As he spoke, he also gently moved the saber in his hand, and with a slight stroke of the saber, a shallow blood mark was drawn on Wan Yanlie's neck, Wan Yanlie only felt a cold and painful pain in his neck, and immediately understood that if he dared to blow up the thorn today, this ruthless woman would really dare to slaughter herself here.

He grunted and swallowed heavily.

"Look at you, you're a person who completes the face, give you a face, don't be embarrassed! Today's matter, let's go back and settle the score! Nalan Ruojiang said coldly, put the knife back into the sheath, and shouted loudly: "The general has an order, and I will be in command here, if anyone dares to act without permission, he will not be spared!" ”

With that, he rushed towards the gate of the camp.

Wan Yanlie glanced at her back resentfully, but he didn't dare to say anything after all.

The Jurchen army rushed straight to Yuanmen, and the faint obstacle in front of them was rushed through, but in a moment, it was already out of the camp and headed towards the way it came.

Kutuzov looked at their backs and wanted to cry without tears.

In a few moments, Zakhrev, with a gloomy face, rushed over surrounded by guards, and stood in front of the countless burning granaries that looked like huge torches, and jumped like thunder.

"Rubbish, it's all a bunch of rubbish! It's a bunch of rubbish who are on guard today, damn it, damn it! On the way to Zakhrev, he already understood what was going on, he lost his temper, seemed to calm down, and asked Kutuzov with fire in his eyes: "Who is in charge of the perimeter guard today?" ”

Kutuzov said: "It's the 15th Cossack Cavalry Regiment under General Yermak!" ”

"Damn it, these brutes on the banks of the Don. Damn it! Zakhrev was so angry that he said this without regard for decency, and if Yermak and his Cossacks heard it, it would be a big mess.

Fortunately, only Kutuzov and his adjutant Bukharin, who were closest to him, could hear it.

Zakhrev was already yelling at Bukharin: "What are you still doing in a daze, pass on my orders, the 15th Cossack Cavalry Regiment did not fulfill its duty, and the enemy infiltrated the camp and did not know it." Arrest all their officers above the company commander's level! I'm going to hang them, hang them one by one! ”

Bukharin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "It's the Governor." I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it! ”

After that, he beckoned a few guards, covered his hat and ran all the way. Naturally, it was to find the bad luck of the Cossack officers who were in charge of patrolling today.

Zakhrev looked at the grain with a gloomy face, and this glance almost made his heart bleed, but it took more than ten days to collect it! For the sake of these grains, even delayed the plan to attack those Jurchens in the south, it was enough to make up for these, but now, it was burned!

The raging fire seemed to burn in his heart. It made his whole body go crazy.

These damned barbarians, damn it! Damn it!

He suddenly turned around, stared at Kutuzov with a pair of fiery eyes, and said, "How long have those damn barbarians gone?" ”

"No more than three minutes! But with all due respect, Your Excellency, the Governor. ”

Kutuzov already understood Zakhrev's plan, and he shrugged his shoulders and said: "I already asked just now. These people came back in the clothes of our grain transport team at the beginning, which shows that our grain transport team may also ...... This shows that their attack this time was premeditated and planned, and I feel that it seems that it is not just for the simple purpose of burning our grain and grass. Excellency. Don't forget how treacherous these barbarians are. I'm afraid that if we send troops to pursue us, we will fall into their trap. ”…,

"Are you teaching me a lesson?" Zakhrev stared coldly at Kutuzov.

"Don't dare!" Kutuzov knew that Zakhrev was already in a hurry at this time, and he couldn't listen to any words of persuasion, so he said: "You are the commander-in-chief, and you are the final arbiter of all decisions and orders." ”

Of course, he still has a subtext that he hasn't said - something went wrong, and the black cauldron is all on your back!

Zakhrev took a few rough breaths, seemed to calm down, and said, "Look at those Jurchen barbarians on the other side, how many people are left of them?" Eight thousand? Or ten thousand? Just such a small number of people, there are enough 4,000 people who came to sneak attack just now! Of course, I know their plans, these damned Orientals are nothing more than an ambush, a sneak attack, like a swarm of rats in the gutter, not daring to fight us head-on. Aren't they going to sneak attack? I'll let them get what they want, and if they want to sneak attack, I'll send more troops and put them to death! ”

With that, he turned around and shouted, "Go and tell Yelnik to lead 15,000 Cossack cavalry in pursuit of those damned Jurchens!" ”

"Fifteen thousand Cossack cavalry?" Hearing this, Kutuzov was shocked, the Cossacks are not so cheap as the Siberian native soldiers, these warriors from the banks of the Don River are scarce, and the Russian army set off with a total of only 20,000 Cossack cavalry, this road is fierce, the losses are heavy, just now it lost a thousand Cossacks of the grain transport team, plus this thousand, the total loss has reached 5,000 people, and there are only more than 15,000 left!

