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Golovin only felt that this governor's office was overwhelmed by his depression, so he simply pushed open the door and walked around the castle to relax.

It was the tenth month of the lunar calendar in the wasteland, and there was a haze everywhere, and the thick lead-like clouds in the sky seemed to be above people's heads. In the distance, there are birch forests, just like oil paintings by Russian painters. Although it is desolate, it is rich in water and grass, with many rivers and forests. The river valley is wide, on this side of the river, there are mountains and large forests not far from the northeast, densely covered with white yang, coniferous forests, birch and other forests, and from time to time you can see yellow sheep, roe deer, rabbits and other things. In addition to the abundance of aquatic plants and forests, it is also rich in products, valuable furs and fish are everywhere, except that it is still a wild place at the moment, and the roads are muddy and slightly inconvenient after the traffic is enlightened in the spring, this is simply a blessed place, a treasure land given by God to Russia.

Standing on the walls of Yakutsk Fort and looking out, the large Pingchuan meadows have a wide field of vision, but they are also shrouded in a cloudy sky.

"It's going to snow. Hopefully, this year's damn snow will keep Count Seris's army at bay in the wasteland, and better yet, freeze them to hell! ”

Rumors have been circulating in the castle lately that a large number of Count Seris's troops are approaching Yakutsk from the Ardan, Amga, and Lena rivers.

Inside the castle, the muddy sewage that people trampled on the road between the houses was everywhere, and even in front of the Orthodox church where Mass and worship were held, there were more than a dozen piles of Marad and urine who didn't know whose it was.

Soldiers, Cossacks, exiles, adventurers who came to Siberia to try their luck. Thieves and prostitutes inquired about each other in various parts of the city for news that would make them rich.

Around the Yakutsk Castle, there are also several small castles scattered on the wasteland, which can be regarded as the outer stronghold of the Yakutsk Castle. There are dozens of households, or more than 100 households, or more than 200 households living together, and these villages have complex origins and even more complex personnel composition. There were Cossacks who built it here, and there were those who were exiled here, but. At the moment, most of them can be used as a defensive stronghold of the Yakutsk Castle.

They are the building of these castles. Most of them are rudimentary and crude, with thick wooden pillars made of wooden fences, and buildings are scattered scattered around the walls. Most of them are the kind of doors facing inwards and walls facing outwards. Several families gathered in one place. Cover for each other. It is a bit similar to the courtyard house and the Hakka tulou in Fujian and Guangdong.

On the walls of a house made of rammed earth. Open the perforations one by one, close them with wooden boards, and open them when something happens. These inhabitants were able to shoot through the small windows of guò and shoot with bows and arrows and guns from the outside.

For the sake of safety, most of these buildings dug a circle of trenches under the wooden fence wall, and dozens of Rakshasa people could beat hundreds of Evenks and some indigenous tribes with leather guns in the wooden fence.

But can such a fortification withstand the legendary Count of Seris, who has an army of 100,000?

"Oh God! Please let the snow fall sooner and keep this horrible heretic at bay! Golovin was not a devout Orthodox Christian, but at this time, facing the two horizontal and one vertical signs on the roof of the Orthodox church, he still knelt down on the wall and prayed to God, who looked down on the people in heaven.

However, if prayer had been useful, Constantinople would not have become Istanbul.

Thousands of horses, tens of thousands of pack horses, and reindeer formed a mighty procession, like a rolling torrent of metal, stretching from Fort Aldan to Fort Amkinsk, now renamed Amgar City, between the humble road, thousands of Sauron warriors, armed with weapons, under the guidance of the banners of their respective tribes, marched majestically forward, trampling on the wasteland with horses' hooves, splashing large patches of muddy water from time to time.

As the weather was already cold, the Sauron soldiers in the team had already put on winter clothing.

A leather robe made of roe deer skins hunted in late autumn and early winter is called "Bukunqi?" Deli (coat)", dense and thick. The robe was knee-length, split on both sides, and had buttons or brass buckles braided with strips of cloth, which was most suitable for men who went into battle for hunting and going out in winter. The cloth surface is not hung, the hair is facing inward, and it is insulated and lightweight.

The soldiers who served as scouts on the wings and forwards of the team all wore leather shirts made of roe deer skins facing outward, which was called "goromu" in the Daur language, and was worn during hunting to camouflage them.

All the people in the team wore gloves called "Pulse", which were also made of roe deer skin, but they were roughly divided into three types according to the weapons in the hands of the soldiers.

