Chapter 19 Gunshots in the White Mountains and Black Waters
Bao Youzhi's squadron went north with the wind, so when Dong Shuheng arrived at Haimen, Bao Youzhi's squadron had already arrived at Vladivostok a few days in advance.
After simple construction, this small fishing village that was basically unknown to everyone now has the size of a small town.
The snow on the mountains around the town has melted, the evergreen pine trees have shown their true colors, and there is greenery everywhere.
The town is full of busy people. The logging team cuts the felled trees from the distant mountains into the required lengths. Then they float down the creek on the mountain.
People at the foot of the mountain then fished the wood up and dried it. There was even a piece of land behind the town, and the farm employees used oxen to dig deep into the land, revealing the humus layer underneath.
Such land can be used directly to grow food without fertilization at all. Potatoes and corn with higher yields will be grown on these lands.
The port is built with thick wooden trestles so that ships can dock directly without the need for small boats to transfer.
Bao Youzhi originally wanted to stay here for a while, but this year's sea ice melted very early. He was worried that something would happen on Temple Street, so after unloading supplies and some Satsuma prisoners in Vladivostok, the fleet
He took the Fourth Division and the remaining more than 10,000 Satsuma prisoners and continued northward.
With the addition of captives here in Vladivostok, the speed of construction and reclamation will be much faster. The management of Japanese captives is very easy.
Bao Youzhi promoted some warriors among the captives and gave them higher treatment. These warriors managed the other captives obediently. There were even many warriors clamoring to swear allegiance to Dong Shuheng.
Of course, there are garrison troops here in Vladivostok, so managing these unarmed prisoners is not a big problem.
Bao Youzhi's judgment is correct. This year, the north has indeed entered the melting period earlier than before.
This means that the Russians are coming. All the people in the Huaihai Navy in the Far East understand this.
Therefore, in March, when the temperature allowed people to engage in outdoor activities, Lin Wei, as the temporary commander of the Far East region, had already begun to lead his men to build defensive offensives.
Lin Wei, a former gangster, understands that only by managing his lair well can he be invincible.
That's why he desperately stocked up on supplies. Before the river ice melted, the fishing team was sent out for winter fishing.
They dug large holes in the ice, lowered the fishing nets into them, and then pulled them out from another hole.
There were too many fish, so Lin Wei asked everyone to eat fish first and store the scarce food.
Nowadays, most people in Temple Street talk about the fish color changing, and the originally delicious fish meat has now become tasteless.
It was about to enter May, and the ice in Heilongjiang was almost melting, and Lin Wei's heart gradually began to tighten.
Dong Shuheng also had no precise information about the strength of the Russians in the Far East and Siberia.
It is difficult for caravans to reach that kind of place. Even now, the Huaihai Navy's spies have only followed the Great Wall Company's caravan to reach the Tangnu Ulianghai area.
They asked the Mongols for news about the Russians in the north, but the Mongols couldn't even recognize the numbers.
It's okay to ask them to count sheep, but asking them about the situation of the Russians is basically useless. Huai Haijun only knows that the Russians have several important strongholds in Far Eastern Siberia.
Lin Wei's information was also given to him by Dong Shuheng. In addition, he also got some information about the Russians from some hunters in the Xing'an Mountains.
There were prisoners captured on Temple Street before. These people couldn't tell the exact number, they only knew the strongholds. The abominable Pavlov burned all the maps hidden in the Governor's Palace.
Hunters call the Russians in the Far East Rakshasa ghosts. They carry flintlock guns and can live in the forest for a long time, aiming to find high-quality furs.
Occasionally, the Russians would purchase or even rob furs from ethnic minority hunters. Only then would the two sides interact.
Fur is called soft gold and is an important source of foreign exchange earnings for Tsarist Russia. Therefore, the Russian expansion in the Far East has always been accompanied by greed for fur.
However, this also allowed the Tsarist Russians to develop a strong ability to survive in the wild. In terms of head-on confrontation, the Huaihai Navy relied on its superiority in weapons and would not be afraid of the Tsarist Russians. However, in sporadic encounters in the wild, it is not necessarily who wins and who loses.
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At the beginning of winter, the special forces followed Daur and Oroqen hunters to capture several Russian hunting strongholds.
According to them, these Russians have a very strong will to fight. In terms of individual soldier quality, these Tsarist Russian hunters can reach the level of the special forces members of the Huai Navy.
However, not all Tsarist Russians are like this. Going further west, it is said that there are some Tsarist Russians who farm, but the combat effectiveness of these people is far inferior to the hunters in the east.
Although the Huai navy occupied Temple Street, the Russian army also had large strongholds on the Far East coast such as Okhotsk, Magadan, Evansk and Petropavlov.
Although the navy has cleared these strongholds, it has only blown up the buildings in the strongholds, and most of the Tsarist Russians in the strongholds have fled inland.
At that time, Liu Dahai did not ask the Marines to pursue him. There were too few Marines on the ship, and they would probably be in danger if they pursued him.
It was originally thought that these people would not be able to survive the winter without their stronghold and would die of cold and starvation. Unexpectedly, these Tsarist Russians had a very strong ability to survive.
They ran inland and used the routes they had memorized during previous transactions to find the Daur tribe. They brutally killed all the Daur people. Then they occupied the magpie's nest and used the Daur people's tents and winter supplies to survive the severe cold.
winter.
