Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 514 Net ([-])

April 1646, 4, sunny, Temple Street.Two "Amur"-class inland river shallow-water gunboats carefully avoided some ice floes, and then quickly approached the winter camp on the north bank of the Amur River.

In fact, they had already visited once a week ago. At that time, the ice condition of the Amur River was still quite serious, and the two inland river gunboats with two coal-fired boilers, 140 horsepower, and two shafts and two oars had to reduce their speed to avoid Opening the large area of ​​drift ice, it was difficult to approach the winter camp on Temple Street, and some food and livestock cubs were sent to the Feiyaka people who lived here for five and a half months.

After surviving this winter, they will start to vigorously plant cold-resistant crops such as rye and oats, and at the same time plant some short-growing pastures such as alfalfa to feed various livestock.Crops such as rye and oats have many advantages, such as strong adaptability and cold resistance, and they can basically be spread over a large area without much management.In October last year, the fleet from the mainland brought a large number of machine parts, which can be assembled into dozens of harvesters, which can be used on horseback.With this sharp weapon, the fertile black land in the Northeast can expand the planting area, and the grain yield per unit area may decrease, but the total output will increase significantly.

The Patriarch of the Feiyaka here told the naval officers who came to the east coast by boat in Chinese that this year's taxes would be handed over in time after the autumn harvest.Some hunters who were conscripted by Liu Haiyang last year into the reconnaissance team directly under the First Wing of the Standing Squad also took the opportunity to go home. They wore thick woolen coats and seal fur caps, and packed their large bags (five per person) with red faces. ten kilograms) were removed from the ship.Spirits, sugar, salt, metal knives, tea, porcelain, silk, and of course some gold and silver, but these things are not as important as those spirits, tea, knives, etc. in the eyes of the villagers.

The sailors on the east coast leaned on the side of the boat, watching with a smile on the team members who stood up and returned home.During the three months from the second half of last year to mid-October, taking advantage of the Qing army's main force going south and its own maneuvering advantages, the First Wing launched several successive battles in the coastal areas of southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. Rizhao, Juzhou, Ganyu, Haizhou, Yancheng, Rugao, Haimen, Tongzhou and other states and counties were captured, and warnings were issued almost everywhere along the coast, which shattered the Qing government's dream of occupying Jiangbei with partial divisions.Doduo had to mobilize a considerable number of troops from the surrendered troops to destroy the yellow-clothed pirates, but with little success.

On August 8th, the East Bank Army plus the main force of the First Wing of the Standing Squad, totaling more than 15 soldiers, fought against the armed forces of more than [-] Henan landlords from the Qingyi Prefecture General Xu Dingguo Department outside the city of Juzhou.The Qing army was defeated, with many casualties. During the melee, Xu Dingguo was knocked off his mount by the Polish pike cavalry. He was almost killed on the spot.The governor of Juzhou, appointed by the Qing court, surrendered without a fight, and the whole Yizhou town was shaken.Luck Dehun, who was far away in Jinan, and Hauge, who was stationed in Dengzhou, almost twisted their noses in anger, but there was nothing they could do. They were also powerless with this asymmetrical style of play.

On September 9, the East Bank troops landed in the Tongzhou area in a large scale, even breaking through the prefectures and counties.Under Duoduo's order, he took 5 Manchu Eight Banners to conquer the Gushan Ezhenzhun Pagoda in Jiangbei area.After being reprimanded by Duoduo, he reluctantly attacked the army on the east bank with thousands of Zuo Menggeng's vanguards. As a result, 6000 Zuo Menggeng's vanguards collapsed on the spot under the bombardment of more than [-] artillery pieces. After the Zhunta led two thousand fine cavalry, the thousands of people on the left would not be wiped out.Duoduo, who was collecting Nanzhili prefectures and counties, heard of this defeat and was "horrified", so he repeatedly ordered all the ministries of the Ming army to gather in Yangzhou, preparing to pile up the yellow-clothed pirates with numbers.

Considering the low quality of these Ming soldiers, they might not be much better than Zuo Menggeng's troops in battle, so Duoduo also dispatched a large number of Manchurian Eight Banners, Wuzhenchaoha and other troops back to Jiangbei to fight together.Just at this time, the heat in the south of the Yangtze River made the soldiers of the Eight Banners extremely uncomfortable. Therefore, the soldiers of the Eight Banners crossed the river again and entered Yangzhou.

However, people from the east coast never stay in one place for too long, so they quickly left the Tongzhou line, boarded a ship and headed north, and landed in the Haizhou area on October 10.Zhizhou appointed by the Qing government set himself on fire and died, and 5 Qing Yizhou soldiers stationed here dispersed after hearing the news.The two reinforcements that came one after another——thousands of reinforcements from Yizhou Township were also defeated. So far, Yizhou Township, one of the two pillars of coastal defense painstakingly managed by the Qing government, has lost more than half of the township’s troops, and the rest are also lost. They all "avoided the yellow-clothed army", their morale was very low, and they basically lost their effective combat capabilities.

After these three battles were launched and the Qing army was greatly mobilized, the people on the east bank finished their battles and reaped their merits.The troops returned to Yantai, held a commendation meeting, distributed rewards, and promoted officers; while the ships returned to Dabo, Heishui, Yuanbo and other places for maintenance, and immediately began to transfer people after maintenance. The most important thing of the year.

