There were a total of 610 soldiers and boatmen in the Qing army's grain transport fleet. Excluding those who were killed, there were still 400 people left. These people plus the common people imprisoned in the villages and Qing soldiers prisoners, there were nearly 700 people.
They, the cavalry brigade, and the Cossack brigade spent nearly a day moving all the grain, black beans, oil and salt from twenty-seven ships to the dock on the shore.γγ
The ship's food included rice and wheat flour. The quality and quality of the food were all new this year, and there was no mold or color at all. After all the food was moved to the shore, the good white flour was taken that night to make noodles and flatbreads for the soldiers to eat.
After a meal, Zhao Qiang himself asked someone to get some rice and cook a pot of fragrant white rice. He mixed a bowl with some pickles made by the people in the village. When he ate it, he felt like his whole body was about to melt.
This kind of friendly taste made him hold the rice bowl for a long time without moving. This rice was actually the first rice that Zhao Qiang ate after arriving outside the customs. In the past, all he ate was mainly pasta. Even the Russians also ate pasta.
Because there are no rice fields in this area of ββthe Far East. As a southerner, Zhao Qiang naturally likes rice more than pasta. However, conditions are limited. He has not been able to eat a meal of rice for several months, but now he feels a lot of emotion after eating it. Later generations of Northeast China
This fertile land is the great granary of the Republic. The rice it produces has supported many disaster-stricken provinces. The story of Beidacang is even more widely circulated. Now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not developed outside the customs, only in Jinzhou where the Ningjin Defense Line in the Ming Dynasty was located.
In other places, large-scale rice cultivation was carried out in the Ming Dynasty. In other places, only coarse grains were grown. Fortunately, the population outside the pass was small and the output was sufficient for food. Otherwise, if it were like inside the pass, the issue of grain production would have become a major issue.
It was a top priority on the agenda of the Eight Banners military and political officials everywhere.
Leaving such fertile land without knowing how to properly utilize it, leaving it abandoned like a wilderness, is really a waste of natural resources. Zhao Qiang hated the Manchu Qing Dynasty for not developing land outside the customs, and strictly forbidding Han people within the customs to leave the customs to engage in agricultural production. This was essentially
It is to treat the millions of square kilometers of land outside the customs as the private property of the Manchu people. It does not use it and does not allow others to use it. It is really a narrow-minded national mentality! Thinking of the chicken belly of the Manchu emperors, Zhao Qiang couldn't help but become famous.
He vowed to turn the land outside the Pass into a paradise for the Han people and turn the land into the Han people's eternal wealth, instead of letting it become a private hunting ground for some dirty nation.
Since most of the boatmen in the fleet were Yafaha Oroqen people, Zhao Qiang asked Wu'er Leng to come forward to organize them and let them serve the Guan Ning Army. Wu'er Leng had been with these people for such a long time, and he wanted to persuade them from the beginning.
Zhao Qiang was from Beitou, so with his intervention, the mood of the boatmen stabilized and their hearts calmed down. The only thing they were worried about was their family members who stayed in Jilin, and there was nothing else to worry about.
Two days later, the leader of the follow-up grain transport team who received the order arrived at Sandaotun. The leader was Wang Sanyou of Baihu from the Shouyi City Brigade. This man was a bandit in the past and later returned to the Wu army. He was known for his bravery in combat.
He likes to chop with a big knife, and is as bloodthirsty as a madman. His character is very similar to Qi Zhuang. The name Sanyou has the same meaning as the names Guo Fei gave to those fake missionaries. It also means blessing, longevity, wealth and so on.
Anyway, there are three things, happiness, wealth, longevity, happiness and wealth, there must be three things. As for which three things they are, there is no need to be precise.
Wang Sanyou brought two teams, and the remaining troops were escorting the people who were organized to transport food. They would arrive in about one day. Zhao Qiang gave the order to have the subsequent troops arrive within two days, but the order
At that time, I forgot that it would take time to send someone to deliver the order. Even if the horse was galloping, it would still take a day. When the order came, it would also take time for the grain transport team to set off. The food transport team came here at a slower speed because
He brought a lot of carriages with him, so naturally his speed could not be compared with that of Guan Ning's army who set off lightly. Zhao Qiang also laughed at the confused orders he gave. How could he really use his wrong orders to deal with Wang Sanyou and the others?
Immediately, Zheng Guohui was asked to dispatch some horses, change the war horses into transportation horses, and then hitch the carts and start loading grain.
At sunset the next day, the grain transport team finally arrived. Since it was getting late, it was impossible to load the truck and set off, so they rested in the village overnight before starting to transport grain the next day.
There was so much food that it took half a day just to load the vehicles. There were more than 300 large and small vehicles. Even so, one-third of the food could not be transported in time because there were no vehicles to transport. So.
Zhao Qiang asked those who had loaded the carts to leave now, and then turn back to transport the rest after the grain was transported to Morgan. At the same time, he sent an order to Wu Si to organize some more carriages to be transported to Morgan. If there were not enough carriages,
Let the civilians dispatch them from the neighboring Yask and Udysk.
Zheng Guohui's cavalry brigade had 100 horses for pulling carts, so it only had 400 cavalry available. Zhao Qiang left a team of 200 cavalry at his side, and asked Zheng Guohui to bring back the rest.
The grain transport team organized by Shouyi City included a brigade of infantry from Wang Sanyou, 800 young and strong laborers, a total of 1,400 people, plus captured prisoners and boatmen, there were more than 2,000 people, with an average of six people in charge.
It is a large cart, so a cart loaded with grain does not have to worry about being unable to cross mountains and ridges due to excessive load on the road.
After the grain transport team set off and returned to Morgan, Zhao Qiang set up two lines of defense in each direction in the southeast of Sandaotun. Each line of defense was guarded by a hundred Russian soldiers. The remaining people gathered in the village and simply repaired some fortifications.
, stayed here to wait for the grain transport team returning from Morgan, so that the remaining one-third of the grain could be transported back. The total amount of this batch of grain was nearly 3,000 dan. Zhao Qiang calculated that it could roughly supply 20,000 people.
With three or four months of food and the existing grain reserves, there will be no problem at all to survive this winter. But if the last thousand stones are lost, there will still be a gap. Zhao Qiang has decided not to let anyone
To ensure that they are well fed even if they starve to death, we can only transport back not even a pound of grain.
Guo Mul was still detained in the village. Zhao Qiang told him that he would be released only after all the food was safely transported. Before that, he had to stay here. His life was in his hands, and Guo Mul had no right to object.
I had no choice but to continue to stay behind Zhao Qiang with a smiling face all day long, not daring to take a step away from his sight. Because after he came out, Zhao Qiang was the leader of this rabble, and those Rakshasa people were the ones to beat him, so as long as Zhao Qiang didn't kill him
, his life is definitely saved.
Zhao Qiang had nothing to do and chatted with Guo Mul. Of course, he was not just looking for someone to chat with, but he wanted to get more information about the Qing army from Guo Mul.