Chapter 309: Beihai General Cao Wenzhao (Page 1/1)

After Cao Wenzhao came to Xiaohai, the first thing he did was to read out the holy decree, the emperor ordered Xiaohai to be officially named Beihai, and Cao Wenzhao was appointed Beihai General, and the Northern Naval Region replaced the Far Northern Military Region.

The emperor assigned the four divisions of Zhang Zongling, Xue Boling, Sun Fumin, and Wei Junru to Cao Wenzhao, plus Yue Tuo's 10,000 Jianzhou Jurchens and 10,000 Mongolian cavalry in Transkhalkha, a total of about 60,000 people, and the first step of the Northern Naval Region was to occupy the land of the entire Ob River basin.

Before Cao Wenzhao came, the emperor told him that he would first build a stronghold in the upper reaches of the Ob River, and then radiate to the entire plain, separated from the Far North Military City by about 2,000 miles, build a railway from the Far North City, and wait until the railway is repaired, and then march to the northwest.

Therefore, the strategy of the Ming army is to simply build roads, defend roads, and consolidate roads, and take roads as the key link. Because the population in these places is too small, there is no way to fight a war without a stable supply of food, and it is too easy to transport grain by rail to supply the Ming army.

If railway transportation is only one-way transportation, it is obviously not worth it, so Cao Wenzhao also has a task of logging. The band saw made by the Civil Manufacturing Bureau played an extremely important role, much faster than cutting down trees with an axe, and the loss of strength was also small, so Cao Wenzhao, at the request of Shi Kefa, wantonly cut down a forest designated by Shi Kefa.

When the forest was almost cut down, Scofa organized the local Buryati people to start turning the prospected mountain into a large cement factory. He had the ambition to build a ring road along the North Sea, which would connect to the railway station, so that the region's abundant natural resources could be brought back to the mainland.

In this way, the railroad brought food, ammunition and other supplies from the interior, and when they returned, they brought with them the huge trees of the place. The trees here are of good quality and should be sought-after whether they are used for shipbuilding or furniture, and the money from the sale of the trees goes to Hercynian Province after paying taxes and transportation fees.

Scofa insisted that the Watters were human beings and should be treated as human beings. Therefore, he first organized the Washorn people in Haixi Province, allocated forest land to them, and invited people from the Central Plains to teach them the skills of shipbuilding, fishing, and farming, so that their food problems were solved.

After the construction of the Far Northern Military City was completed, the Rakshasas came from the north and were detected by the local Buryati people. After Shi Kefa informed Zhang Zongling, Zhang Zongling was overjoyed to attack the Rakshasa army with two brigades, and under the leadership of Briati Hunt, they came to meet the Rakshasas. It turned out that there were no more than 300 Rakshasas with arquebuses.

After the Ming army set up a formation, the Rakshasa army was not afraid of facing far more enemy troops than themselves, they had encountered this situation many times before, and finally they all put a row of guns and watched the other party escape. With a disdainful smile on their faces, the Rakshasa soldiers marched forward in formation. The Ming army also did not raise their guns, and when the Rakshasa soldiers reached a hundred paces, they raised their guns and opened fire at the same time, knocking down the soldiers in the front row of the Rakshasa team six or seven out of ten.

For the first time in Asia, the Rakshasas were stunned when they encountered an opponent using firearms. Seeing thousands of people on the other side, he knew that the other party was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and he was a little panicked, so he wanted to flee, but the Buryati cavalry rushed forward and blocked behind them.

The Rakshasas wisely chose to surrender, and they threw down their weapons, and the Buryati collected their weapons and tied them together with ropes.

Zhang Zongling looked at the firearms of the Rakshasa people and found that they were much behind the Ming army, they all used fire ropes to ignite gunpowder, there was no rifling, there was no fixed gunpowder, and they all used a small gourd to hold gunpowder. He handed over the weapons of the Rakshasa to Shi Kefa and let him deal with them himself.

After Shi Kefa asked about the difference between the Rakshasa firearms and the Ming army's firearms, he immediately handed over all the Rakshasa firearms to Briati to capture the fast. Zhang Zongling suggested that he recruit the Briati people and set up a personal army in Haixi Province, which could maintain order on weekdays and serve as a guide to participate in the military operations of the Ming army during wartime. Shi Kefa was as good as a stream, and immediately set up a 500-strong Buryati personal guard.

The arrival of Cao Wenzhao made Zhang Zongling breathe a sigh of relief. His qualifications are about the same as those of other division commanders, even lower than Xue Boling, the emperor made him a general of the Far Northern Military Region, although it shows that the emperor values him, but the army has always valued seniority and merit, and the emperor's appointment will inevitably make others unconvinced, and now Cao Wenzhao came, he was able to unload the burden, and at the same time unload the burden in his heart.

Zhang Zongling handed over the information on the interrogation of the Rakshasa people to Cao Wenzhao, who looked at it carefully and said: "It seems that the steps of the Rakshasa people are not slow, they have already occupied a lot of places, although they are only a small force, but they all have firearms, which are the kind we see today, lit with fireropes, which are much worse than ours, but at least they are stronger than the bows and arrows of the Rakshasa people, and they have not met opponents along the way." ”

Zhang Zongling said: "Their strategy is similar to ours, where they hit, they will build fortresses, although it is worse than our railway, but it is also a rare good way." ”

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "After all, it can't compare to His Majesty the Emperor's foresight. We also have to build fortresses, but without railways, these fortresses don't really do much, because the place is too big, unless they are completely disproportionate opponents. Master Xue and Master Sun are still conducting geographical surveys along the two rivers, and they should have also encountered the Rakshasas, so let's contact them first, and then decide to stop. ”

Zhang Zongling said: "They have only set off for more than a month, and it is impossible to send back the news immediately when they encounter the Rakshasa people, so it is better for the subordinates to lead a small and capable army to find out the news, which will be faster." ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "That's fine, but how is your railway exploration going?" ”

Zhang Zongling said: "The professors and students of the research institute are studying how to build a railway in the extremely cold weather in this place, and the exploration must be carried out after the army clears it first. ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "That's good, the emperor said when I came that the place where the Yenisei River meets a place that may be called the Katsa River can be used as the next stop in Beihai." You know, we don't understand how the emperor knew about this place, but what the emperor said was right in the end, so find this place first, and then survey it between the two places from Beihai to this meeting point. ”

Sogou reading website: