Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 309 Plan ahead
In the early morning at the end of May, as the thick fog had just dissipated, there was chaos and noise on the pier near Chita in Tsarist Russia.

Dozens of barges and log rafts from Irkutsk have appeared in the sight of people on the pier. Some of these ships are full of immigrants, some are carrying restless cattle, and some are pretending to be Full of hay, grain seeds and farm implements and the like.

In the cabin of the barge, farmers who had migrated here from Tobolsk and Yeniseysk provinces mixed with Cossack prisoners who had just been released from the Siberian exile.Drinking, cursing, frowning, and more people are full of fear and anxiety about the future life, they quietly look outside through the window railing on the barge.

Since Ekaterina II confirmed the plan to attack the Heilongjiang River Basin, in order to achieve the goal of rapid immigration after invading the Far East, General Suvorov suggested that Ekaterina II be exiled to Tobolsk Province and Ye 1 serfs in Nisesk Province were selected and sent to the Irkutsk Territory for reclamation in order to reduce the logistical pressure on the army next year.After the offensive plan is completed, these people will be transported to the Heilongjiang River Basin.

In 1767, Catherine II issued an order prohibiting peasants from suing their masters.From then on, any accusation made by serfs against landlords was considered a false accusation and would be punished with lifelong exile.In the following five years, more than 2 serfs were exiled to Tobolsk and Yeniseysk provinces alone.

On a barge waiting to land, a Cossack man in a dirty and torn jumper and a pair of old riding boots with his mouth open was drinking from a bottle and humming off tune. folk songs.He looked around, then suddenly turned around and approached a beautiful girl wearing a square shawl, shook the bottle in his hand and said, "Girl, we're finally here. Come on, let's have a drink of vodka to celebrate." .”

The girl was only 13 years old. She pulled the shawl in fear, covered half of her face, and turned her head to a woman holding a child next to her.The woman looked sad, and she sat with her husband on the luggage behind her.

The Cossack saw that the girl was ignoring her, so he stretched out his hand and pinched the girl's face lightly, and said in his mouth, "Who are you showing me the frowning face? Are you afraid that you won't find a man in the future? What do you think of me?"

The girl hid in the woman's arms after hearing the scream, and the woman's husband, who had been silent all this time, jumped up, grabbed the Cossack by the neck, and said angrily, "You dirty drunkard! She It's my niece, if you dare to touch her again, I'll throw you into the river to feed the fish!"

The drunkard scolded: "Egor, what are you in a hurry for? Polya is not married to anyone." He was about to continue talking when he saw many gloomy Cossacks in the cabin glaring at him, and he couldn't help being frightened. I have to stop talking.After Yegor pushed him away, the drunkard resentfully walked towards the cabin door.

At this moment the beautiful Polya burst into tears in the woman's arms.The woman reached out and stroked Polya's blond hair, comforting: "Son, don't cry, everything, everything will be fine, forget about them, they are already in heaven now"

As she spoke, the woman herself began to cry.There was a sigh in the cabin.

Polya is from the Yenisei Province. Two months ago, her family won the lottery and had to move the whole family again.People and animals were mixed along the way, and the air in the cabin was poor. Her parents and a dozen immigrants all got scurvy and died. They were wrapped in white cloth, tied to stones and sank into the river for water burial.

Now the destination has arrived, but she is the only one left in the family.Is this the happy life that officials talk about?
Yegor was Polya's uncle, and of course he could take her in.But Yegor's own two cows broke their ropes and jumped into the river because they could not get water on the boat, and were strangled to death by the barge behind them.How can farmers farm without cattle?
Poor Yegor took out his pipe, smoked the bitter and spicy soil tobacco, and muttered to himself: "God, why did you let us leave our homes?"

The door of the cabin opened, and an officer in charge of escort poked his head out, and said to everyone in the cabin: "The place is here, everyone get off the boat!"

At this moment, a disheveled fellow stood up and said to the officer, "Hey, officer, can I get rich by bringing me here from Irkutsk?"

The officer said indifferently: "You can get rich if you dare to sacrifice your life. Why, do you still dare to question the words of the governor?"

The Cossack holding the wine bottle at the door glanced at the officer and asked, "Are there many women here?"

The officer gave him a blank look, and continued to yell at the cabin: "Hurry up! Get off the ship!"

