In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 386 A place bigger than the Song Dynasty
Sudden.

Plop, a savage in front accidentally got caught on the rope pulled by the Song people, and fell directly to the ground: "Ah" and a frightened sound came out of his mouth.

Originally, they walked more cautiously, and they might not trip if they hit the rope.

But now he was getting closer and closer to the war horse. There was a wild man in front who was a little anxious. He stepped quickly and was knocked down.

Brushing, Chen Zhong on the tree was instantly awakened.

He turned his head and saw a mass of people on the right, hissing, and suddenly took a breath of air.

Without saying a word, he quickly took his hands out of his sleeping bag, and at the same time kept kicking Wang Xiaoyong who was crossing him across the way, and then picked up the crossbow and arrows.

"嚅" A war horse in front seemed to have woken up and made a sound. Seeing this, the savages ran forward one after another, trying to lead the war horse.

But the ground is full of mixed horse suo.

Thump, thump, one after another the savages were knocked down.

"Enemy attack." Song Jun, who was on duty at the fire in front, also discovered it.

"Ah" Wang Xiaoyong also woke up at this time.

"There are savages down there, there are savages." Chen Zhong shouted at this time.

The savages below heard the sound and quickly turned around and looked up.

Chen Zhong had quickly pulled out of his sleeping bag and was sitting on a tree, raising his crossbow and pointing it at one of them's feet.

"Bah" shot down with a crossbow.

"Ah" a savage screamed and fell to his knees on the spot.

Then he put down the crossbow, picked up a rope hanging from the tree, and swung it several times in the air with his hand.

Only then did Wang Xiaoyong realize that it was a noose.

There was already a lot of excitement below, some savages wanted to go forward to grab the horse, and some savages had already turned around and wanted to run away.

Whoosh, Chen Zhong threw out his hood and threw it around the neck of a savage. The savage was still running forward, but was pulled by the rope and flopped backwards to the ground.

Chen Zhong quickly circled the branch several times and pulled back.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo werewe, hold on to the noose around their neck.

A savage came forward to help, but the rope could not be pulled open, and they had no knife, so they could only stare.

Wang Xiaoyong, who was above, also held a noose and threw it at the savage, but missed.

"What the hell." Wang Xiaoyong yelled. He was not good at this, but Chen Zhong was better.

Without thinking, he quickly retrieved it and threw the other end of the rope to Chen Zhong.

Chen Zhong understood the idea and quickly pulled back. At this time, the Song troops below had already stood up and came out of their sleeping bags, and the savages were all running back.

Seeing the savages running past Chen Zhong one after another, Wang Xiaoyong took a crossbow and wanted to kill him, but then thought that Shangguan wanted to capture him alive, so he hesitated for a moment, then pounced, but the arrow missed again and was reflected on another tree in the middle. Angry Wang Xiaoyong cursed.

Chen Zhong retracted the rope and spun it around a few times in mid-air, then threw it down again.

Thump, this time it was an accurate hit.

A savage fell back with another roar.

Chen Zhong quickly circled the branch a few times and handed it to Wang Xiaoyong. Wang Xiaoyong understood and quickly pulled back.

That night the savages came to raid the Song army and steal horses, but Chen Zhong shot one down and trapped two.

When the others found out that they had failed, they turned around and ran away.

Song Jun's men on duty did not dare to come out easily because it was dark. Others were slow to come out of their sleeping bags. When they came out, the savages were gone.

Chen Zhong made a great contribution this time. He knocked down three by one person, but he was not greedy for credit. One of them belonged to Wang Xiaoyong, saying that Wang Xiaoyong trapped him. Wang Xiaoyong was very grateful.

Of course Li Liang was also very happy. He patted them heavily on the shoulders and said that they would all take credit and would be rewarded when they got home.

According to the current policy of the Song Army, if a savage is captured alive, he will always be rewarded with money.

If the savage can join the army and fight in the future, the salary for the first six months will go to the person captured alive, and the rest will go to the savage himself.

This time they caught three. If the one who was hit by an arrow in his leg could recover from his injury, he would probably be trained as a sergeant in the future.

Then Chen Zhong will make a lot of money, and the two white-collar workers will get half the salary.

The key is to have military merit and be promoted in the future.

At this time, many Song soldiers saw the savages for the first time.

