Even Jiang Qing couldn't accurately name the river. Besides, neither of these two names resembled Han Chinese names. Hong Chengchou decided to change it to a Han Chinese name.
Hong Chengchou thought for a long time, but didn't have a clue. Suddenly, he saw an unknown leaf floating on the clear river, like a boat.
"Qingye... Qingye."
Hong Chengchou decided, that's it: Qingye River.
On both sides of the Qingye River, there are some scattered Buryat fishermen.
Jiang Qing took the initiative to talk to them, because they are of the same origin and there is no language barrier, so they chat very happily.
When Jiang Qing returned, he told Hong Chengchou that there was a Buryat tribe in the middle reaches of the Qingye River, and the number should be more than 1,000.
Hong Chengchou was overjoyed. After traveling hundreds of miles along the Qingye River, he saw a Buryat village, which is less than fifty miles away from the southern edge of Beihu Lake.
Jiang Qing introduced Hong Chengchou and the Ming army to them as the elder of the Bedong Buryat people. The local Buryat people didn't believe it at first, thinking that Jiang Qing was coerced by the Ming army.
Hong Chengchou released several women who had been rescued from Hongmao's hands. The women really belonged to this tribe. After their rumors, the leaders and elders in the tribe were somewhat convinced.
The Buryats discovered that the Ming Army did not restrict Jiang Qing’s freedom, and even when Jiang Qing went deep into the tribe to hand over the leaders and elders, the Ming Army did not send troops to monitor him.
After Li Qianqian’s communication and negotiation, the Buryats here finally agreed to be naturalized as Han Chinese. Did they believe Jiang Qing and Li Qianqian’s words, or were scared by the red hairs that appeared one after another, and now want to get it. Hong Chengchou didn't know the protection of the Ming army.
What Hong Chengchou wants is results.
The Buryats were willing to be naturalized as Han Chinese. Hong Chengchou built a city on the south bank of the Qingye River, known as the Qingye City, and established a local government here following Beidong’s method.
There are no civil officials for the time being. General Hong Chengchou’s staff advisor Liu Xun stayed as the highest civil servant in the city. As for whether this place is a state government or a county, it will be seized by history in the future, and it will be an independent town for the time being.
Now that the season for planting spring wheat has passed, we can only try to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes. The Buryats still live a life of fishing, hunting and gathering, but they must accept Liu Xun’s management to assist the Ming army in building cities and houses.
Hong Chengchou left a regiment of soldiers stationed in Qingye City. While supervising the newly naturalized Buryats, he built the city wall. In case of red hairs, the Ming army would also protect these Buryats. .
Hong Chengchou continued westward, and after two hundred miles, he saw a big river going east-west.
"Maybe this is the Irkut River." Jiang Qing was not sure, it was almost five hundred miles away from Bei Dong, and he was not very familiar with it either.
This should be the west side of the Bay Lake, Hong Chengchou faced a choice, whether to travel west along the upper Irkut River, or follow the lower Irkut River eastward, and gradually approach the west bank of the Bay Lake.
Just as Hong Chengchou was hesitant, the Ming Army found a group of Buryats coming from downstream.
They were holding wooden sticks and forks in their hands, and their expressions were quite panic. When they were running, they looked back from time to time.
Hong Chengchou was suspicious: "Are there tigers chasing them? There are dense forests in the north, maybe there are tigers." He looked around, except for grass and sparse trees, he could see nothing.
"Jiang Qing, go and ask what happened to them, do you want us to help."
"Yes, Army Seat." Jiang Qing promised. He caught up with the Buryats who seemed to be fleeing, and the two sides exchanged for a long time.
Just when Hong Chengchou was waiting impatiently, Jiang Qing came back, "Military seat, they are Buryats here, right at the junction of the Irkut River and the Andara River."
"Then why are they panicking? They don't seem to be fishing or hunting."
"It's all red-haired ghosts. Army seat, the red-haired ghosts attacked their tribe," Jiang Qing's eyes also had a trace of panic. "The tribe people, regardless of whether they are male or female, were captured by the red-haired ghosts, even the leader, Barr. The tigers were forced to build a city for the red-haired ghosts, and the women were all caught by the red-haired ghosts into the city."
"Then what's the matter with them?" Hong Chengchou pointed at the group of Buryats.
"They took the advantage of the red-haired ghosts and escaped secretly from the red-haired ghosts. Because they were afraid that the red-haired ghosts would chase them, they kept looking back." Jiang Qing hesitated for a while, and added: "They persuade us Run away quickly, the red-haired ghost will fight over sooner or later."
Hong Chengchou thought for a while, "How many red hairs are there?"
"They don't know the exact number. According to their estimation, the number of red-haired ghosts should exceed one hundred."
"Only a hundred red hairs?" Hong Chengchou tilted his nose angrily. "A hundred red hairs dare to destroy the entire tribe? Are you still building a city there?"
"Military seat, they said, red-haired ghosts have muskets. The muskets are so powerful. Their sticks can't get close to red-haired ghosts at all. They only get beaten. No matter how many people there are, it is vain."
