July 11, 1644, fine.

The sea breeze outside Dabo Port and the vast smoke waves made Pei Qin, a Gansu man, tremble. It has been more than ten years since the rebellion, and I followed "Cao Cao" (Luo Rucai) to fight in the north and south of the river, but when have I seen such a vast and boundless sea. It was also here that I knew that there was a heaven outside the sky; It was also after meeting the people from the East Coast that I realized that there were people outside the people.

"Grandma is a bear, these Yucheng people are really difficult to serve, it's the other way around." A slightly irritable voice came from behind him, and Pei Qin turned around to see that it was his old partner Gao Cuihuan.

Pei Qin and Gao Cuihuan were both civil and military officials appointed by the former Dashun in Xiajin County, Gaotang Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, and in May, the gentry in the city rebelled and surrounded the official office, intending to capture and kill the "pseudo-Shun officials". At this critical moment, Gao Cuihuan, who rushed to hear the news, immediately put on armor, "entered the office with weapons", and Pei Qin, who was "good at riding and shooting" in history, "escaped from the West Gate" with a small number of entourage. The rebellious landlords in the city were so powerful that they did not dare to intercept them, and let them go.

Mo Ming, a militarist in his bones, admired the warriors who put life and death aside at such a critical moment, and after obtaining the consent of the two, they were immediately appointed as officers of the newly formed 1st Brigade of the Advance Team, of which Pei Qin was the deputy captain and Gao Cuihuan was the leader of the 5th Squadron.

The newly formed 1st Brigade of the Standing Force has eight squadrons from 3 to 10, with a total of about 2,000 people. Its troop composition is: nearly 600 people from the 3rd and 4th squadrons of the original standing team; 300 cavalry members of Li Zhengang's army, who had recently taken refuge; There were about 500 soldiers from the Dashun local officials who came one after another, and more than 100 soldiers from the Ming Dynasty; 200 officers and soldiers of Dashun who recovered from injuries and returned from illness; There are more than 300 soldiers of Ming and Korean nationality in the former military husband corps who have been newly recruited.

Mo Ming ordered all these soldiers to be dispersed, and then reorganized into 8 squadrons, which were the 3rd-10th squadrons (the 1st squadron was stationed in Tacheng and the 2nd squadron was stationed in Gushan). These 8 squadrons formed the 1st Brigade. The group leader is temporarily represented by Sergeant Júnior, Operations Staff. For this. Mo Ming also promoted him to temporary second lieutenant in order to manage the troops. Provisional Second Lieutenant Júnior will lead the unit until the arrival of a full-fledged officer appointed by the homeland, and then return to his duties as combat staff officer.

At present, this unit is being dispersed in the Sakhalin area for retraining. Due to the complex composition of its soldiers, including the natives of Sakhalin, the Japanese samurai, the officers and soldiers of Shun, and the newly recruited Ming and Korean soldiers, they not only had uneven combat skills, but also had great obstacles in language communication with each other, so it was necessary to concentrate on the whole training. In addition, the East Coast people broke them all up and reorganized them, so almost all the squadrons were ignorant and unscrupulous. Only when such a unit can have combat effectiveness can it be ghostly!

Dabo Port is a newly developed key area for the people of the east coast, and a large number of Ming refugees (about 8,500 people) have moved here to burn wasteland and cultivate land, and cut down trees to build houses, build wharves, cities, and forts, in short, they are very busy. With so many people here, it was naturally impossible for the people on the east coast not to send troops to garrison them, so the port of Dabo became the station of the three squadrons of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Squadrons of the 1st Brigade of the Advance Brigade. The 750 officers and men of the three squadrons had been pulled here a few days earlier, and the East Coasters had asked everyone to get a haircut, a shower, and then a new uniform.

Bathing is nothing, but some people don't want to take a "short hair" like an East Coaster. The East Coast people are not reluctant either. Those who are unwilling to get a haircut can quit the military and become a common man (the common people have suspended compulsory haircuts, and those who voluntarily get haircuts will be rewarded). Most of these people were desperate to take refuge in the East Coast. It wasn't a big deal for them to get a haircut, so only a few dozen of the three squadrons were dismissed. After recruiting dozens of additional personnel from the local people to fill the vacancies, the 750 officers and men of the three squadrons uniformed into new khaki uniforms, and then began normal training near Dabo Port.

The instructors for the training are mainly composed of some non-commissioned officers of the 102nd and 104th companies of the army, and a small number are drawn from the samurai of the Eight Banners. However, it is very difficult to transform a group of medieval armies into modern armies, and Mo Ming didn't expect them to reach this level, in short, they can train whatever they want, as long as they can fight better than those green battalion armies of the Qing court, and don't ask for much else. The soldiers took turns training during the day and studied language and politics at night. Of course, they also have to take on the task of defending the area, but local security is taken care of by the newly established Dabo police station. Bogdan is also the director of the Dabo Police Station, but he usually sits in Heishui Port on weekdays, and a confidant he sent to the Dabo Police Station serves as the deputy director and actually presides over the work of the police station.

