The sergeant commanders and squadron commanders began to patrol the team separately. The artillery squadron commanders also had to check the storage of the accompanying gunpowder shells. These military funds were carried by camels and horses. In fact, there were also very small carriages, and two horses were pulled to the road and could rush under rugged and difficult road conditions.

This kind of light carriage is very convenient for people to carry goods, and it can be seated for two people to carry goods. Although the load of goods is only a few hundred kilograms, it is quite popular because it is convenient to move. In addition, the newly launched shortly, the northbound team of the Left Army is no longer available this time.

After walking by the river for many days, it was very humid in spring. Every morning, it would fog. It was impossible to tell the direction in the heavy fog. When I woke up early, I was covered with dew, which made people feel like it had rained all night.

The snow began to melt on a large scale, and at least there was no trace of snow above the turf. However, if you pull out the deep grass, you will find that there are patches of residual snow at the roots of the grass.

The snow on the river melted into the river, which made the Kruren River quite cold in the morning and the water flowed rapidly.

A group of wild ducks quarreled, with more vivid and beautiful feathers than domestic ducks. They swam over from the depths of the turbulent river and entered a quiet place in the shallow water for the night. There were lush reeds there, and several dragoons wanted to fight two ducks to roast them for food, but it was almost dark, and the wetlands deep in the reeds were a bit dangerous. After hesitating for a while, a team official stopped them from taking unnecessary risks, which was considered to be a way to give these rash ghosts.

After the tent was set up, many people raised bonfires in the middle of the camp. It was not dark yet, and the bonfire gave people a very comfortable and comfortable feeling. Although they had to get up before dawn the next morning and then continue on the road, at this moment, soldiers sat around the bonfire and enjoyed the peace and comfort before going to bed.

People started chatting, and several dragoons had been stationed in Kulun, talking about the large flock of ducks raised in the Mobei Lake.

The soldiers' dry food contains a lot of smoked duck meat, which is quite popular and will not be too much at any time.

Of course, pork is more popular or the one that gets the highest praise among meat products. Unfortunately, the amount of pork is far from enough, there is enough duck meat, and there is also a lot of mutton, and then chicken, with the smallest amount of pork.

A soldier said optimistically: "Now there are more pigs. In the past, they were raised by various households and a pig had to be raised for a year, and they all had some pig grass and fine bran. The pigs grew slowly and thin. Now pig farms have been built in each Tunbao, and special people are here to raise them. The grains and alfalfa are fed well and they grow fast. My Tunbao family lives next to the pig farm, and they are raising them fat."

"That's not very smelly."

"We ordinary people care about this... Besides, there is no big smell. Our pigpen is also at the doorstep, so how smelly it is."

"You have been doing a good life in just a few days. It smells bad. Why don't you bother me when eating?"

"That's true, but you're too fucking serious."

A burst of laughter came from the bonfire. Zhang Xianzhong narrowed his eyes and looked for a while, intending to go over and sit down.

He still regarded himself as an ordinary soldier. The sergeant commander was treated much better and was not an officer after all. The soldiers below also liked this veteran who was not arrogant.

At this time, people noticed a whistle rider running towards the camp in front. He ran back without the time to change the sentry and did not shoot arrows. It should have been a sudden situation instead of discovering the enemy's signs. Even so, the soldiers around the bonfire and in the tent stood up and started to line up to prepare.

Everyone's armor has not been taken off. They will only remove the armor when they fall asleep. The armor will be placed next to them, and the same is true for weapons. They can react in the shortest time when they encounter a surprise attack.

Several squadron leaders were chatting with the staff officers, but after seeing it, they walked to their respective squadrons. Only the hunting cavalry and the lancers squadron leaders walked to Zhang Xianzhong and waited for the sentry to come back to report.

"Sergeant Commander." Sentinel was a young man in his twenties with a clever look on his face. He saluted Zhang Xianzhong first, and then saluted the two squadron leaders.

"Don't politely." Zhang Xianzhong said: "What's the matter?"

"The people from the Fan tribe are here." The siege said: "Our people led the team and the regional password was also confirmed, which was correct."

Hutchison's territory is too large now, and the places you master can only be divided according to the region, and the identity can be determined according to the passwords of each region. Of course, it can also be determined through the docking of official documents and military orders. However, the most convenient way is to compare the passwords.

Passwords are dynamic and will be replaced every once in a while to prevent leakage.

Zhang Xianzhong showed his eyebrows and cursed with a smile: "These foreign Tartars, I have been here after so many geniuses."

"It was said that they were on the east side of the Great Shandong and killed some Chahar people. I felt that the power on the opposite side was not strong. If we didn't come, they would just kill them."

"Bad." Zhang Xianzhong said: "These guys can brag."

The siege smiled and said, "I think their queue is pretty good. Our officers help them train and solve their food. In the past six months, I have fought with the Chahar people many times. I guess it's really OK."

The squadron leader of the two elite troops showed a dissatisfaction on his face. The squadron leader of the hunting cavalry said to Zhang Xianzhong: "Old Zhang, how do you feel?"

