The snow is fluttering, Li Xin is not cold in a bear's skin, he sits on a special snow warp, and he may even bake a fire.

Soray was a good deer man, and the deer he drove were the ones he had trained himself, and they were all majestic male deer with long horns. Two deer pull a sled and run on the snow with ease.

Soray personally drove their sled, but he didn't need to rush much, and the deer was very clever in pulling the sled and following the sled team. The key is the first car, which must be pulled by the strongest and smartest deer, and driven by the most experienced hunter.

Li Xin originally thought that dog sledding must be more convenient than deer, but after seeing these deer carts, he was really amazed by the dexterity of these deer.

The deer were much larger than he had remembered, and apart from the long horns on their heads, they looked more like a big calf or a mule.

If you carefully evaluate this deer, Li Xin feels that this should be the four dissimilarities recorded in ancient books. These deer can not only pull carts, but also ride.

Every Evenki is a master of making deer, they reindeer raise deer, deer is their good helper, both can ride and pull a cart, in the vast snowfield in winter, can also pull the cart to gallop, no matter how thick the snow is not afraid.

"Deer are more adapted to the snow forest in winter than horses." Soray sat down in front of him and turned to his master. He wore a hunting suit, a fox fur jacket, and a bearskin cloak, but his trousers and boots were made of deerskin.

Li Xin looked at the deer with a short tail and long antlers, and there was always a feeling that this was a cow with its tail cut off and horns. But they are not afraid of the cold, the gray fur helps them resist the cold, and they can pull the car flexibly and gallop on the snow.

The sled cart is like a small boat with two brackets under it, and the car is very light, and two people can still run fast.

"The Yakut dogs are sledding fast." Li Xin said with a smile. The Yakuts are good at making dogs, and each household will domesticate quite a few dogs, at least a dozen or so. They raise dogs with fish and prey. Dogs are good at housekeeping and hunting.

In the snowy forest, the Yakut dogs are no slower than the deer sleds, and these Yakuts are even able to hunt while walking, never worrying about supplies.

Even in the eyes of many Mongols, the Evenki envoys are also called Yakuts, and they also refer to Sipol as the Yaku region.

There are more Yakutes than the Deer tribe, but Soray will not admit that his tribe is inferior to the Yakuts, but this time the Yakuts are very righteous to send people with them to rescue the Sauron tribe, which makes Soray not say anything more.

The snow was fluttering, and Li Xin took the Evenks, Yakuts, Buryats, and Khalkhas. There are also some Han Chinese, who formed a rescue team and set off.

The Governor of the North Sea and the General Commander attached great importance to the request for help from the Sauron Tribe, and also attached great importance to the request of the Envoy Deer Department. The two tribes of Sauron, plus the Oroqen, Dahaner and other tribes, have a lot of people in the upper and middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River. But they are more scattered, they are fishing and hunting tribes, living by hunting and fishing, but also grow a little grain and domesticate some pigs, cattle, deer and sheep.

In the Yuan Dynasty. These tribes are collectively known as the forest people.

However, in the current season, the governor and the general army cannot rashly agree to send troops.

After all, although the Jurchens retreated to the banks of the Heilongjiang River outside the Xing'an Mountains, their strength was still very strong, and the most important thing was that they were too far away.

There were not many Han garrisons in Beihai. Moreover, the terrain leading to Heilongjiang is not familiar, it is difficult to adapt to this climate, and it is difficult to transport weapons and materials.

After Li Xin's proposal, they finally decided to send a letter to Chechnya and Khan provinces with flying pigeons. The two places were asked to send some troops and horses north to meet the lower departments.

But that's not enough.

In the end, Li Xin asked that he was willing to recruit a group of volunteers. Head to the Shilka River.

"We will find a way to find the Sauron tribes and take them back to Chechnya or Khingan Province."

In the end, the governor and the chief soldier agreed, and Li Xin asked for some guns and ammunition to be given to the rescue team, and some more to support the Sauron tribes at that time.

"Now the Sauron Ministry is persecuted by the Jurchens and is very critical, if my Han reaches out to help at this time, then they will definitely stand on my Han's side in the future, belong to my Han, and help the court to annihilate the Jurchens."

The governor and the commander-in-chief agreed to the plan after consulting with the commander-in-chief and the governor.

Li Xin and Sorey contacted the lords of the North Sea tribes and proposed the idea of forming a rescue team to rescue the Sauron tribe, and the proposal was supported.

Sorey's father gave a lot of money to recruit volunteers, and everyone who was willing to go was given a hundred silver dollars, which was a good reward, and there were warriors from all tribes who were willing to go.

The province of Beihai also offered a bounty, and each person who was willing to go was given a flintlock pistol, two handguns, 300 rounds of ammunition, and a free gun card.

