beihai Town, a dozen young soldiers and Sheng Haizhou were gathering around a large table, enthusiastically making a simple sand table.

Although in another time and space, the electronic sand table has become very popular, but technology cannot be separated from people, so the sand table operation is still the main subject of army training.

The sand table made by Sheng Haizhou and the others is a square, with a wooden frame with a side length of three meters and a ratio of 1:2000.The reference map is the satellite map of later generations "processed" by Zhao Xin, that is, an area of ​​[-] kilometers from east to west, north to south, with Fuldan City as the center.

Zhao Xin's goal is to let these children learn how to make a sand table first, and then gradually modify the differences between the actual terrain and the map.

After the frame of the sand table is installed, a thick layer of sand must be spread on the bottom of the entire frame, and after compaction and smoothness, it is necessary to use white cotton thread to pull the net.Draw 20 white lines horizontally and vertically on the border, and the side length of each grid formed by each white line represents 30 kilometers.

The next step is to draw the direction of the river on the sand, mark the mountains, roads, and lakes, and use materials of different colors to pile them up. Then, according to the coordinates of the topographic map, perform positioning operations in the grid drawn on the sand table.

The young soldiers happily arranged the materials made of sawdust and chalk of various colors, and paved roads and repaired rivers on the sand table according to the area drawn by Sheng Haizhou.

For these future "consultants", Zhao Xin's requirement is that only those who have mastered the "six meetings and five abilities" can be considered qualified.After Sheng Haizhou learned about Zhao Xin's requirements for staff officers, his head became dizzy!

The main content of Zhao Xin's class to Sheng Haizhou and the others now is to replay every battle in Beihai Town before.In addition to taking two hours to attend classes during the day, he also has to spend another hour every day after dinner to cook for Sheng Haizhou and the others.

Fortunately, Zhao Xin studied statistics when he was in college, and he can easily calculate and sort out various complicated data, otherwise he would really not be able to do it.

Sometimes when Zhao Xin thinks about it carefully, he feels that the road is really long!But everything has to have a beginning.

"Where is Seldan's team?"

"According to the news sent back by radio, they have now arrived at the Mongolian River Military Station and are preparing to cross the Mongolian River tomorrow morning."

Zhao Xin nodded and didn't speak. He looked at the snow outside the window and said to Qianlong, you can make trouble.The Tiandihui is about to rebel, let me see what you do!
The time is slowly approaching mid-November.

On a stone road in the mountains north of Vladivostok, a few men wearing fur hats and cloaks led their horses and braved the heavy snow on the slippery mountain road. In front of them, an ancient temple archway was faintly visible in the wind and snow. Recognizable.

When a few people approached and looked up, there were five big characters written in the center of the stone square, "Imperially Built Wuya Temple", and there was a couplet on the columns on both sides: "The arrow pierced through the case of the Silla Exhibition of Nianhua, and the lamp passed on to Linji." Hongkai’s place for choosing Buddhas”, and the horizontal comment is “the legacy of Xizhu”; looking at the inscription, it is engraved with the words “Built by Zen Master Fajing in the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty”.

"My lord, Wuya Temple has arrived."

Hearing the faint sound of bells and drums in the wind and snow, the person in the head thought that the temple here has been built for more than 380 years, and I don't know how many generations of eminent monks have presided over it.

Several people ascended the level step by step until they entered the mountain gate.In front of the main hall, there is snow all over the ground, revealing a few canopies of decayed grass. A copper bell is hung on the ancient cypress in front of the hall, and the names of the donors are densely engraved on it.

The neighing of the horse alarmed a little novice monk, who ran out of the side hall in a thick cotton robe and looked at the strange visitors.When he saw the scabbards exposed under the cloaks of several people, he hurriedly retracted into the hall, came out after a while, and said to the person surrounded by a group of people: "This benefactor, my house master invites the benefactor to come Narrative in the East Wing."

