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Chapter 1456

Secchi is an autonomous Cossack camp.

Cossacks were a way of life, forming tribes of their own volition, and merchant families in the Urals relied on them to protect the lands they occupied.

In the western part of the mountain range where it has been operating for more than [-] years, the trees have big roots and deep roots; while in the eastern part of the mountain range it has recently occupied, its power was almost completely destroyed during the Ming army's western expedition.

When the Cossack brigands of Yermak ravaged every Tatar tribe they saw, they ravaged every Tartar tribe they could see; the reverse is also very similar now, for they have much in common.

For example—although living in the land of the Fourth World War, all villages and tribes are independent individuals, and they always encounter enemies of similar size and similar skills. They never thought that they would be suddenly attacked by unknown enemies.

From the end of March in the 12th year of Wanli, the Ming army marching westward went out of the border of the Siberian Khanate and entered the land of the ancient Principality of Perm.

The troops that appeared here were mainly the troops of Kuchu Khan in Siberia who were eager for revenge, supplemented by Mongolian, Turkic, and Kazakh herdsmen attached to various places. They first crossed the Ural Mountains and scouted west.

Now their country is called Shibier, and Kuchu Khan is granted the title of Governor Tongzhi.

Because Kuchu Khan was old, deaf, and blind, Qi Jiguang did not ask the Khan to join the conscript, but sent his son to Ili to command the envoys with tribute, and the garrison escorted him to Beijing to face the saint.

Kuchu Khan, with the help of Lu Guangzu, the prime minister and commander carefully selected by the Zhengxi Army, rebuilt the country, raised horses and plowed the fields to resume production, so as to cope with the increasingly complex environment in the future and fulfill the duties of the Ming Dynasty. .

The commander-in-chief of this nomadic army of Shibier is the commander of Dushi, the chief of Shibier, Karacha, who directly controls more than [-] Shibier infantry; Bye, in charge of more than a thousand steps to ride.

Under these two men, there are thirty-six of Zhulu scattered cavalry, twelve in the book and 510 three; 24 are not in the book, and the official record is more than [-].

Taking advantage of the heavy snow in winter to block roads, Qi Jiguang's troops registered the entire army. In the spring, except for the Ming army led by Qi and Dong, there were 16 registered soldiers, and nearly [-] had not yet been registered.

Those who registered with the soldiers and their family members accounted for 20. It's not that Qi Jiguang didn't want to make a complete military registration, but they can no longer be called an army.

It is more like a migrating city, where people are born every day, people die every day, people join each other, and people settle down every day. Under the changing numbers, the statistical tools and methods of this era are not enough to satisfy Qi Jiguang's idea of ​​establishing a complete military registration.

Seeing that the seasons were changing and the military situation was urgent, the troops had no choice but to continue marching quickly, in order to cross the Ural Mountains and reach the fertile and cultivated land before the arrival of the Luocha Kingdom's oncoming troops and famine.

The 36 troops under Karacha and Xibai's command include men and women, old and young, who prepare their own knives and bows. In name, they accept the task of scouting, but in fact, some of them want these poor and weak soldiers to leave the main force for a while to eat and fight the enemy. idea.

Nearly [-] cavalry swept across all the tribes along the road like locusts, and everything that stood in their way, whether it was the vicious and battle-tested Cossacks or the well-equipped mercenaries at the merchant station, were all caught. Wrapped and ground into powder.

The defenses of the wooden villages everywhere are vulnerable, and the sparsely populated environment makes it impossible for any settlement here to resist the flood of nomadic riders.

Chief Karacha is out for vengeance, but Gubai has clearer plans.

During the long and tense march, he split and reorganized the troops into hundreds of general banner teams of power and bravery.

Each Quan Yong General Banner Team is guaranteed to have at least two Ming soldiers who can speak, speak, read and write Chinese, [-] affiliated troops who are in the formation, and [-] or [-] affiliated troops who are not in the formation.

Whenever the troops of Qibai and Karacha capture a stronghold, the people of Karacha will torture the survivors and soldiers, get information about the surrounding environment and settlements, and then send out vanguard scouts to investigate the situation. sent to the rear.

It wasn't Qi Jiguang, Qi Jiguang and Dong Yiyuan were even further behind, and they were joined by Zhu Yu and Dong Chang'ang, former Cheying vanguard officers of the Zhengxi Army.

When the locust-like scout troops set out, they would leave a Quanyong General Banner Team or a Quanyong Small Banner Team depending on the size of the camp, and stay here to repair the camp, support the rear army, and name the place where they lived.

The name usually starts with the surname of a soldier of the Ming army, puts the character flag in the middle, and ends with the characters camp, village, tun, fort, village, etc. No need to do anything else, just set up a boundary marker on the nearby road.

With the boundary markers, the Beiyang army scouts who ran over from behind would silently mark the place names on the map, such as Liu Qiying, Wang Qizhuang, Zhang Qibao and so on.

When the Ming army passed by later, their family members would be transferred to watch over, supervise, and participate in the labor of the surrendered people, and cultivate their own land.

As for whether Qi Jiguang and Dong Yiyuan will reorganize these general banners and small banners into the guards after they pass by or make other arrangements, that is not within the scope of Qi Bai's consideration. As long as he can do this, he will be considered as overfulfilling the task.

Because his mission did not include this, a huge force of nearly [-] cavalry in the scout department passed through the mountain. In fact, there was only one main mission, which was to actually control this terrain that was most likely to be blocked, and to occupy land as far west as possible.

Even if they encounter enemy troops, they must be restrained so that Dong Changang, Chaohua and others who follow will have the opportunity to release the largest force on the vast plain.

Otherwise, if the battle is fought on the narrow official road in the south of the Ural Mountains, the troops that are clearly superior will become disadvantaged in an instant.

The troops behind cannot advance, and the troops in front are congested and trampled on each other, and there will be a rout in a blink of an eye.

Even if there is no defeat, the environment south of the Ural Mountains is not enough to support this huge migrating army after three months of blocking. On paper, they have hundreds of thousands of troops. The 7 troops commanding the envoys are reassuring.

Fortunately, up to the Chusovaya River, a tributary of the Kama River, Qibai did not meet anyone who could be called an opponent. It was not people who caused them the most trouble, but the swamps on both sides of the river caused by the rising river level in spring wetlands.

But as soon as they went a little further west along the road, troubles began for Qibai.

The so-called trouble is not Perm on the other side of the river or the garrison army led by Grand Duke Belisky on the west side of the river with a force of more than [-] troops opposite to Soli Kam in the north of the intelligence center.

But the river, the Kama.

The ice melted and the snow melted, the river surged, and the Kama River was more than ten miles wide.

They didn't have a boat, so they could only stare at the garrison on the other side.

(End of this chapter)