April 25, 1646, Sunny, Temple Street. Two shallow-water river gunboats of the "Amur" class carefully avoided some ice floe and then quickly approached the winter camp on the north bank of the Amur River.

In fact, they had already visited once a week earlier, when the ice conditions on the Amur River were still quite severe, and the two river gunboats, with two coal-fired boilers, 140 horsepower, and twin shaft and twin propellers, had to reduce their speed, avoid the large area of drift ice, and make it difficult to approach the temple street winter camp, bringing some food and livestock to the Feyaka who had been catten here for five and a half months.

After surviving this winter, they will start to plant hardy crops such as rye and oats, as well as short-growing pastures such as alfalfa to feed all kinds of livestock. Crops such as rye and oats have many advantages, such as being particularly adaptable, hardy, and not much to manage, so they can basically be spread over a large area. The fleet that came from the mainland in October last year brought a large number of machine parts, which can assemble dozens of harvesters and put them on horseback. With this sharp weapon, the fertile black soil in the northeast can expand the sown area, and the grain yield may decline, but the total output will increase significantly.

The Feyaka patriarch told the naval officers who had come by boat to the east coast in Chinese that this year's taxes would be paid in time for the autumn harvest. Some of the hunters who had been recruited by Liu Haiyang last year into the reconnaissance team directly under the First Wing of the Advance Brigade also took the opportunity to return home, wearing thick tweed coats and sealskin hats, and carrying large bags of luggage (50 kilograms per person) off the ship with red faces. Spirits, cane sugar, salt, metal knives, tea, porcelain, silk and of course some gold and silver. But these things are not as important in the eyes of the villagers as those spirits, tea, knives, etc.

East shore sailors leaned against the side of the ship. I grinned and watched as the group of forwarders returned home. The First Wing lasted for three months from the second half of last year until mid-October. Taking advantage of the southward crossing of the main force of the Qing army and its own mobile advantage, it launched many battles in the coastal areas of southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu, and successively captured Rizhao, Juzhou, Ganyu, Haizhou, Yancheng, Rugao, Haimen, Tongzhou and other prefectures and counties. Duoduo had to mobilize a considerable number of men from the surrendered troops to exterminate the yellow-clothed pirates, but with little success.

On August 15, the East Coast Army and the main force of the First Wing of the Standing Force totaled more than 5,000 soldiers, and fought with more than 10,000 Henan landlords of the Qingyi Prefecture General Soldier Xu Dingguo outside Juzhou City. The Qing army was defeated. Dead and wounded, Xu Dingguo was knocked down by the Polish pikes after the melee was broken, and almost died on the spot, and then fled while the melee was spared. The Juzhou Governor appointed by the Qing court surrendered without a fight, and the entire Yizhou town was shaken. Luck Dehun, who was far away in Jinan, and Haoge, who was stationed in Dengzhou, almost crooked their noses, but they were helpless, and they were also very powerless in this asymmetrical style of play.

On September 5, the East Coast Army landed in the Tongzhou area and broke through the county. Feng Duoduo ordered to take 2,500 Manmeng Eight Banners to subdue the Gushan Ezhen Zhun Pagoda in the Jiangbei region. After the unfavorable battle with the army on the east coast, he did not advance and feared the enemy like a tiger. After being reprimanded by Dord. He reluctantly attacked the east bank army with thousands of pioneers of the Zuomengeng division who rushed over, and as a result, the 6,000 pioneers of the Zuomengeng division collapsed on the spot under the bombardment of more than 20 large and small artillery. Duoduo, who was collecting the county of Nanzhilizhou, heard of this defeat and was "shocked", and ordered all the units of the Ming army to gather in Yangzhou, preparing to pile up the yellow-clothed Haikou with the number.

Considering the inferior quality of these Ming surrender troops, they may not be much better than Zuo Mengeng's troops in the battle formation, so Duoduo also dispatched a large number of Manmeng Eight Banners, Wuzhen Chaoha and other troops to return to Jiangbei to jointly suppress them. At this time, the summer heat in the south of the Yangtze River was very hot, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners were extremely uncomfortable, so the soldiers of the Eight Banners, who numbered as many as 10,000 people, crossed the river and entered Yangzhou again, preparing to advance eastward together after careful deployment, compressing the space for the people on the east coast.

However, the people on the east coast never squatted in one place for too long, so they quickly left the Tongzhou line, boarded ships and headed north, and landed in the Haizhou area on October 5. The Zhizhou appointed by the Qing court died of self-immolation, and the 3,000 soldiers of the Qing Yizhou town stationed here dispersed. Thousands of reinforcements from Yizhou Town, one of the two pillars of coastal defense that the Qing court had painstakingly managed, had lost more than half of the town's army, and the rest had "fled from the yellow-clothed army," and their morale was very low, and they basically lost their effective combat capability.

After launching these three campaigns and greatly mobilizing the Qing army, the people on the east coast finished the battle. The troops returned to Yantai to hold a commendation meeting, send awards and promote officers; The ships returned to Dabo, Heishui, Yuanbo and other places for maintenance, and immediately began to transfer the population after maintenance, after all, this is the most important thing for the people on the east coast every year.

