Chapter 373 Arrival
In the sixteenth year of the empire, Fergana somewhere.
Chen Sier and Yao Sheng, one with a flintlock rifle and the other with a spear, walked towards the outpost side by side. Chen Sier looked at Yao Sheng beside him with a torch and couldn't help but grin, knowing that he was happy and joked: "Old Yao, go see your wife, has your wife given you sweetness?"
Yao Sheng kicked him: "Go away, what are you saying, insulting others innocence."
Chen Sier laughed twice, and Yao Sheng took out a pair of gloves from his arms happily and said, "Look, my wife knitted it for me. It looks good. The yarn of cashmere and the gloves made of gloves are suitable. The index finger can be opened here, and the trigger can be pulled during wars, okay."
After taking a photo of the torch, Chen Sier saw Yao Sheng's gloves and looked at the broken things that he had sewn with sheepskin. Chen Sier sighed: "Hey, next time, you must not just stare at your face and butt egg."
The Agricultural Reclamation Group spent all the training and assessments in Hami. Chen Sier was alert and bold. He became the leader of the Agricultural Reclamation Group. The reward was to send two wives, but the second time he had to send them to Xiji City, and he would send them again. At present, each person was still one person.
When the snow of the empire had not melted yet, the farm reclamation group went to Yili. After twenty days of travel, it was frozen and tired. No one complained. Everyone knew that when they went to Yili to be the groom officer, when they arrived in Yili, the whole group was ordered to enter the bathhouse, clean, and had their hair again. They put on the blue military uniform of the farm reclamation group, and looked like a decent person. The next day, each person had a big red flower, and had a group wedding with the ready bride. They entered the bridal chamber that night.
In the Agricultural Reclamation Brigade, Chen Sier was the first wife to choose. Compared to the dark-skinned Indians, he had come into contact with Tianfang Cultists, but his personal sense was not very good. Chen Sier fell in love with Akasha, a girl snatched from Ukraine by the Crimeans. She has fair skin and beautiful appearance. She should be big and should be big. She should be raised. She is still a good place to raise. She is also a big girl with yellow flowers. There is no rumor that the breast hair is longer than her. She happily entered the bridal chamber and was free and fond of her. Chen Sier felt very happy.
But as soon as the snow melted, the farmland reclamation group and their relatives went south to Fergana. Wu Liji, who was in charge of the farmland reclamation, felt that he should stay for another half a month to avoid freezing rain. However, the officers of the farmland reclamation group were determined to leave immediately. Although they reported that they were afraid of missing the farming time, they were actually worried about those women. If they stayed for another half a month, they would be even more difficult to leave.
After moving along the way, Chen Sier felt that his wife was not as good as her companions. Yao Sheng's wife was a Uzbek. She was sold from Samarkand. She could spin and weave cloth. She looked like she could live anywhere. Zhang Yong's wife was very diligent and proficient in washing, brushing, and sewing and repairing. As the platoon leader, Zhou Daniu was said to be a noble woman. She could write and calculate and learn Chinese the fastest, which was quite enviable. After looking at it, Chen Sier felt that her wife had nothing but beauty.
Fortunately, Chen Sier still has another chance, and she can choose another wife when she arrives at Xiji.
Leaving the Yili River Valley, the Agricultural Reclamation Group and the newly-organized Dayuan Left Banner of Lifanyuan went to Fergana together. It was the request of the soldiers of the Agricultural Reclamation Group. The Dayuan Left Banner were all bachelors, and they didn't want these guys to mingle with their own women.
"Damn it, Zhang Yong, you dog, don't pee here." After walking onto the sentry, Chen Sier saw Zhang Yong urinating and kicked him in the ass.
Zhang Yong said, "This day I will be used as a bed by the ground, so wherever I will scatter it is not scattering."
Chen Sier said: "The river under your feet leads to Xiji City. Now you pee on it. When it reaches the ground, it melts. Just drink your urine."
Zhang Yong thought about it, laughed, looked for the grass and sprinkled it for a while, and then came back to change shifts. He handed over his gun and armed belt to Yao Sheng. Yao Sheng checked the trigger, flintlock machine and fixed ammunition, and confirmed that there was no problem, so he gave his spear to Zhang Yong, and then Zhang Yong and his companions returned to the camp.
