No matter how good the water nature of these Cossacks is, they are not as fast as a light bark boat.

When most of the Cossacks chose to jump into the water to flee for their lives, bark boats hidden in the reeds rushed out.

The musketeers lay on their stomachs on the boat, shooting the Cossacks swimming on the surface of the water like targets.

After being shot to death, he quickly crossed over to retrieve the corpse, a head of five rubles, the price was clearly marked, and Tong Su was not deceived.

Even so, several Cossacks counter-robbed a bark boat, but were eventually shot by musketeers.

The battle has turned into a massacre from the moment Liu Yu led people to shoot from the flanks and Du Feng led the cavalry to copy.

The formation was in disarray, the flanks were attacked, and the individual's bravery was completely useless.

The gunfire gradually stopped, and Du Feng came to Liu Yu on his horse, and knelt down firmly and gave a military salute.

"My lord, this battle is a complete victory. I think at least 300 Cossacks came. Presumably, there are not many people in the castle of the Rakshasas. ”

His face was full of joy, and he casually tore off the hat of the corpse of a Cossack cavalryman next to him and wiped his blood-stained knife. He took out a vial of oil from his waist, wiped the oil on his knife, and inserted it into the scabbard.

Jiao Lao Butu also walked over from a distance, took off his armor and shirt, and showed his bruised shoulders that had been smashed by axes and guns. Liu Yu just nodded at him slightly, there was no death or blood, this injury on the battlefield was nothing.

After getting closer, Jiao Lao Butu also gave Liu Yu a formal military salute like Du Feng. In the previous battle in Yongning Temple, Jiao Lao Butu did not participate, but this time he really saw Liu Yu's deployment, and he was convinced, and he no longer had the arrogance that he looked down on at the beginning.

Soon, the battlefield was cleaned up.

There were a hundred and ten heads, some of whom were taken prisoner, and the rest were wounded.

Out of the spirit of humanitarianism, Liu Yu ordered all these wounded Cossacks to be hacked to death.

In this era when there are no antibiotics, and it is summer, it is a sin to be seriously injured and to live.

The rest were taken prisoner and tied together with ropes.

The emperor, I still hope that there will be some kind of prisoner sacrifice ceremony, this place is very close to the Acropolis of Handori, you can keep these prisoners, and you don't have to worry too much about logistics. Spending money to buy it is, anyway, the government soldiers here farm the land or the local masters, and the grain is not very easy to sell, and they are looking forward to fighting the war in exchange for the silver that the court buys grain on the spot.

Since the emperor is on the front line, the scene of sacrificing prisoners should still be liked, and it can be regarded as a pat on the back.

According to his previous promise, Liu Yu automatically used the silver coins obtained in exchange for the disguised caravan trade. Each sentry took the head of his own team and counted it next to Liu Yu. One hand to hand, one hand to pay money, the first money is clear.

The soldiers took the money and were naturally happy.

But the happiest were the tribesmen who followed Liu Yu to pay tribute.

They were tormented by the tribute of the "tooth saks" of these Cossacks, and they could not fight and beat them, and they all regarded the Cossacks as invincible "evil spirits".

Now that the demons who asked them to collect their teeth have lost their heads, or have been captured and tied together, they finally believe that the emperor of the Celestial Empire will protect them.

As for why it didn't matter before...... Belch...... Maybe the Son of Heaven didn't know it before, right?

Looking at these tribesmen, Liu Yu knew that the consolidation of border defense in the future would still depend on uniting these people.

At least for a short period of time, large-scale immigration cannot be expected, and the imperial court may not be able to afford this money.

Jiangnan raised taxes to make up for the relocation of people from Shandong and Henan, when the Jiangnan slaves became slaves and the land they were allocated, Dashun did not preside over the "justice" and returned it to the gentry, which has offended a wave.

To this day, there are still people who remember the "benevolent government" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Jiangyin to suppress the slavery and return the land of the gentry, and they want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty in this heavy place of Jiangyin, and it is useless to raise taxes in a short time.

Let the scholars take the lead in sending their sons to the border, this is insulting and persecuting the scribes. Of course, the nobles are also the same, and the imperial power has to borrow the power of the nobles before cleaning up the gentry, and they are not willing to offend the nobles.

