After lunch, in Zhao Xin's tent, Mergua began to introduce the situation of the red-haired camp in detail to Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng. Wukanbei was still in charge of the translation.
"...Two miles to the north of the village is a lake, and across the lake to the north is the sea. In the past, when we went to the mainland, we always rowed from there. Later, when we moved to the south, we had to go to the mainland every year. It’s a long way west.”
Zhao Xin asked Mergu'a: "How many days does it take to walk from here to the red-haired man's camp?"
Mergu made an estimate and immediately replied: "It takes two to three days to walk southwest and pass through a forest. If you go quickly, you can get there in two days."
Zhao Xin took out a map of Bitter Leaf Island, pointed to the lagoon in the northwest corner and asked, "Is it this lake?"
Mergu'a came up and looked at it carefully for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I don't understand."
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng frowned and looked at each other, which was a bit troublesome. The lagoon is quite large, and we can only estimate its approximate location now, but we don't know the location of the dock and where the ship docks, so Deng Fei can't sail a boat to support it. It's no problem to fight on land, but it would be a hassle if the opponent escapes by boat. Landing is possible everywhere on the entire Bitter Leaf Island, making it impossible to guard against.
"We should first find out the location of the opponent's camp and dock before we can take action." Liu Sheng took the initiative to take a squad to investigate. The purpose was to find out the situation of the opponent's camp and the location of the entrance to the lagoon, so that the Thunderbolt could be blocked in the lagoon. exit. Seal the waters.
What Zhao Xin considered was that if there was a ship in the other party's port, it would be best to capture it. If the ship size is suitable, it can be used for coal transportation between Ezochi and Hokkai Town in the future. Facing Liu Sheng's proposal, he nodded in agreement. "Then you take a class to leave tomorrow morning. From the map, it's almost a hundred miles away. It takes two or three days to arrive."
Liu Sheng asked Mergu'a to send one of his men as a guide to accompany him. Mergu'a hurriedly agreed and said to Liu Sheng: "Bear God, I asked Sembakul to go with you. He is very familiar with this area."
Liu Sheng's face turned dark when he heard this. He thought to himself that he had offended someone. Why do some people always associate him with bears? ! He frowned and said to Wukanbei: "Tell him, don't call us by this god or that god anymore. Just call us sir, or sir!"
After hearing Wukanbei's translation, Mergua was so frightened that he stood up and apologized. Zhao Xin waved his hands indifferently and said: "Forget it, why are you arguing with a native? Didn't you hear what Wukanbe said? The Feyaka people believe this. If you really want to talk science to him, maybe he can kill you Be the devil. Take your time."
After Zhao Xin finished teasing, he told Wu Kambei: "If you want to take revenge, you must promise me something first."
Wukanbei said: "As long as you let me kill the red-haired man, I will agree to anything."
"Okay! Tomorrow you will go with Mr. Liu, and you will still be responsible for translating. But you must remember that you must not do anything without Mr. Liu's order, otherwise you will go back to where you came from."
"Why?" Wukanbei asked unconvinced with his eyes wide open.
Zhao Xin's face sank and he said: "You are a soldier in Beihai Town now, and you must obey orders in everything! We are going to wipe out all these red-haired people this time, and no one can escape. So you must not act rashly, otherwise we will be destroyed." Big deal!"
Wu Kambei looked stern, and then understood Zhao Xin's intention, stood up and stood at attention and said: "Yes!"
Early the next morning, Liu Sheng took a squad of soldiers and set off with Sembakul. Before leaving, he made an agreement with Zhao Xin that if he didn't come back in six days, something should have happened, and Zhao Xin would lead his troops there directly.
Three days later, in a dense jungle more than a hundred miles southwest of the mouth of the Oha River, several members of the Tsarist Russian expedition released from the Siberian penal colony were sitting bored at the door of a wooden house smoking.
At this time, Orlov, the officer of the expedition team, shouted to these people: "You guys! Have you put paste on your buttocks? Get up and dig coal!"
A guy sitting on a wooden stake said in a sinister tone: "Officials, don't be so proud! Damn it, you brought me here from Irkutsk to this damn place, saying that you were bringing us to make a fortune, but in the end every day Just digging coal!”
Luchenko smoked bitter and astringent native tobacco leaves and scolded: "Be quiet, bitch! This is better than feeding mosquitoes in Siberia, right?" He turned to look at the officer Orlov , said: "Women! We need women!"
Orlov stamped the floor hard with the spurs of his boots, and shouted impatiently: "Women? Come here! Damn it, I won't get up and let you taste the taste of the riding crop!"
Lutsenko did not take Orlov seriously at all. He said disdainfully: "Don't show off your air here! I was pardoned by the Governor! When I get rich, I will no longer be a prisoner on death row, but a master!" "
With a "pop" sound, the riding crop hit Luchenko's back. Orlov narrowed his eyes and said disdainfully: "I want you to remember the taste of the whip first! Go to work quickly!"
