Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 483 A Solid Rear

Bogdan rode a Mongolian horse and had just returned from the mountains north of Heishui Port. He was accompanied by several Oroqen and Feiyak tribes.They took a fancy to the relatively superior living environment in Heishui Port. After weighing whether fishing and hunting can fill their stomachs or farming can fill their stomachs better, they decisively abandoned the ancient traditional fishing and hunting life and moved to Heishui. People around Hong Kong come to rely on the people on the east coast to make a living.

Of course, there are still only a few who are willing to join the people on the east coast, and more Sakhalin natives still insist on their traditional way of life.However, as they get closer to the people on the east coast, sooner or later they will abandon their backward and traditional life, and instead live in the vicinity of Heishui Port, becoming a member of the east coast system.The east bank has advanced agricultural crops and technology, exquisite commodities, and powerful force, which makes them attract a large number of Shandan people to join them without firing a single shot.Shandan children were gathered to go to school, women went to Heishui Port City to do some handicrafts to earn a living, while men served as military households of the people on the east coast and went to the mainland to fight. A solid rear.

After the arrival of this group of more than 200 Oroqen and Feiyaka people, the total number of Shandan people who have been included in the east bank household registration book has reached more than 800.This number is frightening. It can be said that tribes or villages of a certain size within a few hundred miles have all moved here.Adding their numbers to the local Ming and North Koreans, a small number of European technicians, soldiers and sailors, more than 200 black soldiers and their North Korean wives, the population of Heishui Port has reached [-] With more than [-] people, it is considered a first-class big city in North Asia.

The new Shandan people quickly found acquaintances among the group of Shandan people who immigrated in the early days.Bogdan was very troubled by these organized and undisciplined savages. After handing them over to the officials in charge of civil affairs, he returned to the city with a group of colleagues from the police station.

In fact, talking about the inside of the city is just talking about it. Heishui Port doesn’t even have a permanent permanent city wall. It just has fences made of poplar trees around important facilities.The locally built brick and tile wheel kiln factories, small cement kilns, and lime kilns have limited output. Before that, they were responsible for transporting materials for Yantai Fort, and providing guarantee for the construction of Rishiri Island’s winter base and Heishui Port wharf. All nervous.Therefore, although the city wall of Heishui Port had been built for three years, not even an inch had been built, which broke the heart of Bogdan, who was in charge of local security work.

There is good news, though.At present, the urban construction of Heishui Port can finally be declared complete after three years of continuous construction and a surprise construction last winter.The urban area of ​​the city is very large, covering an area of ​​0.5 square kilometers. If the wharf area, coastal defense fort area, and some Shandan military household residential areas attached to the city are counted, the urban area has properly reached More than one square kilometer.With such an area, if the city walls are built according to normal standards, it is likely to become a big city with the size of the local capital Dongfang County.

To build a city wall comparable to the majestic city of Dongfang County, it is very difficult for Heishui Port, whether it is building materials or human resources.But Mo Ming didn't plan to finish the project in a short period of time, did he? The plan can be put in a long-term perspective, and it can be waited for three to five years.

In the future, winter will also be used. What about so many captured captives, what if they are not allowed to work hard to redeem themselves?Europeans in this era have to work in winter, even in the colder eastern Poland and Russia, those serfs who have nothing have to work in the temperature of minus [-] degrees in winter.Wearing thin winter clothes, they went outdoors to obtain hay in cold weather (in autumn, they were late in helping the lord), digging ditches on the frozen land (heavy rains in summer and autumn made it impossible to start work), and went to Cutting down trees in the forest - this is one of the few ways they can get cash, otherwise they may not be able to meet the taxes due in the spring.

Their "hardworking" living conditions will continue until the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The Poles and Russians can work outdoors in the winter of minus 1644 degrees. You captured Qing army prisoners What reason is there to escape?Therefore, starting from the winter of last year (600), more than 100 captives of the Qing army who were captured in previous battles were driven out of their Maodong coal mining area, and began to brave the severe cold of minus [-] to [-] degrees. Building houses, as a result, more than [-] people died in one winter.

