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The Songhua River is a tributary of the Heilongjiang River. It originates from Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain. It is formed by the confluence of Toudao River, Erdao River, Huifa River, Yinma River and other rivers. It flows through Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places. It is one of the three major water systems outside the customs. . 【】The locals divide the Songhua River into the North Stream and the South Stream. The South Stream refers to the Songhua River that flows through Shengjing and Jilin, and the North Stream refers to the Songhua River that flows through Heilongjiang and Mongolian banners.

The 1 shi army rations collected by the Qing army were transported separately from Jilin and Shengjing. It is transported from the Liaohe River, through the Nenjiang River, into the Songhua River, and then transported north.Combining the impression of the northeastern part of the national map with the map drawn by Liu De and marked by Duncan, Zhao Qiang preliminarily judged that the Qing army might set up military food transfer points in two places on the Songhua River.The first is Sandaotun, the confluence point of the Songhua River and Heilongjiang, and the second is Fuyu City, located on the Songhua River and [-] miles north of Yongling.

Sandaotun is the place where the two rivers meet. According to the convention, such a junction must be a place where the fleet sailing on the river docks to rest, and Fuyu City is a place where the Qing Dynasty set up troops on the Songhua River. The largest city in the city, judging from common sense, this place should also be a must pass and rest place for the grain transportation fleet.Zhao Qiang doesn't know the specific situation of these two places, but judging from the importance of geography, there should be a lot of guards in Sandaotun and Fuyu, at least there are two guards led by assistants, otherwise I'm sorry Its such an important geographical location.However, Zhao Qiang doesn't really care about the number of guards. He has already understood the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners soldiers such as Sauron, Daur, and Barhu. If he touched his own Guan Ning army, the opponent would only be beaten and had no chance of fighting back, so what he was worried about was only the Eight Banners troops of the Qing army under escort.

Sandaotun and Fuyu, one is swimming and the other is swimming, and the two places are separated by hundreds of miles, so Zhao Qiang has to choose one of these two places as a target, regardless of whether the Qing army fleet is docked there, he must Take someone to pounce once, otherwise you can only return empty-handed.This time the Manchu Qing mobilized so much grain to be transported to Heilongjiang, just for the Yaksa War next year, so the Qing army must pay more attention to the safety of these grains. It has been two months since the information was obtained, and it can be expected that a batch or Two batches or even more batches of grain have been shipped to the destination, and there should not be much left, because once several big rivers are completely frozen, the fleet will not be able to sail again, so there is not much time left for Zhao Qiang, he must be at the end of the Qing army A shipment of grain is intercepted before it reaches its destination.It is impossible to transport all the [-] shi of grain in one or two trips, so even if the last batch is snatched, it can still be used by the Guan Ning army to survive the winter.But Zhao Qiang was in a bit of a dilemma as to which location to choose to attack. If he chose the wrong location, the fleet would pass by ahead of time when he pounced, and it would be a waste of time to fetch water from Zhulan, so he had to carefully decide where to attack.

Liu De went to Nerchinsk to negotiate with Golo, so Zhao Qiang didn't have a staff officer who knew more about the Qing army, so he could only judge for himself.Zheng Guohui and Grievsky couldn't give him any advice. After several considerations, Zhao Qiang finally decided to put the action in Sandaotun.

There are three reasons. The first is that the distance of Sandaotun is closer than that of Fuyu City. Once the grain robbery is successful, the subsequent grain transportation team can transport the grain back earlier. The second is that Sandaotun is located at the intersection of the two rivers. , There are mostly mountains and forests nearby, which is good for hiding people and horses, and it is also convenient for blocking the Qing army from chasing people and horses.The third is to consider the distance. If you rush to Fuyu City first, the fleet may have already left, but if you rush to Sandaotun first, even if the fleet does not arrive, you can wait for it to come here. The fleet also left, which is also impossible.Combining considerations from three aspects, Zhao Qiang finally made up his mind to go straight to Sandaotun.

After confirming the location of attack, Zhao Qiang's mood also relaxed. He no longer kept thinking about this matter as before, and ordered the whole army to speed up, so as to find a suitable place to camp for the night before dark.Unlike the snowfall in the north, there was no snowfall in the area of ​​Murgen. Although the temperature was cold, it was not unbearable. Therefore, marching during the day was still bearable, but it was late at night.Along the way, Zhao Qiang always looked for the best place to spend the night, preferably the villages where the small tribes lived. When the army drove over, needless to say, the opponents either fled in all directions or the whole village begged for surrender, and then the Guanning Army Da Lajiu Occupy the magpie's nest and sleep comfortably for a night.However, such small villages are rare after all. After a few days out of Shouyi City, only two nights like this kind of small villages were found. The rest of the time was spent camping in the wild, setting up tents, lighting fires, and a lot of people crowded together, wearing leather clothes. I brought a lot of things to keep out the cold, such as cotton quilts, and I did my best to make ends meet, even if I endured it, I couldn't freeze to death, but I didn't sleep well.

Grivsky's Cossack brigade was all infantry except for the Cossack officers and cavalry. In order to make this food looting operation more complete without revealing any flaws, Zhao Qiang transferred [-] firecrackers from the Guards Division to these former soldiers. Russian soldiers.The Russian soldiers who received the guns were the first to be captured, and their hands were stained with the blood of their compatriots. Now they have no other choice but to follow the Guan Ning army, so Zhao Qiang is not very worried about some of them. An unwilling guy will shoot himself a black gun.