Li Liang and the others had been to Changchun City before escorting other soldiers and captured the savages, and they had seen them before. Most of the Song troops at the scene had not seen them.

Chen Zhong looked at the savages he had captured. They were all very young, probably around seventeen or eighteen years old. They had more beards on their faces, their hair was long and messy, and their bodies were covered with animal furs.

But he looks more muscular, powerful, and full of wildness.

"Like the Jurchens? Not like the Mongols." Zhou Yong shouted.

"Are wild girls real?" someone asked, looking up at Chen Zhong.

Chen Zhong shook his head blankly, insisting that he did not agree that the other party was a Jurchen.

"It doesn't look like a Jurchen. I can't tell. Take your time." Zheng Youcai reached out and raised one of them's face.

"Wow!" The savage was quite fierce, baring his teeth and claws at him.

"Haha." Song Jun was amused, and someone asked, "Do you understand what we are saying?"

The person on the other side didn't hum, and his eyes were fierce.

"Tie them up, take care of the wound, let them be fierce first, then go back and have your own training team to train them."

"Even if it's a wolf, tiger or leopard, when it comes to the training team, it has to be as obedient as a dog." Li Liang sneered.

These savages were in good health. Originally, the crossbow shot was relatively deep, but the wounds of the savages were treated and they were still intact. Their walking was slightly affected, but they were still able to fight.

It would be easy to deal with the savages, and the Song army set off at night the next day.

It hadn't snowed in the past two days, and the road was full of footprints.

The Song people first tried to let the barbarians lead the team, but the barbarians seemed unable to understand what the Song people were saying. On the contrary, Chen Zhong seemed to be able to communicate with them, chattering and writing in Jurchen dialect, and he could barely communicate.

The savages at this time were actually closer to the Mongols and could not be considered the Jurchens. They were also called the Nivkhs, or the Qile Charming people. They were considered a people in eastern Siberia. It is difficult to verify the archeology of later generations. We can only rely on their traditional lifestyle and beliefs. Inferring a lifestyle similar to that of the Kamchatka and Koryak people, archaeological models argue that their polar subsistence pattern originated from a microlithic culture in the Transbaikal Mountains region and was followed by immigrants in the late Pleistocene or even earlier. Expanded to Heilongjiang and Kuye Island areas.

Because they may have migrated from Lake Baikal, they are closer to the Mongols.

After the Song Dynasty, the ancestors of the Wild Jurchens gradually formed. By the Ming Dynasty, they were called Wild Jurchens.

Chen Zhong had trouble communicating with them in Jurchen, but he could probably make some sense. The other party said they only wanted horses because they had no food for the winter.

Li Liang asked Chen Zhong to take out the uneaten bear meat and asked them to lead the way to the savage settlement.

The savages were relatively easy to deceive at this time. Seeing the Song people offering them bear meat, one of them actually nodded.

Then take them to the mountainous area in the northwest.

The Song people let the savages go ahead and found that the footprints on the ground were in a mess. After the savages ran far away, they would also create a confusing formation to prevent the Song people from pursuing them.

But now they had savages leading the way and finally entered the mountains smoothly.

When the savage ate bear meat, he actually ate it raw, no different from a wild beast.

Li Liang had someone roast a piece of it for him, and the savage's expression changed obviously after eating it.

Later it was proved that they ate both cooked and raw food, and they could also drill wood to make fire. However, it was more difficult in winter, so they mostly ate raw food.

After the Song Army arrived at this unknown mountain, they cut a tree chip outside according to the Song Army's regulations, made some marks, and then drew the mountain on the map. When they returned, they had to name it. The mountain belongs to the Song Army.

But the matter of naming must be reported to the imperial court by Hu Feiyong, commander of the three armies in Changchun.

After this mountain is named, it will be officially included in the map of the Song Army in the future, and it will also be regarded as the territory of the Song Army.

Before entering the mountains, the Song people gave the savages dried biscuits and beef jerky to eat. They were obviously more delicious than the previous ones. The savages ate them with gusto. Chen Zhong asked him how many savages were in them.

The savage couldn't tell clearly, but it probably meant more.

And if you draw it with your hand, it's taller or shorter, which means there must be children.

Li Liang saw that the mountain was not high, and it was full of trees. They climbed up the mountain along the trees.

