Mokowei.

This is a colony that Guo Xu opened up for a trading company, located near the mouth of the Tumen River. After a simple construction last year, it has become a simple wooden city.

The city is built with mud, the thick wood is inserted into the ground, fixed with iron nails, filled with mud, and then tamped, it becomes the current wooden city, the circumference of this city is only less than 200 meters, the reason why it is so small is because there are only more than 140 troops stationed here, and a large number of buildings are built underground, or semi-underground.

"No one has come to buy or sell anything in the last ten days, right?" An Hai, the garrison commander stationed here, said.

An Hai is an old man who came out of the Vostok, and in the earliest times, he was the chef of the Vostok, but he was not a lucky cook. During a naval battle against Japan, this brave fellow sent hot soup to the gun deck, but on the gun deck filled with gunsmoke, he did not see his comrades manipulating the guns, and then broke his left leg by the recoil of a six-pounder gun.

The leg was so broken that he had his leg amputated. But An Hai couldn't leave the sea, so he stayed on the ship, until Guo Xu opened up the outer northeast, he got the position of garrison, although he went on land, but because of the location of Mokoweimu City, he could still sleep at night listening to the sound of the waves.

"Yes, Lord Anhai, no one has come to buy and sell for ten days, I can guarantee that something must have happened." His deputy was a shrewd fellow, an accountkeeper.

An Hai scratched his head: "This is not good, I believe that Lord Guo Xu's ship will arrive soon, and he needs to carry enough goods from my warehouse, otherwise, he will definitely not be able to give us more support." ”

The bookkeeper reminded: "Lord Anhai, what we should be wary of now should not be Lord Guo Xu's accusations, but threats from the surrounding areas." ”

For Mokowei Fortress, it was not only the starting point for trading companies to project their power to the Tohoku, but also a center of trade.

Of course, An Hai and others in Mokowei already knew that Guo Xu and the big treasurer Li Zhaoji had agreed to build a city on Temple Street at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, which would replace Mokowei as the trade center of the Jurchen homeland.

But as long as the Manchus did not discover the existence of Mokowei, or that it did not enter a state of war, it was still the seat of trade.

Located halfway between the Jurchens and the Chao and Xian dynasties, it has shown impressive trade potential over the past year. Although the scale of the trade was not large, and the ships carrying cargo last year were not even full, the value was enormous.

Because ginseng, mink, deer antler velvet and other goods are produced here, and before the arrival of winter last year, the ships of the Oriental Trading Company also took more than seventy Jurchens, who were good mercenaries.

"Threat, what threat will there be?" An Hai smiled, because of his position, he got some news earlier than Li Zhaoji, such as the dynasty, Xian was attacked by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he learned from the first batch of merchants who came to trade after the beginning of spring, and also collected seven or eight fleeing civilians and deserters.

In his opinion, the Qing army was stumbling in Liaoxi and Dashun, and also sent a large army into the court, how could Xian have the spare strength to attack his own little Mokowei?

"Lord Anhai, Lord Anhai, something has happened, something has happened." A panicked voice suddenly sounded outside, and a man hurriedly ran in and said, "Second Brother Qi was killed, and the head is outside." ”

An Hai stood up directly and hurriedly walked out of his room, he carried a knife and an arquebus, because one foot was wooden, so it was not easy to walk, and limped out of the room and came to the gate of Mucheng.

Everything was as usual here, but on the main road leading to the outside, there were a few more wooden poles with a few human heads stuck in them, and An Hai ignored the obstruction of the others, walked directly over and saw the faces of the victims clearly.

There are a total of six people, one is the second brother Qi mentioned by his subordinates just now, and the other five, two are Chao and Xianren, and three are Jurchens, all of whom are hired in Mucheng.

Four days ago, An Hai sensed that something was wrong and sent Qi Er out to investigate and ask what happened to the nearby Jurchens, but unexpectedly, all the people sent out were dead.

"Who sent the head, did you see it?" An Hai asked.

A man with an arquebus said, "It should be a Hurha." ”

So saying, he led the men out in a hurry, and in a short time he brought back a horse from the nearby woods, with a corpse on it, and the corpse was shot in the chest by a bullet, which was done by the officer who had just guarded the door, and he had a heavy arquebus in his hand, and he was very good at using this weapon.

