Chapter 537: From Southwest to Northeast

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The next morning, when Yao woke up, Chen Ming was gone. She wasn't surprised either, she was too tired last night. The big girl next to her came to serve with a few little girls with hot water and towels.

Yao put on his clothes and dressed up, and the time had already passed eight o'clock.

Obviously in the house, Yao's clothes were still wrapped tightly as if they were 'basking in' snow in the wind outside. Yao, who grew up in Taiwan since childhood, is still very afraid of the cold of the northern winter.

"Mother concubine......" Yao's son spoke very clearly, and he was dressed like a hairball. As soon as the three-year-old doll was put on the ground by the mother, she ran to the mother.

After putting breakfast on the table, Yao's appetite was not yet opened, so he only ate a glutinous rice ball, and the little guy also drank half a bowl of japonica rice porridge.

Although Chen Ming has seen many novels in his previous life, japonica rice is already a very ordinary and ordinary product, but the authentic japonica rice produced in Yutian County, Hebei Province, was really a tribute enjoyed by the royal family in the Manchu Dynasty, with slender grains, slightly green, and fragrant when cooked.

After Chen Han established himself in Nanjing, local tributes and the like became marked things, rather than being reserved for the royal family in the real sense. For example, the japonica rice in Yutian County is specially purchased here by people from the Internal Affairs Department, and the best of the best are absolutely selected. Or Huazhou orange red, Deqing gong orange, Jingtang lotus root, all of them. Oh, this Jingtang lotus root does not refer to Nanjing, Beijing, but Jingtang Village in Guangzhou.

The territory of Prince Chen Ming's mansion is big enough, whether it is Liangdi or a waiter, everyone has a unique courtyard, and he is the boss as soon as the door is closed. Because Li Xiaomei is not filial piety in front of her mother-in-law at all times, she doesn't let people run to her every day. Yao's life is quite comfortable now.

But in two months, they will enter the palace, and the palace is different from the current prince's mansion.

"What are you all thinking? If you want to go out, hurry up and get an idea, and when your name is on the list of the Internal Affairs Department, unless it is the crown prince who speaks, no one can enter the palace for you. Yao sighed imperceptibly, to be honest, she didn't want to let the maids around her go, especially the big maids. I believe that many people are also loyal to her, after all, she already has a son. But if you don't leave now, people will really have to be delayed.

If there is resentment among people, then it is better to let them go.

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Chen Ming had already arrived in the front hall, and although the folds delivered from all over the country had been filtered by the cabinet, a lot of them were still piled up on his desk. All the twists and turns are divided into three according to Chen Ming's 'rules', one is what Chen Ming must see, the second is what the cabinet thinks is very important, and the third is controversial by the cabinet.

The cabinet of the Fu Han Army has been in place for quite some time. However, this cabinet does not have the cabinet of the first and auxiliary ministers, and it has never been.

Some things that can't be decided are sent to Chen Hui and Chen Ming, and the cabinet ministers themselves have their own positions, unlike the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Han's cabinet ministers are each of the ministers before they become cabinet ministers.

This decision was originally made by Chen Hui who was not at ease, and he felt that the rights of the first and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet were too heavy. In order to suppress the power of the prime minister, Zhu Yuanzhang initiated the Hu Weiyong case, and how many people were killed before the word 'prime minister' was dismissed. Now the first and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet are the prime ministers in Chen Hui's eyes.

However, with the establishment of one internal decree after another in the Fu Han Army, the military and government, finance, and politics and law were separated, contained, and related, and there was still a big difference between Chen Han's first assistant minister and Chen Hui's 'prime minister' in his mind. Chen Hui himself recognized this, but he felt that it would be better for Chen Ming to appoint the first first minister. Moreover, before Chen Ming became emperor, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Prince's Mansion were both above the existence of the simple military and political affairs.

The refugee affairs in Lanzhou had been dealt with, the Fu Han army successfully marched into Pu'er Province, and the Manchu governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Zhang Bao, led his troops to retreat to Burma when the Fu Han army attacked Dali.

The Gongbang Dynasty was not a fool, and knew that it was difficult to make peace with the Fu Han army, so the enemy of the enemy was their friend. Meng Di accepted this remnant of the Manchu army. As for those Tusi in Shan State, although they all know that their boss will become Han Chinese again in the future, no one will stop the remnants of Zhangbao who are frantically fleeing for their lives at this time.

