Wu Xiaolei and Minzhuang went into the forest to cut wood, and Minzhuang used a two-person saw to cut down trees. After that, someone built a transport truck on the edge of the forest.

The craftsmen who built the cars worked the cut wood into the shapes they needed, and soon they were able to build trucks.

"The prince has arrived!" There was a long shout outside.

The soldiers who stood guard outside the jungle saluted one after another, because they were too armoured to kneel down, so they could only bow down and salute. When the people and captives working in the forest heard the shouting, they threw down their tools and knelt down to salute.

Wu Xiaolei also knelt down with the group, but he still secretly raised his eyes to peek. Ever since he went to sea with the fleet, he knew that there were three princes in this fleet. It's just that the prince's ship is far away from his own ship, and when his ship occasionally gets a little closer to the prince's ship, he can't see the prince.

This was the first time Wu Xiaolei had seen the prince up close, he peeked at it, and saw that two of the three princes in python robes were very young, but they were in their early twenties, and the other was older, only in their thirties.

"Everybody, get up!" Zheng Xi made a gesture of invitation, motioning for Minzhuang and the captives to stand up.

Under the supervision of the soldiers, the people and the captives continued to pull the saws and sawed down the towering trees to the ground. The cut wood is loaded onto trucks and transported to the seaside camp.

"Let's work hard, work hard! The sooner you set up your house, you won't have to live in a tent anymore. Wang Xinyu said.

Then Wang Xinyu asked people to take out the drawings and plan the construction on the drawings. The location they are currently located is about the location of Ishikari Bay in Hokkaido in later generations, and the winter is very cold, and there is a lot of rain and snow, which is a wet and cold weather of the ocean. It is colder than the general dry cold in the north of the country.

On Ezo Island in September, the weather can change, and it was still sunny just now, but suddenly it turned around.

Seeing the dark clouds drifting in the distance, Wang Xinyu shouted: "It's going to rain soon!" Hurry up and let people put down their work and set up their tents! Leave the camp's wooden fence alone! ”

The people and the captives left their work behind. Pushing the cart back to the seaside camp, he hurriedly set up his tent. Before they could set up their tents, the pouring rain poured down their heads and faces, and the people and the captives were drenched like chickens in soup.

It was easy to set up a tent, and Wu Xiaolei and others hid in the tent to avoid the rain. A rain poured down, the clothes were all wet, the temperature here was low, the tent was windy, and a cold wind was blowing. Wu Xiaolei shuddered a few times.

"Take off your coat and light a brazier and bake it!" Gao Shiwen shouted.

A few people lit the brazier in the tent and surrounded the brazier to bake the fire, which made them feel much more comfortable.

The rain came too suddenly, and Wang Xinyu, Zheng Xi, Zheng Jing and others were also wet, and now several of them are sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army around the fire to keep warm.

"I remembered, I heard people say that it often rains here in July and August. It wasn't until September that the rain became less. However, it was already very cold in September. Zheng Xi remembered what a Toei man who had been to Ezo had told him.

"There's less rain on the other side at this time, right? It is better to build the castle in Vladivostok now. Zheng Jing proposed.

"You can give it a try. But then there will be fewer people left here. In case the local natives are not friendly to us, it will be difficult for us to resist if we do not have enough manpower. Wang Xinyu nodded.

Zheng Xi thought for a moment. A little worried, he said, "I'm just afraid of running into a tartar when I go to the other side." If our castle is discovered by the Tartars before it is built, they will inevitably mobilize heavy troops to besiege it, and we will have to give up. ”

Wang Xinyu also felt that what Zheng Xi said was very reasonable, so he took down the map of Nu'er Gandusi that had just been baked, spread it on the table, and looked at the map. His gaze fell on the area around Temple Street in the lower reaches of the Tongtong River. The Mingtong River is the downstream section of the river after the confluence of the Heilongjiang, Ussuri and Songhua rivers, which is what the Russians call the lower reaches of the Amur River.

"Let's go north first, find a place to settle at the mouth of the river, and build a castle. Wait for the Rakshasas to come. We will defeat the Rakshasas first, and then we will trade with them and buy horses from them. Wang Xinyu pointed to the temple street.

Creating a strong cavalry has always been Wang Xinyu's dream. However, Wang Xinyu's territory is all in the hot areas of the south, and the Yunnan horses suitable for this area are too short, and the Arabian horses are too delicate. In order to form a cavalry unit capable of hiring the northern battlefields, it is necessary to have horse farms in the north.

