Xinshun 1730

Chapter 39

The inscription on the inscription can be regarded as heroic, Liu Yu raised his leg and kicked, the wood was so strong that his toes hurt from the shock.

"Grass and trees have no heart, but dead things, why should my lord have trouble with wood?"

Liu Yu squatted on the ground, rubbed his toes, and cursed: "Where is it that we can't get along with the wood? It's the name of the Yegu Dashi, and the Raksha people still call us Khitan. I just think of you patrolling the border. What have you been patrolling all the time? Such a big thing, I don’t know if it was smashed?”

Du Feng's heart tightened, and he quickly explained: "My lord, although I can recognize Western numerals, I can also speak a few words of Rakshasa language. But I don't know what is written on it. Seeing that there are numbers on it, it is just a tombstone. The so-called death is the greatest thing, moving people's graves is always bad. If we had known that the above was so abhorrent, we would have smashed it."

The dead are the greatest, which is a deeply rooted Zhuxia morality.Du Feng really didn't expect that what was written on it was like this, and the last sentence was even more ambitious.

He hurriedly waved his hands, and if he wanted to "make up for his mistakes" with those few partners, he would push down this big cross.

Liu Yu hurriedly stopped him, waved his hand and said, "The merit is not here, nor is it at this time. Keep it for now, and smash it after a while. Since you have been to Raksha Castle, how far is Raksha Castle from here?"

"Returning to my lord, there is still a long way to go. From the Acropolis of Handoli to the east, there are swamps, which are not suitable for living. Second, the upper reaches of the Songhua River are in our hands, and the Raksha people are also worried about war. My navy will go down the river. , so the fort was built on the banks of the Heilongjiang River. If there is a war, the Raksha people's navy can go down the river to support."

It is very close to the Sanjiangkou where the Songhua River flows into Heilongjiang. If conditions permit, it is naturally best to build a city at the Sanjiangkou.

However, it seems that the current level of technology is not enough to build a city in the swampy Sanjiangkou. The location of the castle chosen by Luo Sha is not bad, and he is very thoughtful.

"Du Feng, you have learned the meaning of surveying and some miscellaneous knowledge, and your father is also a captain of the frontier army. After so long, you haven't thought about surveying and drawing the castle map of Rakshasa?"

Du Fengxin said that I learned that stuff to be an official, not to do this.

But what you said just now is that if you are not in the position, you will not seek the government. I drew the picture, but I couldn't be promoted, and no one rewarded me with a few taels of silver.
You fart lightly, but since you were young, apart from the officials who were demoted, how can there be a serious Beijing official come here?You "Li" family don't even think about it, but let us think about it?

But it didn’t sound good to say it, so I had to say: "My lord taught me, I will remember it. After my lord said it, I realized what it means to apply what I have learned. If I don’t use what I have learned, then I might as well not learn it."

Liu Yu took a sip of his teeth, and thought that this rhetoric was the same.

"Since the fortress of the Raksha people is far away, and there are swamps everywhere, how will they collect tribute?"

"Returning to my lord, the Raksha people use birch bark to make boats. A small boat weighs 50 to [-] catties, and can hold six or seven people. It goes down the river, or goes up along the river mouth. A team of three to fifty people, generally Even small tribes are hard to resist. If you don’t want to kill people, you can pay tribute with skins. My father brought people to fight because some tribes complained. During the chaotic battle, he killed a few Rakshas and injured his own leg.”

Quietly saying that his family is a meritorious person, Liu Yu thought about the Cossacks paddling around in a birch bark boat, thinking that these Cossacks learned from the Vikings?
After a little more questioning, Liu Yu also understood the situation of the frontier army.

Cossacks can come here to rob and collect tribute, but these frontier soldiers can't come and go.

Most of these tribes have canonization by the imperial court, and they all belong to various guards in name.It is too troublesome to rob them, and they may be sued and beaten to the end.

In the land of Jiji, the imperial court pays tribute, and the tribes show their submission. This is the tradition of Zhuxia.On Raksha's side, they rob first. If you get used to being robbed, you don't need to rob. The tribe will take the initiative to hand it over on time.

The frontier soldiers are also jealous of the tribal skin, but no one dares to touch this bottom line.

There are only a few Russians, and there are no villages in the castle, and there is no way to think "Kou can go to me or go to me".

Although the imperial court has done little in the north over the years, the system of paying tribute is still maintained.

Some tribes pay tribute on both sides, and the frontier army robbing them is equivalent to robbing their own people. This is a serious crime, and it is not the same as robbing a smuggling caravan. No matter how rich a smuggling caravan is, it is still a merchant; There is also a nominal official position.

This is not the same as the Xiongnu’s invasion of the frontiers in the Han Dynasty and the misfortune of the Western Captives in the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of the court, it is not the same as the villages and towns in the Central Plains that were robbed of Qimin, and there are no immigrant villages in this place now.

In this way, the frontier army can only go out for a while if they have something to do, and do what they should do when they are not.

After the war in summer, it's okay to go there to sell things in winter. They have already formed a tacit understanding with each other.

This tacit understanding is not a good thing.

But since Du Feng said so, it shows that he doesn't have to worry about showing his feet when he goes to Raksha Castle.The people around me are all old soldiers, they are different from the people in the caravan, if you have the heart, you can tell it.Since there is such a tacit understanding, the Russians should not care.

The frontier army robbed the caravan, and so did the Cossacks on the opposite side.It's nothing more than watching people order dishes, if you can beat them, you will be robbed, if you can't beat them, you won't be robbed.

After asking about the general situation, Liu Yu called Jiaolaobutu and others to discuss it.

