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Chapter 288 Far East Storm: Eastern Siberia

"Hoohoo!!"

The strong wind swept across the earth, revealing the tender grass with a slight "head".

With a "bang", a reindeer fell to the ground and was pulled away by passing soldiers.

The howling wind, carrying the fragrance of earth, passed over the rising bonfire, as if it was going to kill "it", but in the end it survived tenaciously.

"It's a hellish day. It's warm sometimes and cold sometimes. Damn it, I've caught a cold!!"

The soldiers wrapped in cotton-padded clothes were warming themselves by the fire. Looking at the deer legs roasted on the campfire, they felt greedy in their throats, but they still couldn't help but "curse" God.

The people around me also agreed. After all, the weather in Eastern Siberia is really weird. It’s warm during the day and the temperature drops very quickly at night. Listening to the natives, it’s said that it’s still warm now. If we come back in a few months, it won’t freeze. "grandson".

(local Yakut people)

Luo Feng sat on the stone, drying his clothes that were "soaked" from crossing the river, and said nothing. After all, according to the current progress, they would have to endure it.

In this case, if you complain now, you will complain until as long as you want.

The people around then talked about the local natives and those Yakut women who were full of "wildness".

"I said, these Yakku natives are really polite. Last time I went there to buy fish, my dear, they insisted on letting me stay one night."

"Do you know what happened at night??"

"Good guy, a woman got in. I couldn't understand what she was saying, so I started giggling, and finally got into bed."

A soldier who had visited a nearby indigenous tribe described the scene with "ecstasy".

Everyone around him burst into "obscene laughter", and people kept asking him to "elaborate".

And that man was also carefree and shameless, talking about those "happy" things directly, and finally said:

“Tasty!!”

The faces of the people around him showed a "smile" that all men knew.

Tang Feng listened for a while and shook his head. He was not interested in this kind of "romance".

After all, he is married and wants to remain "chaste."

The wind howled, the bonfire flickered, and the people warming up around the fire involuntarily tightened their collars.

Tang Feng used the bonfire to light "Bull" cigarettes. This kind of cigarette is specially provided by the army and is mainly provided to lieutenants. As for the higher-level officers and generals, the ones they smoke are even better.

Exhaling a breath of smoke, Tang Feng opened the diary he carried with him. He had been in the habit of writing diaries since he was sixteen years old, and he did this every day without interruption.

"Swipe!!"

Because the pen was frozen, he could only use the pencil on top to replace it. The red pen body and the black pen tip wrote today's story.

"The place we are currently in is a river called the Lena River. It is said to be downstream, close to a place called Lake Baikal. I don't know what Lake Baikal is."

"I didn't know until someone reminded me today that it is Beihai, the Beihai where Su Wu Shepherd is."

"The Qing Dynasty ceded the North Sea to Tsarist Russia, and now I, the Han Dynasty, have taken it back. It is clear who is the orthodox one."

As he wrote this, Tang Feng looked at the green grass beside the river in the distance, as if he had seen the scene of Su Wu's shepherding in the past, and for a moment he felt as if he had traveled through time and space.

After thinking about it, he quickly wrote down what happened today in a very scrawled manner:

"Today, we killed 200 Russian troops and captured a bunker. Along the way, there were Russian bunkers at key locations. This shows that Russian rule here is weak."

"But considering the changeable climate here, bunkers are the most cost-effective. Maybe in the future, I, a big man, will have to learn this trick from the Russians."

"According to the marching speed of our army, it is estimated that the entire Eastern Siberia will be captured soon. After all, although this area is large, most of it is high mountains and plateaus, which are not suitable for farming. The inland population is sparse. Originally, this kind of terrain is not suitable for farming alone. It's a march, and it won't end in less than two months, but fortunately there is a Lena River. In the past, the Russians relied on the river to conquer this vast area. Our army may not be able to imitate it!!"

Tang Feng's writing "outlined" the blueprint of Han Dynasty in Eastern Siberia.

After writing this diary of several hundred words, Tang Feng still had some unfinished thoughts, and finally added: "The war against Russia is especially unfinished!!"