Sakhalin Island and Ezo Island are Wang Xinyu's best northern horse farms. These two islands are across the sea from Nuergandusi on the opposite shore, and the Qing army, which lacks sea ships, does not want to cross the sea at all, so it is possible to set up a horse farm here with peace of mind.

As for the selection of war horses, there are Mongolian horses, various high-headed horses from Europe, and Russian hybrids.

Mongolian horses have strong endurance, low requirements for forage, low cost, and are suitable for large-scale breeding, but Mongolian horses are slow and bear small weight, so they cannot withstand knights wearing heavy armor; European high-headed horses are fast and heavy, and are suitable for wearing heavy armor, but all kinds of European horses have strict requirements for forage, high breeding costs, and low endurance, so they are not suitable for long-distance running.

For Wang Xinyu, the best choice is the Russian hybrid, which is produced by crossing the Akkhatak horse with the Mongolian horse, and adding a little bit of European horse and Arabian horse blood, in fact, is the best choice for cavalry! In that year, the Mongolian cavalry marched westward, leaving a large number of Mongolian horses in Russia. The Russians found that these horses were hardy, hardy, and simple for forage, so the Russians and Cossacks crossed the Mongolian horse with the fast and tall Akhama to produce this new type of war horse.

Russian mongrel, tall and strong, with a fiery red coat, has the beautiful appearance of a sweaty BMW, and has both impact and endurance! Hard-working and had very low requirements for forage, these horses were the most faithful companions of the Cossack cavalry. It was not until after the October Revolution in Russia that the Soviet Red Army rode this horse to defeat foreign intervention forces.

Although Russian mongrels are not as load-bearing as European and Alabama horses, and are not as tall or sprinting as thoroughbred horses, they are especially suitable for the Easterners to form a cavalry unit.

It's just that Wang Xinyu didn't know that the Russian hybrid had a nice scientific name, called the Don Hippopotamus.

"If we can have a group of Rakshasa war horses, then we will be invincible in the north!" Wang Xinyu said.

Enter the north to open horse farms, in addition to forming cavalry. There is also a very important reason, that is, Wang Xinyu is very jealous of the Eight Banners outside the gate. Those Eight Banner soldiers have not been corrupted by the Huahua World in the Guannai, and have lived in a bitter cold land for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong. Once the development momentum of the Ming army is too strong, it cannot be ruled out that Kangxi will transfer the Eight Banners outside the customs to enter the customs. Therefore, opening up a horse farm in the far north is also a means to contain the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai.

According to Wang Xinyu's plan. A motley army composed of various different people such as the Ming army of the Zheng raid department, the Minzhuang captured from the north, the Mongol prisoners, and the samurai of the Satsuma clan who volunteered to join the Ming army, with the cooperation of the Nanyang Navy, only a few thousand people needed to enter the far north, defeat the Cossacks, integrate the Cossacks and Russian soldiers, and then through methods such as capturing the Jurchens as soldiers, Wang Xinyu only needed to use a Ming army of a few hundred people to control an army of several thousand people. Using this army, you can contain the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai. This is the most cost-effective way to deal with the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai!

At the time of the rebellion of the three feudatories. Kangxi once transferred a small number of Eight Banners cavalry outside the pass to fight with the green battalion formed by Zhou Peigong, and the small number of Eight Banners outside the pass were very strong in combat, and the cavalry of a few hundred people could rush the Wu army to pieces.

Even if there was no Zhou Peigong back then, if Kangxi sent a large number of Eight Banners outside the Guanxi into the Guan, Wu Sangui would have a hard time crossing the river.

Use cavalry to fight guerrilla warfare in the far north and build forts. can firmly contain more than 10,000 of the most elite Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, and capture the Jurchen as the Ming Army. It also reduced the reserve strength of the Qing army. If the Qing army loses its strengths, the Qing army will not be able to capture enough raw Jurchens to serve as soldiers.

As for how much it will cost to deal with the Russian army? Wang Xinyu thinks that he doesn't need too much cost, and it is far more economical than developing a cavalry northern expedition in the south to deal with the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, and it is estimated that it can save costs and manpower a hundred times.

According to the information, the castles of the Russian army, such as Yaksa, are all wooden castles. Compared to the Dutch, the city of Geranza is simply not a castle of its class. However, although the Eight Banners outside the gate have strong field combat capabilities, their firearms are very backward, so there is no way to take these wooden castles.