And the Governor is going to take all the Cossacks?

"Lord Governor, why don't you send 10,000!" Kutuzov dissuaded: "If those people lure the enemy to sneak attack, they will not run very fast, and we will definitely be able to catch up, so the speed requirements for the pursuers are not so high." If the enemy didn't have this idea, it would be too late to chase by now, so it would be better to send 10,000 Cossacks, and then pull those red-coated cannons up. What do you think? ”

Zakhrev looked down and thought for a moment, and finally nodded, which also made Kutuzov breathe a long sigh of relief.

The efficiency of the Russian army, at least the Cossacks, is still very high, that is, five minutes, the Cossack chief, the Russian folk hero, the ruler of the Don River basin, the conqueror of Siberia - Yermak? Tsimofievich led the heroic Cossack cavalry under his command. Like an endless tide, it rushed towards the direction of the Jurchen army's escape.

And in the ranks, there were also dozens of huge carts, which carried the secret weapon of the Russian army this time, the red-coated cannons specially mobilized by the tsar from Moscow.

Watching this huge cavalry team leave, Zakhrev's eyes were red with a bit of crazy enthusiasm, and Kutuzov's face was gloomy. Worried.

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It is a dense forest with ancient trees. The forest is full of extremely tall trees, more than ten feet high. It takes five or six people to hug each other, and the diameter is about a zhang or so, and large trees abound. And large trees with a diameter of more than two zhang and a height of 20 zhang abound.

Most of the trees grown here are pine and birch, with tall and straight trunks, and they stand proudly without a trace of bending and pouring. There are very few forks on the trunk, few vines hang on the trunk, and even the shrubs under the trees are not very many, sparse and sparse. The spacing between trees is quite large. The ground is full of thick piles, and I don't know if they have been stored for thousands of years.

On the ground, a squirrel was bouncing forward.

This little mammalian rodent is about seven or eight inches long, with red fur all over his body, like fire. Very soft and fine. It has a pair of pointed ears, small black eyes, and a large furry tail that is twice the size of its body, which is very cute. …,

The main food of the pine tree is the berries of pine nuts and some shrub plants, of course, if you are really hungry, there is no way. They will also dig out the rhizomes of some plants from the ground to eat, but that's what they can eat. Thanks to the unique environment of the Northeast, they hardly have a time to starve.

This little thing swayed on the ground and walked a few steps, suddenly its body moved, and it quickly jumped to a pine tree with a diameter of two zhang and a height of more than twenty zhang.

After a full cup of tea, the pine nuts stopped falling, and at this time, the pine nuts were almost all laid on the ground.

The squirrel scurried down and began to carry the pine nuts on the ground to his lair, which was in the hollow of a birch tree less than three feet away. The little squirrel was industriously running back and forth to stock up on food for himself through the cold winter, and by this time its burrow was filled with wild fruits, pine nuts, bird eggs, leaves, and the like.

But suddenly, the little one's pointed ears stood up, as if listening to something, and suddenly it abandoned the pine nuts on the ground, and quickly returned to its own cave, showing only its small eyes, which had been dark, and looked out.

As soon as it hid, there was a burst of laughter and laughter in the distance.

Then there was the faint sound of calipers, the sound of leather boots trampling on the thick pile of leaves, and the footsteps were very chaotic and quite heavy. Obviously, there are a lot of people coming, and they all have a considerable amount of weight on them.

After a while, a group of people emerged from the woods and walked towards them.

These people are all wearing big red fat jackets, with boots under their feet, all of them are sturdy, and there is a unique iron blood of soldiers between their eyebrows, and they are actually a group of Ming soldiers.

Each of his was carrying a large axe on his back, the handle of which was wooden, three feet long, and the axe was the size of a washbasin, with a thick back and a thin blade, and the cold light on the blade flickered, and at a glance he knew that it was an extremely sharp weapon! And the weight of this axe is at least about twenty or thirty catties.

Around their waists, a large bundle of rope was tied, the thickness of an arm's arm, and it looked solid, but they did not know what it was for.

