In the mountains between the Suzi River and the Hunhe River, the troops led by Man Dahai have been reduced by more than half.

Not all of them starved to death, and not all of them fell to their deaths.

As they walked, some people deliberately fell behind and hid in a ravine somewhere, intending to live in the mountains in the future. These people are all low-level Tartar soldiers, and their families have not fled together, so they are not willing to move with the Manchurian nobles at all.

Man Dahai couldn't suppress the deserters, because the mountains and forests along the way were dense, don't go missing one or two, even if you hide hundreds or thousands, it will be impossible to find them for a while.

Over a mountain, after a ravine, over a mountain... This is how the Tartar turns.

"Ahh

A scream was heard, and someone stumbled and rolled down the hill.

The Tartar, who had already descended the mountain, walked over to check the situation. It was found that the man had a broken arm and multiple abrasions all over his body, so he reached out to grab the other party's food.

"Please, leave me some—" The fallen tartar begged bitterly, turning over to protect his grain bag.

Then another tartar came, and the two of them grabbed the grain together, and divided the grain they had stolen equally.

Tartar after tartar, passing by here, no one to help the injured in the fall. Occasionally, a tartar would come by, and seeing that the soles of his shoes were worn out, he would turn away without any interest.

Now that the food has not been eaten, continuing to do so is not just a matter of grabbing food.

"Lord Wang, I hunted a wild boar!"

"Okay, there is a reward, credit credit!"

Another Tartar officer came over and said to Man Dahai: "Lord Wang, along this ravine, go all the way north is the Muchao Ridge, and the Muchao Ridge is not far from the Hunhe River." ”

Man Dahai shook his head: "You may meet the southern barbarians when you walk the Hunhe River, choose the best mountain in front of you, and go all the way to the east." I remember that near the south entrance, there was a large ditch running east-west. The big ditch stretches for dozens of miles, which is easy to pass, and there are villages along the way, so you can get some food.

This decision of Mandahai successfully avoided the cavalry division. If he went all the way north and happened to collide with the cavalry division, Wang Tingchen would have already galloped after him.

This cargo has been nested in the mountains, so that the Datong cavalry is completely blind, and they are not even sure where the Tartars have gone.

Three days later, more than 26,000 Tartars came to the great ditch of Mandahai.

This was the territory of the Zhengbai Banner, and after the death of Dolgon, it was taken over by the Great Jade and ruled by the Manchu Emperor.

Manda Haidao: "The clansmen of the villages along the way must follow along, and those who don't want to go will be killed directly!" “

At this moment, they have very little food left. The Tartar soldiers rushed into the village, they were ordered to take away the people of Zhengbaiqi, in fact, all kinds of excuses to kill people and steal food, even if they were willing to go with them, they would be hacked to death if they didn't pay attention to it.

Jianzhou Jurchens, killing and robbing their compatriots!

The cavalry division led by Wang Tingchen, as well as the dragoons who pursued together, searched for traces of the enemy everywhere along the Hunhe River, but they couldn't even see a ghost.

"Damn it, where can the Tartars go?" Wang Tingchen said depressedly.

Wang Yaochen: "I guess I'm still hiding in the mountains." “

Wang Tingchen was helpless and amused: "Tartars are hiding this way, I'm afraid that most of them will starve to death, and their food should be eaten." “

Wang Tingchen: "It's really hateful, I'd rather starve to death than let us find meritorious service." ”

Hell, if they can find it, these Tartars are just going back to their old ways. In the early and middle period of the Ming Dynasty, the Tartars could not do the Ming army, and they also migrated through the ravines, starved to death and froze to death, and then rose again after dozens of hundreds of years of reproduction.

Weak strength has its own way of survival.

Take Vietnam, for example, the Yuan Dynasty attacked three times before and after. Each time, the capital city was quickly breached, and the Vietnamese civil and military forces led the army and civilians to dig into the ravine, and the Vietnamese king hid at sea by boat. When the weather was hot, they came out of the mountains to fight guerrillas, and the Yuan army fell ill in large numbers because they could not tolerate the heat.

It was not until the Yuan Dynasty's expedition to Japan that it was blown heavy losses by the typhoon, and then gave up the fourth expedition to Vietnam.

When Zhu Yuanzhang fought Vietnam, the same was true of the Vietnamese, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs took the army and civilians to drill the ravine, and the Vietnamese king hid in the sea by boat. When the weather was hot, he came out again to fight guerrillas, so that the Ming army fell ill a lot because of the scorching heat.

It's just that even if the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, it firmly occupied the city and did not withdraw its troops, and also sent large troops to quell the rebellion many times.

Every time the Vietnamese drill into a ravine, a large number of people will starve to death!

When Man Dahai led his troops to arrive at Wang Jiabu's hometown, those who died died and those who fled, and there were only more than 10,000 people left around him. Among them, it also includes the Jurchen people who were taken away along the way, otherwise he might not even be able to make up 10,000 people.

The hometown of Wang Jiabu, in the territory of Tonghua in later generations.

The Wangjia Division, or Wanyan Division, was conquered by Nurhachi very early.

There's a big stockade with some grain in it. Mandahai, who had already begun to eat human flesh, quickly occupied the stockade and took away not only all the supplies, but also the people.

Next, there is no need to go over the mountain, follow the valley, go all the way to the northeast, and you can reach Huinan County in front.

