"Ladies and gentlemen, our three Marine Brigades, divided into three sides, will start a sweep from north to south."

As soon as the landing was successful, Zhang Guangfu gathered with the other two Marine Brigade commanders.

After a brief discussion, they led their respective troops and rushed towards the proposed target area.

This Sakhalin Island is an extremely long and narrow island, very narrow from east to west, and indeed very long from north to south.

This peculiar terrain is the most suitable for the army to line up and carry out a sweep from north to south.

It only takes three Marine brigades to complete this sweep easily.

It's just that it won't take less time.

After all, the distance between the north and south ends of Sakhalin is too far.

After the officers and men of the three Marine Brigades had successfully landed and started the first round of sweeping, Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Guangzhe also went ashore in small boats.

After a while, everyone hurriedly worked for a while, and the Sakhalin landing operations command was set up on the spot.

"Your Majesty, Commander, the three Marine Brigades have all successfully landed and are sweeping towards the south to start a sweep against the enemy!"

"10,000 craftsmen have disembarked and are adapting to the recovery."

"All the ships have successfully anchored, and the first supplies are being transported ashore!" ……

An hour later, reports kept coming.

Zhu Youxiao's eyes kept staring at the transport ships loaded with supplies.

After the majority of the troops went ashore smoothly, what he was most worried about was the problem of supplies, ammunition, and food and clothing.

Without enough supplies and ammunition, the consequences of fighting alone on this large island far from the country are unimaginable.

It is estimated that in two or three days at most, the counterattack launched by those dense barbarian tribes will start in an all-round way.

In order to meet the needs of logistics and material transportation, it is imperative to build a port on a large scale.

Fortunately, every general and colonel above the battalion level has a plan outline drawn up by the General Staff Department.

After the large army came ashore, it was clear what they were going to do and what they were going to do.

After the landing of the combat troops, the logistics troops also went ashore.

"There is a team of barbarians, start the first round of counterattack!"

"The soldiers of the Marine Brigade are suppressing them!"

Zhu Youxiao was pondering the problem of logistics supply, and the battle in the surrounding area began.

Through the binoculars, hundreds of screaming barbarians, armed with all kinds of rudimentary weapons, could be seen to launch a counterattack against the Marines.

As a result, it was useless, and more than half of them were quickly killed, and the rest were so frightened that they rushed into the dense forest and fled.

It is estimated that it should be a counterattack launched by a large barbarian tribe nearby.

After the failure of this counterattack, those unknown barbarians did not continue to launch the attack, and it is estimated that they were temporarily stunned.

It turned out that the incessant gunfire died down for a while.

What is certain is that even if the resistance encountered by the officers and men is not very good, the first day of landing of the Royal Navy officers and men was very hectic because they had no experience.

Some people are too busy to wait for their three heads and six arms, while others are at a loss and don't know what to do.

For example, the current fleet commander Zhang Guangzhe is a little dazed, because everything has been arranged in advance, he doesn't know where he is going and what he is going to do?

It's also thanks to Zhu Youxiao's very calm sitting, otherwise, I'm afraid it will be a mess.

By the end of night, the officers and men of the North Sea Fleet had taken control of a thirty-mile radius of the Great Beach, minimizing the danger of this temporary station.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began a series of actions to make a fire and make food, camp and rest. 1234

Zhu Youxiao was in good spirits, and with a team of guards and soldiers, he walked out of the barracks and came to a high ground, and took advantage of the night that had not yet completely landed with great interest, and looked at this huge island that can be called a treasure house of mankind with great interest.

Sakhalin Island is an island outside the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and there are other names such as "Cave Theory", "Qu She", "Gu Wei", "Kuyi", "Kuwu", "Kuye" and so on.

Sakhalin Island is the largest island on the eastern coast of the Asian continent, located east of the Heilongjiang estuary, facing the Sea of Okhotsk to the east and north, the mainland across the Tatar Strait to the west, and Hokkaido to the south across the Soya Strait.

Sakhalin Island is a long and narrow topography from north to south, covering an area of more than 70,000 square kilometers, shaped like a fish, with a large number of rivers and lakes, rich in natural resources, and abundant products.

