Zhang Zongling smiled knowingly, the army has a blind worship of the emperor. If he knew that Zhu Youxiao said this sentence because he didn't remember the name of Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway, but only remembered that it was the confluence of the Yenisei River and another river, he didn't know if he would have laughed so happily.

Since His Majesty the Emperor said that the place of the next railway station was at the confluence of the Yenisei River and the Katsa River, Zhang Zongling led a brigade to protect the officials of the Railway Department to investigate, and at the same time sent people to contact Xue Boling and Sun Fumin's two armies.

Xue Boling's mission was to explore along the Yenisei River, and Sun Fumin wanted to explore the Ob River further west, so the two armies set out from Beihai together and separated after more than a thousand miles to the west, Sun Fumin went west, and Xue Boling began to explore downstream along the Yenisei River.

The Ming army had only been exploring downstream along the Yenisei River for a day when they discovered a Rakshasa fortress. It wasn't actually a fortress, just a small village of wooden houses, but you could see cavalry straddling sabers on the roads in the village.

Xue Boling came all the way, except for the scattered Tile Thorn people, there was not a single shadow of the Rakshasa people. Now it is obvious that the cavalry is not a Tile Thorn, and the Tile Thorns will not build houses. Finally seeing the Rakshasa people, Xue Boling relieved his heart, the Rakshasa people mean merit, and it also means that you can better understand the specific situation of the unknown place.

The Ming army did not rush to attack, Xue Boling first sent a battalion to the rear of the village to intercept the retreat of the Rakshasas, and an hour later, the guards lined up and forced towards the village.

Soon, the Cossack cavalry spotted the Ming army, immediately blew the whistle, and a large number of soldiers poured out of the house, and after getting on the horse, they began to form a formation, and for about ten minutes, they rushed towards the Ming army with a roar.

Xue Boling praised: "These cavalry are quite strong, and they are much stronger than the Tile Thorns. ”

His adjutant smiled and said, "The number of people is too small, if there are 10,000 people, if they charge together, they can still pose some threats to us." ”

Yes, the Cossack cavalry was no more than two hundred men, and the Ming began to fire when the cavalry rushed a hundred paces away. This time the fire was fired by one platoon, three seconds later the second row, and so on, by the time the sixth row fired, fifteen seconds had passed, and the cavalry that did not die was already less than fifty paces away from the Ming army.

Fifteen seconds was enough for the soldiers in the first row to finish reloading, but the commander of the Ming army did not issue an order to continue shooting, because there was no longer a need, a total of three cavalry rushed in front of the Ming army, but they had already lost their weapons, muttering something in their mouths, squeezing out an ugly smile on their faces, trying their best to make the Ming army understand their good intentions.

The commander of the Ming army, holding a long knife, stared at the three cavalrymen until they dismounted before inserting the knife into the scabbard. The words spoken by the three cavalrymen were not only understood by the Ming army, but also by the Briati people who came to be guides, so everyone was stunned and did not know how to communicate.

Xue Boling said: "Go forward and arrest them all, there will always be people who understand Mongolian, so it's okay." ”

The platoon of the Ming army knocked down about 20 cavalrymen, and the other cavalrymen, with their superb horsemanship and extraordinary agility, actually dodged the fatal bullet and were only slightly wounded, which made Xue Boling admire again. Because there were three cavalrymen in front, the other cavalry let the Ming army come forward and took their weapons and horses away.

Sure enough, one of the Cossacks understood Mongolian, so under the translation of the Buryati guide, Xue Boling had a difficult conversation with the leader of the Cossacks.

The Cossacks were not a single people, but a group of people who fled the rule of the Kipchak Khanate. They were predominantly Slavs and lived mainly in the steppes of eastern Europe. The Cossacks are the Turkic word for free men, and they did love freedom, and the Polish king promised to retain their autonomy, so they served Poland, and some of the Cossacks worked for the Rakshasa state.

The leader of this part of the Cossacks was the centurion Alat, who was hired by Rakshasa merchants to live in the east in search of possible gold mines and skins. The Rakshasas thought this place was good, so they built a village here, preparing to use it as a base for collecting furs and digging for gold in the future.

From here, down the Yenisei River, a few hundred miles away there is a Rakshasa castle called Karislia. About six hundred Cossack cavalry were stationed there, and about a thousand people lived.

When Xue Boling heard this, he said to Alat, "If we guarantee your freedom at the price of fighting for us, including the Rakshasas of the same species as you, will you be willing?" ”

"We are free people, without national ties," Alatat said. As long as you really give us freedom, and can guarantee our freedom, we are willing to fight for you. But first of all, we advocate freedom, so military discipline should be set by ourselves, and we are light cavalry, and we are not willing to dismount and fight. ”

Xue Boling said with a smile: "We don't need you to dismount and fight, as for the issue of military discipline, as long as you obey the order, nothing else is a problem." ”

Arat said, "Then we can work for you." ”

Xue Boling said: "If you can make the Cossacks of Karislia submit to us, I can appoint you as commander." "The military organization of the Cossacks is divided into commanders, centurions, captains of the third rank, and Arat is now a centurion.

Alatat rejoiced: "I would like to serve the general. ”

Xue Boling temporarily named the place Heyang, left more than 200 people to guard it, and then led it by the Cossacks to the lower reaches of the Yenisei River.

After walking for more than 500 miles, I finally came to the vicinity of Karislia. "If I go alone, I can make them surrender," Arat said. ”

Xue Boling smiled, he was not arrogant enough to think that Alat had surrendered, and he did not think that he alone could persuade all the Cossacks to surrender. The biggest possibility is that he will never return, and he will run away with the Cossacks inside, so he rejected Alat's suggestion and said: "Let's fight first, and then think about surrendering." ”

The Ming army surrounded Karislia and then asked Arat to come forward and persuade him to surrender. Arat stepped forward and said, "Listen, people inside, go and ask Commander Menitz to come, I have important news to report to him." ”

Menitz came to the city and said, "Alat, have you been captured by these barbarians?" If there's any news to report to you, you can tell me. ”