Halfway up the climb, I saw savages appearing. The savages must have been in a panic, but I didn't expect the Song Army to find this place.

After a while, swish, swish, a few arrows suddenly shot from somewhere, but they were farther away, and there were trees everywhere.

There are many trees here, but actually the crossbow is not very easy to use after entering.

The Song army tied the savages to a tree and left a group of people to guard them. The rest began to move forward with their shield hands in front and short guns in their hands. They were careful of traps on the ground and moved forward slowly.

There were more and more savages in front of them. They kept roaring at the Song army, and some tried to charge forward. One of the female savages was quite fierce. She rushed down the mountain with a stone ax and rushed within ten steps of the Song army.

There were many trees in the middle, so Song Jun didn't dare to shoot randomly. When she rushed within ten steps, whoosh, an arrow hit the opponent's leg. With a splash, the opponent fell down.

The barbarians on the other side yelled curses, but Song Jun couldn't understand them either.

When Song Jun reached the first slope, he saw many houses built with caves and trees, lined up in a row, and a large number of savages gathered.

The savages used the natural stone caves and trees here to build their homes.

But after the Song army came, everything was lost.

Their weapons had no effect on the Song army. The Song army used ropes to lasso them, bows to use, and crossbows as much as possible.

Because the crossbow is too lethal at short range and can easily penetrate.

In the panic at the scene, Song Jun finally captured more than 40 savages, some big and small, male and female, but the oldest one looked no more than 40 years old, which showed that savages have a relatively short lifespan.

There were probably more than 100 savages living on this mountain, and most of them ran away.

The Song army brought the people down the mountain and tied them up first. When it got dark, they tied them in a pile and made small traps around them. Many Song soldiers climbed into the trees.

The savages actually came to save people, but were ambushed by the Song army and captured another group.

Early the next morning, the Song army walked more than ten miles east. After lunch, more than 30 people were left to look at the prisoners. The rest made a large circle and circled back to the mountain from the southwest.

Last time the Song army went up from the west, this time they went around to the south and went up the mountain.

Li Liang guessed correctly again. The escaped savages returned home and were probably still discussing countermeasures. Unexpectedly, the Song army circled around from the south again.

The two sides fought again, and the Song army captured more than 30 people.The Song army did this three times in a row and captured more than 80 savages.

Most of the young men in this clan were basically captured, and the rest were middle-aged women and children who did not participate in the battle and escaped quickly.

At this time, Li Liang ignored them and returned with his entire army. On the way, he also attracted Amur leopards with meat and killed a leopard, but unfortunately he did not encounter a tiger.

We also encountered snow many times on the way, but luckily we didn’t encounter heavy snow.

At the end of January of the second year of Yuanzhen, about 24 days after leaving, Li Liang came back.

After coming back, they reported to the superiors that they had advanced about two hundred miles in a straight line, which was relatively slow, but considering that the ice and snow were all jungle, there was no problem.

The farthest we reached was an unknown mountain, which we had already drawn and recorded on the new map.

More than 80 savages were captured on the mountain, most of whom were young men and women.

Song Jun injured six people, and one of them was seriously ill with cold. We will see if he can be treated when he comes back.

Hu Feiyong, the commander of the Changchun Army stationed in Haisan City, was overjoyed, and the entire Haisan City was shaken.

Because this was the most savages captured by the Song Army.

In the past, there were just a few.

Hu Feiyong immediately sent a quick cavalry report to Changchun City to ask for credit for Li Liang and the others.

The defenders of Changchun City are the first general of the Changchun Army, and Hu Feiyong is the second general, guarding Haisan City.

At present, the most senior guard of Changchun City is Song Tian, ​​who is in charge of the first army of the Changchun Army.

Song Tian was originally the military commander of Shandong Province. Later, Zhao and Rui attacked the Goryeo-Mongolian army, recruited northern soldiers from all over Shandong, and then garrisoned the four cities of Goryeo.

Song Tian was a general at that time, and then he made great achievements in the Goryeo and Mongolian armies. Later, he followed into Liaodong to fight against the Eastern Xia Kingdom, and repeatedly established his combat power.

In just two or three years, he has been promoted to control.

He just came over in December last year to take over the previous rule and become the new commander of the Changchun Army.

Song Tian also immediately reported it to the Liaodong Capital Division.

The Liaodong Dusi Yamen was originally planned to be placed in the current Shenzhou (later Shenyang).

