open sea

Chapter 1518
The war in Siberia has stopped.

The war finally ended at the confluence of the Kama River and the Volga River, and Chechen Khan led his army to advance to the city of Kazan to garrison.

And Qi Jiguang dispersed his troops on the south bank of the Kama River, because winter in Siberia is coming again.

The battle was only halfway through when the cold wind blew over from the north, saving the pursued Rakshasa army.

And Qi Jiguang really wanted to stop, their battle line was too long, the vanguard had already reached Kazan, and their troops were still stationed in the southeast of the Ural Mountains.

He has been in this land for a long time and has experience. Knowing that every autumn he can't predict how many troops he will have next spring, he simply doesn't march.

Freezing to death and starving to death are all big problems.

The Daming people in Siberia are undoubtedly lonely. The Mongolian brothers who were recruited saw that they were not fighting, so they rode pony horses and led their companions into the forest to catch game, but the Ming people panicked.

According to the usual practice, for the Central Plains people who love fighting but are not good at fighting, and who don't like war but are very good at war, this person, no matter where he lives, he has to grow food as long as he is idle.

This is called soldiers and horses not moving, food and grass go first.

But it's hard to grow vegetables in this damn place.

But in the final analysis, where in this world is there anything that can stop people's desire to grow vegetables?
Under Qi Jiguang's command, Zhu Yu commanded the envoy. There was a thousand households named Mi Wanchun who was born as a martial artist.

Mi Wanchun's father, Mi Yu, was the deputy preacher of a thousand households. He used to be a hundred households in brocade clothes in the palace, and was stationed in the Goose Hui Pond—the place where Lord Long Qing broke cucumbers in winter and smelled them.

Mr. Mi Yu is getting old, so he will definitely not be able to fight. He is not on the front line in battle, so he will arrange logistics for the front line troops in the back, and do some things like prospecting.

In the summer, his people discovered coal mines in the mountains on the south bank of the Kama River. The reserves were huge, and it was not clear how many mines there were for a while. Later, they opened a three-acre vegetable field on the south bank to grow Chinese cabbage.

Those who are idle watch him plant, and they plant it themselves. By autumn, the vegetable field here will already be thousands of acres.

But in autumn, nothing can grow in their fields, and even the things planted in the fields are damaged by the severe cold.

It made Mr. Mi very angry.

When it's cold, getting up is a difficult problem, Mr. Liu Yong said, this is called "sleep after getting up in the cold", and it is very normal to stay in bed in cold weather.

But Miyu can't, he not only doesn't pay attention to 'the firewood is soft and warm, and I don't go out with the raccoon slave', he also wants to call everyone to go out, report to Zhu Yu that two hundred engineers will come, and build it on the spot greenhouse.

The fire was raging on the permafrost, and the small mule carts transported the coal from the mountains one by one, and the bricks were burned to build the house, with interlayers on the walls and kangs on the bottom. It took a long time, and finally lived in a greenhouse with leeks and bean sprouts.

Anyway, relying on the river, there is neither water shortage nor coal shortage.

Nothing can beat his desire to grow vegetables.

It's just that the engineers and soldiers who worked with him suffered a lot. As soon as Qi Jiguang found out about the construction of greenhouses, he immediately prepared to implement the whole army.

Qi Jiguang first drew a line on the location of the mine veins on the map, and then drew a line on the Kama River. He selected several places in the middle of the two lines as settlements, and then sent troops to station and began to build greenhouses.

Qi Jiguang is not idle at the moment, he is busy printing books.

The imperial court had just sent him a set of books in the summer. It was the "Zhan Thorn Records" returned to the imperial court by Magui, the Eastern military mansion. It was Magui's summary of the failure of the Ming army's first Eastern Expedition.

The book records in detail their climate, hydrology, topography, environment, and tribal conditions in their hometown of Nurgan, Wangxia Prefecture, Heishui Mohe Islands, and Majiagang—as well as their survival experience.

Although most of the text in it cannot bring reference value to Qi Jiguang, after all, the space is different, and the environment, hydrology, and topography cannot be used for reference, but the attitude of making fun while suffering in the book makes Qi Jiguang appreciate it very much.

For example, Ma Gui believes in "Zhan Thorn Records" that the term "cowardly as a mouse" is wrong, because mice have holes so they are very courageous, but other animals without holes will run far away when they see people.

The book even tries to teach soldiers participating in the Second Eastern Expedition how to find a pet that suits them on the way.

The most recommended is to go to the Jurchen Envoy’s Deer Department to adopt a deer, the kind with long hair, can ride and help to carry things, and it is still warm when sleeping.

The second is to raise two sled dogs from Nurgan's hometown. The big ones are not the small ones. The small ones only know how to run wild, which is a bit silly.

What's more, dig out a wolf den in the hometown of Nurgan, and raise a wolf from a young age. Grasshopper, one kicks and two die together.

One of Magui's subordinates raised the first wolf, and later that man froze to death. The wolf's mood was not good for the next few months, he would not eat meat, and all the hair on his tail fell out.

Raising birds and carvings is not recommended. It is useless. Hunting does not help much, and it is easy to expose the whereabouts of the troops.

Although there is a registered bear soldier in Majiagang, it is also not recommended to raise bears. Although he is smart, he can wear a helmet, march in line, and kneel down, but he can’t do it if he drinks too much. The chief has hundreds of households, and the general can't control them.

After one year old, no one is allowed to enter his barracks, and he is anxious when he enters.

Generally speaking, there is a big problem with mentality, and I can't bear the mission of being a banner soldier. I don't think I am a glorious Daming Majiagang Banner Army, but think that all other glorious Daming Majiagang Banners Jun is a safe twoleg that will feed him.

In addition to these funny things, the book also has a lot of useful knowledge for Qi Jiguang, such as how to protect against the cold in winter, precautions for building a house, etc., all of which were transcribed and summarized by Qi Jiguang, and then set as the standard in a way that is more suitable for this land , issued to the whole army.

Since the beginning of the Western Expedition, the problem facing Qi Jiguang has always been not the enemy, but his own logistics. No one place can afford to support his huge and innumerable troops.

They have come out of the wilderness and returned to human society, but there is no small city here that can support [-] troops. Even if they go further west, Qi Jiguang has no expectations.

The Ming army must solve more than half of the food problem on the spot, so that the troops can be fed, and respond to the next attack with a better mental outlook.

Anyway, time is my time, and even Osman is transporting food for him. Sooner or later, they will have enough food, and then they will pour into Moscow and the Ukrainian steppe like a flood of floodgates.

What's more, it is uncertain when the Ming army on the other side of the world will suddenly appear in front of him.

The commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army was not in a hurry, and even wanted to raise a brown bear.

(End of this chapter)