988 [One will succeed and ten thousand bones will die]
Russia has established four major military districts in Siberia.
First, Tobolsk. Its jurisdiction is: east of the Ural Mountains and north of Kazakhstan. 3 Second, Tomsk. Its jurisdiction is: a large area north of Xinjiang, China. 1
The third, Yeniseisk, has jurisdiction over a large area north of Mongolia. 1 The fourth, Yakutsk, has jurisdiction over: a large area north of Heilongjiang, China. 1
Among the four military governorship areas, Yakutsk was eliminated, which is Luzhou under the jurisdiction of Zhang Tingxun. Qi 8
In the past few years, Zhang Tingxun has done nothing but felling trees, building ships, and farming. He followed the Lu River (Lena River) and its tributaries, attacked to the north and northeast, and uprooted Verkhoyansk and other strongholds.
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Those strongholds were very fragile, with a large number of fifty or sixty Cossacks, a small number of only a dozen Cossacks, and the rest were all natives who had surrendered to Tsarist Russia. There were not even fortresses built, just wooden walls, which could barely protect against wild beasts.
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Take Verkhoyansk, for example, it’s already in the Arctic Circle. 3
Not to mention the Han immigrants, even the officers and soldiers of the Datong Army were unwilling to stay. Anyway, they laid down the Cossack stronghold, destroyed all the buildings and left. 5
Those Cossacks were cut off from contact, and the stolen furs could not be sold, and they could not get any supplies. Their houses were destroyed by Zhang Tingxun. Even if there were people who fled in groups, the Datong Army was too lazy to chase them long distances. They would either freeze to death or starve.
Either die or linger. Without gunpowder supplies, their muskets are fire sticks, and sooner or later they will be killed by the local natives.
As for the more remote Cossacks, the Chukotka natives will teach us how to behave when they are short of supplies.
In history, Tsarist Russia launched many expeditions against the Chukotka people, and most of them ended in victory. The expeditions continued until the eve of the Opium War. The smallest expedition lasted for four months, and Tsarist Russia captured 70,000
Young reindeer. 2
However, the Chukchi people also regressed in development during the war and learned the technology of iron smelting and the use of firearms. The more they fight, the harder it becomes to deal with Qi 4!
The first thing is "peaceful coexistence". The Chukchi people are nominally loyal to the Tsar, but remain independent. They are responsible for corvee service and payment of taxes. Those who voluntarily pay the fur tax will not be compensated. 1
Yu Youxue had not yet contacted the Chukchi people, and the two parties reached a verbal agreement.
The content of the covenant is: The Chukchi people obey the Chinese emperor and have the right to independent autonomy. The small family will fight against the Cossacks together. The Chukchi people's walrus tusks, walrus skins, antlers, deer skins, mammoth tusks and other commodities, the small army will row boats regularly every year.
To acquire, both parties have an equal and voluntary trade relationship. 8
The Chukchi people are happy to accept that kind of cooperation, because we also need iron tools, cotton cloth, salt and other supplies.
The reason why they fought with the Cossacks was because these weak thieves were too shameless. They only knew how to intimidate and plunder, and they were willing to exchange goods. 3 In comparison, the Chinese people are less generous.
In the eyes of the Chukchi people, the officers and soldiers of the Xiaotong Army are all abominations. Moreover, they are such abominable people with good brains. They actually exchanged a bunch of rare and expensive items with us for souvenirs that can be seen everywhere. 12
When Hailan came here, the girl became quiet.
Han merchants were like sharks smelling blood. They initially traded in the capital city of Andong. As the post stations opened along the way, the merchants stopped going north, just to obtain goods more slowly, because the further south they went, the more Vietnamese women competed.
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Today, Hailan Pao no longer has four trading posts.
Half of the grain and grass for the garrison along the Bailong River could not be obtained through commercial transportation. The merchants transported the grain to the north and returned with their halberds full of furs, pearls and other goods.
