Chapter Thirty-Nine: I Didn't Think About It
"Kashanda, raising troops is a big deal, you can think about it, even if we win this time, when we leave, the Lusians will definitely retaliate, so after the war, I am afraid that the old and young will have to relocate." Zhiyuan translated Naohide's words to the local chieftain, Zalashi.
"The adults are righteous, but if you don't take revenge, the whole tun is full of people and young people."
Woydtun is the gathering place of the Hezhefeiyaka people on the left bank of the Wulong River estuary, in the upper reaches of Miaotun, not far from each other. And Zalasi was the local chieftain "Kashanda".
At the mention of the Lucians, Zalasi and his companions all gritted their teeth.
Woydtun had just been brutally scooped by the Lusians last winter, and even the chieftain Zalasi had been taken away and only recently released.
The Rusians ruled the nearby areas very roughly, often robbing under the banner of trading, and sometimes even without making excuses, what to rob and insult women even more often, so after 1850, conflicts between Lusians and local tribes occurred from time to time.
In the last trade between the council and the tribes, dozens of smoothbore guns were sold, and it was several nearby tribes that were preparing for the conflict.
Despite the preparations, these villages were devastated last winter.
In the case of Woydtun, it was the Lucia soldiers of Miaotun who came to rob it at first, when Zalasi's wife and sister were insulted, and the tribe offered a lot of things before being spared.
But what I didn't expect was that soon after, another group of Lucians came to wreak havoc again. Originally, the Hezhe tribe was relatively poor, and they couldn't bear it anyway when they were robbed for the second time, Zalasi led people to resist, and killed several cavalrymen with smoothbore guns, but they were outnumbered, and finally they were defeated, and after the battle, not only were they killed a dozen men on the spot as punishment, but Zalasi's family was also captured, and when the enemy left, he also burned down several wooden houses.
After this catastrophe, Woydtun didn't even have enough rations, so he had to send people everywhere for help, but the surrounding tribes were even more miserable, and several small tribes of about 20 families were killed by Quantun.
The winter in Woydtun was extremely miserable, many old people and children starved to death, and Zalasi was tortured in Miaotun for a whole winter, until a while ago he was released, and he was asked to come back and prepare belongings to ransom his family.
After Zhixiu took people to Woydtun, he saw such a miserable scene. Originally, the warriors of the Shojo who went north this time did not have a high fighting spirit, and it was only because of the prestige of Naohide and the leaders of each group that they came to fight the Lucians, but after hearing and witnessing the atrocities of the Lucians, they all asked Naohide to immediately send troops to fight the thugs.
Zhixiu came here to gather internal response, first to investigate the movements of the Lusia people, and then to attack the Lusia people, but before the prepared gifts were taken out, the Hezhe people asked Zhixiu to help them pay - the girls of Woydtun are also married to the white master soldiers, and the two families are considered relatives, and only with this relationship did Hezhe open his mouth to beg for help.
Hezhe people just don't mention this request, and Naoxiu has to fight, but according to the current situation, the original plan needs to be modified.
This year's attack on the Lucian stronghold at the mouth of the Oolong River was a long-planned plan, and June was the right time to be discussed.
The time window for the raid on the mouth of the Wulong River is only one month, and Naohide must rush to pull out the two nails of the Lucians before the end of June - the mouth of the Wulong River thaws in early May, the northern strait of the Whale Sea will disappear by the end of May, and the North Sea will be navigable at the end of June.
If it hadn't been launched in June, it would have been bad to have gunboats from Kamchatka at other times.
In order to win, this time the white lord pursued almost
Pouring out of the nest: After the state of emergency was declared, only 2 of the original 11 groups were left to guard their homes, and the other 4 naval groups, 5 land groups and the newly formed 6 groups totaled more than 160 people went north on five boats.
Speaking of which, this was the third time that the government had visited the mouth of the Oolong River - the first was in early June 1851 when Naohide led a team to investigate the situation, and the second was in October 1851 when Naoyoshi Hori and Shiento Hori traded with the coastal tribes.
At this time, the Lusians had little influence in the lower reaches of the Wulong River, with only two permanent strongholds, the Nikolaevsk outpost, which was established in Miaotun in August 1850, and the other was the winter camp of Perov on the northern shore of the estuary, and there were no sailors except for a few small boats, which were too small to support large ships.
According to the intelligence of the Hezhes, the Lusians had nearly 200 people in Miaotun, including cavalry and infantry, and the news of the Pirov Winter camp is not clear - in fact, the Hezhes did not even know where the winter camp was.
When the group went north by boat, there were people exploring the Jiangkou Winter Camp and Miaotun, so their whereabouts had already been exposed, but this was also part of the original plan.
I didn't want to tackle tough problems, how could he be willing to give up the family foundation that Zhixiu had cultivated with great difficulty?
The original plan was to lure the snake out of the hole or fish in troubled waters:
Find a few Hezhes to go to Miaotun and report that there are merchants to do trade, and it is estimated that the greedy Lusia will definitely send troops to plunder - as long as the five ships are left empty, the Lusia will definitely sweep the various tribes.
If it doesn't work to lure the snake out of the hole, Zhixiu is going to let everyone pretend to be Hezhe to attack the temple at night, anyway, there are few Lusia people, as long as the intelligence is meticulous, it will definitely make them suffer a big loss, but this fishing in troubled waters is far from catching up with the plan to lure the snake out of the hole.
