Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1081 Alarm
The village full of refugees is like hell on earth.In the turmoil, no one is interested in listening to the music, even if they sell themselves, no one patronizes them.A group of people barely survived with little savings and hunger.Looking forward to the end of the military chaos as soon as possible, they can go back to Nanjing on the road.Unexpectedly, the village was not safe either—not long after the news of the fall of Dengzhou came, it was heard that the rebels had captured Huang County again and destroyed the village everywhere.The villages were in chaos, clearing out outsiders who had no guarantors one after another. Of course, no one would be willing to guarantor a Jianghu music troupe like them, so they were driven out in the ice and snow.

Fortunately, the village is not far from Baimatang, and their small team was taken in not long after they fled.Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to walk for a day or two, and I will be exhausted and starved to death on the road.

"The general wants to serve you like a flower?" Said Zhu Mingxia, the soft-spoken Sui of the Liu family who had cultivated the ability to perceive words for half his life.

"Ruhua?" Zhu Mingxia was stunned by this name, and he immediately thought of that awesome man with booger and heavy make-up, his face remained unchanged, but his stomach rolled violently a few times.

"It's the woman who led the general just now."

"Oh."

"How can such a lavish woman be able to serve the general? She is also old, and she is also a broom star. My daughter Siyu was trained by me since she was a child. She is good at playing the pipa. She is only 13 this year. She is a baby. , if the general doesn't dislike it..." Liu felt that Zhu Mingxia was not interested in Ruhua, so she immediately changed her words and started to sell another one. Of course, this couldn't be her daughter. In order to be close to the big tree of Australians and to survive, she slapped her face. It is necessary to post gold.

Zhu Mingxia interrupted her sales promotion and asked her to bring Ruhua. As an atheist, he really wanted to know why Ruhua was called a broom star, so he had to ask in person.

He was thinking about whether to purify Ruhua first, change the name to something that people would not associate with, and then talk in depth, suddenly a cadre of the naturalized people hurried to his side and whispered to him said:
"Boss, Chief Lu, please hurry over—it's urgent."

"Huh! Oh?" ​​Although Zhu Mingxia had already experienced the initial symptoms of sperm on the brain, he was able to hold on for a while. When he heard that there was an "urgent" matter, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered:

"Separate and detain the members of this team."

"Yes!"

Liu's firework woman for many years has studied men's behaviors and words extremely thoroughly. She knew that Zhu Mingxia had already developed a strong interest in Ruhua, and she heard that she had separated the team alone. She knew that she had already climbed a high branch. Don't worry anymore.I can probably save my life—if I'm lucky, I might even get a few taels of silver.Immediately the happy Wanfu said: "Thank you for your kindness, Master!"

When Zhu Mingxia returned to the stockade, Chen Sigen and Lu Wenyuan had already stood in front of the sand table in the war room with serious faces.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Mingxia had already roughly guessed, could it be that the rebels came to Qimu Island?
"Wang Qisuo just came back." Chen Sigen said.

Wang Qisuo performed well in the Battle of Baimatang. Although the overall battle was one-sided due to the firepower advantages of the Mini rifles and typewriters of the two infantry companies, the battle was not fierce, but he was very brave. In the field investigation outside Baimatang, several rebels were beheaded and captured during the pursuit battle.

Chen Sigen was very satisfied with his combat performance, and believed that this person's overall quality could be selected into the special investigation team.However, he has not yet passed the appraisal and special political training of the Political Security Bureau, so he has only been trained in some reconnaissance business for the time being, and let him serve as a scout in the advancing column.

A few days ago, he dispatched Wang Qisuo and some other local scouts from the advance column to the vicinity of Huang County to cooperate with the special reconnaissance team to grasp the movements of the rebels in Huang County.

The sentry brought Wang Qisuo in. He was wearing a tattered padded jacket and a white snow camouflage cape, his face and hands were filthy.

"Tell me what you saw again." Chen Sigen ordered.

"Report to the chief, a large number of enemy troops came from Dengzhou at noon today," Wang Qisuo said, "There are a total of 3000 people, all of them soldiers!"

Tens of thousands of troops are not to be feared-there are "more than 1" troops gathered in Huangxian County, but most of them have been coerced to civilians recently-the number of fully equipped soldiers is the key.

He reported that all the troops who arrived were wearing cotton armor and were fully equipped.He also brought a lot of firearms, especially the rebels used cattle to pull six "cannons" to Huang County.

According to historical data, the artillery carried by the rebels participated in battles against officers and soldiers many times in history, including the siege of Laizhou and several field battles with officers and soldiers.The rebels were basically carrying half-snake guns, and the weight of the gun body alone was two to three thousand kilograms. Coupled with the heavy gun mount, it was very difficult to maneuver under primitive road conditions.

The opponent actually carried heavy firearms to attack, which shows that their firearms have left a deep impression on them since the Battle of Baimatang.