Olek was responsible for collecting goods in Luzhou. The supply team brought the supplies every year and brought the goods back to Hailanpao. Those things coming from the north of the Lixingan Mountains slowly became a part of the trade, and mammoth ivory was extremely popular among merchants.
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Before the cooperation with the Chukchi people, walrus ivory and walrus skin became the new currency.
Everyone has seen these things, because walruses only live in the Arctic. Businessmen know how to set prices. The one with the lowest price in the first year gets it, and in the seventh year they are crazy about it. Things are rare and valuable, and walrus skins
The price is even comparable to that of sable fur. 5
Just last year, two walrus skins were shipped to Nanjing and became a hot commodity at auction.
The transaction price of the first one was 650 taels of silver, and the transaction price of the seventh one soared to 980 taels. To put it bluntly, women are fighting for wealth and fame. If someone has you or not, you will lose face! 3
Northern merchants were overjoyed. Those merchants hoarded goods crazily, and then squeezed toothpaste bit by bit in southern cities.
Moreover, we have made a private agreement that the total volume of walrus skins shipped by each trading company to various small cities every year will exceed seven. As for the walrus tusks, they are being speculated wildly, and the price of that thing is estimated to be even more terrifying. 7
The imperial court was happy to see the results. The more fiercely the northern goods were speculated, the less attention the people paid to the north! 1
By the way, all the Cossack strongholds listed below are provided by Hamzhai Wall. That guy is a humanoid locator. 5
Because Hamuzhaiqiang was a bad person, the soldiers of Xiaotong Army thought that I was pleasing to their eyes, and they wanted to find an opportunity to kill me directly. But I continued to show my role, and became obedient, so that Xiaojia was willing to do it.
Kill her. Even because of her few meritorious service, that bastard woman became a senior officer. 7
In this expedition, Hamuzhaiqiang is still the guide. 1
It's just that the information provided by the Hamuzhai Wall is not out of date. The target we are about to attack is not a Hamuzhai stronghold, but a rammed earth castle - a castle specially built to defend against the Xiaotong Army.
Moreover, the Cossacks here are not equipped with a large number of flintlock guns.
The flintlock pistol was invented very early, but it probably ended in popularity in Europe in the early years of Chongzhen. However, the flintlock pistol was only popular in the past, and it was a pretentious thing for the nobles. The flintlock rifle had few problems.
Often disliked by soldiers.1
Until now, European flintlock rifles have not been modified. Although there are still small-scale changes in the army, the use of women is more common, and it even spread to Siberia in those two years. There seems to be no gap between the musket technology between the East and the West.
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And what about rifled guns?
Europe has long since disappeared, still succumbing to clan collections.
Zhao Han is also asking the military factory to develop rifled guns, and there are no two ideas. One is to load the front chamber, which leaks air and has a very short range; the other is to load the breech and has an extremely fast rate of fire. 7
No matter what it is, there are no minor flaws, and small-scale changes are possible. First, Zhao Han personally took the stage and tried to make mini bombs.
It is false that Emperor Zhao will be a soldier in his next life, but I am a military fan. Who among the serious conscripts would study Mini bombs 200 years later? Zhao Han has only heard of that name.
But if it was unreasonable to use conical bullets in his previous life, Zhao Han followed that idea. After nearly ten years of hard work, he continued to change and retreat, and finally he could no longer go to the battlefield. 1
Today, no batch of rifled guns has come out, but the cost of spiral rifled barrels is too low and easy to manufacture. So far, only less than a thousand have been made, some of which were installed by the imperial guards, and some of which were thrown to the north where there are many soldiers.
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What Yu Youxue has in hand is not a rifled gun. It has a long range, low accuracy, and a slightly faster loading speed than a smoothbore gun. Not eighty of the soldiers in my hand are equipped with rifled guns.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Not even a few hundred miles away from Barov Minsk, Olek heard gunfire from behind.
At least before the snow melted, the Cossacks came out and forced the Sakha natives to hand over their furs. If they cooperated, they used force to plunder them.
