Chapter 47: Digging the Foundation
At that time, the Mingtong River was much wider than the current mouth of the Amur River, and the sea fleet easily entered the estuary. When Wang Xinyu saw the Russians, he showed no mercy to these invaders and ordered artillery bombardment.
The Russian army was beaten to pieces, with more than half of the dead and wounded. As soon as the Ming soldiers landed, the remaining Russian troops raised their hands and surrendered. The remaining more than 40 Russian troops, more than 20 Evenki soldiers and more than 10 Evenki women, as well as two Russian women, were all taken prisoner by the Ming army.
"Who here can speak Chinese?" Wang Xinyu asked anxiously.
A priest in a red robe and a white Orthodox hat stepped forward: "I know Chinese. ”
"Okay, then you can be our translator! Now tell me, who is your leader here? Wang Xinyu asked.
The priest pointed to the male-looking and shouting Tulbucin: "He is our commander." ”
"His name?" Wang Xinyu asked.
"His name is Tulbuqing." The pastor replied.
"Turbuqing? The name doesn't sound like a Russian, it looks like a Cossack or a Kazakh? Wang Xinyu asked.
The priest's face changed suddenly: how could the damned Tatars know so clearly? The Tatars in general did not know the difference between Russians and Cossacks at all, and they all called us Rakshasas together. Who the hell is this person? With such large sea ships, they are certainly not savage and ignorant Tatars, they are certainly enhanced Tatars! Despite the fear in his heart, he answered honestly: "Yes, he is a Cossack." ”
"Good!" Wang Xinyu nodded, "Then you can be my translator, I will ask him a few questions." ”
"I'll do it!" Pastor said.
Wang Xinyu walked in front of Tuerbuqing, who was tied up by five flowers: "Say, what do you want to do in our land!" ”
"This is not your land! It's Borderlands! Whoever finds out is whoever's! Listening to the priest's translation, Tulbucin struggled and shouted.
"Your land?" Wang Xinyu sneered, "This was originally the territory of our Daming Nuer Gandusi!" When did it become your land? You are all illegal intruders! ”
"Da Ming? Are you not from the Qing Dynasty? Tulbucin almost fainted.
"That's right! We are the Ming people, not the barbaric Tatars! Wang Xinyu nodded and replied.
Tulbqing suddenly laughed: "Da Ming? Is it the original Oriental? But how did I hear that your country seems to be overrun by the Tatars? Even your capital is occupied by the Tatars? ”
"The victory of barbarism over civilization is only temporary! Sooner or later, we will reclaim our lost land! It's our own business, though. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with you! This is also our land, and you are the aggressors when you come here, and you will be punished with justice! I don't mind killing you all! Wang Xinyu suddenly said angrily.
Wang Xinyu did not have any good feelings for these bandits who came to the East to kill people and set fires and occupy the largest amount of territory in China. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Xinyu still needed to use the Russians to contain the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, and also needed to trade with them to obtain war horses, Wang Xinyu would not mind killing all these Russian robbers who invaded the East!
Although it was the big brother of the Soviet Union and the brothers of China and Russia, these insatiable polar bears lost so much land to China! Speaking of losing land. The root cause of the loss of power and humiliation of the country is all due to the first emperor of the ages in Beijing who was touted by later generations! What kind of urine is the battle of Yaksa, which has been blown up by the relics? The Qing court claimed that it was 2,100 men who fought more than 800 Russian troops and won the victory. But the Russian side says that the Qing army numbered more than 8,000 people. There are too many people to fight and few people to take down a castle with civil engineering buildings, and in the end they can only use siege.
You must know that the Yaksa Castle is much weaker than the Geranza City in Taiwan! The city of Geranza was a fortified city built of stone, and Yaksa was nothing more than a wooden castle, so the Qing army could not attack it.
In the end, it was easy to win the siege, and the great emperor of the ages had to cede land for peace. The first treaty of the Qing Dynasty to lose power and humiliate the country was signed.
Wang Xinyu didn't talk nonsense with these invaders, but waved his hand and ordered: "Take them all to Sakhalin Island on the opposite side to serve as coolies for a period of time and then deal with them!" ”
Then, Wang Xinyu met with the local Evenki who surrendered to the Russian army. Wang Xinyu changed them back again, calling them Oroqen people.
"How did you get caught?" Wang Xinyu asked.
