As the ice along the coast of Vladivostok gradually melts, it also means that Vladivostok's long winter is coming to an end. This is already the third winter that Far Eastern companies have experienced in this era.

This year's Far East Winter Training was mainly conducted by nearly 10,000 indigenous militiamen and more than 20,000 recent immigrants, and the location of the winter training was set in Bac Ninh Town. The garrison brigade selected a large number of backbone cadres and political work cadres to conduct intensive training for them for five months.

The performance of the indigenous militia in the battle of crossing the Tumen River was unexpected by the Military Commission. The Central Military Commission changed the original winter training plan of the indigenous militia from three months to five months, and changed the location from Liantun Fort, a mountainous area near the indigenous village, to a centralized training in Bac Ninh Town.

This year, the Far Eastern Company will accept the natives from all over the world on a large scale, and will also adopt a strategy of active enlistment, taking the initiative to mobilize scattered natives from the major tribes to join them, and if necessary, help the natives flee from their tribes.

Not only that, but the Far East Company will continue to expand this year, expanding north to the north of Xingkai Lake and west to Ningguta. Before the onset of winter this year, the newly incorporated indigenous villages will be resettled in the newly expanded territory.

The original one mountain company stationed in each tunbao was all left with only one platoon to garrison, and the remaining two platoons all entered the newly expanded area to establish the tunbao. Although the number of soldiers in each tunpu has decreased, the tunpu is denser than before, and there are more villages next to the tunpu.

The Liaomin laborers who have already participated in the winter training, except for the apprentices and those who have already gone to work, the rest of the laborers will undergo winter training at their respective brigade headquarters.

Before the freezing of Vladivostok, all the fleets of the Admiralty once again set sail for the wintering in Manila and Jeju Island. Four cutting-edge sailboats have been put into service, and several sailboats have been converted into sailboats.

The first batch of four experimental 150-ton Slupp sloops and two 350-ton clippers have also been delivered to the Admiralty's Jeju Island Coast Guard. After a few months of trial operation last winter, except for some minor design issues. All other parameters are very satisfactory.

Both ships were also loved by the officers and men of the Navy, although the 150-ton Slupp sloop was somewhat unfamiliar, and the officers and men of the Admiralty were not familiar with the maneuvering of the sloop. But the hundreds of pirates on Jeju Island are all old bandits who have been drifting at sea for many years. There are many similarities between the maneuvering method of the sloop and the hard sail of the junk.

In less than two months, these strange Slupp sloops were figured out by those former pirates, and now the officers and soldiers of the Jeju Island Coast Guard are very familiar with the ten 150-ton Slupp sloops, and they are playing with it.

Navy officers and sailors are even more fond of the 350-ton clipper ship. Especially those pirates. They simply love this kind of boat, and the speed of more than a dozen knots downwind can already be described as a gallop in this era.

The Vladivostok shipyard has already placed orders for timber processing plants, machine factories, military factories, textile factories, which are working at full speed to concentrate on the production of various modular components such as keel plates, iron parts, rigging canvas, steering wheel axles, etc.

The first batch is expected to produce 18 Slupp sloops and 6 clippers. Once all the modular components have been produced, the shipyard will start to open the dock for production. Because of the modular assembly of the production method, the shipbuilding speed will be very fast. Slupp sloops are expected to be launched once per dock in two months, and clippers in three and a half months.

For the armament of these offshore ships, the Admiralty reported a plan for armament and equipment. The reason for not getting a majority on the board committee was that modern weapons such as twin 23-mm anti-aircraft guns, 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, PK general-purpose machine guns, etc., were tight in both quantity and ammunition. The members of the Committee believed: The Coast Guard is facing threats that do not require these modern weapons.

In the end, after a meeting of the Military Commission, it was decided to equip these two warships with self-produced weapons. First of all, artillery, the Admiralty communicated with the military factory before the beginning of winter and designed a 75 mm long-barreled rifled gun. Because the recoil force of the rifled barrel is increased a lot by using 35 times the diameter forged rifled barrel, the gun body is equipped with two buffer return springs with a 45-degree inclination angle on both sides of the gun body on the basis of friction cork and gun body buffer return springs to double relieve the recoil force.

Although this is the case. It will greatly increase the weight of the gun carriage, but it is really nothing as a naval gun. The warhead can be used in conjunction with the Type 29 75mm mountain gun. However, the amount of cartridge propellant was nearly 30% more, so that the direct firing distance of the artillery reached 850 meters. Can fire grenades, shrapnels, and incendiary bombs. Each 150-ton Slupp sloop is equipped with one fore and one on the fore and one on the deck of the clipper.

In addition to the guns, the Slupp Sloop and the Clipper were each armed with four Type 30 water-cooled heavy machine guns, each mounted on a special pedestal, and equipped with a bulletproof shield to protect against enemy muskets and overboard guns. Both ships were also equipped with a dozen 40mm grenade launchers, as well as a large number of double-barreled shotguns, as well as grenades and tear gas grenades as melee support weapons for broadside jumping.

Wang Yaowu, commander of the Jeju Island garrison area, has been sitting on Haiyang Island this winter to deal with various matters in Donggang Town. Since the Tartars and the two roads broke Lushun, Huang Long immediately reported a great victory on the Dongjiang River to the imperial court, blowing this battle to the sky.