So the timid farmers got up and carried their luggage and packages, and got off the barge amidst a lot of noise, crying, and complaints.

Ten days later, the Yegor family followed the foreman to a camp south of Chita.The felt-like grass here has disappeared, replaced by densely packed tent camps.On the edge of the forest not far away, there are large stumps left after felling.

Yegor’s job is to log in the forest every day, and then remove the branches and forks of the felled trees, saw them into planks, and finally send them to the drying room for drying.According to the foreman, these timbers are reserved for shipbuilding next year.And not only here, from Chita to Nerchinsk, from Barguzin to Selengesk, large-scale logging and land reclamation work is going on.

Speaking of the 2th century Tsarist Russian man-made ship, it really destroyed the forest properly.Relying on the rich forest resources, a large part of the new inland barges built every year are one-off.That is to say, after one trip of transportation is completed, they will be sold directly as firewood, and another batch will be made next year.Even in the mid-nineteenth century, there were more than [-] ships traveling on rivers in Russia every year, and nearly [-]% of them were sold as firewood after unloading their cargo.

Ivan Jacques, who was instigating this invasion plan, knew better than anyone else that if he wanted to occupy the Heilongjiang River Basin, killing alone would not do; with the people under official governance, that was a symbol of sovereignty.He used all kinds of lies, such as the bottom of the Heilongjiang River is covered with gold, and happiness can be obtained there, to gather these yeoman, serfs and prisoners together, intending to realize his immigration strategy.

Relying on the Ob River-Irtysh River system, a large amount of military supplies and immigrants were transported from Kazan to East Siberia, and then transported all the way to Irkutsk through the Yenisei River system.

In order to prevent the invasion plan from being leaked in advance, Ivan Jacobi set up the assembly of troops and supplies in Irkutsk and Chita.Because it is located in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, when the offensive starts next year, all the ships will go down the river, and it will only take a few days to cross the border.

At the same time, groups of spies disguised as nomadic Mongols began to move towards the Sino-Russian border between Selenghsk and Nerchinsk, waiting for an opportunity to cross the border.Their task is to cross the border to spy on news, obtain hydrological data, and at the same time find opportunities to instigate the Khalkha Mongolian tribe and Beihai Town.

"Three, two, one, detonate!"

"boom!!!"

A roar like a thunderbolt suddenly resounded through the wilderness, and a large number of clods of soil and gravel flew up to more than [-] meters into the air and then scattered to the ground, and the smoke and dust lingered for a long time.Those migrant workers who were hiding in bunkers hundreds of meters away had never seen such a scene in their life. They covered their ears and turned pale with fright.

Fan Tong, wearing a hard hat, emerged from a bunker, looked at the thick smoke billowing in the distance, and said excitedly: "It's really exciting!"

Cao Peng, who was in charge of blasting at the side, said with a proud face: "This is where it is. In a few days, the Whale Bay will explode the mountain, and it will be more exciting then."

Fan Tong asked curiously, "Explode the mountain?"

"Yes, I heard that a seaport town is going to be built over there, and there is a small mountain in the way." Cao Peng closed the cover of the detonator and asked again: "Tomorrow, we will organize a shooting range shooting, will you go?"

Fan Tong said: "I heard what Wu Anan said this morning, but I ignored him."

Cao Peng smiled and said, "Are you still angry with him?"

Fan Tong arrived two weeks ago with the last batch of fifteen recruits.After they got off the plane, Wu Anan drove them to play in Vladivostok for two days, and then they all went to Zhao Xin's small ranch.

After one night, when Fan Tong realized what it was like, he was already in the eighteenth century.In addition to being angry, Fan Tong couldn't help Zhao Xin, so he could only curse Wu Ping'an as an old liar.

Fortunately, Wu Ping'an has been a leader for many years, and he is very good at reassuring people.He told Fan Tong that although there are no blond girls here, there are also many island girls.Which one do you like, brother, I will help you to be a matchmaker.

Fan Tong had no choice but to sign the trust document. He idled around in Beihai Town for a few days, wandered around, and found that the island country girl in this time and space was not what he imagined, so he jumped up and scolded Wu Anan again, and even said that he was How fooled.After talking about it, I came to the blasting site to help. In fact, I just came to see something new.

