Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 793 Surrender
The night was dark.

Harobav took more than 100 Cossacks to the south bank of the Heilongjiang River in a large boat, entered the mouth of the Emur River, and raided the village on the south bank at night.

It used to be a large village with 24 tents. After they occupied Yasak, the villagers had fled. Now Rafkai united several tribes and came back. Now it is the residence of Rafkai's brother Shirkinei.

They approached the camp quietly.

When they reached the riverside, the camp with a hundred tents was still very lively, but most of them were women, children, old people, young and old, and they followed Shirkinei to the north bank, at the camp of Chief Rafkai.

Khabarov jumped down and jumped ashore.

The Cossacks behind them also jumped ashore one after another, and followed Khabarov to the camp with firearms and knives and axes. There was only a wooden fence in the camp, and there were tents inside, as well as their deer and dogs.

The dog heard the movement and started barking wildly.

But Khabarov and the others had already rushed to the gate, swung their axes and slashed fiercely, and quickly opened the gate without anyone blocking it.

Hearing the barking of dogs, an old man came out with a bow and arrow to check.

Khabarov threw his ax out, hitting the old man in the face, and the old man screamed and fell down.Khabarov, who succeeded in one blow, roared, "Kill them all!"

A tent is a family, but young men are not in the camp.

The barking of dogs, the screaming, and the roaring of Cossacks alarmed the entire camp. Old people, women, and even children came out with bows, arrows, knives and axes.

There was a bang.

A Cossack raised his gun and knocked down an old man, put away his gun and rushed forward, drew out his ax and chopped down another one.

The sound of gunfire was everywhere, and the Cossacks had rich experience in looting and combat. They were in groups of three or five, giving priority to those with bows and arrows, and showed no mercy to the elderly, children and women.

And the Cossacks were behind, and taking their horses from the boats, they mounted and surrounded the camp, not letting a man escape.

The camp of hundreds of people was quickly butchered into hell.

Although the old people are very brave, and the women and children do not show weakness, how can they be the opponents of the Cossacks? The group of vicious robbers held muskets and killed them from a distance. The Cossacks were still wearing armor, so they could not easily hurt them them.

More than 300 old and weak women and children were besieged in a battle. Khabarov called an interpreter to persuade them to surrender.

Someone cursed these robbers, and Khabarov pulled them out and shot them in the head.

"From now on, this is the territory of Tsarist Russia. All of you have to pay the sable fur tax to the Tsar. Every person in the tent has to pay, and each person pays ten mink furs a year."

An elderly woman said, "It's not impossible if you only pay taxes in kind and furs, but ten mink furs per person per year is too much. It's okay to pay one mink fur per tent a year, but now Mink fur is not easy to hunt, you should allow us to use other furs such as buckskin and fox fur to make up for it, you can’t rob us, let alone kill innocent people indiscriminately!”

Khabarov said disdainfully, "I'm not here to bargain with you, one person has ten mink furs per year, and fox furs are fine too, but they have to be made up according to the value.

Also, your resistance today has caused us great losses, and you must pay compensation. "

"You also have to serve us, help us build the city, and have the obligation to send troops to help us attack other tribes that refuse to pay tribute."

Some say they are too greedy and demanding too much.

Khabarov waved his hand, and several Cossacks rushed in, arrested those who opposed, and then shot them all in public again.

The rest of the women, children and old people were silent.

He let go of an old man and asked him to go back to Hirkinei and Rafkai and pass on a message for him. As long as they surrendered to Tsarist Russia, paid taxes in kind and made compensation to them, then he could stop attacking them.

After letting the old man go, Khabarov asked the Cossacks to take the survivors in the camp to rush to repair the camp fence, strengthen the defense, and killed many Daurian deer in the camp, stewed the meat in a big pot, and opened it to eat.

After eating and drinking, the Cossacks began to drag the Daur women into the tent.

The women resisted, but they were only beaten, and some were even killed.

The screams resounded through the camp.

They murdered, robbed, and then raped, unscrupulous and extremely arrogant.

The old man found Rafkai and the others. Shirkinei was very angry when he heard that his camp had been captured, his wife and children had been captured, and many people had died.

