A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 826 Rakshasa
The caravans are also responsible for intelligence collection, geographic surveying and mapping, and other tasks. In particular, Wang Dou attaches great importance to this caravan going to the North Sea. Before Lai Mancheng set off, he personally summoned him and asked him to pay attention to collecting the Buryat Mongolian goods in the North Sea. People's intelligence, but also pay attention to whether there are red barbarians in the North Sea.

Although Lai Mancheng wondered why there are red-haired ghosts on the grassland, don't they all come from the sea?But he didn't dare to neglect Wang Dou's instructions, and he still collected detailed information from various ministries around him, especially asking if there were any red-haired ghosts around.

When the last information came back, the caravan had not encountered red-haired ghosts, but from the population of various Buryats, they still confirmed that there were red-haired ghosts called Raksha ghosts by the locals at the western and northern ends of the sea. Infested, also built a wooden fortress.

According to the local people, these Raksha ghosts are all blond and blue-eyed, ghost-like, and even have red beards. Not to mention scary, they are also cruel and aggressive.

The Buryats recalled that they first saw Rakshasa ghosts in the fourth year of Chongzhen. At that time, some tribes lived by the Angkeci River on the west bank of the North Sea, hunting and fishing for a living, and also raising some livestock.

They told that Raksha ghosts like to sail along the river in small boats or flat-bottomed wooden boats with masts and decks. When they saw the tribe's population wherever they went, they used force to force them to pay food, mink fur and property.

There have been many conflicts between the Buryats and the Rakshasa ghosts, but the Rakshasa ghosts are extremely fierce, not to mention their strong fighting ability, they also have excellent armor, various refined weapons, and even sharper firearms. It can be fought, and every time there is a conflict, the Buryats suffer.

Two years ago, the Buryat tribes on the west coast of the North Sea united and mobilized thousands of people to besiege and attack sixty Raksha ghosts who went out to look for hay. Sha Gui gnawed down, and finally retreated helplessly.

Now all ministries are terrified of these red-bearded Raksha ghosts, especially after the Raksha ghosts built a wooden village on the Angkeci River not far from the sea, the Buryats from the west bank retreated to the east bank one after another.

When he heard that thousands of people besieged and attacked sixty Rakshasa ghosts but failed to capture them, and there were less than a hundred Rakshasa ghosts oppressing the Buryat tribes in the western part of the North Sea, Lai Mancheng looked surprised, and his surprise was even expressed in the In terms of information, until it was sent to Wang Dou.

Wang Dou was not surprised. The Spaniards conquered South America with a few hundred Spaniards. Emperor Kangxi led an army of [-] to besiege Yaksa with hundreds of Cossacks. castle.

After the Governor of the Far East threatened to increase its troops by two thousand, the Qing Dynasty was so frightened that it hastened peace talks, and finally ceded the land from Nerchinsk to Lake Baikal.

In contrast, it is not surprising that a thousand Mongols besieged and failed to capture sixty Cossacks.

Corresponding to the information obtained by the Intelligence Department, Wang Dou roughly concluded that the various tribes of Buryatia on the shore of Lake Baikal practiced the patriarchal clan system, had customs such as blood revenge, clan mutual assistance, etc., were semi-nomadic, engaged in hunting and fishing, and believed in shamanism. Roughly in a primitive tribal state.

The Buryats live in extreme poverty and lack all kinds of living materials, especially ironware. The bows and arrows they use are all made of bones. How can such equipment fight against the Cossacks?
Cossacks can be regarded as a group of people who yearn for adventure and conquest. They are full of energy and yearn for freedom, and it is difficult for them to survive in society. They like to wander in the wilderness. War is their main occupation. The elite old battalion among the rogues exists.

Not counting equipment, one-on-one combat, most of the Siberian natives are not the opponents of these professional soldiers, and they also have excellent weapons and equipment, refined plate armor, and various weapons made of refined iron. They immediately like to use spears and sabers , Immediately use muskets or other weapons.

These people already have the prototype of a modern army, with strict discipline, careful thinking, methodical, and rich skills and knowledge. It can be seen from the bastions they have built everywhere that without a certain mathematical foundation, it is impossible to build a bastion. fort.

Judging from the places they chose to build their forts, they also have rich knowledge of geography and hydrology, superb survey experience, and can make full use of the surrounding geographical terrain, especially the Siberian rivers, making them natural passages.

To explore and drift along the river all the year round, most of the lands you pass are uninhabited wilderness forests, you must also have extreme endurance and the courage to fight hunger, disease, severe cold, and accidents at any time.

It is also understandable that such an adventurous team full of hard work and sacrifice, full of greed and desire, and almost entering modern capitalism, how can it not be invincible when fighting against primitive tribes and aborigines everywhere?
Siberia is mostly icy forests and sparsely populated. There are hundreds of people in large tribes, and most of them are small villages with more than a hundred people. It can be seen from the Buryats that the combination of multiple tribes can make up thousands of people. The men are young and strong, once the battle fails, the vitality of the tribes will be severely injured immediately.