I don’t know if Hong Mao’s musket has been improved? Hong Chengchou is dark. Even if their muskets are better than Da Ming’s flintlocks, the number of the Ming army is 20 times that of them. If these Buryats can be rescued, even if they can’t build a city on the Irkut River, at least they can. Send these Buryats to Qingye City, "Let's go and take a look."
"Military seat..."
"Why? Jiang Qing is scared?" Hong Chengchou gave a decisive expression, "Fighting the red hair, the Ming army is enough, you can let them lead the way."
"Military seat, they said, as long as you walk along the Irkut River, you can find the red-haired ghost's castle. If you let them lead the way, these people who have just escaped from the red-haired ghost will not dare to go back."
Hong Chengchou thinks about it, these Buryats may be scared by the red hair, so there is no embarrassment to them, "Go, let's go to the red hair ourselves."
Along the Irkut River, the Ming army marched for two days before reaching the end.
A small castle, the wall has been built more than one person high, facing the south gate of the Ming army, the gate hole has been built, because the wall has not been completed, and the gate has not been installed for the time being, it looks empty.
Countless people in ragged clothes were carrying dirt, stones, and wood. They were almost expressionless. Even the Ming army approached, they were too lazy to take a look. They just continued their work.
The people who were alarmed by the Ming army were people who looked completely different from the Buryats, with blue eyes, high noses, fiery red or golden hair, and many people with long or short beards on both cheeks.
They all had some long spears in their hands, which were slightly longer than the Ming army's flintlocks.
From these muskets, Hong Chengchou concluded that they must be in the same group as the red hairs that the Ming army encountered twice.
The red hairs are squeaking, saying things that Hong Chengchou can't understand, whether their expressions are fear or anger, Hong Chengchou can't understand, but for Hong Chengchou, all expressions are the same, and Ming Jun doesn't intend to reason with them.
From the city gate hole, red hairs continued to gush out, and dozens of people gathered in a while.
The Buryats who built the city wall just now stopped their work. Their souls seemed to have not yet returned to their positions. It seemed that everything that happened here had nothing to do with them.
They are just spectators competing between the two powers.
Both the Ming army and the Hongmao were holding guns, and the two sides faced each other. The Ming army had an absolute advantage in numbers, and the Hongmao did not dare to shoot for the time being.
"Shoot these red hairs." Anyway, Hong Chengchou didn't intend to take prisoners if he didn't understand what the red hairs said.
Hong Chengchou's words only reached the ears of the soldiers of the Ming army. The red hairs either couldn't hear it or heard it, and they didn't understand it either.
"boom."
"boom."
"boom."
…
The Ming army took the lead in shooting. Hundreds of gunmen opened fire, and Hong Mao suddenly fell over half of it.
Seeing the large number of the Ming army, the red hairs originally maintained a balance with the Ming army through confrontation, but the Ming army took the assassin. They no longer have the capital to stand up, and the remaining red hairs began to fight back.
The Ming army suffered casualties. The soldiers who had just shot had no time to reload or retreat. After hiding behind others, they became red-haired targets, with more than a dozen guns in their hands.
But after the red hair shot, their guns were out of bullets and had to be reloaded.
The Ming army was large in number, and the Ming army gunmen in the back row took advantage of this opportunity to shoot all the remaining red hairs.
"Enter the city and search for the remaining red hairs." Hong Chengchou heard that there were more than 100 red hairs, and it is estimated that there is still a half missing.
Before the Ming army entered the city, the red hairs in the city came out.
When they heard the gunshots, they thought it was the Buryats fleeing or rioting, and they hurriedly came for reinforcements from everywhere, but they did not expect to encounter the Ming army.
The two sides did not answer, and different muskets began to collide.
This collision is unfair. The number of Ming troops is dozens of times, hundreds of times, that of Hongmao.
The firing range of the musket has nothing to do, the distance between the two sides is too close, almost face to face.
Face-to-face war, that is, in the blink of an eye.
Many of Hongmao's bullets were knocked down by the Ming army before they were released. After paying the cost of several casualties, the Ming army killed Hongmao outside the southern city gate.
"Enter the city and search for the remaining red hairs." Hong Chengchou didn't know if the red hairs had slipped through the net.
The Ming army started searching along two lines inside and outside the city. Hong Mao did not find a single one, but found dozens of Buryat women in the tent where Hong Mao lived.
It may be that they are worried about women running away, and these women are all tied up.
"These utterly conscientious red hairs." Hong Chengchou cursed, and he took these women to the south gate, where the red hairs died in the battle just now.
Hongmao has been completely knocked down by the Ming army, and the wounded soldiers have also been tied up by the Ming army. Jiang Qing has restored his usual cleverness, "Military seat, what shall we do now?"
"Jiang Qing, can you gather the Buryats nearby? It's better to be outside the Nancheng Gate. I want them to see the fate of Hongmao with their own eyes."
"Military seat, let me give it a try. These people share the same origin with me, so there should be no language problems."
Hong Chengchou sent a company of soldiers to accompany Jiang Qing, and he went to woo the Buryats nearby.