Chen Sier and Yao Sheng smoked the whistle in the middle of the night, but they didn't dare to complain. The two turned off the torch and sat opposite each other in the dark, looking in the same direction, chatting softly, and letting go of sleepiness.
"You said that Zhang Yong, a fool, chose a Tartar wife. I heard that Tartar women don't take a bath," said Chen Sier.
Yao Sheng asked with a straw in his mouth, "Tartar daughter-in-law, foreign wife, before we came, we were all thinking about it, but we got married, but they were all the same. What does it mean? They are all soldiers' wives. Don't look at my wife's cleverness, and that one-hand assassination fuck is even more standard than me. I don't know whether a Tartar woman takes a bath or not, but Zhang Yong's wife must take a bath."
Chen Sier nodded repeatedly. He was still in fear that night of the wedding night. If it weren't for some skill, he almost failed, many brothers in the farming group were beaten by their daughter-in-law. The reason was that these bought slaves were not assigned casually. There was a women's battalion in Yili, which specially arranged the military women, and the battalion was all female commanders. These female commanders were the wives of some officers in the Appeasement Zone, and they also had the same background, and were from the royal female commanders.
The military discipline in the women's camp is also strict, and the training should be the same as that of male soldiers. All religious beliefs, ethnic customs, and arrogance are polished in these trainings, and the final production is the wife of the military rationed soldiers of the Agricultural Reclamation Order.
The two were chatting, and the sky was already white. Just as it was about to hand over the shift in the early morning, Chen Sier suddenly saw something moving in the distance, row by row, like cavalry. He immediately lay on the ground and listened on the grass, saying, "Old Yao, it's a cavalry."
"Are they the bachelors from Dayuan Left Banner? They have a lot of horses?" Yao Sheng said indifferently.
Chen Sier pulled him up and said, "How is it possible? They are right in front of you, but they can't cross this big river. This river is thawing and maybe it will fall into an ice hole. Go and report the news quickly."
By dawn, Wu Liji, who was in the Dayuan Left Banner, received news that unknown cavalry approached the Agricultural Reclamation Group. Wu Liji was not worried. Both the Agricultural Reclamation Group and the Dayuan Left Banner had combat effectiveness and were not short of all kinds of weapons. More importantly, he had two thousand Junggar cavalry under his command, who specifically escorted these garrison troops to Fergana.
Wu Liji led his army to the camp of the Agricultural Reclamation Group. The cavalry of a thousand people did not get close to each other. The two soldiers were able to lean together. The performance of the Agricultural Reclamation Group was beyond Wu Liji's expectations. The men and women divided into two teams, each with guns and spears to prepare for the battle. Although the women had a timid face, they were at least steadily and stood firmly, and had already lined up to wait for the enemy.
"Are you the army of His Majesty the Peach Blossom Stone Emperor?" A small team of cavalry arrived in front of the camp, looked at the high-rise golden dragon flag, and asked loudly.
Uliji responded: "Yes, we come from the empire, who are you?"
The cavalry leader raised his flag, and the blue flag was painted with a fierce black eagle, which was the flag of the South Asian Development Company. The cavalry leader shouted: "We are the army of His Highness Regent, and our regent is your emperor's elder brother."
Wu Liji reluctantly believed that if he let the other party enter the camp, he would know that the cavalry was clearing away and found traces of the agricultural reclamation group, thinking that they were a tribe that came down from the mountain.
After discussion, the two armies went to Anjiyan together, which was the Xiji City where the agricultural reclamation regiment was resettled. However, both sides were alone and walked across the river. That's how the two armies successfully arrived at their destination in two days.
Anjiyan is the only way to the Tianshan South Road to Samarkand. Because of trade and prosperity, it was an important node on the Silk Road a thousand years ago and a city worth Fergana and even the entire Central Asia. But now it has become a ruin. Uliji has long seen the desolation here. In the past few years, the great prince's army conquered the place, but the local natives surrendered and rebelled. In the end, the city was massacred, and more than 100,000 people died inside and outside the city, while the rest became slaves.
When he arrived nearby, the Junggar scout came to report that there were a large number of unknown armed forces in Xiji City. Wu Liji immediately became alert because he left an advance team here last spring to investigate resources and count agricultural data. However, the advance team quickly sent people to contact him. Wu Liji knew that in the summer of last year, a thousand households under the great prince Li Jundu occupied the place, responsible for clearing out the barbarians who were dissatisfied around and contacting troops from the empire.
