Zamparini kicked the pebbles under his feet in some boredom, today was the 4th of July, and the last of the Shun troops had disappeared into the distant horizon yesterday. They may have retreated back to the place called Shaanxi, or they may have gone to attack other Ming cities, but in short, they don't seem to be returning to this desolate coast. When they withdrew, they also left to their side the more than 200 soldiers who had been wounded or sick in about the previous battles and were unable to follow the large army, and declared that they were under the control of Mo Ming, the defense envoy of Ninghai. In addition to these people, there were about three or four hundred Ming soldiers who had surrendered to Shun with their families, and they were also unwilling to leave Shandong to follow Guo Sheng to Henan and Shaanxi. Guo Sheng was not reluctant, and threw them to the people on the east coast.

Pity these Ming soldiers, I don't know whose hands they have fallen into. Zamparini looked at them with gloating eyes, these people thought that Shaanxi was far enough, so did they know that there was an east coast on this earth that was much farther than Shaanxi? I'd love to see their expressions.

The five returning steam-engine galleons left the coast yesterday again loaded with more than 4,000 Ming people, and their destination is rumored to be Ober. The river valley in the northwest of Dabo is very fertile, and there are many bison, moose, and reindeer. Perhaps the upper authorities have taken a fancy to this fertile black soil belt, and are ready to settle all these displaced people there, burn the wasteland, graze cattle and sheep, catch fish and shrimp, and turn this valley into a solid rear area for the people on the east coast.

There were also two or three thousand Ming refugees on the coast, and they were all the "payment" that Guo Sheng used to pay for that batch of arms. It can be seen that these people did not come here "voluntarily", and perhaps the general of the Shun army, Guo Sheng, used the same method as the people on the east coast. That is, to force them to leave their place of residence. Go to a new place to reclaim. These days come every night. A large number of Ming people would take advantage of the darkness to escape, enduring severe pain, climbing over barbed wire, and fleeing to the heart-rending barking of wolfdogs.

In fact, Zamparini did not understand the behavior of these people. In his opinion, there is a general shortage of food in Shandong today, and it is difficult for them to get food even if they escape. Unless the wealthy landowners are willing to share their precious grain with them, this is obviously not possible. He didn't understand what these people had to lose, was it freedom? They are all starving to death, do they still care about the so-called freedom? The people of the East Coast have high-yielding varieties of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other grains. There are irrigation ditches dug by a large number of people, so that everyone can grow crops near Yantai with peace of mind. What's more, everyone usually has abundant fish and meat to supplement nutrition, so he can't figure out why these people will escape.

But the good news is that some people have fled, and others have escaped. In addition to a few well-informed refugees who had nothing, there were a number of Shunguo officials wanted by the local landlords, some of whom had come alone, some with a small retinue, and even more than a hundred soldiers who had taken refuge - though most of their weapons seemed to have been lost.

Zamparini doesn't think they've lost the honor of a soldier, because when you're facing an enemy of the same tier who has a huge numerical advantage. Everything is going to be difficult. They met a local rebellion, and then fought. After the worst forced retreat, it was as simple as that.

Zamparini had also heard about the arrangements for these people. It's not a secret, and the officers at the higher levels have already revealed a lot of information to the junior officers like Zamparini when they chat. In fact, Chief Mo was preparing to reorganize these people, and at present, the scattered soldiers and horses of Dashun, who had fled to Yantai, had reached more than 600 people, most of whom had horses, and they seemed to have many years of combat experience. Therefore, they have a certain combat effectiveness, and they are quite resolute in their will. As for the situation that Yantai Fortress might face in the next year, the people on the east coast have a sober estimate from top to bottom, that is, they must be prepared to be besieged by several times or even ten times the size of their own Qing army.

In such a situation, these cavalry actually did not have much use. Therefore, it seems that the superiors are ready to use their own advantage in controlling the sea to open up a second battlefield, and throw these highly mobile cavalry into the enemy's soft underbelly to attack, so as to reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield. For example, Zamparini vaguely heard that the arrogant staff officers had drawn up a bold plan for the "Shenyang military parade". I don't know the exact content of the story, but just hearing the name is already terrifying! It's been a long time since he came to Shandong, and Zamparini naturally knows that Shenyang is the capital of the Qing Kingdom, so he took a few hundred cavalry to parade near the capital of the Qing Kingdom? No, it's not realistic! This is crazy!

Orders rang out one after another on the landing field, and it was a team of soldiers led by Corporal Kim Go-kyu. Guo Sheng really brought 5,000 stone of grain, but how to say it, he played a trick when delivering the grain. That is, he did not deliver all the wheat or rice that both sides tacitly agreed to, but mixed with miscellaneous grains, such as wheat, rice, corn, black beans, and so on. Zamparini had the privilege of seeing these grains, most of which were not new grains harvested this year, but old grains. Even many of the bags containing grain had the logo of a certain royal palace on them, and the grain in them already had a faint smell of mold, but it was this kind of grain that was about to rot, and these supposed respected princes were unwilling to distribute it to their subjects.