There were Mongolians in the Ming army who understood the Oroqen language and took the initiative to stand up for Wang Xinyu as an interpreter.
The performance of the Ming army just now shocked these Oroqen people. In their eyes. Those Rakshasa demons who drank human blood and ate human flesh were defeated by the Ming army in a short period of time, and more than half of the Rakshasas were killed. The rest honestly laid down their arms and surrendered. In comparison, could it be that the Ming people are more terrible than the Rakshasas? If the Ming people were really so powerful, how could they be wiped out by the Manchurians?
But in any case, it is already a very fortunate thing that these Ming people defeated the Rakshasa people and rescued themselves from the Rakshasa people. They had heard it when they were children, and this was also the territory of the Ming Kingdom in the past, called Nu'er Gandusi. It was only later that the Jurchens rose and it became the territory of the Manchus.
So the Oroqen people told Wang Xinyu that they were captured by the Rakshasas as slaves, and that their relatives were either killed or robbed by the Rakshasas, and that they lost their parents, wives and children, and became slaves themselves.
After asking about the situation, Wang Xinyu began to lecture these Oroqen people: "The Rakshasas have burned down your villages, robbed you of your grain, killed your relatives, played with your women, and now, they are treating you as slaves!" If it weren't for us, you would be slaves for the rest of your life! We have saved you, and you too need to repay you. We don't need you to be slaves, we just need you to join us and fight side by side with us! As long as you muster up the courage, you can kill those sinful Rakshasas with your own hands and avenge your dead loved ones! ”
These Oroqen people now have nothing, the village has been burned by the Rakshasas, their relatives have been killed by the Rakshasas, and their wives and daughters have been robbed by the Rakshasas, where else can they go? What's more, the Rakshasa people have a deep enmity with them, if they don't take advantage of this opportunity to avenge their relatives. Is that still a man? So they chose to stay and serve as soldiers.
After recruiting more than 20 Oroqen people, Zheng Xi's troops had guides.
Wang Xinyu asked people to tell these Oroqen people: "The Rakshasas have invaded your homeland to burn and plunder, but the Manchurian rulers cannot guarantee your safety, only we can protect you!" But we're running out of staff right now, and we need more people to join, so that's where your help comes in. Only by uniting more people can we defeat the Rakshasas, drive them out of here, restore your homeland, and let each of you find a daughter-in-law. ”
The Ming army told them about the military merit system again. As long as they can make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, everyone has the opportunity to be promoted to an officer, and after becoming an officer, they will have a generous military salary, a generous salary, and a daughter-in-law, and the military salary they earn is enough for the family to live a good life.
These Oroqen people volunteered to be guides for the Ming army, helping them find people from various tribes scattered in the deep mountains and old forests, and recruiting them to serve as soldiers. In the area of the Outer Khingan Mountains. There are people from various tribes such as Daur, Hezhe, Evenki, Khalkha Mongols, Oirats, Dulbert and so on.
Wang Xinyu knows that the people of these tribes. It is what the Manchurians call the birth of a Jurchen. Now what Wang Xinyu has to do is to annex all these tribes that gave birth to the real women and integrate them into the Ming army. Those who have combat effectiveness will stay in the area of Jilin and Heilongjiang to deal with the Qing army; Those with relatively poor combat effectiveness were all transferred to Sakhalin and Ezo to engage in labor.
In fact, Nurhachi was not a Jurchen in the true sense of the word at all. They are Tungusic people from Siberia. After they were exiled to Nuer Gandusi, they were taken in by Li Chengliang. In order to expand his influence, Nurhachi deliberately declared himself a Jurchen. Later, Nurhachi raised his army with thirteen suits and armor. The reason why his forces could expand so quickly, and he could also eliminate the Yehenara tribe and other Manchurian tribes, is that Nurhachi led people everywhere to capture the Jurchens from the mountains and forests to serve as soldiers, expand his strength, and gradually annex other tribes.
Every time Nurhachi was short of troops, he would send people to the mountains and forests to arrest people, and the tribes of the Daur, Hezhe, Oroqen, and Evenki tribes became the targets of Nurhachi's capture.
As long as these mountain hunters have undergone a certain amount of training, they are natural warriors, so the so-called Shengjurchen in these Manchurian populations is an excellent source of soldiers. The Daur, Oroqen and Evenks are called the Solon Tribe, and the source of the Eight Banners is the Sauron Tribe. After many people joined the Eight Banners, they were no longer Daurs, Oroqen and Evenks, but became Manchurians.
