Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 194
Whether the Qing army will come or not, when will it come?

After tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Beihai Town were busy day and night, and everyone was bitten by mosquitoes, the defense system of Fuldan City was finally completed.Now that everyone is finally free, everyone is thinking about this matter.

By the way, if we don't come, wouldn't our bags be for nothing?
Last night, the two generators in the camp finally went on strike due to lack of oil, and all the hundreds of mosquito killer lamps installed in Fuldan City and the barracks were all turned off.Caught off guard, everyone was bitten by mosquitoes.

At this time, Liu Sheng was rubbing cool oil on his forehead.This guy was bitten by a mosquito on his forehead last night, and when he got up in the morning, he looked like a rhinoceros.

And because Zhao Xin has been busy dumping weapons and ammunition in the two time and space recently, he forgot to replenish fuel.So he began pouring diesel back and forth early in the morning; at noon, he finally got the two generators running again.

This made Zhao Xin very angry.In response to the Qing army's attack, many internal affairs plans this year have all been ruined!Oil development on Bitter Leaf Island, new currency issuance, refugees from Henan going north, coal transportation from Ezo, land reclamation in Pingyuan Town, etc. Originally, Zhao Xin wanted to use some matches to open up markets in Jiangnan.It's all over now!It costs at least tens of millions just to buy heavy oil and diesel.

In addition, the exploration work in the plain area on the south bank of Xingkai Lake is not progressing smoothly.In an exploration team sent out a few days ago, two peasants and a horse full of supplies got stuck in the swamp and could not be rescued.So the exploration team turned back to replenish supplies and planned to go north again tomorrow.

In the Sanjiang Plain in this era, there are dense bushes and swamps in summer, where tigers, leopards, bears, and beasts haunt.

According to Bamangong, who served as a guide, the plain is full of swamps in summer; these unfathomable swamps are called "Ha Tang" in Manchu language.The scariest thing among them is the grassland with red puddles. The locals call this "red rust water". When people and horses pass by, they must step on the grass mounds. Can't save it.Judging from this situation, if you want to open up wasteland and farm here in the future, you have to build canals to drain the water in the swamp first.

"We must not let the Qing court go. After this battle, we must hit hard and take Ninggu Pagoda by the way." Zhao Xin muttered.

"That's right, just put this bag on my forehead, and I have to get a piece of land in the south of the Yangtze River." Liu Sheng said, pointing to the big bag on his head.Now let him apply cool oil, and he looks shiny, and it will affect his image too much when he goes out.

"Actually, Ningguta is a good place. As long as we can occupy our feet, we can occupy Sanxing City in the north, and then control the entire Heilongjiang and Wusuli River basins. Go down the river, occupy Jilin City, and threaten Shengjing."

"I see what you want most is the workforce there."

"That's the boundary of this barren mountain, that's the big city."

The two were poor, and a magnet phone in the headquarters rang, and Zhao Xin picked it up.

"Hello? Headquarters? I'm here at Ayi Post. Our patrol boats have blocked two wooden boats nearby. There are more than 30 Qing troops on them, and there seems to be a senior official inside. They said they are going to the Sila River. Surrender!"

In order to transmit surrounding news in a timely manner, the telephone of the headquarters in Juergen City connected ten surrounding checkpoints.In addition, telephone lines have also been set up in Fuldan City and in various forward positions.

Zhao Xin was taken aback when he heard this. A checkpoint is located four kilometers south of Juergen City, just beside the Suifen River.Just listen to the other side of the phone shouting: "Chief, we are a little short of manpower here, it is best to send a platoon over."

"Tell the people on the patrol boat to nail the two wooden boats to death and stop them from going any further! I'll send someone there right away!"

"Yes!"

Zhao Xin put down the phone and shouted to the door: "Jiu Zang! Come in."

"Here!" Jiu Zang opened the door and came in.He was the officer on duty today, and he was supposed to be at the headquarters, but when Zhao Xin arrived, he was asked to stay at the door.

Zhao Xin drafted an order at his desk, signed it himself, and handed it to Jiuzang. "Immediately send a platoon to checkpoint Jiayi. Our patrol boats stopped two Qing ships. Keep them under surveillance, and they are not allowed to withdraw without my order."