Regardless of Rafkai's persuasion, he hurried back with his own people. They were going to take revenge on the Tsarist Russian robbers and take back their wives and children.

They crossed the river in small boats, and then rushed back to the mouth of the Emur River when the sun rose.

Khabarov and other bandits spent the night wantonly, but they didn't panic at all when they saw the Daur people come back.

Hirkinei was blindfolded by hatred, and led his subordinates to attack the gate directly with bows and arrows.

When they rushed to the front, Khabarov led the Cossacks and fired from behind the fence, and someone even lit a fuze from behind and fired a cannon.

Daur's heroic attack resulted in heavy casualties. When they wanted to retreat temporarily, Stepanov rushed out of the fence with a group of Cossack light cavalry.

They galloped on horses, and soon rushed to the retreating Daur warriors, swung their Cossack scimitars, and chopped down Daur warriors one after another.

Hirkinei kept retreating, and finally had to jump into the boat and escape, most of them died on the shore.

He returned to the northern camp and wept bitterly to his brother.

"These bandits are fiercely armed. We should avoid the edge for now, and we should wait for reinforcements from the imperial court." The leader Albasi suggested.

Rafkai did not have any hope for reinforcements. Before that, Houjin sent troops to conquer the downstream Daur tribe, and the leader of a large tribe went to pay tribute to Emperor Houjin. Living in Liaodong, his children were also awarded official titles, and some soldiers from their tribe were also conscripted to fight in Liaodong.

Later, Rafkai and others in the upper reaches also paid tribute to Houjin, and handed in tribute to Houjin officials in the Jingqili River Estuary area.

On the north bank above the Jingqili River in Heilongjiang, there were nine large tribes. Later Jin collectively referred to them as Saurons. In fact, they were not all Saurons, or they actually belonged to many tribes or even different ethnic groups.

Later Jin collectively referred to them as the Sahalian Department, or the Sauron Department, mainly because the section of Heilongjiang from the confluence of the Erguna River to the Jingqili River was called Sahalian Ula by the indigenous people, and Sahalian was a black The meaning of Ula is Jiang.

Sakhalian Ula is also Heilongjiang in the indigenous language, and some tribal languages ​​call it the Amur River, which probably means black rivers.

More than 44 years ago, that is, in the [-]th year of Wanli, Nurhachi ordered Hu Erhan and Anfei Yanggu to lead troops across Heilongjiang to take the eleven villages of the Saha Company.

At that time, there were many tribes such as Sahalian tribe, Guercha tribe, Huerha tribe, and Sauron tribe on the north bank of the middle reaches of Heilongjiang, and they lived in different places.

The Sakhalian tribe is not simply a nation, but more of a regional geography and tribal concept.

Houjin marked the Sakhalian tribe as the tribe living in the area north of the Qili River Estuary, a branch of the northern bank of Heilongjiang. It is subdivided into Daur, Ewenki and other tribes.

Rafkai can also be regarded as a member of the Sakhalian tribe. They belong to the Daur ethnic group and live in the upper reaches. Five branches flow into the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and five city fences have been established. They not only shoot and hunt, but also farm and raise deer.Mink fur is also produced in their area, and there is a Saharcha department next to them. Saharcha means black mink fur.

Aihui in the lower reaches means female mink.

There are three tribal alliances in their area, Huerha, Salhacha, and Sauron. They belong to Sauron, but Sauron is divided into various hala by regional clans.

It is very complex in itself.

If the relationship between the same tribe is closer, but if it belongs to another tribe, there may be frequent conflicts.

This time, Hara of Rafkai encountered Tsarist Russian bandits, so he went to unite with other Sauron clans in the upper reaches of the Hara clan and asked them to send troops for assistance. It took a long time to gather a lot of troops.

But his brother's big defeat made Rafkai understand that even if he had assembled more than 1000 Sauron archers, he didn't seem to have any advantage in front of the guns and artillery.

"If they let our women and children go, and promise not to plunder us in the future, then we can pay them taxes,
No more ransom from us. "

After discussing with the leaders of other Sauron tribes in Hara, Rafkai was very afraid of the Russian firearms. In fact, although Rafkai wanted to fight again, the other leaders retreated. These fierce Tsarist Russians fought, but they did not arrest their wives and children anyway, nor did they kill their parents.