Kuye Island mainly produces lignite, which is mainly stored in the north and southwest of the island. Most of it is open-pit coal mines. Since the Tsarist Russian expedition captured this place twenty years ago and drove away the Feyaka people, they have begun to search for and dig coal mines, and then transport them back to their stronghold on the Kamchatka Peninsula by ship. If a woman would come to a place like this, it would be a disaster!
The members of these expeditions were mainly composed of soldiers from Irkutsk and death row prisoners from Siberia, so they were extremely brutal when fighting the Feyak people, often leaving no survivors alive. Because the local Feyaka people were afraid of them, they all stayed away. Occasionally, a few women caught died because they resisted desperately or could not bear to be ravaged.
Because the Tsarist Russian expedition was worried about angering the Qing Dynasty on the other side, they did not dare to make a big splash after occupying this territory, and they did not expand thereafter. In the past twenty years, the development of local open-pit coal mines has become very mature. Starting from the summer, several ships will come from Kamchatka every month to transport coal and supplies. When the sea freezes in winter, the expedition team stops digging coal and enters a state of cat winter. This kind of life is very boring, so the people who come every year are almost all death row prisoners or exiles from Siberia.
At this time, a guy named Klujinko suddenly appeared in everyone's eyes and said to everyone with a smile: "You don't know, a woman is coming!"
"What?" Lutsenko's eyes suddenly widened. Several other slackers were also alerted and asked quickly.
"It's a death row prisoner named Polya. I heard that she killed her husband with poison, so..." Kludzinko said with a smile on his face.
Lutsenko laughed and cursed: "I'm sure the person who can do such a thing must be a coquettish bitch!"
"Where are the people? Where are the people? When will they come?"
"You bastard, who did you listen to?"
"The crewman who came to transport coal said it. He said the next ship would bring people here."
"The next trip? How many days have to wait? I'm going crazy!"
Klujinko shook his head and said, "I didn't say that. Anyway, the next boat should arrive soon."
All the prisoners were immediately delighted and began to fantasize and look forward to the scene of the woman's arrival. Three hundred meters above their heads, a drone painted silver gray floated overhead...
On the way back, Sembakul was very surprised. He ran for more than a hundred miles and stayed for a day before returning, but he didn't even see the shadow of the red-haired man! Although he showed great interest in drones, he had no idea what they were used for.
Two days later, when Liu Sheng and his party returned to the Oha River camp and reported the investigation situation to Zhao Xin, Zhao Xin smiled and said, "Now it's time to discuss terms with that Mergua."
"What are you going to talk about?"
"Coal Mines of the West."
It turned out that during the few days Liu Sheng left, only two of the five earth kilns were in operation. The main reason was that the charcoal supply could not keep up. It takes more than sixteen hours to burn charcoal once. As a result, most people are now cutting down wood to burn charcoal. Although the calorific value of charcoal is higher than that of coke, Zhao Xin feels that it is too wasteful to waste hundreds of towering trees like this!
According to the information available at hand, Zhao Xin knew that the largest coal mine in the west of Kuye Island was located in a seaport city called "Alexandrovsk" in another time and space; it was also the location of Kuye Island from the 19th to the 20th century. The largest coal mining center on Leaf Island. It would be a pity not to take this opportunity to get it!
So the condition that Zhao Xin put forward to Mergua was that the coal mine and oil mining rights on the entire Kuye Island belonged to Beihai Town, and the negotiations between Beihai Town and other tribes on the island were left to Mergua. On this basis, Beihai Town will be responsible for protecting the Mergua tribe, opening up trade, and providing all the life needs of the Mergua tribe.
Regarding the issue of paying taxes to the Qing court, Zhao Xin still suggested that Mergua continue to implement it. The first is to avoid alerting the enemy, and the second is to connect Feyaka people from all tribes when participating in the Wulin Appreciation.
Mergu'a heard Zhao Xin's conditions and said that there was no problem at all. If you can avoid offending both parties and get huge benefits, only a fool will refuse to agree.
Now that everything is settled, let's get started without further delay. Two platoons were left in the camp to guard the camp, and the guard company and another platoon formed a reinforced company and dispatched. In addition, Zhao Xin also ordered people to recruit more than a hundred people among the refugee workers. Their task was to help set up camps along the way, and later to be responsible for cleaning the battlefield and clearing up the seizures.
After receiving the order, Deng Fei launched the Thunder and set off. His mission was to reach the exit of the lagoon two days later and implement a blockade. If the Tsarist Russians escape by boat, they will all be sunk!
Early the next morning, Liu Sheng led the reinforcement company and set off, while Zhao Xin followed closely behind with a team of migrant workers. In order to see the force of Beihai Town, Mergua and the other seven also joined Zhao Xin's rear team. Zhao Xin has listened to a lot of Manchu these days and can speak a little bit of it, which can be used for general communication with Mergua.
At noon two days later, Liu Sheng and the others arrived at a position one kilometer east of the Tsarist Russian camp. He ordered each platoon to enter the preset position, first knock down the other party's sentry, and then a platoon from the south launched the attack first, encircling the east and west, and driving away the Tsarist Russian camp. People ran towards the northern port.
