One hundred and fortieth nine chapters Dingyuan battle twenty-three
Accompanying Ji Ahua to Yask were several technicians sent by Xu Ping from the Department of Transportation. They brought mature kiln-burning technology. After listening to their results report, Zhao Qiang immediately asked them to build two kilns in Yask.
For small kilns, all the few 600 young people in Yask were allocated to build the kiln, and then the bricks from the kiln were used to pave the roads. [ ]. Over there in Dingyuan City, kilns must be fired to make bricks, because Dingyuan City
A dozen miles north of the far city, there is a mountain ridge, and civilians can be recruited to quarry gravel from the mountain for paving roads.
Regarding the road requirements, Zhao Qiang set the standard for the Department of Transportation to be three meters wide, and the narrowest point must be able to accommodate two carriages running parallel. The topography of the Far East determines that the traffic law must be accessible in all directions, and it can only be laid point-to-point between cities.
Roads, inns, and areas other than main roads are capable of doing so. Small kilns have been built in various places, but the brick production speed is far from meeting the demand. Therefore, the method adopted by the Transportation Department is to move forward step by step. In areas where bricks are not laid,
The area is paved with hay and charcoal ash to temporarily solidify the soil so that it will not be too muddy and difficult to walk on rainy days.
On July 14th, there was a heavy rain in Gulihe City. This first rain in July put the Transportation Department and Gurihe City into a dilemma. The work of the Transportation Department almost came to a standstill because one step on it could reach the knees.
The mud was basically laid with bricks, not to mention hay and charcoal ash. In Gulihe City, heavy rains flooded the city, and the houses were flooded. The backward and ineffective drainage system made it possible for the city to drain out the water two days later. After the heavy rain, residents
The excrement even surfaced from the manure pit. For a while, Guli River City was filled with stench, which caused all the people and security teams who came to deal with it to move to the Guli River to work. Zhao Qiang, who received the news, immediately ordered
All localities immediately improved the drainage systems of existing cities and built public toilets to guide residents to discharge at designated points. The excrement was uniformly processed by the Department of Agriculture and Reclamation and used for field fertilization.
After several days of cleaning up by more than a thousand untouchables, Gulihe City was restored to cleanliness. The person who was appointed to preside over Gulihe City was Lu Dacheng from the Public Security Department, because he was blind in one eye, and after arriving at Gulihe City, he treated those
The Russianization was serious, and the residents who were loyal to the Rakshasa people behaved very cruelly, so behind the scenes, those residents called Lu Dacheng "bad guy blind." In order to no longer suffer from the stench, Lu Dacheng ordered Zhao Qiang to build public toilets.
The implementation was quite thorough and almost brutal. He led people to forcibly demolish more than a hundred private houses and used the materials from the private houses to build 11 public toilets. The residents who lost their houses were treated as untouchables by him and deprived of their rights.
All property. In addition, Lu Dacheng also drove nearly half of the city's old, weak, women and children outside the city, and set up two untouchable camps outside the city for them to live in. These actions made Lu Dacheng's reputation as a "bad guy and blind man" quickly spread to Dingding.
The surrounding area of Yuancheng, however, also brought some unexpected benefits, that is, when Min Cao sent people to small tribes in various places to announce relocation orders, the people of those tribes learned that these were sent by "bad guys blind".
One exception chose to move, but they did not move to Gulihe City, but to Dingyuan City and Yask. They even preferred to walk a hundred or two hundred miles to Shouyi City to join them.
"Blind Lu has made certain contributions to the ethnic integration policy of our Guan Ning Army, and he can write a good note in history in the future." When we learned from the people of all ethnic groups who came to submit that they chose to submit because they were afraid of Lu Dacheng,
, Zhao Qiang said this to the people around him.
Zhao Qiang has asked Chen Wei to lead people to take over the silver mine in Dingyuan City. Dingyuan City sent a mine guard team composed of one hundred Han people to wait for Chen Wei's dispatch. Cao, a citizen of Shouyi City, also sent fifty auxiliaries.
