Sakhalin, boot camp, where hordes of recruits train on the training ground. Although it was already very cold in Sakhalin in October, the recruits were still sweating and drenching in their single clothes.

"Zhang paparazzi! It's you dragging your feet again! Run fast! The food is so edible, how can you run like a girl! A dark-skinned instructor kept falling on the little beggar.

At this time, the little beggar Zhang Paparazzi was already a recruit. Originally, he was a native of Beizhili, but before he was born, Lord Chongzhen committed suicide and Liukou entered the capital. Later, it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Originally, the common people thought that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and drove away the Liukou, they would be able to get a peaceful life. But since Zhang Paparazzi was not sensible, his family's land was forcibly taken away by the Eight Banners, and his family was a black household, and he was not even qualified to be a slave to the flag man! Since then, he has followed his parents all the way to beg. Later, his parents died one after another, leaving him alone to grow up wandering.

Later, I heard that the Green Battalion soldiers were trafficking people to Nanyang, and although they said that they were going to work as slaves and coolies, they were still able to eat a full meal, which was much better than starving for days in a row. Especially in the cold winter, Zhang Paparazzi almost froze to death on the street several times, but they all survived.

I heard that it was very hot over there, but it was better to be hot than to shiver in the cold, right?

So Zhang Paparazzi took the initiative to find the green battalion soldiers and asked those soldiers to sell themselves.

The green battalion soldiers saw that Zhang Paparazzi was skinny and didn't have any meat on his body, so he estimated that he couldn't sell it for a few dollars, so he was not very reluctant, but mosquito meat is also meat, so he sold him too. In the end, I got a pack of cigarettes from the sailor.

After becoming a strong man, Zhang Paparazzi can eat a full stomach every day, although he is tired from the work. But he still feels that this kind of life is much better than before, at least he has no worries about food and clothing.

was sent to the far north, the cold clothes on the people are still enough, and the food they eat every day is also full, and the paparazzi Zhang is already very satisfied with this kind of life. However, when he heard that the army was going to recruit a group of recruits from among the people, and the salaries of the recruits were higher than the salaries of the people, and the food was better, Zhang Paparazzi went to sign up to be a soldier.

Since Zhang Paparazzi became a Minzhuang for more than four months, because he has enough to eat and his physical labor. And when he was growing his body again, his parents used to be taller, but as a result, Zhang Paparazzi grew up quickly and became stronger, and when he was recruited for recruitment, he was selected at once.

Who knew that after enlistment, the training of recruits turned out to be so harsh! Endless daily physical training, standing in line, practicing push-ups. Jogging. In the evening, there are also military showmen who come to give them lectures!

"During the three-month recruit training period, if any of you can't meet the requirements, you will be eliminated! Those who are eliminated can only go back to be the people! "This is what the instructor said to the recruits.

Although it was bitter and tiring. But Zhang Paparazzi is really reluctant to leave the army! Here, each person can get two taels of silver per month, and the daily miscellaneous grains are not counted, and there are fragrant soy products to eat. There are shellfish to eat, fresh vegetables to eat, and there is a little dried shrimp or minced meat in the vegetables. See the delicious shellfish boiled tofu. Or braised tofu, spicy tofu, and shrimp stewed cabbage, shellfish or meat bones stewed radish, stir-fried rape, etc., Zhang Paparazzi drooled, this is simply a fairy-like life!

What is even more rare is that when you become a soldier, not only do you have small fish, shrimp and shellfish every day to make vegetarian dishes fresh, but you can also eat big meat dishes every three days, including braised pork, braised fish, stewed beef and mutton, and the like. The braised fish here is particularly delicious, they are all fish from the opposite river, the size is particularly large, the meat is very delicious, and it is much better than the fish in the south and the Central Plains.

Zhang paparazzi They don't know what kind of fish it is, in fact, it's salmon and the like, and there are a lot of big fish in Heilongjiang. These cold-water fish that live in cold areas have a long growth period, are large, and the meat is delicious, and the bigger the fish, the better it tastes, because the large fish has a higher fat content and tastes good in the mouth.

Although the food was good, the training was very hard. After all, Zhang Paparazzi is an underage teenager and often lags behind in training.

