The cold wind blew, mixed with cold, biting snowflakes and kept hitting people's faces. The whole world seemed to have turned into a big ice bump www.biquge.info the whole world, and the nose and cheeks that were exposed were freezing stiff. The cold air poured into the holsters more often, even though the Eight Banners had wrapped their coats tightly around their bodies.

Only about 100 troops marched silently, and from time to time some people slipped and fell to the ground, because the cold weather had already frozen the surface of the river into large ice. This is on the Mudanjiang River in Layue, and here is a world of ice and snow.

Snowflakes fluttered in the howling cold wind, and the branches of the trees on the banks of the river were covered with frost, like beautiful silver bars, whipped in the air like wild whips with the whistling north wind.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners moved forward, and not far in front of this place was Ningguta. This former place of exile is now a good place for the Eight Banners to settle down. Beginning in the spring, large crowds of people migrated from the south with truckloads of materials, and soon large numbers of Korean slaves arrived.

The Eight Bannermen wielded whips and supervised the Koreans who had traveled hard to cultivate land and build houses.

Half a year's hard work, before the winter of Ningguta this year, the tunzi that rose from the ground one by one proved the value of these Korean slaves. Even though in many unknown valleys there have been countless abandoned skeletons.

But so what?

For the Eight Banners, the North Koreans are not people at all, but two-legged cattle and horses. Their only task was to create food, cloth, and all the necessary living utensils for the Eight Banners. Just like the Han people under the rule of wild boar skin.

The grain and materials they had extracted from North Korea were also being transported to Liaodong in a steady stream, and then sent from Liaodong to Jilin and Heilongjiang. More and more flag people came to Jilin and Heilongjiang, and more and more various materials were also transferred and stored in Jilin and Heilongjiang. The Manchus will not stick to Shengjing, and Yonghui has always been preparing to continue to the north, right?

Another year is going to pass again. The Manchus still saw no hope, while the Han army captured the entire southwest.

The vast majority of the Eight Banners didn't care about this, and most of the bannermen were also nested at home at this time, and only a small number of bannermen needed to wander outside dozens of miles in the snow in this winter. They were the militia of the Eight Banners, and in the words that the Manchus learned from the Fu Han army, they were training.

Pulling training is a routine training content of the Fu Han Army, and it is very common in field troops, that is, it is a way to combine it with emergency assembly and pull all the individual equipment of the troops to the field for mobile training. A kind of training to enhance the physical fitness of commanding officers and soldiers and strengthen their combat effectiveness. In the process of training, every soldier will grind himself under a kind of disciplined pressure, so that the team will become more united and more cohesive. And the simplest training is to walk dozens of miles with weights! It is a very common phenomenon to climb over mountains and mountains, and lie on ice and snow.

Everyone in the Eight Banners knows that it is time for the Eight Banners soldiers to cheer up, otherwise the Fu Han Army will fight and it will be so bad and bad. And they are already on the edge of a precipice, and there is no way back.

Without Shengjing, the land of Longxing, they can still retreat to Jilin, but the central and southern parts of Jilin are also occupied, and the central and southern parts of Heilongjiang are also occupied, do they want to retreat to the outer northeast to be savages? [Jilin in the Manchu Dynasty and Heilongjiang in the northeast and southwest direction of the score of the outer northeast, in general, Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok are divided into Jilin]

When the Eight Banners were at the beginning, the Jurchens were captured to supplement the Eight Banners. And the so-called birth of a girl can not be born in the ice and snow bitter cold land further north of Heilongjiang. These Eight Banners soldiers are now truly taking on the 'mission of the nation', and they will do everything they can to keep the Fu Han army in the south.

At this moment, outside the Shanhai Pass, between the fortresses wrapped in ice, ice and snow covered this place. And the sound of gunfire and fighting still rang out from time to time in the silent world.

"It's a natural outpost." Meretskov looked at the nameless hill and said, "The location is really superior. If the Tatars had enough strength and time, I suggested that they build a strong fortress on it. That would be a good way to create enough trouble for the Chinese to attack. ”

"It's a good idea to build a fortress, Meretskov, but not now." Russian Army Major Tolbukhin took a hard puff of his cigarette, and then said with a wandering look in his eyes: "Our most important task now is to repair the outpost on Wangyu Mountain. It was the starting point of the Tatar inner defense line of the Great Wall, and if I didn't occupy that position first, I wouldn't have been able to sleep well at night on the Shanhai Pass. Meretskov, you just came here and don't know about the barbarism of the Chinese yet. It was a mob from hell, savage, bloodthirsty, brutal, and Satan was kinder than them. ”

Meretskov looked at Tolbukhin with pity, a man who seemed to have been frightened since Wangyushan was almost captured by the Fu Han army. Now don't talk about the front line, I didn't even dare to live in the fortress outside the city, but insisted on living in the city. In Meretskov's eyes, this is a complete disgrace to the Russian servicemen.

