Even Jiang Qing couldn't accurately name the river, and besides, these two names didn't look like Han names, so Hong Chengchou decided to simply change it to a Han name.

Hong Chengchou thought for a long time, but he didn't have a clue, and suddenly, he saw an unknown leaf floating on the clear river, like a boat.

"Clear leaves...... Aoba. ”

Hong Chengchou decided, and that's it: the Qingye River.

On both sides of the Aoba River, there are a few scattered Buryat fishermen.

Jiang Qing took the initiative to talk to them, because they were of the same origin and there was no language barrier, they chatted happily.

When Jiang Qing returned, he told Hong Chengchou that in the middle reaches of the Qingye River, there was a tribe of Buryats, and the number should be more than a thousand.

Hong Chengchou was overjoyed, he walked along the Qingye River, after walking for a hundred miles, he really saw a Buryats stockade, which was less than fifty miles away from the southern edge of Bei Lake.

Jiang Qing, as an elder of the Buryats in Beidong, introduced Hong Chengchou and the Ming army to them, but the local Buryats did not believe it at first, thinking that Jiang Qing was coerced by the Ming army.

Hong Chengchou released several women who were rescued from the hands of the red hair, and the women were indeed from this tribe, and after their rumors, the leaders and elders of the tribe believed it.

The Buryats found that the Ming army did not restrict Jiang Qing's freedom, and even when Jiang Qing went deep into the tribe to hand over the leaders and elders, the Ming army did not send troops to monitor.

After Li Qianqian's communication and negotiation, the Buryats here finally agreed to naturalize as Han Chinese, whether they listened to Jiang Qing and Li Qianqian's words, or were frightened by the red hair that appeared one after another, and now they want to seek the protection of the Ming army, Hong Chengchou does not know.

Hong Chengchou wants results.

The Buryats were willing to be naturalized as Han Chinese, and Hong Chengchou built a city on the south bank of the Aoba River, called Aoba Castle, and set up a local government here in accordance with the method of Beidong.

There are no civil officials for the time being, Liu Xun, a staff officer of General Hong Chengchou, stayed, as the highest civil official in the city, as for whether this is a government or a county, it will be taken by Shi Kefa in the future, and it will be an independent small city for the time being.

Now that the season of sowing spring wheat has passed, they can only plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the Buryats still live a life of fishing, hunting and gathering, but they must accept Liu Xun's management and assist the Ming army in building cities and houses.

Hong Chengchou left a regiment of soldiers to garrison Aoba Castle, supervising the newly naturalized Buryats while building the city walls, in case of a red hairy attack, the Ming army will also protect these Buryats.

Hong Chengchou continued westward, and after two hundred miles, he saw a large river running east-west.

"Maybe this is the Irkut River." Jiang Qing was not sure, this place was almost five hundred miles away from Beidong, and he was not very familiar with it.

This is supposed to be the western side of the lake, and Hong Chengchou is faced with a choice between moving west along the upper reaches of the Irkut River or eastward along the lower reaches of the Irkut River, gradually approaching the west bank of the lake.

Just as Hong Chengchou was hesitating, the Ming army spotted a group of Buryats coming from downstream.

They were holding sticks and forks, looking quite panicked, and as they ran, they looked back from time to time.

Hong Chengchou was suspicious: "Could it be that there is a tiger chasing them behind?" There is a dense forest in the north, and there may be tigers. He looked and saw nothing but meadows and sparse trees.

"Jiang Qing, you go and ask what happened to them, do you want us to help."

"Yes, Throne." Jiang Qing agreed, and he caught up with the Buryats who seemed to be fleeing, and the two sides exchanged for a long time.

Just when Hong Chengchou was waiting impatiently, Jiang Qing came back, "Junzao, they are Buryats here, right at the junction of the Irkut River and the Andala River. ”

"Then why are they panicking? They don't look like they're fishing or hunting. ”

"It's all red-haired ghosts. Military seat, the red-haired ghost has attacked their tribe," Jiang Qing's eyes also had a trace of horror, "The people of the tribe, both men and women, have been captured by the red-haired ghost, and even the big leader Balhu has been forced to build a city for the red-haired ghost, and the women have been captured by the red-haired into the city." ”

"And what's going on with them?" Hong Chengchou pointed to the group of Buryats.

"They took advantage of the red-haired ghost's unpreparedness and secretly escaped from the clutches of the red-haired ghost, because they were afraid that the red-haired ghost would chase after them, so they kept looking behind," Jiang Qing hesitated for a while, and finally added: "They advised us to run away quickly, the red-haired ghost will come over sooner or later." ”

Hong Chengchou pondered for a while, "How many red hairs are there?" ”

"They don't know the exact number either, and according to their estimates, the number of red-haired ghosts should be more than a hundred."

"Only a hundred red hairs?" Hong Chengchou tilted his nose angrily, "A hundred red hairs dare to destroy the entire tribe?" Still building a city in the area? ”

"Junzao, they say, the red-haired ghost has a fire # gun, fire # gun is really powerful, their wooden stick can't get close to the red-haired ghost at all, only the part of the beating, no matter how many people there are, it's in vain."

