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  Chapter 731 728 [Cossack Bandit]

  The names of various tribes in the Northeast are often named after rivers.

  Sahalian Department, free translation is Heilongjiang Department, Sahalian Ula is Heilongjiang. It generally refers to the indigenous tribes living in the vast area on the north bank of the middle reaches of Heilongjiang, which are subdivided into many small tribes.

  The south bank of the Heilongjiang River is the Greater Khingan Mountains and the Lesser Khingan Mountains. The environment is difficult, the population is small, and the living conditions are relatively primitive.

  The north bank of Heilongjiang, which is the territory of the Sahalian people, is relatively more advanced and richer.

  A lot of arable land has been reclaimed along the river, and the crops are barley, oats, buckwheat, millet, peas and so on. But they can't get enough to eat just by farming, so they also fish and hunt, belonging to a half-fishing and half-farming society.

  Wang Fuchen came here and soon found traces of war.

  It is autumn at this time, crops such as barley are just ripe, and animals such as sable are also growing fat. The Cossack bandits picked a good time to **** both fresh food and freshly peeled furs.

   Even for the sake of gaining prestige and weakening the natives, the food that could not be taken away was directly burned.

   In front of Wang Fuchen's eyes, large tracts of wheat fields were scorched black by the Cossacks.

  The chief of the local tribe knelt on the shore with his tribe, and when Wang Fuchen disembarked, he cried and cried: "General, help me, give me some food!"

Wang Fuchen, who himself didn't have enough food, sneered suddenly: "When you helped the Tartars fight and slaughtered the Han people, why didn't you think of distributing food to the Han people? Now I'm here to help you expel the Raksha ghosts. It's not enough to ask you for food." It’s alright, do you still want me to share the food with you?”

  After hearing the translation, the indigenous chief quickly argued: "Master General, we did not fight for the Tartars. We have been bullied by the Tartars all the time!"

  It’s not clear about this matter.

  Jianzhou Jurchen is purely an expansion of force. Donghai Jurchen, Haixi Jurchen, and Beishan Jurchen are all targets of conquest by the Jianzhou Tartars. It is nothing more than siege the city, kill the leader, plunder the population, and set up the Eight Banners.

  In the early days, those who helped the Tartars fight were all aboriginals who were taken away, and they were promoted step by step from slaves. In the mid-term, a large number of aboriginals in the Heilongjiang River Basin were forcibly relocated to Liaoning, organized into the Eight Banners, engaged in production and farming, and fought in wartime.

  As for the aborigines who have not moved away, they have to pay tribute to the Tartars every year with Dongzhu and fur. Even if you are honest and obedient, the Tartars may continue to attack and plunder the population to supplement the Eight Banners Army.

  These natives are definitely oppressed.

  But some of them did join the Eight Banners Army.

  Only this Sakhalian tribe has many titles in the history of "Drafts of Qing History". For example, Er Yitu died in Changsha. Duoluodai died in battle in Bazhou, and his son Sarai died in battle in Dongting Lake. Roll cloth, and died in Luancheng. Ayantu, died in Nanpi. Narmadai died in Xiamen.

  In this time and space, the Eight Banners officers who were beheaded by the Datong Army were at least hundreds of people from the Sakhalian Department. They fought extremely bravely, or they were not smart enough to use their brains. When the tartar gave an order, the Sahalian soldiers rushed forward without fear of life and death.

  Because too many people were looted by the Tartars, and the death rate after enlisting in the army was extremely high, the population along the coast of Heilongjiang was empty.

   Otherwise, how could hundreds of Cossack robbers come to Heilongjiang to show off their power?

  Wang Fuchen glanced over and found that most of the people kneeling in front of him were old and weak women and children. There are also some young and strong, which were left on purpose by the Tartars to let them collect pearls and hunt for fur.

   Should hate them?

   Or should I pity them?

  Wang Fuchen was too lazy to settle old accounts, and asked, "When did the Raksha ghost leave? Where did he go?"

The native chief replied: "The Raksha ghosts have been walking for six days. They are divided into two groups. One group goes back upstream by boat, carrying the plundered fur and food. The other group goes north on horseback and goes into the forest. I'm afraid I'm going to rob the tribes in the forest."

   "How many people do they have? How many boats? How many horses?" Wang Fuchen asked.

The native chief said: "The boats of the Rakshasa ghosts are all very big boats, more than the sum of two hands and feet. The Rakshasa ghosts don't have many horses, just a little more than the two hands. They come quickly. , went so fast, we didn’t even have time to call up warriors to resist.”

  Wang Fuchen said: "I'm asking you, how many Rakshasa ghosts are there?"

   "Countless, many, many." The indigenous chief replied.

  Wang Fuchen was so depressed that he called a hundred soldiers, lined up neatly, and asked, "Are there so many?"

  Indigenous chief said: "More."

  Wang Fuchen ordered three hundred soldiers to line up and asked, "Are there so many?"

  The indigenous chief recalled carefully: "It's a little less than this."

   That's about two hundred.

  Wang Fuchen pointed to his boat and asked, "Is the Rakshasa ghost's boat this big?"

  The native chief replied immediately: "It's bigger than the general's biggest ship."

  Wang Fuchen's grain transport boats were all collected halfway, and the biggest ones were not too big. It seems that the Raksha Ghost's boat was not too big either.

  Wang Fuchen immediately ordered: "Divide troops to pursue. Luo Yanggui..."

"exist!"

  A cavalry officer stepped forward.

  Wang Fuchen said: "Take 300 cavalry and go to the north to chase after the Raksha ghost, and pick a few locals here as guides. Regardless of the outcome, you will only chase for half a month, and immediately return to this place by the same route."

