The entire late June of 1645 was extremely embarrassing for several of the Qing court's dignitaries in Shandong.

The loss of the two coastal prefectures and counties of Haifeng and Ye County made the prestige of the Qing court in Shandong plummet, especially the Ye County of which was still the government of Laizhou Prefecture, but it was rumored that it still fell in two days, which was shocking and inexplicable. After hearing that Ye County had fallen, Fang Dayou, Le Ke Dehun in Jinan, and Hao Ge in Dengzhou were all silent for a while. The Qing court had more than 90,000 troops in Shandong, but it had no way to take a yellow-clothed Haikou with less than 10,000 people, and was repeatedly led by the nose, and was extremely passive.

This time, Ye County was breached, and the 2,000 green battalions were defeated in a battle, and a large amount of grain, grass, livestock, carts, silver, knives, guns and arrows hoarded in the city all fell into the hands of the people on the east coast, and they even carried them on the seashore for three days for this purpose. The Laizhou Mansion has fallen, although everyone is in low spirits, but the gesture of rescue still has to be done, and it is good to do your best. So, Haoge sent a horse team of thousands of people from Dengzhou, and Luck Dehun of Jinan saw that Haoge's troops were contained in Yantai in large numbers, so he also transferred 2,000 green battalion horses from Jinan, and allocated 6,000 foot soldiers from Yizhou Town.

Seeing that the Qing army was slow, the people on the east bank simply tossed around the countryside of Yexian County for two more days, and only after the last plundered back, the Qing army that was rushing to eat soil in the back lost face. Encouraged by this, the once-calm situation in Shandong also began to stir up, especially Fang Dayou's renegade to levy taxes and try his best to supply the 90,000 Qing troops on two routes, and the people's grievances in various places were suddenly boiling, all of which made the situation in Shandong unable to be completely calmed down. The Qing court had to intensify its search for countermeasures in order to resolve the passive situation in Shandong as soon as possible.

June 30th. A fleet of 14 ships, large and small, sailed directly into the wide Aniva Bay. Then, under the leadership of the guide ship, they sailed into the port of Dabo in turn to unload personnel and materials. More than 13,000 Ming people were caught in Haifeng and Ye County. At this moment, it is finally possible to get out of the cabin of the ship, which is crammed like a sardine can. Fortunately, the sailing time was still short, and it only took five or six days to travel in a smooth wind, so only a few hundred old and infirm people died in these thirteen,000-odd people. Most of the people, including some women and children, although their physical and mental state is not very good, are still alive after all, and they can recover after a while of recuperation and labor in Dabo.

After the beginning of spring, a considerable number of displaced people have gathered in the Dabo area, and on the basis of the original more than 10,000 acres of farmland, several thousand acres have been newly opened along the river, making the sowing area here reach 20,000 acres. Most of the 20,000 acres of land are planted with potatoes with a short growth period (more than three months of growth period), and a small part is planted with spring wheat, oats, rye and other crops. I believe it will be September. The harvest of these fields will inevitably fill the already somewhat empty granaries again.

With the original immigrants and the newcomers, the number of Ming people in this fertile black land has exceeded 26,000. With such a large population spread over a vast area on both sides of the river, it is already difficult for the existing dozens of patrol police officers and hundreds of Oroqen military households to manage. Seeing this situation, Mo Ming swept up the six or seven hundred Henan soldiers of the former Dong Xueli Department and more than 100 Oroqen people here who had surrendered this time, and then transferred 200 people from the newly emigrated Japanese, making up 1,000 people, and forming the 23rd-26th Squadron of the Standing Force. These four squadrons will be trained here to build up their combat effectiveness, and perhaps they will be transferred to the mainland before the arrival of the winter lockdown.

Not long after the 19th-22nd squadrons of the Advance Brigade stationed at Hallasan Ranch were formed, four more squadrons were expanded in the Dabo area, which made the establishment of the Advance Brigade reach a terrifying size of 6,000 men in 24 squadrons. If it weren't for the looting of a large number of silver taels before and after. This monthly salary would bankrupt the Blackwater Trailblazers. In the face of Mo Ming's unscrupulous military expansion, Bao Chenan, deputy commander of the gendarmerie who had just been transferred to the local area for more than half a year, gave him a tactful warning. Tell Mo Ming that some of his actions are suspected of touching the high-voltage line.

Mo Ming, who knows this, has a hard time, but he also guarantees that the size of the standing team will not expand in a few years. At most, recruit some miscellaneous guard staff officers and build the shelves of the 1st Wing of the Standing Team. The 1st Wing has 3 brigades, each with 8 squadrons, each with 250 men, exactly 6,000 officers and men. If we add the cavalry squadron, engineering squadron, baggage squadron, guard squadron, reconnaissance squadron, and some miscellaneous personnel such as medical officers, weapons repairmen, veterinarians, craftsmen, clerks, drummers, and buglers, the total strength is about 7,500 people.

