"Kill..."
In the north of the Heilongjiang River Basin, a group of blond and blue-eyed people rushed into a walled city, shouting to kill.
However, there was no one in the walled city, and it was quiet.
This made the group of people quickly stop shouting to kill, looked at each other a little disappointed, and then began to break into every house.
But soon, they all came out again, looking indignant.
Outside the walled city, the leader was a bearded man. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but frown and said, "There's no one there again?"
They had already conquered a stronghold before, but found that it was an empty stronghold. Not to mention humans, there wasn't even a living creature, not even a little bit of food left.
The other person, after hearing what the bearded man said, immediately said nonchalantly: "What the hell, Khabarov, this place is occupied by us anyway!"
This bearded man is the most famous among the colonists of Tsarist Russia’s eastward expansion, named Yerofi Pavlovich Khabarov.
He comes from a lower class background and will do whatever it takes to get money.
Tsarist Russia continued to colonize the East in search of new wealth, and from time to time there were reports of people becoming rich as a result. Therefore, in 1625, Khabarov joined the then popular trend of colonizing the east.
This guy was also visionary and became a salt seller in the castles around the Lena River. He also opened a farm for farming and had his own manor at the mouth of the Kilenga River.
At that time, food was very precious in Siberia. Khabarov, a master farmer, successfully planted crops in the Yakutsk region where three feet of ground was dug into the permafrost. His farm became the largest food supplier in the Yakutsk region at that time, and he became a famous local Rich man, nouveau riche.
However, one common characteristic of Tsarist Russia's eastward expansion colonists was cruelty. Yakutsk military and political chief Peter Golovin was jealous of his salt and grain industry, so he robbed him of any crime and threw him in prison. .
Khabarov was released from prison in 1645 and had nothing, so he continued to join the colonial ranks.
When the officials robbed him, he would rob the natives in the East.
At that time, Tsarist Russian colonist Vasily Danilovich Boyarkov took more than 130 people to the Heilongjiang Basin, snatched 480 sable skins that were very valuable in Tsarist Russia, and brought them back Legends about the wealth of the Heilongjiang Basin.
Therefore, Khabarov obtained a sum of money and pulled up a colonial team of 70 people to rob the Heilongjiang Basin. Subsequently, he returned to Yakutsk with his belongings and reported to the new Yakutsk military and political chief Dmitry Andreevich Franzbekov, accurately assessing the agricultural potential of the Heilongjiang River Basin. , believing that by occupying this area, Yakutsk's food shortage problem will be solved once and for all. Moreover, food can be transported to Yakutsk in just two weeks through the Zeya and Lena rivers.
As a result, he received official support and led a reinforcement force of 138 Cossacks, carrying 3 artillery and a batch of guns and ammunition, and went south again. He joined his original men and the number reached 208, preparing to conquer the Heilongjiang River Basin in one fell swoop.
At this time, the Cossack leader Rovinsky did not care that it was an empty city. Anyway, his main task was to occupy this place. However, Khabarov was different. He came to rob, and he owed a large debt for this. Nowadays, no one is without money, so of course he is unhappy.
Hearing Rovinsky's words, he frowned and said: "These natives are obviously prepared for us and gave up here on their own initiative."
"So what?" Rovinsky heard this and didn't care. He and others began to enter the walled city, occupy the unoccupied houses, and began to rest.
Khabarov, who was walking with him, continued to speak to him: "Those eastern natives will definitely not give up. Now the second city is also empty, which means they are all hiding. Maybe they are hiding somewhere. , prepare to attack us!"
"So what?" After hearing this, Rovinsky still didn't take it seriously and said with a sneer, "With their little strength, they want to fight us, haha..."
"That's not what you mean!" Khabarov listened and quickly explained, "We don't know where they are, and we don't have to be wary of them all the time. There is no such reason. Let me tell you, we can no longer follow the step-by-step approach, but we need to make a surprise attack. In the south, do not give them a chance to escape and retreat. Only by capturing some people, understanding their situation, and conquering them can we occupy this place to the greatest extent possible."
Upon hearing this, Rovinsky agreed and discussed it with him in detail.
In the next few days, these Tsarist Russian colonists suddenly accelerated southward and continued their raids southward. Not to mention, in the next city, the city of Yaksa, they finally captured an old lady Sauron who had no time to escape.
Khabarov did not hesitate and immediately began to torture and interrogate the old woman Solon, and finally got the information he wanted.