"Our errand is to find out the truth. Since we have prepared some tribes pretending to be caravans and some pretending to be deer hunting dogs, this is about to start."

Jiaolaobutu also knew his duty, nodded and said: "It's not difficult to pretend to be a tribe. The camp has dispatched many naturalized soldiers for this. It's just..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that my lord led the army out once so easily. If I only made this little contribution, it would be in vain for us to suffer from the exhaustion of traveling thousands of miles. Before I came, the higher-ups asked me to listen to my lord. I don't know what the court is going to do, my lord." Can you reveal something? It’s better to do it cheaply.”

Liu Yu was happy in his heart, thinking that this was also a restless one.

Military merit is the most important thing, and in the army, beheading and destroying the city are the most important things. It can be heard that Jiaolaobutu feels that it is very easy to come out, and there is no rope to tie him, so he might as well do something big.I just don't know what the court means, so I want to talk about Liu Yu's tone.

But Liu Yu knew the seriousness in his heart, and it was better to restrain him, so he said, "You want to make meritorious service, and I also want to make meritorious service, but it's not easy to make meritorious service. A little carelessness, without meritorious service, becomes a crime of arbitrarily instigating border quarrels." gone."

It is a secret that the imperial court wants to start a war against Russia. It is nothing more than that there are no Raksha people in the court and the capital, and the imperial court does not care too much about keeping it secret.But Jiaolao Butu is not the so-called "person of his own" in Qi Guogong's circle after all, and he doesn't know much about it in detail, so he just let him listen to Liu Yu on major matters.

I don't know the bottom line of the imperial court, and I don't know what to do when I do a lot of things. Jiaolaobutu wants to find out.

Liu Yu explained the crux of the matter clearly first, and signaled not to miss the big deal.To appease him, he drew another pie.

"Don't think that you have to behead and kill people to count. Since you have read the book, how did Feng Changqing get up in the first year of Kaiyuan? Didn't you just record where there are springs, where are rivers, and where can you garrison? Do you think that fighting is the half day before the battle? The easiest part of fighting is the half day when you are fighting before the battle."

Without saying a word, Jiaolaobutu heard Xian's meaning, understood Liu Yu's meaning, and also understood the court's meaning.

It's just that I couldn't help but spit out a few times in my heart, cursing bad luck secretly.Xin said that if you don’t know how to use allusions, don’t use them blindly. You don’t understand the ending of this person, it’s very unlucky.

Now that he understood the intention of the imperial court, Jiaolao Butu felt at ease.

Liu Yu himself has a lot of things to do.It is necessary to check the defense situation and armament status of Luocha Castle, and lead people to draw mountains and rivers maps, and to expand the Yongning Temple inscription.

Yongning Temple is still far away from here, and you have to be prepared to inspect the Raksha people's castle, knowing what to check and what to draw.

To put it mildly, Liu Yu is credited for doing a good job in surveying, mapping and investigation.

On a larger scale, the Raksha people's city defense system and governance methods are all opportunities for Dashun to try to learn.

Liu Yu was actually quite politically incorrect in his heart, and secretly thought that it would be best for Dashun to use his experience in the war at the end of Ming Dynasty to attack Luocha's castle.It's better to let the emperor feel the pain...

If I were "Tian Feng", I would say something correct, but it is impossible or impossible to use tactics in the military.If the siege fails in the future, only then can we show that we are correct, and what we are talking about is not just talking on paper.

With Dashun's power projection capability and Li Guo's reformed 30-year war-level tactical system, strategic victory is not a problem, but the cost and death toll.

Everything has a price.

Fortunately, he was born under the feudal dynasty, so he didn't need to make that "price", and he was qualified not to be a figure in the history books.

"Well, let's go to the first castle of the Rakshasa together. After we get out of the castle, let's discuss and confirm it. I will use the first castle of the Raksha people as a template and tell those people what to do. Check, how do you look at it. Although those people know some Western learning, they don't understand military affairs, so I'm afraid that if you let him go directly with you, you won't see the point."

"Secondly, there are grades and grades in the investigative report. If it is written clearly, it can be called qualified. If it is written clearly and makes suggestions, it is the best. How to besiege Raksha Castle, Western scholars have experience, It can be taught, and when I teach it to them, they will follow you to check and follow the template to advise, and then the higher-ups will be "surprised, thinking that they are talented and useful"?"

"Maybe there will be a 'staff department' in the army in the future. If it's done well, it will be good for you and me."

He was hiding his scheming and made a big cake for Jiao Laub.

Jiaolao Butu was very happy, thinking that it was indeed so.This Liu Yu is capable of reaching the heavens. If he can write clearly and make suggestions, he will at least be remembered by his superiors, not to mention the credit.

"Success. It's just that there are so many of us. If we go to the Raksha people together, I'm afraid they will be worried. In my opinion, my lord and I will bring a hundred or ten good hands over there, and the rest will wait here. If it's really the Raksha people It's easy to see what you see."

Liu Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Old Shu, slipping is easy. But after slipping, our future will be ruined. I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm afraid that these elite soldiers are used to being wild, and they are masters who have killed people." Son, if something goes wrong when you enter Raksha Castle, you can copy the guy and do it. You have to restrain yourself."

"Yes."

Jiaolaobutu also thought it was reasonable, and several people made an agreement to divide the whole team into two parts.

Liu Yu, Jiaolao Butu, Du Feng and others drove a cart with a hundred and ten people.The rest of the people camped in the dense forest by the river and waited.

Take muskets and weapons with you, anyway, caravans must have weapons.

After crossing the river and parting ways, Liu Yu finally saw the Raksha people's castle and thought about how to be this "Tian Feng" well.

(End of this chapter)