Therefore, at this time, these forward-looking players who returned to their hometown were all "full of money", which made a group of villagers who were farming near Temple Street red-eyed. Some of the Pheyakas, Daurs, and Oroqen people who had recently moved here were also very envious, and they all thought that they would have to find a way to squeeze in the next conscription. Their own archery skills are no worse than theirs, and their ability to catch wild beasts is also better than theirs, so why can they get rich but not themselves?

At this time, the population of the temple street winter camp was much more prosperous than last year, and after absorbing some of the wild Jurchen tribes who had fled, the population had reached 1,200 people. With the protection of the people from the east coast, they also settled down this year and began to settle down, and sowed a large area of rye, oats and other crops introduced by the Russians.

Mo Dashuai, who is in charge of the entire Heishui region, is ambitious this year, starting to vigorously expand the sown area on Sakhalin Island and the fertile black soil of the Amur River basin, and at the same time build fishing boats to increase the catch. The complete occupation of Jeju Island has made a large number of livestock on the island's fertile pastures fall into the hands of the people on the east coast, and food should not be too short this year!

Therefore, after discovering that they could feed more people, the people on the east coast no longer had scruples when they were in Jiangbei, and each time they conquered a prefecture or county, they carried a large number of men and women onto the ship, and then pulled them to the northeast or Yantai. According to statistics, as of May 1, 1646, the population of immigrants in the Blackwater area after the end of the 45-46 migration transport season had remained at a high of more than 60,000, almost the highest in history.

Among them, the stranded migrant population in Yantai (excluding the number of troops, the same below) is about 25,000 - these people will have to move elsewhere sooner or later, because the role of Yantai has been greatly reduced; Sakhalin Island (including the ports of Blackwater, Omarari, and Rishiri) had the largest population, with about 36,000 people (including 5,000 permanent residents), and about 6,000 new Ming people were added to Jeju Island, which was under the indirect control of the East Coasters, in order to give the island a solid foundation for the three armed forces on the island, including Jae Cong-ge. The three of them have only 5,500 troops combined, and it always feels a little unstable to control the tens of thousands of North Koreans on the island.

After the last day, the people on the east coast also dispersed a total of about 2,000 captured Qing soldiers from Xu Dingguo's Henan army and distributed them to Temple Street and Henggong Village, where they were guarded by the local Shandan people for labor reform. If they behaved normally, after a certain period of time they could be pardoned as freemen and allocated land to take root in the Amur Valley. In fact, these people were originally mud legs from Henan, who followed the commander to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in a daze, and then went to Shandong in a daze, and then were defeated and captured in the First World War.

Who are they messing with or not, as long as the people on the east coast let them be fed and clothed, it is okay to follow them to play "I Daqing". After the arrival of these people, the population of Temple Street and Henggon Village reached 2,000 respectively, which can be regarded as beginning to take shape. Moreover, they and the Shandan people are not in the same system, and they can also check and balance each other when they are crowded together, so that the people on the east coast can bind these two places. The walled city of 2,000 people was absolutely god-like in the Amur Valley at this time. This is the result of leaning on the big tree to enjoy the shade, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangbei are more homeless people, a brain to the northeast, even if a group of people die in winter because they are not adaptable, there will be more people to survive. All of this will dramatically change the ethnic composition of the region and have a profound impact on the future development of strategies on the East Coast.

At this time, two river gunboats carried a second group of about 500 people to Temple Street. The soldiers, who were still dressed in Qing army uniforms, stepped out of the cabin and were escorted ashore in despair, where they were handed over to the local Shandan people, and then underwent labor reforms—mainly farming, logging, building cities, mowing grass, and caring for livestock. There were basically no officers among these people (all the officers went to work in the Heishui coal mine), so it was easier to control, and the people on the east coast also left a few advisers here, nominally as liaison officers, but in fact the local emperor, who monitored all affairs in the two places.

The Amur River Basin bears a great plan of Mo Ming Mo Marshal, that is, to settle fields here for several years, accumulate grain and grass, collect savage Jurchen tribes, and at the same time move to the Ming people here to expand Dingkou. After it developed to a certain extent, it began to gradually encroach on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River with fortress tactics, and sometimes even sent a large number of cavalry to the south to fight the grass valley, which made the Qing court disturbed. With the painful transportation conditions in the northeast at this time, the Qing court sent at most 10,000 people to fight here, and the logistics could not support it.

In the 50s of the 17th century, the Qing court sent troops to fight Russia twice, the first time 2,000 Eight Banner Soldiers, after being defeated by Khabarov's 170 Cossacks (seven or eight hundred dead and wounded, and two cannons captured), the second time sent 10,000 Eight Banner Soldiers, and finally defeated hundreds of mixed troops composed of Russian bankrupt peasants and Cossacks. Later, he had no choice but to withdraw because of the lack of food, and the lost territory he recaptured was later occupied by the Russians, which shows the difficulty of the Qing army in transporting supplies.

However, the people on the east coast do not have this problem, first, they can use the local tuntian, and second, they can use ships to transport grain, and the logistical support is a hundred times stronger than that of the Qing army, so they will naturally have the upper hand in a war. (To be continued......)