Cao Peng laughed for a while, and then said: "You, don't even think about it. There are a few good-looking people who have been doing physical labor for many years. I heard from Fatty Chen from the Civil Affairs Bureau that these people used to be hungry people, so they are all hungry. Like a zombie in a movie."

The two were chatting here, and the person in charge of inspecting the explosion site over there inspected all the explosion sites and announced that the alert was lifted.With the sharp and piercing whistle sounding from all over the bunkers, thousands of migrant workers entered the blasting site to clean up the stonework.

Fan Tong leisurely picked up the thermos bottle, ready to refill the tea, but found that the kettle was empty, so he called to a young man seven or eight meters away: "Chun, go get a pot of hot water."

After hearing this, Chunlai walked quickly into the bunker, and went out to fetch water with an empty thermos.He was transferred from the town office of Fuldan City. On the surface, he took care of the daily life of the cross-travelers on the construction site and helped dispatch migrant workers, but in fact he was a "little secret agent" installed by Zhao Xin.

Now Wu Anan is in charge of the construction of the thermal power plant in Beihai Town, and Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong each have a lot of work to do.According to what Zhao Xin and Wu Ping'an had previously discussed, the more than 100 new traversers were under Wu Ping'an's own management.

There is a specialization in the art industry, Zhao Xin understands this.But although he didn't intervene, the little gold medal spy still arranged some.So whether it's the power plant site or the daily life of these newcomers, he will know what's going on.

A few days later, Fan Tong was transferred to another construction site by Wu Ping An to be responsible for the construction of the road from the port to the power plant area.This road will be used to transport coal from the port to the power plant in the future, so the requirements for the road are very high. The roadbed needs to be excavated in the early stage, and then paved with stone materials, and finally the road surface is hardened.In order to reduce further troubles in the future, all roads, water supply and drainage, and circuits in all projects must be constructed in advance.There is no need for seven links and one leveling these days, but three links and one leveling are enough.

At the turn of spring and summer, Beihai Town has many major projects to start, including a thermal power plant, a small fertilizer plant for the production of synthetic ammonia, and the entire Whale Bay port project.The Portuguese engineer, Pereira, began to survey and design the military port in the east according to Zhao Xin's instructions. Unlike Whale Bay, two breakwaters and several forts were to be built on the military port side.

In June, the exercise headquarters issued an order, and the troops at the training base in Beihai Town went north in batches.At the same time, in the process of marching northward, all ministries were required to use companies as units to conduct day and night actual combat exercises.

The scale of troop mobilization this time is based on battalions, and each batch consists of two battalions.The purpose of this is to allow the battalions to conduct actual military exercises in advance on the way to Fuldan City, so as to mobilize the enthusiasm of all ministries to participate in the exercises.At the same time, it also made each department familiar with various tactical actions before the official start of the exercise.

So on the way from Beihai Town to Fuerdan City, the wild animals in the mountains and forests were run wild and exhausted by the sudden intrusion of humans.Pheasants, wild boars, roe deer, etc. all became the Chinese food of the first batch of troops, and they were regarded as teeth-beating sacrifices.

Because it was the first confrontation exercise during the march, each battalion was full of mistakes and tricks.Some were mistakes made by the commanders, and some were tactical mistakes of the soldiers; as for the lack of maintenance of the firearms, the lack of experience in night battles in the mountains and forests was a joke.

For example, a certain company is responsible for defense, and the fixed post responsible for duty needs to dig trenches and clear the shooting area.As a result, some people used too much force, the trench was dug too deep, and the surrounding grass was not cleaned up. When the opponent crawled up and touched it, they couldn't see anything and were directly blocked in the trench.

Some troops practiced defensive shooting at night, and all the machine guns on the position fired at the same time, not even keeping spares.The result is a simultaneous ceasefire and simultaneous reloading.

What's more, the platoon leader of a certain platoon asked his subordinates to run behind to report the situation to the company commander.Without saying a word, the soldier stood up and ran towards the back. He was scratched by numerous tree branches and tripped over by countless tree roots in a short distance of tens of meters.After he finished reporting the situation, he turned around and continued to run wildly. Halfway through the run, he found that the shouting and killing in front of him had stopped. After a closer look, Nima went back and forth for a few minutes, and the platoon was completely wiped out.

(End of this chapter)