Zhang Xianzhong said: "I feel that it's useless. The command of the military commander is very clear. I found the main force of the foreign cavalry on the western front of the Daxinganling Mountains and ordered them to cooperate with our army to advance eastward. What else can I say for such an obvious military command?"

The Lancer Squadron Captain obviously frowned. Both of them were like officers from elite troops and were not welcomed by these messy friendly forces. In their opinion, too many troops may not necessarily work, but will bring unknown variables.

It was already difficult for them to cooperate with friendly troops of the merchant army, let alone cooperate with the cavalry of the foreign troops?

You should know that when the hunting cavalry was operating in the northern desert more than a year ago, they were not polite to the Barhu Mongols. They would still take action when they encountered it, and they were disdainful to the barbarian tribes on the grasslands and mountains from the edge of the forest.

Those tribes are too barbaric, and many Oroqen people even maintain the habit of eating raw meat after hunting deer.

The brutal hunting cavalry can't stand it anymore by peeling deer skin and eating raw meat.

They fish by the river and in the sea, wearing fish skins, catching deer and meat in summer, picking dried fruits in the dense forest in autumn, and enduring hardships in winter, and of course they can also catch deer. The deer in early winter is still very fat, and in early spring, it is the most difficult time for these tribes.

If there is enough prey captured in summer and autumn, they can still survive it. If there is insufficient prey, a large number of people will starve to death in the tribe, disease and hunger. These two demons linger in these tribes and take away their large amount of Dingkou.

Children are the most difficult to survive. Only in years when they have enough food, children are constantly born in the tribe and then grow up. But this is rare, and most of the time is that children die shortly after birth, especially babies born in the dead of winter, who die in the cold winter and hunger, and when they die, they still hang on their mother's shriveled chest.

This seriously backward fishing and hunting nation has a very difficult life, from the dense forests of the Greater Xing'an Mountains to the Barhu grasslands, and then to the depths of the Arctic Circle.

Even if these tribes in Russia hundreds of years later were still eating venison raw and still had extremely difficult life, these tribes still survived and survived in such an extremely harsh environment.

The merchant army despised and sympathized with both of these very barbaric tribes, especially the hunting cavalry who had been active in this area felt deeply.

Many tribes have risen in the long river of history, and Yanhuang is actually the name of the tribe leader.

China came out of the wild tribe, established the country, established the text and laws, and finally formed civilization.

Then from nomadic and fishing and hunting to farming, this is a kind of progress of civilization. In order to obtain arable land, the ancestors of the Chinese fought south and north, and the Hu people in the north, the barbarians in the east, and the barbarians in the southwest. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they actually had territorial losses and gains.

The loss was that the northern and western regions lost most of the old borders of the Han and Tang dynasties in the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, Yunnan was developed during the Ming Dynasty. Due to the Mu family's guarding for generations, a large number of Han soldiers and civilians were moved to this point, and Yunnan was truly included in the territory.

Many people may not know that before the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan was still a wild place, with few Han people and many barbarians. The so-called Babaidian Xuanwei Office was mainly Yunnan and later Myanmar, which was integrated.

Under the management of the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan became a stable part of the territory. Although Yunnan and Guizhou still had serious problems with the Southwest Barbarians, their essence was only a few ambitious and powerful chieftains. In addition, the Han people would bully chieftains and trigger border conflicts.

From Kunming to Chuxiong, there are established garrisons everywhere, effectively blocking the stronger chieftains from the country.

As for the founding of the country, the Nurgandushi was even more rare. The Ming army set out from Jiangnan, pushed all the way to Dadu, then fought from Dadu to Liaodong, and then headed north from Liaodong to Sakhalin Island and the northernmost seaside.

The land of more than three million square kilometers and more than a thousand tribes received the imperial edicts and silver seals from the Ming Dynasty, and became the commander of the garrison of the Nuer Gandu Department of the Ming Dynasty or the thousand households and hundreds of households.

Unfortunately, Chengzu's Jingnan Campaign not only lost control of the three guards of Duoyan, but also removed the King of the King of Liao and Ning. Later, he abandoned the East Shengwei and retreated significantly from the border defense area thousands of miles east to west. Originally, the places such as Ningxia, Gansu and northern Shaanxi were not frontlines. After Chengzu's great achievements in the five battles against Mongolia, these places became frontlines instead.

No wonder the people at that time were not convinced by Chengzu. They were very happy with achievements and had many great conquests, but they did not have any useful results. Then they lost a large area of ​​their ancestors' territory in Chengzu's hands, turned the rear into the front line, and built a large-scale construction. Beijing was still the emperor guarding the national gate. However, building the Wudang Mountain Palace and the construction of the Dabaoen Temple in Nanjing were all projects that mobilized more than 100,000 civilians to spend a lot of money. For the emperor, it was a symbol of his civil and military achievements and national prosperity, and it was just a complete suffering and blood and tears for the people.

China has its own civilization for more than 2,000 years, with gains and losses. At least it is the largest civilization in East Asia and even Asia and the longest-standing.

However, these barbarian tribes in the dense forests or grasslands in the north have not made any progress or change for thousands of years.
Chapter completed!