Hong Mao is trying to make a way out.
They lashed their horses tightly and increased their speed to the limit. When they approached the river bank, they gave another whip. The horses leaped into the air from the embankment and jumped directly to the center of the river.
There was a war horse, probably exhausted, failed to jump into the river, and fell directly under the embankment. The horses and horses were immediately battered and shook violently, making them unable to stand up again.
The remaining four war horses were all lucky enough to fall into the river water. The river water did not do much damage to the horses and horses. After the horses fell into the water, they could still row to the opposite bank.
The lucky time of these four red hairs did not last long. The four war horses rolled around in the water for unknown reasons, throwing all the red hairs down into the river.
It turned out that these four war horses all landed in a fish pond designed by the Buryats. The periphery of the fish pond was a dam hidden under the water. When the war horses swam here, they escaped in a hurry and did not see this clearly. Dao's underwater dike, after the front leg hit the dike, the front of the body was blocked, and the back was still moving forward due to inertia, so it rolled over.
The arrival of Hongmao shocked the schools of fish in the pond, and their trajectory completely revealed the hidden dam under the water in front of the Ming army.
The Ming army had already chased the river bank. When the horses dived, some of the well-riding soldiers had already turned over and dismounted. They began to raise their flintlocks from the embankment and aimed at the red hairs in the river.
The red hairs are still choking in the ponds. Even if they know water and have the physical strength to swim across the Uda River, they can’t get past the underground dam designed by the Buryats. The Ming army has already been on the river bank. Once he had to cross the dam, he would inevitably expose his entire body under the flintlock gun of the Ming army.
Under hundreds of flintlock muzzles, if Hong Mao wanted to avoid all the bullets, it was almost as likely as a slow tea taster to accidentally choke on tea.
If Hong Mao dare not cross this dark dam, he will have to stay in the pond like a school of fish. Needless to say, the army’s flintlock guns, even Buryats using wooden harpoons, can also fork them. Chengma honeycomb.
Red hair faces a choice.
In fact, they have no choice at all. No matter whether they cross the underwater dam or not, they will not be able to escape the death of Buryat, or go to heaven or hell.
In the face of death, Hongmao chose to live, although they didn't know whether the Buryats would forgive them and whether they would avenge their dead companions.
The red hairs raised their hands to indicate that they would surrender unconditionally, and they wade towards the river bank step by step.
The muzzle of the flintlock is still aimed at them, as long as they make any changes, the Ming army will never be soft.
As soon as they got on the river bank, the leader led the tribe to rush over. These Buryats have no habit of forgiving prisoners of war. Moreover, Hong Mao just shot and killed dozens of their brothers.
When the red hair saw that the momentum was wrong, he immediately ran into all directions. A red hair, even like a rabbit, got into the arms of a soldier of the Ming army.
The soldier looked at Hong Chengchou, saw Hong Chengchou shook his head, and immediately blasted him out and threw him to the angry Buryats.
Like a group of fierce tigers threw down an injured tiger, the battle lasted only half a pot of tea. The four red hairs, along with the red hair that fell outside the embankment, were thwarted and ashesed by the Buryats. It's all gone.
The cleaning of the battlefield was left to the Buryat tribes. Hong Chengchou was waiting to accept troops into the camp, but the leader led a large number of tribes and charged towards the Ming army.
Hong Chengchou was puzzled: "What's the matter with Buryats? Wouldn't it be another daughter to thank me? You don't need so many people if you want to thank me. Why is this a deterrent?"
The leader didn't care what Hong Chengchou grumbled, he led the tribe and came to Hong Chengchou with a "puff" sound.
Looking at the Buryat kneeling in front of him, Hong Chengchou was stunned, "I said the leader, you know I can’t understand you, which one is this? Thank you Mingjun. It’s not necessary. You Haven't you thanked me?" He reached out to the leader, ready to pull him up.
But the leader shook his head, pointed to the right side, and pointed to his chest.
Hong Chengchou looked to the right. That was where the Buryats fell on the guns of the red hair. He understood: The leader wanted to save their wounded.
He thought for a while, or shook his head decisively. How could this kind of gun wounds be so easy to treat? Not to mention whether there will be shrapnel shells left in the wound, it is anti-inflammatory, and it is not easy. Maybe the wounded will die in large numbers, and they cannot communicate directly with the leader to explain the difficulty of rescue.
The leader didn't get up, he walked two steps on his knees and hugged Hong Chengchou's thigh.
Hong Chengchou couldn't save the people to the end. I hope these Buryats will not become Daming's enemies in the future.
The military doctors inspected all the wounded. Except for the two who were scratched by shrapnel and did not need to be treated, there were also 36 wounded who needed to be treated. The military doctors cleaned the wounds, removed foreign bodies from the wounds, and used high-purity distilled alcohol. disinfect.
Due to the difficulty of language communication, the military doctors do not know whether all the wounds have been cleaned up, and the rest is up to the sky.
That night, Li Qianqian came very late, and when he arrived at Hong Chengchou's big account, it was almost dark.
Hong Chengchou faintly heard the noisy footsteps. He looked out and was stunned: a large number of women came to the barracks, as if there were hundreds of people.
