The 120-ton new-class first-class inland river warship in Heilongjiang is a downsized and improved version of the navy's previous standard patrol ships and is specially provided for the use of the river fleet.

In the past, the Navy directly used 150-ton and 180-ton standard coastal patrol ships for the use of the river fleet, but later found that the actual use effect was not good.

When this kind of patrol ship was first designed, the main goal was to carry out coastal patrol operations, and at the same time to take into account the operations in inland rivers and lakes, and its most typical use environment was the coastal waters of the Yangtze River estuary and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, it can also be used in other rivers and lakes with deep water depth, but often when it is used in other inland rivers, the effect is not too good.

Because of the inland river fleet, people don't need to take care of coastal patrols, they just need inland river patrols.

However, in the past, although the navy's patrol ships could also be used in inland rivers and lakes, they mainly tended to be used along the coast, so they were still inferior to those specialized inland river warships in inland river operations.

Therefore, the navy simply took the patrol ship as a model, and after improving the design, it came up with a reduced version, which further reduced the draft and made it more maneuverable.

At present, the ship is specially used for the inland river fleet, mainly for inland river operations, and at the same time takes into account the coastal patrol of the sea.

Therefore, the ship was not called a patrol ship like previous patrol ships, but was called a first-class inland river warship, which was listed as an inland river warship.

With a displacement of only 120 tons, this inland river warship has a very shallow draft, but its firepower is relatively powerful, comparable to that of a patrol ship of 180 tons.

Of course, the tonnage is small, and if you want to maintain strong firepower and maneuverability, you can only sacrifice seaworthiness.

In this way, the Datang Navy has also developed two kinds of warships that take into account both coastal and inland river operations, with some patrol ships with larger tonnage preferred for coastal use, and smaller tonnage preferred for inland river use.

Under this solidification, this kind of 120-ton first-class inland river warship has become the core ship of the major inland river fleets, usually used as the flagship of the major teams subordinate to the river warship, and then used with three or four second-class river warships ranging from 50 tons to 100 tons.

The actual use effect is quite good!

The two brigades of the Heilongjiang Fleet, consisting of two first-class inland river warships and six second-class inland river warships, relied on the advantages of small size and shallow draft to run ahead of the Changzhou and to the left and right to cover the artillery fleet headed by the Changzhou to carry out operations.

However, it is obvious that Qiu Xiao's carefully prepared landing and artillery bombardment plan obviously failed to have much effect, because the natives of Nuergancheng did not resist much at all.

Except for the more than 500 people who rushed out at the beginning and tried to resist, and then were killed by two rounds of shelling, the natives in the city just couldn't flinch.

And when the Changzhou also shelled Nuergan City with several armed merchant ships and river warships, the natives in the city simply ran away.

Then to Rear Admiral Qiu Xiao, they were left with a lonely slave city.

After the landing operation began, Qiu Xiao had been standing on the bridge in the river breeze, observing and directing, but an hour later, seeing that those natives had run away, he was too lazy to continue to stay on the bridge and blow the sea breeze.

The bridge of the warships of this year is not the conning tower of those steel battleships of later generations, but actually a small wooden platform built on the mainmast, the kind in the open air.

"You guys keep an eye on it, and report it immediately if there's a situation!" After that, Rear Admiral Qiu Xiao got off the bridge and returned to the war room.

Without Qiu Xiao's personal command, it had no impact at all, and all departments acted one after another according to the predetermined plan.

Under the cover of river warships, the artillery fleet gradually approached Nuergancheng, and then the Changzhou and three armed merchant ships anchored and stopped, and the river warships rushed directly to the small pier outside Nuergancheng with a small number of marines, and sent a landing force of nearly 50 people.

At this time, the more than 2,000 main forces were still hundreds of meters away, and they were affected by the bad roads along the way, and at the same time they maintained their formation to avoid accidents, so they marched slowly.

Therefore, something embarrassing happened to the main force, when they finally rushed to the city of Nuergan, the Tang Dragon Banner was already flying on the head of the city.

The more than 50 marines sent up by the river warship occupied the city without firing a single shot, no, it should be said that they occupied the whole city.

Because before they entered the city, the natives of the entire town were gone, and there was no one left.

Standing on the top of the city and looking out, you can see thousands of indigenous men, women and children running out in a swarm, and then disappearing into the dense forest.

These natives, who ran away, can amaze the officers and men of the Tang Navy!

