Chapter 283: Big Nose Tartar
Li Dynasty, Qingxing County, Zaoshan County, this small county town not far from the Tumen River, is panicked like the end of the world, and there are Koreans everywhere who are carrying packages and helping the old and the young to flee with their lives.
Because legend has it that thousands of big-nosed Tartars came to attack with 10,000 pounds of heavy artillery, and with one shot, they bombed the soldiers and horses who went to investigate!
It's worth it!
The news spread to Zaoshan County, a huge county town, everyone who could run ran away, as for the officials, hehe, they knew the news yesterday, and they have long since run away!
You must know that in the current Li Dynasty, the reigning person is the authentic king Li Qi, who is quite famous in history.
The reign of him and his grandfather, King Yingzong, is collectively known as the Yingzheng era, which was the famous Zhongxing period of the Li dynasty.
But in such an era, North Korea's armaments are slackened like this, which is really a shame for the East Asian monster room!
The big carp He Hezai was watching all this from the Tumen River, and he felt extremely incomprehensible.
A few days ago, I was going to ask for directions, but a petty officer in colorful clothes shot him, and finally was sent to the sky by a picric acid bomb by the pig fat boy.
Since then, the entire Tumen River, as if it had been stabbed in a hornet's nest, was full of scenes of wolves running and dolphins.
After a few smacks in his throat, He Hezai still gave up the tempting idea of grabbing a handful in the past, because he had more important things to do!
Just when the Koreans of the Li Dynasty on the opposite side were frightened, on the left side of the Tumen River, in an inconspicuous mountain nest, dozens of Cossack colonists dressed in gray-yellow clothes and without the barbaric and cruel appearance of later generations were riding on horseback.
They looked at the troops in the distance, dressed in French-style white uniforms, marching in a neat line, and they were uneasy.
In fact, these Cossacks, whom the Koreans called the big-nosed Tartars, and some Russian rogue soldiers, are still relatively peaceful in the entire Outer Northeast, at least in these areas bordering the Qing Dynasty.
Because at present, in the minds of these rogue Russians, our Qing Dynasty is still a fairly powerful country.
And now, they can't even handle the Chukchi people, who are of the same Tungusic race as the Manchus, and they don't have the strength to provoke the Manchus.
Throughout the hundred years, from Semyon. From Chernishevsky to Pavrutsky, the Russians and Chukchi unleashed numerous village battles of hundreds against hundreds.
But the Russians have always won first and then lost, and they have always been unable to conquer, and they have not only been able to kill the Chukotkas, but naturally they will not provoke the Manchus.
Even North Korea relied on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the stepfather, and in addition to the border people who were sometimes robbed of some pigs and sheep, they also lived a relatively stable life.
After the Battle of Fenshuiliang, Ye Kai received a handwritten reply from the Russian Emperor Catherine II, in which the empress agreed to all of Ye Kai's requests, and the first batch of fifty Polish hussars were also organized and on the way to be sent, and at the same time, the empress also said that Ye Kai, a Cossack cavalry in the Far East, could be recruited at will.
Whether the bitter cold of Siberia is important, or berberine hydrochloride and diethyl x morphine are important, Her Majesty knows very well in her heart.
So Ye Kai immediately sent the interceptor three-masted fast battleship and He Hezai's big carp to the north lightly and went to the outer northeast region to recruit the Cossack cavalry who were quite miserable there.
James. Brown frowned and walked at the front of the line, and he chatted in fluent French with Ye Kai's little fat uncle Ye Futian, one of the Ye family's schoolchildren who had just returned from Europe.
"Henry, I really don't understand why Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief would want us to run here for months to recruit these beast-like Russians.
It's disgusting, they don't have much combat effectiveness at first glance, if His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief needs a cavalry, isn't it good to train a cuirassiers? How useful can such hussars be? ”
"Yes, Mr. Brown, I don't know what they are for, they look like some vicious beggars, but since they are orders from the Chief, we will carry them out!"
The little fat man Ye Futian has matured a lot, and he is no longer the chubby kid who speaks freely, he successfully graduated from the Department of Chemistry of the University of Paris, even in France, he is also a very good chemistry talent.