But it doesn't matter, there are many prisoners.In the middle of this month (May 1645), Marshal Mo's fleet returned again and brought more than 5 Qing army prisoners to Heishui Port.The composition of the Qing army's captives this time is a bit interesting. Among the more than 800 people, about 800 were captured by the Qing army in the Shandong area; More than 200 people were captured in the strongholds of the Qing army, such as Zhenjiang Fort, Pidao, and Tieshan (Tieshan in North Korea).Among them, there are more than 600 Dingkou Manchu Banners, more than 200 Mongolians, and nearly 100 Han people.These captives included men, women and children, and they were basically those who failed to escape from the breached strongholds.Compared with the surrendered soldiers from the green battalion Han army captured before, these people are undoubtedly the basic base of the Qing army.

It is said that throughout April and early May, the East Coast Fleet carried more than 4 people to land and fight back and forth in the Bohai Sea and the North Yellow Sea.Especially along the coast of Liaodong area, the Qing army generally left only a small number of Dingkou garrisons, and most of them seemed to have been transferred to Liaoxi or Guanzhong. The entire Liaodong area, at least the coastal area, was extremely empty.It often takes two or three days for the people on the east coast to land, but the offensive is often over in one day.Those weak earth walls couldn't stop the close-range bombardment of field cannons and the attacks of nearly four thousand well-equipped soldiers, and basically changed hands within a day.

Perhaps the only one of these towns that delayed some East Coasters was Golden State Acropolis.Because Mo Ming wanted to test the deployment of Manchu troops in the vicinity, he dawdled around the city for several days until a cavalry team composed of more than a thousand people from the Eight Banners and Mongolia arrived.The East Coasters are naturally handy to deal with a cavalry team of less than a thousand. The large spear formation and long-range artillery blocked this force, which may be the only mobile force that the nearby Qing army could piece together. The artillery blasted down the city wall of Jinzhou very neatly. Thousands of standing soldiers cooperated with the artillery to clear the few resistance points in the city one by one. There is no way.

After looting the entire city, the people from the east coast lined up and returned to the seaside. The cavalry of the Qing army once tried to attack the marching east coast army.But facing the well-guarded chariot formation and the sharp far and near firepower of the people on the east bank, the Qing army cavalry got nothing but the death and injury of more than a hundred people.After attacking so many cities, even a pig has been trained. Even the officers and soldiers of the stand-up team whose combat effectiveness is much weaker than that of the Black Banners, the morale and self-confidence after many battles and victories with the people on the east coast Also greatly increased.They were also quite stable when facing the Qing army cavalry, because they knew that the opponent would not be able to break through whether it was a chariot formation or a foot formation.

In addition to attacking the land strongholds, the people on the east bank also sank more than [-] ships of the Qing army size at Lushunkou, Zhenjiang Fort, and Phi Island, most of which were weak Junk ships.With these ships and the Qing army ships sunk at Dagukou, the only naval force of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties suffered heavy losses, and it can even be said that they lost more than half of them.After finally going ashore and plundering Tieshan County of North Korea, the army on the east bank swaggered back to the sea, and then took a boat to Yantai Port and returned directly to Heishui Port, which had been thawed for more than half a month.

The arrival of a large number of new and old Qing army captives expanded the establishment of the Heishui coal mine and the construction team again.Most of these [-] captives of the Qing army were young and middle-aged. In order to divide the attack and prevent them from forming a group and making trouble, Johnson, who was in charge of the construction of Heishui Port, divided these people into several parts according to different tasks, namely, the logging team, Quarrying team, coal digging team, coal washing team, construction team, Qingtang team and so on.He also deliberately promoted some formerly low-status Han Baoyi or green battalion soldiers as foremen, and instigated conflicts and hatred among them by treating them differently in order to achieve the purpose of divided management.

If nothing unexpected happens, these people will continue to undergo "reform through labor" here.If they perform well enough, they may have the opportunity to be pardoned for past crimes, become local free citizens, and be assigned fields and residences.After all, if these people are not given a little bit of headway, then it is difficult to guarantee that they will not slow down or run away when they are working.Desperate people are always difficult to manage. If they can really be transformed, then it must be a very happy thing to see the soldiers of the Eight Banners fighting against each other on the battlefield in the future.

These people are currently under the management of Bogdan, the director of the Heishui Police Station.This fierce-looking Albanian has officially settled here. He has dozens of patrolmen and about a hundred North Korean henchmen under him. He is known for his "tough style" and "iron-fisted management". His legs would tremble involuntarily.But correspondingly, under his "efficient management", these people braved the severe cold and built more than 100 houses in one winter, with remarkable results.Of course, they also paid a price. More than 100 people were tortured to death by heavy work, severe cold climate or disease, and the rest suffered from frostbite to varying degrees.

(End of this chapter)