If he refuses to raise taxes and take the lead in setting an example, he can only learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to recruit sinners and sons-in-law and other forced migration to the frontier. But don't even think about it, you will definitely have to be deducted a big hat of "the king of the Emperor".

Fortunately, the Xiaoice period has passed, and the temperature is gradually warming. Rye and other crops from Russia have also begun to be introduced, and rice from North Korea has crossed the Suifen River, so it is expected that the number of people will increase gradually.

But at least for a few decades, these frontier tributaries were the main force patrolling and protecting the border.

Taking advantage of the gratitude and excitement of these people, Liu Yu called these tribes who had been out of tribute for three hundred years together.

"Heilongjiang is a black dragon."

"The Yellow River is a yellow dragon."

"The Yangtze River is a white dragon."

"Pearl River is a green dragon."

"These four dragons are brothers and inseparable. In the future, you will pay tribute to the true dragon Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will naturally have a reward. Since the four dragons are brothers, they should work together. Such as the story of the broken arrow that you should have heard. ”

"Since you have chosen to pay tribute, if someone asks you to collect the tooth sak, the Son of Heaven will naturally not allow it, and he will naturally protect you."

"Today, there is still a castle of Rakshasa in Heilongjiang. It's like a black dragon's body, which has been bitten by an evil ghost and has a few rotten sores, foul smell, and pus. What are we going to do? ”

A young man from one tribe in the crowd shouted, "Peel off the rotten sores!" ”

"That's right! Rip it off! ”

More people shouted, Liu Yu nodded, pressed his hand and said, "Okay!" Then let's go and rip this rotten sore away. ”

"It is said that the four dragons are brothers and are inseparable."

"You grew up on the banks of the Heilongjiang River, and you are the children of this black dragon. My ancestors were from Mizhi and grew up drinking water from the Wuding River, which also flowed into the Yellow River......"

As soon as he finished speaking, he coughed lightly and signaled Du Feng to be smarter, follow along, and don't break the atmosphere.

Du Feng stepped forward and said loudly: "My ancestor is from Yuncheng. I also grew up drinking the water of the Yellow River. followed Hou Xie Qian of Zichuan from Shandong to the Songhua River, and he also grew up drinking water from Heilongjiang. ”

As soon as he stepped forward, the officers surrounding Liu Yu stood up one after another.

"My ancestors were from Jingzhou and grew up drinking water from the Yangtze River. followed Yi Guogong to fight back against Shaanxi, and also drank the water of the Yellow River. ”

"My ancestor was a slave of Songjiang Mansion, who drank the water of the Yangtze River, followed Xiangguo Gong to fight Guangdong, and can be regarded as drinking the water of the Pearl River."

"My ancestor was a mining slave in southern Hunan, and he followed the king of bulldozing to fight Changsha and besiege Guangxi ......"

The officers came forward one after another to report the relationship between themselves and these four dragons, all in all, the sky is wide, but it is inseparable from these four dragons. As for the Huai River...... After all, there is a lack of cards, and since the return of Song Sanyi to the river, Huang Huai has not been separated.

The four rivers cover almost the entire Han land, and any of the officers can have some relationship. As soon as the number of people participated, the emotions gradually became enthusiastic.

Liu Yu asked someone to bring a white horse from the captured horses, asked someone to go to the river to catch a few fish, and took out more than a dozen heads.

He drew his sword and stabbed the white horse to death, and told him to cut off the horse's head, and made three animals out of the white horse, the river fish, and the enemy's head.

Mix the blood of horses with wine, and swear an oath with the tribes with arrows.

"The four dragons are inseparable, and they are all brothers. Today, the white horse, river fish, and enemy head are sacrificed, and the emperor and the queen soil are the evidence. ”

"Whoever hurts this brother, if he hurts his own body, kill him together!"

"Whoever divides this brother, if he divides his wife, kill him together!"

"Those who mess with this brother will kill them together if they mess with their own mother!"

The broken arrow was inserted in front of the three animals, and the fire rope was used as incense, and a group of officers and people from the tribe followed Liu Yu to bow down to the three animals, swearing not to rebel and work together.

After the oath, he asked someone to buy a pot to make rice, and killed some of the horses wounded on the battlefield to make a meat meal. Tell some cavalry to go out near the Rakshasa fortress and reconnoiter the situation.

Du Feng looked at the tribesmen with high morale, as well as the banner that said "Refuse to pay Yasak", and was puzzled.

