"Fire the gun!" With the command of the gunman, the artillery on the side of the shallow water gunboat of the Amur River class launched a round of volleys. After the volley, the gunboat with a displacement of only 250 tons even moved the entire distance toward the center of the river by dozens of centimeters due to the reaction force.

Four shells of different diameters fell on the soft black soil on the river bank. They bounced a few times between a group of savages wearing fish skin and roe deer skins. The six or seven people who were rubbing and touching each other screamed and fell to the ground. Blood splashed out from the mouth of the broken limbs and arms, making the whole scene look extremely bloody.

"Platforms one to sixth platoon land, cover the seventh platoon, and the grenadiers platoon were wearing armor!" Captain Li Renjun, the commander of the 105th Company of the Army, drew out a shiny saber and ordered loudly. With his order, the 240 officers and soldiers of the company immediately took action urgently. They stood on the left side of the gunboat. After the gunboat stopped, they immediately jumped down the low side of the ship amid the officer's command and landed on some small wooden boats that had been put down long ago. Then the soldiers on the ship immediately rushed to the shore with wooden poles.

The fish-skinned Tartars on the shore did not dare to be too close to the river bank, and they were not without knowledge. The Russian Cossacks had long taught them the power of muskets. They understood that the poorly made wooden bows and bone arrows on their hands were simply a ridiculous toys that were vulnerable to the trained musketeers. So they stood far away from the river bank early in order to avoid being shot by the musketeers on the big boats with black smoke in the center of the river. But they avoided the musketeers but could not avoid the gun shooting. The shells fired from the eight east-shore gunboats successively created damage in the crowd.

Although their population density was already very low, there were still serious casualties in the attack of shells falling like rain. At this moment, I saw the musketeers of the East Coast Army rowing boats toward the shore, and their fighting will finally loosened. It was not that they were timid and afraid of death. It was really this asymmetric combat method that made them very frustrated. The enemy could easily use their firepower advantages to kill you. But you had no way to deal with them.

They had experienced this kind of frustration once before, that is, the Cossack riders who came and went like the wind from the west and north. These fierce soldiers used sabers, spears and muskets to make these half-fishing, hunting and half-farming wild people unable to defend themselves. Finally, they surrendered under their iron hooves and offered the fur, gold, livestock and a little pitiful food they had earned. Otherwise, the entire village would be in danger of being destroyed. This is not a joke. These Cossacks are all demon kings who kill without blinking. Even the bankrupt Russian serfs are not good at all. They are all good at killing and looting when armed.

Originally, these Cossacks who were galloping on the land were already very troublesome. But now, there were suddenly a large group of "**" from the river, carrying muskets and cannons, just as fierce and irresistible. Especially when their number seemed to be much more than those Cossacks with a maximum of only one or two hundred people, this made the elders of the village who settled in the river and river areas even more frightened.

The battle ended five minutes later. The landing east coast army formed a tight formation and smashed any attempts of attack from the wild people with skilled volleyball wheels. Captain Li Renjun, who came ashore with a sabre, was also very energetic. Back then, the Russians relied on these modern professional infantry to fight the eastward expeditions, flattening the Tatars, Mongols, Turkmens, Kazakhs, Jurchens, Manchus and other barbarians along the way.

How energetic was it to destroy countless countries and expand land thousands of miles. As for Cossacks? Sorry, the cavalry only held an auxiliary position in this process, and they could not even beat the Turkmen herders. They were defeated by the Kazan people many times, not to mention the Mongols who were skilled in archery and horses. The one who really played a decisive role was still the hard-working Russian infantry - a third-rate infantry known for their low combat effectiveness and incompetence in Europe.

The old tribes of this village respectfully knelt at the feet of the people on the east bank, begging for their forgiveness. Captain Li Renjun, leaned on a saber and under the escort of the soldiers, looked at the savages of the victors with the arrogant eyes of the victors. After showing off his power, he waved his hand gently and asked the Heilongjiang Security Group (temporary troops composed of Ding Zhuang, four villages including Miaojie, with a 1,500 soldiers) who were born in Zhongshan Dan, to talk to them in local language, demanding that they pay taxes and obey the rule of the people on the east bank.

Taxation is really not light for the savages in these villages, but what can I do? Now I am a slaughter and I am a fisherman, so I will accept my fate. My life is in my hands. Could it be that I can still leave my family and flee to the distance? That is a life-and-death matter. If no one helps me, it will be difficult to survive this winter.

After paying the tax reluctantly, Captain Li Renjun told them that they were now protected by the East Coast Republic of China. If there were Russians or Manchus to collect taxes from them, they could refuse them harshly. If those people were still unsustainable, they would immediately report the nearest Republic of China. The East Coast people would organize a crusade team to defend their interests. Of course, some accidents would inevitably occur before the crusade team was dispatched and arrived. If they were worried about their safety, they could move their family to Jiangdong Village, Henggu Village, Miaojie and other places downstream, settle down, and become colonial residents under the rule of the East Coast Republic of China.

