On June 22, 1788, 5,000 troops from the Western Front of the North Navy led by Liu Sheng finally arrived in Heilongjiang City. When the people who came to see the lively people were covered with ships of all kinds of big and small, they were all surprised. Among them were the North Navy's two inland patrol boats, two catamaran passenger ships, two flat-bottomed barges built in Boli, and twenty Yaksa warships seized in Ningguta.

When attacking Ningguta Camp, the river surface north of Shangjian River to south of Hualan River was blocked by artillery fire, the Qing army only escaped a few Yaksa warships on this section of water, and the remaining twenty became the trophies of the Northern Navy. After dismantling the artillery above, it was most appropriate to use it as a troop transport ship.

The Jaxas warship is a flat-bottomed sloop hard sailboat with a displacement of 52.8 tons and a load capacity of 20 to 25 tons. The ship is divided into three layers, with supplies and stones as the bottom layer as the trunk. The middle layer and part of the deck are available for people to live in. According to the calculation of 80 kilograms per person, a boat plus sailors can sit up to 200 people.

Looking at the waves of the Northern Navy coming down from the docking ship, including Li Bi and Li Yansheng, those onlookers who had served as officials in the Qing court were filled with worries. If such a large army was rushing to the west, Melgen, Qiqihar and even Hulunbuir, they might not be protected.

Although Li Bi was an exiled criminal, he was once the county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, and his family who accompanied him to exile were still in Qiqihar; and Li Yansheng was even a third-rank military general of the Qing court. His living father, with the spirit of giving the emperor's kindness to the Li family and serving the country loyally and righteously, in the house on the Guanzhuang outside the city, he cursed the Northern Haijun and scolded his son for not killing himself to serve the country.

After Liu Sheng and Fan Tong got off the ship and had a rest, they went to the old city of Aihui to visit the Tsarist Russian prisoners of war. After having a meal, they took their subordinates' battalion-level officers and Zhao Xin and others to hold a military meeting.

First, a small staff officer named Fang from the General Staff explained to everyone present the key points and garrisons of the Qing court in Heilongjiang General's Mansion. This information mainly comes from inquiries about the wounded Qing army and the news sent back by the reconnaissance team.

Zhao Xin has spread a wide reconnaissance network these days. With the cooperation of the local Daurs, the North Navy's reconnaissance team reached Mulususu as far north and Kolor as far southwest, only a few dozen miles from Melgen City. At the same time, several staff officers accompanied the army also asked about the situation of some garrisons in various places among the Qing army wounded, but it was only a rough number.

The key points of the Qing court in the Heilongjiang General's Mansion included the six military fortresses, Qiqihar, Melgen City, Heilongjiang City, Hulan River, Hulunbuir, and Butha Fighting General. Qiqihar was the top priority and was also the location of the Heilongjiang General's Office.

Among these six cities, although Hulanhe City to the south is a subordinate of Heilongjiang City, the two places are more than 1,000 miles apart, which is only more than 100 miles away from Alchukka, under the jurisdiction of Jilin General's Mansion; Qiqihar in the southwest is 800 miles away from Heilongjiang City, and 200 miles south is the Zhelim League of Nezhasak Mongolia; Melgen City is located in the southwest of Heilongjiang City, 380 miles away; Butha is 85 miles southwest of Melgen; the farthest is Hulunbuir, 760 miles northwest of Qiqihar.

Fan Tong asked at this time: "What is Butha's the general manager of the fight?"

Zhao Xin, who had inquired about this matter, explained: "This is a military and political organization used by the Qing court to specialize in Daur, Ewenki, Oroqen and other tribes, also called the Eight Banners of the Fighting Division. It is mainly responsible for confiscating the minks paid by the sausages every year. Of course, there are military needs. Other places are the deputy commander or the co-leader. Butha is the collegial management of the three general managers, the Manchurian general manager, the Daur general manager and the Soren general manager each."

Liu Shengdao: "Is this considered a tribal collegial system?"

Zhao Xin nodded and said, "That's about it."

Regarding the situation of the Qing court's garrison in the other five cities, the staff member named Fang explained: "According to our investigation these days and the statistics from Ningguta after the war sent by previous Ningguta, the Qing army should have more than 10,000 troops in the entire Heilongjiang General's area, of which Butha City is 2,000, Hulunbuir is located in the important area of ​​the border river, Hulunbuir has more than 600 people, Melgen City, and Qiqihar has three thousand people."