Therefore, the volunteers who returned to their hometown at this time are all "rich", making a group of villagers who live near Temple Street jealous.Some Feiyaka people, Daur people, and Oroqen people who have recently moved here are also very envious, and they are thinking about how to squeeze in the next time they are recruited.My archery skills are no worse than theirs, and my ability to catch wild animals is also better than them. Why can they get rich and I can't?

The population of the temple street winter camp at this time is much more prosperous than last year. After absorbing some savage Jurchen tribes who escaped, the population has reached 200.With the asylum of the people on the east coast, they also settled down this year and began to settle down, and sowed rye, oats and other crops introduced by the Russians on a large scale.

Marshal Mo, who is in charge of the entire Heishui area, has great ambitions this year. He has begun to vigorously expand the sowing area on the fertile black soil in the Sakhalin Island and the Amur River Basin. At the same time, he has built a large number of fishing boats to increase the catch.The complete occupation of Jeju Island has made the island's fertile pastures and a large amount of stock livestock fall into the hands of people on the east coast. This year, there should not be too much food shortage!

Therefore, after discovering that they could feed more people, the people on the east bank no longer had any scruples when they were in Jiangbei. Every time they broke through a state or county, they took a large number of men and women on board, and then pulled them to the northeast or Yantai.According to statistics, as of April 1646, 4, the immigrant population in the Heishui area after the end of the 25-45 immigrant transportation season had remained at a high level of more than 46, almost the highest in history.

Among them, the stranded immigrant population in Yantai (excluding the number of troops, the same below) is about 2.5—these people will be transferred to other places sooner or later, because the role of Yantai has been greatly reduced; Sakhalin Island (including Heishui Port, Dabo Port and Rishiri Island) have the largest population, about 3.6 people (including 5500 permanent residents); Jeju Island, which is under the indirect control of the people on the east coast, has added about [-] people who have been scattered and allocated to the island The common people of the Ming Dynasty, this was used to stabilize the foundation of the three armed forces on the island, including Zhai Cong'e.There are only [-] soldiers from the three of them, and it always feels a little unsafe to control tens of thousands of Koreans on the island.

In the end, the people from the East Bank broke up about [-] Henan soldiers from the Xu Dingguo Department of the Qing army who were captured, and distributed them to Temple Street and Henggunzhai. They were handed over to the local Shandan people to guard them and undergo labor reform.If they behave normally, they can be pardoned as free people after a certain period of time, and the land will be allocated to take root in the Amur River Basin.In fact, these people were originally mud legs from Henan. They followed the chief and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in a daze, and then went to Shandong in a daze, and were defeated and captured in the First World War.

Who are they hanging out with? As long as the people from the east bank feed them and clothe them warmly, it's okay to play "My Qing Dynasty" with them.After these people arrived, the population of Temple Street and Henggun Village reached 2000 people respectively, which is considered to have begun to take shape.Moreover, they and the Shandan people are not in the same system, and they can check and balance each other when they are crowded together, which is convenient for the people on the east coast to control these two places. The city of [-] people is definitely a god-like existence in the Amur River Basin at this time.This is the result of being backed by a big tree to enjoy the shade. There are many refugees in Shandong, Hebei, and Jiangbei, and they are stuffed into the northeast. Even if a group of people die because of unsuitability in winter, more people will survive. .These will greatly change the ethnic composition of this place, and have a profound impact on the various strategies carried out on the east coast in the future.

At this time, two inland gunboats carried the second batch of about 500 people to Temple Street.These surrendered soldiers who were still wearing the uniforms of the Qing army stepped out of the cabin tremblingly, and were escorted to the shore in a dejected manner. They were handed over to the local Shandan people to take care of them, and then underwent labor reform-mainly farming, logging, building cities, Mowing grass, tending to livestock.There are basically no military officers among these people (all the officers have gone to work in the Black Water Coal Mine), so they are relatively easy to control. The people on the east bank also left a few consultants here. They are liaison officers in name, but in fact they are the local emperors who monitor the people in the two places. everything.

The Amur River Basin carried a huge plan of Marshal Mo Mingmo, that is, to farm here for several years, to save food and grass, to collect wild Jurchen tribes, and at the same time move to Ming people here to expand Dingkou.After it developed to a certain level, it began to gradually encroach on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River with fortress tactics, and sometimes even dispatched a large cavalry to go south to attack the grass valley, which made the Qing court very disturbed.Given the painful traffic conditions in Northeast China at this time, the Qing government sent at most 1 people to fight here, and the logistics would not be able to support it.

In the 17s, the Qing court sent troops to fight Russia twice. The first time 50 Banner soldiers were defeated by Khabarov’s 170 Cossacks (seven to eight hundred were killed and injured, and two cannons were seized). The second time sent [-] Eighth Banner soldiers, and it took a lot of effort to finally defeat hundreds of mixed troops composed of bankrupt Russian peasants and Cossacks.In the end, I also had no choice but to retreat because of the lack of food, and the lost land I regained was later occupied by the Russians, which shows the difficulty of the Qing army's transfer of supplies.

But the people on the east coast did not have this problem. First, they could farm locally, and second, they could use ships to transport food. The logistics support was a hundred times stronger than that of the Qing army, so they naturally had the upper hand in war.

(End of this chapter)