The Russian musketeers also used arquebuses, and the effective range of this new type of arquebus was about 80 meters. The hunting bows used by the Hezhe people in the village had a range of no more than 50 meters, and they were far less lethal than muskets.

The musketeers dismounted, marched forward in a neat formation, and formed a firing formation. The horses of the Russian musketeers were only their means of maneuver, which they used to maneuver with the Cossack cavalry. During the battle, the musketeers dismounted and lined up. Not all of the Russian musketeers in the Far East had horses, only those who followed the explorers had horses to ride. Each Russian musketeer carries a long-handled axe on his back, which can be used in melee combat or in special cases as a support for the musket.

"Line up, put it!" Tulbuqing roared.

"Bang bang bang" muskets roared, spewing out flames, and white smoke rose from the formation of Russian musketeers.

Dense bullets swooped into the village, hitting the wooden walls, leaving small holes. The roaring gunfire terrified the Hezhe people in the village. They had never seen this kind of fire-breathing iron pipe, the Eight Banners soldiers outside the gate did not have muskets, and the first few battles between the Qing army and the Russian army were all helped by musketeers borrowed from North Korea.

The local Hezhe people had never seen this kind of weapon, but they had heard that the Rakshasa people had an iron pipe in their hands that could breathe fire, and when it was sprayed from afar, they immediately fell to the ground and died. As a result, the power of the Rakshasa people was infinitely magnified.

After a volley of shots, the Cossack cavalry mounted and rushed into the village brandishing their sabers.

"The Rakshasa people are here! Hurry up and release the arrows! Someone in the village shouted.

The Hezhe people counterattacked with bows and arrows, and several feathered arrows with a whistling sound were fired at the Russian cavalry that rushed into the village.

The Russian cavalry used a saber to pull away the bow and arrow, and some people were still shot by arrows, but the power of these hunting bows was too small, although the Russian cavalry did not have armor on their bodies, but the thick cotton clothes on their bodies still played a certain protective role.

Russian musketeers outside the village of "bang" opened fire again, and some climbed onto the roof. The young men of the Hezhe who were shooting arrows at the Cossack cavalry were shot one after another, and one after another let out screams and fell from the roof.

The Cossack cavalry violently smashed through the low dirt wall, the horses neighed, and a knight rushed to a straw hut, swung his saber and slashed, the wooden pillar was broken, and the straw shed collapsed with a "bang". Several more horsemen rushed into the village, and some of them threw torches into the roofs of the huts.

"It's on fire! Help me! The owner of the house cried and rushed out of the burning house.

A war horse galloped past. The sword flashed, and the man who rushed out of the burning room immediately turned his head in a different place. The woman with the child in her arms was knocked into the air by the war horse, and when the woman was in the air, her hands were still tightly protecting the child, trying to save the child's life. But when she landed, the trampled horse's hooves dashed all her hopes. The horse's hooves trampled over the woman, trampling her to pieces, and even the children were trampled into pulp.

The musketeers outside the village began to move, after walking a few steps forward. Spread out and shoot freely, constantly killing the Hezhes who tried to fight back with bows and arrows.

The musketeers rushed into the village, and they put the loaded muskets on their backs, removed their axes and chopped them.

The weak resistance in the small village was quickly quelled. Only two Russian soldiers were wounded as a result of the resistance of the Hezhes, while all thirty or so young men who resisted were killed.

The Russian army occupied the village, and all the surviving people in the village were driven out by the Russian army and concentrated outside the village.

"Man. Kill all the old people! Bring the woman back! Tulbucin coldly gave the order.

The Russian army first took the men in the crowd one by one and cut off their heads in front of the villagers. The man who had not been brought up for the time being was terrified, and someone rushed out of the crowd to resist. But he was immediately hacked to death by the Russian army. After the Russian army killed all the young men, they began to pull the old people out of the crowd and began to massacre. In less than an hour, all the men and old people in the village were killed, and the Russian army escorted more than 50 women and more than 10 children back.

Women are also trophies, and these Russian troops who came to the Far East to explore are made up of criminals and unemployed people, who originally came here to open up territory for Russia. Among the expeditions to the Far East, except for a few officers who brought their daughters, the others were bachelors who fed the whole family without starvation, and these people needed women.