At this time, Zhao Xin also put on the all-terrain camouflage uniform that he had not worn for a long time. He took his HK416 and a group of migrant workers holding steel picks and other tools, preparing to cooperate with the siege operation.
Zhao Xin held a gun and painted camouflage on his face, and shouted to his migrant workers: "You all remember, no one is allowed to rush in without my order! Bullets will not have eyes by then!"
"Yes, sir. We understand this." All the migrant workers nodded in agreement, saying that they had been talking every day for the past two days, and their ears were numb from listening to it.
"Everything seized must be returned to the public. No personal possession is allowed! Violators will not be given food for three days! However, there will be rewards after this battle, 2 silver dollars per person!" As soon as these words came out, more than a hundred people immediately became energetic. , holding the ax and pickaxe in his hands and became menacing.
According to Liu Sheng's investigation, there are almost more than 200 Tsarist Russians in the coal mine, and there are more than 20 in the northern port. It's easy to kill them, the key is not to let one go.
The platoon responsible for launching the attack in the south was led by him personally. More than thirty soldiers had camouflage smeared on their faces and were camouflaged with shrubs and weeds. When they approached a position 200 meters away from the Tsarist Russian camp, Ukanbe, with the cooperation of a soldier and holding a dagger, launched a sneak attack on the Tsarist Russian soldier on the sentry post in front.
Ukanbe and his comrades crawled behind the Tsarist Russian soldiers from the grass thirty meters away, and crept forward. When they approached the position seven or eight meters behind the Tsarist Russian soldiers, Ukanbe nodded to his comrades, took out the dagger from his mouth, and slowly leaned forward.
When he was still two or three meters away from the Tsarist Russian, Ukanbe jumped on the Tsarist Russian's back with a single lunge, pulled the Tsarist Russian's head hard with his left hand, and slashed the carotid artery with the sharp blade of his right hand. . At the same time, his comrade also rushed forward, and the two of them worked together to bring the other person to the ground.
The Tsarist Russian soldier didn't expect that someone would come to attack him. He felt a heavy weight on his back and a cold on his neck, and was immediately thrown to the ground.
When the donated blood begins to spurt, huge pain also follows! The Tsarist Russian soldier was frightened, clutching his neck and struggling; although the blood in his carotid artery gurgled out, his hands and feet were still very strong. Wukanbe went crazy and pressed the opponent's head with both hands, pushing it into the soil as hard as he could, as if he was going to crush the opponent's head. His comrades, on the other hand, desperately used their arms to tighten the legs of the Tsarist Russian soldier, and at the same time, they rode upside down on their opponents and pressed them hard.
After a while, the legs of the Tsarist Russian soldier beneath him twitched a few times, and there was no more movement. Wukambe and his comrades were covered in blood.
"That's stupid!" Liu Sheng cursed in his heart. But there is no other way. The Tsarist Russians are tall and powerful, but the soldiers in Beihai Town are all small. It is indeed difficult for two people to deal with one person with bare hands.
At this time, at the sentry post a hundred meters away to the west, two other soldiers also succeeded. He was more capable than Ukanbeli. He first cut his throat with a knife, and then stabbed the Tsarist man in the back of the head with a knife, killing him immediately.
At this time, most of the Tsarist Russians in the camp went to the coal mines to dig coal. Except for a few officers, they were resting in the house. A few Feyaka women were washing clothes by the pool.
A voluptuous-looking woman wearing a long skirt and a prison uniform leaned against the porch of the wooden house and suddenly screamed. It turned out that the Feyaka woman who was washing her clothes accidentally dropped the skirt she had just fished out of the water on the ground.
"Ah! You stupid pig! That's my best dress! I'll beat you to death!"
After the woman finished speaking, she leaned over and picked up a wooden stick at the door, rushed over and hit the Feyaka woman on the shoulder. The Feyaka woman screamed in pain, and the wet skirt in her hand fell into the mud again. This aroused the woman's anger even more. She waved the wooden stick in her hand shamelessly, and the Feyaka woman below her screamed.
The officer Orlov who was resting pushed the door open and cursed at the woman: "Liubasha, you vicious mad woman! Just wash your clothes after they get dirty. There are only a few working women here." , are you going to arrest the natives after being wounded or killed?!"
Liu Basia was bored. She was just beating this woman to vent her evil anger. As a former Siberian death row prisoner, she was not a good person, so she put her hands on her hips and started to curse at Orlov.
Suddenly, Lyubasha saw Orlov fall straight backwards and lie in the mud; then, a strange roar came from the woods behind him.
Liubasya felt a little strange. She held the wooden stick and walked quickly to Orlov with her feet dodging the mud on the ground. Orlov's eyes were wide open, and there was a hole as thick as a thumb on his forehead; blood mixed with pink brain matter was slowly flowing out from under Orlov's head.
"Ah!" Liu Basia let out a long scream, finally breaking the tranquility of the dense forest.
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