The indigenous people of the island are the ancient Asiatic people represented by the Ainu and Nivkh peoples, and the Tungus people represented by the Hezhe and Oroqen peoples, who mainly live by hunting and fishing.

The Han Empire was the first country to govern Sakhalin, and from the Tang Dynasty onwards, it governed the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, including Sakhalin.

At that time, the Liugui country on Sakhalin Island paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang king crowned his envoy She Zhi as a cavalry captain.

After the establishment of the Ming Empire, it sent troops to conquer Kuwu, and set up Nangharwei in the northern coastal area of Sakhalin Island, Boluo Hewei in the central Boronai River Basin, and Wulie Hewei in the eastern Wulie River Valley, which was subordinate to the Nuergandu Division.

In order to more effectively manage the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and Sakhalin Island, the Ming Empire sent eunuchs 10 times to patrol all parts of the Nuer Gandu Division.

And established Yongning Temple, set up two stone tablets of "Monument of Yongning Temple" and "Monument of Reconstruction of Yongning Temple" to record the management of local affairs.

During the period of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, he sent the capital to command Kang Wang, Wang Zhaozhou, Tong Da Ha and others to Nuer Gandu Division to support the army and civilians.

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Looking at Sakhalin Island, which is two sizes of Taiwan Island in front of him, Zhu Youxiao was a little emotional, and he finally set foot on this wild and fertile land.

The sky was washed by a light rain last night, and now it is April, if it is in Guannai, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, it is the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the talented and beautiful woman sings poems against it.

However, in the east of the great northeast, opposite the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, the temperature difference between day and night is still very large, and even a few drops of freezing rain occasionally fall.

For the soldiers from the Liaodong Peninsula, it was still a little bitter cold, so everyone still didn't dare to take off their thick autumn and winter clothes.

As for the work arrangements after landing, we have discussed in great detail before:

The officers and men of the Grand Fleet were divided into two parts, one part was dominated by naval officers and soldiers, supplemented by the logistics troops, and commanded by 10,000 craftsmen who came with the fleet.

A part of the 30,000-strong marines began to sweep Sakhalin from north to south.

According to the arrangement of the General Staff, although the natives on this large island will not carry out a genocide plan against them, it is necessary to arrest all of them and join the labor camp.

In doing so, one is to wipe out the inferior nature of these barbarian races, teach them how to behave, and lay a solid foundation for the later large-scale landings.

The second is that Sakhalin Island is so huge that it requires a lot of manpower to be able to develop it.

There is no doubt that after the Ming New Army broke into this place, it must have been resisted by these local natives.

The soldiers of the Ming New Army have long had a set of methods to deal with the natives: those who resist will not be forgiven! Those who surrendered were transferred to labor camps and underwent labor reform.

This method of violence is currently the only effective method for the indigenous people everywhere, and it is the only way to be able to solve it once and for all.

After the labor transformation of these natives for a generation, the management of their next generation will undoubtedly be quite easy.

Soon after the departure of the 30,000 soldiers of the three Marine Brigades, the silence of the place was broken by screams and shouts of killing everywhere on this large island in the darkness of night, under the lighting of bonfires everywhere.

Within a few days, groups of indigenous captives were brought back by the soldiers, and in the bay where the wharf was built, a huge port city construction began.

As time passed, the officers and men of the Royal Marines returned more and more prisoners, and the construction of the Bluestone Grand Pier and the big city became faster and faster.

These captives were still in fear at first, but after eating a large amount of delicious food brought by the Ming New Army, they saw dozens of 10,000 acres of ecological farms rising up around the city that had just begun to be built.

And after the hundreds of captive families who worked the hardest were arranged to live in those gorgeous and exquisite farms, most of them changed their previous resistance, and their enthusiasm for labor immediately doubled!

It is too far away from the base camp of the Royal Navy on the Liaodong Peninsula, and if you want to really solve the problem of military rations for the army, you must develop Sakhalin Island into a new logistics base as quickly as possible.

This Sakhalin Island is too long and narrow to be huge, and it took more than half a month for the Marines to completely control this super island after a series of sweeps.

At this time, there were more than 600,000 natives gathered here, not counting the nearly 100,000 slaughtered by the soldiers.

Let the admirals who originally thought that this desert island was only three or four hundred thousand people at most, they were smacking their tongues one after another.