Many young and middle-aged knights who escaped when the tribe was attacked dispersed and reunited, following the mighty team.

They all know that the larger the team, the harder it is to lead them, and they think they may seize the opportunity to steal the family.

Who would have thought that Geng Zhanghua sent so many patrol teams that it was impossible to follow the rules.

Those who were following were constantly discovered, and were subsequently chased and intercepted by more patrols.

Fortunately, Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Liu Chuanzong, etc. all promoted it loudly in Mongolian at the first time.

Inform the stragglers of Karaqin who were trapped in the encirclement that their family members had not been massacred.

If they choose to surrender, they will be returned to their families immediately.

If they were killed because of their stubborn resistance, their families would be implicated and they would become slaves from then on.

Most of the young adults who escaped realized that they could not survive the winter. In fact, they had already lost their fighting spirit. The reason why they still lingered on was because they could not let go of the home in their hearts.

When they were surrounded and tried to surrender, no one was found who was willing to sacrifice their lives.

Of course, Tatars do not read the Four Books and Five Classics, and do not understand that "when times are poor, we can only see things, and we can draw pictures one by one."

They slaughtered the weak with great ferocity, but when faced with the strong, they knelt down without any psychological burden.

Therefore, dozens or even hundreds of Karaqin cavalry returned every day, and more and more people returned to the west.

Seeing the heavy snowfall, Geng Zhanghua let out a long sigh. As long as he intensifies his patrol for a few more hours, those who are hiding nearby to spy or those who are following secretly will have nowhere to hide!

After a day or two, the wind and snow on the prairie will erase all traces.

Even if the Jiannu and the Karaqin people once again organized an alliance of tens of thousands of troops, it would not be easy to accurately discover the whereabouts of the Biao troops in a timely manner.

When Huang Yi led his men and horses to carry the captured goods to the winter camp of the Hedanbaat'er tribe, heavy snow had just begun to fall!

He was so happy at that time that he actually shouted loudly: "Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest!"

The late Ming Dynasty was the Little Ice Age, and there were more extreme weather conditions, either drought or floods, or locusts blocking out the sun.

Coupled with the imperial court's civil strife, the official system collapsed, and a large number of people fled and became refugees. The government was completely powerless and unable to build water conservancy projects.

Therefore, if there is too much rain, it will be a flood, and if there is less rain, it will be a drought. After the drought, if there is less rain the next year, locusts may cause a disaster.

Huang Yi knew very well that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was actually 30% natural disasters and 70% man-made disasters, and man-made disasters were far more destructive than natural disasters.

Together we can fight against natural disasters.

The territory and sphere of influence of the base area should be the territory of Zhangbei County, Shangdu County, Kangbao County, Chicheng County, and Xinghe County in later generations. The space for development is vast.

With the growth of strength, it is possible to capture the entire Bashang area. The total area here is as large as two Jiangsu provinces in later generations.

The terrain on the dam is hilly and plain, high in the southeast and low in the northwest, with dense river networks and abundant water ponds.

There are water systems in the inner flow area of ​​the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Yongding River system, the Chahannur water system, the Angulinao water system, the Chaobai River system and the Baihe River Basin, etc. There are many rivers and dozens of small and medium-sized lakes.

There are also salt lakes that are two or three times saltier than sea water.

In later generations, Chicheng County was known as the "Pearl Beyond the Great Wall" and the "Water City in the North of Beijing".

The key issue is that the rivers and lakes here are naturally formed and flow freely across the rivers. Most of them are seasonal rivers.

Although there is no shortage of total water here, under natural conditions, crops will dry out during droughts and drown during floods.

The focus of the work in the base area is to build water conservancy facilities according to local conditions to manage small watersheds, and has completed the water storage of more than twenty reservoirs of various sizes.

Huang Yi never blindly cultivates fields. From the beginning, he chose a basin with relatively flat terrain, thick soil, and lush vegetation.

Plots close to rivers are preferred. There are not many acres of land that meet the requirements of natural conditions, and most of the acres must be artificially cultivated.

This requires reasonable planning of the location of the reservoir and calculation of the number of irrigation wells.

As the Han population increases, some people who are good at farming will settle down next year on the edge of the reclaimed basin.

Residential buildings cannot be dispersed and must be built in a centralized manner.

You can refer to the Hakka earth building model that is conducive to defense, with one village and one fort, where hundreds of people live together. When encountering an enemy situation, the whole village enters the fort to defend it.

The only way is to unite all the people in the army. The common people in the base area know and have experienced the brutality of the Tatars and slave builders, so they do not resist militia drills at all.

Hundreds of people working together to defend the village and fortress, there must be more than 70% who can take up arms and fight.

The farthest village fort or village in the plan cannot be more than 200 miles away from the base city. As long as you hold on for a day or two, the base cavalry can come to rescue.

The arable land within a thirty-mile radius of the base city has been cultivated. Next, we will look for basins within a fifty or eighty-mile radius.

With such a long distance, even if there are horse-drawn carriages, it is unrealistic for farmers to live in the city and go out to farm every day.

It is necessary to build some simple shacks that can accommodate a hundred people to live and work in the frost-free period every two or three miles, and to build a small castle that can accommodate hundreds of people for the winter every ten miles.

Next year, the reclamation of wasteland will have to be carried out simultaneously with the construction of castles, simple shacks, reservoirs, irrigation canals, and irrigation wells.

Some plots of land are even built with canals and irrigation wells first, and then reclaimed.

The purpose of doing all this is to fight against the sky, use water conservancy facilities to fight floods and drain water, and strive to ensure harvests during droughts and floods.

As long as we can keep the fields from drying out and cracking, the chances of encountering a locust plague the following year will be much smaller.

Moreover, Huang Yi will also encourage the people in the base area to develop the breeding industry.

In fact, there is no need for encouragement, just purchase large quantities of eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs at a price that the common people find profitable.

At that time, in order to save feed, people would naturally drive chickens, ducks and geese to the fields to eat insects and grass.

Huang Yi also has an idea, that is, to make down jackets, which will definitely require large quantities of duck and goose feathers, which can also increase farmers' income.

All in all, water is so important to the base area!

With this heavy snowfall, the water flowing from the Yanshan Mountains in the coming spring will be enough for the base area's reservoir to store enough water for irrigation.

If there is no shortage of irrigation water, the harvest can be guaranteed, and there is no need to worry about basic food rations in the base area.

All cultivated acres must be planted with wheat, millet, highland barley, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes, maize, etc. cultivated in Xu Guangqi's Tianjin experimental field.

Of course, some of them are corn and wheat seeds from later generations.

These are all cold-resistant crops, and they should be the varieties that farmers in Heilongjiang Province keep on their own plots.

Zhang, He Shouye and others thought that what Huang Yi gave them were fine seeds from Franji, so they treated them with caution.
Chapter completed!