It's not as good as those filthy and corrupt churches, Zamparini secretly despised in his heart.

"What are you doing here? Organize the displaced people to carry food. A thunderous voice sounded in his ears, and Zamparini looked up and saw that it was Gao Shan, the deputy commander of the company. Gao Shan is five big and three thick, and he has a very good relationship with Zamparini in private, and he used to be the platoon commander of the grenadier platoon, but when he expanded the army this time, he didn't know what kind of shit luck he took to become the deputy company commander. It is said that this guy was originally from Dezhou, Shandong, and his profession was a monk, but later he didn't know how Lu Dao was brought to the east coast. Although I heard that the monks of the country were not allowed to eat meat, the first hobby of this Gao Shan was to eat beef, veal de la Plata, South African yellow beef, and new Chinese hump beef, there was nothing he did not eat, so Zamparini was very suspicious of his devotion to God.

"Gao Lian, there is no ship, where is this grain going? Is it difficult to go overland? I have heard that the two local officials who came to recruit the Qing State have already arrived in the area of Dezhou, and the two local landlord armies who have mutual suspicions are vying to negotiate with them about surrender, and the former Ming officials in other regions are also waiting to see the situation after expelling the officials of Shun and are ready to surrender at any time. In this case, you let us go by land? It's too embarrassing, isn't it? Zamparini said with a hippie smile.

"Stop talking nonsense." Gao Shan smiled and slapped his fan-like palm on Zamparini's shoulder, and said, "Look at the bay, what is that?" ”

"Hey, there's really a ship coming, huh? Ah, it must be the troops who went to North Korea to 'borrow food', and they came back?! Also, it's been a month since I went, and it's time to come back. The combat effectiveness of those North Koreans is too weak to cause them any trouble at all, and it is estimated that their gains in this operation should be not small. Zamparini muttered as he looked at the sailboats that were sailing far away from the sea. These sailboats have bright red naval flags on top of their masts, and you can't go wrong.

"Then it goes without saying, hurry up, don't rub it off." Gao Shan admonished, and then took out a few pieces of beef jerky from Zamparini's pocket.

Six vessels, including the "Baobab" and the "Hump Cow", lined up in the open sea, and dropped their heads and tails. Soon, a large number of dinghys were lowered from these boats, and with the efforts of the sailors, they rowed towards the shore. Seeing this scene, Zamparini no longer hesitated, and led his soldiers to drive those "homeless" people to load supplies and then get on the ship. The homeless people seemed to know that they would go over thousands of miles as soon as they got on the ship, and they were quite resistant and unwilling to cooperate. However, after all, the arms could not resist the thighs, and after seeing the bright bayonets on the barrels of the soldiers, they finally chose to obey, and then either cried in a low voice or silently picked up the food bags on the shore and loaded them into the dinghy that washed the beach to the shore.

Mao Desheng walked on the muddy beach with one foot in a shallow foot, and frowned slightly after seeing the appearance of these homeless people. Guo Sheng didn't know where he brought the people from, although these Ming people were also full of vegetables and malnutrition, but after all, they were better than the refugees in Deng, Lai, and Qingfu. It seems that the living conditions of the people in Shandong along the canal are not as bad as imagined, after all, they are in a prosperous area. According to the nature of the Chinese to relocate to the land, if they can survive in their hometown, they will never leave their hometown, and it is understandable that most of these Shandong people from Yanzhou and Jinan provinces are doing this.

It's just that in the future, it's better not to engage in this kind of collective migration action, because the resistance of the common people is too great, and the work efficiency will not be too high. Although they will slowly change after they divide the land, cattle, houses, and daughters-in-law in the local area, it is not too appropriate after all. If the Manchu government could seize the opportunity and use the power of public opinion in its hands to criticize the "sea banditry" style of the people on the east coast, it would inevitably cause the image of the people on the east coast to plummet in the north in the future. In fact, there is no positive image of the East Coast people now, because the right to speak is always in the hands of the literati gentry, and the East Coast people have a standard hostile relationship with them - at least in the Denglai area. And the people are blindly obedient to these literati and gentry, they say what they say, and they never even question it, so I am afraid that the life of the people on the east coast will not be too easy in the northern coastal area in the future.

However, it is too inefficient to collect displaced people alone. Moreover, the whole territory of Shandong will be easily appeased by the Manchu Qing in the next month or two, and the Qing court will send the traitor Shi Tingzhu, Zhenglan Qigushan Ezhen Bahana and others to lead the army, so it is likely that the people on the east coast will no longer be able to recruit displaced people. Grass, it seems that we still have to take this opportunity to kidnap more people, image or something, let's talk about it later! (To be continued......)