Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 125 The secret on the boots
On the second day after arriving in Ula, Jilin, Fukang'an, Hai Lancha and Du Erjia interrogated Anlin and Wu Teshan in the second hall of the office.

That's all for An Lin, Fu Kang'an doesn't even bother to talk to this kind of person.The whole process was inquired by Du Erjia.Basically didn't ask anything useful.

When Mount Walter came up wearing shackles, the atmosphere in the hall changed.

"The sinner Wu Teshan knocked on Commander Fu, knocked on the Navy Gate, and knocked on General Feng En."

"Water Mountain, you can be convicted!"

"The slave is guilty! The slave has failed the emperor's trust. The crime is to underestimate the enemy, and the crime is to neglect the errand."

Fukang'an said lightly: "Tell me the whole story clearly, if you dare to miss a single word, be careful with your head."

"The slave dare not lie a little bit." Walter Hill then started from the beginning and rambled on for an hour before finishing.

After Fukang'an closed his eyes and listened in a restful manner, he pondered for a moment before asking, "Where are the short boots that Yalha and the village chief changed?"

"The slave then went to Yalha village to search, and the village chief gave the pair of boots to the slave. The slave didn't know about it after he was convicted and imprisoned."

At this moment, Du Erjia said quickly: "This is the evidence of the Qin case, and it has been confiscated." After speaking, he asked Geshiha to fetch it.

Not long after, the pair of black short boots as evidence were presented on a tray.

Fukang'an thought it was dirty, so he just covered his nose with a handkerchief, letting Nagoshhati hold it close to watch.He looked at it for a while, and then said to Ghoshha, "Get some water to remove all the mud and dirt on the shoes, and wash the soles of the shoes too."

Ghoshha went down with his dirt-covered shoes, while Fukang'an returned to his seat and sighed to the kneeling Wuteshan: "I have no right to deal with your affairs. Wait for the emperor to make an order. But neglect The word errand can never escape!"

In his opinion, this Wote Mountain is really unlucky, and his subordinates were implicated for their ineffectiveness.But Tomohoguo is dead, so he can only be allowed to top the tank.

As soon as the words fell, Geshha, the shoewasher outside the hall, ran in excitedly with his shoes, knelt down and said, "Master!"There are words on the sole! "

The three of Fukang'an got up quickly when they heard this, and walked down the hall.

When Nagoshha saw it, he quickly lifted up the shoes and turned the cleaned soles upwards.

"Oil, field, specialty, use?"

The three looked up at each other, looking at each other.

Hai Lancha asked in confusion: "Commander, I understand the word 'special use', but what does the word 'oil field' mean?"

Fukang'an was also in a daze.

Duerjia slapped his head and said, "Could it be that the owner of the shoe is called 'Oil Field Specialist'?"

Fukang'an frowned and recalled for a while, and after a long while, he said lightly: "I will be less melancholy when I pay for the flowers, and I will live up to Qingqing in this life."

ah?Hailancha and Duerjia are stupid, why did the commander recite the poem?

Fu Kang'an explained: "The person who made this poem is called You Wei, and it is the oil of three points of water."

Du Erjia was very excited when he heard this, and he guessed it right.

However, who is this "oil field expert"?
Fukang'an looked over and over again for a long time, and then asked Hai and Du, "Didn't you see anything from these shoes?"

How could Hailancha and Duerjia understand this? They have no problem killing them with a knife.Seeing the Marshal's question, both of them shook their heads.

Fukang'an took a lot from the big case, pulled the shoe and said, "Look at the upper of this boot, it is made of high-quality cowhide. Look at the stitches, they are dense and even. Except for the tribute , I have never seen such workmanship. As for the sole, I have never seen such a thick tendon sole."

"However..." He pointed to a label with red letters on a black background on the side of the shoe with his order, and after a long thought, he said: "The words look like English characters."

Hailancha was stunned. The Oros hadn't been found yet, so why did another Englishman come out?Is this "oil field expert" still a foreigner?

"Marshal, do you want to report this to the emperor..."

