Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

"Captain of the Capital, my scouts have already found out. The captain of the Rakshasa, Vasilyev, is taking hundreds of forced civilians to build a city in Chukubexing. There are about sixty or seventy people and three bronze cannons," said Yirentai, deputy chief of the capital, to report the military situation to Timur in a serious tone. The so-called chief of the capital and deputy chief of the capital are official positions given to the leaders of the Buryat tribe by the Lotus Khan of the Wei State. In order to appease the Buryats who came from afar, Sultan appointed Timur, the chief of the Zibzinot clan, the most powerful clan in the Buryat tribe, as the chief of the capital, and appointed Yirentai, the chief of the Kuicherik clan, and Jizhigla, the chief of the Huasai clan, two other powerful clans, as deputy chiefs of the capital, and the leaders of other clans all had official positions. Because they received a large amount of armor, weapons, firearms, ammunition and other supplies, the Buryats' sense of identity with the David Kingdom, which shared the same language and ethnicity, was greatly enhanced, and the leaders of various tribes were proud to call the Wei State official positions.

"Are these really the only people? Deputy Captain, have you checked the surroundings carefully?" Temur asked with some disbelief.

"I sent three groups of scouts to a radius of 100 miles. There is no way they could have made a mistake. The damned Rakshasa used their powerful firearms to kill and injure a large number of our warriors a few days ago. I guess they don't take us seriously," Yirentai said angrily. This statement aroused new and old hatreds, and the leaders of the various Buryat tribes requested to fight.

"Hehe, these demons didn't expect that we now have guns and cannons. It's a good opportunity to give them a taste of our power." Timur sneered and ordered, "Each tribe should lurk close to the Russians, fire cannons first and then guns, and the cavalry should attack before the smoke clears." The captain of the thousand households was very confident in his words. In Hetuala, the Buryat tribe was rewarded by the Great Khan of Lotus twice, and obtained more than 300 muskets, 15 tiger squat cannons, and a large number of armor and weapons. As their strength became stronger, they naturally spoke with a strong voice.
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"Pah, pah, pah!" A Cossack whipped up his whip and hit the Buryats who were laying the foundation. "Hurry up, lazy pig!"

"Ha~ha~ha~" When the Cossacks watching heard the word "lazy pig", they burst into laughter.

Vasilyev, the Cossack leader of ten men, watched his subordinates whip the Buryats with whips and remained indifferent. Wasn't it natural for a brave Cossack to punish the barbarians? Although he was called the leader of ten men, he was in charge of 69 subordinates. As an experienced colonist, he was trusted by Governor Pashkov, so he was sent to Chukubohin at the mouth of the Chuku River in the upper reaches of the Selenga River to build a castle. Before leaving, the governor warned him to build the castle into a "shield and outpost to defend the Russian villages east of Lake Baikal from the Mongol attacks" and personally named the castle "Selengosk".

He originally thought that this was an easy task to accomplish. Not only did the natives lack guns and cannons, they even lacked iron weapons. Many of the arrows they used were bone arrowheads, and they even used sharpened thick branches instead of spears, not to mention armor. How could such simple equipment resist the Cossacks equipped with advanced muskets and cannons? On the surface, this was indeed the case. His men killed and wounded more than a hundred Buryats, but only six of them were injured, and the results were "brilliant". However, the Buryats' cavalry came and went quickly, and they ran away when they couldn't win, so it was difficult to cause them fatal losses. Under their repeated harassment, the speed of building the city slowed down involuntarily.

Thinking of the slow pace of building the city, Vasilyev became furious. He clenched the whip in his hand and whipped the Buryat boy who was digging the ground hard.

"Ah!" The child screamed in pain.

He felt a little better and cursed "lazy pig" viciously.

“Boom~Boom~Boom~” “Bang~Bang~Bang~”

Shells exploded among the Cossacks, followed by dense gunfire. Looking at the Cossacks that fell beside him, Vasilyev was confused and howled wildly, "What's going on? Where did the enemy come from?"

"Captain, it's the Buryats," said a subordinate, pointing to the cavalry and flags appearing ahead.

"My God, where did the Buryats get so many guns?" Vasilyev muttered to himself, crossing himself with his fingers.

After all, he was an experienced colonist, so he quickly regained his composure and commanded his men to resist. Although the Russian army used new guns and cannons with a faster firing rate than the Buryats' firearms, they had limited manpower after all. Under the fierce attack of the enemy, they were gradually defeated.

"Not good! Retreat quickly!" Vasilyev hurriedly mounted a handsome black horse and ordered a retreat.

