Seeing that the Cossacks were about to catch up with Ibatu and the others, they heard dense gunshots suddenly sounded in the woods on both sides, crossbows mixed with bullets shot out from the woods, and the unexpected Cossacks fell down from the horse's back one after another.

The shooter and archery skills of those born to the Jurchen Qing soldiers were very accurate, and they all beat people, but the horses under the crotch of the Cossack cavalry were unscathed. In a blink of an eye, more than 40 Cossack cavalry were knocked down by flintlock spears, and the remaining half were accurately named by crossbow arrows.

Seeing his Cossack cavalry rushing out, Semi Nizhniov thought he would definitely win a great victory. Who knew that the Cossack cavalry had chased out not long after that, he heard a row of dense gunshots from afar. Not long after, Selev, covered in blood, ran back on a horse with arrows. The forty Cossack cavalry who followed him did not even come back, probably all of them were told there.

Xie Miao Nigeriov's face was pale. His Far East expedition team had only 186 people in total, which lost 56 people. If you do this a few more times, his expedition team will be explained here.

Although Yibatu won a victory, the Yaksa Castle was crossing the middle of Heilongjiang, like a nail nailed into the heart of the Outer Xing'an Mountains. The Rakshasa people arranged cannons on the castle. They also transported supplies with ships and contacted the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. Yibatu and the others had no choice but to use this castle.

"We have no way to stay here for a long time. This castle poses too much threat to us!" said Yibatu.

A warrior said, "Let's go back to the prince's house first. See if the prince can get rid of this castle. Otherwise, if this castle is stuck here, we really can't protect our citizens."

This Qing army patrol team returned downstream along Heilongjiang and returned to Miao Street.

"Prince, the Rakshasa people built a castle in the middle of Heilongjiang. Our tribes were killed countless times, and many more were captured by them as slaves." Yibatu reported to Li Hong.

"Have the Rakshasa people come to the middle of Heilongjiang?" Li Hong said as he gestured to the map, "There is still a vast land to the north of us. The Rakshasa people who entered Sakhalin Island last time and were defeated by us must have come from the north."

The original Rakshasa expedition team, after defeating the Mongols, took the route north of Lake Baikal. The Baikal was called the North Sea at that time.

The land further north is a bitter and cold place called the extremely cold by people back then. The temperature in winter can reach minus 50 degrees or 60 degrees, which ordinary people can't bear. Even in summer, the temperature is below minus minus.

Li Hong actually also explored the land. He knew how to make sleds, and used horses to pull sleds. The horses were wrapped in thick cotton cloth to prevent cold. However, after going deep into the inland of the far north, horses wrapped in thick cotton cloth began to unable to bear it. Later, Li Hong thought of a way and got a batch of dogs from the return colonial ship to pull sleds.

This is also what the crew on the colonial ship said. In the waters of the far north, there are some indigenous people who raise dogs with long hair, large size, but very docile.

In addition to the Husky, there are also snow dogs such as Alaskan, Husky and Samoyed.

Those silly dogs in the snow are all silly dogs in the summer of Sakhalin Island. Their IQ can only be unlocked if they are below minus ten. However, these silly dogs are most suitable for pulling sleds.

The silly dog ​​in the snow looks very cute and unattackable. These dogs are very popular with Li Hong and others when they arrive in Sakhalin Island. With these dogs, they can patrol deep into the heart of the ice and snow. Li Hong took the patrol team and walked several times into the great wasteland of the bitter and cold land. Those places are indeed not suitable for people to live in.

Li Hong had some heavy artillery in his hand, but those heavy artillery were all firecrackers, all installed on the castle on Sakhalin Island to prevent foreign ships from invading or the Qing army from attacking. Those coastal artillery were inconvenient to move and were not easy to pull out to deal with the Rakshasa Castle.

"To deal with the Rakshasa people, let the court send troops." Li Hong said.

Then, he wrote a memorial, in which Li Hong explained the erosion of the Rakshasa people from the outside Xing'an Mountains, and a large number of local people were brutally massacred. He carefully explained after the memorial that if measures were not taken as soon as possible to curb the expansion of the Rakshasa people, the land would sooner or later fall into the hands of the Rakshasa people.

Li Hong's memorial was sent to the capital, but it was like a mud cow entering the sea, without even an echo. The Qing court did not care about the affairs of those bitter and cold places, let alone sending soldiers.

"Since the Qing court doesn't care about our affairs, it seems that we can only go to the Ming Dynasty to help us." Li Hong said.

In fact, Li Hong also wronged Dorgon. If Dorgon was in a normal state, he would definitely send troops to defend the Manchus' Longxing Land. But now Dorgon has fallen from his horse for no reason, seriously injured, and is seriously ill. At this time, Dorgon was already seriously ill in bed, and the power of the court fell into Fulin's hands. Fulin was waiting for the arrival of Dorgon's braided day. People like Fulin had almost no idea about defending the territory. In the original time and space, Zheng Chenggong went to Nanjing to fight in the north, and Fulin planned to run away.

Dorgon didn't have much time to live, and there was less than half a year left before the five-year agreement of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Dorgon was destined to not be able to see the Ming army's northern expedition with his own eyes.

Half a month later, a merchant ship from the Ming Dynasty was moored at the dock beside the castle of Sakhalin Island. The ship brought gunpowder, projectiles, cotton cloth, grain, tea, medicine and other supplies to Subud's army. Taking advantage of this opportunity, a letter written by Li Hong to Li Guodong was also handed over to an Jinyiwei on the ship, asking him to send the letter to Nanjing.

The merchant ship, full of fur, ginseng, dried mushrooms, dried fungus, canned fish and other goods, returned. The Jinyiwei took Li Hong's letter and followed the ship back to Nanjing.

Ten days later, Li Guodong received a letter sent to him by Li Hong.

"We must give Subude and others support invasion of the Outer Xing'an Mountains! So that they can repel the attack of the Luosha people! Otherwise, once that land is occupied, it will never come back. We cannot be the sinners of China. Not to mention Subude, even if Dorgon wants to fight, we must support it." Li Guodong made a quick decision to support Li Hong.

Li Hong's army weapons are actually very good, especially long-range weapons, equipped with excellent rifled rifles and flintlock rifles, as well as powerful crossbows and strong bows. It is the most useful army that mainly uses long-range weapons. But what Subud lacks is field artillery and siege artillery.

With a wave of Li Guodong's pen, two 32-pound mortar cannons and four three-pound copper field cannons were approved, as well as flowering shells and solid shells of the mortar cannons, as well as solid shells, shotguns and shrapnel cannons of the three-pound field cannons, as well as fixed charge packages of the two cannons. In addition to artillery, Li Guodong also gave Li Hong two thousand flintlock guns, one hundred rifled rifles, and two thousand pairs of powerful crossbows. These weapons and ammunition were loaded on a merchant ship and sent to Sakhalin Island.

These artillery are specially made artillery, which can be installed with wheeled gun mounts and are pulled by war horses to fight on land, or can be replaced with sled gun mounts to move quickly on the ice and snow.

In November of the lunar calendar, the outer Xing'anling area was already cold.

The merchant ship arrived at Sakhalin Island on the first day of November, and these weapons were moved off the ship. Along with these weapons, more than 100 gunners from the Huai Army were also sent.

"With these weapons, we can attack the Rakshasa castle!" Li Hong smiled as he stroked the newly sent artillery.
Chapter completed!