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  Chapter 733 730【Swatting flies】

  Egor's face changed drastically, and he shouted in panic, "Run!"

   Throughout Siberia, the number of Cossacks is definitely more than a few hundred. Seventy years ago, the first batch of Cossacks to enter Siberia numbered more than 840 people.

  Those who couldn’t get along in Tsarist Russia, Poland, and Lithuania came to explore the East one after another. Over the past few decades, even if the number of people was less than ten thousand, there were at least several thousand, but many died of freezing, starvation, or beating to death.

   But here is the Heilongjiang River Basin, and there are only two or three hundred Cossacks (including the servant army).

   Moreover, they used ships as their means of transportation. Even if they made a fortune in the past two years, they only got more than 30 Mongolian horses, so the cavalry outside the village must be the enemy.

   Without Yegor's reminder, the rest of the Cossack bandits had already rushed out of the village diagonally forward.

   Cossacks are not fighters, they are robbers.

  Since he is a robber, he must focus on saving his life. Not to mention encountering a large group of cavalry, even if encountering hundreds of elite natives, these guys will run as fast as they can.

   "Outflank!"

   Luo Yanggui, who came here with troops, divided up before entering the village.

  Three hundred Datong cavalry were quickly divided into three teams. One team circled to the east of the village, the other team circled to the west of the village, and the other team led by Luo Yanggui rushed straight into the village.

   In the blink of an eye, the Datong cavalry rushed past the boy.

  In the eyes of the indigenous teenagers, these cavalry seemed like divine soldiers descended from heaven. Their war horses are so tall and mighty. Their leather armor is so exquisite and strong. Even these heavenly soldiers, everyone wore leather boots on their feet.

   "Enemies are coming from the left!" A Cossack shouted in panic.

   "On the right too!" shouted another Cossack.

  Yegor was about to pee in fright, gritted his teeth and roared: "Rush over at full speed, don't be surrounded!"

  They can't run away.

  The dragoons under each division, and perhaps some of them rode bad horses. But as the first cavalry division, all the war horses were carefully selected, either the hybrid offspring of Indian horses, or the best horses among Mongolian horses.

  The horses of the Cossack bandits were obtained from the Buryat Mongols. There are gains from robbery, and there are also transactions to buy, whether it is good or bad depends entirely on luck.

  When both sides are running at full speed, it is obvious that the horses of the Datong cavalry are faster.

   "Breakout to the right!"

   "Woooooooooooo!"

  Egor took out a bullhorn, jerked the reins and began to turn. He didn't dare to charge forward, because the Datong cavalry had already outflanked them, so he could only run in a panic to the forest to the east.

   More than a dozen Cossack robbers reined in their horses and changed directions one after another.

  There was a Cossack, whose horse couldn't keep its hooves due to the hasty turn, and lost its balance directly, and fell to the ground with man and horse. The guy struggled to get up, and before he got on his horse, Luo Yanggui had already caught up with him and sent him flying two or three meters away with a single shot.

  Yegor saw the Datong cavalry approaching from the right, and subconsciously raised his matchlock gun. Suddenly remembered that the gun had already been fired and hadn't had time to reload.

  Yegor swung his whip violently, and the horse under his crotch picked up speed again.

  His Mongolian horse was stolen from the Cossack leader when he took refuge in Khabarov. Although it can't be called a BMW, it is still a good horse, which has reached the average level of the cavalry division.

  If you look down from above, you can see Yegor leading the way...running away. His subordinates were quickly thrown out of more than ten positions. On the left side, the Datong cavalry came back, and the Datong cavalry pursued behind them.

  Luo Yanggui rode his horse and galloped while bending his bow and nodding his arrows.

   Whoosh!

  An arrow hit the Cossack robber in the back, and the arrow pierced the leather armor. But the power of the horse bow was not great, the enemy was wounded and survived, and the arrows dangled on his back, and he continued to escape.

   Whoosh!

   Bang bang bang!

   Bows, arrows and bullets rained down on the Cossack bandits.

   There are three types of cavalry in the Datong Cavalry Division.

  One is the cavalry, which can shoot arrows from a long distance, fight in close combat, and even carry crossbows and bucklers.

   One is the Resolute Cavalry, which can organize wall charges and shoot arrows from a long distance. The traditional melee combat ability is weak.

   One is the dragoons, which mainly use firecrackers to fight.

  Of the 300 men brought by Luo Yanggui, 50 of them were dragoons, and the rest were Xiao cavalry. This time it was an expedition, and the cavalry took off their iron armor and came here wearing only leather armor.

  Egor heard the gunshots, subconsciously lay on the horseback, turned his head back to check the situation, and was immediately frightened out of his wits.

  After the baptism of arrows and bullets, his more than a dozen men were almost wiped out, and only two lucky ones were left alive. One of the guys, with an arrow stuck in his shoulder, kept shaking as the horse rose and fell.

   "Run, run!"

  Yegor accelerated his horse frantically, and finally rushed into the forest, while the horse's speed automatically slowed down.

  In the outskirts of this primeval forest, there are often indigenous activities, and many paths have been stepped out. Yegor rode his horse along the path, looking back from time to time, only to see an enemy chasing him closer and closer.

  Luo Yanggui's position is the commander of the cavalry regiment, and this time he only brought 300 cavalry, purely for the reason of the expedition.