And Wang Xinyu's Ming army, although its field combat ability in the north is far inferior to that of the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai. However, the ability to attack fortifications far exceeded that of the Eight Banners Army.

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Thousands of miles away, the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River are the lower reaches of the Amur River, which the Russians call the lower reaches of the Amur River.

Khabarov stood outside the castle of Azersk (present-day Komsomolsk in Amur, Russia) to see off the generals Tulbuqing and Boeiton, who were about to go on an expedition.

Tulbucin, a tall and sturdy Cossack warrior, with a fleshy face and golden hair, was a head taller than Khabarov! It could be seen from his vicious blue eyes that this person did not know how much blood was on his hands.

As early as the eighth year of Shunzhi, that is, in 1651, Khabarov came here, slaughtered more than 600 local men and old people, robbed more than 200 women and more than 100 children, and then built a Russian castle on the ruins of the village.

Riding a tall horse, Tulbucin led more than 30 Kazakh cavalrymen and more than 50 Russian musketeers downstream along the Mingtong River. It's September, and it's not that cold. In two months, the Russian expedition could no longer move and had to hide in the castle through the cold winter.

Russian musketeers also rode horses, but they were not cavalrymen, but dragoons who dismounted on horseback and dismounted.

"Those Tatars, a herd of yellow-skinned monkeys, they are like the wild deer of this wasteland, and they are powerless against our warriors! Even if the army of the Tatars comes, we are not afraid! Tulbucin muttered to himself.

Five years ago, there was a fierce battle between the Russian army and the Qing army in the lower reaches of the Amur River, in which the Russian army killed more than 200 Qing troops and paid only 10 casualties. Since then, the Rakshasa people are invincible demons in the eyes of the Qing soldiers, and many people flee as soon as they hear the words "the Rakshasa people are coming".

A small village appeared in front of it, and smoke was rising from the village. Outside the village, by the river, more than 30 Hezhe women walked from the river to the village carrying large chase buckets, they had just finished washing their clothes and were ready to go home for dinner.

Like all the locals in the Heilongjiang River valley back then, the locals here lived by hunting, with men hunting and fishing outside, exchanging their prey and furs for food and cloth from the occasional Manchurian caravans. Women gather wild fruits in the nearby mountains and forests, take care of their children at home, and cook meals.

At this moment, a woman raised her head, and her face changed drastically: "Not good! ”

On the other side of the river, about a mile away, a troop of cavalry, about thirty people, appeared. In the early morning sun, the sabers wielded in the hands of those cavalrymen shone with a cold light.

"The Rakshasa people are coming!" The women threw down their buckets and ran to the village, crying and screaming.

Although they had never met Russians before, many of the surrounding villages had been slaughtered by Russians. In the Heilongjiang River Valley, rumors of the Rakshasa people spread everywhere, and it is said that the Rakshasa people are a group of demons with red hair and green eyes, who are particularly tall and like to eat people's hearts, especially the hearts of children. As long as it is captured by the Rakshasas, it is better to be roasted and eaten on the fire.

There was a commotion in the village, and the men who were cutting wood in the woods threw down their work one after another, and ran towards the village one by one like frightened birds, as long as they fled into the village, they could use the cover of the house to fight the Rakshasa with hunting bows. Although I can't beat the Rakshasas, I hope to protect myself as much as possible.

Tuerbuqing looked coldly at the chaotic Hezhe people, sneered, pulled out his saber and pointed at the small village in front of him: "Up!" Kill all the men first! ”

"Kill!" More than thirty Cossack cavalrymen bypassed the women who had abandoned their barrels and fled to the village, riding their horses against the men who were trying to flee back to the village from the woods. As long as you kill all the men, the rest of the women will not all become their own trophies!

Most of the Hezhe hunters fled back to the village, but there were still more than a dozen men outside the village who did not have time to flee back to the village. In the blink of an eye, the Cossack cavalry rushed to a few tens of meters away.

A distance of a few tens of meters was only a matter of seconds for the Cossack cavalry riding the Don hippopotamus.

"Kill!" A Cossack cavalryman roared, and with the speed of his horse, the blade of his sword slashed through the neck of a Hezhe. I saw a flash of blood, and the head rolled to the ground.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen young men were either beheaded by the Cossack cavalry or trampled into pulp by horses' hooves.

Seeing that the rest of the young men had fled into the village, Thurbucin ordered the cavalry to stop the attack and wait for the musketeers to come up.

After a while, the Russian musketeers also arrived. (To be continued.) )