But after the Manchus entered the customs, why did the Manchu rulers ignore the lives of these locals and let them be slaughtered by the Russians? That's because after the Manchu rulers seized this luxurious villa in the Central Plains, they no longer looked down on their original dilapidated thatched houses. Although for the sake of face, the broken hut could not be taken away by the Russians, the battle still had to be fought, and a part of the lost land had to be recovered from the Russians. However, in the eyes of the Manchu rulers, the locals of these lands became dilapidated furniture in dilapidated huts, and they did not feel sorry if they were all lost.
It was for these reasons that the Manchu rulers allowed the Russians to massacre all kinds of people in the Trans-Khingan Mountains, regardless of their lives or deaths. Two hundred years later, when the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing was signed, the Manchu rulers completely abandoned these people like rags, and completely threw them under the butcher's knife of Tsarist Russia.
At that time, there were tens of thousands of Oroqen people, but later there were fewer and fewer. Except for some who were captured by the Manchurian Eight Banners as soldiers and incorporated into the Manchurian Eight Banners, most of the Oroqen people died under the butcher's knives of the Russians.
And now history has changed dramatically, and due to the arrival of Wang Xinyu, the strength of the Ming army has expanded rapidly. In future wars, there may be a large loss of the Eight Banners outside the Guan. At that time, the First Emperor of the Ages may still think of catching the Jurchens again to be incorporated into the Eight Banners. But at that time, the first emperor of the ages will find out very sadly: the foundation of their beginning, the people of these tribes have all become the Ming army! I wonder how the great Emperor of the Ages will feel in his heart at that time?
This move is to completely dig out the foundation of the Eight Banners and raise them from the roots. In fact, there were no Manchus at all, only people from various tribes. Later, part of the people of the Sauron Department became the Manchu Eight Banners, plus the absorption of the Meng Eight Banners, plus the addition of the Han Eight Banners, which formed the so-called Manchus.
Since the old slave with wild boar skin can turn the Oroqen people into the Eight Banners, why can't we turn the Oroqen people into Han Chinese? According to Wang Xinyu's plan for the future, the country will not need to be divided into ethnic groups in the future, and like the United States, there will be no ethnic divisions. If the United States had also divided ethnic groups, it would have been chaotic a long time ago, and it is estimated that there are more than a few hundred ethnic groups! However, later generations of China completely copied the Soviet Russia, dividing so many ethnic groups, which led to a lot of problems.
Wang Xinyu's military academy officer brainwashed these Oroqen people: "The Manchurians are not your friends, in fact they are also your enemies!" When you need to fight, pull you out as cannon fodder. I don't need you now, just let you be slaughtered by the Rakshasas! If you want to protect yourself, you have to rely on us! The Manchurians are unreliable! ”
With the Oroqen people who were familiar with the local roads to join, Wang Xinyu soon knew that there was an Oroqen tribe about 100 miles northwest after crossing the river. There were about two hundred people in that tribe, but their location was relatively hidden, and they had little contact with the outside world, and the Rakshasas had not yet discovered them.
The Oroqen soldier, who knew Chinese, said, "My lord, if you are willing to recruit them, you are willing to lead the way. ”
"Not bad! What is your name? Wang Xinyu asked.
"Back to my lord! The name of the lowly position is Ashku, which translates in the words of your Han Chinese, which means archer. The soldier replied.
"Ashku, Sharpshooter! Nice name! As long as you lead us to find them and recruit them, you've done a great job! Why am I elevating you? But you're new to our army, so you'll have to step up your training! Otherwise, if you go to the battlefield and have no eyes for guns and cannons, you will die in vain if you have no combat skills! Wang Xinyu smiled and nodded.
Ashku hurriedly saluted: "Thank you for your love!" I am willing to die for my lords! ”
Early the next morning, the Ming army crossed the river and, led by the Oroqen soldiers, walked northwest for two days. In the evening of the next day, the Ming army approached the village.
"My lord, although they are not from their tribe, none of them know Chinese, and they still need to communicate with them. The lowly officials must persuade them to follow the adults to fight the Rakshasas. Ashku said.
Wang Xin agreed: "Okay, then you go and come back quickly!" Tell them that if they refuse to cooperate, then don't blame the king for killing people! (To be continued.) )