Hearing Gao Cuihuan's complaints, Pei Qinha smiled and expressed his understanding, in fact, he has been tossed by these people recently. The cause of the incident is still the more than 11,000 so-called "displaced people" that Guo Shengsai gave to the people on the east coast, who are actually the people of Yucheng and Shanghe counties in Jinan Prefecture. Previously, the gentry of these two counties had driven and killed the officials appointed by Dashun, and Guo Sheng was furious and broke the two county towns, selected 14,500 people who were strong, and then drove them to the coast of Binzhou. About three or four thousand people died along the way, and by the time they arrived at the shores of Laizhou Bay, there were more than 11,000 left.

As mentioned earlier, these people can barely survive in their hometown, and they are naturally unwilling to leave their hometowns, coupled with the instigation and incitement of some gentry and literati who were also arrested, these people's resistance is quite serious. Pei Qin and the others, who were in charge of guarding this place, saw that the situation was not good, so they immediately made a decision and sent all the gentry and literati who were mixed in with it to the Heishui Coal Mine to dig coal, and then mobilized the heavily armed troops, which finally temporarily deterred this group of "refugees" who were about to move. Then he asked his superiors to allocate more food, fish and meat and other materials to this side, increasing everyone's food supply, and the matter slowly subsided.

There are about 8,500 displaced people here, only 5,000 from Yucheng and Shanghe counties, and most of the remaining 3,000 people are displaced from Denglai two prefectures. These real homeless people from Denglai Prefecture are still grateful to the East Coasters, after all, it was the East Coasters who pulled them and their families back from the death line, and they were also the first immigrants to get short haircuts and respond to the East Coast policy. Now seeing this new gang of guys behave like this, I was immediately annoyed, and I often ridiculed these people on weekdays, and later it evolved into a fight, which annoyed the police station in charge of law and order. It was not until the scale of the fighting became larger and larger, and the largest one even developed to hundreds of people fighting each other, and all work was seriously affected, so the local garrison also joined the ranks of the suppression, and they sent the dozens of people who took the lead to provoke to the Heishui coal mine, which calmed down the situation. But Rao is like this, and verbal abuse between the two sides still occurs from time to time on weekdays, which upsets everyone.

"How are the troops training?" Pei Qin asked. The three squadrons are collectively trained here, and a competition will be held once a month, and the squadron with the highest ranking will be responsible for cleaning the toilets in the camp, being on duty, chopping wood and lighting fires, washing and cooking, in short, very aggrieved, so everyone's enthusiasm for training is still high, after all, they don't want to be the last one.

"A mess of paste." Gao Cuihuan sat on the ground depressed and said, "The children under our command in the past have been scattered and sent elsewhere. Now I have a group of people stuffed with it, and no one understands what I say for a long time, I'm really angry! Especially those dozen or so North Koreans, they are so stupid that they can't do a single spear for half a day, they really hang themselves with a rope, what's the use of keeping them alive! ”

Pei Qin sighed. That Mo Dashuai obviously couldn't trust his own people, most of the new Dashun officers and soldiers were scattered from the original formation, and then mixed some sand in. Not only that, but every time a military salary is paid, it is distributed to everyone by roll call by the staff officers they send according to the roster; They also repeatedly asked the soldiers whether they had been maliciously oppressed by the officers, whether there were any practical difficulties that needed to be solved, and so on. Coupled with the daily continuous ideological and political study (mainly the black materials of the Manchu nobles and the Ming court gentry), Pei Qin also felt that if he continued like this, this army would sooner or later break away from Dashun and Daming, and thus become a force firmly controlled by the people on the east coast.

But to be honest, Pei Qin was also quite interested in the political studies carried out by the people on the east coast, and when he first participated in them, he even had a deafening feeling when he heard them talk about the causes and process of the Ming peasant uprising. When he rebelled in the past, he only vaguely felt that this world was wrong, there were too many corrupt officials, and there were more local tyrants and shoddy gentry, so they would store up food and not give the people a way to live, so they had to bring down the big eaters. However, he is not very clear about what the people have nothing to eat, why the taxes are getting heavier day by day, how the gentry pass on their obligations to the people, and why the court can't take out money for disaster relief, etc., after these days of study, he gradually has a rough impression in his mind, only to know that the world of the Ming Dynasty is indeed rotten, and it has reached the point where it has to be broken and rebuilt.

However, the instructors who gave them political lessons also severely criticized the rogue nature of the peasant rebels from all walks of life who did not do anything to produce and went around destroying the order of social production, as well as the great harm caused by this behavior to the rural society and how fatal the impact it had on the Ming court. It was only at this time that he gradually began to learn to analyze everything from a holistic perspective, instead of relying on instinct as before. (To be continued......)