"Mao Chenglu, the chief general of Huang County, is burying the pot and cooking, and is preparing to attack Qimu Island tomorrow." Then he said some bits and pieces of news.

"Okay, go down." Zhu Mingxia nodded.It didn't quite surprise him.Although Qimu Island is located by the sea, it is within the territory of Huang County after all, and Huang County is the passage for the rebels to go to Laizhou.

If the "village brave" on Qimu Island were inactive, then the rebel army would indeed not be able to make a special trip to deal with this seaside stockade, but right now they are recruiting refugees on a large scale in Huang County, and it seems that they have become a very large group in Huang County. big power.

If Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde wanted to ensure the safety of the road leading to Laizhou, they would not tolerate such a force on their flanks—let alone the fact that they beat the rebels hard a few days ago, allowing them to see their fighting power.

Chen Sigen said: "I have already withdrawn all the spies who advanced into the column - they lack professional skills, and staying outside is just to die in vain. For the time being, only the cavalry is responsible for the investigation on the outside."

He pointed at the sand table: "If Mao Chenglu's men set off today, they will arrive at Qimu Island at least at noon tomorrow."

There used to be more than 2000 rebels in Huang County, but now there are 3000 more.It is unlikely that they will be dispatched in full force-after all, there must be people staying in the county, so the maximum number of people who will come is 4000.Of course, the rebels will definitely bring a large number of young men to follow the army to act as porters and cannon fodder.It is possible for the total number to exceed [-].

These 1 people, plus the artillery and ammunition, means that they will arrive at the fastest speed at noon tomorrow, and after arriving, they will have to set up camp and move around for security.If the attack can be launched, at least the morning after tomorrow-Chen Sigen doesn't think the rebels have the ability to launch a night attack.

The three of them stared at the defense system of Qimu Island.The defense of Qimu Island is very strong, and there are well-constructed wicker edges on the long dike leading to the mainland: not only have trenches been dug, but densely packed various horses have been added, concertina barbed wire has been laid and a large number of people from the highlands have been laid. Standard bamboo skewers shipped.The simple village gate on the long embankment was also converted into a bastion of civil structure, equipped with artillery of different sizes and calibers-the rebels would have to pay extremely heavy casualties if they wanted to break into the island from the embankment.

In addition to the frontal wicker border defense line, the refugee camps, docks and cottages on the island also form a self-contained defense system that echoes each other, and cannons and rifles can be used to cross-fire between the three.

"The main defense problem we face is the freezing of Longkou Bay." Zhu Mingxia said, "This greatly increases the difficulty of our defense."

As for the ice conditions in Longkou Bay, they only have hydrological data from the 20th century.From January to February every year is the maximum ice age in Longkou Bay, which lasts about 1 to 2 days.The average ice volume is 20, and the density is 40~2.2, which has no effect on ship navigation.When the ice situation is the biggest all year round, the thickest floating ice in Longkou Port is 5-7 cm. When the ship berths on the south side, a high-powered tugboat is used to break the ice. The berthing on the north side is basically not affected. There is broken ice in the channel, and the ship's navigation is basically not affected. .

According to the hydrological data of the 20th century, the biggest feature of Longkou Port is that it is free from freezing and silting all year round.Such considerations were also taken into account when Qimu Island was chosen as the transshipment base.

Of course, it’s not completely free from freezing, and some years experience severe freezes that make the port inaccessible even with icebreakers.

But now it is the Little Ice Age, and the freezing situation in Longkou Bay may be much more serious than what they have grasped in the 20th and 21st centuries.Therefore, Thorpe focused on equipping the northward detachment with icebreakers at the logistics meeting—after all, it still snows in Lingao winter in this time and space.Therefore, a 621-type tugboat was urgently refitted at Bopu Shipyard as an ice-breaking tugboat.

Because the 621 type is a tugboat, the overall structure is solid, and the hull is strong and suitable for ice-breaking modification.The refitting project used steel plates to reinforce the bow, and then used steel beams to support the bow, and then used steel beams to greatly reinforce the hull to ensure that it would not fall apart when breaking the ice.

It was the end of December after the refitting of the tugboat was completed, and it was sent to Shandong immediately, and then the refitting project of the second ship started.

On Qimu Island, large-scale ice floes began to appear in the bay in January, and now a large ice area has formed, extending from the shore for nearly three kilometers, completely connected to the coast system.By mid-January, the trestle was completely unusable, and the spy boat squadron moored at the Qimu Island wharf was forced to retreat to the sea three kilometers away from the trestle.Refugees embarking on boats instead use pontoons: Refugees depart from the island and board the boat through the ice.

The arrival of icebreakers greatly improved the situation.Burning fuel on the island consumes a lot of fuel, and there are a lot of plant ash and coal ash.Lu Wenyuan ordered the refugees to go to the ice every day to pave the channel with ashes, and then use the ice-breaking tugboat to break the channel.

(End of this chapter)