Olek said: "If you encounter Cossack thieves along the way, you will ignore them and retreat at full speed towards Youxue. Only when you encounter a Cossack ship will you destroy it!" The fleet sailed backwards in a mighty manner, and soon it arrived and was hijacked by the Cossacks.
The plundering tribe.
There are several boats docked on the shore and tied with ropes under the trees.
Eight Cossack thieves were guarding the ship outside, and even fewer thieves were looting the village. Seeing Xiao Tong's army coming to kill them, these eight guys immediately jumped off the ship and ran away, shouting in terror: "The Khitan people are coming, the Khitan people are coming
Got it!"
The young Tongjun soldier rowed over, squatted under the boat and aimed at the woods on the shore.
The indigenous auxiliary soldiers rowed like birch bark boats, cut the ropes of the Cossack boats, and snatched away all the Cossack boats. There were not even a hundred furs under the boat. They were probably obtained from the female tribe, and there were not many others.
Cossacks' marching rations.
"We need to get off the shore to catch up, speed up and retreat!" Olek ordered.
Xiao Tongjun's fleet quickly sailed away from this place.
When we were young, a dozen Cossacks and some eighty native servants rushed back. We looked at the cut ropes for mooring the boat and the empty river bank, and we immediately knew what to do.
I went back to report that the message had arrived, but it was hundreds of miles away from the castle.
We can only rob the birch bark boats of the Sakha natives and row them back quickly and leisurely. Can we row them back and die?
Olek ordered the soldiers and auxiliaries to be divided into two groups and take turns rowing.
As a rower, you must sleep during your shift. Regardless of whether you sleep well or not, you must close your eyes and rest. You also have to cast a net for fishing. Even when you go ashore, not to mention eating and pooping, you have to do it under the boat.
In this way, the march was very fast.
On the way, we met another group of Cossack thieves, and they still robbed the boat and left at a slow speed.
A few days ago, we arrived in Barov Minsk.
"He told you that was Zhang Tingxun?" Olek put on the mirror, turned around and asked.
Hamuzhaiqiang was stunned: "It will indeed be Zhang Tingxun in the future, and he will know when to turn it into a rammed earth castle."
"Speed up the landing!" Olek shouted.
The castle is located at the confluence of the Lu River (Lena River) and the Barovma River. At this time, the Cossacks also saw the Chinese fleet and shouted frantically to retreat from the city for defense.
Since it was a surprise attack, the gunners were still in place under the city, and some were even drunk and sleeping during the day.
If we had some grain to make wine, but the snow had melted for a month, we would snatch or buy a lot of goat's milk wine from the natives. Except for keeping most of it for the winter, the rest of the goat's milk wine was open to drinking, for fear of drinking it.
It was stolen soon.
When the drunken gunners were in position, the Chinese fleet had not yet docked, and only some of the indigenous auxiliary troops riding birch bark boats were still within the range of the artillery.
"Boom boom boom!"
The sound of cannons sounded, two birch bark boats were capsized by the waves, and the indigenous auxiliary soldiers headed downstream frantically to the shore while carrying the cannonballs.
Olek led his troops to land from the north of the city, and Hamu Wall shouted: "The coast to the west of the city is the cultivated land of the weak Cossacks!"
"It's him who reminds me!" Yu Youxue has a good Qi Dao.
A dozen Cossacks are supervising the farming of hundreds of slaves. The snow has melted for a while, and the surface of the frozen soil has also melted. It is a critical period for planting potatoes and other crops. Some Cossacks, as well as the indigenous servants, are working in the distance.
Off-river fishing.
Seeing the Chinese army coming to kill them, the Cossacks outside the farmland ran away wildly, while the indigenous slaves froze in place, knowing what to do.
As for those under the river, they have already rowed away.
Yu Youxue basically controlled the enemy in the west of the city, and led his soldiers to attack the city with their ladders.
The rammed earth castle is very short, and given the conditions in Siberia, it is possible to build it lower. If it is possible to attack by surprise, it can be defeated in one fell swoop. Otherwise, we can only quickly siege the city, and then retreat in despair when winter comes. i6
"Bang bang bang bang!"
