Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 488 People from the East Coast Are on Heilongjiang ([-])

The entire late June of 1645 was extremely embarrassing for several officials of the Qing court in Shandong.

The loss of the two coastal prefectures, Haifeng and Yexian, caused the prestige of the Qing court in Shandong to plummet. Especially Yexian was the prefecture of Laizhou Prefecture, but it was still rumored that it fell within two days, which was shocking and inexplicable.After hearing that Ye County fell, Fang Dayou and Luck Dehun from Jinan, and Haoge from Dengzhou all lost their voices for a while.The Qing court had more than 9 troops in the air in Shandong, but they had no way to deal with a yellow-clothed pirate with less than [-] people, and they were led by the nose many times, so they were extremely passive.

This time, Ye County was breached, and the two thousand green battalions collapsed in one battle. The large amount of grain, livestock, carts, silver, swords, guns and arrows hoarded in the city all fell into the hands of the people on the east coast. three days.Laizhou Fuzhi has fallen. Although everyone is in low spirits, we still have to make a rescue gesture. It is good to do our best.So Hauge sent a cavalry team of thousands of people from Dengzhou. Seeing that Hauge's troops were being restrained in Yantai by a large number, Luke Dehun of Jinan also transferred two thousand green cavalry from Jinan, and then from Yizhou. The town allocated [-] infantry, and everyone just marched towards Ye County feebly, doing their best.

Seeing the slow movement of the Qing army, the people on the east bank simply tossed and tossed in the countryside of Ye County for another two days, and finally came back full of plunder, embarrassing the Qing army who rushed behind to eat the dirt.The anti-Qing armed forces in various places were encouraged by this, and the situation in Shandong, which was once peaceful, also began to turmoil. In particular, Fang Dayou broke his promise to raise taxes and tried his best to supply two routes of [-] Qing troops. calm.The Qing court had to step up its thinking of countermeasures in order to resolve the passive situation in Shandong as soon as possible.

On June 6, a fleet of 30 large and small ships sailed directly into the wide Aniwa Bay, and then sailed into Dabo Port successively under the leadership of the guiding ship to unload personnel and materials.More than 14 Ming people who were caught in Haifeng and Ye County can finally come out of the cabin packed like sardine cans.Fortunately, the voyage time was short, and it took only five or six days with smooth sailing, so the more than 3000 Ming people died only a few hundred old and frail people.Although most of the people, including some women and children, are not in good physical and mental condition, they are still alive after all, and they will recover after a period of recuperation and labor in Dabo.

After the beginning of spring, a considerable number of refugees have gathered in the Dabo area, and on the basis of the original more than 1 mu of farmland, several thousand acres of farmland have been opened along the river, making the sowing area here reach 9 mu.Most of the [-] mu of land is planted with potatoes with a short growth period (more than three months), and a small part is planted with crops such as spring wheat, oats, and rye.It is believed that in September, after the harvest of these lands, the already empty granary will be filled again.

With the addition of the original immigrants and the new arrivals, the number of Ming people in this fertile black land has exceeded 6000.With such a large population distributed across the vast river banks, the existing dozens of patrolmen and hundreds of Oroqen military households are already very difficult to manage.Seeing this situation, Mo Ming broke up the six or seven hundred Henan soldiers from the former Dong Xueli Department and more than 100 Oroqen people who had surrendered this time with a swipe of a pen, and then transferred them from the newly immigrated Japanese. 200 people, 23 were gathered, and formed the No. 26-4 Squadron of the Standing Team.These [-] squadrons will be trained here to form combat effectiveness, and they may be transferred to the mainland before the winter comes and the port is closed.

Not long after the No. 19-22 Squadrons of the Volunteer Squadron stationed at the Halla Mountain Ranch were formed, four more squadrons were expanded in the Dabo area.If it weren't for the large amount of silver robbed before and after, the monthly salary of the personnel would have bankrupted the Blackwater Pioneering Team.In the face of Mo Ming's unscrupulous military expansion, Bao Chen'an, the deputy commander of the gendarmerie who had just been transferred to the local area for more than half a year, gave him a tactful warning, telling Mo Ming that some of his actions had already touched the high-tension line.

Mo Ming, who knew this well, laughed aloud, but also guaranteed that the size of the standing team would not expand in a few years.At most, recruit some more miscellaneous security staff members to set up the shelf of the 1st Wing of the Standing Team.The 1st Wing has 3 brigades, and each brigade has 8 squadrons. Each squadron has 250 people, exactly 7500 officers and soldiers.If you add the cavalry squadron, engineering squadron, logistics squadron, guard squadron, reconnaissance squadron directly under the Wing Headquarters under construction, and some miscellaneous workers such as medical officers, weapon repairers, veterinarians, craftsmen, clerks, drummers, etc. personnel, the total strength is about [-] people.

