Lushou rushed to the checkpoint at the front of Temple Street, where the tribesmen were temporarily encamped. He organized the language and told the tribesmen Huai Haijun's decision in a way that the tribesmen could understand.
In addition, he also introduced the power of the Huai Navy to them by using the tribe as the easiest to accept the situation, explaining that the Huai Navy was the regular army of the imperial court.
These tribes lived in the north of Heilongjiang. Although the imperial court did not effectively manage them, through trade and border patrols, these people still knew of the existence of the imperial court.
The method used by Lushou is very simple, which is to tell stories. The fastest way to spread information in the tribe is to tell stories. These tribes have no written language, and if the information is conveyed in a direct narrative way, it will be easily forgotten.
Therefore, the tribe spreads information, including educating the next generation, through storytelling. For example, to teach children how to hunt, they will tell the story of a hunter hunting.
Now the story Lushou told them was that a group of troops wearing flower-green military uniforms rescued a tribal child from the hands of a Rakshasa ghost, gave him weapons, and took him with them to seek revenge from the Rakshasa ghost.
This story highlights two meanings. One is the cruelty of Rakshasa ghosts, and the other is the power of Huai Haijun. As long as you follow Huai Haijun, you can defeat Rakshasa ghosts.
I have to say that Lushou is a very smart child, and he understands the psychology of the tribesmen very well.
When it comes to fighting, these tribes are not as good as Huai Haijun, but when it comes to understanding the forest, they are far better than Huai Haijun.
If the Huaihai Navy wants to fight back against these Tsarist Russian hunters in the woods, they must cooperate with the tribal hunters. Otherwise, they may be trapped in the woods before they can touch the Russians.
Thanks to Lu Shou's efforts, these tribes finally felt at ease and accepted Huai Haijun's arrangement. Huai Haijun gave these tribesmen a temporary barracks outside Temple Street City to live in temporarily, and agreed that these tribes would exchange labor for food rations.
Each tribe selected the most powerful hunters to join the counterattack team organized by Huai Haijun. Many people even signed up to take revenge with Huai Haijun. These people were all influenced by the story of Lushou.
Soon, Lin Wei organized three teams. Based on the information he received, Lin Wei set the number of each team at about 150 people, which was equivalent to a reinforced company.
This number of people can still handle it even if they encounter several Russian hunter teams.
No matter how many people there are, there will be too much movement in the forest, and it will be difficult to deploy.
Most tribal residents cannot understand Chinese, and only a few tribal hunters who often go to Han gathering places to exchange supplies can understand part of the Chinese language.
Therefore, each team formed in this way must have several translators to facilitate communication between Huai Haijun and the tribesmen.
Lushou was assigned to Team A as one of the few translators. There were about 15 tribal hunters in each team, and they came from different tribes.
This is considering that many tribes are only familiar with their surrounding areas.
There are also 15 special forces members who have experience in fighting Tsarist Russian hunters and are the top soldiers in the team.
The other 120 people were ordinary soldiers of the Huai Navy. Among them, there were 15 artillerymen manning two mortars and two grenade launchers.
Other infantrymen not only support combat with rifles, but also perform logistical tasks. Each team is equipped with 20 pack horses and 5 reindeer to transport the team's supplies.
The three commandos advanced northward almost in parallel along the three lines and entered the dark mountains and old forests.
Lin Wei's eyes were full of worry as he watched the figures of the soldiers gradually disappear into the woods and disappear from his sight.
Most of these ordinary soldiers were brought here from Shandong. Their fighting will is unparalleled, and they are also very hardworking and hardworking. They are all very good soldiers.
However, what they now face is not only the elusive Tsarist Russian hunters, but also extreme weather.
While Dong Shuheng from the south was inspecting the water conservancy project, the Huai Navy's three counterattack commandos in the Far East had already penetrated deep into the old forest. The path they were taking was the same path that the tribesmen had used to escape.
If nothing unexpected happens, the commando team will inevitably run into the Rakshasa ghosts, the executioners who massacred the tribal people.
At the same time, Lin Wei was writing down the situation here in his office. Although he was a gangster, Lin Wei was literate. After joining the Huai Navy, he received literacy education with the soldiers.
Now Lin Wei can write a situation report without the help of his staff. Lin Wei feels that the Russians' revenge will definitely not be that simple. The actions of these Tsarist Russian hunters are likely to be spontaneous.
Of course, it is also possible that they were sent out to explore the road. Whatever the reason, the bigger battle has not yet come.
Taking advantage of the fact that the ice on the Heilongjiang River had melted, Lin Wei quickly asked the navy personnel left behind to perform emergency maintenance on several gunboats.
In the last naval battle with the Russians, the Huai Navy captured a total of eight inland river gunboats. Bao Youzhi left these gunboats in Temple Street when he went south.
The original thought was that if the Russians attacked in winter, these gunboats frozen on the shore could be used as fixed forts.
In fact, after the river thawed, the small shipyard in Temple Street had already carried out repairs and maintenance on these gunboats.
The sails were replaced with new ones, the leaky areas on the ship were dealt with, and the deck was even reinforced.