The situation of the Qing army has been mentioned, and the next thing is the situation of Tsarist Russia. However, since Tsarist Russia has retreated to the Yakshasa area, the reconnaissance team heading to Ulusumudan has not yet sent back the news. The current situation is that there is no sign of Tsarist Russian troops from north Zhong'an to Murususu.

At this point, the next step is to decide on the subsequent actions. The members of the congregation looked at Zhao Xin at this time, after all, this was the boss in charge of the military and political affairs of Beihai Town.

In fact, although the Northern Navy defeats every battle, it will be very difficult to manage if it really defeats the other five cities under the jurisdiction of the Heilongjiang General.

From a strategic perspective, if you conquer Qiqihar, you must face the Mongolian troops of Neizasak; if you conquer the Hulan River, the Qing army in Alchuka must fight, and in order to cut off the Qing army's transport route to Heilongjiang, Bodune, further south, must also be defeated.

With more than one million square kilometers, countless waterways, post roads, and countless wilderness mountains and ridges, if you want to control the more than 200,000 people in Beihai Town, you will definitely drive Zhao Xin and others crazy and drag down Beihai Town.

Zhao Xin estimated that the population of Beihai Town must reach 400,000 to control the Heilongjiang General Mansion, which is why he suppressed Xu Dayong and had to transport at least 100,000 people this year.

The stalls in Beihai Town are too big now, with millions of square kilometers northeast of the northeast, the three counties of the southern Kyushu, Kuye Island, Hokkien land, and the southern islands of the Kuril Islands. Zhao Xin lived wherever there was a gold mine, including the Ryuki Jinshan, Hongzhiwu Gold Mine, the gold mine of Urupu Island, the gold mine of Rulenji, and even the later "Laogou Gold Mine" in the south of Heilongjiang City.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "Let me tell me what I think." Zhao Xin pointed to the map hanging on the wall and said to everyone: "Everyone knows how complicated the geography of the northeast outside is, with mountains and ridges and roads. The so-called post road can only be used for small troops and fast horses who report messages, and the large troops are not applicable at all. From Shunzhi to Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty mobilized troops and supplies through water.

Whether the five major water systems of Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Songhua River, Huerha River and Nenjiang can be completely controlled, and it is also the key to whether we can seize the entire outer Northeast. Only by mastering the two major grain-producing areas of Sanjiang Plain and Songnen Plain and fully developing them can we compete with the landlords and gentry class in the Central Plains and even the south of the Yangtze River after we move south in the future.”

This is the first time that Zhao Xin has explained his combat strategy against the Qing Dynasty to the North Sea Corps battalion-level officers. Everyone here is focused. The core of what he said is to prepare for the future of going south by seizing land and expanding grain production.

Take Shandong as an example. By the 52nd year of Qianlong, the population of Shandong exceeded 25 million, with a per capita cultivated land less than 2.5 mu. The land capacity has been developed to its limit, which is the case in Hubei, Henan and even Shanxi, Zhili.

Moreover, due to the large number of floods and droughts in recent years, the people's livelihood in the entire north is extremely difficult. Years of disasters, the land has been concentrated in the hands of landlords and powerful people, and it has become more and more day by day. In fact, whether it is Shandong or Zhili or Henan, about half of the cultivated land has been divided by landlords, and many self-cultivated farmers have become tenants or bankrupt farmers. The so-called "there are no 10 or 2 people who occupy the land, four or 5 people who rent the land, and three or 4 or 4 people who have no land to cultivate."

The more famous landlords during this period, such as the Hao family in Huairou, the suburbs of Beijing, had tens of hectares of high-quality fertile land; the Cha family and Sheng family in Wanping were also famous rich people.

Heshen, the Minister of Military Affairs, had 8,000 hectares of land, and his slaves Liu Quan, Ma Bashisan and others occupied more than 600 hectares of land. Bailing, who was once the governor of Guangdong, took office for less than a year and actually occupied 5,000 hectares of land.

A salt merchant named Kang, a surnamed Kang, had a family property of tens of millions and acres of land, and there were as many as more than a thousand granaries of large and small granaries. Even Qianlong said, "I think that the richest man in the world is nothing more than a few merchants (salt merchants). Now when I heard about Kang's family, I am just a little witch who sees a great witch!"

The reason why peasant uprisings did not break out in such a dire situation is that, first, the Qing court's continuous disaster relief and relief made these people unable to eat enough or starve to death. It seemed that there was always a glimmer of hope; just like carrots hanging in front of a donkey, it was impossible to see or eat. Second, the Qing government attached great importance to local civil changes, and quickly sent troops to exterminate them whenever there was a turbulence. In addition to the policy of fooling the people, and the people were booming, who would dare to rebel?