So every time the Russian army looted a place, the looted food was transported back as supplies, and the young women they caught were brought back as trophies.

Tulbuqing's mission was to explore downstream, and the food, food, and women he had captured were all handed over to the infantry who came behind to bring them back, and he himself continued the expedition along the river with his expedition all the way downstream.

The Alancek Castle in the rear sent several boats, and Turbucin got on board with the Russian army and went down the river. The further north you go, the wider the river becomes, and the more sparsely populated it becomes.

"Keep going down the river and you'll see the sea!" Before Tulbucyan, there were already Russian expeditions that knew that the river led to the sea, and that it was not far from it. Thinking of the sea he was about to see, Turbuqing couldn't help but feel excited.

Russia was a landlocked country at that time, and Russia did not have a seaport until the Russian-Turkish war seized the Black Sea outlet and the Northern War seized the Baltic Sea mouth. And a very important task for the expedition to the Far East is to find an outlet to the sea in the East.

While the weather is still cold, the expedition must be completed as soon as possible. Otherwise, when winter comes, the river will be frozen, and it will be extremely difficult to venture further downstream.

The river is getting wider and wider, and the Russian soldiers on the boat look at the water and the sky in the distance, and shout excitedly: "The sea! We saw the sea! ”

One of the Swedes in the expedition snorted disdainfully: "I don't know! It's not the sea, it's still a river! It's just that the river is already very wide here! ”

However, the river has become very spacious, which means that it is not very far from the sea. According to veterans who had participated in the previous expeditions, it only took about two more days to reach the sea.

Tulbuqing's expedition sailed for another two days, and the waves on the river in front of him were getting bigger and bigger, and the banks on both sides were getting wider and wider, and it was no longer clear to see the shore from the boat. The river in front of it, which was originally green, gradually turned blue, and the river surface was covered with white spray. Flocks of seagulls fly over the river, occasionally burrowing into the water.

"The sea! We should have reached the sea! Said the Swedish explorer.

When I arrived at the beach, I saw a small fishing village in front of me, which was built by the Russians who had arrived earlier. This place literally translates to Mulinde in Manchu and Temple Street in Chinese. Although this is the jurisdiction of the former Ming Dynasty Nuer Gandu Division, and now it is the jurisdiction of the Qing Jilin general, it is deserted, and the Russians have reached here. In real history, after the signing of the Treaty of Nebuchu, the Russians were forced to abandon the small fishing village in accordance with the treaty. Retreat to the north of the Udi River. It was not until more than a hundred years later that the Russian army occupied it again.

Although it was nominally the territory of the Jilin generals, the weather here was cold, the population was too small, and the Qing court did not have much control here, so the Russians took advantage of the situation and built castles everywhere in the area of the Outer Xing'an Mountains.

Leonid, who had arrived here in advance, saw a group of Russian troops arriving and personally came out to greet him: "Welcome to the honorable General Tulbucin!" Welcome to our little village! It's small, but it's been our hard work. We've developed it here! We had fresh fish, beef, goose, and wine. The general can be entertained with hospitality. ”

Originally, there were not many Russians in this small village, only more than a dozen Russian soldiers brought by the explorer Leonid, and they also brought more than a dozen local women captured by the Russian army from other places, and more than fifty Evenkis who surrendered to the Russian army.

In fact, the Evenki are the Oroqens. But the Oroqen who surrendered to the Russian army were renamed the Evenki. The number of Russian troops in the area was also small, and Leonid built this fishing village and needed locals to fish for himself. Raising cows, chickens, and geese, and doing some rough work.

It was true that many Oroqen people surrendered because they were afraid of the Russians' muskets, and those who surrendered earlier later became Russian Evenkis, who recruited them as workers and fishermen, and even enlisted in the Russian army. Later, the Oroqen people in the Outer Khing'an Mountains, who had never yielded to the Russians, were driven by the Russians to the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, and many people were killed in the process.

As Thurbuqing walked into the wooden house, Leonid snapped his fingers, and several Evenki women, who acted as maids, served with plates of beef, roast goose, fried fish and other dishes.

"It's so close to the Tatars! We were worried about retaliation from the Qing army. It's great that you're here! With you here, the Tatars will not dare to come! Leonid said.

