The young Niu Lu Zhangjing that Ablin thought was actually none other than Jidu, the prince of the Qing Dynasty and the general of Dingyuan!

But in Ablin's eyes, such a young military attache is at best an officer the size of a "centurion". At that time, after he was blindfolded and escorted into this military camp, when he was able to see the light of day again, the first person to interrogate him was this person, a young and energetic young man, but he was in charge of such a small camp, and his official position was naturally not high.

As an "envoy" who has seen the world and come into contact with many high-ranking Chinese officials in Khan Bali City, Ablin thinks that he can easily and clearly distinguish the size of this Qing official, but the method is very simple - look at the hat! The more and larger the pearls on the hat, the higher the official position of the hat owner. If there is a peacock feather stuck in the back of the hat and eyes on the feathers, then the position and status will be higher. It's a pity that the soldiers in this barracks are all wearing uniform uniforms, and even have the same blue background and red edges, which makes Ablin a little difficult.

"Envoy Abling, this official invited you this time to chat with you." The young Jidu opened his mouth with a smile.

Deliberately concealing his official position and true identity was Jidu's first decision after hearing the edict of the Rakshasa people, and now it seems that this decision is very correct, because it has saved himself from many troubles that he could not escape.

On that day, when the blue flag of Manchuria Gushan Ezhen [Dutong] Second Jiala Zhangjing [Counselor] belonged to the Eighth Niu Lu Zhangjing [Zuo Ling] of the "Half Score Zuo Ling [1]" Borzigit. When Uenqi came to report this important event to himself, he was also thinking about what to do with the growing number of Rakshasa captives.

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Facing a large-scale Qing army that suddenly appeared in front of him. The dozen or so small strongholds scattered along the lakeside, the woods, and the rivers are simply vulnerable, and few of the Rakshasas in the strongholds are capable of fighting. The sum of all the people in each stronghold is only one hundred and ten people at best, except for the ordinary people, that is, more than a dozen Cossacks who serve as guards to defend the city have some combat power, and the rest are basically some idle people, who only know that crying dad and calling mother, whether there is the same.

As a result, the battle was not fierce, and it could even be said to be extremely easy. Therefore, each place is occupied in a stockade, castle or fortress. Jidu ordered the sergeant to rebuild and strengthen on the spot. Because the construction of these strongholds is too simple, it is okay as the location of Wodong, but it is not up to the standard as a military camp station.

The reason why it was not burned was because the emperor had made a special explanation before coming. It is said that the coast of the North Sea is vast and sparsely populated. If the armies are all in one place. Not to mention the difficulty of supply, for the Rakshasa bandits outside the barracks, it is still impossible to achieve the effect of discovering and annihilating at any time. As a result, Jidu boldly adopted the method of breaking the whole into parts. Only the ten leaders [Niu Lu Zhangjing] who were the first leaders of the Manchurian capital with the blue flag were left as the Chinese army, and most of the Han army camped outside the city, thinking that the horns were the momentum, and by the way, they built the Zhangjing yamen and the official mansion in Ulan-Ude.

The rest of the main force of the Manchu and Han people, supplemented by a small Han army, were all based on the leadership of the unit, that is, the scale of one hundred and twenty or thirty people, and walked around Suwu Lake like a sieve, but whenever they encountered the stronghold of the Rakshasa people, they took it in one fell swoop, and then left dozens of Han troops to garrison, and the rest continued to advance. In the past two months, except for the three or four Rakshasa castles in the northeast corner of the Great Lake, which are slightly larger, have adopted the method of "surrounding but not fighting, encircling three queyi, only entering and not leaving, and catching turtles in the urn", so as to "collect" as many Rakshasas scattered here as possible, the entire lake area has basically been sorted out. Unfortunately, I haven't had much trouble or any kind of battle so far.

Even so, how to deal with the growing number of Rakshasa captives has become a matter on Jidu's mind. For the individual recalcitrant Cossacks, the veteran general Zishikha advocated killing a hundred people, but he stopped him. Because in Jidu's eyes, this northward advance has not been a major conquest war so far, and in a few months, his soldiers have only lost less than a hundred people, and it is basically a common attrition in the army such as skin injuries and fractures. Only three soldiers died, and one of them died in the swamp.

After much consideration, Jidu adopted a differentiated approach: the craftsmen among the captives were screened out, dispersed to various camps as craftsmen, paid monthly wages, and allowed to live in the village with their families. For the more than 200 Cossacks, Jidu concentrated the original leaders in the military prison of Ulan-Ude, re-elected the leaders who were willing to surrender, and took these people who knew the times as the new leaders, and became his own "pro-army guard", mixed with more than 1,000 people of the Chinese army, thinking that they were held hostage and guarded.