"Gee~Gee~Gee~"

Timur, wearing cotton armor and holding a Mongolian scimitar, rode his horse towards the fleeing ten-man leader, raised his sword and slashed, and Mrs. Vasily's head fell to the ground.
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An ugly scar was printed on his fat face, making him look extremely ferocious. This man was Artemy Filipovich Petrilovsky, who was called "Artemy the ruthless killer" by Governor Pashkov. Russian names consist of three parts: first name, patronymic and last name. This Artemy was the nephew of the famous colonist Khabarov. After Khabarov was relieved of his military power by Moscow, he followed his uncle's old subordinate Stepanov to continue invading Heilongjiang in China. When Stepanov was besieged and killed by the Qing army on the banks of the Songhua River, he escaped by chance and was elected as the leader by the remnant soldiers. He led this remnant to rob and collect taxes in kind in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and he was very happy. Governor Pashkov, who was building a castle in the upper reaches of the Nercha River at that time, sent someone to summon them. However, the group ignored the governor's orders, seized the envoy's food reserves, sailed to the sea to rob, and were completely defeated by the coalition forces of the Qing army and local tribes. Only then were they forced to plan to return home.

Artemi led his troops to Albazin (Yaksa) to look for Pashkov, but they found no one. However, they saw some rafts and scattered building timber floating down from upstream, so they continued to move forward by land and water via Tujirlen. They barely survived on mushrooms, wild fruits, tree roots, and grass when they were short of food. After a long period of hardship, they finally arrived at Ilimsk Fortress. Hearing that this vicious man had come to him, Governor Pashkov was overjoyed. Instead of punishing him for disobeying orders, he personally welcomed him and appointed him as the general manager. After learning that Vasilyev had many difficulties in building a city in Chukubehin, the Governor decided to use this "murderous guy" and sent him to Chukubehin after replenishing his troops. The murderer led 270 Cossacks and 200 servants recruited from local tribes, and marched arrogantly from Nerchinsk to Chukwupahin. After replenishing supplies in Irgensk Fort, he quickly rushed to the eastern part of Chukwupahin, where he met the remnants of Vasilyev's army who had escaped.

"What's going on? Where is your captain?" Artemi asked with his eyes wide open. The scar on his face was trembling, which was very scary.

"We were ambushed by the Buryats. Those barbarians got a large number of guns and cannons from somewhere. Captain Vasilyev was killed in the battle," the defeated soldier answered in panic.

"Guns? How many guns and cannons do the barbarians have?" Artemy didn't care about Vasilyev's life or death, and asked the defeated soldiers how many guns and cannons the enemy had.

"No, I'm not sure. It sounds like there are a lot of them. Maybe more than a hundred, or several hundred?" the defeated soldier said fearfully.

"idiot!"

Artemi cursed angrily and ordered his men to gather the defeated soldiers and incorporate them into his own team, then slowly approached Chukubehin. He was greeted by 2,000 Buryat warriors and the sound of gunfire.

"They are the small cannons and matchlock guns used by the Qing army." As soon as the sound of gunfire rang out, the experienced murderer immediately identified that the other side was using the tiger squat cannon commonly used by the Qing army (at this time the Qing army had not yet been equipped with submachine guns, and light artillery mainly used small-scale Buddha machines and tiger squat cannons left over from the Ming Dynasty) and matchlock guns, and sneered: "It seems that Bogd Khan (referring to the Qing emperor) gave assistance to these natives. However, the Qing Dynasty's firearms are bulky and slow in firing, and are not scary."

Under the command of this "ruthless killer", the Tsarist Russian army of less than 500 people took advantage of the fast firing rate of their guns and opened fire on the Buryats.

Although Timur's men were brave, they were not good at using firearms and gradually lost the upper hand in the duel. "Switch to bows and arrows, and use projectiles!" The brave Du Qianhu ordered his men to switch to bows and arrows and projectiles.

"Swoosh~Swoosh~Swoosh~" the arrows flew like locusts.

"Hold up the shields," Artemi sneered and ordered his men to raise the rattan shields. According to past experience, although the Mongolian bows in the hands of the Buryats could shoot far, due to the lack of iron smelting ability, most of the arrowheads were bone arrowheads, and the power was not great.

"Bang~" A feather arrow penetrated deeply into the rattan shield, making a dull sound.

"Huh?" Artemy carefully examined the arrow and found that the arrowhead was made of fine iron. He hesitated and asked, "When did the Buryats use such fine arrows?"

The sound of Chukuboxing's gunfire lasted for half a month. The Russian army finally drove away the natives who attacked them and entered the city. They were surprised to find that the foundations they had laid before had been completely destroyed by the barbarians, who even filled in the excavated foundations with shovels and spades.

As a last resort, Artemy had to choose another location nearby to rebuild the city, but the damn Buryats actually adopted guerrilla tactics, no longer directly harassing the Russian army building the city, but cutting off their logistical supplies. Whenever the Cossacks went out of the city to chop wood for heating, they would be attacked; the grain transport teams sent out were often robbed, and the grain and grass were not only looted, but often even the people could not return. Over time, the Russian army building the city fell into a situation of lack of food and clothing, hunger and cold.

Even the ruthless murderer knew that the city could not be rebuilt for the time being. While retreating to Irgensk Fort with his men to rest, he wrote to General Pashkov: "Sir, although I don't want to admit it, I have to say with regret that the Buryats have received a lot of supplies from the Qing Dynasty, and their military strength is getting stronger. To successfully build the city in Chukuboxing, at least a thousand brave Cossacks are needed..." (End of this chapter)