When the diary was closed, Tang Feng looked at the soldiers who had gone back to their tents to sleep for the most part, packed up the things in their hands, arranged their duties for midnight duty, and finally got into the windproof military tent.

The cold wind howled, the moon set and the sun rose. Seven or eight hours later, it was dawn! !

Tang Feng, who walked out of the military tent, took the dental cup and towel handed over by the guard and started washing himself with the diverted river water.

There were many like him in the early morning, and the entire river channel for hundreds of meters was occupied.

After washing up, Tang Feng packed up his velvet military uniform and shouted:

"Inform all classes to hold a meeting!!"

"Report, there are currently 124 people in our team."

In a military tent, Tang Feng listened to the team officer's report, nodded, and then spoke:

"According to the order given above, our unit must recruit at least 500 local soldiers."

"Which tribe do you think is the best??"

When Tang Feng mentioned the native soldiers, the people around him were a little unable to answer. After all, during this period, the most exchanges with the local indigenous people were to exchange chocolates and cans for salt, fresh meat and other necessities, and of course, "special services" were also included.

But he has no clue about recruiting those native tribes. After all, you can't just beat the Russians away and then go to their tribes and say: "Yours has been recruited. Follow the imperial army. The benefits are huge!!"

Seeing the "speechless" expressions of the people around him, Tang Feng could only speak:

"Tell those tribes that now that we have taken the place of the Russians, considering their habit of paying tribute to the Russians, we don't want their food and precious salt. We only want some of their people, hundreds of them, dead, but also Pay pensions..."

After hearing this, the squad leaders below "reluctantly" took over such a job.

And Tang Feng had no choice. After all, the entire expeditionary force only had 12,000 people. Even with the addition of some auxiliary troops summoned from Lanfang, it was impossible to completely control such a huge East Siberia. In addition, he had to fight the Russians. In the end, we can only "trouble" those natives.

In fact, there are many units like the 15th Infantry Corps that have received orders. Currently, 3,000 local natives of all ethnic groups have been summoned to serve the Han army.

According to the plan of the expeditionary force headquarters, there must be at least 8,000 people, but it is still short of 5,000, so "efforts" are still needed.

And when several surrounding tribes received the call-up order, there was a huge uproar.

After all, their tribe is already sparsely populated, otherwise they wouldn't be able to engage in "breeding transfer". Now asking them to provide manpower is even more cruel than providing material resources.

But in the end, I gave in, firstly because of "deterrence", and secondly because of "benefits."

According to the plan drawn up by the Han State, those who sent soldiers to join the militia groups would be allocated more land and local "hilltops" after the war based on their headcount and contribution. (The army formed by the natives was originally supposed to be servants or assistance, but considering dignity, it was changed to a militia)

This is a fatal temptation for tribes that fight over "resources".

It turns out that the Russians didn't care, so they just started fighting. Now that the Han people have come, so have the "rules." But before the rules are established, they naturally want to get more benefits.

In this way, even if they were "reluctant", they finally gathered 500 people, and even thirty more people.

When Tang Feng took these 530 people with old Russian-made weapons and 124 people from his headquarters to take a boat to fight against the next bunker, there was a severe cold that disrupted the season in the Chukotka Peninsula. Almost flooded the entire land.

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The cold wind howls, white snow hangs on the treetops, and the half-foot-thick snow on the ground reminds everyone that even though it is summer, even if the current temperature is five degrees, this is Chukotka, one of the few places on this planet, and the last Cold place.

A team of about three hundred people using reindeer to drag cannons is walking on the frozen lake.

In front of the team is a Chukotka guide wearing animal skins and velvet hats.

The guide told them that the weather today was good. Although it was a bit changeable and it snowed heavily at this time of year, it was only temporary. The road would be much better in a few days and they would also usher in the warmest time of the year. .

Listening to the dialect of "jili guala", Deputy Zhang Ying in the camp looked at the white surroundings and couldn't connect the words "good weather" with such a scene.

But looking at the guide's happy and "not fake" expression, I felt that my standards might be different from the other person's.