The groups of women and animals were driven into a fence outside the city and circled it. The envoy sent by Wanhu came to Wuliji and proposed to trade with Wuliji with these women and animals. This was stolen from nearby oasis and tribes in the mountains last year, and it was not enjoyed throughout the winter.
When Wu Liji saw these people and animals, he remembered his life as a shepherd slave when he was a teenager. He felt more pity in his heart, but he would not abuse it. He was not sure whether these soldiers would kill these lives on the spot after he refused, but one thing was clear. If he could not satisfy that ten thousand households, he would definitely cause trouble for the agricultural reclamation group stationed here.
Fortunately, the migrant troops were loaded with a lot of goods, cloth and tea, which were originally used to resettle troops, but now most of them were used for trade. However, women and livestock were also resources needed for construction and production of troops, so the transaction was quickly concluded.
Wanhu took his more than 3,000 cavalry to the west and headed to a city to the west. It was not the Dayuan City that Dayuan Left Banner was going to, but further west. The city strangled the throat of Fergana's lead to the river. Obviously, Li Jundu did not want to give up his dominance over this land.
After the handover was completed, the Agricultural Reclamation Group owned the city, and the situation was better than they thought. The city where tens of thousands of people originally lived belonged to more than a thousand rural reclamation soldiers and relatives. Each newly formed family can be assigned a house and can only be repaired and cleaned up. The houses built with stones and mud are warm in winter and cool in summer. Outside the city is the land that has just been abandoned for a few years, and can be cleaned up just by waiting for the spring to warm up.
People seem to remember what Chen Sier said that day, it is better to fight the war first. After the war, there will be a house, a field and a wife.
But entering this dead city is like entering hell. Bones and wrecks are everywhere inside and outside the city, and most of the wells were polluted. After the massacre, no one was cleaning up here, which really scared many people from the farming group. Although there were fewer cloth and tea that were to be distributed to everyone, each family was assigned sheep and new life. Even the addition of animals would bring vitality to the new family.
Obviously, pioneering is the game of brave people, just as soldiers and civilians in coastal provinces can travel thousands of miles to cross the sea to the other end of the sea, and fearless inland people can also brave the wind and sand to reach their new homes.
Wu Liji left the agricultural reclamation regiment in Xiji, leaving 500 cavalry stationed in case of accidents. He personally led the rest of the people to escort the Dayuan Left Banner to Dayuan City more than a hundred miles away. The settled agricultural reclamation regiment stationed troops repaired the farm tools, prepared floor heating and restored the desert fields and planted food.
At the same time, their fear of unfamiliar areas made them constantly explore and try to establish connections with surrounding forces. Some small caravans also came to Xiji City, bringing a lot of news that they didn't know. The garrison originally thought that they would face foreign cavalry and horse thieves and strong bandits in the mountains when they arrived here, but after they arrived in the local area, they realized that these were not really terrible. What was really terrible is that the army holding high the black hawk flag was the army that belonged to the great prince, but was called the devil by the natives, and the rebirth of Mongolia.
This group of demons may appear in any corner of this land at any time, and then sweep away all tribes that dare to resist. Those who obey will be forced to migrate, those who will farm to Samarkand, and those who will not be merged into other tribes. Massacre is very common. Over the years, millions of people have died in that army. This land has been completely conquered. People of different races and beliefs have been incorporated into Qimin and become one of the four thousand households of the Bukhat Khanate. These systems are almost completely derived from the Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty, but have changed their name. Just as the Qing Dynasty used massacres and expulsions to occupy the fertile land of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, Li Jundu's army also conquered the land in the river in the same way.
In two months, the troops and family members of the Agricultural Reclamation Group sow wheat for more than 12,000 acres of land. Chen Sier rode a donkey and carried a flintlock rifle to patrol the land of this land that now belongs to the Agricultural Reclamation Group. In the future, there is a piece of land that belongs to the Agricultural Reclamation Group. Because the Agricultural Reclamation Group has 700 people, 1,400 stones of grain will be handed over to the eldest prince, and part of it will be used as food for the families of the army. In addition, the work of 4,000 stones of grain storage must be completed, because a new batch of troops are already on the way to come.
Chapter completed!