Jidu originally planned to wait until after autumn to carry out the final "storming" of the three remaining Cossack strongholds. According to some Rakshasas who were the first to "pledge" allegiance to the Qing Dynasty, these three castles were called "Angarsk" [this Angarsk was not built in 1951 in the southwestern corner of Lake Baikal, but was located in the northeast corner of Lake Baikal, and was later called "Verkhny Angarsk"), Barguzin Fort and Baontovsk Fort, and they were not built for a long time, and they were all built four years after Shunzhi. [In the official history, the three castles were built in 1647, 1648 and 1652 respectively, and the longest was only 7 years away from this time.

Hearing this, Jidu suddenly admired the emperor's great talent and strategy very much - taking advantage of the fact that the Rakshasas had not yet gained a firm foothold and the local Buryats had not yet succumbed, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty had completely turned the tables, and this "Baihar Lake" was ironclad "or ours!" If it is more than ten years later, according to the current eastward speed of the Rakshasas, it will really be a big trouble!

Zidu's judgment was undoubtedly correct and prescient, because we must not underestimate the Russian invasion of the Baikal region - historically, after the establishment of the aforementioned three citadels, the Russian army largely surrounded Baikal from the north with strongholds, laying the foundation for further southward and eastward advances. Then, Russia in the official history really "attacked" from the south bank of Lake Baikal, one of which "went south" to China's Inner and Outer Mongolia, and the other "eastward" reached the Shilka River in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and then invaded Heilongjiang. In 1658, Nerchensk (Nebuchu) and Terenbinsk were founded, in 1665 Selengsk (Ulan-Ude) was founded, and in 1666 Udinsk was founded, and it was considered to have gained a firm foothold in Eastern Siberia.

God bless me China! Hongyi asked Jidu to have an army of 30,000 not south to the coast of Fujian, but north to Lake Baikal!

"Half Leader" Borzigit. Wu Enqi's report instantly disrupted all of Jidu's plans at that time, because the emperor's edict meant that war and peace between the Qing Dynasty and the Rakshasa were possible. Under these circumstances, it seems difficult to make up a mind whether to proceed with the uprooting of the three remaining major castles.

In order to find out, Ji Du turned to the means of not tiring of deceit - disguised as a low-level officer to personally contact this Rakshasa envoy, on the one hand, concealing the 30,000 Qing Eight Banners that had quietly entered Suwu Lake, and on the other hand, to find out what kind of situation the Rakshasa country was.

Under the guidance of this idea, Jidu then wisely asked the "half-point leader" Wu Enqi to first send Abolin, who had long been blindfolded, into the dense forest to go around in a daze, and then transferred to his small camp to be strictly guarded. This is also done in order to confuse these Rakshasa envoys and let them continue to cover the clouds and mountains.

Now it seems that this series of measures has had a clear effect - Ablin and his entourage still only thought that they had encountered a small group of Qing troops who had recklessly arrived on the shores of Lake Baikal, and the number of them was only 100!

Fortunately, it is the half-point leader of Wu Enqi, and there are few people! This must be providence - looking at Ablin's friendly but somewhat arrogant attitude, Jidu secretly rejoiced!

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"This officer, it's really admirable that you can command so many professional soldiers under your command at such a young age!"

Sure enough, Ablin came up with a condescending gesture of praise and said it unequivocally.

"Hehe, the guest has won the prize! How have you been these days? My men didn't embarrass you, did they? After listening to the interpreter's relay, Jidu even responded with a shy smile.

"Ah, very good, your men are very polite and friendly to us! Allah will bless you and your soldiers! However, I would like to ask you to return to us the letter of your Emperor and the precious gift he gave us, so that we may return to Moscow as soon as possible to return to the Grand Duke of All Russia. Ablin wasted no time in asking for what belonged to him once again.

(Chapter to be continued)

"A limerick poem. Hidden Head

Reading literature and reading history is only a long breath

I was saying that there was an opportunity back then

The layout is a long-cherished wish

It's hard to come and go

Get up and spend a hundred years

Point out the suffering and diseases of the world

The edge of the town was razed to the sea

Wen'an Wuding tears of joy

[1] "Half Fen Zuo Ling" means half a Zuo Ling. In the Qing system, each of the Eight Banners is composed of 150 strong men at the rate of 150 people, and those who are less than 100 people are called half of the leaders. All half-cents of the collar, whether it is set up before entering the customs to bring people or reward the captured population, or after entering the customs, the two and a half subordinate collars are allowed to be combined into a whole collar, so although there are arrangements from time to time after entering the customs, their number is decreasing day by day. Before entering the customs, half of the original commander led 18 Manchuria, 5 Mongolians, and 5 Han troops, but by the end of Qianlong, it had been reduced to 5 Manchuria and 1 Han army. (To be continued......)