"Yes!"

When Liu Sheng heard this, he didn't bother to cover his forehead anymore, he hurriedly got up and asked, "What happened?"

"A sentry post reported that two Qing army wooden boats came and were blocked by our patrol boats."

"how many people?"

"It is said that there are more than 30 people, why do you think they are here?"

"Fuck away!"

Zhao Xin said: "To persuade you to surrender."

"Persuade to surrender?" Liu Sheng was a little confused. The one who persuaded him to surrender came before the fight?As a former modern soldier, he still can't understand the routines of the ancients.

Zhao Xin chuckled and said, "I guess they thought we were morons, so they wanted to come here to be polite first and then soldiers, and to spy on our reality. Besides, when it comes to ancient wars, it doesn't mean that you have to fight to the death. If you really want to fight, Food, munitions, and pensions are all necessary expenses, so save as much as you can. What if people think they can scare us away?"

Liu Sheng said: "Then you mean that the Qing army may not come?"

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "I heard from Ba Mangong that it will start to rain in July, the first snow will come in August, and the river will be iced in September. That Fukang'an He and Agui are both wily masters, let alone Qianlong.

According to my estimation, there is a famine in all parts of the Central Plains. The scale of this drought is unprecedented, and the Qing court can't stand it anymore, so it should be a quick solution.Besides, we killed Hai Lancha before, and the Qing court still hasn't figured out who we are.Didn't Shen Jingdan say before that the imperial edict of the Qing court thought we were Maozi? "

Looking at the entire foreign military strategy during the Qianlong period, from the big and small Jinchuan to the battle of Gurkha, and even the pacification of Taiwan, it was all about seeing people alive and corpses when they died. You can only die in defeat.

Of course, the only exception is the Qing-Burmese War.However, the situation at that time was mainly due to the fact that the climate, water and soil caused too many non-combat attrition, the soldiers were seriously war-weary, and the northerners were not used to the tropical climate in Myanmar at all. Even Fu Heng, a bachelor of economics and strategy, couldn't get sick and died not long after returning to Beijing. Furthermore, Xiaojinchuan rebelled again at that time. For Qianlong, Xiaojinchuan was far more important than Myanmar.

Liu Sheng said: "To paralyze us, to spy on the news?"

Zhao Xin nodded and said: "That's right! After spying on the news, it's time for the army to go out and make a quick decision."

Liu Shengdao: "Then do we still need to see each other? Why don't we just go back?"

Zhao Xin got up and walked around twice, and said: "We still have to see each other. Sooner or later we have to reveal our identities. This is also very important for us to seize the strategically important Ninggu Tower in the future."

"You really want Ning Guta!"

"Why not? I also want to take a day trip in Heilongjiang by yacht."

"Well, I don't know anything about politics. I only care about training and fighting. What do you think?"

Zhao Xin rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Our trenches and positions have been dug, and we can't hide them. So we have to go to the river to talk to them."

In the hut on the Suifenhe Road, Na Qitai looked at the strange gray boat not far away, feeling lingering in his heart.He really wanted to bombard and sink the opponent.It's a pity he didn't dare, and couldn't.

Not to mention that this gray monster boat was obviously much bigger than his Lu boat, the short-barreled iron cannon on the top of the opponent's boat was really powerful.Not to mention being able to shoot in succession, the power is so fierce, that Qitai has never seen in his life, even the double gun on the bow of his own boat was blown away and fell into the water, that is an iron cannon weighing a hundred catties!

In addition, on the river bank on the north side, more than a dozen small people in colorful clothes were squatting or crawling, all holding a bird gun in their hands, pointing at the two Lu boats.

The width of the river here is only three or four feet. Once there is a fight, the people on the boat will not be able to escape.

To put it bluntly, it wasn't that Qitai didn't want to run, but he really couldn't!
Seeing the muzzle of the black hole kept pointing at him, the members of the capitulation regiment on the hut lost the courage to resist. Everyone only felt that their throats were dry and their legs were weak.While Na Qitai was panicked, he was also quite strange.The person on the gray boat just now said that he had broken into the territory of Beihai Town and wanted to stop the boat for inspection.