In fact, the coldest time in Chukotka can even reach minus 70 degrees, so it is basically impossible to "pee" together outdoors.

Although it is still very cold now, it is indeed a good time for the Chukchi people to take off their clothes! !

For Chukotka, the expeditionary force dispatched a total of two battalions. One was to go deep into the interior like this battalion to promote the "rule" of the Han Empire. The other was to capture the so-called city of Anadyr by the local Russians.

Deputy Zhang Ying estimated that it should have been captured. After all, the coastal area had long been captured by the Arctic Fleet. The so-called city probably only had 1,800 people and a few hundred guns.

This kind of force is more than enough for one battalion.

Compared to the bloody and cruel Black Sea in the Near East, the progress in the Far East can almost be described as rapid.

With no construction in Siberia today, Tsarist Russia is destined to be unable to quickly mobilize European resources to save the East.

The consequence of being unable to rescue quickly was to "just helplessly" watch as the Han Dynasty occupied a large area like the Chukotka Peninsula with less than 700 men. In the latest battle report, the Army has planned to end the war in the Far East in mid-July and separate the Lena River from Russia.

As for the "conquest of Siberia" mentioned by the civil servants in the cabinet, just listen to it.

After all, who doesn’t know how to shout slogans? In the current campaign in Eastern Siberia, there are as many as 2,700 soldiers suffering from frostbite. It’s hard to say whether the number of casualties is 1,000, but the weather is indeed the expeditionary force’s biggest nemesis.

Coupled with the swamps of Central Siberia, the requirements for marching are even greater. If you want to fight, you may not need more than 10,000 people.

Considering the current war situation in Europe, occupying Eastern Siberia, which is relatively well separated, is the best choice.

Even after the Army handed over the plan, Liu Peng agreed without even thinking about it.

After all, as Liu Peng said:

"Don't cut too hard at one time. If you cut too much, the bear will go crazy and it will be detrimental to the overall situation in the future!!"

As for what the “big picture” is, no one understands.

There were stops and starts along the way, and an artillery piece got stuck in a snow pit and couldn't climb out. Finally, Deputy Zhang Ying made a decisive decision, "No more!" !

Yes, at this time, these artillery pieces have essentially become a burden. The reindeer carts that were originally used to transport people were used to pull artillery pieces that were not used a few times. If these were not national "property", Deputy Zhang Ying would have secretly Make the decision and throw it all away.

There was one less cannon and a reindeer cart that could transport four or five people was added. The march was much faster. Finally, before dark, they arrived at the nearest tribe.

When Deputy Zhang Ying read out the so-called "Han Order", the men, women and children of that tribe just asked: "What is Han??"

Looking at these guys who couldn't even understand Russian, Deputy Zhang Ying thought in his heart that "the folk customs are simple" and replied:

"It's an order. It's an order from the Han Kingdom. If you obey it, there will be benefits. If you don't obey it, eat this!!"

boom! !

The revolver hit the treetop and made a small smoking hole. The "simple" Chukchi people were frightened and donated the best reindeer and bear skins in the tribe.

After accepting these "tribute gifts", Deputy Zhang Ying nodded with satisfaction, and finally asked people to return the gifts.

When the Chukchi people looked at the chocolate candies, milk candies, and compressed biscuits sent by the "Han Mao", they were suddenly surprised.

Because this is sugar! !

In the Chukotka Peninsula, where supplies are scarce and many Chukchi people can only eat raw meat, sugar is something that can only be collected when it is warm, and most of it is honey.

And it’s not much, after all, there are bears to share the food with.

So when these Han Mao gave them those strange but extremely delicious candies, the title of Han Mao immediately became "Han Envoy".

It means, a messenger from heaven! !

At night, because the weather can still remain at seven or eight degrees, Chukotka took off his heavy leather clothes, wore a thin animal costume, and danced together.

"Dear guest, please use it with caution!!"

When the 17- or 18-year-old Chukotka girl came to Deputy Zhang Ying with a few slices of raw meat, "congratulatory songs" were immediately sung around her.