   What he was riding on his crotch was a second-generation hybrid of a Wari horse and a Mongolian horse, which was barely close to the edge of the BMW. At this moment, all four hooves are galloping, as if flying in the forest, at most half a stick of incense will be able to catch up.

  Egor was startled and angry, knowing that he couldn't get rid of it, so he slowed down and stopped.

  The former Lithuanian serf raised his spear and rushed towards Luo Yanggui on his horse.

  Luo Yanggui also raised his spear and chose to confront the enemy.

  Two war horses passed by each other, Yegor suddenly flew up, fell to the ground and fell to the ground, and a lot of blood gushed out from the hole in the leather armor on his chest.

  At the moment of stabbing the enemy, Luo Yanggui abandoned the spear. Immediately, he reined in his horse and turned around, drew out his waist knife and charged, and Yegor, who was on the ground, was slashed in the knee before he recovered his senses.

  Luo Yanggui dismounted from his horse, picked up his long spear, and without saying any nonsense, plunged it into the enemy's throat.

   This group of Cossack bandits was wiped out without any effort.

  In history, the Qing army fought the Cossacks for the first time, and the fight was a shame.

   At that time, Khabarov robbed the village and was stationed in a stockade with earthen walls. There were 20 musketeers, 70 Cossack refugees, 117 native servants, and three artillery pieces.

   Erning Guta General Haise has 600 Eight Banners Army, 500 Daur Aboriginals, 420 Feiyaka Aboriginals, and 105 Hurha Aboriginals under his command. Carry six artillery pieces, 30 muskets, and 12 bullets.

  The strength of the Qing army is six times that of the Cossacks.

  And the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time was the time when the peak of soldiers was at its peak. The surrounding aborigines were all reporting to the Qing army, and the Cossacks were completely unaware that they were surrounded.

  In this battle, the Qing army was defeated...

  Obviously the Cossacks had been surrounded, but the Cossacks didn’t even know it, and the Qing army just attacked at night and it was over.

  General Haise of Ke Ning Guta wanted to swagger and line up, and then bombarded the earth wall with artillery.

   Blow down a few more gaps in the earth wall, attack on several sides at the same time, and use the superiority of troops to get it done. Hai Se wanted to order the capture of the living, and since the breach only collapsed in one place, he ordered the whole army to charge and capture the prisoners.

  The Cossack aimed all three cannons at the gap in the earth wall.

  The Qing army swarmed up, crowded at the gap, and became a living target for artillery.

  The Qing army was quickly stunned by the artillery, and the Cossacks took the opportunity to organize a countercharge. In the chaos, including the Eight Banners Army, the Qing army suddenly collapsed, killing 676 people. Those Cossack robbers captured 830 Qing army horses, 17 muskets, 2 artillery pieces, and a large amount of food.

  After this battle, Khabarov's strength soared, and it was more than enough for one person to ride two horses.

   This is the real Eight Banners Army, don’t think they are so good, it’s just that the Ming Army is worse than them.

   "Leader, there is still life left."

"bring it here!"

  A Cossack robber who survived the arrow was brought before Luo Yanggui.

   Originally planned to torture the news, but the two sides did not understand the language.

  Luo Yanggui felt that the other party was pretending to be stupid, so he ordered torture. But that Cossack, who was tortured to death, was still just screaming.

  Indigenous youth and patriarch Bao Bai brought the people of the clan over and kowtowed to Luo Yanggui when they met.

   "Get up," Luo Yanggui asked, "are there any Raksha ghosts nearby?"

Bao Bai said: "Also, but it's not the Raksha ghost, but the dog raised by the Raksha ghost. The Raksha ghost subdued two Daur tribes, and some timid Daur people became dogs for their enemies. They Just in the woods, there were looted food, women, and some wild animal furs."

   "Lead the way immediately!" Luo Yanggui said.

  These aborigines didn't know where the enemy was, and they asked the hostages who were released to report to lead the way, but there wasn't even a ghost there.

  The indigenous teenagers organized hunters to search for traces in the forest all the way. After spending most of the day, they finally found the traces of the enemy.

   More than a dozen Daur natives stayed where they were, guarding the stolen livestock, food, women and furs for the Cossack robbers. Seeing that there were so many Datong cavalrymen, and all of them were riding horses, they did not choose to escape, so they immediately knelt down and begged for surrender.

  Under repeated questioning, Luo Yanggui obtained more military intelligence.

   It turns out that Khabarov's main force is not everyone with arquebus. There are only more than 20 Cossack musketeers, more than 100 Cossacks using cold weapons, and the rest are all Siberian indigenous hunters.

  These indigenous hunters come from different tribes, even the aboriginals in the northern part of Lake Baikal, as well as the Mongolian herders who were captured by the Cossacks. These people are all equipped with hunting bows, some with knives and some without knives. When facing the Datong cavalry, their combat effectiveness is negligible.

  Luo Yanggui muttered: "It's really a group of robbers. There are only two or three hundred such weak robbers, and they can run amok on both sides of the Heilongjiang River. The local aborigines don't have eggs?"

   It’s not that there are no eggs, but those who have eggs are either killed by the Tartars, or captured by the Tartars as soldiers and died in battle.

   Moreover, the Cossacks have big ships, and they come and go like the wind in Heilongjiang. If several indigenous tribes unite and appear with thousands of troops, the Cossacks will immediately flee by boat and go to another place to rob.

  (end of this chapter)