The two-pronged gloves that use the seized Rakshasa axe are all single-stitched with one set of thumbs on their hands, and the other four fingers are one set of two-pronged gloves called "Hatch Boli"; The archers wore gloves called "Horoboli", which were easy to draw their bows and fire arrows at any time, and were divided into five fingers. Wearing gloves that are also divided into two prongs, but have openings at the wrists to make it easy to stretch out the fingers is called "emotiboli"; It is the soldiers who use weapons such as tiger guns, long knives, maces, etc.

The identity of the people in the ranks can be distinguished by the fur hats on their heads and the clothes on their bodies. Most of the hats of ordinary soldiers are made of wolf scalp, the hair is facing outward, the ears and horns are erect, and the black cloth is cut into two eyeballs and pasted to the original eye sockets. Wearing it when hunting not only protects you from the cold, but also serves as a good camouflage.

Most of the hats of the chiefs and officers were made of fox skin, and almost all of them had their hats inlaid with pearls or gems in the fox's two eye sockets. And the captured Rakshasas and the Daur of the pro-Jiannu tribe who were conquered by the Sauron tribe wore roe deer scalp hats called "Miat? Magler", with the scalp of a roe deer with eyes, nose and ears facing outwards to make a hat top, and the roe deer ears stand upright.

Almost all of them wore leather trousers made of wolf, dog, sheep, roe deer skin, and overalls made of leather or cloth. The Daur language calls it "Subi", which is the most wear-resistant, scratch-resistant, and cold-proof.

Similarly, the roe deer leg leather is used for the boot waist and the cow spine leather is used for the sole of the boot, which is called "Chikami", which is a unified standard equipment. The hair on the top of the boots is facing outward, and it is sewn with deer or roe deer after reasonable matching according to the hair pattern and color, and the special product of Liaodong is "indigo grass" inside, which is heat preservation, sweat absorption, and moisture-proof. Wearing this kind of leather boots is lightweight, beautiful, non-wet, non-slip, and light and silent when walking on the snow.

Those slaves and captives. He was imprisoned by the old and weak of the tribes with weapons in hand. He acts as a coolie for carts and transportation, and is responsible for feeding the grass and horses, chopping firewood and carrying water, and digging ditches for tree fences when camping. The vehicles pulled by mules and horses, and the climbing plows pulled by the reindeer, were surrounded by them, carrying the food and grass of the whole army for more than ten days.

Except for rice noodles. There is also a large abundance of hay. Porcelain jar of bean meat and beans. Even firewood, iron nails, etc. were loaded on it, and behind the army, more caravan members were under the supervision of Lin Wenbing. Along the frozen Heilongjiang River system, countless dog-drawn plows were used on the ice to transport the army's supplies and consumption.

The brigade walked mightily between the two castles that had been reclaimed by the Sauron Ministry for a long time.

Li Peiting is the interim commander of this Sauron army. According to his orders, the army traveled only fifty miles a day, so that the troops carrying the baggage supplies behind could keep up with it, and to prevent the army from running out of food. In fact, he was also too careful, one summer, one autumn, several fortresses have stored tens of thousands of stones of grain, rice, oil, salt and other things, enough to supply this army to fight, but Li Peiting, who lacks experience in leading troops, can only figure out manpower in the business field and calculate the gains and losses of success or failure, still believes in that sentence, be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship.

During the daily march, hundreds of scouts would be sent to conduct sentinel work within ten miles of the march, so as to prevent the enemy hiding in the shadows from rushing out to give him a stick. Another task of these scouts was to survey the route of the march and choose the camp for the day.

For these warriors who haunt the woods, it is undoubtedly very unaccustomed and even painful to set up a camp according to Lord Li's standards and requirements every day.

In fact, don't say that the Sauron soldiers who have not completely come out of the primitive social state are the Mongols now, and how many of them still remember how to set up camp? Temujin and even the Mongol army in the time of Timur of Thogus, the camp was very orderly and very doorway, not to mention the high ground, the main general will be stationed in the tent, but also to the southeast, there are Luo cavalry, the left and right of the tent, the battalions are orderly, the sentinels are scattered, and the defense is comprehensive.

In addition, the camp also has all kinds of secret means, often before sunset, located in one place, after sunset, and into another camp, as well as pseudo-fortifications, pseudo-camping, pseudo-lights and so on, so the Mongolian army in its heyday, robbery camp sneak attack, etc., is very difficult.

However, these advantages have long been slowly forgotten by the Mongols of various tribes, but today's Jiannu Eight Banners have inherited the strict requirements for the camp.

The camp that these Sauron soldiers first set up was like a garbage dump and a refugee camp, one in the east and one in the west. In desperation, Li Peiting had to send his subordinates to teach them hand in hand, and kept shouting and roaring in the camp, until he said cruelly, that part did not finish camping according to the requirements, and no food was allowed, so the tents around him were in place.