"I'm not in a hurry, just a few words are not enough to prove it. Let's report it, the emperor should be anxious again."

Fukang'an nodded approvingly and said, "Durjia is right. These few words alone can't prove anything. It makes people in the imperial court suspicious for no reason. It's better to wait a few days and find the Oros people before we talk about it."

As the saying goes, if Zhao Xin knew that the safety shoes he bought could make Fukang'an see so many problems, he would have destroyed the words and labels on the soles; as for the stitches, there is really no way to destroy them. You can't give someone a pile of broken leather and a thick sole, and then tell them, "Excuse me, go back and sew it yourself."

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Three days later, Fu Ankang and Hai Lancha reviewed the garrison troops of the Jilin General's Mansion in the school field outside the city.

At this time, there were 1818 Eight Banners Manchurian soldiers stationed inside and outside Jilin City, 350 Eight Banners Mongolian Barhu soldiers, 60 Xibo soldiers, 120 Han soldiers, 288 inner leaders, 80 forwards, 2732 Xiaoqi soldiers, and shotgun leaders of the Han Army. 48 people were urged, and 626 people were shotguns.

It is said that since Qianlong succeeded to the throne, the Manchu Qing army has been equipped with a large number of firearms, but the performance is not as advanced as that of the Western army.Compared with the British Army in the same period, the gap is not as big as imagined.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and in the Kangxi era, the army's combat mode generally used artillery to open the way first; after the shelling, the cavalry and infantry began to charge.

However, with the large-scale use of troops in the Northwest and Southwest, up to now, the Qing army has been equipped with various types of bird guns, guns and artillery.According to statistics from later generations, about one-third of the Manchu Qing army used firearms, but the inland green battalion troops that accounted for the vast majority still used cold weapons to fight.

During the Second Battle of Jinchuan, Northwest pacification of Huojizhan, and the battle against the invasion of Burma, the fighting methods of the Manchu and Qing troops have undergone fundamental changes, and large-scale firearms have become the norm.

In the nearly 50 years since Qianlong succeeded to the throne, the senior generals of the Qing Dynasty headed by Fu Heng, Zhaohui, Agui, and Fukang'an were not fools. Among them, a considerable part of the troops led by Zhaohui and Fukang'an were Equipped with artillery imported from England.

Especially Fukang'an, who was appointed by Qianlong to try the Qin case in Guangdong before he went north this time.During this period, the direct gap between the Qing Dynasty and Western firearms has been noticed.After he came back, he suggested to Qianlong to upgrade the firearms.

However, the old Qianlong was most worried about the outflow of firearms to the people, which would then affect the rule of the Manchus, so the matter was finally left alone.

At this time, the Eight Banners of Manchurian, Mongolian and Han outside the pass guarded the border, especially the Qing government often recruited Sauron soldiers to fight, so the spirit of bravery has not subsided.

After the parade, Fukang'an specially inspected the Han army's bird gun cavalry units; Hai Lancha's focus was on the forwards and Xibo soldiers.

When the Han Army of the Eight Banners released the blunderbuss, the school grounds were filled with gunpowder smoke and there were loud gunshots.Fukang'an saw that the blunderbuss soldiers were lined up tightly, and they cast them once without any chaos, so he couldn't help nodding his head in approval.

After the firecrackers, there was a demonstration of the artillery. Most of the cannons of the local Han army artillery units were strange cannons (large guns), majestic cannons, and sub-mother cannons.

After the drill of the local artillery troops in Jilin was completed, the generals brought by Fukang'an from the Beijing Firearms Battalion fired successively, including the victory cannon, the nine-section and ten-percent cannon, and the red-clothed cannon.

Among these artillery pieces, the most advanced one is the "nine sections and ten percent artillery".The cannon is divided into nine sections, plus the bottom section of the cannon, all made of bronze, and each section has a screw ring.The length of the gun is six feet nine inches, and the whole gun weighs 798 catties.