The leader was wearing a hood, nodded slowly, and said to the surrounding people: "You go to the side hall to rest first."

A strong man showed distress and said: "Master, this is a barren mountain and wild ridge. If there are bad people, I will wait for a hundred deaths."

"Noisy! Who are the evil people in this pure place of Buddhism? You don't need to say too much!"

After finishing speaking, the man raised his feet and followed the little novice towards the back of the supporting hall.Several strong men saw it, and then winked at one of them.The man understood, raised his foot and followed.

The one called "Adult" followed the novice monk to the door of the Zen room, took off his hood, and revealed a very serious middle-aged face with an imposing manner between his brows.

"I'm bothering the mage. I'm going to come to Guibao Temple to take shelter because of the heavy snow on the road. Just stay under the corridor, and leave when the snow stops."

In the meditation room, a loud voice said: "The benefactor is too polite! Although the corridor can shelter you from the wind and snow, you are not the one who can bow your head under the corridor!"

The man frowned, looked up at the door, and saw the door of the Zen room opened, and an old monk in patchwork clothes was holding a rosary and looking at him with a smile.

The middle-aged man clasped his hands and asked, "May I ask you how to address the mage?"

"The poor monk is clear."

The middle-aged man's eyes flashed, and he said in his mouth: "Everything is not linked, it is pure and untainted. A thought of ignorance is trouble, and a thought of innocence is truth. What a name!"

The monk smiled slightly and raised his hand to signal for him to come in.The two sat down on the futons on the kang in the meditation room, and then the monk brewed a pot of fragrant tea.

The middle-aged man looked around, and the quaint quiet room was filled with cigarettes. In the closet against the wall, in addition to a [-]-volume Northern Song Shu version of the "Tripitaka", there were also some collections of poetry and rubbings.

On the incense table in the middle of the room, a seven-character ancient poem in the style of Wei Bei caught his attention.

"The breeze and the autumn moon are clear, straw shoes and sticks come to Huacheng. The two shadows of the ancient cypress pierced the sky, and the empty hall illuminates the Buddha with a lamp. But I read the Buddha's sentence to turn over the public case, and boiled the ice spring to revive the vulgar feelings. I have been planning to take a break for a long time and today I will do it. , leaning on the pillow on the Zen bed and let the rooster crow."

"Is this a poem written by the mage himself?"

"The poor monk's clumsy work many years ago is a shame."

The middle-aged man twitched his beard and praised: "I met a mage by chance today, so I know that Wuya Temple has real practice!"

Cheng Cheng said lightly: "Sex and nature are clear, even if you are hungry and thirsty, it is nothing more than a healthy body and mind."

The middle-aged man twitched his brows when he heard this, and thought that the old monk was very powerful, and then smiled lightly.

He is also a person who has read a lot of poetry and books. What Cheng Che said just now came from "Cai Gen Tan". He only said the first half of it, and the latter part is "indulging in the heart, talking about Zen and performing verses, always playing with the spirit." That means sinking into worldly fame. Even if people talk about Zen and Dao, they are just hypocritical and a waste of energy.

Seeing that the middle-aged man wasn't annoyed at all, Cheng Che raised his glass to invite tea.After a while, he suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Master Zhongtang made a special trip here regardless of the difficulty in the wind and snow, why?"

This middle-aged man was none other than Qinggui, the imperial envoy appointed by Qianlong to cover Jilin and Heilongjiang, and shoulder the important task of exterminating Zhao Xin.

Qing Gui saw Cheng Che's words made it clear, and then said seriously: "I have heard for a long time that the mage has great virtues, so I came here specially to ask the mage to go to Shuangchengzi to persuade the rebels in the court to calm down the fighting."

Cheng Che smiled slightly and said, "The poor monk has exactly this intention. I don't know when Master Zhongtang wants the poor monk to leave?"

Qing Gui said: "Naturally, the sooner we leave, the better."

