Xinshun 1730

Chapter 81

On the border line near the Selenge River, there were bursts of melodious whistles, and Liu Yu hummed a song, stepping on the first snow of the year.

"Like every youth, you will meet a girl. She will go with you, brave the wind and the waves. Listen, the wind and snow are noisy; look, the shooting stars are flying. My heart calls out to me, go to the turbulent distance……"

If winter begins with the first snow, winter on the Mongolian Plateau has already arrived.

The burdock flowers were still in full bloom yesterday, but this morning they were covered with a layer of snow, and the crescent left by the horseshoes meandered to the endless horizon.

On the border, a ninth-rank official wearing a quail patch embroidered came over with a few scouting officials.

They didn't recognize Liu Yu, but they recognized the clothes Liu Yu was wearing.

On the north side of the invisible border, there are a few young Russians, who seem to be discussing the issue of demarcating the border with a few officials from Dashun.

The little official led the little official over to salute, "I've seen you sir!"

Rank Nine Quail looked sideways at the team following Liu Yu, thinking that the guns carried by these people were the same as the self-igniting fire of the Luocha Guards.

Liu Yu jumped off the horse, glanced at the map in the hand of the servant next to him, and asked, "How far is it from here to Duke Qi's camp?"

"Going back to my lord, there is still half a day's journey."

"That's good. It's hard work. You guys keep going."

Just as he turned over and was about to mount his horse, the young Russians in the north suddenly asked a question in Russian.

"Hello, Chinese official. Are you from the eastern battlefield?"

Liu Yu has a foundation in Latin in this life. Although he can't learn the outrageous big-tongue tremolo in Russian, he has learned a basic in Russian after living in the east for more than a year, and he can still understand it now.

"Yes. Young man, what's the matter?"

The Russian young man on the opposite side looked at the flintlock guns strapped to the horses of Liu Yu's guards, apparently produced by the Tula Arsenal, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Have you seen a young man named Mikhail? About my age, brown-haired, blue-eyed, one of the men who set off with Bering's expedition."

It seems that the news of the capture of Bering's expedition team has already reached here.

Otherwise, Liu Yu would have forgotten that he had killed such a person.When I mentioned this, I suddenly remembered that I had borrowed the head of that young man, and asked, "Who are you to him?"

"He's my brother. Have you seen him?"

"Well... I haven't seen it. Maybe I was captured? I came to negotiate, and the prisoners will be released after the negotiations. I wish you and your brother to meet soon."

"Thank you, you're such a nice guy."

The young man took off his hat and bowed to Liu Yu, probably because he smelled the smoke accumulated on Liu Yu's body along the way, he took out a cigarette pouch from his pocket and handed it over.

"Please try it, Virginia tobacco, my family brought it back from France. Swallowing it is as sweet and smooth as cream..."

Pushing refused, jumped on the horse and ran away.

After walking far away, Liu Yu quietly looked back.You can kill people in any way you want on the battlefield, just randomly order someone to be shot like ordering red flowers.

"Third Master, what did the Rakshasa ghost say?"

"It's nothing, hahaha, it's just to torture my conscience."

The mantou who has lost his status as a servant and has a body of a flying cavalry captain still calls Liu Yu as before.

He also looked back and wondered: "Third Master, you said that the east is still fighting, why is the west so quiet? If we don't fight, they won't fight either?"

"What do you say?"

"I don't know." Mantou shook his head, finding it difficult to understand.

"Think about it slowly. If you figure it out, tell me." He grinned at the steamed bun, turned around and shouted: "Keep up, speed up, get there before dark, and get a good night's sleep!"

at dusk.

Duke Tian Suo of the State of Qi was eating dinner. The red-hot charcoal fire was boiling in a small copper stove, and a few slices of white and tender lamb were rolling up and down. The two slices of fiery red pepper in the soup were just enough to drive away the chill outside.