Rafkai himself didn't have many troops, and his reckless brother lost many soldiers, so he had no choice but to raise such aggrieved conditions in the end.

There is no pressure on them to pay tribute to the Tsarist Russians.

Anyway, in the Heilongjiang River Basin, there has never been a king who can unify the various ministries. The various ministries form a loose alliance and live a life of hunting, fishing, and some simple farming. Although there are some city fences, they often graze on the move hunting etc.

When the Yuan Dynasty was strong, they surrendered and paid tribute. When the Ming Dynasty went north, they also surrendered and paid tribute. After the rise of the Jin Dynasty, they still surrendered and paid tribute.

Especially their upstream tribes.

In the past, some larger tribes or alliances appeared in the Heilongjiang River Basin, but whenever they were stronger, they would start to move south.

Tsarist Russian bandits came to spy on the Heilongjiang River Basin again and again, recorded the situation here, and finally called it the Flower Horde Khanate, because many tribes are used to living in tents.

The envoys of the two sides exchanged several times, and finally Rafkai personally came to the city of Yaksa for talks.

"We can return your wives and children, even servants, livestock, etc., but you must keep hostages. In addition, you must cede the city of Yaksa to us. Also, we will return the other four cities including Emur to you. But you must send people to help us build two castles at the mouth of the Erguna River and the mouth of the Emule River on the south bank,

From now on, you will have to pay ten sable furs per account every year. "

"Now is not the season for catching mink. We have already handed over the mink fur to His Majesty the Emperor. We will hand over the remaining 64 mink skins to you. The rest will be made up later." Rafkai brought 64 mink skins. Mink, and some other furs.

But Khabarov looked down on those, only mink fur.

"In the future, you will pay a tax in kind based on 270 mink furs per city per year, and you will not collect any more. You will keep ten children of the headmen as hostages. You will take back the more than [-] defeated soldiers and prisoners, women, children and children here, and you will return to them. You live in the original place, don't be afraid, and we don't want your ransom."

Negotiations between the two parties went smoothly.

Khabarov also intends to ease the tension. As long as these people are willing to pay fur taxes to them, it doesn’t matter if they let go of the captives. Rather than just robbing them once, he would rather see these people obediently pay taxes in kind every year after they are conquered. .

And after these people surrender, they can also buy food and so on from them.

He also brought some knives, axes, iron pans and plow shovels from Yakutsk this time, saying that they were sold cheaply to Daur, but the price they offered was not cheap at all.

But for Rafkai and others, although these things are not cheap, they really need them, and it was not cheap to exchange things downstream in the past.

In the end, fox fur and deer skin were exchanged for food from the Tsarist Russians.

Khabarov also proposed that he hoped to delineate some places on their land boundaries for future settlements of the Tsarist Russians, and to facilitate the construction of cities, trade exchanges, etc.

Rafkai finally agreed.

The two parties reached an agreement.

Rafkai took the leaders to swear an oath in the tradition of the Daur people, expressing their allegiance to Tsarist Russia.

Bakharov divided the plots among the three looted plots, and distributed them by lot to the Cossacks who came with him, and each of them allocated a large plot.

Then they recruited the Saurons to farm for them, and they used sickles and axes as rewards for the Saurons to farm for them.

Khabarov and the others won the first battle, but they were not in a hurry to go south, because in this battle they killed one Cossack and injured fifteen others, and needed to recuperate here.

And after discussing with his subordinates, he plans to build the other two castles first, and then reinforce Yaksa, add forts, and even plan to search for gold and silver mines and lead mines here, as well as search for other surrounding tribes. One conquers.

Those who did not submit were slaughtered or captured as slaves, and they built cities and cultivated land for them. He planned to grow food here and transport it back to Yakutsk at that time, earning a lot of money.

If you can find gold and silver mines, you will be even richer.

If you can't find gold and silver mines and conquer more tribes, you can make a lot of money by collecting fur taxes or robbing fur livestock.

For a while, they were not in a hurry to go south.

He even planned to send a team of Cossacks back to Yakutsk the same way, bring back a batch of food and furs to demonstrate their success, and then transfer some guns and recruit some Cossacks.

