My Wife is a Counsel Chapter 124: Wuhan Border County
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The battle at Tru took place on January 1st, when the people of Middle-earth were supposed to be celebrating the New Year.
For grassland herdsmen, there has always been a traditional New Year, also called Thanksgiving Day. It is the eve of the rainy season every year. The herdsmen want to thank their masters for their work and the blessings that the whole family can survive, and they also have to offer sacrifices. Express your gratitude with the most precious gift.
On January 1, 956, the herdsmen of Trubu decided to hold Thanksgiving Day on this day.
In front of Mayor Wang’s felt bag, there were flocks of cattle and sheep, which the herdsmen wanted to present to His Highness the Prince.
After Mayor Wang reported the matter, the prince finally responded via wireless radio and used a loudspeaker to broadcast to all the herdsmen. The general meaning was that the cattle and sheep would no longer be harvested. You should live a good life. When the days get better and better in the future, welcome Come to Black Mountain Castle and bring me some souvenir gifts, I will be very happy.
His Royal Highness the Prince's magnetic and rich voice, full of love, made the herdsmen feel like listening to the holy voice. Many herdsmen cried with joy, feeling that the world is not as big as the prince's kindness.
Just when the herdsmen listened to the prince and took their cattle and sheep home, the distant sentry fired a warning shot, and the battle in the Tru Valley began.
There is almost no suspense. Ma Quanyou's prairie cavalry brigade also has five reorganized battalions, with more than 2,700 people, all out.
I thought that during the New Year, people in Central China would be generally happy, so they would be lax and lack the will to fight.
They also slaughtered the Tru tribe who had completely forgotten their sect and used their blood to atone for their sins.
But unexpectedly, the cavalry brigade got into the encirclement, and ambushes were everywhere in the Tru Valley.
What the brigade commander Ma Biao didn't even expect was that his adjutant Ma Shengyi shot him in the head.
As a result, the raid turned into a one-sided massacre.
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On January 12, Prince Heishanbao arrived at Wuhanlao Army.
This is already the extreme northwest, and further west is the White Sea. The remnants of Ma Quanyou and Chen Xingchang retreated into that area.
Wuhan is already a desert, hilly and mountainous land where border residents live together. Further west, Baihai, is a vast barren land with swamps and grasslands on the edge. It is difficult for large troops to move, let alone mechanized troops. . Past the devouring swamps and grasslands, there is the huge inland sea - the White Sea. Further to the west, there is a plateau area thousands of meters above the ground, with towering mountains and endless desert.
The strange terrain was something Lu Ming had never seen before in his previous life, and it was also unique in this world.
The ones stationed in Wuhan are mainly the Black Mountain Fort Mountain Division and the Air Service Regiment.
Air Service Regiment B, also known as the Black Bird Unit, has been fighting continuously and has made remarkable achievements. It has returned to Montenegro for repairs.
When Prince Heishanbao arrived at Wuhanlao Army, the tribes of Huangyuan in the Sanyuan area of the western prairie surrendered. As a result, the western prairie was peacefully restored, and the Sanyuan grassland was officially incorporated into the territory of the principality.
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The current identity of "Company Commander Wang" is the head of the special work department of Wuhan, Montenegro's General Administration of Secrecy.
In the Wuhan area, if we must divide the ethnic groups, the border residents can have more than a dozen ethnic groups, mainly yellow-skinned farmers, dark-red-skinned mountain people, white-skinned herdsmen, desert people, etc.
But they cannot be said to be Central Asians or Westerners.
There are many local languages, and they are not as civilized as the prairie to accept the languages of Central Asia.
The area is vast and sparsely populated. Wuhan is designated as a special border county directly under the principality, and the county chief is directly appointed by the cabinet.
But this county is surprisingly large, covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, which is equivalent to many autonomous prefectures and provinces in the south.
Wuhan County has been an important border trade town since ancient times. The trade routes from Northern Xinjiang and Haixi came from the east and north and converged here.
When Chen Xingchang nominally ruled here, he designated Wuhan Road and only appointed Wuhan Daoyin. He was not able to truly rule here. Daoyin was beaten to death by angry border residents because he provoked public anger when collecting taxes. At that time, Chen Xingchang was defeated in the battlefield in northern Xinjiang and had no time to care about this place.
Later, Chen Xingchang's tribe and Ma Quanyou's tribe retreated into the White Sea and passed by in a hurry.
Some of the baggage was even moved too slowly and the guards were not strong enough, so they were robbed by border residents.