However, Tolbukhin's position was much higher than Meretskov's, and Meretskov could only comfort Tolbukhin: "The Chinese have just finished their war of harassment against the Tatars. Now that the snow is covering everything, and the snow on the ground is as thick as five inches, it is much more difficult to attack again than before. They don't dare to risk losing money and continue to attack and attack! "Meretskov knows the treatment of the Chinese army, it is simply heaven. In the previous series of contact battles, he could also feel the caution of the Chinese soldiers, and their officers were too fond of the soldiers. It seems that a slightly risky move is not allowed.

Tolbukhin spit out a puff of milky white smoke rings, his face was still solemn, and said: "The construction progress of the Wangyu Mountain checkpoint must be accelerated!" We didn't have too long. Warm China is not bitterly cold Siberia, where there is rarely snowfall for many days in a row. I don't want to wait too long, about this, you have to make it clear to Konev them. "Tolbukhin does not seem to have heard Meretskov's words. And Meretskov nodded silently and no longer opened his mouth.

The upper hand had already made up his mind, and speaking again would only provoke Tolbukhin's anger. He began to calculate the division of the manpower in his mind. The Tatars sent more than a hundred slaves, as well as sixty or seventy soldiers, and with Konev and them, the total number in Meretskov's hands reached two hundred and sixty seventy. And for the Russians in Siberia, three hundred people smaller, this is not a small number.

Even if they have been operating in Siberia for more than 100 years, it is difficult to gather more than 200 people anywhere else except on Lake Baikal. And the northeast, a place that is as warm as spring in Meretskov's eyes, is already the most desolate and barren land in China, and such a place is not counting the millions of Tatars who have recently migrated back, and there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of scattered tribes together. In the eyes of all Russians, China was so rich in manpower, and they also had Korea as a slave breeding ground.

Meretskov decided to send some more men to participate in the construction of Wangyu Mountain and reduce the number of troops on alert. The docile Korean slaves were also forced to work eighteen hours a day. After all, the sooner they finished building Wangyu Mountain, the sooner they would be safeguarded.

Thinking of this, Meretskov couldn't help but feel full of resentment against the Fuhan army. They are truly hateful, and the wars they start from time to time make everyone here nervous, including the few Russians in and around Shanhaiguan.

And if only that's all there is to it. Although these Chinese are very cautious in their combat operations, they are extremely stubborn in fighting. Meretskov had already led the Russian cavalry to fight the retreating Fu Han army sneak attack troops more than once, and the Chinese with rifles and small cannons did not have half a fear in the face of the Russian cavalry on war horses. In several battles, Meretskov did not take advantage, even once he led more than 30 cavalry to completely annihilate a squad of the patrol detachment of the Fuhan Army, but Meretskov also paid the price of seven killed and six wounded. All those Chinese soldiers were equipped with grenades, which was an extremely hateful configuration.

And now the Wangyushan outpost was destroyed by the Chinese the night before, which made the noble Russians have to work with a group of slaves in the ice and snow, hand-to-hand and painstakingly repairing the outpost. Who let the Russians' 'mission' be outside that fortified Chinese city?

And that's not all, the Chinese fortress closest to the Tatar defense line can hear the sound of Chinese opera every day, as well as the smell of meat wafting in the wind, and the strong smell of wine.

The Russians in the Northland are the best drinkers, but the Northeast has little alcohol, at least not a surplus for Meretskov and other low-ranking officers and soldiers to drink. All the grain in the Northeast must be stored, and eating is the first thing Yonghui should consider. Wine is only secondary.

There is no shortage of meat in Meretskov's food, even if it is salted dried fish, but they still have the opportunity to fight tooth sacrifices every once in a while, but this wine, the current Meretskov is like Lu Ti before the Wutai Mountain broke the vows, and he wants to go crazy if he wants to drink.

Therefore, even the slightest smell of alcohol is drifted into their noses by the wind, which can make all Russians, including Meretskov, drink and can't help themselves. On the icy Wangyu Mountain, they nibbled on tasteless multigrain cakes and drank potato broth, which further aggravated their resentment.

"Haha, Brother Xiyan, come, do this toast!" In Qinwang Island, Chen Ziling raised a wine glass with a red face, laughed and said to his friend Qin Youzi, who he hadn't seen for a year. In the cup is sorghum wine with a wine aroma, about one or two. The transparent liquor swayed in a white porcelain glass, exuding a beautiful aroma.

