860 The Returning Fleet (Part I)
The battle of the Tang army to return to the Liaodong Peninsula was not fierce, and the resistance of the Goguryeo people was not fierce, to be precise, without the containment of the Tang people, these Goguryeo people finally broke free from the last shackles - they began to kill each other, they frantically mutilate their own compatriots, under the premise of knowing that they would die, they no longer cared for their lives and bodies, and after the Tang army landed again, they found countless civilian casualties caused by non-military personnel.
When the army went further into the entire Liaodong Peninsula, he was surprised to find that the cruel harm of the Goguryeo people to each other was far beyond the imagination of the army itself, and even Zhang Liang, who landed on the shore, was shocked by this cruel cannibalism, Xue Rengui was even more confused for a whole day before he came back to his senses, he really didn't expect that these Goguryeo people were so ugly.
Perhaps, everyone is like this, but the time, place and people have not yet reached the standard, and it just so happens that at this time, the time, place and people have already met the needs of the Goguryeo people.
This battle to reoccupy the Liaodong Peninsula is called the Peninsula Chongguang, which took more than two months, and it was more troublesome than the original strategy, because many important places were contaminated by the corpses of the Goguryeo people, and they had to be burned with oil in the incendiary canisters.
During this period, Suning was naturally not idle. But on the last day of Zhenguan's ten years, he returned home for the reason of debriefing, and finally had a stable year with his family, accompanied by his son and daughter who had not seen him for a long time and his wife and concubine, and had a happy Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and finally felt the feeling of home, from Zhenguan four years to Zhenguan eleven years, Suning and his family were together for the New Year was less than half.
The bigger the official, the more things he does, and the more he is relied on by Li Erma, the fewer opportunities there will be for the New Year, either fighting outside or defending the local area outside. Today, too. Overseeing the full command of the entire Beihai Navy and the East China Sea Navy, as well as the more than 30,000 newly concentrated Mabu troops under his command, more than 60,000 people were under the direct command of Suning, which was the first time in his life that he had commanded so many troops to fight. The classes are still very complete. Infantry, cavalry, artillery and navy. Very well equipped.
Suning also indirectly exercised its own wisdom and coordination ability, especially the relevant coordination ability, to coordinate the two sides of the navy and land forces that are not familiar with each other to carry out coordinated operations. Coordinating artillery units that joined the big family of war for the first time to cooperate with other old-style arms of the armed forces to coordinate operations without a relatively good coordination ability is not valid.
Holding his son and daughter, feeling the warmth of the long-lost family, Suning is very happy, and reuniting with the beautiful wives and concubines who have not been reunited for a long time, naturally he is also happy, but unfortunately, Su Dingfang is far away in Liaodong, and it is said that he is commanding the campaign to exterminate the Yan people, so he can't get out, and even the eldest Sun Chong and Li Boyao are the same and can't get out, Suning was shocked at the time, the Yan people? Isn't it the ancestor of the Jurchens? Exterminate the Tatars? Isn't it equivalent to indirectly destroying the Jurchen? It's just the same as Qin Qiong's extermination of the Khitans!
This is an accident, it is really an accident, Suning cheered for Su Dingfang in his heart, I hope he can win a complete victory, and take the land of white mountains and black waters, the fertile Nenjiang Plain and the Songhua River Plain are all black soil plains that are very worthy of development, of course, such fertile land can not be wasted, and in the Liaodong strategy designed by Suning himself, these black soils are also a very important part.
However, with the occurrence of a very unexpected thing, Suning had to rush back to Youzhou Port in a hurry, for no other reason, it was not too unexpected to say that the accident was not too unexpected, but I didn't think about it for a long time, and I suddenly felt very shocked when I thought about it, and the Northern Fleet, one of the three major fleets that had not been heard from for nearly two years, returned to Youzhou Port, bringing back a large number of goods that I had never seen, and the crew were all dressed in strange clothes, and there seemed to be not many people to lose, but they also brought back a group of people, who looked very similar to the Tang people. But they don't speak Chinese, and they don't understand what they say.
Suning slapped his thigh, and immediately felt excited, should these guys really succeed and cross the Bering Strait and enter Alaska? Also found the Inuit? That is, Eskimos? The Inuit migrated from northern China to northern North America a long, long time ago.
However, what awaits them is not a good life, but the pursuit of the Indians, after fighting with the Indians, the Inuit retreated to the Arctic Circle, and the Indians at that time thought that this would make the Inuit all cold to death, so they did not continue to hunt and kill, but did not want the Inuit to survive in the extremely cold environment with their tenacious vitality, and multiply until now.
Suning really didn't expect that the fleet was successful, and there has been no news for two years, even the owner of the fleet, Li Deliang, has given up, suspecting that the fleet has been wiped out, so Quan Datang's cognition of the three routes is determined that the southern route can make a fortune, and the eastern route and the northern route are both fatal routes, and no one goes.
Soon after Suning left, the news spread, originally thought that the fleet of the northern route had been wiped out, who knew that now the people of the northern route actually came back, it is said that they also brought back a big bear with white fur and a lot of white bear skin, animal fur has always belonged to an extremely precious species, not to mention white, or a white bear, more precious and rare, I don't know how much it is worth, there are already many people who have heard the wind and followed Suning's footsteps.