"My lord, since they have already paid tribute, how can they refuse to pay it? It shouldn't have been paid in the first place. ”

"Nonsense. You still listen to me to know what the Rakshasa word means. They are even more incomprehensible. I wrote it in Rakshasa script, of course, for the Rakshasa people. Do you think I wrote it to them? ”

"For the Rakshasas?"

Du Feng was even more puzzled.

"My lord, the Rakshasa people are not stupid. It was far from the castle, but the gunshots were like popping beans, and of course they could hear them. Besides, these tribes have been confiscated by the Yasaks, and no one has organized them, making it difficult to fight against the Rakshasas. There are no more than 300 Cossacks left, and the Rakshasas must have guessed that we did it. ”

Liu Yu nodded and said with a smile: "So what?" If you are an officer of the Rakshasa in a different place, what do you think? If it's a formal war, why write this line? ”

"Writing this line, the Rakshasa officer will think that this is what we are agitating behind our backs, but we don't want to actually go to war. If you want to send someone to suppress these tribes, you will transfer troops from the upper reaches to ask for reinforcements. ”

"If we make a big fanfare, the Rakshasa officers may move troops to ask for support; But it is also possible to learn from Zhang Suiyang, stay here by yourself, buy time for the back, and do not call people to support, but ask their people to strictly hold and strengthen their defenses. ”

"It's so easy to do such a vote, don't be complacent. If we can trick the Rakshasas into sending troops to support us from upstream, we will take this city, ambush reinforcements, and take advantage of the situation to go north and take another one. In this way, the entire fortress in the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River was completely cleared. ”

"The merit of one city, the merit of two cities, which is more important? It is better to find a way to mobilize the enemy, fight ambush warfare, and field warfare. ”

Thanks to the map sent by Bering, Liu Yu knew the Russians' fortress in Heilongjiang with a good grasp. In the upper reaches of Stepanovsk, there is also a fort that connects Yakutsk with the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River.

Liu Yu is very sober, he has no heavy artillery, and he is sick in the brain when he forcibly attacks the fort. If you want to steal military merit, you have to find a way to trick people out of the castle.

As long as they are tricked, these Cossacks are not so difficult to deal with, but if they are all squatted in the fortress, it will be difficult to fight.

If you don't plan for eternity, you can't plan for a while.

Now that the war has begun, a qualified staff should prepare for the next fortress before it is captured, and the war should be a tightly woven web, not an unrelated dot.

It can only be used once. Once the war begins, this trick is useless.

Siege reinforcements, this can be used, but it needs to be slightly changed here, and the magic of use is in one mind, and it cannot be used without knowing how to be flexible.

The Rakshasa people went down the river, and they didn't have a water master, so they couldn't send reinforcements normally.

But fortunately, the distance is far away, even if someone is sent here to ask for help and reinforcements are sent, it will take twenty or thirty days to go back and forth.

He was confident enough to take down the fort in front of him within twenty days, and capture Hannibal to repay his merits.

After capturing the fortress, wait for reinforcements from the Rakshasas upstream, and then fight another battle of annihilation.

At that time, there should be only one hundred and ten people left in the upstream fortress, and it is entirely possible to take it.

In this way, the two support points of the Rakshasa people in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang will be completely eliminated, and they will strive for a greater voice in future negotiations.

Writing that line from the perspective of the tribe is not at all for the tribesmen to see the "refusal to pay the toothsak", but to make Hannibal misjudge.

It is believed that Dashun did not start a full-scale war against Russia, but only instigated some tribes behind his back, as long as it can be suppressed, there is not much of a problem.

To deal with the tribal resistance, Dashun instigated behind the scenes and did not participate in the war head-on, and the best way was to mobilize mobile forces to suppress it; And if there is a full-scale war with Russia, it is better to shrink in the fort and wait for reinforcements from the west and north.

Liu Yu has a high opinion of Hannibal.

I'm really afraid that this fortress engineer has "the will to die in the country, in order to repay the kindness of the emperor". When the time comes, staying here is not to ask for help, but to let the upstream prepare to strengthen the city defenses with all their might, and to buy time for the overall situation at the expense of themselves...... That's a fly in the ointment.

He still has a backhand, and he is confident that he will break the city in a short time, so he naturally hopes that the enemy army will send reinforcements to fight the time difference and do another wave.