Since Qing Gui took office in August this year, he ordered people to renovate Ninggu Pagoda and the city defenses of Hunchun, and at the same time, taking advantage of the Wulin Appreciation Conference, he issued an order to the other Northeast ministries to strictly prohibit trading with Zhao Ni.

Then, he recruited another 3000 Sauron soldiers from Butha Eight Banners.Including the 500 soldiers brought back from Ili by Jilin General Mingliang, Qinggui's Sauron soldiers had increased to [-] at this time.And this is already the largest force that can be recruited by Dashang Ula Yamen right now.

According to the transcripts of the interrogation of the redeemed Eight Banners generals and armored soldiers, Qing Gui finally understood that Beihai town muskets could shoot farther than shotguns, and they were more powerful.In addition, that kind of bursting cannon is the sharpest, no matter whether it is armored or not, as long as it is hit, it will be disabled even if it is not dead!
Still playing bow and arrow long knife?I haven't seen anyone yet, I'll blow you up with a single shot!

Facing the mighty Beihai Town, Qing Gui knew that it would be impossible for Sauron's soldiers to learn how to use firearms as before.So he handed over a memorial to Qianlong in mid-September, requesting to organize the Sauron Firearms Battalion. He proposed that "with bravery and sharp guns, if you are a rare soldier, you will be able to defeat the enemy."

Qianlong hesitated for a long time, but in October, he finally agreed to Qinggui's request and organized [-] Sauron soldiers into seven firearms battalions, equipped with flintlock muskets.

Historically, in order to prevent the rapid decline of Sauron's combat effectiveness, the Qing government did not allow Sauron's soldiers to live together with other troops, so as not to be infected with the bad habit of laziness.In order to prevent the Saurons from engaging in agricultural production and reducing their combat effectiveness, the Qing court always collected mink and fox fur taxes per person; however, once soldiers were recruited, the poll tax for tribute mink fur would be exempted.

(However, Qianlong is the weirdest one. In order to maintain the strong fighting will of Sauron's soldiers, he forbids Sauron's soldiers to use shotguns, and they can only fight with armor.)
Although it was approved, Qianlong still didn't take it seriously.In his opinion, military strategy is more important than weapons, coupled with generals and brave soldiers who are loyal to the king's affairs, they will be invincible.

However, in addition to the flintlock, each shotgunner in the Sauron Firearms Battalion was equipped with a waist knife.As for the bayonet that should be equipped most, don't even think about it.

The advantage of the flintlock over the arquebus is not the rate of fire or faster reloading, but the bayonet and firepower density.The dense line tactics are the reason for the powerful firepower of the flintlock troops.In addition, due to the relatively good iron smelting technology of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the well-made barrels, the accuracy of the matchlock guns of the Qing army was better than that of the flintlock guns.

Before the first Opium War, the only place where the Qing army had encountered line flintlock tactics was Burma; however, even the Burmese army with British and French assistance and strict training was finally killed by the Eight Banners cavalry wearing double armor. Abandoning armor and armor.

For example, in the Qing-Myanmar War, the Qing army faced the Burmese cavalry trained in European style in the First Battle of Ava, and was killed by the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp with a hard bow.

Another example is the nine-in-ten series of large square formations. Most of the previous opponents could not reach the firepower density of the Qing army.Moreover, Qianlong also imitated the flintlock guns seized from the Junggar battlefield and equipped them to the Tianshan Banner Camp.

It wasn't until Fukang'an bumped into Beihai Town that Man Qing felt that the firepower density of the nine-in-ten series was not enough.After Fukang'an thought about his mistakes behind closed doors and ended his hibernation, he personally approached the priests of the Orthodox Church Office in Beijing to ask how to increase the firepower density of the firearms array; positional warfare.

But Fukangan didn't know that for the European army at the end of the eighteenth century, the line formation of the fusiliers was not as powerful as the priests said, with strong offensive, impact and defensive capabilities.

It wasn't until Napoleon stepped onto the European stage ten years later that the infantry and artillery cooperated to attack at the same time, and through the formation of a dense firepower network, the lethality was maximized, which in turn triggered military changes in Europe.

