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Chapter 357 Cossack Prisoner

After a heavy beating, Dmitri and some Cossacks who took the lead in calling Chen Xiaode a bandit lay on the ground with bruised noses and faces, gasping for breath.

"We are already very merciful, okay? If it was Genghis Khan who conquered the world before, if you dare to resist like this, you will only end up massacring the city. We are just taking your ill-gotten gains, and we have no intention of harming you. In our east This is called stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, that's right." Chen Xiaode put away his swollen fists, the effect of force is reciprocal, he went into battle himself, and it hurt too.

"Strong...robber..." Dmitry still panted unwillingly.

"Chen Xiaode, don't compete with them, and you are not afraid of breaking your waist? Let's think about how to deal with them." He Yi said slowly after Chen Xiaode beat up the Cossack captive.

Anyway, Chen Xiaode was born as a literati, and usually served as a civilian. After entering the Liao Army, he also received some physical training, but his physical fitness was definitely not as good as soldiers and these Cossacks, so He Yi was not afraid that Chen Xiaode would beat people to death.As long as no one is killed, all of this is easy to say.

"Beating people is really tiring." Chen Xiaode twisted his neck, "We have [-] more mouths at once, and we have to guard against them. The pressure is not normal. If we leave a small number of prisoners to lead us, we will march west , Just attack along their line of communication. The others are escorted back to the rear to show the achievements of our pioneering regiment, so as to save other troops from honestly saying that our pioneering regiment has nothing to show. "

"That's a good idea. But I'm thinking, Maozi's adventure team has already appeared in the central and western regions. It's more like an area where Maozi and local aborigines have mixed forces. We have basically figured out the situation there through these maps. The situation has basically reached this year’s goal. Otherwise, we will camp here, complete the castle built by the Cossacks, and strive to make this place an important stronghold for us in the west of the Siberian Plain, so that it will be convenient for us to march to the west in the future?” He Yi said .

"It just so happens that we have two hundred Cossack captives, let them help us build the castle... yes, we enslave them to build the castle just like they enslaved the local aborigines. As long as there is a shelter before winter comes, the ice and snow will melt next year At that time, we can use this as a base to march towards the central region." Chen Xiaode agreed with He Yi's opinion as soon as he slapped his head.

He Yi and Chen Xiaode looked at each other with a smile. This time, they have made a lot of money, not only the priceless furs, maps of western and central Siberia, but also two hundred captives and a fledgling castle. How much will it save them? time.

So seven days ago, the Cossack adventure team, which was still high above the local aborigines, became the object of enslavement by the pioneer group.Their whips now fell into the hands of the members of the Pioneering Group and became a tool to supervise their construction of the castle.

"Don't be lazy, if you don't work hard, you will have nothing to eat!" Chen Xiaode waved his whip and hit the air, making a crackling sound.

This feeling of being a robber actually gave him an inexplicable pleasure.He didn't care whether the Cossack prisoners could understand what he said, as long as they recognized the whip.

"The deputy leader is addicted to being a robber..." The other members of the pioneering group couldn't help smiling when they saw that their deputy leader was having fun.

Dmitri dragged a piece of stone, and under the supervision of Chen Xiaode, he and his companions piled up the stone.The pioneer group ordered them to build the city wall they were going to build. This time Dmitri understood that this army from the mysterious East was not the Imperial Guard of the great Eastern Emperor at all, but was doing the same thing as them. The adventure team for one thing, otherwise why the behavior of this group of Orientals is almost the same as that of their Cossacks.

However, he could only accept his fate. In the face of muskets and whips, they were powerless to resist the enslavement of these Orientals without weapons.

When it was time to rest, Dmitri lay weak on the ground, and he said to the Cossacks beside him: "We have been deceived, they are not the imperial guards of the great Eastern Emperor, and the Eastern Emperor does not have a million troops. They are a group of oriental bandits roaming Siberia."

"But Commander, their muskets are more refined than ours, and their power is enormous. It can be seen that the East is much stronger than ours." A surviving Cossack said with lingering fear, "They can easily kill people at a distance of 200 meters."

"Yeah..." Dmitri also had to admit this fact, "The mysterious eastern country has such advanced muskets. In the story, it is only known that the wealthy East has endless treasures of gold and silver, tea and porcelain, but no one has heard that they have such a powerful force."

"Maybe those despicable nobles deliberately ignored the military power of the Eastern Empire. They didn't dare to provoke the East, so they wanted us to come to the East as cannon fodder." A Cossack suspected the "evil intentions" of the Russian nobles.

"I don't know how these eastern robbers will deal with us. Maybe we will have a chance to be sent to the eastern country by them like Marco Polo 300 years ago. The most rare and precious things in the world, They can be found there, gems, pearls, medicinal materials and spices..." said a romantic Cossack.

"You are daydreaming! Do you think you are an imperial envoy or a big businessman? What we met were robbers from the east. After we built the castle, they would use the cruelest torture in the east to torture us. Finally, we will be cursed with oriental witchcraft, so that we will never be able to ascend to heaven." Another Cossack with darker thoughts said.

Hearing about Eastern witchcraft, these Cossacks were obviously a little scared.This kind of unknown thing is the most likely to cause panic.

When this group of Cossack captives were enslaved to build the fortress, the logistics troops of the Pioneer Regiment who got the news set off from the Heilongjiang River Basin and marched towards the location of the Yakutsk fortress.

The line of communication from the Heilongjiang River Basin to the Lena River Basin was explored by the Pioneering Group. They knew this line of communication well, and the logistics troops successfully resisted the Yakutsk fortress almost without any major accidents.

When this round of logistics convoy delivered the materials requested by He Yi, the advance troops of the Pioneer Regiment of the Yakutsk Fortress burst into joy.In addition to the most basic food, the logistics convoy brought a lot of heating supplies, including coats and coal.When the Yakutsk fortress is covered by heavy snow and ice in winter, people must be stationed there. These supplies are really essential.

(End of this chapter)