"You..." Knowing that Li Qianqian didn't understand, Hong Chengchou still wanted to ask.
Li Qianqian seemed to know that Hong Chengchou had this question. Although she didn't understand, she smiled slightly, took Hong Chengchou's arm, and dragged him into the big tent. She pointed at herself and Hong Chengchou.
"It turned out to be a ****!" Hong Chengchou sighed, "You don't need to be secretive about ****, hey, there are too many monks and porridge, so don't get into trouble."
He knows that soldiers are not easy. It has been almost two years since they left the capital for the Northern Expedition. Many soldiers are probably enjoying the tenderness of women for the first time tonight.
The next morning, Hong Chengchou was commanding soldiers to build the city, and the leader came with hundreds of troops.
"What's wrong? Is it possible that the wounded's condition has deteriorated, and they are here to ask the guilt?"
Without saying anything, the Buryat tribes grabbed the equipment in the hands of the Ming army and began to outfit the Ming army with loess and transport stones.
It turned out that a few wounded were out of danger that night, and they basically recovered this morning. The leader was pleased and told the tribe to stop fishing and hunting for three days to help the Ming army build the city.
Hong Chengchou is overjoyed. Not only has the speed of building the city accelerated, but more importantly, the leader and tribe have accepted the Ming army from their hearts. It seems that the peace operations in the next spring will greatly increase their hopes.
The Ming army took out all the utensils, and even the grain trucks carried clay and stones.
In August, there was a message from Chita that a good harvest of grain in one prefecture and two counties, the herdsmen live in order, and some herders also sell their cattle and sheep to specialize in agricultural farming.
In fact, the earlier sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn have been successfully planted. Therefore, the herdsmen’s survival has no problem for the time being. The survival problem is solved, and they can engage in agricultural production with peace of mind.
Speaking of a bumper harvest, it is not exact. The grain yield in Lingbei is only a little more than one stone per mu, which is about 60% of similar crops in the five northern provinces, and at most 50% compared with Jiangnan.
However, compared with the production of beef and mutton, it is simply the relationship between heaven and hell. Therefore, after the herders have paid the agricultural tax, they still have some savings, especially sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. The Lingbei Provincial Government uses silver. He bought some surplus grain from the herdsmen as military rations, and also sent some to Hong Chengchou as seeds.
After receiving the seeds sent by Shi Kefa, Hong Chengchou was determined. After the beginning of the spring, no matter what methods are used, Bei Dongcheng must be able to function normally.
The news of the bumper harvest in Lingbei also reached the capital, and it spread quickly in the capital. Ming Pao gave a brief introduction of the situation in Lingbei in time, and included the pictures drawn by the newspaper according to the imagination.
In the fourth edition of "Ming Pao" "Miscellaneous Talk", the author who signed "Yu Wanxin" appealed in the newspaper: Lingbei Province is located in the bitter cold land of the extreme north, and far away from the capital city. Now it is the key to foreign nationalization. At the right time, I hope that the people can do more useful things for the naturalization of foreign races.
The author of the signature "A Small Money" sees business opportunities from Lingbei. He believes that now Lingbei's commodity prices and labor costs are very low, and it is the best time to make money. He suggested that the business owners of Daming go to Lingbei Province to start a business. port.
"Ming Pao" continuously published articles about Lingbei Province, which alarmed Taiyuan businessman Li Kan.
In Taiyuan, where there are many Shanxi merchants, Li Kan's family is still not ranked, at least not among the top three. Therefore, he continued to expand the business field. After returning to Ming Dynasty outside the Guan, the Li family began to get involved in the leather goods business.
Although the assets of the Li family continue to grow and the scale of business continues to expand, Li Kan has recently encountered something that worries him.
He is already in his fifties. It stands to reason that he should gradually retreat behind the scenes and let his son pick up the burden. Li Kan is hesitant on the issue of heirs.
He has two sons, the eldest son is named Li Jie, born to her eldest wife, he is a prostitute, and his business is stable, and both are good heirs in terms of identity and business methods.
But Li Kan prefers his second son Li Ang. Li Ang is a bastard. He is only 26 years old this year. But Li Ang is bolder. His business philosophy is closer to Li Kan when he was young.
If you want to keep your business, Li Kan should choose Li Jie to inherit the family's business name, if you want to continue to expand the Li family's business name, you should choose Li Ang, although he is just a bastard.
Seeing the business opportunities outside the customs, Li Kan deliberately tried to compare Li Ang, so he gave him five hundred taels of silver and asked him to go outside the customs alone to buy some cheap fur.
Li Ang gladly accepted the task given by his father. He took three attendants and guards and took a large carriage and set off from Taiyuan. Before going to Lingbei Province, it was a waste to think of traveling with an empty car, so he purchased some daily necessities, almost Full of this carriage.
Li Ang made history... He was the first Ming merchant to go to Lingbei Province.
The four of them rode a horse-drawn carriage and traveled all the way north, and finally arrived at Chita, the capital of Lingbei Province. There is only one inn in Chita... Yiren Inn, Li Ang and his party settled in Yiren Inn.