Chapter 312: Sun Fumin's Defeat (Page 1/1)

Xue Boling temporarily named Casriya the city of Twin Rivers because it was the meeting point of the two rivers, and after leaving behind three hundred soldiers, the Ming army continued downstream with the surrendered Cossacks.

Zhang Zongling took a brigade to the Yenisei River Valley, and the team included the surveyors of the Ministry of Railways, who walked very slowly, because the explorers had to go all the way to explore, so Zhang Zongling divided the team into two parts, and took two battalions to go first, responsible for cleaning up the enemies that might be encountered along the way, and a battalion commander with soldiers accompanied the people of the Ministry of Railways to slowly explore.

Zhang Zongling rushed to Heyang first, where the remaining Ming troops had already cut down some trees and were building more houses. Zhang Zonglingqi said: "Isn't there enough housing? Why repair the house. ”

The battalion commander who stayed behind said: "General Xue said that more troops will come later, so it is not wrong to repair some houses and prepare some wood first." ”

Zhang Zongling said with a smile: "This old Xue thinks long-term, but this place is good, if the railway passes by this side, then it will be necessary to repair more houses." ”

The battalion commander said: "General Xue took some Cossacks to Kasruilya, I heard that there is a large group of Rakshasas there, but now it should be solved by General Xue." ”

Zhang Zongling said: "I will go to Casruiya first, and there will be people in charge of exploration from the Ministry of Railways later, and you will take care of them when the time comes." ”

By the time he arrived at Casrilla, Xue Boling had already left. Zhang Zongling looked at the vicinity of Shuanghe City and said with a smile: "It should be here, with my layman's eyes, I can see that this is a suitable station, but a bridge needs to be built here." ”

Zhang Zongling lived in the fortress, and then sent people to report back to Cao Wenzhao, and he led people to start cultivating near Shuanghe City. It's still a long way from the railway, so it's best to be able to solve some food problems on the spot.

Cao Wenzhao received a letter from Zhang Zongling, and knew that he had found the confluence of the two rivers that the emperor said, so he immediately wrote a note and sent it back to the capital.

Zhu Youxiao ordered the Ministry of Railways to immediately start transporting personnel and equipment to Beihai and to begin preparations before the construction of the railway. At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and the Highway Committee jointly formed the Daming Northern Construction Trading Company, which began to explore for ore near the North Sea, and demanded that enough cement and steel plants be built within a year for the Daming Royal Road and Bridge Bureau to build a railway bridge and a road bridge over the Yenisei River.

Because of the existence of the Jingbei Railway, the whole train from Beijing to Beihai only takes three days and ten hours. And the transportation capacity of the train far exceeds the power of animals, not to mention manpower, so after the emperor issued the decree, a month later, all walks of life have reached Beihai.

And in the meantime, the Railway's explorers have identified a railway route from Beihai to Twin Rivers. The people of the Northern Construction Trading Company began to explore, and soon found a large iron ore mine and a coal mine near Ha Duong.

The construction of the Heyang Iron and Steel Plant began quickly, and the Indian laborers and the Burati laborers summoned by Shi Kefa endured hardships and stood hard work, stimulated by abundant food and high wages, and burst out with great enthusiasm for labor, so that the construction of the steel plant changed with each passing day, and according to the estimation of the designers of the Ordnance Bureau, the production of steel rails could begin within half a year.

At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture's resettlement work is also being carried out in an orderly manner, and there is a large amount of wasteland near Heyang City and Shuanghe City, where the soil is far more fertile than in the Ming Dynasty. The Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Ministry of Households, organized about 30,000 families in Henan to move to the two places. Ten years of tax exemption and free housing and livestock tools are not unfty, so Henan, a country with a large population and relatively little land, is still very attractive. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that the 110,000 people in the 30,000 households will provide food for at least 200,000 people next year, and that the total number of people here, including the military, including those who build railways and roads, will not exceed 250,000 next year. As a result, there will be much less food to be transported to the country, and the railways will free up a lot of capacity to transport more other goods and commodities.

At this time, Sun Fumin's troops, after separating from Xue Boling, finally came to a place called Tomsk, which is a town along the Tomi River, with one-color wooden houses, and even their city walls are wooden.

Sun Fumin's department has not seen the villages and towns that people are focusing on for more than a month, and the food of the Ming army has begun to reduce to near the cordon, if the food problem is not solved locally, then it will have to return after half a month, so seeing the towns, the Ming army's spirit is greatly boosted.

The Ming army soon surrounded the fortress, and a Briati man stepped forward and began to shout, nothing more than surrender and not kill. Several arrows were fired from the fortress, killing the Buryati man on his horse.

Sun Fumin was furious and wanted to start a strong attack with artillery. At this moment, the gates of the fortress opened, and a detachment of Cossack cavalry rushed out of the doorway. The Cossack cavalry, numbering about a thousand people, dressed in clothes that seemed strange to the Ming army, crouched on their horses and shouted, their sabers in their hands flashing with cold light.

The formation of the Ming army had already been arranged, Sun Fumin personally commanded, when the Cossack cavalry was two hundred paces away, his hand waved, the rifled fire began to fire, after a burst of fire, more than a dozen Cossacks fell off their horses.

The other Cossack cavalry was not affected at all, and continued to rush towards the Ming army, when they were a hundred steps away from the Ming army, Sun Fumin waved his hand for the second time, and the three rows of muskets fired at the same time, and then retreated, and the three rows of musketeers behind stepped forward, fired, and then stood in place and aimed the muskets in front.

A large amount of smoke filled the front of the position, and after the smoke slowly dissipated, I saw the Cossacks of the brigade rushing over, Sun Fumin shouted "steady", and the Ming army stabbed the bayonet in front of the fire gun at the Cossack soldier on the horse. But the tremendous force of the impact deflected the bayonet belt that stabbed it to the side, and then knocked the owner of the bayonet to the ground.

Sun Fumin shouted: "Open fire, and then use bayonets against the enemy." The herald next to him blew the whistle, and the sharp whistle sounded, and the Ming army, who had retreated from loading ammunition earlier, opened fire on the Cossack soldiers on their horses, and then stretched out their bayonets at the front row of the vacant front, and the people pounced on the comrades in front of them tightly to resist the impact of the cavalry.

Sun Fumin shouted: "The artillery is ready. ”

The artillerymen took the artillery off their horses, quickly set it up, and then loaded the shells and aimed them at the Cossack units in front.

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