Tulbuqing laughed and said, "Qing army? Isn't it just a batch of yellow-skinned monkeys? Those savage Tatars, they are no different from the prey we hunt! ”

Two days later, as Thurbucin was about to leave the village and continue his expedition north, he heard a frightened shout: "Boat! There is a fleet! A fleet of ships is coming to us! ”

"Boats? Where did the ship come from? It can't be a Tatar ship, right? Instinctively, Tulbucin immediately took up arms.

The Russian army rushed to the sea and looked at the approaching fleet on the sea in the distance. When the ship approached, the Russians were dumbfounded: "What a big ship!" It's a European-style ship! Damn it! How could the Tatars have such ships? ”

"Could it be Western Europeans? No way! How could Western Europeans come here! Looking at the huge battleship, Tulbuqing muttered to himself with trepidation.

Western-style soft-sailed boats have sailed in from the mouth of the river and are heading straight for the shore. Tulbuqing clearly saw that all the gun doors on these ships were open, and one cannon after another protruded from the gun holes, aiming at the small fishing village on the shore. It was not the flag of any country in Western Europe, but a flag he had never seen before.

Turbuqing picked up the telescope and looked at the big ship, and at this look, the telescope almost fell off: from the inside of the telescope, the sailors on this Western-style soft-sailed ship were not Europeans, but had oriental faces! It's really strange, would the Orientals have such a big ship?

"It's the enemy!" Seeing that it was the face of an Oriental, Tulbuqing suddenly exclaimed.

Before the words fell, tongues of fire erupted from the ship's cannon doors one after another, and a row of fires flashed from the bow to the stern like lightning, and the white smoke filled the river, and the cannonballs whistled and smashed into the small boats anchored on the edge of the dock in the small fishing village, sending the Russian fishing boats and boats docked on the shore to the bottom of the river one by one to feed the fish.

"Hit! Hit hard! Let the Rakshasas know how powerful we are! Wang Xinyu picked up the binoculars and shouted.

Just now, after the Ming army saw this small fishing village, Wang Xinyu used a telescope to observe and found that there were many yellow-haired and white-skinned Russians standing on the shore! Since it was the Russians who came here, it was definitely the enemy. So he did not hesitate to order the cannon to be fired and all the boats on the riverside pier were sunk.

The Russians can come here by boat, and as long as the ship is sunk, they can't even run.

The naval guns aimed at the shore and bombarded fiercely, causing the Russian troops to jump and flee in all directions in embarrassment. In the face of the powerful naval guns, these Russians had no power to fight back.

"Drop the boat and land!" Wang Xinyu gave the order.

The small boat was lowered on the big boat, and the Ming soldiers rowed the small boat to the shore.

"All lay down their arms and surrender! Whoever dares to move will be killed! "After the Ming army landed, they shouted to those remnants of the Russian army.

Stunned by a burst of artillery fire, and seeing that there were three or four hundred Ming troops landing, and at least more than half of them were musketeers, and the Russians, who were only more than forty people, saw that the situation was not good, they threw away their weapons one after another, raised their hands and shouted: "Don't kill me, I surrender!" ”

Although the Ming soldiers couldn't understand what the Russians were saying, when they saw that these Russians had thrown away their weapons and raised their hands, they naturally knew that they were going to surrender, so the Ming soldiers stepped forward and surrounded the Russian army, and the guns in their hands were aimed at the Russians.

"I didn't expect the Rakshasa people to be so vulnerable! I thought there was a big fight! Wang Xinyu muttered to himself.

If Wang Xinyu does not have fierce battleship firepower and purely competes with the army, then the combat effectiveness of the Russians is actually not too bad, and in a face-to-face land battle, the Russian army can still inflict certain losses on the Ming army. It's a pity that the Russian army was bombarded by naval artillery and suffered heavy losses before it could react. When the Ming infantry landed, the Russian army was left with only one hand to surrender.

Wang Xinyu saw that the captured leader of the Russian army was fierce and abnormal, and he was "gurgling" in Russian that he couldn't understand, and because he didn't have an interpreter, he didn't know what the Russian was talking about, so he was a little anxious. His main task here is to buy horses, and how to trade without a language barrier? (To be continued.) )