These people are mainly fur hunters. They have been active in the Far East and Alaska and have the skills to survive in severe cold areas.
Just after winter, these hunters went south in groups. They had only one purpose, which was to seek revenge on Huai Haijun.
Except for the flintlock guns in their hands, everything else was in tatters. The furs they wore were obviously not tanned properly. When the temperature rose, these fur clothes gave off a foul smell.
However, although these clothes were very smelly, they could not cover up the body odor on their bodies. The body odor on these Tsarist Russians might be worse than that of wild boars. They themselves did not care, maybe their noses had already been immune to it.
These people headed south along the forest trails in the Waixing'an Mountains. These trails were made by reindeer herders.
Walking along these trails, you can always encounter the wintering spots of herdsmen.
These Tsarist Russians are more cruel than before this time. They will slaughter every tribe they encounter. It is because these ethnic minorities also have yellow skin and black eyes.
Tribes that survived in the harsh environment were killed so easily. The herdsmen who had just overwintered and were preparing to migrate had no defense at all. Under the surprise attack of these Tsarist Russian hunters, the consequences could be imagined.
The young warriors of the tribe will be killed immediately with flintlock rifles. The remaining old, weak, women and children can be killed directly with bayonets.
Before killing these tribal women, they did not forget to vent their animalistic desires. Many tribal women were strangled to death by these Tsarist Russian hunters when they were insulted.
These people have been stimulated by hatred and become perverts. After they arrived in the Far East, they only bullied others, and no one had ever dared to bully them. This time the Huaihai Navy attacked them, which made them furious.
At this moment, these Tsarist Russian hunters turned into devils and wreaked havoc southward among the white mountains and black waters of the Waixing'an Mountains.
Of course, it is impossible for these Tsarist Russians to kill all the tribes in the forest. There are always people who escape, and these escaped tribesmen naturally have no choice but to flee south.
They brought the news to the tribes in the south, and groups of tribesmen gathered on the paths in the forest.
They took the little remaining dried meat with them, abandoned the old man who could not walk, tied the children on the backs of the reindeer, and followed the fleeing people southward, and then eastward along the river.
Not to mention they are cruel, the tribes that survive in the harsh environment in the north have always had this tradition. When the elders of the tribe can no longer do the work, they will even take the initiative to leave the tribe and seek their final destination.
The Tsarist Russian hunters who fell far behind discovered the empty tribe. Unable to satisfy their desire to vent, they burned down the tribe's tents and burned the abandoned old men alive on the fire.
They didn't even spare these dying old people, and used torture and killing to satisfy their perverted psychology.
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Lin Wei can guarantee that he has never seen so many tribesmen. Even during the peak trading period, there would not be so many people walking out of the woods.
They would not bring all the women and children out to trade, because traveling in the woods is a dangerous thing.
"Sir, we have found out clearly that these tribes were attacked and all of them escaped." Lushou came over and reported.
After joining the Huai Navy on Sakhalin Island, Lu Shou followed Bao Youzhi to Temple Street. Since Lu Shou was not suitable to be a sailor, Bao Youzhi left him in Temple Street.
Due to his rich jungle survival experience and Lushou's very good language talent, he has learned a lot of Chinese. In addition, he can also understand many tribal languages, because the tribal languages in the Far East are generally the same.
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Lu Shou became a scout in the Huai Navy. Now he is under Lin Wei, performing forward reconnaissance missions with the special forces.
"Did the Russians attack them?"
"Yes, sir, they said that Rakshasa ghosts attacked them, and as soon as those Rakshasa ghosts saw the tribe, they would kill them all, not even a living person was spared. There were many of them, and they came all the way south to kill them."
"Bang..." Lin Wei slammed the riding crop on the table, "Damn Russians, I will make it impossible for you to come back."
Lin Wei was not worried that the Russians would capture Temple Street. The garrison brigade he brought here plus the militia could now organize tens of thousands of troops and have complete defenses.
It was impossible for the Tsarist Russians to capture Temple Street without tens of thousands of people dying.
But Lin Wei couldn't watch the Tsarist Russians wreaking havoc outside. Huddled in Temple Street was not Huai Haijun's style, and it was not a good idea. When the Tsarist Russians occupied the outside of Temple Street, Huai Haijun would be deaf and blind.
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"Can I ask how many people there are in Tsarist Russia?" Lin Wei asked with a frown.
"No, most of these fleeing tribes have never had contact with Tsarist Russia. A few people only saw the Tsarist Russians massacring tribes. They could only see small groups of dozens of people. As for how many such small groups the Tsarist Russians had, it is not clear.
." Lushou shook his head and said.
His father was killed by Tsarist Russia, so he hated Tsarist Russia more than anyone else.
"Lushou, go and tell those tribesmen that we are willing to accept them and will not touch their property, but they must obey our unified arrangements. In addition, we must dispatch some hunters to help us lead the way, and we will help them take revenge.
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"Yes, sir, I think they will definitely agree." Lushou's eyes showed excitement.
He touched the Type 53 rifle in his hand. This type of rifle has not yet become popular among front-line troops. It was only because of his contribution in attacking the climate of the Russian stronghold that he was qualified to own a Type 53 rifle.
If you look carefully, you will find an antler-like pattern on the wooden butt. He decided to add a branch to the antlers every time he killed a white-skinned ghost. His father's name was Antlers.