"Those eastern natives are afraid of us, so they keep withdrawing people, hoping that we will not go south after occupying the walled city." Khabarov smiled and told Rovinsky the information he got from torture, "But they didn't With so much hope, people from several cities and towns are gathering in the south. If we continue to go south, they will fight to the death."
After hearing this, Rovinsky smiled disdainfully and said, "Just them? You don't even have many iron weapons, but you still want to fight to the death with us?"
After laughing for a while, he finally asked: "How many people can they have in total?"
"More than four thousand people!" Khabarov immediately replied, "They still have two strongholds in the south, and they will eventually gather in the last stronghold to resist us!"
When Rovinsky heard this, he still said with a look of disdain: "Okay, it will be decided once and for all. Let us settle it once and for all. In a few days, we will go south and let these eastern natives know how delusional they are!"
Khabarov also nodded to this. However, he hesitated for a while, and finally said to Rovinsky: "There is also news that their leader has sent people to the south to ask for help from the Ming Kingdom."
Of course, these Tsarist Russian colonists had heard of a very large country in the east. Upon hearing this, Rovinsky's eyes gleamed and he immediately asked Khabarov: "Is it the legendary Eastern Empire that is full of gold? "
"Yes!" Khabarov nodded after hearing this, and then reminded him, "According to the confessions obtained, this Eastern Empire is very powerful and has wiped out all the Jianzhou Jurchens who have been bullying and plundering their tribe."
Upon hearing this, Rovinsky couldn't help but laugh up at the sky, as if he had heard something very funny.
For a long time, this big country in the East has given Westerners the impression of being a wealthy country, like a paradise, but no one has ever emphasized that this big country in the Far East is still a powerful country.
This also triggered the advent of the Age of Discovery in the West. Those Western colonists all wanted to find a way to the rich countries in the Far East and become rich.
On the side of Tsarist Russian colonists, the same impression existed.
At this time, Rovinsky heard that an indigenous tribe said that another indigenous tribe was very powerful and was destroyed by the Ming Empire, which showed that the Ming Empire was very powerful. For him, this logical relationship did not exist at all.
It's like a child saying that another child is very powerful, but in the end he is punished by the more powerful child. The Tsarist Russian colonists beat the natives violently, just like an adult. How could he be afraid of the child who the child said was more powerful?
Seeing Rovinsky laughing so much, Khabarov couldn't help but laugh too. I thought to myself, it seems that I am too cautious. Is there any of the eastern natives who can fight?
As a result, these Tsarist Russian colonists did not take seriously the fact that the Sauron people had gone to the Ming Dynasty to ask for help. Still thinking of ways to defeat the resistance of the Sauron people, grab what should be grabbed, and occupy the territory that should be occupied.
In their subsequent pursuit, they finally encountered a walled city resisted by the Sauron people.
In the original history, the Sauron people were the only ones who refused to escape and built two defensive walls to resist.
However, no matter how strong a walled city built with wood was, it could not withstand the cannons of the Tsarist Russian colonists. Therefore, it was quickly breached.
According to records, after the Tsarist Russian colonists broke through the walled city, their bestiality became apparent, they chopped and killed indiscriminately, and bloodbathed the entire city.
Khabarov and other Cossacks "beheaded all the captured Daur people" and "killed a total of 661 adults and children." They also took away 243 women and 118 children, a total of 1,022 people, almost the entire population of the village.
In this dimension, the Tsarist Russian colonists finally caught up with the Saurons, and everyone was very happy. Because this means that they can finally kill people and steal goods.
However, after Khabarov observed it with a telescope, he said to Rovinsky with some doubts: "There seems to be something wrong with the number of people. It is much less than expected."
Several villages in a row were empty villages before. If they were all concentrated here according to the confessions obtained before, the number of people would definitely be much larger.
These Tsarist Russian colonists looked down upon the natives, but when they were really ready to go to war, they still showed due caution.
Based on his experience, Rovinsky immediately sent people to search the surrounding area, and found more than 500 indigenous warriors, obviously trying to cooperate inside and outside.
However, after being discovered by the Tsarist Russian colonists, this indigenous team did not dare to fight and fled directly.
Tsarist Russia encountered this situation many times during its eastward invasion, but did not take it seriously. After placing sentries on the outside, they all gathered outside the gate of the walled city, set up artillery, and prepared to attack the city.
Each of these Tsarist Russian colonists was very excited and gearing up, ready to break into the stronghold and vent the bestiality they had accumulated over the past few days.
However, before they could start fighting, several gunshots were heard in the distance, and the alarm sound from the Tsarist Russian sentry was suddenly interrupted. Obviously, there was an unexpected situation that made it impossible to continue calling the police.