However, Li Peiting can be regarded as having learned a lesson, and when the camp team sets out every day, there must be the leaders of each department inside, and the officers of the camp team are taken turns among the leaders of his guards. After selecting the campsite every day, the area is immediately assigned to each department, which can be regarded as a kind of contracted household practice.

However, after they camped, it was immediately the time to enjoy, according to the previous agreement, the cooking cart carried by Li Peiting would immediately begin to prepare meals, supply hot water to the soldiers and horses, beef and mutton and flatbread steamed buns and other things, although these Sauron soldiers are good at hunting bears and tigers in the woods, but they have never been in the habit of washing their feet, and they do not think soak their feet in hot water, but they welcome the supply of hot tea. Drinking tea is also tied to washing feet.

After a few days of coming out of the fort of the Aldan River, these people became accustomed to camping after marching dozens of miles every day, carrying their birch bark buckets to soak their feet in hot water, and then it was a good time to drink tea and eat.

When the soldiers on duty carry large barrels of fragrant meat, rice, steamed buns, canned green beans, etc. into their tents every day, they are often immediately filled with laughter and laughter, and everyone cheers and jumps.

The lady who sells oil combs her hair. Just like the people of the Central Plains working hard and farming. The food grown is not necessarily the same as eating by yourself, and the life of nomadic fishing and hunting people is not as comfortable as the mainlanders imagine! Just because the mountains and forests are full of wild animals doesn't mean they can eat meat regularly.

In fact, their lives are very busy and hard, with fishing, hunting, gathering, skinning, bowing, felt-making, and collecting animal manure for fuel. Every year when winter comes, everyone has to worry about how to survive.

As for the fur obtained from hunting and gathering, tiger bones, bear paws, deer antler velvet, ginseng, raw gold and other things. Exchange various daily necessities such as grain and cloth with merchants from the mainland. Tea, salt, iron pots and other daily necessities are also what they can't lack. Of course. Take them to get used to. I can grab it, but I can't grab it......

It was during the time of Genghis Khan, known as Genghis Khan, that there were many poor herdsmen among the Mongolian tribes. In the 14th century, the plague epidemic in Europe, known as the "Black Death", was rampant for several centuries, killing nearly 30 million people, which was brought by the Mongol army and the result of the otter eating too much.

(However, the otter hunt was later touted to the sky by a guy who boasted of wolf blood, and who used it in exchange for supplies and money to make yurts, and relied on otters to marry his daughter-in-law.) Bah! If the Han people hadn't discovered the economic value of otters, the herdsmen who were so poor that they had only one rotten life would have to swallow them indiscriminately. ）

In the barely orderly camp, the laughter of Sauron's soldiers could be heard from the tents everywhere, and in front of each of them were two large copper bowls, one containing meat and the other with thick, blackened salt tea. While swallowing the very delicious meat cooked, he gulped down salty tea.

Although the tea leaves are not good, they are just green brick tea or black brick tea boiled with fine salt, but in the eyes of these Sauron soldiers, this is already a supreme delicacy.

Tea is the life of these nomadic fishing and hunting people, and it is okay not to eat meat for a day, but not to drink tea for a day.

The big tent in the center of the camp is brightly lit and lively.

Around the Great Tent, four six-pounder cannons, which had been dragged thousands of miles with great effort, were placed by the gunners in makeshift gun emplacements, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed to the four roads around the Great Tent.

In the tent, Li Peiting sat in the middle, Bomu Bogol, Aldi and other big and small people, according to the strength of their respective soldiers and horses, sooner or later, they were divided into two rows, enjoying the food on the table.

Compared to the soldiers outside, who only had very soft roe deer meat and other food, the food of the leaders was much richer. In addition to the large pieces of roe deer meat for them to eat openly, there is also a pot of yellow pheasant soup in front of them, the soup made of mushrooms and pheasants, after the chefs skillfully use spices and refined salt to boil in a copper pot for several hours, the taste is so delicious that Li Peiting, who has always been very particular about diet, can't help but drink two more bowls.

On the flatbread, everyone happily drank soup, meat and tea, only in the march, not to drink, otherwise it would be a pleasure.

"I'll stay there for a day tomorrow."

Seeing that everyone had eaten about the same, Pei Ting began to assign tomorrow's tasks.

It was already three days away from the Amga Fort, and with Pei Ting's heavy use of troops, he planned to build a camp here, note that it was a camp, not a simple temporary camp. In order to establish a solid support point for their own grain routes on the marching route. Let the grain and grass materials escorted by Lin Wenbing have a place to be stored, and at the same time, it will also prevent anyone from planning to copy his back road.