And the owner of this fleet, the prince Li Deliang, who was depressed and couldn't afford to be seriously ill because he once thought that the fleet was completely annihilated, bounced up from the bed in an instant, and was in a hurry to marry someone to take him to Youzhou Port to check the actual situation, and then to reward this group of heroic heroes.
When Suning hurried to the port, he saw a large number of black sea ships quietly parked there, and the soldiers of the entire coast were assisting the strangely dressed crew to carry the goods. Suning could see that it was animal skin clothes, and the reason why the Tang people felt strange was because the people of the Tang Dynasty rarely saw people wearing animal skins, and after entering the agricultural civilization, it was a normal thing to wear cloth and silk, and animal skins were a symbol of barbarians, not to mention thicker animal skin clothes.
It was probably the clothing chosen to adapt to the harsh climate of Alaska, which had a lot to do with the harsh climate of the region, where the animals lived were hardy creatures with thick fur and thick subcutaneous fat, and even humans evolved into very resistant to cold over that long period of time. Although it is easy to see from the physiognomy and hair color and skin color that the Inuit and the Oriental look very similar.
Suning quickly found Zhang Shigui, who was communicating with an old man. As soon as Zhang Shigui saw Suning coming, he greeted Suning, and the old man who was talking to him also greeted Suning happily: "Master Suhou!" Master Su! Long time no see! Hahaha, thanks to the chart given by Su Houye. We've taken a lot of detours. But he survived. And I brought back a lot of good things! ”
Suning took a look, that's right, this old man was the head of the northern fleet personally appointed by Li Deliang, who was called the head of the old king. Out of care for Li Deliang and his lonely voyage alone, Li Er's majesty did not arrange court officials as the chief steward in his fleet, and Li Deliang was able to recruit warriors to obey the orders of the old king to be responsible for the security of the fleet, and appointed the old king head as the head of the northern fleet to manage a qiē thing, but I didn't expect this old man to live a very nourishing life.
Suning smiled and said: "Old Wangtou, you are really fateful, you are really lucky here, you really let you find the Sun Country and the land of ice and snow?" ”
The old king said with a smile: "Don't hide it from Marquis Su, our fleet did find the land of ice and snow, but we failed to find the country of the sun, we are also lucky, when we arrived at the land of ice and snow, we didn't expect it to be so cold, the clothes we brought were not enough to wear, and the ships were about to freeze, fortunately I met a group of people who looked very similar to our Tang people, they lived in that very cold place, there were about tens of thousands of people, and we had more than 6,000 people who survived thanks to them!" ”
Suning looked at a group of people standing not far from Lao Wang's head who were obviously different from the people of the Central Plains, and even if they were wearing the same clothes, they could see the difference.
"It's the people? Looks very similar to us Tang people, how can you be in that ice and snow land? Descendants of my people? Suning asked knowingly.
The old king looked back, then nodded with a smile and said: "It's them, if it weren't for them, we would have all frozen to death, at that time many of us were frozen and fainted, and when it was snowing, we couldn't even stretch out our hands, let alone make a fire, so cold places can't make a fire, it's fatal, and finally the boats are stranded on the shore, no one can get the boat away, it was this group of people who moved us from the boat to their settlement."
Then this group of people gave us food, drink and clothing, and saved us all, and when we set out, there were almost 7,000 people, and now there are 6,116 left, if it weren't for them, we would still be in danger, we have lived there for almost a month, and our bodies are almost well raised, and we are almost familiar with it, but they don't understand what we say, and we don't understand what they say, but we can still figure it out.
Originally, it was almost good to live for more than a month, and we were able to go, so we gave them a lot of things, and we were ready to return home, but we happened to meet a group of people who came to attack them, and we saw that they didn't seem to be able to beat those people, so we thought about repaying a life-saving grace, and helped them beat away those sneak attackers, those people were not our opponents at all, and they were still smashing people with stones, and they couldn't even use bows and crossbows, but the weather was cold there, and many bows and crossbows were frozen, and those that weren't frozen couldn't be used a few times, so it didn't matter, Anyway, we are going to repay the grace of saving lives.
As a result, after beating the group of people, they cried and shouted that they didn't want us to go, and asked us to stay, which is probably what it means, we saw that it was still snowing in the sky, and the weather was cold, and we were embarrassed to come back empty-handed to embarrass the prince, so we stayed, and this stay was left until a few months ago, and then we almost knew what they meant, and they also understood what we meant, and we looked very similar, I heard Hou Ye say that people in other places look different from us, I wondered if they were also descendants of my people. So I wanted to find out.
After a long time, the feelings were cultivated, and the group of people who came to attack them came a few more times, and finally I couldn't stand it anymore, so I took a group of brothers to chase them to their nest and take them to the nest, not to mention, a lot of gold and spices were seized, those people looked uncivilized, but the belts they wore were basically gold, and these guys were even more reluctant to us, and some of our young men also took a fancy to their local girls, so they matched and married, and this delay has been delayed until now. (To be continued......)