Shenzhou was the territory of the Andong Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties, Yelu Abaoji moved Han people here on a large scale, built earthen cities, and farmed for production, forming the scale that Shenzhou later became. After Wanyan Aguda captured it, it was still known as Shenzhou. The state is named.

The Song army attacked and destroyed the Eastern Xia Kingdom and occupied Shenzhou, which is also the current border with Mongolia.

There are Mongolian troops stationed in the Jinzhou direction more than 300 miles southwest of Shenzhou. Now that the two sides are negotiating a peace, it is naturally more peaceful and they are still doing business.

Zhao Yurui's Changchun City is quite far away from Shenzhou, nearly 900 miles away.

Fortunately, the Song army set up forts every [-] miles and kept [-] horses as post stations. It took three or four days for fast horses to deliver important news back and forth.

Because Shenzhou City needs to be rebuilt, the capital is temporarily located in Goryeo Tiezhou, and it is estimated that it will be moved to Shenzhou in a year.

Goryeo Tiezhou is not close to Changchun, and those in the Song army who are lower than deputy generals do not need to report to the court for Zhao Yurui to make a decision. They only need to report the list and situation to Zhao Yurui later.

So not long after, the commander-in-chief Lu Wende also came back with approval.

In less than a month, Song Tian's orders came from Changchun City to Haisan City.

Li Liang was promoted to deputy commander of the [-]st General Infantry Battalion [-]th Battalion of the Changchun Army in Haisan City due to his meritorious service.

Li Liang was promoted again, from Dutou to deputy battalion commander.

Zhou Yong succeeded him as the head of the third capital, and Zheng Youcai was promoted to the deputy capital.

Chen Zhong, a Jurchen soldier, was promoted to deputy corps commander.

Along with the promotion order, hundreds of carriages came to Haisan City.

When the Song Army first arrived, the roads here were not easy to walk, and the carriages were even more difficult to move. They relied entirely on manpower and horse power.

Previously, the Song army gathered Goryeo civilians and Dongxia people to help build roads. After more than a year of repairs, several main roads were built.

The carriages of the Song Army also began to pass in these two or three months.

Now in winter, it is difficult for carriages to travel. Fortunately, the main road has Song troops coming and going almost every day, so the snow is not too deep. This batch of carriages came all the way from Changchun City.

Song Jun, who was waiting to pick up the carriage, opened the carriage and took a look. His eyes turned green.

Eighty percent of the dozens of carriages contained dogs.

Yes, it's a dog.

This time the imperial court sent more than 200 dogs from Changchun City to Haisan City.

Not long after, the three thousand defenders in the city began to gather for training.

In the future, they will start one more thing here, that is, raising and training dogs.

These dogs are all from the northeast, and there are even wild dogs caught locally and mixed with domestic dogs.

On the one hand, the Song army wanted to train hunting dogs to help find wild beasts and savages in the mountains, and on the other hand, they wanted to train sled dogs.

Changchun City brought the sled designed by His Majesty the Emperor himself and handed it over to the local area for improvement and use.

According to His Majesty, using a sled in the direction of Haisan Forest will be faster and can transport heavy objects.

Of course, hunting dogs are more important among them. In the future, when the Song army goes out, dogs can be used as warnings at night. No matter who or wild beasts are approaching, they will know that they can hunt and track them during the day, and it will be more convenient to chase wild people in the mountains.

In the second year of Yuanzhen, a vigorous dog-raising and training program began in Haisan City. Sleds, which would have taken many years to become popular, slowly began to be popularized by the Song Army.

Song Tian sent the reward and dog, and at the same time gave Haisan City an order to explore to the northeast first.

The navy of the Song Army will move northeast to occupy Kushuo Island (later Kuye).

In the Tang Dynasty, it was called "Kushuo Island", in the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "Guwei Island", and in the Qing Dynasty, it was called Kuye Island.

The navy of the Song Army set out from Huihai Sanwei and within a year stationed half a general (three battalions) on Kusuo Island, with more than 500 troops.

Then, the northern part of Kushu Island was pushed westward for about [-] miles in a straight line, and the city of Sakhalin was built.

In other words, it is the same as Haisanweihaisancheng routine, setting up cities near the island to echo each other.