In order to resume production in the silver mines as soon as possible and use the silver to purchase weapons and equipment from Europeans, Zhao Qiang sent 1,200 residents from Gulihe, Dingyuan and Yask to the silver mines on July 21st.
Mine, and sent a brigade of the remaining 2nd Infantry Regiment to it. The iron mine in Jingqilijiangyou was only occupied by Guan Ning's army on paper, but now there is no way to send people to resume production, because the iron mine
It is one hundred and thirty miles away from Yask, and there are some tribes nearby that are unwilling to surrender. There are not enough available troops and insufficient mining manpower, so Zhao Qiang has not touched the iron mines for the time being, and plans to wait for Duncan to arrive before deciding whether to go immediately.
Restore iron ore production.
Apart from making weapons and farm tools, Zhao Qiang could not think of any other uses for the production of iron ore. However, the problem was that he did not have anyone who was proficient in making guns and swords. He thought that although Duncan and the others were just fake missionaries, they might be able to do something about it.
Give some good suggestions for using iron ore. Even if they don’t understand it, they can go to Macau now to help him buy it and hire knowledgeable people.
Although there were not many wounded soldiers in the first phase of the battle, there were more than 300 soldiers. They were all sent to Shouyi City Hospital, so Duncan and the others were too busy during this period to come to Yask. Regarding this, Zhao Qiang did not
He was in a hurry, so he sent a letter to Shouyi City so that when the hospital's manpower was not tight, Duncan, Guo Youcai and others came to Yask again.
The arrival of the Guan Ning Army has been spread among the Han people. From the time they occupied Dingyuan City to the present, more than 3,000 Han people have moved to Dingyuan and Yask, and 1,600 people have signed up to join the army. These people have been
Sent to Yask, they will be built into the core combat force of the Guan Ning Army. In order to facilitate commanding them, Zhao Qiang reorganized these Han people in addition to the establishment of the Guan Ning Army and newly organized them into the third battalion. All those who later surrendered will be returned to Yask.
When entering these three battalions, the instructors of each battalion are sent from their own soldiers. When the recruits of these three battalions have mastered combat skills and are ready for the battlefield, they will be assigned to each regiment in batches.
On July 23, Zhao Qiang established the "Northern Expansion Team" with the sole mission of capturing all the indigenous residents in the deep mountains and forests to serve as auxiliary soldiers and untouchables to solve the increasingly tense shortage of soldiers and manpower.
The composition of the Northern Pioneer Team is two squads of soldiers from the Guards, the remaining 2nd Infantry Regiment and one brigade, and the newly formed 600-strong First Battalion of the Han Army, with a total strength of 2,200 soldiers. Those who actually participated in the battle
Only those two squads of Guardsmen.
It is understood from all aspects that the Russians have not established any strongholds in the north except forests or forests north of Yask, so the threat of the Russian army has been eliminated. Without the threat of the Russian army, Zhao Qiang believes that the Northern Pioneer Team can definitely complete its mission. Two
A few months ago, Qi Zhuang and Hu Wang brought thousands of people to Shouyi City with only a few hundred people each. Now that they have sent 2,200 people, the results will definitely be greater.
The captain of the pioneering team is He Manchuan, the captain of Zhao Qiang's personal soldiers and the captain of the Guards. In addition, Wei Xiaojiang, who has been following Zhao Qiang, was also appointed as the squad leader and followed He Manchuan north.
Before leaving, Zhao Qiang specially chatted with Wei Xiaojiang and encouraged him to make contributions in this northern expansion operation. Wei Xiaojiang had always wanted to serve as a soldier in Qi Zhuang's cavalry regiment, because he felt that those cavalry were very majestic and for the dull
As a personal soldier beside the division commander, he always felt that something was missing. However, the division commander never let him go, so he had no choice but to do anything.
"Division commander, if Xiao Jiang has made a contribution this time, can you let me serve Qi Qianhu when he comes back?"
"If you perform well, I can let you go and serve as a team officer."
Zhao Qiang smiled at Wei Xiaojiang. This half-grown boy had been with him for more than two months, so it was time to let him go and train him.