When marching, all the sections of the gun body can be unscrewed and carried separately; when fighting, they can be quickly installed on the gun carriage; in the middle of the gun carriage, a rotary rod is also installed to adjust the height of the muzzle.

Fukang'an was very satisfied with the fire prevention troops stationed in Jilin, he only said one word "reward!"

After hearing this, all the soldiers of the Eight Banners immediately burst into cheers.Everyone heard that this Marshal Fu is generous, so after thanking the emperor, everyone shouted in unison, "Marshal Fu, Lord and Lord!"

Two days later, Fukang'an used imperial envoys to guard the defense, and transferred Jilin to garrison the Eight Banners Han army with 550 shotgun riders, 50 forwards, and Eight Banners riders with 200 soldiers. They went north along the Songhua River by boat to inspect the side wall.It is also one of his tasks as the imperial envoy.

The border wall in the north of Jilin is not the border of the Qing Dynasty, but the boundary with the Mongolian "Gorros Front Banner".The main purpose of the establishment is to prevent people from entering Jilin from the Mongolian border to poach, poach ginseng, and smuggle fur goods.

There are four side gates on the side wall of the entire Jilin General's Mansion defense area, starting from Bayan'e Foromen in the south of the Tuo'erni River, a tributary of the Songhua River in the east, and ending in the Weiyuanbao Gate in the West of Burtuku, with a total length of 622 miles.The side walls are fenced with pine wood, four feet five inches high, and trenches are dug outside the fence wall, each one foot wide and one foot deep.

For more than ten days after that, both Hunchun and Ningguta reported once every two days, but there was no news.

Fukang'an had nothing to do all day long in Jilin City, so he was really impatient.He received the imperial decree and memorials from various places sent by the Military Aircraft Department. At this time, the Hui people's rebellion in Gansu had already occurred.

The Muslim rebellion in Guyuan and Tongwei, Gansu this time occurred on April 46th, and the leading figure was the Protestant imam Tianwu of Fuqiang.The slogan of the return to the army claimed that the imam Ma Mingxin, who was beheaded in the [-]th year of Qianlong's reign, "Zheherenye sect", was determined to revenge.

The transcript also mentioned that Mingshan, the deputy governor of Xi'an, had led the army to counter the rebellion, but Fukang'an knew that Mingshan was an idiot, and it was a ghost to be undefeated.

Seeing that a war in the northwest is imminent.Fukang'an finally decided to personally lead the troops to the south, and in the name of inspection, rushed to Ningguta to sit in town.

At the end of May, I just arrived at Ningguta.Before his butt was hot, Fukang'an received an urgent report from Hunchun.He hurriedly called Hai Lancha and his generals to hold a military meeting.

Hai Lancha rushed back to the camp inside the city from outside Ningguta City.As soon as he entered the commander's tent, he asked loudly: "Marshal, I heard you found it?"

"I found it! It's at the mouth of the Xila River! The navy in Hunchun passed Solenji Island and went east, and they saw the boat from a long distance away!"

Fukang'an pointed to the position of the mouth of the Xila River on the wooden map in the commander's tent, and said: "This place is full of dense forests, and the river is full of branches. The boat is parked in the bay near the mouth of the river. The report of the Hunchun Navy said, The ship was blue and white, with a huge hull, never seen before. But they only saw two white masts, and no sails. I guess the ship was damaged and docked, and the Oros people were going to land for logging and repair .They won't be able to leave for a while!"

"Marshal, tell me, what shall we do!"

Fukang'an said solemnly: "No hurry, the investigation news on the land has not come back yet. It is not clear whether Yalha and Seldan are with these people. I will write a dispatch order later , Stamp the imperial envoys for defense, and let the North Korean navy dispatch."

"North Korea?" Hai Lancha and the generals were taken aback.

"We let the North Korean navy wait for orders around Solenji Island, and block the retreat of those people at any time. When the news from the land arrives, you will lead the army over from the land. Let's make a land and water campaign to encircle and completely wipe out the Destroy these people!"

"The handsome and wise!"

(End of this chapter)