The tent was lifted suddenly, and a gust of cold wind made Tian Suo shiver, and was about to curse.

"Duke! The third son of Duke Yi's family is here."

"Ouch! It's finally here!"

Hearing this, the anger just now disappeared.

Throwing down the chopsticks, without putting on the cloak, he jumped up and opened the tent and rushed out.

Just as Liu Yu got off the horse, he was slapping his numb knee joints, grinning and cursing the horrible weather here.

Seeing Qi Guogong coming from a distance, he was about to salute when he was supported by Qi Guogong.

"Okay, don't be so polite when you're away on an expedition. Haven't you eaten yet? It's just right, come here... But I'm looking forward to you, if you don't come, I really don't know what to do."

"Come here, go and arrange to come together, and have something to eat first."

Beckoning for someone to come over, I had already made preparations, but I didn't expect Liu Yu to come so soon.

After entering the tent, Liu Yu made the first stop, but did not sit down directly.

After roasting his hands, he sat aside after Qi Guogong signaled him to sit down.

The entourage brought wine and bowls and chopsticks, and Qi Guogong asked the entourage to go out, and no one should be outside.

On the table is a small copper stove for boiling hot soup. On the table are fresh lamb and simple leek sauce.

"I'm out on an expedition, there's nothing delicious. Emperor Taizong loved to eat this. It is said that he wanted to get some chili peppers before he got seriously ill. Taizong's way of eating does not use leek flower sauce. Now that I am here, I really tasted it .”

Liu Yu chuckled, looking at the peppers and peppers in the copper stove, he didn't know what he thought of.

He half stood up and poured a glass of wine for Qi Guogong. Qi Guogong praised him: "Boy, you have done a good job in the east. I have heard about it. If you fight well in the east, the Raksha people in the west will not dare to move. They both He didn’t dare to go to the east, and he didn’t dare to take the initiative to beat me, but he sat with me in the tent every day, from spring to winter.”

Speaking of raising the wine glass, Liu Yu hastily touched it with a low voice.After sandwiching two pieces of mutton, my body finally warmed up.

"I don't know what Duke Qi talked about with the Raksha people?"

"I didn't talk about anything serious. Before the war, as you said, talk about the emperor and Caesar, about Basilius, about etiquette, about the Oala tribe on the Volga River. No matter what they talk about, as long as I bring it up, they Will take the initiative to argue with me."

At that time, listening to those Raksha people blushing was much more interesting than sitting in meditation every day now.In the wrangling of the previous negotiations, he also knew some things farther afield.

Only then did I know that the Turghut Tribe of Oara Mongolia was conscripted by Rakshasa a few years ago to participate in the Great Northern War.

When it comes to the Wara Mongols on the banks of the Volga River, the faces of the Raksha people are not as good as those who talk about Caesar or the emperor. When Stepan Rasin rebelled, many Turghut tribes followed to attack Astrakhan.

Thinking of the angry and nagging appearances of those Rakshasa people before, Qi Guogong couldn't help laughing.

After laughing, his expression gradually became serious.

Reaching out to support Liu Yu who was about to give him more wine, he shook his head and said, "Don't rush to drink wine. This battle was actually very dangerous. Thinking about it now, I still feel a little scared."

There was no one else around, and Qi Guogong didn't hide anything, and said directly: "After all, your majesty is still too anxious. According to the plan before the court, it is roughly right to go west first and then east. But if you didn't do it in the east It’s a big deal, it’s made the situation alive, and it’s not a good fight.”

"Shoutong, good job. My old eyes, I haven't misread you."

Hearing Qi Guogong boasting himself like this, Liu Yu hurriedly said: "Guogong is serious."

"Is it heavy? I think it's light! As long as there are two more siege battles like Muli Jiwei, the Raksha people will understand our weight. Chaozhong miscalculated this time and completely underestimated the Raksha people." They all say that they don't think about victory, they think about defeat first, and in the battle against Rakshasa, they obviously did it according to what they thought was easy to win, and didn't even think about what to do if the fight didn't go well."