The strong folk customs here can be seen clearly.
Since ancient times, the sky is high and the emperor is far away here. The real ones who have the final say in Wuhan City are the Chen family.
They are descendants of officials who were sent here during the Central Continent Dynasty, and they gradually spread out. However, it is difficult to say that they are Central Continent people. On the contrary, from their living customs, etc., they have become border people and integrated into the border people. The language is all in local dialect.
Lu Ming also had many situations like this in his previous life. In the feudal dynasty, before the south was developed, many barbarian chief families were former Central Plains people who entered the barbarian areas for various reasons, integrated into the barbarian tribes, and relied on the Central Plains belt. The acquired knowledge led the family to gradually become stronger, but he himself became a member of the barbarian tribe, living a barbarian life and speaking the barbarian language.
Before Qi Huaide became the governor of Northern Xinjiang, almost all Wuhan Daoyin were surnamed Chen.
After Qi Huaide came to power, he appointed several official Daoyin Laiwuhan to take office, but the results were not very good. Those who just wanted to make money got along well with the three major Chen families, and they could make a lot of money. benefit.
Especially in today's era, a large number of low-priced industrially produced daily necessities are transported here and then sold to border tribes in exchange for local specialties or unique gold sand, which is extremely profitable.
Wuhan City also has its abnormal prosperity.
The new county magistrate was chosen by a son named Chen, but he was very young, in his early thirties, and had attended university in the northern Xinjiang provincial capital.
But its own branches, outside of the three most powerful Chen families, have been traders for generations. In the generation of County Magistrate Chen Shunming, his father was a good family man and opened a trading company in Wuhan City. With some money, he sent his son to study in a big city.
After graduating from university, Chen Shunming went to Shengjing to develop. He developed well and was admitted to the Montenegro Concession Affairs Administration.
Now, he has been appointed as the county magistrate of Wuhan County.
However, Chen Shunming knew very well that in fact, the affairs of this county were still led by Minister Wang for the time being, and all work was based on preparations for marching into Baihai and finally defeating the remnants of Chen Xingchang and Ma Quanyou.
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The office of the Wuhan Special Work Department of the General Administration of Secrecy is an octagonal house typical of the local wealthy families. It is integrated into the Zhongzhou-style building and is similar to the Hakka architectural style of the previous life.
It is a square castle-like building with various houses and small buildings inside, surrounded by two floors on all sides. There is a watchtower on each side, commonly known as a four-corner tower. On the outer wall, there is a tower in each of the four corners. The watchtowers, which are several meters high, form an octagonal defense structure.
In the octagonal enclosure of the Special Work Department, hundreds of staff and armed personnel from various departments were stationed here.
This place is called "No. 1 Wuhan Street" in various correspondence between the Principality.
At this time, in the south office building of "No. 1 Wuhan Street", in the office on the second floor, Lu Ming felt something strange in his heart when he looked out the window at the town whose architectural style was completely different from that in the mainland. The border residents in various strange costumes It feels as if I have really reached the end of the world.
Looking back at the letter on the table, it mainly contains an analysis of the ethnic groups here and an investigation of the three major families of the Chen family.
In addition, there are sporadic information about Bai Haili.
The remnants of Ma Quanyou and Chen Xingchang who fled into the extreme northwest of the White Sea numbered 20,000 to 30,000 people. There were hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of barren land. The border residents probably numbered only 100,000, and their lives were difficult. Not only was it impossible to support them, With the arrival of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and a small number of family documents, these 20,000 to 30,000 people have settled down to be self-reliant. In fact, they are competing with the border residents for limited survival resources.
However, no accurate information has been released yet.
In fact, the life of the border residents in the barren land northwest of the White Sea has always been a mystery. The population, etc., and the living conditions of the tribes are all estimated.
There are also legends that there are still descendants of barbarians there, but they have degraded. Although they are tall, they are no longer as giant as their ancestors, but are generally about 2.45 meters tall, and they are no longer as afraid of warmth as their ancestors. .
However, we still have to wait for information on the specific situation.
There is a staff officer next to Chen Xingchang who has been bribed by the Military Intelligence Division for a long time, but he has lost contact recently and has not yet sent a telegram back.
The Military Intelligence Division has transferred his relationship to the Wuhan Special Work Department and has been waiting for his secret message for several days.
The remaining bandits in the White Sea must be pacified as soon as possible, so that the Northern Territory can truly be stabilized.
For this, the price paid was to be at odds with the eldest prince, but in the long run, the price was worth it.