In addition to training troops and building the city, Qing Gui's other method is to send spies to investigate the defense and deployment of troops in Beihai Town.He was able to do this because of General Jilin's bright suggestion.

It is said that Qing Gui attaches great importance to the large market opened by Beihai Town in Fuldan City.When he heard that there was nothing in the Fuerdan city market, and even ironware could be exchanged for animal skins, he immediately realized that this was the key to the support of people's hearts.

Right now, the territory of Beihai Town is still limited to the south of Xingkai Lake and the middle and lower reaches of Suifen River. If even all the ministries in the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang were lured by Zhao Ni with the profit of breeding goods, then the Qing court's rewarding Wulin could only be a decoration.

Although he once issued a strict order, no one dared to go to Fuldan City in autumn; but after winter, the mountains are covered with heavy snow, so it can't be controlled at all.

He originally wanted to send armored soldiers to severely punish the tribes that traded with Zhao Ni, such as the Zaksulu tribe.However, General Jilin Mingliang persuaded him that this matter should be postponed, and that he should send someone to Mucheng next year to make an announcement.You must know that he is going too, and I can go too!If you don't take advantage of this time to find out the details of Zhao Ni, how will you march eastward in the future?
Jilin General Fucha Mingliang is 50 years old. He is still a relative of the emperor, Fu Heng's nephew, and Fu Kang'an is a cousin.Facing such a veteran general in the army, Qing Gui agreed to his request after thinking deeply.

After that, a large number of spies from the Qing army went northward and mixed with the caravans of various ministries preparing to go to Fuerdan City.Those tribes who traveled long distances from the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River to the city of Fuldan for food and salt dared not say "no".The despotic power of the Manchu Qing over their heads is no longer a day or two, but nearly 200 years!

After all the work was done, Qing Gui used another trump card, the religious card.He had heard of the name of Chan Master Chengche of Wuya Temple a long time ago, and this person came from the lineage of the Linji School of Yulin Tongxiu.

Now that the imperial court has called, or out of compassion, to quell the swords and soldiers in the world, if I come to invite myself, Cheng Che will come out to help.

Qinggui's calculations were very loud, he felt that with clear morality and deeds, as long as he did it with heart, he would naturally persuade some of Zhao Ni's men and horses to submit to the court when they arrived in Fuerdan City.

And as long as there is a start, there will be more and more loopholes in Beihai Town.

　Some people say that the word "Solon" comes from Sushen, and some say it comes from the Suoli tribe, one of the nine barbarians in ancient mythology.According to the textual research of later generations, "Sauron" is a way of expressing a tribe by region, just as Hezhe was translated as a person living in the lower reaches of the river, hence the name.And Sauron lives in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, which translates into Chinese as the people who live in the upper reaches of the river.In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the names of the various tribes in the Heilongjiang area were quite confusing. These ethnic groups, which belonged to the Altaic language family, lived intertwinedly with the Ewenki, Daur, and Oroqen.The similarities in language, social organization, and living customs made it difficult to specifically distinguish the clan names of each tribe during this period.The Ming Dynasty government collectively referred to all the tribes distributed in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, east of Lake Baikal, and on both sides of the Jingqili River as "Jurchen Savages" or "Beishan Savages".During the Huangtaiji period, the Oroqen tribe had its own clan name and became independent from the Sauron tribe; in the Kangxi period, the Daur tribe became an independent clan.Since the 22nd year of Kangxi, "Sauron tribe" refers only to the Ewenki people.In the tenth year of Yongzheng, the Manchu Qing officially established the Butha Eight Banners, which were under the jurisdiction of the Heilongjiang General Yamen, and 660 people from all ethnic groups were incorporated into the Eight Banners.Sauron, Daqaner, etc. have different numbers of male leaders, and each of them counts thirty or forty men as one assistant leader according to their family.

　　
　
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