Because he was afraid that these Cossacks would not change their bad nature, Zhao Qiang strictly ordered them not to burn, kill and loot when they lived in those small villages. Once found, they would be executed on the spot.Under such strict orders, the Russians naturally did not dare to do such a mindless thing.Except for those who ran away, all the people from the two small villages were escorted and sent a small team to the rear.Lu also captured some people of various ethnic groups, who were also sent to the rear. Some who wanted to escape were chased away by the cavalry and hacked to the ground without saying a word.Zhao Qiang had no choice but to do so. After all, it was too dangerous to get food from the mouth of the Qing army, and he must not reveal his whereabouts, otherwise it would be very difficult to get back, especially the purpose of this trip to the south was to rob food. Ren is about to let go.

When I arrived in Morgan, I saw the ruins left by the fire a few months ago, and there were no tribesmen living around.From the mouths of the people who were arrested, since Cimergen was looted by the Raksha people, the surrounding tribes did not dare to stay here, and most of them moved to places farther away, such as Sanxing, and some small tribes left behind He didn't dare to live around the city of Morgan anymore, and hid far away in the mountains.In addition, it is winter now, and few people come out.

After taking a long look at the burned Mergen from a distance, Zhao Qiang didn't say much, and ordered to move on.For the next three days, Zhao Qiang and the two brigades rushed on non-stop, and finally arrived at the Songhua River, which had been partially frozen due to freezing, on November [-]th.

"Going east to the great river, where does the high source come from? The sky is the same color, and there are thousands of piles of long white snow."

Looking at the Songhua River in front of him that feeds the Northeast, Zhao Qiang couldn't help but think of a poem describing the Songhua River that he had read in his previous life, but he couldn't remember who wrote it.

As soon as he finished reading, Zheng Guohui on the side praised: "It's such a sentence that the sky is the same color, and there are thousands of white snow piles. The scholars here are much worse than the commander-in-chief." Zheng Guohui went to a private school for a few years when he was young, knew some characters, and learned some Tang poetry with his husband. Well, reading it out of the mouth, there is quite a realm, especially the sentence "mixed with the same color of the sky, with thousands of piles of long white snow" sounds quite high, but he doesn't know what the long white snow refers to, because he doesn't know that there is such a thing as Changbai Mountain. A high mountain covered with ice and snow all the year round is the origin of the Songhua River, so it is not clear.Also, he didn't know that a scholar who was educated was called a Jinshi, he only thought that a scholar is good like the gentleman in that private school, so he used "the scholar of Beijing City" to describe the high talent of the general, but he didn't know Such metaphors greatly demeaned their commander in chief.

"When did Guohui learn to flatter others?"

For Zheng Guohui's metaphor of a scholar, Zhao Qiang laughed dumbfounded and didn't care about him, but he found it quite interesting that Zheng, an honest man who only wanted to go back to his son, rarely flattered him.At the moment, he pretended to be displeased, raised his face, and intentionally teased Zheng Guohui.Although Grivsky was also there, but even if he read Li Taibai's golden sentence to him, he was also puzzled by Monk Zhang Er, and he didn't understand what he meant, so he didn't appreciate Zhao Qiang's poem. Ability, and no ability to appreciate.After pouring a sip of Volga into his mouth, he shrank his neck and stroked his mount.

Seeing Zhao Qiang looking at him displeased, Zheng Guohui panicked. No matter how sincere he was, he knew that flattering was wrong. If the commander-in-chief thought that he was flattering just now, it would be very bad. It’s not flattery, it’s because the general thinks that the poems written by the general are good, so he said it sincerely. I think back in the school, the master who taught the general to read and write was afraid that he would not be able to write such a poem, and the general himself could not. So after listening to the poem by the Marshal, the general felt good from the bottom of his heart, absolutely flattering the Marshal, and deceiving the Marshal’s intentions!" He was so anxious that Zheng Guohui jumped off the horse at once, with a "plop" Kneeling in front of Zhao Qiang: "Commander Mingjian, the general admires the commander and respects the great god as a god-man. If he deceives the commander with lies, he will teach the general to die a good death, and the sky will be struck by lightning!"

"Guohui, get up! What are you doing!"

Zheng Guohui was in such a hurry, Zhao Qiang was a little embarrassed, he just wanted to tease him, but it was too much to make him so uneasy, so he hurriedly asked the left and right to help Zheng Baihu up, then got off the horse and patted his shoulder and said: "You As a human being, how can I not know, and I didn’t mean to blame you, but you know that the poem I recited just now was not written by me, but someone else’s, it’s just that this commander, Songhuajiang, thought of it for a while.” After a pause, seeing that Zheng Guohui was still terrified, he couldn't help laughing and said: "After the robbing of food is successfully returned, I will write a poem and read it to you personally. Then you can comment on it. How is this commander? I hope I don’t have to teach you how to read, that’s just what the mister does.”

Hearing what the commander said, Zheng Guohui felt relieved, and hurriedly said: "The commander must be much stronger than that gentleman."

"Oh, that's not necessarily the case." Zhao Qiang laughed: "As a teacher, there is naturally some knowledge. I started in the grass and never had the opportunity to study. It's nowhere compared to someone who has been studying sages all their lives. I'm afraid I will It made you laugh when you made it with your own hands."

Zhao Qiang's words are true. In terms of writing poems and lyrics, he is definitely not as good as those scholars who have been studying the way of imperial examinations all their lives. The calligraphy is even worse, and he can't even write couplets. With hundreds of years of knowledge in this era, any reader from the pass is much better than him.After chatting with Zheng Guohui for a few more words, Zheng Guohui was no longer nervous. Seeing that it was still early, Zhao Qiang let him go on and traveled along the river to Sandaotun. According to the map, Sandaotun, where the two rivers meet, is less than a hundred miles away. , at this marching speed, we will definitely be able to get there in two days.

When setting off, Zhao Qiang asked Zheng Guohui to leave a small team of soldiers, and sent someone to notify the follow-up troops who should have arrived in Morgan, and waited for the next move by the Songhua River.