An Hai remembered that it seemed that when it was almost dawn, he heard a gunshot, but he never thought that there was already a battle at that time.

"When it was almost dawn, the Huerha man approached sneakily on horseback, and I was on duty at that time, and I asked him in a loud voice what he was coming from, but he did not speak, but put a wooden pole in his hand and let go of the head. I thought I was here to steal something, so I fired a shot. The man fled into the woods, but it was clear that his armor did not hold me in the way of buckshot. Officer Guo Hu said.

Guo Hu is Guo Xu's kindred, a guy who is good at using firearms and is extremely brave.

An Hai stirred the clothes on the dead man's clothes with the knife in his hand, looked at the horse he was riding, and said, "There is something wrong with this man, have you ever seen the Huerha people wear such beautiful chain mail?" ”

The Jurchens east and north of Ningguta were very short of iron, and some of their arrowheads were made of bone, and if they had iron, they would also make weapons such as axes and waist knives, rather than chain mail.

"I think it's a bit like the batch of armor that Lord Guo Xu brought last year." The bookkeeper said.

Last winter, Guo Xu came and sent some supplies, including fifty sets of armor, which were seized from the battlefield in Liaodong and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At this time, the horse that was brought in began to poop and fell on the yellow earth, Anhai used wood to remove the steaming horse manure, and said, "Can the horses of the Huerha people eat beans?" ”

Guo Hu nodded: "It seems that the Manchurians came to the door." It looks like this year won't be too lonely. ”

An Hai said: "Prepare for war, put away the goods, distribute the ammunition, strengthen the city defenses, and hope that the artillery of the Manchurians is not as good as ours." ”

Behind a forest in the north of Mokowei, Manchu Beizi Mandahai was sitting on a sheepskin, munching on freshly roasted meat, listening to the report of the people below, and an old man was crying in front of him, because the man who died outside the wooden city was his son.

The old man was the chief of a tribe of Huerha, and the guy who died wanted to rush to perform, but underestimated the opponent's firearms.

"You go down and rest, I will kill everyone in Wood City to avenge your son." Man Dahai said.

In last year's Liaodong battlefield, Man Dahai belonged to the category of people with remarkable performance, he participated in the largest battles, and was very good at covering the retreat of the main force.

This time, he was ordered by Dorgon to march eastward, but did not participate in other battles because his task was also very important.

As a Beizi, of course Man Dahai will not go to guard the border passes, he is responsible for rewarding Wu Aya. Of course, this kind of task will not be entrusted to Beizi, whose task is to replenish the required population for the Eight Banners of Manchuria with the help of the reward of black silk.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the war inside and outside the Guan, so that the Qing Dynasty lost too many people, and the others are easy to say, the Mongols have lost, there are a large number of Mongolian herdsmen from the grassland to vote, the Han people have lost, you can go to the Guannei to rob, the coating of the land is not enough, you can let the army of Zhengchao and Xian bring more, but what about the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the loss is the loss, and it can only be replenished by catching the Jurchens from the white mountains and black waters.

In the past, to reward Wu Aya, you only need to reward some cloth and silk to these Jurchens in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and then collect some tribute mink, this time is different, Dolgon needs Mandahai to recruit a group of men from the Jurchens to Liaodong, of course, recruitment is just a statement, these people will never come back.

Mandahai took a hundred men eastward, arrived at Ningguta last month, and transferred a part of the defenders from there, bringing the size of the army to 400 men, all the way east, preparing to take a boat to the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, when suddenly received a news from the Huerha people, saying that there were people in the Mokowei area who came to do business, claiming to be Chao and Xianren.

But the Huerha people also crossed the Tumen River and the dynasty, and few people bought and traded, although they did not master their language, but they could not hear it, at least those people did not speak with Smecta.

It just so happened that Qi Er and the others went out to investigate, and Man Dahai caught them and figured out that Mo Kuowei was a Han Chinese, and it was the most hated Oriental trading company in the Qing Dynasty.

When he learned that there were only about a hundred defenders in Mokowei, Man Dahai thought that if he could kill these people, it would definitely be a great achievement for him, and the title was not just a shell.

"How many of the Hurha have come?" Man Dahai asked the white-armored soldiers beside him.

The soldier said, "Three tribes have come, more than 700 people in all. ”

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