Because the recruit team adopted the system of sitting together, one person dragged his feet, and the entire recruit had to be punished, and from the commander and the chief to the general, they were all punished.

The so-called recruit team leader is not the official general manager, but just a temporary selection of the captain of the 100-person team to help the instructor manage the recruits. After becoming a regular soldier, the general of the recruit team is no longer the general manager, and he must have military merits to be promoted.

"Zhang paparazzi! If you drag your feet any longer, the instructor will clean up Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will clean you up when he turns around! The recruit commander Harbara yelled viciously.

Halbara was originally a Mongol captive, and after being captured, he served two years in prison, and because of his good behavior, he reported a group of green battalion soldiers and banner men who tried to riot, so he was freed in advance and became a citizen of the Northern Expedition. The Northern Expedition recruited new soldiers, and Halbara, who was once a Mongolian soldier, naturally signed up to be a soldier.

"I'm going to be a cavalryman! I used to be a cavalryman! "These are the words of Halbara when he enlisted in the army.

When Harbara saw the horses captured from the Rakshasas, his saliva was about to flow out. The coat color of these war horses is fiery red, with the color of sweaty BMWs, and they are also tall and have good impact. But what is even more rare is that they are not as delicate as sweaty BMWs, but they can bear hardships and stand hard work like Mongolian horses, can eat the worst forage, have good endurance, and still lose the speed and load-bearing capacity of the load.

"Russian mongrel! Good horse indeed! Wang Xinyu pointed to the captured high-headed horse and said.

Turbuqing listened to the priest's translation and scoffed: "It's obviously a Don hippopotamus, why did it become a mongrel?" This is a new breed formed by crossing Mongolian horses and Akkhatak horses. ”

The Mongol Kharbara wanted to go back to his old profession and become a cavalryman, but the instructor said that when new recruits joined the army, everyone had to go to the recruit camp for training! Only after passing the training and becoming a regular soldier can the troops be assigned.

Halbara had no choice but to go to the boot camp. He and the Mongols who had surrendered had nowhere to go, and if they didn't go to the army, they had to work as coolies. The Manchus can't go back, you can imagine what the Manchus will do with the surrendered Eight Banners! The beheadings were all light, and when the Manchus knew about it, the whole family would be implicated.

"Sit down! I've been connected by you little beggar again! "Halbara finishes doing push-ups. glared at the paparazzi viciously.

Wu Xiaolei, who was fortunate enough to be selected as the captain of the army, was also unlucky with the paparazzi, and was either punished for push-ups, or punished for running, or whipped or even denied food.

"When you are the captain of the army, you have been moldy for eight lifetimes! No, you go back and be a strong man! Deserve it, you have to come here to suffer! Wu Xiaolei said angrily.

In the same army, there is also an Oroqen person. No matter who it was, they were all broken up by Wang Xinyu and mixed into the new barracks. After the Oroqen people, they were mainly archers. A new type of compound bow will be used. But they don't get their weapons until they complete their recruit training. Similarly, this Oroqen native was also affected by Zhang's paparazzi.

"I can afford to suffer! I must stay! Zhang paparazzi roared angrily in his heart.

"You are not as good as others, as the saying goes, stupid birds fly first, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely be able to!" The head coach of the new barracks patted the paparazzi Zhang who had just been punished.

From that day on, every night, after the military Xiucai finished the lecture, Zhang Paparazzi also ran to the playground alone; Every day before dawn. Zhang paparazzi ran away on the playground. In Sakhalin in October, it was already very cold, and it was already snowing in the sky, and Zhang Paparazzi was crawling and rolling in the snow. Hard training.

One day, Xiucai in the army suddenly called Zhang Paparazzi over and asked him a question: "Why did you have both parents dead?" Why would you wander alone? ”

"Because our family's land has been encircled by the banner people!" Zhang paparazzi replied.

"Not bad!" Junzhong Xiucai pointed to the southwest, "It's they who caused your family to be ruined!" Their name is Manchu Tartar! You're going to be a soldier. Not only for the sake of having meat for themselves, but also for the sake of having silver for themselves, but more importantly. Avenge your parents! ”

"That's right! Avenge! I want to avenge my parents! Why do other people's children have parents who are in pain, but I, who grew up alone and wandering? It's because of the Tartars! The flame of revenge ignited in the heart of the paparazzi.

