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Chapter 1462 Artillery
Thousands of miles a day.

No matter what Xiaobai thinks, he can't think of what it means to go a thousand miles a day.

From here to Ningxia in the future, they walked for two years, and they can go back in ten days?
Even if Wu Bin told him that the Qinglong used to transport troops is different from the one used to report letters,
Qi Bai didn't dare to think about such a day, wouldn't it be that the right time and place didn't matter, and all wars would have to be fought over and over along the railway line.

In fact, this kind of situation has already begun to appear in the words of the painter Wu Bin. The unscrupulous people outside the Great Wall are busy stealing the railway tracks, and the horse thieves are busy robbing the trains;

But generally speaking, there are still more road protection teams, and many small tribes that are not qualified to participate in the Western Expedition also volunteered to join the road protection.

Because the Ming Dynasty changed the quality of life of the nomadic tribes. Of course, these small tribes did not think that it was the Ming Dynasty that changed these things. Their eyes could not see that far, but the railway is close at hand. They think that the railway of the Ming Dynasty has changed. their quality of life.

This makes it necessary to mention the uranium, the raw material for nuclear weapons of the Ming Empire - the iron pot.

In the past, because the Ming Dynasty refused to export iron pots, cooking was a big problem for the tribes on the grasslands, so that the most common way for the tribes to eat a good meal during the Chinese New Year was to boil meat in skin bags.

Very miserable.

Going south year by year, the most important strategic purpose is naturally to rob, but for the tribesmen who participated in the robbery, the main purpose is to bring home an iron pot to cook, which is more practical than anything else.

Even Ida Tonggong didn't solve this problem, because the Tumote department in my answer has iron pots, and there are Han people and iron mines in Bansheng three hundred miles away, so they can make iron pots by themselves.

Other tribes still do not have this treatment.

In fact, this is a beautiful misunderstanding. The courtiers of the Ming Dynasty believed that the nomadic tribes on the Mongolian grassland obtained iron pots through trade, and would melt the iron pots to make weapons, which in turn killed the Ming people.

But in fact, they overestimated each other. The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty could melt cast iron to make weapons through blast furnaces, but the grassland tribes did not have blast furnaces.

People don't have the ability to melt cast iron and re-smelt weapons, even if they give [-] iron pots, it's useless.

Until the railway was built on the grassland, the small tribes on the side really tasted the sweetness and volunteered to join the battle to defend the railway, making the horse bandits who robbed the train suffer.

Even before Xibai felt it, the veins of the railway had been paved around him, on the other side of the Kama River-the front of Grand Duke Belsky and Chief Karacha.

Belsky really had no words to describe what happened to him in his heart.

Just five days after leading the army eastward, news came from the soldiers staying on the banks of the Kama River that the towns on the west bank had been robbed by the Tatars.

They wanted to go back, but the main force was surrounded by another group of Siberian Tatars on the east bank. Fortunately, they carried enough luggage to get out of Checheng, so they avoided the bad luck of being swallowed up by the tide of Tatars.

But the maneuverability of the car battalion is extremely poor. As long as it is opened, the enemy will not withdraw, and they will not dare to withdraw, especially when the mountains and plains are full of enemies.

Belsky didn't expect that there were so many enemies on the east bank. In his estimation, the enemy army could not be as large as 30. According to Tsarist Russia's intelligence, the entire Siberian Khanate has only 20 people, and there are only four young and strong. Wan, why come up with 30 troops?

He had already guessed the composition of the enemy army in his mind. There were 20 to [-] main forces, [-] to [-] auxiliary soldiers, and the remaining [-] civilians, scattered in the vast Ural Mountains.

Even if you encounter the enemy on the east bank, at most you will meet a few hundreds of teams, hold them back for a while, and then retreat to the west bank, or even go down the current to the hinterland of the south to attack the logistics team. It is not impossible to win.

All his strategic ideas were based on this kind of prediction, so he did not withdraw when he encountered the first scout team of hundreds of people under Karacha's command. Instead, he set up Checheng to defeat this armed force.

What happened later was completely different from what he had imagined.

After setting up Checheng, the first army of the Khanate who came to reinforce it was more than a thousand; followed by two more troops came to help. The draggers are gone.

Belsky didn't dare to break out at night, so he wanted to use Checheng to carry him overnight, and then break out again the next morning.

But the next morning, Karacha came, and with him were more than 6000 herdsmen who roared forward, and their fighting will was so strong that the Rakshasa army's breakout failed.

The reason why the riders of the Siberian Khanate have a strong will to fight is because they are enjoying unprecedented organizational skills.

In the past, when facing the Cossack Checheng, as long as they could not get any benefits, they would disperse on the same day. In essence, one group of robbers fought against another group of robbers. All problems.

But now it doesn't exist.

A steady stream of reinforcements went to the battlefield from all over the country. Facing Checheng, they were helpless. A report from Karacha was sent to the Chinese army. Later, the canned beef and mutton were immediately transported to the front line with the convoy and horse team. The nearest artillery unit was dispatched immediately after receiving the order.

Qi Jiguang had only one order: besiege the city and avoid war, and don't escape anyone.

The veins of railway construction on the Mongolian grasslands spread to Siberia, and these artillerymen came to support.

There are two types of artillery, one is soldiers who handle artillery, they are professionals from the Nine Borders and Beiyang.

Another kind is the artillery soldiers who Qi Jiguang sent the heavy artillery back to Yili last year and took over from Yili. They are professionals from inside and outside the city.

According to the order of Emperor Wanli, in the law, those who steal railroad tracks by manpower, regardless of whether they say what they say or what they say, are required to pay compensation for losses if they are caught, and those who kill themselves will be ordered to confiscate their property. In addition, there is another punishment, which can be chosen by oneself.

Either become a Qinglong brake household, with wages, holidays, no hereditary inheritance, and work for a lifetime, running around the world with Qinglong, pushing and pulling the very heavy brake levers of this era by human power.

Either serve as a military household in the army, join the artillery, and drag the artillery when the pack horses are insufficient and the roads are muddy.

The artillery soldiers that Qi Jiguang took over from Yili were strange people captured from all over the country, and they all chose to be exiled for stealing railroad tracks. Because the imperial court learned that the Siberian swamp was full of difficult roads, they gathered more than a thousand people and gave them all to Qi Jiguang. delivered.

In Qi Jiguang's eyes, these thousands of people are not guilty thieves, there are at least a hundred of them Liu Xian who are extremely physically strong.

Liu Xian, the famous anti-Japanese general who ruled the north and south of the river, was born with great strength. When he was young, he was so poor that he wanted to hang himself. He went to the temple to secretly hide the tribute in the big bell, and hid in it to eat when he was hungry. His life was extremely embarrassing.

Until the governor recruited soldiers in case of war, he was encouraged to go to the battlefield, wielding a broken guillotine and hacking to death 60 or [-] people in one battle, and he was on the rise as a deputy to thousands of households.

Now these artillery units driving artillery carts to the front line are actually Qi Jiguang's key observation objects. These people will become generals in the future.

(End of this chapter)