Looking at the blood-streaked venison that had just been sliced ​​open, Deputy Zhang Ying endured the nausea, picked up a piece and swallowed it. Suddenly, the smell of blood and raw meat filled his "throat", making him almost A little "discourtesy", spit it out.

After Deputy Zhang Ying ate the meat, the surrounding Chukchi people cheered enthusiastically and danced even more enthusiastically.

And Deputy Zhang Ying had to pretend to be "very satisfied".

At eleven o'clock at night, when the cheers died down, everyone got into the wooden house, including Deputy Zhang Ying.

Inside the wooden house, dry firewood was lit. Because of the closed design, it was much warmer than outside.

Deputy Zhang Ying took off his heavy military coat and was about to go to sleep when he heard a sound outside and a Chukotka woman came in.

It was the woman who had just delivered the meat.

The woman said "blessing".

Then he took off his animal robe, revealing his graceful figure lined with deer velvet.

Finally, I got into the "kang".

Deputy Zhang Ying on the side wanted to speak several times, but in the end the "etiquette" in his head took over and he climbed onto the "warm ondol".

The cold wind blows, and inside the wooden house, the spring scenery is sultry.

The sound of firecrackers sounded, fell again, and rose again several times, and finally turned into a "Low drink!!"

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Early in the morning, Deputy Zhang Ying put on his military coat and local animal skin hat and stood outside the tribe, saying goodbye to the girl in front of him.

The two of them "tacitly" didn't mention what happened last night. Deputy Zhang Ying was embarrassed.

Women are "natural". After all, as a Chukotka woman, "traveling" and "hospitality" are "customs".

After all, the laws of our ancestors are immutable! !

Of course, giving "precious" things to distinguished guests is also a "natural" thing.

Vice President Zhang Ying is naturally considered a "distinguished guest"! !

When Deputy Zhang Ying left in the reindeer cart, the woman looked at it for a while, finally let out a "sigh", and finally touched her belly, hoping that she could give birth to a "Han ambassador" and contribute to the tribe.

In the middle reaches of the Order River, a warship was sailing, carrying fifteen teams of soldiers and hundreds of "militia soldiers."

Four days have passed since the last call. Within these four days, a total of three Russian fortresses were captured.

More than 500 Russian troops were wiped out, and 1560 people were lost.

Most of them are vigilante groups! !

On the bow of the boat, Tang Feng wore cashmere black leather gloves and held a telescope to observe the scenery on the river bank. Because it is the warm season, except for "ghost places" like Chukotka, most places in Eastern Siberia are still very warm. of.

But it's only relative, otherwise Tang Feng wouldn't have to wear gloves.

Looking at the lush and endless woods, Tang Feng looked excited and said:

"While marching and guarding the border in the deserted north, the cold wind blows through the spring head!!"

Although the poem is rubbish, it is consistent with Tang Feng's peaceful mind at this moment.

When the warship arrived at the captured destination shown on the map, Tang Feng made a decisive decision:

"Infantry covers, artillery goes first!!"

Yes, artillery went first. Unlike other places, in Siberia, there are a large number of fortresses built by the Russian army, as well as fortress cities formed spontaneously by the locals, which are like "turtle shells".

In this way, artillery became indispensable.

Boom boom! !

The shells hit the mottled stone wall like stones from a slingshot, and finally caused a burst of stone fragments.

The Russian militiamen in the fortress, holding the "family treasure" passed down from their grandfather, fought against the fierce "Han ghosts" on the opposite side.

The sound of gunfire came, and the sound of artillery came again. The final result, no surprise, was that the bunker was captured at the expense of seventeen people.

By the way, 1,500 kilograms of rye and some meat were seized.

By the way, there are also some "rough"-looking Russian aunts who were conscripted as laundry workers.

As the plows of Siberia passed by, Tang Feng stood in the fortress, looking at the vast land, his eyes flashed, and finally said to himself:

"The Han army crossed the snowy frontier with beating drums, and the blood of the Russian chieftains was splashed with swords and spears!!"

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