While the recruits were training, the Ming army who crossed the sea to capture people on the other side came from time to time with new Oroqen, Daur, Hezhe, Evenki, Khalkha Mongols, Oirats, Durbots and other tribes. The newcomers who come here are screened and the right ones are selected to join the boot camp.

Among the more than 2,000 people who came one after another, there were only about 400 young men who were suitable for serving as soldiers, and the rest were women, children, old and weak, and among the more than 400 young and middle-aged men, only half of them could eventually pass the training of recruits.

Wang Xinyu did not think that those women, children, old and weak were a waste of food, women can also do things, can engage in production labor, can produce vegetables and meat, can make clothes for the army, can do laundry and cooking, can raise horses, and can provide logistical support for the army. It will be extremely cold here in winter, and Wang Xinyu asked people to organize women of all ethnic groups to make fur clothes and cotton clothes to keep out the cold. Clothing, boots and hats made of animal fur can withstand temperatures of tens of degrees below zero. When it comes to making clothes, men and women can't be compared.

And children are the new force of the future, and they will be educated culturally and trained at the same time, and in a few years, they will grow up to be excellent soldiers.

As for the old men, they were actually very good hunters and fishermen, they could go up to the mountains to hunt, they could go into the water to fish, and they could provide meat for the army and the people.

As more people arrived, the camp grew in size, and the logs cut down were used to build new ones. This is the bitter cold of the Far North, and the houses built need to be warm. Houses made of bricks and wood were built with stoves and kangs and used for heating.

Sakhalin has a large area, and if it is all grazing, it will not be a problem to feed tens of thousands of people. But with the arrival of winter, production activities here will be forced to stop, and for the next few months, they will have to eat stocks and food from other places.

Considering that it was too far and too expensive to transport grain from Jiangnan, Wang Xinyu decided to have grain transported from the Satsuma domain and Korea. Although the Satsuma Domain's own food was insufficient, Wang Xinyu had silver in his hand, which could be handed over to Tagawa Shichizaemon in the Satsuma Domain, that is, Zheng Chenggong's own brother, and he would buy food from Honshu Island.

As long as you have money, you don't have to worry about not being able to buy food. Although the Edo shogunate on the island of Honshu had a policy of seclusion and refused to trade with foreign merchants, they were not opposed to selling grain to the Satsuma clan, which would then provide them with the overseas goods they needed.

The matter of buying grain from Dongying was handed over to Zheng Zheng, and anyway, Tagawa Nanazaemon was his own brother.

Having solved the food problem in Sakhalin and Ezo in winter, Wang Xinyu's next step is to prepare to buy a horse.

Wang Xinyu asked people to call Tuerbuqing and asked the priest who acted as an interpreter to tell him: "You have already surrendered to us, and you are not a real Russian, even if I let you go back at this time, the Russians will send you to the gallows!" The only way out for you now is to work with us! What the Russians gave you, I can give you too, and even more! Whether it's gold and silver treasures or women, even Russian women, if you want it, you can give it to you, and of course, to get these things, you have to do things for us! ”

"What are you going to let me do?" Tulbucin asked.

Wang Xinyu smiled: "I won't let you slaughter your own compatriots, but it's always okay for you to help us train cavalry, right?" Help us get stallions and mares, this should be possible, right? We have enough steppe to raise horses and develop an elite heavy cavalry. ”

"Do you want to raise your own horses? And was it raised from childhood? Tulbucin asked.

"Of course!" Wang Xinyu nodded and said, "Horses on the battlefield are generally castrated, I don't want that kind of horse, I want a horse that can give birth to ponies." Only then will my horses grow more and more. ”

Thurbucin made another request: "I can do this, but I have a request, I hope that the general of the East will meet me!" ”

"Say, as long as it is a reasonable request, I will agree!" Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

"After I get you enough stallions and mares to help you train into a cavalry, I want to go back to Ukraine." Turbucin said.

"No problem at all!" Wang Xinyu smiled and nodded, "We Chinese pay attention to the roots of leaf fall, and you are the same, you can go home after you finish your things!" ”

"What about the Russians? They certainly won't shoot at their own compatriots! I won't help you train warriors! Because they know that the warriors they train will kill the people of their country. "Turbuqing. (To be continued.) )