"Huang Ama, this is the secret of Ningguta Angbang Zhangjing Bilong... It is marked with urgency..."
Fan Wencheng quietly walked to Dorgon holding the memorial he had just received from Ninggu Pagoda outside the Pass. In the main hall of Dorgon's Chonghua Palace, a banquet was being held at this time. The guests were several red-haired foreigners, namely Bruce Van Diemen and the others.
Bruce received a transfer order from the East India Company in October - asking him, a military adviser of the Qing Dynasty, to train generals for the Ming Dynasty, that is, to serve as the chief adviser at the Army Lecture Hall.
And the team he brought to the Qing Dynasty will also be withdrawn together!
However, the East India Company did not say anything to death, but asked Bruce to tell Dorgon that he had been promoted and returned to China, and that new advisers would come to the Qing Dynasty to continue to serve Dorgon later.
When Dorgon heard that Bruce had been promoted, he was very happy for him. He prepared two generous gifts, one for Bruce and one for Cromwell - I don't know if Cromwell can accept it. arrive?
In addition, Dorgon also wrote a personal letter, entrusting Bruce to bring it to the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of the Rakshasa Kingdom (known as Quiet Alexei, the father of Peter the Great), please He should not continue to send troops to the Jinli River and Amur River basins.
Otherwise, Emperor Amma of the Qing Dynasty will lead the Manchu and Mongolian armies to march towards Lake Baihar (Lake Baikal)!
This is not just a threat, the Qing Emperor Amma is serious!
Because from a military point of view, it is more difficult to send troops to the Jingli River and Amur Basin faction than to send troops to Baihar Lake!
Because the troops sent to Baihar Lake were traveling through the Mongolian grasslands, they could ask for livestock from the Khalkha Mongols. There were so many Mongolians helping to herd the animals, and the logistics of an army of 20,000 to 30,000 people was not a problem.
But sending troops to the Jingli River and the Amur River... is much more troublesome. It is not easy to pass through large forests or take waterways.
And the most important thing is that there is no Mongolian cannon fodder when sending troops to the Qingli River and the Amur River, and there are no Mongolians to provide cattle, sheep and horses. Everything has to be provided by the Nine Banners outside the Pass. The Nine Banners outside the Pass are within the sphere of influence of Dorgon and Duduo. If you eat from them, isn't it the same as eating from Dorgon?
Therefore, if the war with the Rakshasa Kingdom must be fought, Dorgon hopes that the decisive battle can be fought in the Baihar Lake area.
Of course, he actually didn't have much confidence, so he wrote to the Rakshasa Tsar - fighting over an old forest is not worth it, can't you live a good life?
The banquet to send off "English friends" was getting steaming hot when a whole roast lamb was brought up. A Mongolian cook was carefully slicing the roasted lamb and portioning it into silver bowls. Each piece of mutton is oily and has an alluring aroma. After adding various spices, it makes the guests full of food lick their fingers.
Emperor Qing Ama had just finished eating a piece of mutton, and when her mouth was full of oil, Fan Wencheng came over.
"What's going on?" Dorgon turned to look at Fan Wencheng, who looked a little anxious.
"Huang Ama, Ningguta Angbang Zhangjing Erbilong reported that at the end of summer this year, the Yaksa Walled City where the Daur leader Albaya was based was attacked by about 200 Rakshasa soldiers! At the end of September, more than 200 Rakshasa soldiers The soldiers carried three artillery pieces, invaded the mouth of the Uzala River in the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and seized the Uzala city of the Hezhe people! Moreover, these two invasions also killed many Daur and Hezhe people..."
Dorgon slammed the table: "Damn it, these Rakshasa people are so disrespectful. 400 people dare to occupy the Qing Dynasty's land and city! By the way, has Ye Bilong sent troops?"
"Huang Ama," Fan Wencheng said, "don't you want to send troops from Khalkha Mongolia? Yaksa City and Uzala City are both in the Heilongjiang and Jingli River areas..."
"Asshole!" Dorgon said angrily, "Then we can't let hundreds of people torment us! They are seizing our city and killing our people. If we don't punish them severely, the power of the Qing Dynasty will be destroyed." Where is it?"