"yes!"

  Luo Yanggui held his head high.

  Wang Fuchen said: "The rest of the cavalry will follow me to pursue along the Heilongjiang River. The people, livestock and ships will follow me and advance slowly, leaving fifty cavalry to protect the logistics."

  Choose a good guide, and the Datong cavalry will immediately chase and kill them.

After advancing along the river for more than a hundred miles, the sentry came back and reported: "General, according to the natives in front, the main force of the Raksha ghosts is tens of miles away, where the Heilongjiang River and the Niman River (Russia's Buleya River) meet. The intersection. There is a large island in the middle of the river, and the rivers and swamps on both sides are densely covered, and the Raksha ghosts are stationed on the Jiangxin island."

   "These Rakshasa ghosts know how to fight." Wang Fuchen couldn't help muttering.

   The Cossacks who invaded Northeast China mainly used ships. The performance of the boats they built is far superior to that of the natives, and they can quickly escape by boat when the situation is not good.

  The place where they chose to camp was located on Jiangxinzhou. With the advantage of ships, the Cossacks were already invincible. What's more, there are still swamps everywhere on both sides of the strait, and the Datong cavalry can't get close quickly.

  You can’t go after them directly, otherwise you will scare the snakes away, and the Raksha ghosts will escape by boat if they feel danger.

Mission officer Zhong Kaidong said: "You can ask the aborigines to spread the news, saying that there are Han merchants who brought a lot of gold and silver to collect fur. Then choose another aborigine who has a **** feud with the Raksha ghost, and let him be a dead man to give to the Raksha. The ghost reports. Since the Raksha ghost is a bandit, he must be lured by gold and silver, and our army can set up an ambush at a suitable place."

"good idea!"

  Wang Fuchen said: "The aborigines here don't have very good brains. You have to prepare a speech for them so that they can memorize it fluently, so that they won't be easily exposed."

  …

  The leader of the Cossacks who looted Heilongjiang was called Khabarov.

   After the city of Khabarovsk in China was ceded to Tsarist Russia by the Qing Dynasty, the name of this person was changed to "Khabarovka".

  Khabarov was originally a self-cultivator, but because he lost his land, he was better off than a serf. In order to make a living, he joined the Siberia expedition team and gradually became the expedition leader. With **** and brutal methods, he was always able to get fur from Siberia natives.

   Relying on the profits from fur sales, Khabarov bribed officials to get a license from the government.

   Gradually, he not only engaged in fur business, but also became a private salt dealer, and purchased land to own his own farm.

   Then, Khabarov was targeted by the lord, who not only plundered his salt fields and farms, but also put him in prison on charges of tax evasion. The wealth accumulated over the years was wiped out in one day.

  After he was released from prison, Khabarov relied on his past reputation to explore further eastward areas, and moved eastward step by step to Heilongjiang.

  Currently, Khabarov already has a fortress, and that is Yaksa on the other side of the Mohe River!

  It was originally the residence of the Aola clan of the Daur tribe. The young and strong of the Aola clan were taken away by the Manchu Qing. Under the emptiness of the population, it was occupied by Khabarov and used this as a base to rob along the Heilongjiang River Basin.

  Historically, Kangxi signed the "Nerchinsk Treaty", which was the result of the Sino-Russian war in Yaksa.

  Jiangxinzhou.

   Khabarov was eating and drinking with his arms around a woman, who was snatched from a nearby indigenous village.

  In addition to goods and food, Cossacks also like to rob women to vent their depression during the march. If there is no danger, take the woman back to the base as a slave girl. If there is danger, throw the woman down, or simply kill and run away.

  Lack of food in the middle, but also kill women to eat meat!

After eating and drinking enough, Khabarov called his deputy: "It's been more than ten days, and Yegor hasn't come back yet? You send some riders to the forest to the east to investigate. Don't go too deep, one or two I'll be back someday."

   "I'm afraid I got lost." The deputy said and left.

   Khabarov's men initially had only 138 people, several ships, and three artillery pieces, all with muskets.

  When he occupied Yaksa and had a base, more Cossacks joined soon. At present, the manpower has been expanded to 257 people, and furs have been exchanged for war horses-those war horses were snatched from the Buryat Mongols by the Cossacks further north.

  Patting the woman's buttocks and pushing the woman away, Khabarov said to the indigenous boy next to him, "Use what is rewarded to you. As long as you are loyal to me, your benefits will be indispensable."

  The indigenous boy quickly lay down on the ground, kowtowed to thank for the gift, and then dragged the woman out to vent his desire.

  Indigenous youth, from the Aola clan of the Daur tribe. It has been conquered by the Cossacks, and all those who resisted fiercely were killed, and those who survived were given to the Cossacks to farm and hunt. There are also some timid and weak ones who are taken in as slaves by the Cossacks and become loyal lackeys of the robbers.

   Gasps were heard from the next door. The aborigine boy didn't dare to resist the robbers, and all his anger was vented on the innocent woman.

   When Khabarov heard the voice, a smile appeared on his face. This kind of woman snatched halfway is purely a consumable, and I'm tired of playing with it for a few days. Give rewards to slaves to gain loyalty. It's like domesticating a hound, and you have to feed the hound meat.

   Khabarov walked to the edge of Jiangxinzhou with his firecracker on his back, overlooking the vast swamps and forests on the other side.

  He divided his forces into two groups and went into the forest to plunder the natives. One has come back now, and the other has been missing for a long time, otherwise he would have returned to Yaksa with the spoils.

   This situation is not uncommon, and most of them are lost.

  (end of this chapter)