When he learned that the natives in Nuergancheng, regardless of men and women, had all run out within an hour, Qiu Xiao said apologetically to Ying Junzhi, who was sent here by the Reclamation Department of Immigrants and was responsible for the development of resettlement along the Heilongjiang River: "This matter is a bit unexpected to us, and I am afraid that you will encounter a lot of trouble in the future!" ”

The immigration action of the Tang Empire has always been that the military cleaned up the natives, and then the immigrants began to enter the field, but now the navy only drove people away this time, and there is no need to think about it, there are at least thousands of natives in the surrounding mountains and forests, and it will definitely have a huge impact on the lives of the immigrants at that time.

However, Ying Junzhi said disapprerovitously: "It's okay, our immigrants are not soft persimmons, when I took immigrants to develop Jilin, the immigrants I brought were only 8,000, and the young and strong were only 2,000, and the surrounding indigenous tribes added up to tens of thousands, but two years later, within a radius of 100 miles, all of them were the land of my Tang people, and there was no trace of barbarians."

This time, there are 3,000 immigrants organized by our immigration department, and the 4,000 immigrants who came in the early stage are all young and strong, and we also carry enough weapons and ammunition, and there are only thousands of barbarians, so there is nothing to be afraid of! ”

Hearing Ying Junzhi say this, Qiu Xiao also remembered that for those barbarians, compared to the people of their army, the organization of these immigrants and reclamation divisions was more terrifying!

At best, the army fights and kills and wounds the enemy in military operations, but these immigrants are even more terrifying!

Because of the immigration policy of the Tang Empire, the treatment of immigrants is very generous, and a large amount of land will be distributed free of charge in the wilderness area, according to the immigration area, the minimum is five acres, ten acres, and more than tens.

This time, the official rule for the resettlement in Heilongjiang is that those who are willing to emigrate to the Heilongjiang River basin will be given 20 acres of land free of charge according to their capitation.

According to the standard of five people in a family, hundreds of acres of land can be obtained, and these lands are exempt from agricultural tax for five years, and only half of the tax is levied for the next five years.

But there is one point, that is, although the official says that it is free of charge, how to 'protect' the land that is officially distributed for free depends on the efforts of the immigrants themselves.

The military is only responsible for large-scale military operations, and has no energy to deal with small-scale barbarian invasions.

So, basically every time there is a large-scale migration against a wild area or an overseas area, there is always a large militia force formed among the migrants, and then these militia forces continue to expand outward to 'protect' their land from barbarian invasion.

Basically, after a few years of protection, there are no barbarians in the surrounding area, either they run to areas where the people of the Tang Dynasty have not yet set foot, or they die in the process of 'encroaching' on the land of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

This time, more than 4,000 immigrants came to Heilongjiang, because they were the first batch to come, and they were all young and strong, and their families were still waiting for the third batch of ships in Busan Port at this time.

This time, the Department of Resettlement and Reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Tang Dynasty plans to resettle more than 15,000 people in the Heilongjiang River basin in one go, with 3,000 households.

According to the standard of 100 households to establish a village, at least 30 villages can be established on both sides of the Heilongjiang River.

These young men who came in advance were naturally incorporated into the Ming Army, so don't look at the marines brought by the navy, there are only more than 2,000 people, but the number of people who can be used for ground operations with guns adds up to more than 6,000 people.

It's just that in the eyes of the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty, the militia's combat effectiveness is weak, and at most it plays a role in the follow-up 'protection' of the land, while in the real military operation, they will not be allowed to go to the battlefield, and it is more about transporting supplies in the back, maintaining supply lines, and then building castles and the like.

In order to ensure the follow-up safety of Nuergancheng, they can protect themselves in the counterattack of the natives, so after the young men of these immigrants get off the ship, they need to build the city as soon as possible!

Or rather, a castle!

They will use local raw materials to build a simple earthen fort, which is expected to accommodate 1,500 people in the castle, and in the event of war, it can temporarily accommodate 5,000 people.

In the newly developed resettlement areas, the construction of fortresses is also a tradition of the Tang Dynasty, in the islands of the South Seas, in the northern grasslands, in the northwest region, in the bitter cold land in the northeast, and in the colonies of Fusang, all of which are large and small fortresses built in one go.

The defensive ability of the fortress has been proven in the past Chinese New Year, and the Tang Empire will naturally not abandon it.

Now the Tang Empire already has a feeling of going crazy for the cultivation of the fortress!

Not only in overseas territories, but also in the border areas, but also in inland areas, there are also a lot of fortresses!