The original plan was about how to find a safe place to settle and how to get the Hezhe to inform, but I didn't expect the Lucia to do something wrong here, and these two problems were solved without much effort.
Naohide was afraid that these people in Woydtun would perform too hard because of their hatred, so he revised the plan again with the staff officer and the head of the group, and then began to implement the plan to lure the snake out of the hole.
Zalashi took Datou Zhiyuan and others to the nearby Tunzi to do business, and traded the girl with the eagles, smoothbore guns, wine, grain and other goods brought by Naoxiu - the nearby Tunzi was also robbed on both sides, and now there is nothing to take, it can only be such a transaction, and the whole family of the leader in the tunzi has also been arrested, so after the transaction is completed, naturally someone will go to the temple to redeem people, and I am not afraid that the Lusia people will not know.
Because of the help of the ships, Zalasi and the others were full of energy, so they quickly completed the transaction with nearby Trintun, Biaoerguotun and other places.
Naohide is very bad, he had prepared before, let a few Ainu pretend to be Westerners - originally the Ainu facial features were like Europa, with a high nose and prominent facial features, plus a hairstyle, Western military uniform, pocket watch, and then talking nonsense in his mouth that no one could understand, how could these tribesmen tell the difference.
Zalasi's acting skills exploded, and when he met the head of the person who was released, he recalled the days of suffering in Miaotun together, and when he met the tribe that had not been released back, he told in detail how the leader of the other party was tortured in Miaotun, in short, he overfulfilled the task, according to the report of Zhiyuan who came back, several tribes sent people to Miaotun to ransom people without waiting for them to leave.
The plan was sold, and Zhixiu asked people to hurry up and drive the boats away, and be sure to go to Miaotun on the way to provoke, so that the Lucia people could attack boldly and with confidence.
This matter was handed over to Manjiro Nakahama, the head of the navy, and Manjiro, who has seen all the winds and waves, must have done it without flaws.
And Naohide and Naoyoshi Hori took the remaining more than 100 people to ambush in Voy
In the vicinity of Detun, prepare to destroy as many Lusians as they come.
Woydtun, Trintun, and Biaoerguotun are the three largest tuns nearby, all of which can hide soldiers, and Zhixiu only chose Woydtun because the terrain here is the best - Woydtun is built on a salient on the left bank of the Wulong River, there is a natural small wharf, and even better is that there is a hill in the west, forming a half-moon-shaped terrain, and the opponent can only attack from the west, and there are only two roads north and south under the mountain when escaping.
But this era is not good, there is no air force to say, there is no walkie-talkie, fortunately there is still a message tree available, you can cut a tree on the top of the hill to inform everyone that the Lucia are coming.
Sure enough, on June 21, after Manjiro had been gone for seven days, the Lucian finally appeared. However, this group of robbers was quite cautious, with a total of more than 120 cavalry, and even sent an advance team of more than 10 people.
Originally, most of the wooden houses in Woydtun were shacks, but these wooden houses were also set on fire by the Lucians last winter. Fortunately, after the arrival of the group, a lot of shacks were built - not to build, at this time, although the weather was above the cold level, it was still very cold, and the number of original shacks was not enough.
For ease of construction, the shacks here are cone-shaped, with large logs and grass and branches, and no windows at all, which is not suitable for street fighting.
Fortunately, there were no tanks, armoured vehicles, automatic and semi-automatic weapons, and the poor Lucians did not even have hand grenades - in the middle of the 17th century, some of the elite troops of the countries of Europa were equipped with hand grenades, and the soldiers who used this ammunition were called grenadiers, but in the 19th century, the muskets were farther and farther away, and the grenades were treated coldly for a time, and it was not until the Battle of Fusan Lucia in 9104 that it regained its prominence.
The technical requirements for grenades are not high, and the last time the rice boat came, dozens of boxes were sent to the white master.
In addition to grenades, there are also two dozen shotguns and some Colt Patterson revolvers in the group, which are also sharp weapons in melee combat - these revolvers are still breech-charged, but it would be nice to have them in these years, and what kind of bicycles.
Naohide knew that the soldiers under his command were poorly trained and had no battlefield experience, so he deliberately made up for it with weapons and tactics.
One of the happiest things in the world is that I have it and my opponent doesn't, and the equally happy thing is that I have pig teammates when I meet the enemy - the advance team swaggered into the tun without much reconnaissance, and I don't know if it was brave or brainless.
When most of the advance party of the Lucians entered the village, there was a burst of gunfire, and only the last two of the ten people were spared.
In fact, this is part of the plan, if the advance team is completely wiped out, the result will be a little shocking, it is normal to run away a few, the tribe, the battle is like this, and the combat effectiveness cannot be too high.
Some of the aborigines had already boarded the boat, and the remaining Qingqiang part was ambushed in the forest - after all, the combat effectiveness was worrying, but a small part was left in the village by Naohide. Then it was time for them to play, only to see a group of Hezhes rushing out and shouting, and others trying to chase the two deserters.
There was really no arrangement for chasing deserters in the script, Zalasi hurriedly came out and shouted loudly, and the group of people hid again.
Naohide looks through the peephole with a telescope to carefully observe the enemy's next reaction.
According to the outfit, the enemy seems to be two groups of people, and the two people in the line are also two, and the two seem to have an argument in the telescope.
After a while, the dispute seemed to be over, and Naohide hurriedly prayed, and the group of people didn't run away when they saw the situation.