In this way, the tribes are scattered and have no national and racial consciousness, so they are easily defeated individually or provoked internal conflicts. Just like the Spaniards against the Indians, there are very few Spaniards who conquered South America, but they belong to the coordinated parties. There are many Indian tribes.

The same goes for the Cossacks, they are not many in number, and there are not many tribes belonging to them.

Putting down the information, Wang Dou fell into deep thought. He still had some admiration for these Cossacks. No matter what their original intention was, it was a fact that they would leave a vast land rich in resources for future generations.

Just thinking about these people, who conquered tens of millions of square kilometers of land with less than a thousand people, paid little and gained a lot, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

In essence, this is a kind of regret and jealousy, Wang Dou does not deny this, but now that he is here, with Wang Dou here, will those Cossacks have any good things in the future?Grab the territory with him, and they are doomed to a tragic ending.

There is no denying that the Cossacks are very strong and have some qualities of modern soldiers. However, they cannot be compared with the Jingbian Army, and their small number and distance from the mainland are their fatal flaws.

Wang Dou was delighted with the castles built by the Cossacks in various places. It happened that he would go to the castles one by one in the future to save time and effort. These Cossacks are very good at choosing places. So that he would bother to choose a city address in the future.

He figured out how to arm the Buryats and the Mobei tribes, let them fight the Cossacks, and then the snipe and the clam would fight each other, and the fisherman would benefit.

There is a big gap between the Buryats and the Cossacks in combat effectiveness. Weapons and equipment account for a large part of the reason. Their bone arrows and a small amount of rough iron are not a threat to the well-equipped Cossacks.

Tribes like the Buryats abound in Siberia. This is why when the Cossacks want to conquer a certain place, they often send only a dozen people, and dozens of people conquer a large piece of land. When the number of people dispatched exceeds a hundred, it is already considered big. scale war.

However, when the Buryats and others possess refined iron armor and weapons, even if their combat effectiveness is not as good, they can still pose a great threat to those Cossacks.

How the two conflict, Wang Dou also has a plan, the key lies in the word fur.

During the process of conquering Siberia, the value of furs obtained by Russian colonists was astonishing. In the year of the seventeenth century alone, the treasury received 20 sable furs, 50 black fox furs, and [-] squirrel furs. , and many beaver and mink skins.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Siberian fur income accounted for only [-]% of Tsarist Russia's treasury each year. However, by the middle of the seventeenth century, Siberia's fur income had accounted for one-third of the total treasury revenue each year.

Once you start large-scale acquisitions and supplement them with appropriate prices, not only the Buryats, but all the tribes in Mobei will rush to do this business. One side buys at an appropriate price, and the other side plunders violently. Conflicts are inevitable.

Wang Dou smiled slightly, and let those Mongols and Russians fight to the death.

Lai Mancheng also described the appearance of the Cossacks with strong pen and ink in the information, but Wang Dou didn't care, it's just that they were of different races.

But the phrase "I heard that he is blond and blue-eyed, looks like a ghost" made him feel a little bit emotional. In ancient times, blond hair and blue eyes were a symbol of ugliness in the eyes of Chinese people. The symbol of the barbarians was reversed in later generations.

This is also a sharp contrast between the strength of civilization, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi.

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The Protectorate's Mansion is booming, and everything is on track, which makes Wang Dou feel good.

The general was happy, and his subordinates were also happy, especially Zhong Susu was smiling every day.

Since Wang Dou arrived in Guihua City, the chief officials and generals also thought that she spent most of their time with Wang Dou. In fact, it is time for the development of the Duhu Mansion. Busy, even if you want to follow Wang Dou, you don't have time.

Only Zhong Susu can always find time, maybe it has something to do with her being a woman.

Now Zhong Susu is the deputy head of the staff department and the general Huben among the five generals, and her jurisdiction is in Monan Zhongzhen. She is close to the water, and she always follows up. There is always something to report in front of Wang Dou every day. , is full of Wang's language.

Seeing her like this, the acquaintances from various ministries smiled wryly. They just wanted to imitate Zhong Xiancai, and they couldn't be that thick-skinned.

Fortunately, they have followed Wang Dou for many years, and they also know that the general's most important thing is to do things, and they have no other ideas.

However, in private, Zhong Susu added another nickname of "following closely" after Xuanfu Town's nickname of "running hard".

The construction of Monan continued to be hot. In mid-July, the Information Department planned a series of publicity matters.

On this day, Zhong Susu walked into her meeting hall excitedly, holding a stack of documents transferred from the secretary's office in her hand, and looked at her subordinates and said loudly: "Okay, here are the documents, let's continue to study the general's Instructing the spirit to carry out a vigorous construction climax..."

Looking at the thick stack of documents in her hand, all the subordinates complained secretly.

(End of this chapter)