Of course, Huinan County is the name of the place hundreds of years later, and at this time it belonged to the remote place, very close to the place where the cavalry division attacked the city.

It is no longer the territory of Jianzhou Jurchen, and there is no psychological burden to kill people and grab food, Man Dahai plans to migrate all the way to Ningguta, which is the ancestral land of Aixin Jueluo. By the time he arrived at Ningguta, the weather must have been cold, and it was impossible for the Datong army to chase after him.

The territory of Huinan was soon ravaged by the Tartars, and there were constantly sporadic Jurchens of the Huifa tribe, who fled to the mouth of the Meihei River to ask for help.

"Leave three thousand men to defend the city, and the rest are all in pursuit, and the Tartars are ahead!"

Wang Tingchen was still circling along the Hunhe River, and it was several days before he received news about the Tartars. He sent a herald to collect the cavalry that was scouting along the way, and pursued it as fast as possible towards the Huinan area.

However, the Tartars began to drill the ravine again and quickly turned to the normal mountain road.

Mandahai's escape has been successful!

When he burned his baggage, counting the old and weak women and children, he had 60,000 Tartars by his side. When he completely escaped the pursuit of the Datong army, there were only more than 12,000 people left around him, many of whom were coerced halfway, and the last part of the journey basically depended on eating human flesh for a living.

It has begun to snow in the northeast, and Wang Tingchen is stationed in Ma Jingli, in fact, his lungs are about to explode.

Suddenly, two sleds appeared in the light snow, pulled by the hounds.

Wang Tingchen waved his right arm, and immediately a cavalry rushed up and surrounded the two sleds.

"Whoa..."

The natives on the sleigh were talking something they didn't understand.

Wang Tingchen asked all the local guides accompanying the army to come and check what was going on, and finally found that two of them could understand.

A guide: "General, these are the Jurchens of the East China Sea in the Huerha Division, they usually live by the Songhua River, and they have presented the East Pearl to His Majesty the Emperor of Nanjing several years ago. ”

Wang Tingchen nodded: "I know that Huerha has come all the way from the northeast and exchanged Dongzhu for grain and cotton cloth in Kaiyuan. “

In the entire Northeast, only Kaiyuan allows trade and mutual markets.

However, all transactions were under the control of the army, mainly the use of grain, cloth, salt, and other items to control the ethnic minorities north and northeast of the Great Wall of Liao. The Huerha tribe was too far away, and there were very few items to trade at a time, only providing Dongzhu and furs for the Datong army.

Wang Tingchen said: "Ask them, it's already snowing, why do you still come to trade goods." “

After a while of communication between the guide and the Huerha, he said, "General, they are here to ask for help. There was a group of cannibalistic robbers who came from the side of Beishan (Outer Khing'an Mountains). The robbers came in boats with firearms, looted grain, gold and silver, and forced the Jurchens of the East China Sea to sacrifice their furs. Those robbers,

They are all man-eating demons, who kill people and eat meat when they run out of food. “

The royal courtier was instantly confused, because he did not know that there were Cossack robbers in Tsarist Russia to the north.

The guide added: "The Fiyaka people further northeast have been robbed by these robbers for more than three months. “

Feiyaka, also known as Feiyaka, lives in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River and Sakhalin Island.

The Feiyaka people, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, belonged to the Chinese. Until the signing of the Treaty of Aihui, 600,000 square kilometers of land was ceded to Tsarist Russia by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Fiyaka people of China have since become the Nivkh people of Russia.

Historically, the Cossacks plundered the Northeast this time, and they didn't even leave. Because they found the estuary along the Heilongjiang River and wanted to build a port castle at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. The entire lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River became a Cossack raiding area, and it was not until several years later that it was defeated by the Eight Banners Army and the Korean Army.

Now, the Tartars are too busy to take care of themselves, and of course they will not fight the Cossacks, and this situation must be done by the Datong army.

This time it was not as simple as a robbery, and the discovery of the Heilongjiang estuary made the Tsarist government crazy with excitement. Stepanov, who led the army to plunder Heilongjiang, was praised in Tsarist Russia as a hero who opened up new routes.

The Russian government is discussing plans to send troops, intending to build forty ships a year for the next two years, and at the same time prepare to build timber for sixty ships. These were inland wooden boats, used to transport troops and supplies, and Tsarist Russia wanted to send 3,000 troops to completely conquer the Heilongjiang Valley.

In another time and space, because of the annexation of Ukraine by Tsarist Russia, it triggered a violent conflict with Poland, and also deteriorated relations with the Ottomans and Sweden.

The plan of the 3,000-strong army to expedition to Heilongjiang was abandoned.

At the same time, Tsarist Russia sent Cossack leaders to reward Stepanlov and wanted to control the Cossack forces in the Heilongjiang Valley. The two Cossack leaders broke out into infighting, which greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Cossacks, and only then was the Eighth Banner Army and the North Korean soldiers seized the fighters.

Wang Tingchen said to the guide: "Tell this person that it is already snowing, and it is impossible to send troops at this time, and wait until the snow melts in spring." ”

The Songhua River and Heilongjiang are too far away, and Wang Tingchen can't be the master, so he must go back and ask his boss.

In fact, he didn't take it seriously, just a group of robbers, why did he mobilize the people? If the robbers don't leave, just send a few hundred cavalry and go over and exterminate them.

After all, the Huerha Department has dedicated Dongzhu to the emperor, and it is still appropriate to help fight the robbers.

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