According to the location set by the imperial court, Kuhay City is about a thousand miles away from their current Haisan City in a straight line.

The city of Sakhalin was located in the later Khabarov border area.

There was no satellite map at this time, so Zhao Yurui pointed casually, mainly based on the fact that it was close to Kushuo Island.

If you look at it from the map, this thousand miles is almost entirely forest.

If you really want to go, you have to go around again from the west. About [-]% of the place is forest, and a few places are relatively small.

Of course, the city is not being built now. Changchun City is still under construction. Zhao and Rui's main direction is still Liaodong, starting from Changchun City to the west, to Harbin, Qiqihar, etc., from east to west, and building into Mongolia.

Now the court needs to choose a location.

Choose a location suitable for building Kuhaye Castle on the large land and forest in the west of Kusu Island.

This is the task of the Haisan City garrison in the next few years.

First they will start to focus on exploring in the northeast direction, and then build a garrison every hundred miles.

Also repairing roads along the way.

The entire project is estimated to take three to five years, and the fortress will be built to a thousand miles away. The emperor will designate an area, and then search for a suitable place to build the city of Kuhay in this area. Finally, it will be reported to the imperial court and waited for inspection by officials from the imperial ministry of industry. , and then report it to His Majesty the Emperor.

The actual construction of the city will not begin until at least five or six years or even seven or eight years later.

Zhao Yurui plans to spend about 30 years building a city every thousand miles up and down the Far East. He can build as many cities as he can. Because this place is too big, he may not be able to finish it in his lifetime. If one city is calculated every thousand miles, even if it is just A small city that can accommodate 1 people would have to build thirty or forty cities to fill this area.

His 30 years are definitely not enough, and his current location in Haisan City is not really the Far East.

Whether it takes 30 years or 50 years, as long as we completely occupy the Far East, the thousands of miles of forest resources here will be inexhaustible, not to mention important outlets to the sea.

After occupying Kushu Island, the next step is to go northeast to the 'Bering Strait' between the Alaska Sea and East Siberia.

Zhao and Rui strive to build a Song Dynasty city near the Bering Strait and complete the immigration of more than 50 people within [-] years in their lifetime.

It is only a little over 200 miles across the Bering Strait, and you can enter Alaska and cross into the North American continent.

In sixty years, the people of the Song Dynasty will reach the northern state of Alaska and enter North America.

This is his lifetime wish. As long as he can achieve this step, it will depend on his descendants.

Of course, there were not many people in this area at this time. His main focus was on the area where he conquered Mongolia, including Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

In March of the second year of Yuanzhen, Song Tian from Changchun City got the latest map brought from Haisan City.

In the Changchun City's command house, Song Tian's old partner, deputy commander Zhou Bing, was revising the map.

Haisan City is constantly exploring in three directions: west, north, and east, and new maps will be compiled every once in a while.

A huge map of the Far East hangs on the wall in front of them. The north and upper right corners are completely blank, and the shape is very different from the real world map.

There was no way around it. Zhao Yurui only remembered the approximate locations of important countries, and no one could remember the shapes of the maps clearly.

Song Tian and Zhou Bing were revising the map on the wall based on the map sent to them.

"This way is the forest, this way is all the forest, all along the road is-"

"Add a stream here, but they don't know how long it will be. Let's draw a rough outline first, based on the standard."

"This is Savage Mountain. (The mountain where Li Liang and others captured the Savage has been named Savage Mountain)"

The two of them worked for a while and finally corrected the map. Then they took two steps back and looked at the map. They also looked at each other.

The upper and lower half of the map are the places occupied by the Song Army. There are only a few places on the map, and a lot of them are blank, which is equivalent to the size of a dozen occupied by the Song Army.

And comparing it to the Song Dynasty further south, before the Song Dynasty took back the Central Plains, it was larger than the Southern Song Dynasty.

The upper left side of the map is also blank, and the left and right sides combined are much larger than the current Song Dynasty.

In the past, they were considered frogs in the well in Shandong, but now that they have come out, they know that the world is huge, and the place just waiting for their Changchun army to explore is enough for them to work for decades.

"His Majesty said that if we in Changchun can complete this map in his lifetime, both our families will be hereditary nobles without being demoted."

The two men entered the imperial court last year and then came to take over the Changchun First Army. The emperor asked for their opinions and they planned to work here until retirement.

(End of this chapter)