"Obey your orders!"

From Bomu Bogol downward, dozens of large and small leaders stood up and sang in unison, and the leaders of Sauron's various tribes went to the camp to convey military orders, and suddenly cheers broke out in the camp.

This kind of thing, after the beginning of the winter hunt, it has been constantly staged, every few days, it is necessary to choose a place to build a camp, leaving hundreds of people to garrison, and the heads of each tribe are also very clear, which tribe has left more people and horses, and it is invisibly to expand the hunting grounds for hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles.

Early the next morning, the whole army began the construction of the camp after breakfast. Hundreds of soldiers wielding rakshasa axes rushed to the woods near the left with axes as large as wheels, and built a camp to prepare timber.

The rest of the people, under the command of Pei Ting's right-hand men, crossed the terrain and prepared to build houses and dig wells.

The most important thing in building a military village is a granary, a forage field, an arsenal, a stable, a barracks and other buildings. There are also wells that are important, and although they are not far from the river, they are necessary for the safety of drinking water.

After choosing the terrain, at the sound of an order, hundreds of Sauron soldiers each carried torches and ran towards the wild grass and bushes that were more than a person tall nearby. The purpose of burning these grasses, shrubs, and other vegetation is to clear the shooting area and prevent it from being used by the enemy. In fact, from the first point of fire from the grass and bushes, many small animals screamed and fled in all directions.

Because of the experience of building this kind of camp many times, coupled with the large number of people, the construction of the village was very fast. With the arrival of a steady stream of slave coolie auxiliaries and the trees cut down by the axemen, the logs, which were cut into sections, were densely erected by large groups of people along the white-ash plots.

Because it was too cold to plant logs deep into the earth, the people resorted to a method that was considered extravagant by the people of Sauron: they were joined together with huge iron nails, and a wall of logs was erected behind a lodging pile.

The wooden wall was erected in a prismatic shape, protruding every hundred steps, and along the wooden wall, a trench was dug that was not too deep, but definitely wide, to create obstacles in the way of the enemy who came to attack, and at the same time, this trench would be the foundation for the re-establishment of the wall after the beginning of spring. In general, the village is rectangular, long from north to south, short from east to west, with two gates in the north and south, leaving a passage road and a suspension bridge.

A hundred steps in front of the two gates, there is also a triangular fence in each, and the sharp corners in front and on both sides, the same trench is dug, and the road passes obliquely through the side of the triangular fence.

The west side of the military fortress is close to the water, and the east side may be the focus of the enemy's attack, but there are some hills on this side, and when the fence on this side was erected, it was deliberately planted along the edge of the hills, and on top of the hills, several long wooden houses were built.

The second floor of the wooden house, all have windows perforated, together with the fence, form three layers of firepower, if the enemy attacks it, there is if the fear of facing the defense line of Changling Mountain, not only that, the four corners of the village, both sides of the gate of the wall, there are also tall sentry towers.

In the hidden places of the wooden walls, two inconspicuous huts were built out of thick logs, where two three-pounder cannons would be placed as a weapon of destruction to deter nearby tribes.

For this kind of crooked stockade, although the Saurons have built several places, giving people an indescribable taste, as if they are very profitable, but where it is powerful, they can't say.

Facing this village, Bomu Bogol frowned, and secretly speculated in his heart, even if there were only 300 people stationed in this village, he was afraid that thousands of people might not be able to fight down, and even he could only return after hitting his head and bleeding heavy casualties, but within thousands of miles in this vicinity, which tribe could gather thousands of soldiers and horses? Thinking of this, he was overjoyed in his heart, "It seems that this land is occupied by the uncle." This land shrouded in immortal heaven will be completely marked by the uncle from now on. ”

In fact, the entire construction of the village is made of wood. The walls are rough logs, the roof is planked, and the floor is all wood. In view of the cold winter in the Northland, the barracks were laid with wooden planks underneath and some distance from the ground.

Although the stockade is not big, it is also a little rough, but it is strong and sturdy, and the stout logs that are more than one person high are nailed together horizontally and vertically with thick iron nails, which are closely connected to form a dense fence.

This continuous, tall, sturdy pile of wood, whether it is the bows and arrows of the Rakshasas or the Saurons, is at most shallowly inserted into it.

On the wooden wall, there are dense shooting holes, so that the enemy outside can not see the reality clearly, but the defenders inside can calmly shoot outward and defend effectively.

And there is still a place for artillery fire on the wooden wall, which can be described as impregnable. (To be continued......)