They even took over some Cossack wives and children in Yakutsk and settled here.

Shirkinei decided to stay as hostages, and he stayed with nine warriors.

He cut off his hair with a knife and gave it to his humiliated wife to keep it.

"Brother, beware of these Tsarist Russian robbers after you go back, and send people south to look for the emperor's army, and ask them to send reinforcements to destroy these Tsarist Russian robbers."

Rafkai said worriedly, "But I heard that the emperor of the Central Plains has changed."

"Even if the new emperor's soldiers are willing to come, they may not go well."

Thirteen years ago, the most powerful tribal leader in the upper reaches of Sakhalin Ula was Bomu Bogor, who was the strongest in the Sauron tribe. He led his children to Shengjing to meet Huang Taiji in person, and paid tribute to horses and sables. For leather, Huang Taiji also bestowed pommel horses, python clothes, armor, etc.

After he came back, he also recruited various ministries for Huang Taiji, and the cities and villages on the north and south sides of the upper and middle reaches of Heilongjiang all joined him one after another. Among them, Yakesa, Duojin City, Duochen City, Asajin City, and Ertu City were the most famous.

In the second year, he led the leaders of various ministries to pay tribute to Houjin again.

Since then, Bomu Boguoer also relied on Houjin's canonization and banner to expand his power rapidly, and he seemed to become the leader of various ministries in the middle and upper reaches. He was extremely powerful and cut off contact with Houjin. As a result, Huang Taiji worried that his tail would be difficult to control. , So preemptively mobilized troops and horses to attack the Sauron tribe headed by Bomubogor. Later, Jin divided his troops and captured Yaksa, Ukur, Asazin, Duochen and other cities. Bomubogor assembled They captured [-] tribal soldiers, but in the end they were lured by the Houjin army and fell into an ambush. Hundreds of people were killed and wounded, but a large number of Houjin soldiers were still killed.

After protruding from the siege, Bomu Boguoer counterattacked Houjin, and the Houjin army was defeated, with countless injuries, so they had to retreat.

The following year, Huang Taiji sent troops to attack again, adopting the strategy of attacking the west from the east. On the one hand, he threatened to send a large army to attack Heilongjiang again, forcing Bomuboguer to move north. However, he dispatched Mongolian elite cavalry to attack from the upper reaches. After two months, he succeeded. The raid captured Bomu Bogor's younger brother and his family members. After half a month, he successfully raided Bomu Bogor and captured him, his wife and others.

In this battle against chaos, the Qing army captured more than 400 young and strong men from Sauron, more than [-] women and children, and more than [-] sable furs, and finally burned Yaksa and other cities.

Bomubogor was the strongest leader in the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang when he was in Houjin.

He almost established a Sauron Khanate in the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang, but in the end he was decisively attacked by Houjin. His defeat also dealt a heavy blow to the ministries in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.

Although Rafkai belonged to the Sauron Daur tribe, not the Ewenki tribe, but he was also a member of the Bomubogor Alliance, and fought several battles with the Houjin army with him.

Later, when the army was defeated and surrendered to Houjin, five cities were rebuilt on the old ruins such as Yaksa, and he became a powerful Sauron leader in the upper reaches.

In these years, he has paid tribute to Houjin every year, but he has not forgotten what Houjin did when he attacked Bomubogor, burning the cities where they lived for generations, beheading the rebels on the spot, robbing people and property, A prison was built on the spot, and many captives were held. Later, many Sauron captives were moved south to weave the flag.

In comparison, Tsarist Baharov with only two hundred people is far inferior to Hou Jin's ferocity.

I was afraid that exorcising tigers and devouring wolves would end up attracting wolves into the house, and now they have regained some vitality.

"Didn't you say that the new emperor is the son of Ming Dynasty? Daming used to be okay with us Sahalian Ula tribes. Maybe they are different. Maybe they can really help us drive away the Tsarist robbers and restore them to a stable life in the past?"

"Try it, how can you be reconciled if you don't try, so many people died at the hands of those robbers, and our wives and daughters were ruined and humiliated by them, how can we just let it go and pay tribute to them?"

Rafkai hugged his brother, "I will send someone to call for reinforcements, don't worry, I will definitely rescue you."

(End of this chapter)