The Black Crow Mercenary Group is a branch of the army. The infantry will be equipped with bolt-action rifles, the artillery will be mortars and howitzers. The cavalry, as mobile soldiers, are only responsible for reconnaissance and protection.

Of course, these equipment cannot be delivered in a short period of time, and everything takes time.

Three days later, on the fifth day of the second month, after the Expeditionary Force left all howitzers and most of the supplies in Moscow City, Liu Hongjian took more than 30,000 remaining troops on the way back.

Although he no longer carries heavy howitzers, the Expeditionary Force still cannot speed up. There are more than 1,000 carriages responsible for transporting trophy. If military rations are added, there are 2,000 carriages with necessary ammunition.

These carriages basically come from the supply team. Every time the supply team sends weapons, ammunition and food, Liu Hongjian will detain hundreds of carriages for other purposes.

The carriage was not moving fast, and the snow on the ground hindered the horses from moving forward to a certain extent. It took more than half a month for the expeditionary army to arrive from Moscow to Samara.

After arriving at Samara, seeing that there were still corpses everywhere on the battlefield two months ago, Liu Hongjian ordered camp here and ordered soldiers to collect dead bodies and firewood to burn them all.

From now on, this place will be the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although the weather is still very cold now, he is still worried that the jackals here will not be able to eat all their bodies before the weather heats up, which will cause a plague.

The plague is enough to easily defeat a country in this year, as is the case with the Black Death a hundred years ago, and the Spanish flu a hundred years later.

After a short stay in Samara for two days, the expeditionary force continued to go east and traveled seven or eight days, the whistle cavalry discovered the next batch of supplies transported by the Ming Dynasty court.

Because the front line is too long, the court still does not know the latest situation in Moscow, and even the news that Moscow fell and the Kremlin was captured.

The supplies this time are still bullets, grenades, mortar shells and food, as well as more than 3,000 newly produced bolt-action rifles.

Liu Hongjian detained a small part of the supply team's ammunition and food, and ordered the supply team to continue to travel westward to transport most of the remaining supplies to Moscow City.

In the next two months, the Expeditionary Force traveled eastward, from the deserted man who had no one seen a hundred miles to the gradually visible herders of the ancient tribes of the Union, from the snow all over the ground to the melting of ice and snow, finally arrived at the Beihai Province in early May.

Wang Yuanba, the governor of Beihai Province, led his personal guards to welcome him. That night, Liu Hongjian was drunk in Beihai Province.

Too lonely, too desolate, and too boring.

There are no airplanes, no highways, no cars, and even green trains.

It took me more than three months to walk to Beihai Province. After arriving in Beihai Province, Liu Hongjian's first words when he saw Wang Yuanba were, he finally saw the crowd.

After more than a year of governance, the Beihai Province has now formed several large pastoral areas. Except for some Han people, the rest are all from the ancient tribes of the Union.

The Ming Dynasty now has the vastest grassland pastoral area in the world, so vast that there is no one at all in many places.

Even so, Liu Hongjian reminded Wang Yuanba to pay attention to rest and rotate grazing. Many grasslands in later generations have turned into deserts due to excessive grazing. There were so many grasslands in the Ming Dynasty. If they still turned into deserts, it would be his sin.

The long march exhausted the expeditionary force. Wang Yuanba collected thousands of cattle and sheep from the Beihai Province to celebrate the expeditionary force. The expeditionary force repaired the Beihai Province for three days before it recovered.

From Beihai Province to the southeast, it passed through the old land of the Chahar Khan Kingdom and temporarily rested at the former site of Kulun City. Kulun City has been rebuilt. Although it has not yet been heard where the final structure of this land will be, the Ministry of Works of the court still followed Zhu Cilang's order to build the city.

The reason why the Ministry of Works is so active is because it tastes the sweetness and has no choice but to do so.

The establishment and development of the ordnance and the engineering colleges greatly influenced the world's attitude towards craftsmen. In order not to be compared with the ordnance and engineering colleges, the Ministry of Works has also implemented institutional reforms, which not only no longer discriminated against and oppressed craftsmen, but also greatly improved the status and salary of craftsmen.

This is also impossible. The craftsmen are not stupid. The household registration system has been abolished. The ordnance stations and workshops built by Xishan Shanghe in various places have recruited a large number of craftsmen, so they can leave the Ministry of Works to make a living in other places.

After the enthusiasm of the craftsmen increased, vigorous construction movements began in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Roads and bridges were built and dams were built to prevent droughts. Mines in various places were discovered, mining and smelting were in full swing.

After the work enthusiasm of the craftsmen increased, the court suddenly discovered that the beginning of the fiscal deficit actually started with the start-up rate.

Without a start-up rate, all craftsmen and civilians can only rest. Influenced by the Ordnance Institute, the Institute of Engineering and Xishan Shanghe, craftsmen have to pay their wages even if they rest, otherwise they will have to leave.

Craftsmen rested and represented no work, and there was no need to purchase more building materials and metal products without projects. The stock of merchants was overcrowded, and the original materials on the bottom layer could not be sold. Merchants would lower prices, causing the people at the bottom to start complaining. The merchants could not sell their goods and would lead to lowering of commercial taxes...

If the operating rate continues to decrease, the cycle will continue to deteriorate, because most people in this chain do not work in farming, and the court must ensure sufficient operating rate.

Therefore, after several years, the Ministry of Works and the imperial court, including the imperial court, have no longer disgusted or resisted the construction concept proposed by Liu Hongjian. As long as there is a need for construction, the huge construction machinery of the Ministry of Works will go wherever the imperial court, merchants, craftsmen, and civilians will perform their duties and enjoy themselves.

Oh, I'm off topic. Let's talk about the Expeditionary Force's brief renovation in Kulun City and continued to travel southeast. After another half a month, he arrived at the Ancient Union Province. At the suggestion of Liu Hongjian, Babala left behind thousands of Ancient Union soldiers, and directly followed the Expeditionary Force to Beijing to report his duties.

Three years have passed, and I don’t know how the court plans to take over the ancient provinces of the league, and where he will go, Babala becomes a little nervous.

"Don't worry, Lao Ba, the court will not treat those who have made meritorious people unfairly. Moreover, you are still in your prime and you will still have wars to fight in the future. If the emperor lets the good generals go without them, I will have other things to do."

Babala's black face is the barometer. How could Liu Hongjian not know what he was thinking? He comforted him for a moment.

"Well, I have a heart to rest." Babala grinned and smiled silly at Liu Hongjian, thinking that it would be better for our son-in-law.

The expeditionary force crossed from north to south from Mongolia Province, arrived in Zhangjiakou ten days later, and continued to march towards the capital one day after entering the pass and repairing it four days later.
Chapter completed!