"The battleship covers the sea, and the battle is carried out day after day, and the cannon smoke is everywhere, and the sound vibrates the heavens and the earth. The cannons were fired, the captives were invincible, and the Houjin soldiers were killed and wounded, and they were injured and injured, which was not to be remembered. The pestle and the brine are all drifting, and the grass and trees are fishy. ”

Huanglong also collected many Tartar corpses and banner armor left behind in the Far East and sent them to Beijing at one time. Chongzhen and the ministers of the Ming Dynasty were all stupid when they learned that Huanglong had won a great victory in Lushun.

Chongzhen and the ministers of the DPRK and China shouted together: "This overseas has always been a big victory, then this victory is a war in ten years!" ”

In order to commend the generals of Dongjiang Town, Chongzhen rewarded him greatly, and specially sent a courtier to Dongjiang to reward the meritorious generals of Dongjiang.

In fact, it's not that Huang Long is greedy for vanity, he can't help it, he just wants to get more military merits. to entrap these Dongjiang generals and ruffians under his command. Liu Xingzhi made a mess of the islands in Dongjiang Town. Now in Dongjiang Town, except for Lushun or his people, the Ming army of Dongjiang Town on the islands has all changed their faces.

Whether it's the rebels or the Dongjiang veterans on the island. All of them were gone, and only the generals of the islands remained. Huang Long's heart was very clear. Overseas people have reached out to get their hands on the Dongjiang River. He went to the islands and walked around, and he knew what was going on with those soldiers at a glance, except for Grandpa Qi's soldiers back then, what other soldiers and horses could be so energetic now.

Even the generals at all levels on each island were either bought by the overseas or placed under house arrest by the overseas people. Let those overseas people empty them. Now Dongjiang Town has completely become the territory of overseas people. In addition to the 2,000 Ming troops under Lushun under him, he could no longer mobilize a single soldier in Dongjiang Town.

Although Huang Long was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, he really didn't dare to report this matter to the imperial court. Once escalated. The imperial court will definitely send troops to fight for it, and in the face of the powerful firearms in the Far East, no matter how many soldiers and horses the Ming Dynasty sends, it will also be wiped out in an instant.

He also knew that this matter could not be concealed for a long time, after all, the Ming Dynasty also had eyeliner in Liaodong, and sooner or later he would know about the situation of the Battle of the Dongjiang River. But all he can do now is drag it out one day at a time.

Now the overseas people have not waved the flag on the island, at least now Dongjiang Town still nominally belongs to the Ming Dynasty, but if they really tear their faces, those overseas people in the Far East may not know what to do.

Daming can't stand the toss, so let's take it one day at a time. So he could only make false reports of his exploits. The court needs a great victory, and he can also use the court's reward to envelop his subordinates. He is now in Lushun every day to train soldiers and horses.

Wang Yaowu was in charge of Haiyang Island, and one and a half brigades of the overseas corps of Jeju Island and Tanegashima Island were transferred to Dongjiang Town. Phi Island, Big and Small Changshan Island, Shicheng Island, Guanglu Island, and Zhangzi Island were all occupied. The generals on the island were bribed with gold and silver, and coerced and induced. In a few months, several large islands were all controlled by the Far East.

Although the generals here are still the generals of the Ming Dynasty, the generals no longer listen to the orders of the Ming Dynasty. Far East is much more pleasing to the eyes of the military and civilians in Dongjiang Town than Daming. Not only did he save two groups of hungry people in succession, but now he also pacified the rebels in Dongjiang and defeated the Tartars. Therefore, the Far East occupied these large islands, and the Liao people and the Ming army on the islands were very welcome.

The Far Eastern Company stockpiled a large amount of grain in Jeju last year, and this time it was all transported to Dongjiang, although it was all coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and corn. But it is already a great favor for the military and civilians of the Dongjiang islands.

More than a dozen Jeju Island Coast Guard North Korean Banya boats were also transferred to Dongjiang by Wang Yaowu. Each board house boat is fitted with a single-cylinder diesel engine and fitted with modern trawls. Fishing in the waters of southern Liaoning every day, providing a large number of fishery products for the islands of the Dongjiang River.

In just one winter, the military and civilians of the Dongjiang islands were completely turned to their hearts. The Dongjiang River hangs lonely overseas, and it is formed by the gathering of a group of Liaodong Liaodong shaved heads. At that time, Mao Wenlong waved the flag in the Dongjiang River, which made hundreds of thousands of fugitives from Liaodong feel against him, and Dongjiang Town was also prevented from entering by him. But as soon as he died, the trees fell and scattered, and the Dongjiang River was completely chaotic.

In order to encompass the generals of the islands of the Dongjiang River, Wang Yaowu also took out a lot of silver to buy all the Ming generals on the islands, so that they could do whatever they wanted. The few stubborn ones were secretly executed, and then they were all pushed to Liu Xingzhi's body. There are also some uncertainties that are under house arrest, and it is difficult to escape from the island.

He took advantage of this winter to send nearly 10,000 Ming troops attached to the Dongjiang River to the Jeju training camp, and also transferred a group of veteran backbones from overseas corps to train thousands of Dongjiang Ming troops for three months. With veterans of overseas brigades as the backbone of the platoon, three more overseas brigades were formed.

The soldiers of the Ming army in Dongjiang Town, these three overseas brigades, survived three months of hard training, and all of them lost a few layers of skin. But one by one, they have become a lot more energetic. Although the training was ruthless, the food in the Far East really didn't say anything, and they were raised very strong. Wang Yaowu arranged all three overseas brigades in the Dongjiang River, dressed in the military uniform of the Ming Dynasty, and trained vigorously on various islands every day. (To be continued)

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