Of course, the establishment of these logistics and technical arms is relatively slow, and it is estimated that it will not be completed within a year. In addition, Bao Chen'an has already issued a warning, and Mo Ming also decided to give him face. Let's talk.Right now, there are wars everywhere on the mainland, and there is no need to worry about not having the opportunity to train troops.As long as these people are given normal treatment so that they can train with peace of mind, and send them to the battlefield from time to time to accumulate combat experience and confidence, their combat effectiveness will naturally increase significantly after a long time, and they will become an important force in the Blackwater area. strength.

The four medium-sized fishing boats did not stop at Dabo, and the sailors quickly left the dock and headed for Heishui Port.They will receive boat maintenance and maintenance there, and then, together with the three new medium-sized fishing boats built this year, will go out to sea in late July to hunt for fishing season.With the arrival of some tough and durable fishing nets made of sisal fiber and more large-scale combined lamps, using lights to trap saury and Far East sardines will definitely be more handy this year, and the production is expected to have a larger increase.

On July 7th, Mo Ming had just rested in Dabo for about five days. The escort gunboat "Tuna" that returned to Heishui Port to replenish ammunition suddenly sailed into Dabo Port on the way, and brought Mo Ming Two very special "guests".

"Russians?" Mo Ming, who was wearing a pair of high-end whale boots, poked the two men who were tied up and thrown on the ground with the tip of their toes, and asked.Both of them have European faces, but unlike traditional Latins or Germans, they resemble Russians with a lot of Tatar blood.Considering the location of Sakhalin Island and the fact that Tsarist Russia has already occupied the Heilongjiang River Basin in the Far East, there is no doubt that these two people must be Russians.

His questions went unanswered.Soon, several guards in woolen coats began to kick and beat the two Russian prisoners with cowhide military boots.The Russian howled in pain, speaking in Russian that everyone could not understand.It seemed that there was a language barrier, so Mo Ming stopped the guards from abusing the two, and then ordered the two to be handed over to the Gendarmerie, allowing them to find their own way to interrogate them.

According to the chief mate of the "Tuna", they met them in the Strait of Tartar.They were captured by a group of Shandan people in a fur boat and were sailing hard on the sea.When the three-masted gunship "Tuna" appeared, these Shandan people immediately waved their arms happily, and then boarded the "Tuna".Some of them, who speak Liaodong Chinese, said they captured the two Russians in their fortified city near the mouth of the Songhua River and killed six of their accomplices for their excessive extortion.

These unlucky Cossacks couldn't figure out why the Kiryaks (Fyaks) suddenly turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone when they spent the winter here with the leader Poyarkov last winter. How dare you lay a poisonous hand on them.As for playing with a few indigenous women and blackmailing some fur horses, what is it?They killed no less than 500 barbarians in Yakutsk. They annoyed us and burned your fortress. All men, women, old and children were sold to Khabarov, a greedy businessman, as slaves.Khabarov needs these barbarian slaves most in the lumberyard in Yakutsk, and he will pay a good price and "entertain" these barbarians.

But when these Feyakas took out a dozen flintlock muskets with good ammunition from the room, the Cossacks, who only had a few old-fashioned matchlock guns, were shocked.After a short and fierce resistance, most of the eight Cossacks were killed, and two others were captured alive.Elder Fei Yaka in the Walled City also felt a little regretful at this time, killing several Cossacks, how should this matter be settled?You must know that the well-known Cossack leader Boyarkov still has 130 people on hand. He has gone to explore the north now, but he might return at some point. How can the whole village resist those murderous Cossacks? ?

Thinking of this, the Feiyaka people felt that it would be better to quickly find a backer.And the ready-made backers are the people from the east coast on Sakhalin Island. They bought their muskets from the people on the east coast, and only the people on the east coast have enough strength to protect them.Therefore, they took two Cossack captives and the taxes that were supposed to be handed over to the Russians—480 mink furs and [-] mink coats—and went to Dabo Port to pray for help from the people on the east coast.

Mo Ming is quite interested in these Feiyaka people, because it has a lot to do with a big plan planned in his mind, so he quickly summoned these Feiyaka people for questioning.After the inquiry, they comforted them and gave them some commodities. At the same time, they formally accepted the attachment of the Feiyaka tribe and promised to protect them.Not only that, he also decided to send the "Tuna" escort gunboat with a total of 25 people from the newly formed No. 26 and No. 500 Squadrons to land on the local area to declare sovereignty and show off military power to deter potential enemies.At the same time, he also decided to transfer a few engineers from Heishui Port to guide these Feiyaka people to build some scientific fortifications with wood and rammed earth for a short period of time in order to deal with the possible Cossack retaliation.

(End of this chapter)