After collecting the taxes, after forcing several guides, Li Renjun led his army to evacuate the village, and then continued to advance south along the river, sweeping all the villages he saw. Some villages were far from the river bank, Li Renjun even sent the main force of the army to cooperate with 1,500 soldiers from the Heilongjiang Security Corps to go ashore and go deep into the inland to attack.

In this way, when the time reached the end of June and early July, the east coast troops heading south had already reached Boli City at the junction of the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang River in later generations. At this time, Boli City naturally had nothing, and the city established by Han immigrants in later generations still had no shadow at all.

However, there are also many local residents (Hezhe, Daur people) who make a living by fishing and hunting, but strangely, they hardly engage in farming activities. They go north and west than them, and the Hezhe, Daur people, Oroqen people or Feiyakar people, all plant some rye, oats and other grains to supplement food. However, the residents near Boli City seem to plant nothing. They live by fishing and hunting. They only pay taxes to Bogde Khan in Manchuria, and also provide horses and soldiers to Bogde Khan's army. The relationship between the two sides is very close - even intimate, because they were the first few savage Jurchen tribes to surrender to Huangtaiji.

"Are you only obeying Bogde Khan's governance? Very good!" Captain Li Renjun, who was the commander-in-chief of the operation, sneered, then pulled out the command knife from his waist and said to the city built by these savages: "Everyone fights bravely. Xu Xicheng for two days!"

After hearing Li Renjun's latest "instructions", these soldiers who had almost no decent battles along the way suddenly shouted long live, and then they rushed to the city wall by the river with red eyes. However, they were not overwhelmed by the excitement of being able to rob and kill at will. They were still fighting mechanically in an orderly manner according to the combat regulations.

The tribes under Bogde Khan were indeed more combat-effective than the savages in the north, because some elite soldiers in cotton armor appeared in their crowds, and many of them were actually using metal crossbow arrows, which surprised the soldiers on the east coast who were used to seeing wooden spear bone arrows.

But it was only a surprise. When the people on the east coast lined up in close formations and dragged four field light artillery up, the failure of these Hezhe and Daur people was already doomed. The fierce artillery fire splashed the village made of trees and the wood chips splashed. The fierce volley of guns shot every warrior who attempted to appear on the city wall, and such a fierce offensive made the savages feel scared.

They attempted to send some cavalry to attack the artillery positions or musketeers of the East Coast people. However, the 1,500 spearmen of the Heilongjiang Security Regiment who were escorting the side told them with facts that such a scattered cavalry charge would not have any effect on them, but only added some extra merit to them.

The wooden village could not resist the concentrated attack of the 8-pound cannon. The village gate was first broken, followed by the wooden walls on both sides of the village gate. At this time, the artillery on the east coast also replaced the cannons with shotguns. The musketeers began to cooperate with the artillery to attack and knock any enemy who wanted to approach to the ground. After cleaning up the enemy's organized resistance, the soldiers of the Heilongjiang Security Corps shouted three "Wansheng" under the leadership of Wang Shichuan, and then put on armor and killed in. The enemy's resistance began an irresistible collapse.

The battle ended at around 3:00 in the afternoon. The soldiers of the Heilongjiang Security Corps who rushed into the city began a bloody city washout operation. The adult males of Hezhe or Daur tribes in the city were killed, and women and children were abducted. As for livestock, fur, money and food, they were naturally handed over and distributed in proportion. Of course, during this process, they were intercepted privately by the soldiers entering the city themselves, and Captain Li Renjun pretended that he had not seen it.

After cleaning several villages within a radius of dozens of kilometers near Boli City, Li Renjun ordered the entire army to land and began to build the villages. They collected a large amount of physical taxes such as food, livestock, fur, gold and silver along the way. At this time, they were so excited that they simply decided to repair, rebuild the enemy's old village, and set up a stable stronghold here. At the same time, eight gunboats also returned in batches, preparing to go to Miao Street to attract a group of people and supplies to enrich the new stronghold named Boli Village.

Just after the people on the east coast guarded the junction of Heilongjiang and the Ussuri River and began to repair the city, the Ningguta Zhang Jinghaise of Manchu Qing Dynasty finally received news that many villages under his rule were washed away by a "black bandits in yellow clothes suddenly appeared." To be honest, he was extremely shocked by the news. The yellow clothes thief actually appeared in the Heilongjiang area?

Haise is Ningguta Melezhangjing, not an unknown lower-level bannerman. He knows more or less about what happened in the south of the pass. The yellow-clothed thief, the commander Mo, made a huge reputation in the three northern Chinese provinces. He Haise is naturally very clear as the middle-level general of the Eight Banners. It is precisely because he knows a lot of things that he is even more shocked at this time. After thinking for a while, Haise, who felt that something is not good, immediately pinned the five hundred Eight Banners garrison officers and soldiers in the city. At the same time, he recruited seven or eight hundred strong men from nearby villages, and then took two small-caliber artillery and a large number of horses to head towards the junction of the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang River.
Chapter completed!