At the head of the procession was a young man in his twenties, with a bee's waist, long hands and feet, and a pair of bright eyes, who seemed to be full of vitality and vigor, and almost overflowing. He was wearing a purple bronze armor with a mountain pattern and copper rings on his shoulders, and he was originally wearing a bright red cloak on the back, but he thought that it was for the convenience of walking in the forest, and the cloak had already been taken off at this time. On the feet are high-quality boots made of Isha U's sad calfskin, and the stitches are very fine. Excellent workmanship.

This young man turned out to be dressed as a general in the army, and judging from the costume, the grade was definitely not low.

He was also surrounded by several guards dressed up, and these guards were also dressed as unusual soldiers, all of them were wearing three-layer foam nail cotton armor, which gave people a sense of fierceness and murder at a glance. It's like a bandit for years.

This group of people was not very concentrated, but dispersed into a large area, and everyone was separated by a distance of one or two feet. It's very open, like a big net. As they walked, they searched around. Sometimes I walk in front of those particularly tall trees and knock them with my hands, some of them go away after knocking, and some of them go up and listen carefully after knocking, and then there is an axe on the back of the knock, which is very careful and serious. …,

Thirty or fifty of them can cover an area more than 100 zhang wide.

And in the distance, you can also hear the sound of footsteps, talking, and obviously people who have entered the woods. It's not just them.

Beside the young general, a five-short guard, walking sideways like a crab, looked around, sniffled, and said indignantly: "Young master." Aren't we good enough to be officers and soldiers? How did you send them to cut down trees in this big forest? There are 360 days a year, but 300 days are spent wandering around this black forest, and it is difficult to see a sunny place! Since I came out this year, I have only gone back once, and I didn't stay for three or five days before coming out! Could it be that if you become an officer and soldier, you have to come here to cut down trees? Look at my old man, it's all a lot whiter! ”

Let's talk about it. It was greedy for the big fat face full of horizontal meat and shook it around, causing everyone to laugh.

The young general's face also showed a hint of a smile, and then he reprimanded with a straight face: "Leper head, what kind of are you talking about!" What does it mean that when you are an officer and soldier, you have to come here to cut down trees? - This is the uncle's trust and respect for us, and other guards can't do this errand! ”

Seeing that everyone was attracted by his words, he raised his voice, looked around, and said, "Brothers, what is this big wood for?" This is used by the emperor today to repair the palace! Let me tell you, the Holy One today is very attentive to this work! The wood we chose is good enough, enough, big enough, and when the time comes, it will be transported to the capital, and the emperor will be happy when he sees it, and there will be light on the uncle's face, and the uncle will be happy in his heart, and we will have light on his face! There are those benefits, which cannot be exchanged for bloodshed on the battlefield! Still not satisfied? ”

He glared at the leprosy head: "Leper head, don't say strange things here!" How many benefits do we have if we voted for Wu Yijun and became officers and soldiers? What's the matter with your family's 200 acres of land, four tenants, and two little girls who are only 12 years old? ”

"The young master is really discerning!" The leper head smiled, and said with a dead face: "If there are no two little girls at home, I won't complain, this time I will stay at home for three days, and I will catch a little girl to open a melon, just happy for a few days, and the other one has not had time to touch it, this is coming!" Do you think I don't feel bad? ”

When everyone heard these unashamed words, they all burst into laughter.

A person who had a good relationship with him laughed and said, "Leper head, aren't you blowing how capable you are?" Why don't you open both of them in one night? ”

The other person also laughed: "Leper head, if you can't do it, let's do it for you!" Don't snub your little lady in the house! ”

",!" The leper head said angrily: "Can we not do it? You don't know who we are! We pity the little lady's delicate and frail, for fear that she can't stand it. ”

"Come on, you can blow it!" The young master also laughed, and kicked the leprosy head in the ass heavily, kicking him to the ground.

He turned around and said, "Second Uncle He, how long have we been out?" ”

The object of his questioning was a man in his forties, with a short figure and not outstanding appearance, but his eyes were shining, and it was He Shoushan, the second leader of Black Tiger Mountain. He Shoushan didn't answer immediately, but walked to the edge of a tree, touched the trunk of the tree, felt the temperature on it, touched the other side, nodded, turned around and smiled: "Young master, we've been out for two hours, and now it's about mid-afternoon." ”

The method he used was an ancient way to tell the time in the primeval forest where the sun was seen, and although it was ancient, it was very effective. The position of the sun can be determined by sensing the direction of the warm position on the tree, but this method works in the Northern Hemisphere. …,

The young general nodded. He greeted loudly: "Brothers, find another hour, as long as we can find three qualified trees, we will go back when we apply, and after we go back today, the prospective brothers will go back to Zhenyuan Mansion to rest for two days." ”

When everyone heard that they would have a chance to rest, they were very excited. They should be.