In such a great bankruptcy era, countless people had to sell themselves to powerful landlords as slaves and servants. When they took office on a Taoist platform, there were hundreds of slaves alone; they were so powerful that they were not arrogant.

Beihai Town is now a thief in the eyes of the common people. He wants to compete with the Qing court and let the common people travel across the ocean to the northeast. He is unwilling to follow anyone who thinks he can survive. In addition, the Chinese are inherently the concept of "people leave their hometowns and be humble". Even if they guard the hut and eat grass roots, as long as the illusion of "carrots" has not been shattered, they are unwilling to take a boat to sea.

If the Northern Navy goes south and enters the pass, it does not control the fields or a large amount of food. In the face of the counterattack of the landlords and gentry classes in terms of force and economic robbery, will it be left with a group of feudal powerful people to tease themselves?

Isn't this a joke for those landlords and gentry class who have been deprived of a large amount of surplus land, labor and even the right to speak, and even want to counterattack and count down, hoping that they can cooperate with Beihai Town to complete the process of industrialized countries!

If you say a thousand words, no matter how powerful machine guns and cannons are, it is useless for ordinary people to not be able to eat and wear and wear!

When Zhao Xin finished talking about this, everyone here suddenly realized it and heard him continue: "Now, except for the Nenjiang water system, the Ussuri River channel has been completely controlled by us, and the other three are only partially controlled by us. Once Boli, Sanxing City has gained a foothold, plus Ningguta and Heilongjiang City, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang and Songhua River can basically control the channels. In the future, with the railway, the Beihai Town military and political system can be mobilized freely in the entire northeast. Therefore, my attitude is that if Melgen City and Hulan River City do not fight, strengthen the defense system of Heilongjiang City. There is only one enemy at present, which is Tsarist Russia!"

Fan Tong asked, "Then what will we fight next?"

Zhao Xin's answer was loud and loud: "Go upstream and recover all lost lands, and seize Irkutsk before winter this year!"

Meanwhile, on the construction site in Yaquesa City.

The serfs who were ordered by the Queen to move here were taken to the construction site to work as soon as they got off the boat, cutting down trees and digging soil and rocks. Not far away, several brick kilns were emitting black smoke day and night, and the burned bricks were quickly transported to the construction site and turned into part of the building.

A large four-pointed star-shaped castle was built here. After the invasion of Tsarist Russia, a large number of Cossack serfs who stayed in Nebchu and Chita followed the Russian army to Jaxa and became the main laborer in building the castle.

The wall of this military fortress is low, and each two sides of the fortress wall form a sharp wedge-shaped protruding outward. There is also an anti-cannon wall without any cover in front of each wall. The anti-cannon wall and the city wall behind are both inclined structures, and there is a wide and deep trench in the middle. Outside the main entrance of the bastion, there is an outer bastion independent of the city wall and lower height. This is used to cover the city gate and connect it to the city wall through a suspension bridge.

From the beginning of the 16th century, some people have keenly grasped the fundamentals of the concept of countermeasures. Since artillery can best cause damage to high walls, the new city wall must be built low. However, when the city wall is low, the enemy can easily launch a sudden attack and climb the city wall along the ladder and enter the interior of the fortification. The new fortification system requires that it can resist the shooting of artillery and prevent the enemy's infantry from approaching, so a bastion with depth to exchange for height is thus created.

In fact, the most powerful thing about the brink is not its defense, but the inclined wall design increases the thickness of certain areas in disguise. The thickness of the front wall is much thicker than that of the flat wall like Daiqing. Therefore, the appearance of the brink is actually to better promote firepower, rather than build passive defense capabilities. The wide trenches and low walls allow a large amount of earth to pile up in front of the trenches to build anti-cannon walls.

In this era, the strike surface of cannons installed in front of cannons was a line rather than a point. When facing a straight ballistic cannon, it was impossible to reduce the risk of jumping by adjusting the artillery position. Thanks to the extremely small angle, the anti-cannon slope will not collapse when facing artillery bombardment.

For the defense, the anti-aircraft wall with careful calculation of angle and slope can in turn use the jump of the smoothbore gun to form a terrifying continuous killing belt, causing serious damage to the attacking party from the side. At the same time, the anti-aircraft wall makes the shooting dead corners in the maximum descent angle of the artillery at close range greatly compressed, turning the safe city into a death corridor.

Suvorov was very satisfied with the design of this castle in Yaksa, with multiple layers of defense, strong firepower coverage, and no firepower blind spots.
Chapter completed!