In fact, Dorgon didn't particularly care about the power of the Qing Dynasty. What he cares about are the "savages" in the Heilongjiang Basin and the Outer Xing'an Mountains - these "savages" are related by blood to the Jurchens and are also fishing and hunting tribes. They can easily be incorporated into the Old Eight Banners to serve as cannon fodder.
If the Rakshasa Kingdom is killed or conquered, the supply of cannon fodder for the Old Eight Banners will become a problem.
"Emperor Ama," Bruce has not left office yet and is still providing his advice responsibly, "Although there are only 400 Rakshasa Cossacks, they are not easy to deal with. Rakshasa Cossacks have very strong individual capabilities, no less than The white-armored soldiers in Manchuria also had Don River horses, which were very powerful.
If you want to send out troops, you should choose a small number of elite soldiers, coupled with good firearms and war horses, to give them a devastating blow. The Rakshasa people must be given a hard enough lesson, otherwise they will continue to infiltrate into the Heilongjiang Basin. "
Cossack is not the best in Europe, but it is very powerful when used in the right place.
These Cossacks are not likely to be able to fight in a dignified battle, but they are particularly good at wreaking havoc, killing people and setting fires without mercy, and their fighting skills are just right to restrain the nomads, fishermen and hunters - in places like Siberia and the Outer Northeast, you ask Nassau Mo. Reese took the Dutch soldiers there, and whether they could survive was a question.
But the Cossacks can cope with the harsh living conditions there!
To a certain extent, the Cossacks are the Manchus of the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the Rakshasa people's military power is strong enough to suppress the Cossacks. The Cossack leader Yermak, who conquered Siberia for the Rakshasa people, had earlier opposed the Tsar and was defeated by the Iraqis. Fan Lei was beaten into obedience, so he had no choice but to be a dog for the Czar, and became the vanguard of the Rakshasa Kingdom's eastward invasion and expansion!
As soon as Bruce reminded him, Dorgon also knew that the matter was a bit tricky. There were no land reclamation strongholds in the Heilongjiang and Jinglijiang areas, so the troops could only rely on Ninggu Pagoda to supply supplies, and Ninggu Pagoda did not have the ability to supply the army. So we could only dispatch a few hundred elite soldiers to deal with the Cossacks...
"Pass the message," Dorgon said, "ask Obai to come to Beijing!"
Obai is the best warrior in Manchuria, so it seems that the task of fighting the Cossacks must be left to him!
He said to Bruce again: "General Bu, I have one more thing to ask of you. Find a way to get me a batch of good blunderbuss...not matchlocks, but steel wheel blunderbuss. If that doesn't work, there are some Flint muskets are also fine, two to three hundred are enough, and the price is easy to talk about!"
Both the revolving gun and the flintlock gun have been invented, among which the flintlock gun has gradually become popular in Europe.
However, they are still relatively rare in the East. Zhu Cixiang has already started trial production in the arsenal under the Royal Chamber of Commerce. Dorgon also has a small number of revolving muskets and flintlock muskets, but they are not weapons, but are regarded as luxury goods.
Dorgon also had a few guns on hand, so he knew that this kind of fire gun was much easier to use than a matchlock gun, so he wanted to ask Bruce to help find some, collect 300 guns, and give them to Obai to get a white-armored soldier with muskets!
"Okay, I will find a way!" Bruce assured Dorgon.
Dorgon thought for a while and asked Fan Wencheng: "What is Zhu Cihong busy with recently?"
Fan Wencheng said: "Huang Ama, he is busy looking for food."
"Looking for food?" Dorgon was stunned, "There is no food in the Southern Dynasty again?
On the Qing side, the Ming Dynasty is always looking at the south - the five-year peace treaty is just a piece of paper. How could you let it go just because of a piece of paper?
The weakness of Nanming that the Qing Dynasty discovered in the past two years was that there were food shortages every now and then.
Fan Wencheng explained: "The Southern Dynasty had a large population and a small area, and the price of food was high. Every time there was a shortage of food, there would inevitably be a famine. So Zhu Cixiang was busy finding food for the people below, managing the Huanghuai River, and It is to conquer the southern barbarians, and recently they have recruited farmers to go to the Jinghai Army and the Jinou Army to cultivate land... They are all hot places in the south, and I don’t know if there is miasma or not?"
"That's quite busy!" Dorgon exhaled, "Then I can rest assured... Let them be busy for now. I have to deal with the Rakshasa people in the north first."