Of course, the formation of these logistics and technical arms is relatively slow, and it is estimated that it will not be completed within a year, plus Bao Chenan has already given a warning, Mo Ming also decided to give him a face, and the wing headquarters will be slowly formed, and the six thousand people will be trained first. At present, there are fires everywhere on the mainland, and there is no need to worry about the lack of opportunities for military training. As long as these people are given normal treatment, they can train with peace of mind, and they are sent to the battlefield from time to time to conduct actual combat to accumulate combat experience and confidence, their combat effectiveness will naturally increase by a large margin after a long time, and they will become a decisive force in the Heishui region.

Four medium-sized fishing boats did not stop at Da Moor, and the sailors quickly sailed away from the pier and headed for Blackwater Harbor. There, they will be maintained and serviced before heading out to sea in late July, along with three new medium-sized fishing vessels built this year. With the arrival of some tough and durable fishing nets made of sisal fibre and more large-scale combination lamps, the use of lights to trap saury and Far Eastern sardines will be more convenient this year, and production is expected to increase significantly.

On July 4, Mo Ming had only been resting in Dabo for about five days, and the "Tuna" frigate gunboat, which had returned to Heishui Port from the front to replenish ammunition, suddenly sailed into Dabo Port halfway through and brought Mo Ming two extremely special "guests".

"Russians?" Mo Ming, who was wearing a pair of high-grade whale leather boots, poked two men who were tied up and thrown on the ground like dumplings with her toes, and asked. Both men were European faces, but unlike traditional Latins or Germanic peoples, they resembled Russians with a lot of Tatar ancestry. Considering the location of Sakhalin and the fact that Tsarist Russia had already occupied the Heilongjiang River valley in the Far East, there was no doubt that these two men must have been Russians.

His questions went unanswered. Soon, several guards in tweed coats began to kick and beat the two Russian prisoners with their cowhide military boots. The Russians howled in pain, speaking Russian in a language that no one could understand. Apparently due to a language barrier, Mo Ming stopped the guards from abusing the two men, and then ordered the two men to be handed over to the gendarmerie to find their own way to interrogate.

According to the first mate of the "Tuna", they met them in the Tatar Strait. They were captured by a group of Shandan people in a ship of animal skins, and were sailing through the sea with difficulty. When the three-masted sail gunboat "Tuna" appeared, these Shandan people immediately waved their arms happily, and then led the "Tuna" on board. Some of them, who spoke Liaodong Chinese, said they captured the two Russians in their walled city near the mouth of the Songhua River, while also killing six of their accomplices for extortion in the area.

These hapless Cossacks couldn't figure it out, when they had been very docile when they had spent the winter here with the chief of Boyarkov last winter, the Kiryaks (Feyakats) suddenly turned their faces and didn't recognize anyone, and they dared to poison them. As for playing with a few indigenous women and extorting some fur horses? They killed no less than five hundred barbarians in Yakutsk, and they annoyed us by burning your fort and selling all men, women, and children into slavery to Khabarov, a greedy merchant. Khabarov needed these barbarian slaves most in the logging yards of Yakutsk, and he would pay a good price and "entertain" the barbarians.

But when the Fyakats brought out a dozen flintlock muskets with good ammunition from the room, the Cossacks, who had only a few old arquebuses, were shocked. After a short and fierce resistance, most of the eight Cossacks were killed, and two others were captured alive. Elder Feyaka of the walled city also regretted it at this time, and killed a few Cossacks, how should this matter be over? You know, the famous Cossack leader Boyarkov still has a hundred and thirty men at hand, and he is now going to the north to explore, but he may return at some point, and how will the whole stockade withstand the murderous Cossacks?

Thinking of this, the people of Feiyaka felt that it was better to find a backer quickly. And the ready-made backers were the easterners on Sakhalin, whose muskets were purchased from them, and only the easterners had enough strength to protect them. Therefore, they took two Cossack prisoners, as well as the taxes that were supposed to be paid to the Russians—four hundred and eighty mink skins and sixteen mink jackets—to the port of Oberi to ask the people on the east coast for help.

Mo Ming was quite interested in these Fiyaka people, because it had a lot to do with a big plan planned in his mind, so he quickly summoned these Fiyaka people to inquire. After the inquiry, he reassured them, gave them some goods, and formally accepted the annexation of the Fiyaka tribe, promising them protection. Not only that, but he also decided to send the frigate gunboat "Tuna" with a total of 500 men from the newly formed two squadrons of the 25th and 26th Squadrons to land in the area to declare sovereignty and boast of military might, so as to deter potential enemies. At the same time, he also decided to send a few engineers from the port of Blackwater to guide the Fiyaka people for a short time to build some scientific fortifications out of wood and rammed earth, in order to deal with the possible Cossack retaliation. (To be continued......)