I don't know if the red-haired fire # gun has been improved? Hong Chengchou is dark, even if their fire # guns are better than the Ming flintlock pistols, the number of the Ming army is twenty times that of them, if these Buryats can be rescued, even if they can't establish a city on the Irkut River, at least these Buryats can be sent to Aoba City, "Go, take a look." ”

"Throne ......"

"What? Jiang Qing is scared? Hong Chengchou gave a resolute expression, "Fighting with the red hair, the Ming army is enough, you just let them lead the way." ”

"Junzao, they say that you only need to follow the Irkut River to find the castle of the red-haired ghosts, and if you let them lead the way, these people who have just escaped from the hands of the red-haired ghosts will not dare to go back."

Hong Chengchou thought about it, these Buryats might have been frightened by the red hair, so he didn't embarrass them, "Let's go, let's go find the red hair ourselves." ”

Along the Irkut River, the Ming army marched for two days before reaching the end.

A small castle, the city wall has been built more than one person high, facing the south gate of the Ming army, the city gate hole has been built, because the city wall has not been fully completed, the city gate has not been installed for the time being, it seems empty.

Countless ragged civilians, carrying clods of earth, stones, and wood, were almost expressionless, and even when the Ming army approached, they did not bother to take a look, they only cared about continuing the work in their hands.

Alarmed by the Ming army, there were people who looked completely different from the Buryats, with blue eyes, high noses, fiery red or golden hair, and many of them with long or short beards.

They all carried some long spears in their hands, slightly longer than the flintlock pistols of the Ming army.

From these fire# guns, Hong Chengchou concluded that they must be in the same group as the Hongmao that the Ming army had encountered in the first two times.

The red-haired people were chattering, saying words that Hong Chengchou couldn't understand, whether their expressions were fear or anger, Hong Chengchou couldn't understand, but for Hong Chengchou, all expressions were the same, and the Ming army didn't plan to reason with them.

From the hole in the city gate, red hair continued to pour out, and dozens of people gathered in a while.

The Buryats who had just built the city wall also stopped their work at this time, and their primordial gods did not seem to have returned to their places, as if the qiē that happened here had nothing to do with them.

They're just spectators of the battle between the two powers.

The Ming army and the red hairs were both holding guns, and the two sides confronted each other, the Ming army had an absolute advantage in numbers, and the red hairs did not dare to shoot for the time being.

"Shoot these red hairs." Anyway, if he didn't understand Hongmao's words, Hong Chengchou didn't plan to take prisoners.

Hong Chengchou's words only reached the ears of the Ming soldiers, and the red-haired people either couldn't hear it, or they heard it, and they couldn't understand it.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

The Ming army took the lead in shooting, and hundreds of gunners opened fire, and most of the red hair fell immediately.

Seeing the large number of Ming troops, the red-haired people originally confronted each other and maintained a balance of power with the Ming army, but the Ming army killed the killers, and they no longer had the capital to confront, and the remaining red-haired began to fight back.

There were casualties among the Ming troops, and the soldiers who shot just now had no time to reload their ammunition or retreat, so they hid behind others, and they became the target of the red hair, and more than ten gunners were shot.

But after the red-haired shot, their guns ran out of ammunition and had to be reloaded.

The Ming army was numerous, and the Ming gunners in the back row took advantage of this opportunity to shoot all the remaining red hairs.

"Enter the city and search for the remaining red hairs." Hong Chengchou heard that there were more than 100 red hairs, and it is estimated that a small half of them are not there.

Before the Ming army entered the city, the red hair in the city came out.

When they heard the gunshots, they thought that the Buryats were fleeing or rioting, and hurriedly came to reinforcements from all over the place, but they did not expect to encounter the Ming army.

The two sides did not answer, and different fire # guns began to collide.

This kind of collision is unfair, the number of the Ming army is dozens of times, hundreds of times that of the red hair.

The range of the fire # gun doesn't matter anymore, the distance between the two sides is too close, almost face to face.

Face-to-face war, that is, in the blink of an eye.

Many of the bullets with red hair were knocked down by the Ming army before they were discharged, and after the Ming army paid the price of several casualties, they killed all the red hairs outside the south city gate.

"Enter the city and search for the remaining red hairs." Hong Chengchou doesn't know if the red hair has slipped through the net.

The Ming army began to search along the two lines inside and outside the city, but the red hair did not find any of them, but in the tent where the red hair lived, dozens of Buryat women were found.

Probably worried that the women would run away, the women were tied hand and foot.

"These red hairs who have lost their conscience." Hong Chengchou cursed, and he took these women to the south gate of the city, where the red hair died in battle just now.

The red hair has been completely knocked down by the Ming army, and the wounded soldiers have also been tied hand and foot by the Ming army, Jiang Qinghui fù his usual cleverness, "Junzao, what should we do now?" ”

"Jiang Qing, can you gather the nearby Buryats? It's better to be outside the South Gate, and I'm going to let them see what happens to the red fur with their own eyes. ”

"Junzao, let me try, these people are of the same origin as me, and there should be no problem with the language."

Hong Chengchou sent a company of soldiers to accompany Jiang Qing, and he went to appease the nearby Buryats.