What the hell is Beihai Town?He is most worried that this place is very close to the city of Fuldan, so there may be bad luck.

At this time, a personal guard Geshha approached Na Qitai and whispered: "My lord, this is not an option. The subordinates have an idea. Let's let the sailors sneak off the ship from the starboard side, dive over, and seize the other party's boat." .”

"Crack!" Na Qitai turned around and slapped Geshha on the face, cursing in a low voice: "You bastard, you want to kill yourself to find a rope! You have also seen the power of that iron cannon, didn't you?" It is impossible for me and the whole ship to be buried with me!"

Geshha was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to plead guilty.Na Qitai said coldly: "Ask them what they want to do? Neither let us turn around nor let us go ashore. What do they mean?"

Nagoshha walked to the bow, put his hands around his mouth and shouted at the patrol boat: "Neither let us pass, nor let us retreat. What do you mean?"

The sailor from Beihai Town who was in charge of sailing the boat turned on the communicator and said coldly, "Wait! Don't act rashly, bullets don't have eyes!"

After suffering like this for more than an hour, a sailor standing behind the side of the hut suddenly turned his head and said to Na Qitai who was sitting in the canopy: "My lord, they are here again!"

Na Qitai got up and looked through the small window on the canopy, and saw dozens of people holding bird guns running out from the woods on the north side of the river, all wearing colorful short jackets.These people rushed to the bank of the river at a fast pace, and raised their blunderbusses at themselves.Another person shouted: "People on the wooden boat, get off the boat!"

After dawdling for half an hour, the two huts finally docked, when Na Qitai got off the diving board supported by his subordinates.He straightened his official cap, tidied his official robes, and said to the person who called them to disembark just now with a serious face: "Who the hell dare to intercept the official ship? Didn't you see the yellow dragon flag on the bow?"

As the platoon leader, Miichiro tilted his head to look at the yellow dragon flag on the boat, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it, I don't know it."

"You!" Na Qitai's nose was almost crooked, and he said angrily, "Who are you waiting for?"

"Didn't you say you were going to the Sila River to persuade them to surrender?" Miichiro rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "Our chief said that we don't need to go to the Sila River, and talk in Fuldan City!"

"What?! You occupied Fuldan City!" Na Qitai's guess was finally confirmed. After being shocked, he immediately came to his senses and immediately asked: "You are the E people of the Xila River? Look at you He speaks Mandarin and looks like I am a Chinese person, but he is willing to be the dog's leg of the E people by working for a tiger!"

Miichiro curled his lips and said, "My lord, we are not your citizens of the Qing Dynasty. Save your energy, if you have anything to say, we will talk about it after meeting our chief later."

Before Na Qitai came here, he had heard that the E people's bird guns are powerful, and he thought that if you have the ability, you put down the bird guns, and see if I can't kill you.He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then said in a deep voice, "Okay, I'll wait here!"

A quarter of an hour later, more than a dozen migrant workers from Beihai Town arrived with two carriages.They first found an open space, took tools to clear out a flat open space, and then began to unload things from the carriage.These people first cleared out an open space, built a sunshade exposed to the wind on all sides, and then put a round table, a few stools, a kettle, and a few cups.

Na Qitai and the others watched the migrant workers busy with disdain, and saw that the tables and chairs were made of logs, and said in their hearts: "The barbarians from outside the territory are really vulgar!"

After a while, a rider appeared holding a red flag waving in the wind. Behind them were Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng on horseback; behind them was a platoon of soldiers on horseback.

Na Qitai looked at the pattern on the red flag, it was a white ring with many teeth, inside was a white five-pointed star, the space between the five-pointed star and the ring was painted black.

"What kind of flag is this?" He turned his head to look at Anthony at the side and rear, and the other party shook his head, indicating that he didn't recognize him.

After Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng got off their horses, they exchanged military salutes with Miichiro, and went straight into the awning to sit down.

Miichiro came over and introduced Nachitai: "These two are our chiefs. Please go over."

Na Qitai guessed that "the chief" might be the meaning of the leader, and he followed Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng for a few glances, and found that the clothes of these two men were almost the same as those of the surrounding soldiers with guns, but the height of the other was a bit scary; He himself is considered a strong man, and he only reaches the height of the opponent's shoulders.