The leprosy head was even louder.

"Wave you fart, why don't you go and tell the other brothers!" The young general kicked him and laughed cheaply. He ran quickly into the woods and disappeared.

The crowd began to look for it again.

This group of people is naturally Dong Laohu's department of the Eleventh Guard of Wu Yijun, the young man. It was the young master of Black Tiger Mountain back then, the son of Dong Laohu, and now the commander of the 11th Guard, Dong Sanlin. The Black Tiger Mountain Department has all returned to Lian Zining, and all the staff moved to Zhenyuan Mansion, these horse thieves have robbed their homes for so many years, and there is no shortage of people with strong wealth, and most of the old horse thieves who have accumulated years have some savings. They also bought a house and land near Zhenyuan Mansion and settled down. Life is also leisurely and comfortable.

The eleventh guard was mainly composed of four thousand horse thieves, plus one thousand elite veterans and two thousand recruits, making a total of seven thousand. The scale is still quite large, and the combat effectiveness is also quite strong.

However, since the 11th Wei became an army, there has been almost no fighting, and the reason for this is because Lian Zining assigned a very important task to the 11th Wei.

Cut down large trees.

When Lian Zining came back from the capital, Emperor Zhengde and Gu King Zhu Zaiwei asked him for Northeast Damu. Later, Lian Zining returned to Zhenyuan Mansion and fought all the time, but he didn't have time to take care of it, and then the Black Tiger Mountain descended the Wu Yi Army to form the Eleventh Guard, and the newly built guards had to be trained, and the Black Tiger Mountain had a good foundation, and the training time was short, and the three-month training took only one month, and it was completed.

The eleventh guard happened to be idle, and Lian Zining sent them to cut down big trees in the dense forest.

It's not a heavy task, it's just time-consuming. In the dense primeval forests of the Northeast, there are many big trees, but Lian Zining put forward very high requirements, which must be straight, and the physique is also extraordinarily huge, and the wood must be so strong and fine.

It's not so easy to find it this way.

Since May, Dong Sanlin has led 3,000 people from the 11th Guard to cut down trees in the dense forest, and it has been five or six months now.

In the past five or six months, there have been a lot of achievements, and the first batch of big trees has been escorted to the capital by the other 4,000 soldiers of the 11th Guard. Now the eleventh guard is inseparable from this big tree.

When he received this task at the beginning, Dong Sanlin was also very reluctant, and because of this matter, some people in the army jokingly called him 'Logging Tongzhi', and Dong Sanlin was even more angry when he heard about it. But later, after Lian Zining called him to talk in detail, Dong Sanlin changed his mind and knew how important this matter was, if he did it well, it would really be no less than a big victory, so he would do it with his heart.

The place where they cut wood is not far from Zhenyuanfu, after all, the primeval forests in the northeast can be seen everywhere, and in the south of Zhenyuanfu, there are large areas of forests that stretch for thousands of miles. They built a camp in the forest and lived in it, and this camp was the camp in the forest where Lian Zining stayed when he went to seek medicine for Ye Nai and went south to find the wild Jurchen tribe in the forest.

There is a rather large river in the camp, but it is a tributary of the Azov River, Dong Sanlin sent people at the confluence of this river and the Azov River, specifically intercepted on the river, and the Azov River flows through Zhenyuan Mansion, and at the confluence of the Azov River and the Songhua River, he also sent people to guard it.

When the time comes, cut down the big wood, throw it directly into the river, go straight downstream, enter the Azo River, you can go all the way to Zhenyuan Mansion, and then from there, these big trees will be tied with a very heavy rope, the rope is tied to the strong ox on the bank, at this time, the soldiers will drive the strong ox, all the way to the southwest, the strong ox will also drag the wood, in the Songhua River upstream.

Although it is countercurrent, it is a hundred times more convenient to transport in water than on land.

All the way to the south, it will be transported to a place where it cannot be transported by water, and then it will be loaded and transported south.

The Northeast is different from the South, in fact, in terms of abundant precious timber, the Northeast does not have any advantage.

Like sour branch wood, which is commonly known as old mahogany, small-leaved red sandalwood, golden silk nanmu, huanghuali and so on, the origin of these precious timbers is in the south, Liangguang, Huguang, Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan and other places, in the deep mountains and old forests of these places, the altitude is high, the people are inaccessible, and there is enough humidity and heat, which is rich in these precious woods. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )