The Crow Mercenary Regiment is an all-army service, the infantry will be equipped with bolt-action rifles, the artillery will be mortars and howitzers, and the cavalry will only be responsible for reconnaissance and support as a mobile unit.

Of course, the equipment will not be delivered in a short time, everything will take time.

Three days later, on the fifth day of the second lunar month, after the expeditionary force left all the howitzers and most of the baggage supplies in Moscow, Liu Honggradually embarked on the return journey with more than 30,000 remaining troops.

Although it no longer carried heavy howitzers, the speed of the expeditionary force was still not fast, and there were more than 1,000 wagons responsible for transporting war booty, and 2,000 wagons if we added military rations and necessary ammunition.

Most of these wagons came from supply teams, and every time the supply team sent weapons, ammunition, and food, Liu Hongjian would detain hundreds of wagons for other purposes.

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

After arriving in Samara, seeing that the battlefield two months ago was still littered with corpses, Liu Hong gradually ordered to camp there, and ordered the soldiers to gather the dead bodies and firewood and burn all the corpses.

In the future, this is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, although the weather is still very cold, he is still worried that before the weather heats up, the jackals here will not be able to eat all the corpses and cause a plague.

The plague was enough to crush a nation easily in this year, as was 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 eastward, and after seven or eight days, the sentinels discovered the next batch of supplies from the Ming court.

Due to the length of the front, the imperial court did not know the latest situation on the Moscow side, not even the news of the fall of Moscow and the breach of the Kremlin.

This time, supplies continued to be bullets, grenades and mortar shells, as well as food, as well as more than 3,000 newly produced bolt-action rifles.

Liu Hongjian withheld a small part of the ammunition and food of the supply team, and ordered the supply team to continue westward to transport most of the remaining supplies to Moscow.

In the next two months, the expeditionary force traveled eastward, from the deserted people who did not see a single person for 100 miles to gradually see the herdsmen of the Menggu tribe, from the snow all over the ground to the gradual melting of ice and snow, and finally reached Beihai Province in early May.

Wang Yuanba, the governor of Beihai Province, led his personal guards to greet him, and Liu Hong gradually got drunk in Beihai Province that night.

It's lonely, it's too barren, it's too boring.

There are no planes, no high-speed rail, no highways, no cars, not even green trains.

It took more than three months to walk to Beihai Province, so that after arriving in Beihai Province, Liu Hong's first sentence when he saw Wang Yuanba was that he finally saw the crowd.

After more than a year of governance, Beihai Province has now formed several large pastoral areas, except for some Han people, the rest are Menggu people.

Daming now has the world's largest grassland pastoral area, so vast that there is no one at all in many places.

Rao is so Liu Hongjian still reminded Wang Yuanba to pay attention to fallow grazing and rotational grazing, many grasslands in later generations have become deserts due to overgrazing, and there are so many grasslands in the Ming Dynasty, if they have become deserts, it is his sin.

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

From Beihai Province all the way to the southeast, through the old land of the Chahar Khanate, at the site of the city of Kulen, which has now been rebuilt, although it is not yet known where the final structure of this land will be, but the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court still followed Zhu Cihong's orders to build the city.

The reason why the Ministry of Industry is so active is really because of the sweetness and the necessity.

The establishment and development of the Ordnance Institute and the Institute of Engineering has greatly affected the attitude of the people of the world towards craftsmen, and in order not to be compared with the Ordnance Institute and the Institute of Engineering and be abused by the people, the Ministry of Industry has also implemented a system reform, which not only no longer discriminates against and oppresses the craftsmen, but has even greatly improved the status and salary of the craftsmen.

There is no way to do it, the craftsmen are not stupid, the household registration system has been abolished, and the armory and the workshops built by the Xishan merchants in various places have recruited a large number of craftsmen, and they can leave the Ministry of Industry to make a living in other places.

After the enthusiasm of the craftsmen increased, the Ming Dynasty began a vigorous construction movement, all over the country to build roads and bridges, build dams to prevent drought, the mines in various places have been discovered, mining, smelting in full swing.

After the work enthusiasm of the craftsmen increased, the imperial court suddenly discovered that the beginning of the fiscal deficit was actually starting from the operating rate.

Without the operating rate, all the craftsmen and people can only rest, and under the influence of the Ordnance Institute, the Institute of Engineering and the Xishan Commercial Cooperation, the craftsmen have to pay their wages even if they rest, otherwise they will have to pick their sons and leave.

The craftsmen had no work to do, no need to purchase more building materials and metal products without engineering, the merchants' inventories were overstocked, the lowest raw materials could not be sold, the merchants would lower prices, causing the people at the bottom to complain, and the merchants' goods could not be sold, which would lead to a reduction in merchant taxes......

If the operating rate continues to decrease, the cycle will continue to worsen, because the vast majority of people in this chain are not engaged in farming, and the imperial court must ensure that the operating rate is sufficient.

It is because after several years, the Ministry of Industry and including the imperial court have no longer disliked and resisted the construction concept put forward by Liu Hongji, as long as there is a need to build, the huge construction machine of the Ministry of Industry will go there, and the imperial court, merchants, craftsmen, and people will perform their duties and enjoy themselves.

Oh, digression, and said that the expeditionary force continued to travel southeast after a slight repair in Kulun City, and arrived in the Menggu Province area half a month later.

When the time of three years was up, he didn't know how the imperial court planned to take over Menggu Province, and where he would go, Babala became a little apprehensive.

"Don't worry, Lao Ba, the court will not treat meritorious people badly, and you are still in the prime of life, and there will be battles to fight in the future, if the emperor does not use good generals, this king will have other plans."

Babala's black face is a barometer, how could Liu Hongjian not know what he was thinking, and comforted him a little.

"Well, I have a big man in my heart." Baba grinned at Liu Hong and smiled innocently, and said in his heart that it was better for our son-in-law.

The expeditionary force crossed from north to south from the Mongolian provinces, arrived at Zhangjiakou ten days later, and continued to march to the capital after one day of repair, and the capital was in sight four days later.

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