In fact, he knows a little bit of Ye Kai's thoughts, the cuirassiers are really good, but they also have to have money to afford to play!
Unlike Europe, which is full of good horses, the better horses have to be imported from India.
Not only to introduce horses, but also to introduce horse trainers, veterinarians, etc., now playing cuirassiers, not to mention training cavalry, is the cost of raising horses, Ye Kai can't afford it.
Although the Cossacks on the other side do look like beggars, they are also vicious beggars!
And beggars, the cost must be much less, and the skin is much more solid, and durability is the best, isn't the Russians famous for this?
Valentin. Stroganov, the captain of the army of Her Majesty the Empress, just by looking at the surname, you know that this is a soldier from a noble family.
The Stroganov family is the largest military aristocratic family in Russia east of the Ural Mountains, and although it has begun to decline over the years, it can be regarded as one of the most wealthy families in Russia.
For James, who was walking towards him. Brown and the others, Valentin had a feeling of confusion, what is the French Army doing here?
They were also contacted through an Orthodox priest, could it be that the gold mountain was found here? The French can't resist wanting a piece of the pie?
Valentin could only guess so, otherwise he really didn't know what other reason there was for the French army to appear here.
However, the two sides who gradually approached were lucky, because Valentin, although a fringe member of the Stroganov family, was fortunate that he could speak French.
You must know that in today's Russia, the Russian aristocracy does not speak Russian, and even many people in the tsarist family do not know Russian, not because they can't learn it, but deliberately don't learn it, because they are afraid that this strange and dirty language will defile their mouths that speak beautiful French.
In Russia, it is easy to judge a person's origin just by listening to the language you speak.
Those who are fluent in French, they are aristocratic families, stumbling, they are families that can barely touch the aristocratic side, and they are not at all, that is, Slavs and Cossacks who are qualified to be called Tsar's little fathers and other races.
So when Valentin, who can only stumble in French. Stroganov, who was well-dressed and holding a brand-new flintlock pistol, looked tall and fluent in French. When Brown and Ye Futian were together, they felt like serfs meeting their masters.
James didn't talk nonsense, and directly read the edict written by Catherine II herself to the self-proclaimed commander of Lieutenant Valentin.
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Catherine II. Alexeyevna, natural ruler, emperor of all Russia, of Moscow
The edict is hereby issued, and those who see the edict hereby obey the orders of the person who holds the edict, and is merciful, a member of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Nature in London, Britain, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and a Marquis of Zinedin. Mr. Ye, provide all the help, and even serve Mr. Ye.
Belch! Fallengin, who knelt down on one knee, was even more bewildered, an Oriental, both a member of the Royal Society of Great Britain and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
How does it sound like a lie to drive the English who spoke fluent French to serve him, and now he still has the edict of His Majesty Catherine II asking him to obey orders?
However, Valenjing took a closer look at this edict, and it was indeed true, as a son of a great aristocratic family, although he was down, he still knew the edict.
"Sir, who is this Oriental? Who is Mr. Zinedin? Are you also at the mercy of this Mr. Zinedin? ”
After a moment's hesitation, Valentin cautiously asked James, the strange English man in a French military uniform who spoke French.
"This Oriental man is called Henry. Ye, graduated from the University of Paris, Captain, your questions are a bit too much, I think you should gather your team now.
Of course, please don't bring all the useless scum, we just need the most heroic Cossack warriors, each of whom needs to have a good horsemanship, and as for who Mr. Zinedin is, you will know when you get there! ”
Valentin was dumbfounded, this somewhat chubby and arrogant Oriental man could even speak fluent French!
And he graduated from the University of Paris, you know, in this era, many heirs of Russian aristocratic families could not enter the University of Paris.
"Of course, Captain Valentin, you will soon be honored for today's meeting, Zinedin. Mr. Ye is a generous electoral-style aristocrat, as long as you serve him, the queen's bread, vodka, barbecue, a good salary, and even the title will be at your fingertips!
And you'll be traveling with us to the warm south, where the weather is definitely much better than this icy muddy wasteland! ”
Ye Futian thought about it for a while, but he really didn't know how to describe Ye Kai, so in the end he could only use an elector.
As for the warm south, haha, it's really warm, warm enough to heat Valentin, who is accustomed to a cold climate!
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