Some of the artillery were replaced with small-caliber naval guns produced by the Huaihai Navy. The Huaihai Navy's naval guns adopted a new design, loaded in the breech, and the firing speed increased by more than one level.
Those old-fashioned artillery pieces that were replaced were not wasted. They were all installed on the fortress on the hill behind Temple Street and used as supporting firepower.
Lin Wei sent a gunboat to send the report to Vladivostok in the south, where according to the agreement the squadron would wait for the ice to melt before heading north.
The remaining seven gunboats were divided into two groups. One group took the merchant fleet up the river to explore what was going on upstream, and at the same time replenish supplies to Khabarovsk's forward outpost.
The other branch went north along the coastline to detect the movements of the Russians along the northern coast.
There was nothing wrong with Lin Wei's arrangement. But he obviously did not expect that Tsarist Russia's reaction would be so great and its revenge would be so violent.
The Russians have been operating in the Far East for hundreds of years, and their accumulated power is much greater than it appears on the surface.
All the way west from Temple Street and along the bay, you will see endless forests. The light in the forest is very weak. If it is night or rainy, you can basically not see your fingers.
Therefore, the soldiers of the commando team could only use the clear daytime to travel, and even the hunters of the tribe could not travel during the night shift.
When night falls, the forest is a paradise for wild beasts. Fortunately, these tribal hunters lead the way, otherwise the commandos would not even be able to find an open space to camp.
At this time, deep in the woods, in a former tribal camp, a group of bearded Russians were having a carnival.
In the Far East in April and May, the night temperature was still below freezing. These Tsarist Russian hunters with big beards and messy hair took off their upper linen clothes and furs.
The tendon meat and thick body hair on the body were exposed. Under the light of the campfire, he looked like a wild beast.
Perhaps because they drank too much, these hunters were dancing like the tribesmen, and from time to time they heard disgusting laughter.
Women from several tribes huddled in the corner with bottles of wine. Whenever a Tsarist Russian stared at them, a woman would step forward to pour the wine.
These women are much luckier than their companions who were raped and then killed. At least they are still alive.
At the same time, they are also unfortunate because they have to continue to be tortured.
There is a small team of Russians stationed in this tribe, numbering about seventy or eighty people. Most of them are hunters from the American Company.
They were brought here by the American Company, and the furs they usually hunted were sold to the American Company. Of course, they were relatively free, and it was not a pure employer-employee relationship.
This time the retaliation was spontaneous. They came from various strongholds along the coast and usually worked together in stronghold units. Small strongholds had only one squad, while larger strongholds would be divided into several squads.
This time they want to kill all the yellow-skinned tribes here and go to Temple Street. They have such confidence because with the arrival of each team, they have gathered two thousand people.
An American company executive, Dmitry Obolonsky, gradually took command of this force.
He did not assemble the team, but let them continue to advance in this small group in the direction of Nikolayevsk.
The reason was that he could not provide supplies to this team, so he could only let them scatter and meet their own needs by plundering forest tribes and hunting.
The captain of Commando Team A is Zhao Kun, a company commander of the Marine Corps who originally stayed on Temple Street. Now he is under Lin Wei's control.
He had stayed in Temple Street the longest, and this time he took the initiative to lead the team. Considering his situation, Lin Wei agreed without hesitation, so he became the captain of the commando team A.
"Captain, there seems to be some movement ahead." Lushou lay on the ground, put his ear to the wet ground and listened for a while, then ran to Zhao Kun and whispered in his ear.
After Zhao Kun heard this, he immediately raised his right fist. After seeing the gesture, the soldiers behind him squatted on both sides of the path, holding rifles in their hands without saying a word.
"Lushou, you take four special forces members and two hunters to go and investigate."
"Yes, Captain."
Lushou grabbed his rifle with one hand and walked to the back of the team. He first whispered a few words to the team leader of the special operations team, then ordered four special forces members to follow him. Then he directly ordered two more
It turned out to be a hunter living nearby.
The seven people moved forward quietly.
In the forest, two Tsarist Russian hunters who were looking for prey were looking around for grouse hiding in the trees.
Lately they have been eating venison, which makes these Tsarist Russians angry. Unfortunately, they drank too much yesterday, and everyone couldn't control themselves and drank all the wine they brought out. Otherwise, a sip of white wine would make all the discomfort disappear.
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Now the two of them can only go out and find a grouse to improve the recipe.
"Valentin, I think we can't find grouse today." A thinner hunter who followed him sighed. He was Valentine's cousin.
Both of them were serfs who could not survive in their hometown. It was Valentin who escaped from the farm with Katya.
After escaping from their hometown, the two of them joined the hunting team of the Tsarist Russian American Company. They dreamed of making a lot of money and then returning to their hometown to marry a girl they liked.
"Shh..." Valentin raised his index finger in front of his mouth and signaled to Katya.
I could only hear the mating call of a male grouse coming from the trees in front of me.
"It seems that he is a little guy who has been carried away by love." Valentine said softly.
As he spoke, he grabbed the flintlock and walked forward cautiously with Katya in tandem.