When Chen Ming received this letter from Chen Yongsheng, with the speed of the first division, the team should have already marched into Shunning and Tengyue. Chen Ming stood in front of the map and looked at the southwesternmost place on the map of China, Tengyue Hall, which couldn't help but make him think of Tengchong. He still remembers that when he was in junior high school, his textbook used a map of China to connect two lines, an east-west dividing line, that is, from Tengchong in Yunnan to the Mohe or Heihe in the northeast, which is more than 5,000 kilometers; The other is the north-south dividing line, which is also more than 5,000 kilometers. What the specific number is, Chen Ming can't remember it anymore! If it weren't for the three words he saw on the map today, he wouldn't even be able to remember it.

The whole of Yunnan has been captured by the Fu Han army, and now China is only left in the northwest and northeast except for the twisting and pinching of the central and southern Fujian Tiandihui.

His gaze slid all the way north from Tengyue Hall to Heilongjiang, where in his previous life was the northernmost point of China, but at this ......time and space, his gaze continued to slide north along the middle of Heilongjiang to Temple Street further north.

Sakhalin Chen Ming does not need to look at it, although the latter's troops are not many, but they are foolproof. Because the enemy they are facing is weaker. The plan of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is to establish a solid junction on Temple Street, and after the thaw next year, the land and water reinforcements will follow up, although the total strength is still not much, but there is definitely the strength to sweep away all the hostile forces around it little by little.

The main enemy of the team there was not the local Oroqen, Hezhe, etc., but the old Maozi in the north, who wanted to use Temple Street as a node, along the Heilongjiang River, to block the Russians in the coastal area to the north.

Therefore, after the onset of winter, the support of Temple Street was cut off, and the Russians and Qing troops would never let go of this great opportunity to pull out the stronghold. Although Lao Maozi does not have many people in the whole of Siberia, after all, they have been operating in Siberia for a hundred years, and each military stronghold, even if it is wooden, has already communicated the rivers of Siberia.

And there are 3,000 Turghut cavalry over there.

And what about the Qing army? It is estimated that there will not be many regular troops, but the appeal of the Manchu Qing among the local natives is not weak, and it is not surprising that they have half a year to prepare, and it is not surprising that they have gathered two or three thousand people.

It has been two months since Temple Street was cut off from Sakhalin Island, and although the last news of Temple Street reached Chen Ming a month ago, the location of Temple Street is still one or two hundred miles away from the sea, can it be compared with Sakhalin Island in the sea.

"I don't know what happened to Temple Street?"

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On the second day of the first month of the 146th year of Chongzhen, Temple Street, the temperature was minus 30 degrees, and the weather was sunny. It's a rare good weather!

There was no snow and strong winds, and although the wind was still blowing on the face like a knife, it was already very friendly to the winter in Temple Street. It's totally a gap between a tiger and a big cat. You must know that since the beginning of winter, the most common thing here is to let go of the throat roaring blizzard, there is no day, no night, the wind and snow are like a drunk who is racing on the highway, sweeping everything unscrupulously.

Soldiers often wake up and can't open the door. Because the door was blocked by snow outside. Therefore, in the entire new Eguchi Castle, there was no organization at all, and the soldiers took matters into their own hands to change the gate of the barracks from outward to inward.

Now everyone here really understands the 'bitter cold' outside the gate. The bitter cold of the Northeast is a piece of cake compared to here. Everyone said, when did they ever see snow up to their knees overnight in Kannai? And here they have seen it more than once.

The bare branches of the trees trembled and swayed in the roar of the wind, and the sun in the sky could not be seen for half a month. You have to tremble when you walk, you have to put on grease when you go out, and you have to wear gloves. After the soldiers returned to the dormitory, it was strictly forbidden for anyone to pick up the gun with their hands, for fear of sticking the flesh and skin!

When you stand guard outside, take a breath and you can feel the strength of the curvature of the hairs that have built up in your nostrils, and the wind will drill into every crevice of your body with impunity. These soldiers guarding the mouth of the new river really suffered.

The wind swept the branches and leaves, whining like a ghost, and the trees rattled like the devil's claws dancing towards the sky, and snowflakes flew all over the sky. These are the days that his mother's Shin-Eguchi defenders have experienced. With such a sunny day, why is it not a good day?

A team of more than 100 people pushed open the iron-clad wooden gate on the west side of Xinjiangkou.