"Wait!" Miichiro stretched out his hand to stop him. "You can only take one person there."

Na Qitai couldn't care less about getting angry at this moment, he just wanted to finish the conversation and go back by boat.In his eyes, people like Zhao Xin are a bunch of barbarians who don't know how to live or die!He motioned for others to wait here, and called Anthony to go under the awning.

Na Qitai folded his hands behind his back, cleared his throat, and said with a straight face: "My lord, Ning Guta's deputy commander, Na Qitai, is here to appease you in the name of the emperor." After speaking, he pointed to the standing The priest Anthony at the rear said: "This is the deputy envoy, the priest of the Eros Kingdom, Anthony."

Zhao Xin didn't speak, Liu Sheng nodded, stretched out his hand and said, "Bring it."

"Take what?"

"Imperial decree! Doesn't the imperial court have to have an imperial decree to recruit security?"

"Joke, what I brought is the emperor's oral order."

"Oh, you can say whatever you want."

"You, you have no imperial constitution, you are too presumptuous!"

Liu Sheng sneered, and said disdainfully: "Fu Kang'an was beaten away by us, and Hai Lancha was beaten to death by us. Do you still think we should be afraid of you?"

Then Qitai was so blocked that he couldn't speak, why didn't he say anything implicit?

Seeing this, Priest Anthony hurriedly said, "You two, we want to talk to your boss. As a compatriot, I have a lot to say to him."

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng looked at each other, and then said: "You two, let's get to know each other. I am the big boss of Beihai Town, Zhao Xin. His name is Liu Sheng, and he is my deputy."

"Oh?" Na Qitai raised his eyebrows, looked at Zhao Xin and said, "Chief Zhao, who did you learn this Mandarin from?"

Zhao Xindao: "Parents and teachers. Who else do you think I can learn from?"

"Are you a Bannerman?"

"I'm sorry, but I'm really not. May I ask what your Manchu surname is?" Zhao Xin deliberately said a few words, so that the other party could not figure out the way.

"Uh, my official surname." Na Qitai had the feeling of returning to Beijing to chat with the neighbors in the alleys. He was about to say it out of the way, but he suddenly reacted.Why should I tell you my last name!
"Crack!" Na Qitai slapped the table and questioned, "Did you kill those [-] armored soldiers and [-] bannermen on Xiongdao?"

Zhao Xin nodded. "Yes. I did it with ten people."

"What about the twelve missing soldiers?"

"Not only the twelve, but also the six hundred captured by Fukang'an last time. They are all working as coolies in the mountains to dig for sins."

"Aren't the Oros people occupying the mouth of the Sila River?"

"I caught two of them from the north, and they stink."

"You guys did what happened in Yangzhou?"

"There's a lot going on in Yangzhou. The one you asked about?"

"Salt merchant Wang's family and the skinny horse."

"The Mus snatched the skinny horse, and the Wangs really don't know each other." Zhao Xin continued to pretend to be stupid, and he even used the Bannerman's dialect.

Na Qitai suddenly raised his head and laughed loudly, he used laughter to hide the resentment in his heart.Who is it that made the emperor and a group of adults in the Military Aircraft Department think that the opponent would be a group of Orosians? !He squinted at Zhao Xin, thinking that maybe this kid came from Beijing, and he was full of Beijing movies.

At this time, Anthony took the opportunity to ask hastily: "You said you captured two of my compatriots from the north?"

"A priest like you is now working on the other side of the Sila River to make atonement."

"My God! How can you mistreat an angel of God?"

Liu Sheng on the side suddenly said angrily: "You shitty emissary! Who allowed you to build churches on the territory of the Ainu people to collect taxes?"

Anthony distinguished: "That is a barren land, which was first discovered by our people."

Zhao Xin raised his hand to stop it and said, "Stop it, priest. The Aizu people have their own king, and you have occupied their territory without the permission of the Aizu king."

"On what terms will you agree to release the two priests?"

"Do coolies for 20 years." Zhao Xin opened his mouth to talk nonsense.

"God, why do you have to do coolies for everyone you arrest?" Anthony stretched out his hands and drew a cross.

(End of this chapter)