Encounter old acquaintances in a foreign land.

Since the two separated, especially after one entered the logistics department and the other entered the administrative system, it was really difficult to sit together and get together. I never thought that this wish would be fulfilled today.

",!" Qin Youzi raised his head and took a sip of the wine in the cup, and the spicy wine poured down his throat into his stomach, making him feel a little hot all over, "It's still sorghum wine delicious, it's much stronger than rice wine." "Qin Youzi was transferred to Qinwang Island a few years ago, as a Jiangnan person, he is a hundred unsuitable for the cold of Qinwang Island. Take a sip of wine and your whole body warms up.

The weather outside is getting colder and colder, and Qin Youzi, who is cold, doesn't want to go out. Whether it is at home or in the office, the fireplace is going to burn red, but at this time, Chen Ziling escorted a fleet to Qinwang Island.

Qinwang Island was the Qinhuangdao of later generations, and it was still a desolate place before, and the only people who did not have fled or were captured by the Qing army. After the Fu Han army occupied this place, it became a supply place for the army outside the Shanhai Pass, because although the winter here is very cold, it does not freeze.

From the point of view of later generations, Qinhuangdao is a prominent part of the coastline, there is no river inflow around, and the water has a high salt content, and the sea water with higher salt content is less likely to freeze, and the temperature drops below freezing. Tianjin is fed by the Haihe River, and the waters of Tianjin contain a lot of sediment, which is naturally easy to freeze. In addition, the warm current of the Yellow Sea flows through the Bohai Strait and can reach Qinhuangdao Port directly, which brings a lot of heat, causing the sea water to heat up and not easy to freeze. But in this day and age, it's a bit mythical.

Qinwang Island, twenty-five miles southwest of the city, surrounded by sea water. Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang sought immortals and stayed here. Now it's a county!

It was also this newly established county, and at noon, Shen Yuan, who was wrapped in a thick sheepskin coat, looked at the gloomy sky above his head, and once again regretted his decision.

I shouldn't have been greedy for cheap to come here from Sichuan, although the level has been upgraded again, but the weather here is too bad.

"Eat, eat......" the master on the construction site shouted loudly.

Shen Yuan went to the cafeteria, and it was his turn to go out of the courtroom this decade, that is, to go around the various construction sites. The food at this construction site is very good and cheap, one of the cheapest stewed sea fish, one vinegared cabbage, and a large jar full of multigrain rice, only two copper yuan. And these two copper round meals were enough for him to eat at noon and eat again in the evening.

If it is in the courthouse, he has a dormitory to go back to, there is a small pot in the dormitory, just boil some water at night and heat it up, if you really want to save trouble, you can directly pour the leftovers into the pot, and then you will have a panic in your stomach. But now it's not good, go out and talk about face.

"Master, half a portion of braised pork, half a portion of shredded potatoes, and half a portion of rice ......" There is also vegetable soup on the side, who wants to drink it and take it by themselves. In order to save money in Sichuan, Shen Yuan used vegetable soup to soak rice and ate it for three months.

Now, not anymore. His daughter-in-law is set!

Liaoyang, smoke wolf village.

With white snowflakes all over his body, Songyun, who had just returned from training, grabbed a bag of grain and went home full of joy.

There are thirty or forty catties of grain, although most of them are potatoes and sweet potatoes, but when it is really fatal, a piece of potato can save people. No one knew that little Songyun had seen the emperor, and Yonghui seemed to have forgotten about the pen post that he kicked hard. Walking east from Chengde and finding his relatives, Marat Songyun, who became an ordinary Eight Banners soldier in such obscurity.

There was a fire burning in Marat's stomach, and the hunger was so intense that she couldn't stand upright, and this was what it was like to have her heart close to her back. Songyun's mother asked her to order some rice and boil some gruel, but Marat was unwilling. "E-niang, our family has so many people that we have to save food, and there is not much left. I still have to live!" Marat's biggest worry is Songyun, this winter will kill people, if Songyun can't come back, their family's hard life is still to come.

But happiness comes so unexpectedly. "I'm back......"

Her husband's voice came from outside the house, and Marat's tears flowed instantly.

Marat finally boiled a pot of porridge, and she was very happy when she saw her husband pour the rice into the bowl, but when she came to the bowl to scoop the rice, her hand went soft, and she scooped half the bowl. In the end, Songyun personally cut a sweet potato and put it in the pot and cooked a pot of porridge.

In the past, life in Beijing was far away from them......

It's like a wonderful dream that wakes up and it's gone.

All the flag men grew up in sweet dreams, but now they have to face the harsh reality. (To be continued.) )