Dozens of captives cleared a clearing with shovels, and there were very few captives in the mouth of the new river, and the people in front of them already accounted for a third of the total, most of them were local natives. These people originally lived peacefully in the Outer Northeast, and the earth-shaking changes that took place in the Central Plains, and the impact of a series of wars on them was minimal. Until the arrival of the Fu Han army, the Fu Han army easily conquered Temple Street, and then swept away the surrounding tribes within a radius of dozens of miles, as well as hundreds of miles of river basins up and down the Heilongjiang River. These Outer Northeast natives had not yet realized what kind of people their new neighbors were in the lost part of Temple Street, and by the time they did, it had already been the darkest day many of them had ever remembered.

The Fu Han army regarded them as the descendants of the Manchu Qing and were killers.

The same is true now.

There are no barracks of Qing and Russian troops around the castle, but that doesn't mean they haven't been there.

Now there are hundreds of frozen corpses of Qing soldiers and Lao Maozi under the snow around Xinjiangkou, and it was a heavy snowfall before that made the latter choose to temporarily withdraw from the army.

Dozens of horses were pulled out, and then there were more than three hundred huskies, that is, sled dogs.

This dog with a small appetite, no body odor and hardy, serious work, and not yet strong aggression is the most wonderful friend of human beings at this time. The total number of huskies in the city is four hundred and fifty, and their sleds pulled in the snow can carry a whole combat team. Plus dozens of cavalry!

The Fu Han army, one hundred and forty or fifty men, marched at a rapid speed to a Russian camp about ten miles away, which had fewer soldiers, but all of them were Russians.

Deng Yun, who did not deal with these Russians once or twice, knew in his heart that the Russian army was not a Qing army, and although the latter was not a regular army, the Russians were born as if they were not afraid of death. He has a strong physique and is brave in battle. Deng Yun: I don't know what the identity of the Russians in Siberia is.

Nearly 100 guns were lifted forward at ......almost the same time.

Four light mortars began to be sprayed.

Before the explosion sounded, the Russians shouting at the "Ula ......" had already rushed towards the side of the Fuhan army in formation with rifles with bayonets, or axes and sabers for chopping wood.......

The unprepared Russians clearly lost the opportunity to fight, but they chose to rise to the occasion rather than wait in their camp to be beaten.

"Aiming ......" the soldiers aimed the barrels roughly at the dense part of the enemy's formation. The left eye is closed, the right eye is looking ahead, and the barrel is constantly fine-tuned as the enemy moves.

They only have a chance to shoot. In such a cold climate, it was difficult for the Fu Han army to load the muskets with paper bullets before the Russians rushed in front of them, even though the most training they did when they were in Xinjiang was to load the muskets with leather gloves.

"Charge, charge with meβ€”" A Russian man in his forties and fifties shouted at the sound of a saber in his hand. "For the sake of the Holy Empress, Ulla ......"

There were only one or twenty Russian cavalry in the camp, and the infantry was a little more numerous, and it was a camp of fifty people. Under the bombardment of artillery fire, one or two dozen Russian cavalry followed the old man with his saber and fiercely slaughtered the infantry cavalry of the Fu Han Army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers. The rest of the Russians also charged with guns.

"Ready...... Put! ”

"Beep......" A sharp brass whistle sounded.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "The first row of fifty muskets fired a salvo. The formation of the Russian cavalry charge seemed to crash into an invisible wall, and it was directly dented in the middle of the dense fire of muskets. A few horses fell in the snow with a whimper!

The cavalry in front was hit by a volley of bullets, and the cavalry behind still rushed forward without fear.

The muskets of the Fu Han army then fired a second volley, and then hit three or four cavalry, and the number of cavalry of the entire Russian army was reduced by nearly half.

Hand-to-hand combat has begun!

Deng Yun slashed off the head of a bearded Slav, and then kicked a Tatar-looking enemy with a slash with his left foot. "Die!" The knife slashed at the Tatar's neck before he could stand up.

He was also stabbed in the chest, and the Tatar, who fell to the ground, stabbed him with the knife in his hand, but did not pierce the breastplate he was wearing.

The tragic and bloody hand-to-hand combat is a great test of courage and discipline. The marine troops of the Fuhan Army, who were born in the regular army, easily resisted this trembling pressure, but became more and more courageous the more they fought. And the Russians after the initial courage faded, after the cavalry units all fell, they could not hold on.

Deng Yun slashed to death again a Slav with an axe, who seemed to be a commander. After his death, the remaining remnants of the Russians completely collapsed, some turned and fled, and some obediently fell to their knees......

A gust of wind blew, blowing away the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood that permeated the battlefield. (To be continued.) )