At this time, it seemed that the overall situation had been settled. Qi Guogong looked at the whole battle situation from the perspective of Zhuge Liang after the event, and couldn't help sweating profusely.

In the tragic siege of Muliji, it seemed that only a thousand people died, but in fact it was the elite of the country that was transferred, and in the end, all the veterans who were the backbone of the grassroots combat power were directly filled in.

If Liu Yu hadn't fought easily in the east, and hadn't written a new siege method in advance to make the emperor equivalent to changing generals, after the siege of Mulijiwei, Dashun would have to resort to siege.

Because if you fight two more games and attack two cities, the morale of the army will be shaken by fear of battle, and the general in front of the battle will inevitably kneel down and beg the emperor to turn into a siege.

In that case, the whole battle situation would be completely different.

Before the imperial court sent troops, they regarded the Raksha people as too simple and underestimated the fighting power of the Raksha people: it couldn't be more obvious. The emperor personally conquered the Heilongjiang River Basin and the Shileka River and the Ganen River, a total of seven fortresses.

When summer arrives and the war begins, the army must be withdrawn before spring, because spring in the Northeast cannot fight, and in spring in the permafrost, even marching is like swimming in melted mud.

Excluding the marching time, the east and the west are advancing side by side, which is obviously calculated according to the speed of capturing a fort in 20 days.No one thought about it, what if the average 20 days can't take down one?
Judging from their experience in the southwestern chieftain and the war in the late Ming Dynasty, the number of Raksha people in each fort was only a few hundred when the army went out, and it was impossible to capture one in 20 days.

It was precisely because Liu Yu unexpectedly captured two forts in the east, and the subsequent siege battle on the Ergun River was really qualified, which caused the Raksha people's judgment to be biased.

So much so that they were afraid that Dashun would launch an offensive on the Mongolian border on the western front, and with the help of Mongolian cavalry and Dashun's artillery, besieged the fortress of Lake Baikal.

This is how the weird scene appeared.The war on the Eastern Front was not over yet, but there was a sit-in negotiation on the Western Front. Both sides exercised restraint on the Western Front.

Speaking of this, Qi Guogong was still in a cold sweat.

"Shortly after the war started, after the Muluhan Mountain Acropolis and Muliji Acropolis were destroyed, the Raksha people asked me to negotiate. To be honest, I was also afraid at the time. I was afraid that the Raksha people would catch me and detain me."

"I can't help it. If I didn't go at that time, it would be tantamount to showing cowardice. The Raksha people don't go to support the Eastern Front, but they can go south on the Western Front. There is no way, I can only bite the bullet and say something after I go. Don't say anything, tell people to continue to survey the border and map."

"The Raksha people didn't expect the two castles to be captured so quickly. They were extremely panicked by our siege methods, and worried that if the war expanded, the forts near Lake Baikal would also be in danger. So they had a tacit understanding with me. They didn't say a word during the negotiation. Said, but in private, we still continue to send people to cooperate in the border survey and mapping."

Speaking of this, he pointed to the outside, and whispered: "This is not an uninhabited place like the Northeast. After all, there are a lot of Mongolian tribes, and the nobles of each tribe can pull out a team of thousands of people. Although it cannot be fought, it will collapse at the first touch. But the Raksha people were afraid that we would send a small amount of artillery and infantry to support them, and they really had the ability to attack the fort in the east. The 3000 people I brought might not be able to fight, but they still frightened the Raksha people by standing there to fill the scene. "

"The Raksha people don't want to fight big, and we don't want to fight too much. But if the fight in the east doesn't go well, it won't be what it is now. The Raksha people still know the combat power of the Khalkha Mongolian cavalry. Your merit , in my opinion, it is not an exaggeration to be named a baron. But it is also a good thing not to be named."

(End of this chapter)