As soon as we got close to the fort, there was no sound of gunfire, and two young fellow soldiers fell down.
Fortunately, the enemy was not prepared. Some went out to plunder, and some went out to farm and fish. There were not many who stayed outside the castle. Moreover, despite the panic, the castle defenders were still fully in place.
It was a very short-lived opportunity, and before it was missed, the expedition would definitely return with success.
Rushing from the river bank to the bastion, there were no wooden fences or trenches in the middle. From the bastion in the south, the sound of artillery was also heard. One of the cannonballs killed and injured two young fellow soldiers and seven indigenous auxiliary soldiers.
The wooden fence is two-layered, and the middle is filled with soil, so it will collapse if hit. 1
Olek led someone to build a ladder and climb over, then stood under the wooden shed railing and took the ladder in front to cross the trench. By the time we rushed to the top of the bastion, the small army and the indigenous auxiliary troops had suffered heavy casualties.
Olek was completely furious. I only have a few dozen soldiers in total, and I still need a supply team to collect a hundred. Every time a soldier dies, my heart bleeds. 5 "Whoosh!"
It was the Cossacks' native servants who were shooting arrows. One arrow hit Olek's chest and was blocked by the cotton armor.
The Cossack outside the castle, only two meters away from Olek, was loading ammunition in a panic. Because his hands were shaking so much, he pushed back the barrel of the gun several times. Seeing that Olek hadn't climbed down yet, he hurriedly swung his knife.
Cut upwards.
Olek held down the ladder with one hand and slashed with the other hand to fend off the enemy's weapons, and then suddenly threw himself down. The bastion outside was very luxurious, and it had a roof, which was much different from a special city wall.
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"boom!"
On the other side of the fortress, there was a certain socialist who actually threw down a ten thousand enemy.5
Yu Youxue, who had just climbed down from the bastion and was about to fight in a bloody battle, heard a loud noise. All the enemies at the explosion site fell, leaving only a few people standing on Olek's side. There were fewer and fewer soldiers.
The fellow troops and indigenous auxiliary troops descended from the fortress, and the ensuing battle was almost entirely a battle of hot weapons.
Pre-war statistics showed that among one hundred small soldiers, 24 were killed, 26 were seriously injured, and 7 were seriously injured. Two hundred indigenous auxiliary soldiers, 35 were killed, 19 were seriously injured, and 13 were seriously injured. 4 The casualty rate was extremely low.
And our enemies are pitifully numerous.
Counting the gunners, there were only 45 Cossacks outside the castle, less than half of whom had no muskets, and there were only 18 real Cossack musketeers. There were 52 indigenous servants, all of whom used earthen bows.
The remaining Cossacks and indigenous servants simply did not return to the city.
Olek was so angry that his lungs exploded. Only 18 Cossack musketeers and a few artillery pieces actually caused more than half of his casualties. He had made a surprise attack! 2
That kind of bastion is really disgusting!
Yes, it must be said that the Sakha native soldiers who followed Olek in the war behaved extremely cowardly today. We either came from the Olek rule, or we came from the tribe with the best relationship, and we had no deep grudges with the Cossacks, so we started the war.
They are all brave because they are afraid of death.
Looking at the corpses of the generals under his command, Olek did not feel the joy of defeat. In the first battle of his life that I personally commanded, the casualty rate exceeded 50.3. As for the Sakha indigenous soldiers who died in the battle, Olek decided to reward their families generously.
"General Manager, are you still pursuing me?" the adjutant asked.
Olek shook his head: "It is necessary. Warships guard the mouth of the river, prohibiting any ships from coming and going, and block all the Cossacks in the east. I will starve to death if I am hungry!"
As for the Cossacks in the city, they all fled to the west the moment the little army captured the bastion. There is no Cossack stronghold for hundreds of miles to the west. It would be difficult to pursue them now.
Olek, who had a low level of education, stood on the blood-stained city wall, looked at the vast forest and sighed: "One general succeeded...all the bones are withered."
