Let's push the time forward for two or three months.

In late October 1690, the weather in Manchuria was already very cold. Outside a wooden camp east of Naowen City, North Korean soldier Jin Sanpao breathed a few breaths into his palms, as if doing so would make his fingers that were already red and swollen like carrots feel a little warmth and feel better. But in the cold weather of Manchuria, this seemed destined to be a luxury. Jin Sanpao, which was simple to resist cold, was still unbearable.

Jin Sanpao is a Taoist soldier from Pyongyang, North Korea. He is a musketeer. He was originally a rotation of defense in various places in Pyeongan Road. He was a relatively low-level second-tier unit in the Kingdom of Korea. What North Korea can really fight is the soldiers stationed in Gyeonggi Province, Gangwon Province and other places, namely the North Korean imperial guards commonly known as the North Korean imperial guards in the East Coast.

These people are basically equipped with East Coast equipment, and the training is also helped to formulate plans by East Coast officers. The proportion of cold weapons is low, and the firearm reform is implemented very deeply. It can be said that it is a new army, and it still has certain combat effectiveness. This "certain combat effectiveness" means that it is okay to follow the buttocks of the East Coast people, but if they fight a tough battle, it will be a tough one, and something will probably happen.

Compared with the imperial guards, it is hard to say that the combat effectiveness of the Korean local troops who were the people of the East Coast became the Taoist army. First of all, they are definitely not as good as the imperial guards, but how much they are not as good as the ones are, there is a big difference! The officers and soldiers living in the bitter and cold areas of Ping An, Hamgyong and other roads have a relatively difficult living environment, a lighter degree of corruption, and relatively good combat effectiveness. They can undertake some more important combat tasks, such as clearing out the indigenous tribes in Manchuria that did not obey the East Coast people, etc. These things have been done in history and are quite good. Otherwise, why do you think the border of the Kingdom of Korea can extend northward from the Datong River to the Yalu River? They were all stolen from the Tungus people such as the Jurchens.

The Ping'an Dao Army where the Jin Sanpao was located was quite good. Although the equipment was not as good as the Taoist soldiers in the south such as Gyeonggi, Jeolla, and Gyeongsang, they had a strong fighting spirit and were relatively brave to fight and were more convenient to use. When the Denlai Development Team had not yet signed a peace agreement with the Qing Dynasty, they recruited Korean soldiers on the other side of the Yalu River to enter the country to help with the war. These Korean soldiers who brought their own food (some imperial soldiers also participated in many wars against the Qing army. Although most of them could not fight in the field, they were still okay to defend the rear fortress, transport supplies and guard the prisoners, and made a lot of contributions.

It is precisely these accumulated achievements that make the East Coast people look at the Kingdom of Korea differently and are willing to give them a relatively good position in the Far East ruling system. For example, many technical East Coast people blocked Shunguo and the Qing Dynasty, but they actually did not block it much. In recent years, iron smelting and coal mining industries in northern Korea are developing faster and faster in recent years, East Coast people have sold a lot of machinery and equipment to improve their labor efficiency. These things are waiting for purchases by Shunguo in Jiangxi and Hunan. As a result, they have been ruling by the East Coast people for "no goods", but the North Koreans have bought them for many years, which shows the difference!

Of course, the North Koreans were not only seen by the East Coast people because of their military merits. In fact, they have sent a large number of laborers to work in the country many times, helping the East Coast people to build roads, dig rivers, build houses, act as military servants, etc. Especially the recent construction of Vladivostok City is the most obvious, where the population is very sparse and the labor force is seriously insufficient. Therefore, under the several coercion and inducement of the East Coast people, the North Korea Kingdom sent more than 60,000 teachers abroad to work in Vladivostok. They used their hard-working hands to dig mud, cut down trees, burn bricks, and polish stones, and built a beautiful city in a very great way. The contribution was indeed very great, so that Lu Xiaofeng, who always looked down on many Koreans, was amazed, and felt that the ability of the North Koreans to endure hardships is a great advantage.

In addition to these two things, the Kingdom of Korea produced a large amount of food, medicinal materials, fruits, primary minerals that were urgently needed by the Far East vassals (there are a large amount of Korean pig iron smelting imported from Sakhalin Island), daily necessities and other hundreds of commodities, and the prices are absolutely low and the quality is quite acceptable. It is an important part of the economy of the Far East vassals.

They also imported a large number of textiles, horses, medicines, furs, hardware products, steel bars, Nanyang specialties, machinery and equipment, weapons and equipment, etc. from the east coast, and are important importers of East coast goods. From these, we can see that the Kingdom of Korea undertakes part of the industrial division of labor in the economic system dominated by the east coast of the Far East, and its hierarchy is at the middle level in the industrial chain because it has a certain industrial foundation.

Therefore, the current Kingdom of Korea has basically been firmly bound by the people of the East Coast. Both the two countries have more common interests than differences, which is considered a relatively stable ally relationship. Moreover, a series of treaties signed with the East Coast decades ago. Since the opening of trade, the political and economic landscape of the Kingdom of Korea has also changed greatly. In today's Korean society, talking about business is no longer an indecent thing that needs to avoid others, especially scholars, but can openly discuss the profits of a certain business, how to do it, etc. The business atmosphere is simply a different place than when the country opened.

Moreover, after Zhao Chuyan, the East Transportation Group, traveled to the East Coast and returned to China a few years ago, he personally verified, compiled and published the book "The East Tour" also caused a great sensation among the intellectual group of North Korea. Some praised them, some cursed them, and some criticized them. But no matter what, this travel notation greatly broadened the horizons of the North Koreans and let them know that the external world had developed to this level, and they were still confused before, living their own lives like a hermit. I believe that if the sea and land army of the East Coast people had not come to the door and forced them to implement reform policies, they would have to stay in the country themselves. In the long run, the consequences would be unimaginable.

These dynamics in the Korean ideological community undoubtedly have brought boost to the development of domestic industry and commerce. Although the domestic conservative strength is still many, and conservative ideas still have certain advantages, to be honest, its power is disappearing almost every year and weakening. The scale of its industry and commerce is increasing every year, and the strength of the North Korean government is also slowly increasing. Strictly speaking, this is actually somewhat similar to the two strongest forces in mainland China. The Qing and Shun countries have serious financial difficulties brought by years of war, requiring huge wealth brought by the development of industry and commerce. At the same time, war also stimulates them to constantly pursue new technologies. These are important factors in the development of ideas and social environments of the two countries and the development of industry and commerce. Although there is no war, there is a country outside it (East Coast) that not only urges it to formulate various policies and reform various measures, basically achieving the same effect, that is, pushing the entire country towards a more modernization direction.

Of course, North Korea's industry and commerce have been running for so many years. Although the development results are pretty good, because the foundation in the past was too poor and the issue of wealth distribution, the country and the people are still not very rich. So, the three or four thousand Taoist soldiers sent from Ping'an Road to North Manchuria were not very well treated and equipped with poor equipment. Not to mention the other hand, just because of the serious lack of cold-proof clothing, the logistics supply of the North Koreans is in a very shortage. I don't know if their country is poor and is reluctant to equip second-tier troops with cotton coats and gloves, or whether the logistics officials themselves have lost their innocence, or whether they have both.

The people of the East Coast judged that this should be a unique trick of the North Koreans, and they wanted to go to the East Coast to take advantage of the people. That is, they had a plan to distribute cold-proof clothes to them, but because the people of the East Coast to send North Korea to recruit these troops, they detained the cold-proof clothes that should have been distributed to Ping'an Road. The North Koreans had just received a considerable number of cotton coats, quilts, gloves, cotton shoes, etc. that were delivered to Ningbo for them to fetch things.

There is no doubt that the North Koreans' intention to take advantage of the situation was successful this time. Because after discussing with Wei Wendu, Major Bei Zhensheng, who was in charge of the affairs, decided to distribute a batch of cotton coats or gloves to the North Koreans so that they would not suffer from non-combat reductions such as frostbite, which would affect combat effectiveness. You must know that now is the critical moment of attacking Naowencheng, and it is absolutely impossible to affect the overall situation for such a little piece of clothing, quilts and other things!

By the way, Naowen City is already the last large-scale stronghold in the North Manchuria region of the Qing Dynasty. Needless to say, the geographical location of this stronghold is very critical. To the east, you can go to Harbin Fort, which people from the east coast have been running for many years, to Jilin, to the south, to the Hulunbuir Grassland, which can be said to be a three-way intersection, a place that must be fought for by military strategists.

The East Coast people did not visit here before because their main expansion direction was not here, but was near the sea to the east. After spending several years infiltration and cleaning up the traditional territory of Ningguta and the Haixi Jurchens, they spent time rectifying and roughly building them, which did take up a lot of energy.

Of course, they have never given up on the west side. Although the main force of Harbin Fort was invested in the east, this does not mean that they are doing nothing in the west! In fact, the Hulunbuir Advance Detachment formed north of Heilongjiang stabbed into the waist of Naowencheng like a sharp knife. At the same time, the people on the east coast have also begun to exert their strength for many years on the grassland. With the combination of the two, Naowencheng has a slight sense of being isolated.

Once isolated, the opportunity for the East Coast people to seize the city of Naowen is here. So you can see that outside the city of Naowen in the winter of 1690, thousands of troops commanded by Army Major Bei Zhensheng had already assembled and planned to launch a fatal blow to Naowencheng at any time.

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