The wind and snow in Beihai made many Han soldiers stationed here in awe, but for these tribes who lived here all year round, the cold winter wilderness was dangerous, but it was not terrible.

Eventually, Li Xin and Soray recruited 500 volunteers, and Sorey's father gave each of them 100 silver dollars in advance, promising to reward them when he returned. The province also took out 500 rifles and 1,000 pistols, another 3,000 rifles and some ammunition, and even pulled out 10 mountain grenades.

Among the people who accompanied him, there were not only people from various departments, but also a group of Han Chinese. These men were artillerymen and gunsmiths, able to repair guns, and even had two craftsmen who built the city.

In Li Xin's words, if he can, he can withdraw, and if he can't, he will help the Sauron Department build castles and fortresses over there, train a new army, and fight the Jurchens.

This volunteer rescue team of 500 people set off with this batch of guns and supplies.

Before they set out, they had already agreed on the route of travel.

This route is different from the previous one chosen by Li Xin.

At the suggestion of the tribal leaders, they chose the route from the city of Ilan, skirting the southern end of the lake to the city of Buryatia, where it would go south along the Selenga River and enter its tributary, the Hillock, all the way east to the eastern end, and then a little further south to the other river, the Inguoda River.

Along this river all the way to the east, you can directly enter the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, the Shilka River.

The vastness of Sipol and the tribes who once lived all the way west to places like the Yenisei River have their own set of life experiences. For example, these places are so vast that they take advantage of the abundant water systems of the Siyball region to transport and transport through inland rivers.

There are many rivers in Sipor, several large rivers such as the Ob, Yenisei, Angara, Lena and Heilongjiang rivers in the southeast. These rivers are like huge highways, and they all have many tributaries, and they can travel from one river to another, sometimes only a short distance with a boat.

By zigzag-like progress along the great river and its tributaries, they can easily cross thousands or even thousands of miles.

In the summer, you can take a boat ride, and in the winter, when the river freezes, you can take a sled.

The rivers that crisscross them are their transportation networks.

Many experienced hunters are even able to grasp the directions of the tributaries of several large rivers for thousands of miles.

Just like now, the route made by Li Xin according to the map has to detour one or two thousand miles. But in the eyes of these tribal leaders, there is no need for such trouble, through the small tributaries and tributaries between the big rivers, they can familiarly connect a network of roads that extend in all directions. No matter where you go, you will find the most convenient and nearest road.

They did not need to climb over the Khing'an Mountains, and they could reach the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River in the east directly from the southern end of the river, saving a long way compared to going south into Mobei.

Based on the information he received from the chiefs of the various tribes, Li Xin drew a map of Sipol by hand.

When he looked at the map he had drawn, he couldn't believe it.

Because this place is so big, from the Ob River valley in the west next to the Ural Mountains in the Ob River Khanate Khanate, to the Niesse River to the Onkora River and the Lena River, and to the east the Shilka River, the Ergun River, and the Heilongjiang River.

This is a vast land, too vast, although Li Xin felt that his map was not detailed enough, but as long as what these tribal lords said was basically true, then this northern frontier was larger than the entire territory of the Han Empire combined.

The North Sea is just a lake, and further north there is a larger ocean, the real North Sea. Even in the far east, the sea was only a narrow strait, and beyond that, there was a vast continent further east, as snow-covered as Sipol.

There are not many indigenous tribesmen on this continent, and the total number of tribes in Xipol is estimated to be less than one million, and even after the Yakutia and Evenki tribes moved south, there may be less than two or three hundred thousand left.

But this place is very vast, and the resources are also very rich, the developed water system, the dense jungle, all kinds of tigers, leopards, bears and wolves, as well as deer and mink, wood, fur, minerals, medicinal materials, are all good things.

Now, however, a group of Russian robbers has crossed the Ural Mountains.

They destroyed the Lost Khanate and headed east. Along these rivers, many strongholds were established.

I heard that these Russian robbers have now reached the eastern sea, where they have established a number of strongholds, and are now heading south along the Lena River and the Heilongjiang River.

They not only hunt and buy furs, but even often burn and loot, I heard that a few years ago, there was a team of Russians because they were trapped and short of food, and even robbed the grain of nearby tribal villages, and then killed people to eat meat, and finally killed their own people to eat meat, and in the end only about 40 people remained, and their notoriety of eating meat had already spread all over the north of Heilongjiang.

Sipol has been owned by China since ancient times, how can it be occupied by Russian bandits.

From the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties to the Xianbei and Turks, and then to the Khitan and Mongolians, these northern frontiers have always been the living places of these ancient Chinese tribes, and now the Yakuts, Buryats, and Evenks have been driven south by these robbers.

Our enemies are not only the Jurchens, but also these Russian bandits, Li Xin firmly believes. (To be continued.) )